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    Famous Thinkers Paper Name PHL/458 June 22‚ 2013 Ellen Kathleen Kennedy Famous Thinkers Paper When I think of famous thinkers a vast number of people come to mind. Two thinkers that genuinely stand out to me are Bill Gates and Martin Luther King Jr. Bill Gates has virtually become a household name because of Microsoft. Martin Luther King Jr. is famous for his “I Have a Dream” speech. Bill Gates and Martin Luther King Jr. had numerous contributions to society and they worked through great lengths

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    aspects to succeed in life. Sports create competitions‚ and competition brings out the best in athletes‚ starting with the Olympics. I feel athletics and competition carries over even after athletic careers are done‚ and you go onto the real world. People are always competing for the better jobs‚ and benefits that will help themselves‚ a constant race. Softball could be considered one of America’s greatest sports‚ and in today’s world not only for females‚ but it is one of the most popular female

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    very influential composer of the late 19th century‚ known for Swan Lake‚ the Nutcracker‚ and Sleeping Beauty. He was born in Russia and was not encouraged by his parents to be a musician. Little did they know that their son would be one of the most famous composers of all time. Pyotr (Peter) Ilyich Tchaikovsky was born May 7‚ 1840 in Kamsko-Votkinsk‚ a city east of Moscow Russia. His mother‚ Alexandra was half French and his father‚ Ilya Petrovich Tchaikovsky‚ was “superintendent of government-owned

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    have heard about her name at least one time. But who is Agatha Christie? And what is she famous for? Childhood Agatha Christie is a famous detective fiction writer who was born on 15 september 1890 in England. Agatha was a really good singer and pianist but she was too shy to performer in front of people. If she haven’t been so shy maybe she would have been famous singer and pianist instead of being a famous writer. Agatha had always loved to read. She learnd herself to read when she where five

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    Why Mark Twain is Famous Why was Mark Twain famous and well known throughout the world? But first what is the fame I am talking about. Many people become famous for mainly two reasons. One is being known or talked about by many people‚ and the second is achieving something notable that nobody else has done before. Now which category does Twain fall under now? He falls under the category of being known by people and what he does‚ so he falls under both. The important thing is the he didn’t

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    manners of the people of the countrey. Part II Of the nature and manners of the people. It rests I speak a word or two of the natural inhabitants‚ their natures and manners ‚ leaving large discourse thereof until time more convenient hereafter: now only so far forth ‚ as that you may know‚ how that they in respect of troubling our inhabiting and planting‚ are not to be feared; but that they shall have cause both to fear and love us that shall inhabit with them. They are a people clothed with loose

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    control of Harlem in a famous stock market corner‚ and was elected its president. Vanderbilt brought his oldest son Billy‚ as

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    The Most Famous Online Marketplaces A few decades ago‚ the ideas of shopping online were not as popular as today. People talked about it as an unsecure method of shopping. Nowadays‚ it becomes a new trend of shopping. For most people‚ it’s the fastest and cheapest way to buy all the thing that they need. They just need to access the Internet with a computer‚ and then they can easily do the shopping online at anywhere and anytime. As the result‚ thousands of online shopping websites were born. However

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    Soliloquy “to Be or Not to Be” Is So Famous The essay talks about the reasons why the soliloquy which includes “ to be or not to be‚ that is the question” in Hamlet is discussed so heatedly among people who know it and especially why “to be or not to be” is known to numerous people‚ some of whom even know little about Hamlet. The essay talks about the analysis of the controversial topic of the soliloquy first and then analyzes other reasons why the soliloquy is so famous by analyzing the position of

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    subject of many speculations and mysteries; from the myths and legends that surround them; their attraction and people’s obsession over the color of their hair‚ to the phenomenon of hair stereotypes and temperamental patterns people associate with redheads. The origin of redheaded people‚ for example‚ has been a profound mystery. Are all redheads descendants from the Vikings‚ the Celts or where did they come from? These are just some of the questions James L. Breeling is researching in his article Hair

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