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  • Thomas Paine

    Thomas Paine

    During the late seventeen hundreds, many tumultuous events resulted in Colonial opposition to Great Britain. The conditions of rights of the colonists will slowly be changed as the constriction of the parliament becomes more and more intolerable. During the Seven Years' War England was not only alarmed by the colonists' insistence on trading with the enemy, but also with Boston merchants hiring James Otis inorder to protest the legality of the writs of assistance (general

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    Submitted: March 17, 2010 By: Wendy
  • Thomas Jefferson

    Thomas Jefferson

    In the thick of party conflict in 1800, Thomas Jefferson wrote in a private letter, "I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." This powerful advocate of liberty was born in 1743 in Albermarle County, Virginia, inheriting from his father, a planter and surveyor, some 5,000 acres of land, and from his mother, a Randolph, high social standing. He studied at the College

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    Essay Length: 531 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: March 18, 2010 By: Mike
  • Thomas Jefferson: Contributions to Literature and Other Fields

    Thomas Jefferson: Contributions to Literature and Other Fields

    Thomas Jefferson is commonly most notable for his contributions to American political history. He was President of the United States, the first secretary of state to George Washington, minister to France with Benjamin Franklin, governor of Virginia, and congressman. (725) Jefferson’s literary works strongly reflect the focus, love, and ambition that he had for this country. Aside from the aspirations for the United States, he also very much appreciated it’s then un-tainted beauty, as he

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    Essay Length: 1,431 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: March 22, 2010 By: Tasha
  • Thomas Hobbes

    Thomas Hobbes

    A covenant is a contracted agreement in which it is trusted that both persons will carry out their responsibility in time. This can be referred to as the keeping of a promise. "The mutual transferring of right, is that which men call CONTRACT." This means that when you exchange something in return for something else you are binding yourself to the agreement of the exchange. "One of the contractors, may deliver the thing contracted for

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    Essay Length: 1,059 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: March 22, 2010 By: Yan
  • Thomas Jefferson

    Thomas Jefferson

    Thomas Jefferson His Ideals, Actions, and Effectiveness as a United States President Gene McNeil HIS232, Session 2 Facilitator: Chris Quinn February 25, 2008 Abstract Thomas Jefferson's presidency radically changed the course of American politics in the nineteenth century. He was an effective and popular president during his two terms in office. His ideals for changing the structure of the fledgling American government were vitally important during this point in history. Thomas Jefferson was the third

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    Essay Length: 1,143 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: March 23, 2010 By: Top
  • Sir Thomas Blamey and the Greece Campaign

    Sir Thomas Blamey and the Greece Campaign

    In March of 1941 Sir Thomas Blamey was sent by Field Marshall Lord Wavell to lead the Allied troops into Greece to protect it from invasion by the Germans. Blamey felt from the outset that the protection of Greece was a lost cause and that the Allies should concentrate on the defense of Crete. However, Wavell sent him and several units, which included Australians and New Zealanders, to Greece. Blamey believed that the Nazis would

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    Submitted: March 25, 2010 By: Edward
  • Thomas Edison: An Inventor and a Businessman

    Thomas Edison: An Inventor and a Businessman

    Thomas Edison: An inventor and a businessman Thomas Alva Edison was an inventor and a businessman. He had created many devices that influenced the world at that time. Edison was among the first to apply principles of mass production to the process of invention. ("Thomas Edison". Wikipedia.com 1). A lot of inventions were original, and some inventions were improvements of earlier inventions. He was known for being very creative, never giving up, and being extremely

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    Submitted: March 25, 2010 By: Yan
  • Thomas Henry Huxley

    Thomas Henry Huxley

    Thomas Henry Huxley Anthropology 101 9:30 a.m. MW Thomas Henry Huxley was born May 4, 1825 in Ealing England. Although he was the son of a schoolmaster, Huxley never had a real education as a child. He did however read plenty of books and started studying medicine at a young age. He later entered Charing Cross Hospital medical school, taking his degree in 1845 (Huxley 1992). Huxley was made assistant surgeon aboard the H.M.S. Rattlesnake

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    Essay Length: 1,034 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: March 26, 2010 By: Mikki
  • The Thomas Jefferson Papers

