... one American Icon and movie box office draw not only in America, but in the entire world; although he represents different concepts to different people, the result is usually the same, staggering box office receipts. The violence of his films speak a universal language, ensuring that international markets are ripe prospects. His identification with young children, politics, bodybuilding/fitness enthusiasts, hollywood, and most importantly, an inseparable bond with the American Dream make a superstar of the man who is Arnold Schwarzenegger. Born in the tiny village of Thal-By-Graz , Austria, young Arnold Schw ...

... crisis of the country. She didn't seem to care. A famous story about Marie has to do with a court official coming to her to tell her that the people didn't have any bread to eat. She laughed and just said, "Let them eat cake, then!". Whether or not she really said this, the truth of the matter was that this story portrayed the way she really thought. She was either completely naive about the problems of the common people, or she thought that they were of no value. In 1774, Louis XV died, and his son Louis XVI became the true King. People were dying of starvation and most of the people were blaming i ...

... a pale and weak resemblance but in Richmond he turned to athletics. He was a good runner, leaper and boxer and also a superior swimmer. At the age of fifteen or sixteen he swam six miles in the James River under a hot June sun, partly against a strong tide. Edgar obviously made a good impression on other people. Thomas Ellis, the son of John Allan's business partner once said: "No boy ever had a greater influence over me than he had." At the age of fifteen he became a lieutenant in the Junior Morgan Riflemen. As second-in-command he was reviewed by the popular Marquis de Lafayette whom two weeks earlier had prais ...

... drugs, crime, sex and literature as the rest of them. During this time, Ginsberg haunted Times Square associating with junkies and thieves and began experimenting with drugs. Ginsberg was openly gay for most of his life, and had many boyfriends, Neal Cassady was one of them. Ginsberg traveled all around the world and stayed in India for a while, where he learned Buddhism, meditation and spiritual chants. He wrote poetry for over three decades, and in doing so, changed the course of American poetry. Ginsberg believed in open, spontaneous poetry, speaking his thoughts and emotions in a raw and "uncensored" way. This r ...

... the birth of his son. The birth brought the council of Rome to believe that Caesar was getting to powerful and would bring Rome to it's knees. This revolt would be born by the jealousy of Caesar's adopted son Octavious. Octavious feared that the son of Caesar would be the true heir of the throne. Octavious convinced the council that Caesar was getting to powerful and must be stopped. Thus lead to the unexpected assassination of Julius Caesar. Besides the death of Caesar, Ptolomey could have well been the reason for civil war. Marc Antony, (Caesar's most trusted horse master), was entitled to half of the Roman empire ...

... constantly going in and out of mental institutions. Chaplin lived his childhood in and out of run-down furnished rooms, state poorhouses, and an orphanage. His childhood was marked by poverty, cruelty, hunger, and loneliness- subjects which became major themes in his silent comedies. was taught to sing before he could talk and danced just as soon as he could walk. At a very young age Chaplin was told that he would become the most famous person in the world. A sign of this was when he was five years old and sang for his mother on stage after she became ill and taken for crazy. The audience apparently loved him ...

... the Russian people for the time he was in power his leadership may have been more effective. Russia before 1917 was the largest country under one empire. In economic terms it was backward, as it was late industrialising and late to emerge from feudalism. In political terms it was also backward, there was no legal political parties nor was there any centrally elected government . Russia at this time was under tsarist rule by Nicholas II of the Romanov empire. Nicholas II was brought up by his father Alexander III who didn’t believe that his son could take an intelligent interest in anything and therefore did not ...

... Pond. Ralph Waldo Emerson, the great "Sage of Concord," owned land adjacent to Walden Pond and allowed Henry to live at Walden Pond. Henry went to Walden Pond to work on a book, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers which would be a tribute to John Thoreau Jr. Henry stayed at Walden Pond for two years, two months and two days. Henry wanted to live deliberately and so he went and built a simple cabin at Walden Pond. Henry explains in Walden, "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, To front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to tea ...

... life. His father, a petty customs official, wanted the boy to study for a government position. But as young Hitler wrote later, "the thought of slaving in an office made me ill…not to be master of my own time." Defying his father, the self-willed boy filled most of his school hours with daydreams of becoming a painter. His one school interest was history, especially that of the Germans. When his teacher glorified Germany's role, "we would sit there enraptured and often on the verge of tears." From boyhood he was devoted to Wagner's operas that glorified the Teutons' dark and furious mythology. Failure plagued him. ...

... of his best students, Plato, however, recorded what had occurred on that last day of ' life. On that last day of his life, made a quite powerful claim. He claimed that philosophy was merely practice for getting used to death and dying. At first, the connection between philosophy and death is not clear. However, as we unravel ' argument backing up his claim, the statement makes a lot of sense. In order for Philosophers to examine their world accurately and learn the truth accurately, they must remove them selves of all distractions. These not only include physical distractions, but they include mental distractions ...