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Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
Number of words: 4386 - Number of pages: 16

.... pottery industrialist Josiah Wedgwood's daughter. Despite his mother's Unitarianism and father's free thought, Darwin received an Anglican education. Medical training at Edinburgh University proved unsuccessful, but he loved beach combing with Dr Robert E. Grant, a sponge expert, Lamarckian evolutionist, a democrat and materialist, who trained Darwin in French-style invertebrate anatomy. At student clubs, where Darwin reported his observations, he saw fiery radicals censored for calling the mind a product of a material brain, and giving animals all of the huma .....


John F.Kennedy: Biography
Number of words: 1403 - Number of pages: 6

.... Connecticut. In 1935 Kennedy graduated from Choate Academy when he was 18 years old. When he graduated he was voted "Most likely to succeed." By his fellow class mates. Kennedy went to College at Princeton University, but he developed Jaundice, a disease where ones liver becomes bad and the poisons in your body back up, and was forced to drop out of the university. A year later, when Kennedy felt better, in 1936 he entered Harvard University. Kennedy's major was in government and international affairs. In 1939, John went to Europe. He visited many different c .....


Helen Keller
Number of words: 1000 - Number of pages: 4

.... did not blink when her mother clothed or bathed her. She was declared legally as an idiot. She soon started going to a special school called the Boston Institute for the Blind that her parents had heard of that helps children with disabilities. She did not really understand that words stood for things in the world. She did not know what words meant. Although she did not give up easily.(Howell 1) Up until the age of seven, when her teacher Anne Sullivan put her hand under water did she know that things in the world had meanings. Anne being half blind her .....


Cortes 2
Number of words: 441 - Number of pages: 2

.... men marched for weeks to reach the acclaimed Tenochtitlan. On his way he met up with the Tlaxcalanc who formed an alliance with him against the Aztecs. In November of 1519, Cortes finally reached the Aztec capital, Tenochtitlan. Upon his arrival the Axtecs believed Cortes and the Spainards were the return of Quetzalcoatl. Quetzalcoatl was the axtec god-king who was light skinned, bearded, and would return from the east. All of these descriptions fitted Hernan. Hence, the Spainards were treated lavishly and roamed freely throughout the city. During this t .....


Charles Darwin
Number of words: 807 - Number of pages: 3

.... the earth was 6,000 years old and had remained unchanged except for the effects of floods and other catastropes. The second was that organisms were designed especially for certain habitats and appeared on the earth in their present form. After reading the works of a noted geologist, Darwin began to change his ideas. He saw evidence that the earth was much older than 6,000 years. In South America, he was witness to an earthquake that lifted the land several feet. He realized that mountains could be built by the action of an earthquake over millions of years. H .....


The Life Of Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss
Number of words: 2074 - Number of pages: 8

.... Gauss's father that his son should be permitted to study with a view toward entering a university. Gauss's extraordinary achievement which caused this impression occurred when he demonstrated his ability to sum the integers from 1 to 100 by spotting that the sum was 50 pairs of numbers each pair summing 101. In 1788, Gauss began his education at the Gymnasium with the help of Buttner and Bartels, where he distinguished himself in the ancient languages of High German and Latin and mathematics. At the age of 14 Gauss was presented to the duke of Brunsw .....


Trudeau: The Politics Of My Way
Number of words: 1542 - Number of pages: 6

.... baronial-Ralston Howe, St. Laurent-and sometimes Byronian colleagues to see how best he could placate them, or calm them, or Heap his beatitudes upon them. Trudeau, from day one , was always more samurai than shaman. Even in his pre-leadership days, Trudeau's love of trial by combat was predominant. Mackenzie King would have never touched the unholy trinity of divorce, abortion and homosexuality: each one of these issues is a sleeping dog best left to lie; each could only infuriate conservative Canada from coast to coast. Since King dared not touch .....


Charles Darwin
Number of words: 370 - Number of pages: 2

.... his belief "survival of the fittest." In a free enterprise system, it is believed that the best will survive while the less efficient will collapse if the market is allowed to work without government interference. In a market economy, since the government has very little control of the businesses, the companies must work their hardest and come out with good products that will outsell the ones of their competition. Social Darwinism basically means that the strong will control the weak. Social Darwinism comes from the laws of natural selection as Darwin had stat .....



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