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  • Thomas Boston Critique

    Thomas Boston Critique

    The Sweet Saint of Scottish Presbyterianism My biographical assignment led me to the work of Andrew Thomson on the life and times of Thomas Boston. This Mr. Boston, as he was reverently and affectionately addressed and referred to, was the sweet saint of Scottish Presbyterianism. Born in Duns of Berwickshire on March 17, 1676, Boston was destined for greatness. This greatness, however, was to be kingdom oriented and the preparation for it was, for the

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    Essay Length: 287 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 8, 2009 By: Max
  • Saint Thomas Aquinas' End for Which Man Is Made and the Suicides of Dante's Inferno.

    Saint Thomas Aquinas' End for Which Man Is Made and the Suicides of Dante's Inferno.

    Saint Thomas Aquinas teaches that the end for which man is made is to be reunited with the divine goodness of God through virtuous behavior as well as the use of rational human intellect in order to know and love God above all. Dante Alighieri composed The Inferno based upon Aquinas’ theological teachings - teachings which were most significantly influenced by Aristotelian philosophy but had an overall theological theme. Instead of Alighieri exemplifying man’s

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    Essay Length: 2,664 Words / 11 Pages
    Submitted: December 8, 2009 By: Tasha
  • Thomas A’ Becket

    Thomas A’ Becket

    Thomas a' Becket Thomas a' Becket was a chancellor of England and archbishop of Canterbury, who became a saint of the Roman Catholic Church. He was made archbishop of Canterbury by King Henry II of England in 1162. Becket resisted Henry’s attempts to control the affairs of the Catholic Church. Over time their conflicts grew bitter. Four of Henry’s knights, acting on their own, murdered Becket. Shortly thereafter the Catholic Church in Rome declared Becket

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    Submitted: December 9, 2009 By: Mike
  • War Strategies of Sir Arthur Currie

    War Strategies of Sir Arthur Currie

    War Strategies of Sir Arthur Currie Sir Arthur Currie was not a man raised to become a great general, he had to start from the beginning and work his way to the top. He served his country by fighting and leading battles that made Canada a great independent nation, making him a figure of inspiration to many Canadians. In the many battles of World War One, including Amiens, Passchendaele, Vimy Ridge, and others, Arthur Currie

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    Submitted: December 9, 2009 By: Monika
  • Thomas Edison

    Thomas Edison

    Thomas Edison It was on February 11, 1847 that a person was born that forever changed America. Thomas Alva Edison was born in Milan, Ohio to a family that was part Dutch and part British. He lived in Milan with his family until 1854 when his family settled in Port Huron, Michigan. There he attended a public school for three months. These three months would be the only form of public schooling that Edison would

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    Submitted: December 9, 2009 By: Jack
  • Sir Gwain and the Green Knight

    Sir Gwain and the Green Knight

    Sir Gwain and The Green Knight Mid day New Years Day, a knight dressed in an attire of bright green walked into King Arthur castle while he and his men were enjoying their New Years feast. The knight dressed in green goes by the name of The Green Knight. The Green Knight challenged, any man that would accept, to a beheading game. The only knight that has ever accepted the Green Knights challenge is King

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    Submitted: December 10, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • Thomas Jefferson: Orignial Pragmatist

    Thomas Jefferson: Orignial Pragmatist

    In his book The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson, Daniel J. Boorstin attempted to “recapture the Jeffersonian world of ideas” by reconstructing the writings of the Jeffersonian from the American Philosophy Society. He attempted to show the relationship between the different Jeffersonian conceptions, starting with God and ending with society. Furthermore, Boorstin’s attempted to bring coherency to the Jeffersonian tradition in order to save it from the “vagueness which has enveloped much of liberal thought”.