    The Thomas Jefferson Papers

    The complete Thomas Jefferson Papers from the Manuscript Division at the Library of Congress consists of approximately 27,000 documents. This is the largest collection of original Jefferson documents in the world. Document types in the collection as a whole include correspondence, commonplace books, financial account books, and manuscript volumes. The collection is organized into ten series or groupings, ranging in date from 1606 to 1827. Correspondence, memoranda, notes, and drafts of documents make up two-thirds

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    Essay Length: 260 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: March 28, 2010 By: Victor
  • Thomas Jefferson

    Thomas Jefferson

    Jefferson, Thomas (1743-1826), is best remembered as a great president and as the author of the Declaration of Independence.  He also won lasting fame as a diplomat, a political thinker, and a founder of the Democratic Party.  Jefferson's interests and talents covered an amazing range.  He became one of the leading American architects of his time and designed the Virginia Capitol, the University of Virginia, and his own home, Monticello.  He greatly appreciated art

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    Submitted: March 31, 2010 By: Andrew
  • Did Thomas Jefferson Abandon His Ideals by Making the Louisiana Purchase?

    Did Thomas Jefferson Abandon His Ideals by Making the Louisiana Purchase?

    Did Thomas Jefferson Abandon His Ideals By Making The Louisiana Purchase Yes, we believe that Thomas Jefferson did abandon his ideals by making the Louisiana Purchase because he believed in the least amount of purchases made by the government as possible. He was big on small farming communities, and states' rights and was against large government purchases because it gave the government too much power. He wanted the nation's capitol to be a small city

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    Essay Length: 365 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: March 31, 2010 By: regina
  • St. Thomas Aquinas

    St. Thomas Aquinas

    St. Thomas Aquinas Thomas Aquinas was born in 1225 in his family’s castle in Lombardy Italy, which is near Naples. His family was a wealthy one; his father was the Count of Aquino. In his early years his parents had him educated by Monks. Subsequently, he attended the University of Naples. Sometime after that he secretly joined the Medicant Dominican Friars in 1224. This group worked for the salvation of souls through preaching and fostering

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    Submitted: April 4, 2010 By: Andrew
  • A Book Report of “the World Is Flat” by Thomas L. Friedman

    A Book Report of “the World Is Flat” by Thomas L. Friedman

    A book report of “The World Is Flat” by Thomas L. Friedman “The World Is Flat" a book by author Thomas L. Friedman discusses a brief history of the twenty-first century and its most recent impact on the US economic today and the world we live in. Friedman unfolds and identifies three major world wide events that explain he’s philosophical explanation of why he thinks the “The World Is Flat” with the incorporation of

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    Submitted: April 4, 2010 By: Bred
  • Thomas King, Medicin River

    Thomas King, Medicin River

    THOMAS KING - WRITER Thomas King is a multi-talented and accomplished writer who expresses concerns of Aboriginal people through literature. He was born in 1943 in Sacramento California to a Cherokee father and a German and Greek mother and grew up in Sacramento. In 1980, King moved to Canada with his nine-year old son and lived in Alberta for about ten years. He returned briefly to the United States in 1986 to receive his PhD

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    Essay Length: 328 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: April 7, 2010 By: Jack
  • Thomas Jefferson: Declaration of Independence

    Thomas Jefferson: Declaration of Independence

    Thomas Jefferson: Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson is a found believer in the human race. He knows that human beings have the ability to do just about anything they put there minds to, including governing themselves. The need for a superpower (like a king) is unnecessary especially if he is abusing his power. People are very intelligent to Jefferson, they have the ability to survive with or without a king. To Jefferson all individuals are

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    Submitted: April 12, 2010 By: Stenly
  • Thomas B.Stoddard “gay Marriages: Make Them Legal”

    Thomas B.Stoddard “gay Marriages: Make Them Legal”

    Marriage is universally understood to be the legal union between a man and a woman. This acknowledgement, however, has recently generated dispute and controversy in certain individuals, primarily homosexuals and supporters of homosexual marriages. This opposition, due to this mainstream view, exists because certain states such as Minnesota deny same-sex marriages. In Thomas B. Stoddard’s article “Gay Marriages: Make Them Legal,” Stoddard begins by defending homosexual marriages through partners, Karen Thompson and Sharon Kowalski.

