... I have such a cool nickname as "the Great" huh? Well, stick around and listen to what I have to say about myself and then you can be the judge on whether or not I should be known as Alexander the Great, or Alexander the Best. Sorry, just a little joke. Obviously I can't give you a life ... story day by day, so here's my life in a nutshell. The miraculous year that I was born was 356 ... B.C. That makes me (pretty damn old) 2,358 years young. I was born into royalty in Pella, Macedonia, being my father was King Philip II, and my mother Queen Olympias. As most of you already know all grea...

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... used in stories or other writings, Mark Twain emerged as a comic relief for the new generation and generations to come. What made him a great American writer was his ability to use the truth about human error as a joke to amuse his audience. His stories also carried warm themes and meaningful morals. His short story "The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg" showed his ability to expose ... the negativity of human frailty, but at the same time make it funny. In "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg", people who claim they are ... innocents are put to the test when a stranger gets into the smug r...

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... . I own 20 rap CD's. I became concerned about rap lyrics bad influence when Tupac Shakur and Notorious BIG were murdered in the middle of the 1990's. Will Smith is also my favorite rap artist, because he does not use profanity and violence in his lyrics. According to ... fellow Americans struggle through hardships and lose their lives, many were compelled to become involved; all were forced to question the justness of the world. Through the use of television, many changes were made in America. This new means of being informed was a major breakthrough for America ... Kurt Cobain to 9/11 h...

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... in World War II, it managed to rebuild itself to its former strength. The plans reformed the backwards Russia into a modern Soviet Union which was able to scare the capitalist world where previously socialism had been seen as a joke. However, in their success, the five-year plans were also the undoing of the Soviet Union, So successful that they resulted in a huge arms race between ... the USSR and the west which managed to bankrupt the Soviet Union by 1991. Furthermore, the immense human cost of the Soviet Unions achievements in terms ... of the fifteen million kulaks, and the million...

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