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    Submitted: December 13, 2009 By: Mikki
  • Thomas Malthus’s Overpopulation Theory

    Thomas Malthus’s Overpopulation Theory

    A little over two hundred years ago a man by the name of Thomas Malthus wrote a document entitled “An Essay on the Principle of Population” which essentially stated that there is an imbalance between our ability to produce food and our ability to produce children. He said human beings are far better at making babies than they are at finding food for survival. His entire essay is based on these two assumptions. “ First,

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    Submitted: December 14, 2009 By: Jon
  • Thomas Jefferson

    Thomas Jefferson

    Thomas Jefferson by John S. Matuszewski American History Mr. Dodds December 2, 2004 Table of Contents Page I. Early Life and Childhood 1 II Through Collage and Into the world 2 III Revolutionary Politics 3 IV Pre-Presidential Posts and Accomplishments 4 V Presidency and post presidency 5 VI Picture 6 VII Works Cited 7 Thomas Jefferson I. Early life and childhood A simple log cabin located in now what is commonly known as Albemarle County,

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    Submitted: December 15, 2009 By: July
  • Gwyn Thomas

    Gwyn Thomas

    Gwyn Thomas (1913-1981) novelist, playwright and broadcaster born in Cymmer in the Rhondda Valley, South Wales. His father was an out of work miner, and had very little money to live on. Thomas was the youngest in a family of twelve children who were all welsh speaking, and was raised by his sister, his mother having died when he was just a little boy of six. Young Gwyn attended Porth County School and was quite

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    Submitted: December 17, 2009 By: Yan
  • Thomas Alva Edison

    Thomas Alva Edison

    Thomas Alva Edison 1847-1931 Thomas Alva Edison is one of Americas most famous inventors. He invented the sound recording device, motion picture, and the light bulb. Thomas Edison was an amazing man who accomplished many historically important successes during his lifetime. Edison obtained 1,o93 United States Patents in telegraphy, phonography, electric lighting and photography. Some of the inventions that Edison Discovered were improvements of other inventions, some were things that he invented himself, some things

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    Submitted: December 18, 2009 By: Mikki
  • Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill

    Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill

    Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill You may have come to know that Winston Churchill was the British Prime Minister, or maybe a journalist for the Morning Post, or maybe even a soldier at war, but do you know the true story behind all of the successes of Winston Churchill? Well if not, the following essay is sure to capture your attention. Winston Churchill was one of the most proficient prime ministers obtained by Great Britain

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    Submitted: December 21, 2009 By: Edward
  • Thomas Jefferson

    Thomas Jefferson

    The title of the book that I read is Thomas Jefferson by Norman K. Risjord. This book was published in 1994. The biography I read was Thomas Jefferson and it was very enlightening and informative. The story began in Shadwell, Virginia where Thomas Jefferson was born in 1743 and raised until he was approximately 18. Thomas Jefferson’s parents were well off, but his father died when Thomas was 14. When Jefferson was 17 years

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    Submitted: December 21, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • Clarence Thomas: His Life and the Hearings That Defined It

    Clarence Thomas: His Life and the Hearings That Defined It

    Life and Background Clarence Thomas is just the second African American justice to serve on the Supreme Court. His confirmation margin of fifty-two to forty-eight is the smallest margin in history. Until the very recent confirmations of both Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Alito, for the past twenty-five plus years, Thomas had been the last conservative to be named to the current court. Thomas’ confirmation hearings have gone down in history as those containing the

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    Submitted: December 21, 2009 By: Kevin
  • Sir Francis Drake

    Sir Francis Drake

    Sir Francis Drake was an English navigator and explorer, born near Tavistock. He served an apprenticeship as a mariner, and in 1567 he was given his first command. His ship, the Judith, was one of a squadron of vessels led by a kinsman of Drake, the English navigator Sir John Hawkins, on a slave-trading voyage in the Gulf of Mexico. All but two ships of the expedition were lost when attacked by a Spanish squadron.

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    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: regina
  • Sir William Wallace (c1270-1305)

    Sir William Wallace (c1270-1305)

    William Wallace (c1270-1305) William Wallace has come to be known as one of Scotland's many heroes and the undeniable leader of the Scottish resistance forces dying for their freedom from English Rule at the end of the 13th century. Most accounts of Wallace have been passed down through the generations by word of mouth, making Wallace somewhat of a Scottish folk hero. Most accounts are merely tentative, and in part due to his success in

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    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Mike
  • Thomas Eddison

    Thomas Eddison

    Thomas Edison The blue-collar inventor Born 1847 Died 1931 Thomas Edison only had 3 months of formal education, and his schoolmaster thought that Edison may have been retarded. And no one not even his family could envision that Edison would become the inventor that he would eventually end up to be. Born in Milan, Ohio, youngest of 7 children, Edison would often ask questions that his father and mother both could not answer. So naturally

