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  • St Thomas More

    St Thomas More

    I was born on February 7th, 1478 on Milk Street, London, England. My father, Sir John More, was a lawyer and a judge. My mothers name was Angus. I had no brothers or sisters. As a child, I was interested in all of my studies at school especially literature. When I was young I was placed in the household of John Morton to serve as a page. Being a page, I had to attend to

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    Essay Length: 549 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: March 8, 2010 By: Tommy
  • Thomas Jefferson as a Leader - Man of the People

    Thomas Jefferson as a Leader - Man of the People

    Thomas Jefferson - "Man of the People" “Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society”. This powerful advocate of liberty was born on April 13th, 1743 in Shadwell what is now known as Albemarle County, Virginia. It was a significant location for an aristocratic youth in the sense that it lay within

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    Essay Length: 935 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: March 11, 2010 By: Mike
  • Time in Thomas? Fern Hill and Cummings? Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town

    Time in Thomas? Fern Hill and Cummings? Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town

    "Historically speaking,?time is lost; poetically speaking,?time is regained in the act of visionary creation" (Crewe 400). Poetry allows for the capture of a moment in time otherwise lost in the blink of an eye. British poet Dylan Thomas and American poet E.E. Cummings have both been noted for the recurring themes of passage of time in their poetry. In Thomas? "Fern Hill" and Cummings? "anyone lived in a pretty how town," both modern poets utilize

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    Essay Length: 3,558 Words / 15 Pages
    Submitted: March 13, 2010 By: Fonta
  • Berry Gordy - Father of the Motown Sound

    Berry Gordy - Father of the Motown Sound

    Berry Gordy: Father of the Motown Sound Essay written by Haronamas Walton Berry Gordy Jr. was born in Detroit, Michigan on November 28, 1929. He was the seventh born out of eight siblings. His parents migrated to Detroit from Georgia during 1922. They were part of a mass exodus of African Americans who left the South in the 20's and traveled to northern cities in search of better economic futures. During that time jobs were

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    Submitted: March 14, 2010 By: Fatih
  • 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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    Essay Length: 1,032 Words / 5 Pages
    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Submitted: April 7, 2010 By: Jack
  • Chuck Berry

    Chuck Berry

    In the early 1950’s a new artist became present on the rock n roll scene. This artist was the 24 year old Chuck Berry. Chuck Berry was inspired by gospel music chanted in his mother’s household. The family would join in and all sing together and harmonize with one another. Berry also sang in his St. Louis church's Baptist choir at age six. Berry learned to play the guitar while attending Sumner High School,

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    Essay Length: 557 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: April 9, 2010 By: Bred
  • 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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    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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    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
  • Martha Berry

    Martha Berry

    Before Martha Berry found Berry College she was the daughter of Capt. Thomas Berry and Frances Margaret Rhea. She was born on October 7, 1865, in Cherokee County, Alabama. Martha grew up with her five sisters, two brothers and three orphaned cousins. This was a very busy household. All the kids where tutored at young ages and went to school when they were old enough. Martha loved school; it inspired her to do bigger and

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    Submitted: April 28, 2010 By: Stenly

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