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Cicero
... , announcing their death to the crowd with the single word vixerunt ("they are dead"), received a tremendous ovation from all classes. He was hailed by Catulus as pater patriae, "father of his country". This was the climax of his career.
At the end of 60, declined Caesar's invitation to join the political alliance of Caesar, Crassus, and Pompey, and also Caesar's offer in 59 of a place on his staff in Gaul. When Publius Clodius, whom had antagonized, became tribune in 58, was in danger, and in March fled Rome. In 57, thanks to the activity of Pompey and particularly the tribune Milo, he was recalled on August 4. landed at Brundisium on that day and was a ...
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Bill Clinton And His Many Problems
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his room later that day. When she arrived he tried to force her to have sex
with him. He should also have showed her his thing. She turned him down and
he gave up and said that she should forget all about this. That is what she
has told, we are still waiting to hear Bill Clinton's statement. Another
big problem to Bill is that he has been unable to fulfil those very big
promises he gave during his election campaign in 1992. That has given his
credibility and the polls a big push down. One of his promises was his
health program, the purpose of this was to give people with not so many
money a chance to get treated at a hospital. In US you are supposed to pay
ho ...
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Harper Lee
... a short story, which her agent encouraged her to expand on. She then quit her job with the airlines to turn all of her energy to her writing. This short story expanded into perhaps one of the most popular novels, and screenplays, in the world. The surprise is, she submitted the work for publication in 1957, and it was rejected. She spent the next 2 years in the rewriting and revising the book, which was eventually published in July, 1960.
Later that year, the book that was originally rejected for publication, it was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished fiction by an American author. This marked the first time in nearly twenty years that a female author ...
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Johann Sebastian Bach
... positions at the courts of Weimar and
Anhalt-Kother, and finally in 1723, that of musical director at St Thomas's
choir school in Leipzig, where, apart from his brief visit to the court of
Frederick the Great of Prussia in 1747, he remained there until his death.
Bach married twice and had 21 children, ten of whom died in infancy. His
second wife, Anna Magdalena Wulkens, was a soprano singer; she also acted
as his amanuensis, when in later years his sight failed.
Bach was a master of contrapuntal technique, and his music marks the
culmination of the Baroque polyphonic style.
Important Works
Sacred music includes over 200 church cantatas, the Easter and Christ ...
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Gandhi
... 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-woven wool. The spinning wheel was one of the symbols used in his fight for India.
gave new life to the old idea of nationalism indeed. He helped to spark the fire that once was weak and now burned brightly. By his actions and protests and rallies for nationalism, he helped to try to unite Muslim and Hindu against their ...
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Dwight D Eisenhower
... persuaded him to run for President. On June 4, 1952 he announced his candidacy for the Republican Party nomination for Presidency. He was soon nominated at the Republican convention and elected on November 4, 1952. He was able to use the catchy slogan “I Like Ike” to help him win. He was able to serve two terms as President of the United States from January 20, 1953 to January 20, 1961. He saw the end of the Korean War, and promoted “Atoms for Peace” and dealt with several crisis in Lebanon, Suez, Berlin, and Hungary in Foreign affairs. He helped make Alaska and Hawaii become states. Throughout his presidency he was very concerned with civil rights issues and the i ...
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Frank Lloyd Wright
... of the most monumental and intimate spaces in America. He designed everything: banks and resorts, office buildings and churches, a filling station and a synagogue, a beer garden and an art museum. ’s life truly was a work of art.
Wright was born on June 8, 1867, in Richland Center, Wisconsin. His early influences include his clergyman father's playing of Bach and Beethoven and his mother's gift of geometric blocks. Growing up, Wright spent much of his summers at a farm owned by his uncles; here, his favorite pastime was building forts out of hay and mud. In 1882, at the age of 15, he entered the University of Wisconsin as a special student, studying enginee ...
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Rick Pitino
... calls the ten steps to overachieving in business and in life. The ten steps are:
1) Build your self- esteem
2) Set demanding goals
3) Always be positive
4) Establish good habits
5) Master the at of communicating
6) Learn from good role models
7) Thrive on pressure
8) Be ferociously persistent
9) Learn from adversity
10) Survive your own success
Building your self-esteem is the first step to achieving. The first part that you must remember is that you are in control. You are the one that will be deciding how good you are, or if you deserve to win. He talks about one of the first players that he coached in college and how he blamed his lack of success on every ...
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My Opinion On Director Hoovers Essay
... a deterrent that should be used when needed. It is a necessary evil, that when the impossibility of rehabilitating certain criminals whose acts will, and if not caught , would impact numerous innocent persons lives and their families. How do you rehabilitate the sociopath who has no sense of guilt and kills simply for the pleasure of killing?
Granted it is said that advocates of capital punishment should actually witness an execution to see how it is carried out and the trauma a person faces when they know that they are being led to their death. Yes these criminals were young once, innocent and vivacious, full of life with parents, friends and a long gone innocence ...
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Madam Walker's Life And Her Cosmetic Products
... Charles Joseph Walker and changed her name to Madam C.J. Walker. In 1908, the Walkers moved to Pittsburgh where Sarah founded Lelia College, a school of cosmetology (now defunct). She traveled extensively to the Caribbean and Central America and moved to Harlem in 1916 after divorcing C.J. Walker. In 1917, she organized the first Madam C.J. Walker Hair Culturists Union in America Convention. After her death in 1919 at age 51, Madam Walker's will qualify that the company must always be headed by women, as it is today Madam Walker's business thrived even after her death in 1919. Pictured above are Walker Beauty School gradates and official in St. Louis, MO, in the 19 ...
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