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    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Wendy
  • Thomas Crapper

    Thomas Crapper

    Thomas Crapper Thomas Crapper was born in Waterside, Yorkshire, in September 1836. His father Charles was a steamboat captain. When crapper was 14 he was the apprenticed of a master plumber in Chelsea. After his apprenticeship he was a journeyman plumber for three years until he founded his own company in 1861. Thomas Crapper did not invent the flush toilet. The credit of inventing the flush toilet is usually given to Sir John Harington, he

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    Submitted: December 24, 2009 By: Anna
  • Evil Lies Deep Within: Analysis of "the Child by Tiger" by Thomas Wolfe

    Evil Lies Deep Within: Analysis of "the Child by Tiger" by Thomas Wolfe

    Every day people are often seen committing good, kind, and helpful acts while others are found committing acts of evil. One doesn’t think, though, of the possibility that those who often do good would rash out in evil acts for no apparent reason at all. It is human nature to simply go along in every day life, knowing right from wrong, knowing the results and consequences of certain acts, and assuming anyone with a different

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    Submitted: December 24, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • Sir William Wallace

    Sir William Wallace

    When the king of Scotland died without an heir to the throne the nephew of the king also the king of England nicknamed Edward the Longshanks (Edward I) took the throne for himself and complete control of Scotland. William WallWhen the king of Scotland died without an heir to the throne the nephew of the king also the king of England nicknamed Edward the Longshanks (Edward I) took the throne for himself and complete control

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    Submitted: December 24, 2009 By: Wendy
  • Sir Gawain Research Paper

    Sir Gawain Research Paper

    An Analysis of “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” I. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. I Ed. Stephen Greenblatt and M. H. Abrams. New York: Norton, 2006. 162-213. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a romantic poem from the Middles Ages. It is the story of one of King Arthur’s knights, Sir Gawain, who enters a game with the mysterious Green Knight. The game is an

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    Submitted: December 25, 2009 By: Janna
  • Thomas Gray’s Elegy

    Thomas Gray’s Elegy

    Throughout the eighteenth century several talented poets arose during the era, Thomas Gray among them. Thomas Gray was a scholar of Greek and history, which he demonstrated at Cambridge University. Amid the numerous masterpieces of literature written during the eighteenth century, Gray’s Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard is one of the most appealing and most perfect poems of its time. Gray’s Elegy contrasts the simplicity and virtue of the past with the vain and

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    Submitted: December 26, 2009 By: Mikki
  • Interview with Thomas Paine: Rights of Man

    Interview with Thomas Paine: Rights of Man

    Rights of Man Interview with Thomas Paine Q: What inspired you to write this book? A: Well, it was basically just a response to Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke. Also, it states how all humans are equal and have a right to be free and have liberty. Q: What kinds of points were you trying to make in Right of Man? A: First, all men are, and always will be, free.

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    Submitted: December 26, 2009 By: Victor
  • Early Roots of Policing: Sir Robert Peel’s Twelve Principals of Policing

    Early Roots of Policing: Sir Robert Peel’s Twelve Principals of Policing

    Early Roots of Policing: Sir Robert Peel’s Twelve Principals of Policing For over a century police departments in the United States and across the world have been following Sir Robert Peel’s twelve principals of policing. Almost nothing or very little has changed since these principals were first implemented in England’s “Scotland Yard”. Many of these principals are behind today’s investigating and policing practices. THE POLICE MUST BE STABLE, EFFICIENT, AND ORGANIZED ALONG MILITARY LINES. This

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    Submitted: December 27, 2009 By: Mike
  • A Compare and Contrast of Thomas Moore’s Utopia and Machiavelli's the Prince

    A Compare and Contrast of Thomas Moore’s Utopia and Machiavelli's the Prince

    Just vs. Viable To be just is to be fair and honorable. Kids are taught that if you are kind and just you will excel and be successful. But life’s not fair and being just doesn’t necessary mean that a society will stand the test of time and be able to grow. The two different societies introduced in More’s Utopia and Machiavelli’s The Prince are very different and although More’s Utopian society would be considered

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    Submitted: December 27, 2009 By: Janna

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