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Thomas Hardy

... she was young because she lost her father. Hardy said ‘ she read every book she could lay her hands on’ and she grew up to be a woman of ability, judgment, and ‘ an energy that might have carried her to incalculable issues!’ Many thought she was the dominant influence in Hardy’s life but his father was a man of character also. Even though he didn’t ‘ possess the art of enriching himself by business,’ he was a fine craftsman, and a lover of music. Hardy’s family was never poor and he summed up his happy childhood in a ti ...

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James Taylor

... in general. He seems to show a great deal of knowledge about dealing with life’s problems simply through his writing and singing. Three songs written and performed by Taylor that emphasize life are "You’ve Got A Friend", "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)", and "Carolina in My Mind". The lyrics in these three songs all talk about the importance of friends and how you should be a good friend, because they are important. The chorus of "You’ve got A Friend" has a line in it that is extremely signif ...

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Gandhi

... free India from British rule and to gain self-respect and confidence for his people. He believed adamantly in a few things, one, passive resistance, two god as a creator and not as a religion, and three, the return of India to its roots. His actions of passive resistance presented a great force upon the British. Although hard to control at times, the idea eventually worked in the end. practiced protesting, fasting, and the boycotting of British goods. To accomplish the last he made his own clothes that were simple and made from hand-wo ...

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Comparing Hitler And Stalin In Their Rise To Power

... men were skilled users of propaganda, each was amoral, and they both had the ambition to make their countries powerful in the world. Since each was a skilled user of propaganda, they could use their words to twist and manipulate the minds of people into believing that what they were saying was the absolute truth. Using this power, they would get people to do anything for them, which proves their amorality. Since their countries were still trying to recover from World War I, they desired to restore the power back in to their countries. Thes ...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson 3

... from self-reliance. Emerson says that society has gotten to a point where people do not even remember how to rely on themselves. People live through the world around them because they are taught to conform to the names and the customs society practices. It is a "conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members" because it takes away the individuality of its members to create a world of people who think the same and act the same. People need to practice aversion and escape the conformity that society strives on. Of course, it i ...

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Janet Jackson

... years she was forced to deal with difficult conditions at home. She recalls in an interview with Steve Pond in the December 1997 issue of ‘US magazine, "My father whipped me one time when I was a kid. But there was no rape or crap like that. You can begin to see how you feel less-than, not worthy, fraudulent. And that’s how I grew up feeling."(2) Despite problems with other family members Janet was always close with her mother. She said in the same interview with Steve Pond, "Mother always could feel when I wasn’t doin ...

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Fray Junipero Serra

... who was simple, sincere, and good-natured man. When the original Junipero was condemned by others Saint Francis was to have remarked: "My brothers, my brothers, I wish I had a forest of such junipers." Serra was ordained in 1737. He taught for seven years at Lullian University of Mallorca. In 1744 he was named Professor of Philosophy at the monastery of San Francisco and at Lullian University. Serra was known as bright, articulate, scholar, a moving speaker, and a clear precise writer. He did not remain long in the academic venue. ...

Number of words: 2329 | Number of pages: 9

Jon Philip Sousa

... on the Potomac Waltzes". In 1875 Sousa was discharged from the military and began performing with his violin. Soon after that he began conducting orchestras. He conducted Gilbert and Sullivan's H.M.S. Pinafore on Broadway. In February of 1879 he met Jane Van Middlesworth Bellis during a rehearsal. They fell in love and were married on December 30,1879. Throughout the 1880's and 90's Sousa's music career grew rapidly. Throughout 1880-1892 he conducted "The Presidents Own", serving under presidents Hayes, Garfield, Arthur and Harrison. ...

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Francios Rabelias

... which included grammar, rhetoric (the art of persuasive argument), poetry, history, and moral philosophy. It was designed to make the Christian well-rounded and virtuous. ” People like Michangelo, Leonardo da Vinchi, Lorenzo de Medici, Raphael,and St. Thomas More were humanists. They were concerned with human welfare, this is the reason why it is represented in there works. The one I am going to focus on is . Rabelias was a writer. Over time many of the information we have about him as been lost or destroyed. “We have most of ...

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Anne Moody

... Mississippi. As a young child, Moody accepted society as the way it was and did not see a difference in the skin color of a white person as opposed to that of a black. It was not until a movie incident did she begin to realize that the color of her skin made her inferior. “Their whiteness provided them with a pass to downstairs in that nice section and my blackness sent me to the balcony. Now that I was thinking about it, their schools, homes, and streets were better than mine.” Soon after Moody entered high school, Emmett Till, a fourt ...

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Martin Luther King Jr.

... on King's life by encouraging him to learn faster and better. Martin was first exposed to racism at an early age, (probably six, none of my sources specified his exact age at the time) when he was not allowed to play with some white friends of his. Martin also became accustomed to his liberal ideas while he was still in grade school. This became known to his mother after Martin said "You know, when I grow up to be a man, I'm going to hit this thing, and hit it hard, Mother; there's no such thing as one people better than another. The Lord ...

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Napolean

... Spanish royal family and made his brother Joseph king of Spain. But everything that Napoleon did such as put in a foreign ruler, take away noble privileges offended Spanish pride and created nationalistic feelings. The people of Spain revolted in 1808. The French troops stopped the riots, but the nationalistic spirit was not lost. For the next five years there was warfare in Spain. British troops came to aid Spain. This led to the defeat of Joseph, death of thousands of French troops and it inspired patriots and nationalists of other lan ...

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