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    Submitted: April 13, 2010 By: Mike
  • Dylan Thomas Literary Works Analysis

    Dylan Thomas Literary Works Analysis

    Dylan Thomas Literary Works Analysis “And Death Shall Have No Dominion” is a poem in three nine-line stanzas. Each of the stanzas begins and ends with the title line, which echoes Romans 6:9 from the King James translation of the Christian New Testament: “Death hath no more dominion.”(Dylan Thomas, 30) When Saint Paul said in his letter to the Romans that “death hath no more dominion,” he meant that those who had chosen salvation would

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    Essay Length: 1,469 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: April 16, 2010 By: Mike
  • St Thomas Aquinas

    St Thomas Aquinas

    ST THOMAS AQUINAS Aquinas writes that ‘since the day of Aristotle, probably no one man has exercised such a powerful influence on the thinking world as did St Thomas Aquinas. He was born in 1225 in Italy of a noble family, thus separated by 900 years to Aristotle. He received his first education at the Abbey of Monte Cassino, going on from there to the University of Naples. In 1243, he joined the Dominican monastic

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    Essay Length: 910 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: April 18, 2010 By: regina
  • Thomas Jefferson Biography

    Thomas Jefferson Biography

    Thomas Jefferson Biography Thomas Jefferson was a man that was one the founding fathers of our Nation. Thomas Jefferson was one of the most dedicated and influential Americans were Thomas Jefferson. Thomas Jefferson was a very talented and gifted man. He was a man ahead of his time. Thomas Jefferson was a true renaissance man. Thomas Jefferson was plantation owner, horticulturist, architect, archaeologist, paleontologist, author, inventor, violinist, and the founder of the University of Virginia.

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    Submitted: April 26, 2010 By: Max
  • Thomas Hobbes - Leviathan

    Thomas Hobbes - Leviathan

    This quote from Thomas Hobbes ‘Leviathan,’ summarizes his opinion of the natural condition of mankind as concerning their felicity and misery. He basically suggests a natural impulse for war embedded in the souls of men who do not have a ruler, or a king. They are without bounds, and without limits. It is a state of anarchy that he envisages. He believes that ‘Nature hath made men so equal’ that ‘one man can claim to

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    Submitted: April 29, 2010 By: July
  • Thomas Jefferson

    Thomas Jefferson

    On April 13, 1943, on the 200th anniversary of Jefferson's birth, the Jefferson Memorial was dedicated in Washington, D.C. The interior within includes a 19 foot tall statue of Jefferson and engravings from Parts of his writings. The most outstanding are the words which are inscribed around the monument at the top: "I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." What is it

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    Submitted: May 4, 2010 By: Vika
  • Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and the American Dream

    Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and the American Dream

    Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and the American Dream The definition of “American” is belonging to or having characteristics of America. To live in America and to be an American during the colonial period or American Revolution are characteristics defined by Ben Franklin and Thomas Jefferson of living what is referred to as the “American Dream.” Ben Franklin as a person is an example of the American Dream because its definition applies to many of his

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    Essay Length: 586 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: May 5, 2010 By: Mike
  • Thomas Jeff. Outline

    Thomas Jeff. Outline

    Lenora Spahn 9/22/00 Thomas Jefferson I. Thomas Jefferson A. Born- April 13, 1743 in Shadwell, Va. B. Died- July 4, 1826 II. Background A. Educational- College of William and Mary (1760-1762), 5 year apprenticeship studying law under George Wythe. B. Occupational- 1. Began to practice law on his own: representing small scale planters from western countries involving land claims and titles. 2. House of Burgesses, elected 1768: Opposed all forms of Parliamentary taxation and

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    Submitted: May 8, 2010 By: Artur
  • Thomas Hobbes’ Influences

    Thomas Hobbes’ Influences

    Throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries Europe was rattled by political instability. The reformation of old ideas began along with the development of new ones. Rumor of democracy began to flow and new political institutions began to arise. Thomas Hobbes, most well known for his writings on the human psyche and the social contract, was trying to discover the form or pattern in human behavior that all live by, and what things go through our

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    Submitted: May 9, 2010 By: Bred
  • Thomas Paine

    Thomas Paine

    Library: Historical Documents: Thomas Paine: Rights Of Man: Part The First -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Order The Rights of Man now. Part The First Being An Answer To Mr. Burke's Attack On The French Revolution -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- George Washington PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA SIR, I present you a small treatise in defence of those principles of freedom which your exemplary virtue hath so eminently contributed to establish. That the Rights of Man may become as universal

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    Submitted: May 10, 2010 By: Tommy

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