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Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
... promptly told his son and wife to come to Paris. His mother died in
Paris, on July 1778. he was rejected by Weber and the neglect from his
girlfriends made Mozart's trip in Paris the most miserable moments in his life.
The success of Mozart's opera, "Idomeneo re di Creta," influenced the
archbishop of Salzburg to invite Mozart to his palace at Vienna. His
exploitation to the people of the court forced Mozart to leave! In 1782 Mozart
married Constanze Weber, Aloysia's sister. Poverty and illness endangered the
family until Mozart's death. While Mozart was working on the "Magic Flute" in
1791 an emissary req ...
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Nikita Sergeyevich
... 1917, after the Russian Revolution had ousted the Czar, Khrushchev joined the Bolshevik forces of the Red Army in the Russian civil war, serving as a political commissar. He was now a dedicated communist.
After the war, Khrushchev was given a series of political assignments and received his first formal training in Marxism at a Technical College. After graduation he was appointed to a political post in Ukraine, where Lazar Kaganovich, a protege of Joseph Stalin, was head of the Communist Party. Khrushchev joined Kaganovich in supporting Stalin in his power struggles against Leon Trotsky and Nikolai Bukharin. With S ...
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Chief Seattle
... Seathl or Sealth) was born sometime between 1786-1790 on Blake Island at the campsite of his ancestors. Blake Island lies south and a little east of Bainbridge Island and west and a little south of Seattle. Seattle was the son of Suquamish leader named Schweabe and a Duwamish woman named Scholitza. He became Chief of the Suquamish, Duwamish, and allied Salish speaking tribes by proving his leadership qualities in a war that pitted his and other saltwater tribes against those of the Green and White Rivers. (1) He was considered to be Duwamish since his mother was the daughter of a Duwamish chief and the line of descen ...
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Charles Dickens 4
... classes. His ideas and attitudes were typical to the people of the lower-middle class. His audience was people of the same class as him, so they could understand his feelings and beliefs.
He displays his moral beliefs in every book that he has written. Dickens was a very big advocate in the “plea of Poor versus Rich”(Internet Site #1). Dickens gave plenty of aid to this plea by the works that he wrote, which provided progress to the battle for the poor. All of Dickens’ novels show the battle between upper and lower classes. He portrays the lower class in a respectable way, but he portray ...
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Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770 To 1827)
... of which Mozart praised it coldly and politely. When Beethoven heard this, he asked him to give him a theme on which he then improvised so astonishingly well that Mozart ran out into the adjacent room and commented to his friends, “keep an eye on this one. Some day, he will give the world something to talk about.” He was supposed to stay for some more instruction from Mozart, but unfortunately his mothers sudden ill health prompted his return to Germany. By the time he returned to Vienna in 1792, Mozart had already passed away.
Beethoven soon earned a good living being a musician. He completed his first s ...
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Alfred Hitchcock
... was employed at Paramount as a "title designer" for silent films meaning he wrote out the lines that are displayed after each shot in the film. From that job he worked his way up through the business to assistant director and directed a small film that was never finished or released. Hitchcock's directorial debut took place in 1925 with the release of the film "The Pleasure Garden". His breakthrough film came just a year later with "The Lodger", a film that came to be an ideal example of a classic Hitchcock plot. The general idea of the plot is an innocent man is accused of a crime he did not commit and through ...
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Tom Clancy: His Life, His Style, His Books
... until
he wrote The Hunt For Red October in 1984. Until then, he was an insurance
salesman whose previous stories had been turned down. That is another
thing that I like about Mr. Clancy, he doesn't give up. Clancy once said,
"In America, there ain't no excuses. You can go out and do anything you
damn well please if you try hard enough."2 Finally, this author, was the
only one that didn't put me to sleep with a warm cup of milk.
Thomas L. Clancy Jr., son of a mailman and department store credit
employee, was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1947. He attended a local
catholic parochial elementary and secondar ...
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General George Custer
... and then attack on the day that Terry had given him
orders to. It has been urged that Custer disobeyed his orders, broke up
Terry’s plan of campaign, and by insubordination brought about a terrible
disaster and let slip the opportunity for administering a crushing defeat
to the Indians (Brady, 219). George Custer definitely disobeyed Terry’s
orders and put his men in danger. If Custer would’ve just continued on his
path then there would’ve been a better chance of a success at the Little
Big Horn battle.
Not only did George Custer disobey his orders by going off his
ordered path, but he attacked a day e ...
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Karl Marx
... paper, in Cologne. At the time Marx started, the paper had only 400 subscribers. Marx in October of 1842, became editor-in-chief, and decided to move from Bonn to Cologne. As the paper became more and more revolutionary and widely read, the government decided to censor, and eventually suppress it. The paper was banned in March of 1843. At this time, it had more than 3,400 subscribers from all over Germany. was married to his childhood friend Jenny von Westphalen, in 1843. Later in the fall of that year Marx along with another Left Hegelian, Arnold Ruge, moved to Paris and began publication of a radical journal e ...
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Violence In The Media
... year old boy by a 14-year-old in Japan. The 11-year-old was decapitated and his head placed on the school fence. The idea supposedly came from a form of media or computer game. This lead to the investigations of the so-called "Nintendo generation", a generation so focused around computer games and television that reality is no longer easy to distinguish from fantasy and abnormality. Professor Fukaya of the New York Times says "They haven’t been growing up with real feelings, living with real friends, or with real nature."
Figures show that one in four British children has their own VCR and uses it to record s-r ...
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