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HITLER, Adolf (1889-1945)
Number of words: 1515 - Number of pages: 6

.... with daydreams of becoming a painter. His one school interest was history, especially that of the Germans. When his teacher glorified Germany's role, "we would sit there enraptured and often on the verge of tears." From boyhood he was devoted to Wagner's operas that glorified the Teutons' dark and furious mythology. Failure dogged him. After his father's death, when Adolf was 13, he studied watercolor painting, but accomplished little. After his mother's death, when he was 19, he went to Vienna. There the Academy of Arts rejected him as untalented. Lacking b .....


Winston Churchill
Number of words: 1348 - Number of pages: 5

.... was elected to the Parliment as a Conservative, and he quickly made his mark. His political sympathies began to change, however, and he "changed sides" in 1904, when he abandoned the Conservative party for the Liberals. When the Liberals came to power in 1905, Churchill entered the government as secretary of state for the colonies. In 1908, the year of his marriage to Clementine Hosier, he became a member of the cabinet as president of the Board of Trade. Winston's political missions became more and more important, in 1910 he became a member of the Admira .....


John Coltrane
Number of words: 5626 - Number of pages: 21

.... analogy to Coltrane's relentless search for possibilities was the Beatles' redefinition of rock from one album to the next. Yet the distance they traveled from conventional hard rock through sitars and Baroque obligatos to Sergeant Pepper psychedelia and the musical shards of Abbey Road seems short by comparison with Coltrane's journey from hard-bop saxist to daring harmonic and modal improviser to dying prophet speaking in tongues. Asked by a Swedish disc jockey in 1960 if he was trying to "play what you hear," he said that he was working off set harmon .....


Napoleon 2
Number of words: 810 - Number of pages: 3

.... as in government. By setting up the Napoleonic code, Napoleon unified the old Feudal Law and Royal Laws. Many of the laws set up, were based on his knowledge of the Enlightenment. He simplified the laws of old as well as new, and allowed freedom of speech and press. His main idea with these laws was to give all men equal rights. Women were also included into several laws. Another accomplishment was shown through religion. Though he supported Catholicism and declared the majority of the French people were Catholics, he affirmed religious tolerance for all. Th .....


Life Of William Shakespeare
Number of words: 917 - Number of pages: 4

.... attending the Stratford Grammar School with other boys of his social class. Students went to school year round attending school for nine hours a day. The teachers were strict disciplinarians. Though Shakespeare spent long hours at school, his boyhood was probably fascinating. Stratford was a lively town and during holidays, it was known to put on pageants and many popular shows. It also held several large fairs during the year. Stratford was a exciting place to live. Stratford also had fields and woods surrounding it giving William the opportunity to hunt and t .....


Edgar Allan Poe 3
Number of words: 2967 - Number of pages: 11

.... was an immigrant laborer who supplied the Revolutionary Army with clothing (Krutch 20). On December 8, 1811, Elizabeth Poe died of tuberculosis at the young age of twenty-four. "The image of his mother's young, still, white face was to haunt Edgar for the rest of his life" (Wright 30). When Edgar’s father was plagued with tuberculosis, he was taken into the home of John, a prosperous Richmond merchant, and Francis Allan. This is how Edgar received the middle name Allan. Mrs. Allan loved Edgar, but the story seemed different with John. Alth .....


Important People In History
Number of words: 2790 - Number of pages: 11

.... everyone once in their life feels inferior, espically children.He also said the people who feel inferior would try to do things to make them feel better like trying to seek out power or maybe going out and spending a large sum of money. Adler wrote a book called "Understanding Human Nature". In his book he laid out his basic theories. Like Freud he too did believe that dreams were really inportant in understanding one's personality, however he did not believe that dreams revealed more about a person's sexuality. Pavlov, Ivan (1849- 1936) Pavlov won a nobel priz .....


Billy Sunday
Number of words: 1565 - Number of pages: 6

.... 1890, Billy wanted to go into full-time Christian work. He had played for different baseball teams and was sold to play for the Philadelphia Phillies. After being sold to the Phillies for a three year contract he prayed this prayer, "Lord, if I don't get my release by March twenty-fifth, I will take that as assurance you want me to continue to play ball; if I get it before that date I will accept that as evidence you want me to quit playing ball and go into Christian work." Billy received his release on March 17. His days of playing professional baseb .....



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