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Marco Polo
Number of words: 1838 - Number of pages: 7

.... way from China to Russia and the Levant. The Mongol hordes also threatened other parts of Europe, particularly Poland and Hungary, inspiring fear everywhere by their bloodthirsty advances. Yet the ruthless methods brought a measure of stability to the lands they controlled, opening up trade routes such as the famous Silk Road. Eventually ,the Mongols discovered that it was more profitable to collect tribute from people than to kill them outright, and this policy too stimulated trade (Hull 23). Into this favorable atmosphere a number of European traders venture .....


John Muir
Number of words: 329 - Number of pages: 2

.... and Joanna. For several years, he had toyed with writing up his findings for publication. Jeanne Carr was the one that encouraged him. She even suggested titles and copied his notes. John decided to send an article to the New York Tribune. To his surprise, the newspaper published "Yosemite Glaciers" on December 5, 1871, and paid him $200, that was a lot of money back then. On New Year’s Day in 1872, the same newspaper printed "Yosemite in Winter." John thought that he might be able to earn his living by writing, what he called "pen work." He stayed .....


The Influence Of Henry David Thoreau On Mohanda K. Gandhi
Number of words: 347 - Number of pages: 2

.... in jail because of protest Gandhi read Thoreau’s “Civil Disobedience”. That’s when Gandhi’s beliefs were confirmed, that it is better to please your soul then your government. His protest was never based on violence he took a stand with out having to go that route. Then Gandhi’s development of Satyagraha, a direct social action based on principles of courage, nonviolence, and truth, took place. This method meant that the way people behaved was more important then what they achieved. This is how Henry David Thoreau influenced Mohanda K. Gandhi. In conclusion the .....


Hillary Clinton
Number of words: 1389 - Number of pages: 6

.... interests of children and families, and served on the Board of Editors of the Yale Review of Law and Social Action. While she was there, she also met Bill Clinton, a fellow law student. In 1973 Hillary became a staff attorney for the Children's Defense Fund. A year later she was recruited by the Impeachment Inquiry staff of the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives. Hillary left Washington and "followed her heart to Arkansas," marrying Bill Clinton in 1975. The couple taught together on the law faculty of the University of Arkansas in Fayett .....


Albert Einstein
Number of words: 520 - Number of pages: 2

.... investigations. Einstein became a Swiss citizen in 1905. The papers of 1905. During this time, Einstein made three of his greatest contributions to scientific knowledge. The year 1905 was an epoch-making one in the history of physical science, because Einstein contributed three papers to Annalen der Physik (Annals of Physics), a German scientific periodical. Each of them became the basis of a new branch of physics. In one of the papers, Einstein suggested that light could be thought of as a stream of tiny particles. This idea forms an important part o .....


Juan Gris
Number of words: 1115 - Number of pages: 5

.... Some of his famous works include Portait of Josee, The Table and The Open window. Portrait of Josette was created in 1916 and is now in the Musea del in Prado, Madrid. This was deffinetly one of Gris's greatest achievements. The portrait of Josette is based on his studies after Corot and Cezanne. To perfection he seemed to create a stunning mixture of the foreground and the background. This beauty is accomplished through color patterns that ensemble different spatial planes. The blacks which are used around the bosom, butox and leg are used to enhance this .....


Aristotle
Number of words: 695 - Number of pages: 3

.... the fulfillment of our distinctive function...". So it can be concluded that a lifestyle of good leads to man's ultimate goal of happiness. In other instances, states that the principle of being good is embedded in everyone. It is man's nature to have the knowledge of good and evil. He gives no mention to any biblical reference. In the matter of badness, states that for most bad things, it is the nature of it that implies badness; not the defiance of bad things that makes it bad, and despite the circumstances, one is always wrong in doing bad things. comes .....


Biography Of Frank Zappa
Number of words: 525 - Number of pages: 2

.... he bought lots of records like Howlin' Wolf with Hubert Sumlin and Muddy Waters. On June 13th, 1958 Frank graduated from high school, but the thing was that when he graduated he left with 20 units less than the rest of the students. They let him graduate because the teachers said they didn't want to see him there next year. His finished his first recording with Don Van Vliet (friend from school) called Lost in a Whirlpool. Frank married Kay Sherman in 1959, the same year he wrote a score for the movie Run Home Slow. A couple months after he got married he form .....



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