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    Hitler and Stalin

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    power were similar or different or maybe both options are true to same extent. Nevertheless‚ Hitler tried twice to gain power in a period 1923-1934 while Stalin only once in years 1924-1929 (West‚ 2012). Both Hitler and Stalin were both military geniuses although their evils tend to heavily outweigh their good deeds. They were both expert propagandists and were amoral and willing to do whatever they could to better their country; they were also both quite paranoid and good strategists. Their expert

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    Brian Lee 4/5/2013 Ms. Suri Period: 5 The Aztec In the ancient Americas‚ the Aztec‚ Incas‚ and Mayans were superior civilizations‚ but of those 3 the Aztec were exceptional. The Aztec represent multiple city states formed by an alliance into 1 civilization. The original “founders” of the Aztec civilization were tribal nomads known as the Mexica‚ who wandered to Mexico. There they were kicked out by settlers who

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    consider the best possible way to explain the relationship between society’s proclaimed geniuses and natural talent in relation to the artists of the Italien Renaissance. We were studying the works of Michaelangelo and Leonardo Da Vinci as well as their significance in history. He began with the statues created by Michaelangelo which led to the discussion about socail interaction and mental capabilities of "geniuses" in modern and ancient societies. It was noticed that those with superior skills in one

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    Anne Sexton "Cinderella"

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    Kelsey Hoffman Professor Maier Literature by Women 3 December 2004 And the Clock Struck Reality: Anne Sexton’s retelling of Cinderella Michelangelo‚ perhaps the most gifted sculptor and painter of all times‚ once said that "geniuses stand on the shoulders of other geniuses." As Michelangelo built upon the brilliance of his predecessors‚ Anne Sexton does the same with her poem "Cinderella". Fairy tales originated as oral traditions and were passed along and sculpted by thousands of story tellers

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    Mozart and Haydn

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    Two of history’s greatest figures in the development of Classical style music during the eighteenth century were Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Joseph Haydn. Both men worked together and were very close friends while living in Vienna. Between the two‚ Joseph Hayden and Amadeus Mozart devoted much of their music for composing symphonies‚ minuets‚ librettos‚ sonatas‚ concertos‚ masses‚ oratorios and operas. While both men achieved popularity and status during their time‚ they also discovered that success

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    Ancient Greece

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    two thousand years brings poetry to its lowest point in history. The impact that Homer made would never be associated with a poet in the 17th – 21st century. Poets such as Walt Whitman‚ T.S. Eliot‚ Ezra Pound are considered to be geniuses with their crafts‚ but geniuses they are only to a few. This degradation of poets has not only destroyed a way to transmit knowledge and culture but has degraded the importance of literature as a whole in the last four centuries. “Aristotle divided poetry into

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    Innate Ability

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    are both kinds of talented people. It is undoubtedly said that people are naturally capable of doing something. Some are apparently born to be artists or athletes without knowing they would be‚ while few are born with qualifications to become geniuses. It is often alleged that this kind of aptitude obviously came from the inheritance of dominant genes from the child’s family. Gradually‚ that flair followed the child during the days he was growing up then consequently exposed at his mature age

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    It’s not the rioters that cause harm to others because they support lawlessness over principled anarchy. The real anarchists are the intellectuals‚ the philosophers‚ the rednecks‚ the geniuses‚ the patriots‚ and every other person in between. Anarchists are all around‚ and all they want is to live life by affecting and being affected by no one else. Anarchy can be done in American society‚ as that was proven throughout this paper as we

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    escape from the dilemma. Another obvious dilemma is that suicide is a sin as well. Thus‚ the question is whether to live to satisfy the ghost and be damned‚ or to kill oneself and be damned. Realizing revenge as the better choice of the two‚ both mad geniuses decide to seek revenge at last. Soliloquies also display the character’s madness. It is their uncertainty‚ their attempt to reveal the truth‚ and their mind persistently seeking for reason that drives the avengers to some extent of madness; however

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    The Poe Shadow and the Murders in the Rue Morgue “Ratiocination is the act of deliberate‚ calculated reasoning through the imagination and spirit; the intimate and forecasting of the complexities in human activity‚ especially the frequent simplicity in that activity. Not interchangeable with mere “calculus” or “logic” (Shadow 52).” C. Auguste Dupin is the character model for Auguste Duponte. The detective in “The Murders in the Rue Morgue‚” by Edgar Allan Poe‚ C. Auguste Dupin‚ is capable of

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