William Lloyd Garrison
.... aroused great animosity. A slave trader sued him for libel; he was fined, and, lacking funds to pay the fine, was jailed. After his release from prison Garrison dissolved his partnership with Lundy and returned to New England. in partnership with another American abolitionist, Isaac Knapp, Garrison launched The Liberator in Boston in 1831; the newspaper became one of the most influential journals in the United States .
Garrison was also a pacifist and involved in other reform movements. He was deeply c .....
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Biography Of John Dalton
.... they formed the basis for the modern periodic table of the elements. Dalton arrived at his atomic theory through a study of the physical properties of air and other gases.
English scientist. He taught mathematics and physical sciences at New College, Manchester. Dalton revived the atomic theory of matter (see ATOM), which he applied to a table of atomic weights and used in developing his law of partial pressures (Dalton's law). He was color-blind and studied that affliction, also known as Daltonism.
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Isaac Newton
.... off. His mother came looking for him, half
an hour later, to see what was taking him so long. She looked at the barn,
and saw the doors were blown right off the hinges. She found Isaac jumping,
again and again, from an open window. He would measure the length of the
jump, and measure the force of the wind.
Soon she realized that Newton was not cut out for farmwork, and
sent him back to King's School. He graduated in 1661.
When he was eighteen, he went to Trinity College. The teacher's
were impre .....
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Lazzaro Spallanzani
.... a priest and added himself to two
congregations in Modena (Gillispie,2).
Spallanzani, in hundreds of experiments tested various rituals for
rendering infusions permanently barren and finally found that they
remained free of microorganisms when put into flasks that were sealed and
the contents boiled for one hour (Lazzaro...1).The entrance of air into
the flask through a slight crack in its neck was followed infusoria. He
reported no spontaneous generation in strongly heated infusions protected
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Salvatore “The Bull” Gravano
.... although he was hiding from
the mafia in the Witness Protection Program until nineteen ninety seven.
This self-confessed mafia underboss helped to put away 36 fellow
mobsters. Among these 36 men one really stuck out. That man was Gambino
crime boss John "The Teflon Don" Gotti. The feds have been after Gotti
since he orchestrated the hit on former boss Paul Castellano also known as
"Big Pauly". That’s when John Gotti came into power. Gotti and the Bull
were responsible for over twenty-six murde .....
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Comparison Of John F Kennedy And Abraham Lincoln's Lives
.... same experience.
John F. Kennedy was elected to the United States Congress in 1946.
In November of 1960, when Kennedy was 43 years old, he became the 35th
President of America(O’ Sullivan 10). He established the Peace Corps Of
America which was an agency that promoted world peace and friendship by
training American volunteers to perform social and humanitarian service
overseas (“John” 1). Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in 1963
and was succeeded by Lyndon Johnson. Many historians have f .....
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Richard Linklater: Man Of Youth
.... music in all Richard Linklater's films is what I noticed the
most. He takes period music and uses it to raise the scene to another level.
In the cases of The Newton Boys all new music was written for this film
set during Prohibition. With the music in Dazed and Confused it is able to
make me excited about them going to the party in the woods. The music is
able to complete the cruise scenes. Suburbia had a music star come back to
the town to change the lives of everyone. His musical influenc .....
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Thomas Jefferson And Alexander Hamilton
.... Alexander Hamilton was the symbol of the Federalist party. He had a
dream of national grandeur to which he was prepared to subordinate the
interests of the people. He had a wish to replace the Articles of
Confederation with a strong centralized government. The states were to have
virtually no power. Hamilton thought that under this essentially
monarchical plan, the national government would have unlimited sovereignty.
Hamilton worked to promote commerce, industry, and a strong central
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Caravaggio
.... to the Hospital of the Consolation, where he did some painting
for the Prior. Having no money, he moved into a decaying neighborhood
which suited his personality well. Caravaggio struggled to live in Rome
for the first five years. According to biographers he was needy and
stripped of every thing. Caravaggio never held a job for more than a
couple of weeks during this time, but when he did, he usually was an
assistant to painter of much less skill. Despite the poverty he worked
under, during thi .....
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
.... of this historical movement. Emerson was a big part of this and
practically initiated the entire club. As we know he was already a major
part of the movement and know got himself involved more. Many people and
ways of life throughout his career including Neoplatonism, the Hindu
religion, Plato and even his wife influenced Emerson. He also inspired many
Transcendentalists like Thoreau. Emerson didn’t win any major awards, but
he did win the love and appreciation of his readers.
Literary Information
Eme .....
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Karen Louise Erdrich
.... teacher at prisons and construction flag signaler. She was also an
editor for the Circle which was a Boston Indian Council newspaper. When
she worked as an editor she learned about urban community life and took on
a new reference point, different from reservation life. She realized that
the different people she met had their own problems and confusions and that
she wanted to write about them.
Louise enrolled in an MA program at John Hopkins University. She
wrote poems and stories while sh .....
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Rachel Carson
.... as she wrote to a friend, “The beauty of
the living world I was trying to save has always been uppermost in my mind
- that, and anger at the senseless brutish things that were being
done....Now I can believe I have at least helped a little.”1
Rachel Louis Carson was born on May 27, 1907 in Springdale, PA.
Her childhood was characterized by a love of nature and literature. Her
family said she was born with a “seashell in her ear”. She graduated from
the Pennsylvania College for Women in 192 .....
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Approach To Edgar Allen Poe’s Writings
.... was
the old man/father figure. Guiding the people in the boat closest to the
edge of existence, into the maelstrom. And Poe makes it the captains fault
that they are caught in the outer ring of the maelstrom and are coming
closer to the center(Schopper). In the “Black Cat”, the husband in the
story was cruel and unjust to the cats. The cats were probably
representing Poe when he was defenseless and young. Poe’s child hood
played a key factor exposing the “evil old man” figure(Schopper).
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The Autobiography Of Malcom X
.... down.
After "The Autobiography of Malcolm X," Alex Haley completed his own
contribution to Afro-American literature, "Roots".
Historical and Political Setting
In the years around 1960, the American Negroes became increasingly active
in the struggle for civil rights. The liberal, intellectual Afro-American
leaders such as Martin Luther King and their supporters, who fought for
equality of and integration among black and white, had participated in
freedom rides and protest marches to finally abolish segre .....
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
.... always placed in the best scholastic
environment available to him, which is ironic because later Emerson says
education comes from personal experience rather than what a text book says.
After several independent private schools and college prepatory schools,
Emerson entered Harvard. Emerson later says of Harvard, “ It has done
little for me on the whole.” If this is true at least Harvard is where he
says his, “...mind commenced its characteristic and beautiful activity.”
Over the years Emerson became in .....
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