Rudyard Kipling
.... removed him from the Calvinistic foster home and placed him in a private school at the age of twelve. The English schoolboy code of honor and duty affected his views in later life, especially when it involved loyalty to a group or a team.
Returning to India in 1882 he worked as a newspaper reporter and a part-time writer and this helped him to gain a rich experience of colonial life which he later presented in his stories and poems. In 1886 he published his first volume of poetry, "Departmental Ditt .....
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Reinhold Niebuhr
.... Christian Realism and Political Problems (1953), The Self and the Dramas of History (1955), and Structure of Nations and Empires (1959). In addition he edited Christianity and Society, a quarterly, and the biweekly periodical Christianity and Crisis.
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Richard Nixon 2
.... black books. These black books would assure that the person couldn’t get a job or get a loan or even friends. After Nixon’s time in the House was up he decided to run for the office of federal senator of California. His opponent name was Helen Douglas. Nixon again made accusations of possible Communist activity and he earned her the nickname of the “Pink Lady”. Because of Nixon’s sick campaign strategies he earned himself the nickname of “Tricky Dick” a very fittin .....
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Robert Boyle
.... no proof that ash, smoke, or flame were there before the wood was burned.
(Salzberg p. 162)
Boyle also did a lot of work with elements and figuring what things were elements and what things were not elements. He concluded that water was not an element. He also rejected fire as an element. (Salzberg p.164) He really did not know what an element was, but he did know what it was not. Robert once said, "I must not look upon anybody as a true principle or element which is not perfectly homogeneous b .....
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Robert Frost 2
.... volumes of poetry, A Boy's Will in 1913, and North of Boston in 1914. These works were well received not only in England, but in America. Frost returned to America in 1915 and continued writing his poetry. He produced many volumes of poetry, among which are Mountain Interval (1916), West-Running Brook (1928), A Further Range (1936), A Masque of Reason (1945), and In the Clearing (1962). Frost received the Pulitzer Prize for poetry four times (1924, 1931, 1937, 1943) and became the first poet to read a poe .....
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Roger Williams
.... Bloudy. Other works include Queries of Highest Consideration, an argument for complete separation of church and state; The Hireling Ministry None of Christ's; and George Fox Digg'd Out of His Burrowes, a polemic against Quaker teachings. Of great personal charm and unquestioned integrity, Williams was admired even by those who, like both the elder and the younger John Winthrop, abhorred his liberal ideas.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson 3
.... It is only detrimental to constantly carry around memories. Emerson is not saying to forget everything about the past, but instead to use it wisely. Consult the past for judgement as a new day begins, and use it as guidance towards new experiences. One who is wise uses more then a memory to continue with life. A memory can be used to broaden horizons, to teach a person more about themselves, and to lead them into another great part of the world. Therefore, a memory should not be an intimidation keepi .....
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Really In The Works Of John Grisham
.... although only slight, spiked Grisham's new writing hobby. As he began his next book, that hobby turned into a full time career. Grisham has gone on to be recognized as one of the worlds's best selling novelists (http://www.olemiss.edu/debts/English/ms-writers/dir/grisham_john/). The Firm stayed for 47 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller List. The Firm became the best selling novel of 1991 (http://www.randomhouse.com/ features/grisham/about.html). Several other of his novels began to reach numbe .....
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Revelation By Flannery Oconnor
.... and she is told that she is a "wart hog." Mrs. Turpin, still thinking this is a message from God, is quite confused by it. She doesnąt know where it came from, or its true meaning, so she searches herself for
it. She ends up, supposedly, "seeing the light" while hosing down the pigs in her pig parlor.
The first impression the reader gets of Mrs. Turpin is one of dominance. She is portrayed as "large" and "loud." She controls her husband, Claud, treating him like a child. She immediately .....
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Robert Capa
.... allowed him to be inconspicuous and have a large capability of movement. With this camera he was able to jump into battles to take pictures that no one else was ever able to take.
One of the main things that Robert Capa tried to capture were the emotions of his subjects. He always tried to portray things such as their sorrow or their shock, mainly focusing on the expressions of the subjects’ faces to show what emotions they might be feeling.
Despite his worldwide recognition Capa denied the ti .....
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Rocky Marciano
.... their workouts by racing over to Saxton's Spring to get a cold drink of water."
Unfortunately, Rocky's experience of growing up in a multi-ethnic, working-class setting contributed to his involvement in a number of "altercations." Although most were territorial battles that took place at James Edgar Field, some occurred well beyond....
Even prior to his teenage years, Rocky's reputation for being a "really tough Italian kid" extended all the way over to the Bush, Brockton's Irish section. Howe .....
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Rutherford Hayes
.... white southerners would welcome a policy of moderation and react by assuring rights previously granted only sparingly . Consequently, he thought that by releasing troops from the last two remaining states would, "get from those states by their governors, legislatures, press, and people pledges that the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and fifteenth Amendments shall be faithfully observed; that the colored people shall have equal rights to labor, education, and the privileges of citizenship" . His theory that th .....
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Vincent Van Gogh
.... courses and could not be the minister he hoped to become. Even though he failed the courses, he still had the desire to be a minister. His superiors sent him as a lay missionary to Belgium instead. There he wanted to be like his father and help out the unfortunates as a preacher. He tried to fight poverty through the teachings of Christ. Van Gogh’s mission had to be discontinued. His approach to fighting poverty did not make his superiors happy. In 1879, he moved to his father’s home in Etta .....
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Vincent Van Gogh 2
.... current techniques and color. Paris opened his eyes to the senses and beauty of the visible world and taught him the pictorial language of the color patch. However, his painting continued to be under his personal emotion.
In 1888 van Gogh left Paris for southern France, where he painted scenes of the fields, cypress trees, peasants and rustic life characteristic of the region. He produced his greatest pictures there. Van Gogh felt that Impressionist art could not express the feeling, especially sor .....
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Violence In The Media
.... that reality is no longer easy to distinguish from fantasy and abnormality. Professor Fukaya of the New York Times says "They haven’t been growing up with real feelings, living with real friends, or with real nature."
Figures show that one in four British children has their own VCR and uses it to record s-rated films late at night. X-rated films are not the problem. The problem is that the films are x-rated for a reason and this reason is that they are not designed for children’s ev .....
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