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Werner HeisenbergOne cannot fully appreciate the work of unless one
examines his contributions in the context of the time in which he lived. Werner
Karl Heisenberg was born in Wuerzburg, Germany, on December 5, 1901, and grew up
in academic surroundings, in a household devoted to the humanities. His father
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Herbert Hoover{hoo'-vur}
Herbert Clark Hoover was the 31st president of the United States.
During his first year in office the Wall Street crash of 1929 occurred. He
was blamed for the resulting collapse of the economy, and his unpopular
policies brought an end to a brilliant career in public office. After ...
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HitlerThe year was 1929, the Great Depression had hit hard all over the world.
People were losing their jobs, and their way of life was changing drastically
right before their eyes; the people needed money fast. They needed to rebuild
their lives and get back on their feet again, economically, ...
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Booker T. Washington 3Frank Zappa have lived a eventful life. He has been in numerous groups and produced 8 times as many records. Frank was the one of 3 children (Carl, Candy, & Bobby) born in Baltimore, Maryland. Frank was a curious child and learned about music at a young age. At this moment Frank's talent began to ...
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King Henry VIIIHenry VIII (born 1491, ruled 1509-1547). The second son of Henry VII
and Elizabeth of York was one of England\'s strongest and least popular
monarchs. He was born at Greenwich on June 28, 1491. The first English
ruler to be educated under the influence of the Renaissance, he was a
gifted scholar, ...
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Americas Vision Hamilton Or JeffersonThomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton were completely at odds in their vision on how America was to develop. Hamilton wanted to concentrate power in a centralized federal government with limited access and Jefferson wished to diffuse it among all the eligible freemen of the time. Alexander ...
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The Baseball Life Of Babe Ruthbegan on February 6, 1895. On this
date Ruth was born.
As most boys started their baseball career throwing rocks at street
signs. Ruth was throwing eggs and potatoes at truck drivers.
The first organized baseball team that Ruth was on ,was at St.
Mary's Industrial School for Boys. Ruth was on ...
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Confucius And PlatoPlatos ideal regime achieves justice by controlling individuals and their desires by setting down a compact to not tolerate injustice or suffering. By setting down laws and compacts and to name what the law commands lawful and just.(Bloom,359a)
Plato believed that even individuals who practice ...
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Pete RosePeter Edward Rose was born in Cincinnati in 1941. He said that when he was growing up he rooted for the Cincinnati Reds just like every other kid in the area. In the summertime of most of his childhood years he played baseball constantly. He also played in high school, however he thinks that he ...
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Abraham Of ChaldeaThe following is a narrative description on the life and times of one of
the most powerful characters in the Old Testament. Abraham was indeed a
man of God in a time where few men believed in the One true God. Through
many triumphs and errors, he always returned to God to lead him back to
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Biography Of Karl MarxKarl Heinrich Marx was born on May 5, 1818, in the city of Trier in the Rhine province of Prussia, now in Germany. Marx was an economic theorist who composed the idea of communism which included the idea of all the people owning all the property and infrastructure. These theories played a large ...
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William Lyon Mackenzie’s life can best be understood if man and legend are separated. William was born on March 12, 1795 in Scotland. Three weeks after his birth, his father, Daniel, supposedly died, but no record of his death has ever been found. William and his mother were said to gone through great hardship, ...
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Yamamoto, the man who planned Pearl Harbor increased my knowledge about the people of Japan because it introduced me to their culture, and the life and times in Japan before World War II. In Japan, the family is the basic unit of society. For example, if a Japanese has the unfortunate occurrence of ...
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Remembering The Music Of George GershwinWho was George Gershwin? Today, most people would answer that question by saying that he was the composer of the song that’s in the airline commercial. Although that is true, he was much more than that. Gershwin was the most celebrated and wealthiest American composer who expressed the ...
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Stephen Vicent Benet: An American PoetThe introduction to Stephen Vincent Benét from the Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism states: “He conveyed his faith in the enduring existence of America’s fundamental ideals: the virtues of the democratic system of government, the possibility of a common spirit unifying a diverse populus , ...
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Augustus CaesarThe year 509 BC Rome finally became a Republic and thus started the Roman empire. As Rome rose to power they went through many wars and many conflicts between the plebeians and patricians. The republic was made out of 3 groups, the consuls which were 2 men elected from the senate, the senate which ...
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Andrew Carnegie: "Capt. Of Industry" Or "Robber Baron"??
As the Industrialization began, a few talented and foreseeing people took advantage of the development of new industries, technologies, and methods. Mass production was a way to produce goods in large quantities, and being able to sell them to the consumer for more affordable prices. The old ...
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Eternal Authoritative LeadersResponsible of the deaths of millions, said to be power driven meglonanics or misled leaders, the names Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini will live in infamy. However, the duo are not identical in their method of madness and drive.
Hitler, is perhaps the most infamous dictator of the twenty ...
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Eliot NessWho was ? Nearly anyone knows Ness’ accomplishments in Cleveland when he went up against Al Capone. Most also know Capone eventually went to jail for tax evasion, but what happened to Ness and his Untouchables? Did they merely fade away into quiet life? The fate of Ness was quite the ...
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Political Momentum"Only YOU can prevent forest fires". This famous quote, by Smokey the Bear, is a statement that essentially defines momentum. Momentum, in the case of forest fires, is detrimental momentum. We've all seen the commercial, the bright red Ferrari driving down the road, flicking a cigarette out the ...
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Stephen Bantu BikoStephen Biko is known internationally as the founder of the South
African Students' Organization (SASO), and a leading force in the South Africa
Black Consciousness movement. He fought against the separation between black
and whites, called apartheid (the Afrikaans term for separateness). ...
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John F. Kennedywas the 35th president of the United States (1961-1963). He was the youngest person ever to be elected president. Also, He was the first Roman Catholic president and the first president to be born in the 20the century. He served in World War II on PT boat. He also helped to solve the Cuban ...
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Marxs AlienationKarl Marx, who was arguably one of the most influential philosophers and revolutionaries of his time, stated that the ‘alienation’ of man leads to man being viewed as nothing more than a commodity by society. Man, as he put it, was forced into labor and stripped of all human rights. ...
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Martin Luther KingOne of the world’s best known advocates of non-violent social change strategies, Jr. (MLK), synthesized ideals drawn from many different cultural traditions. Recent studies of him emphasize the extent to which his ideals were rooted in African-American religious traditions which were then ...
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Comaparison And Contrast Of Chapters In Understanding OrganiThe two articles to be compared are The Functions and Structure of Criminal Syndicates by Donald R. Cressey and Donald Cressey’s Contributions to the Study of Organized Crime by Joseph L. Albini. Though the second article is merely an evaluation of the first, the goal is to show how Albini ...
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