Shel Silverstein
.... two books contain some of Silverstein’s most accredited work. Since the books are children’s literature, not many critics have taken the time to review the works. However, Shel Silverstein Book Reviews reference to a review of Silverstein’s A Light in the Attic said, "Despite such moments of banality, and there aren\'t many, Mr. Silverstein\'s work remains a must for lovers of good verse for children. Quite like nobody else, he is still a master of delectable outrage and the ‘proprietor’ of a surp .....
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Sheyann Webb
.... audience on the edge of their seats. When the Butler and Oakley team joined the Sell\'s Brother Circus, Frank stopped shooting and became Annie\'s manager and assistant, managing the money and the schedule, throwing up targets for Annie to shoot at, and loading Annie\'s gun for her.
In 1885, Annie joined Buffalo Bill\'s Wild West show. Annie was injured twice while performing with Buffalo Bill\'s Wild West show, once from a bug bite, and once from a train crash. In 1913, Annie and Frank retired to Cam .....
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Shoeless Joe Jackson
.... seventeen other players on the team that attempted to do their best. Despite their best efforts, the "fix was successful" (Everstine 3). "As many fans sat in the stands and watched the game, they were not able to tell that the game had been fixed and thrown for the benefit of the Reds and the gamblers" (Everstine 3).
Joe Jackson knew of the ‘fix’. Jackson did not take the financial padding that was offered to him. In the sixth game, "Jackson made two hits and naile .....
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Sigmund Freud
.... private practice with a specialty in neurology.
During his training he befriended Josef Breuer, another physician and physiologist. They often discussed medical cases together and one of Breuer\'s would have a lasting effect on Freud. Known as Anna O., this patient was a young woman suffering from what was then called hysteria. She had temporary paralysis, could not speak her native German but could speak French and English, couldn\'t drink water even when thirsty, and so on. Breuer discovered that i .....
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Sir Isaac Newton
.... so much time on projects that he would fall behind in school. When he realized he was falling behind all Isaac had to do was pick up his textbook and would immediately be caught up. Through his machines Newton became proficient in drawing and his inventions steadily became more elaborate. At the age of seventeen in 1659, Newton left Mr. Clark and had another life changing experience. When Newton was seventeen his mother took him out of school and brought him back to the family farm. Trying to teach him .....
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Sir Isaac Newton
.... is an equal and opposite reaction. These laws of motion are what made modern day space travel possible. Newton is also famous for proving that sunlight is really made of all the colors of the rainbow. He used a prism to seperate white light into all the individual colors. Newton decided that lenses would not display things accurately because of this, so he invented the reflecting telescope. This is the same principle that today’s modern telescopes use. His observations of circular motion resulted in the .....
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Sir Thomas More
.... When Woolsey says \"...that thing out there is at least fertile, Thomas\". More shows that he is against the divorce by saying \"But she\'s not his wife\". More again shows his beliefs that a dispensation was given so that Henry could marry Catherine and Thomas knows that the Pope will not give a dispensation on a dispensation. More believes that the Pope should make the decision about the divorce. And More chooses to go against the divorce until the pope is approached.
Thomas More chooses not to s .....
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Slobodan Milosevic
.... proportions continues to unfold in Kosovo. Nearly 50 per cent of its Albanian population has been forced to flee the country under the relentless assault of the Yugoslav army and police, amid unbelievably cruel carnage of human lives and burning of villages and towns.
Kenneth Waltz’s first-image theory rests on the assumption that the causes of war are to be found in the nature and behavior of man and on the role of specific individuals, as in this case Slobodan Milosevic. If you ask the question \"Wh .....
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Socrates
.... forms and is disguised in a way that people spend their lives looking for goodness, but finding only the evil in which it is concealed. The only way to discover true happiness, goodness, and the right way, is to fully understand oneself. Socrates did not believe in the Greek gods or religion. He had his personal view of god. Socrates felt that there must be some form of divine power because everyone seemed to believe in some kind of god and religion. He also believed in a sort of immortality. He hypothesiz .....
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Socrates
.... at the outdoor exercises. He did not like to work out like his friends or be a stonecutter like his father because he knew that sort of thing was not for him. He thought about everything in a more abstract way.
The Gods during Socrates time seemed to be further away from humanity, they did not disguise themselves as humans to help or punish them anymore (1). He only knew of them from old stories, myths, and Homer. He had a voice in him that stopped him from doing certain things as he was about to, .....
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Sophocles
.... three tragedies to explain a single story. Sophocles preferred to make each tragedy a complete entry in itself. As a result of this, Sophocles had to crowd all of his action into the shorter form clearly offering greater dramatic possibilities. He has also been credited with the invention of scene painting and painted prisms.
Of all Sophocles\'s plays, only seven have really survived in their entirety. The seven plays are as follow: \"Ajax\" (451 to 444 B.C.), \"Antigone\" (after 441 B.C.), \"M .....
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Spike Lee
.... is safest in their \"own\" neighborhood and that it is best if we remain with people like ourselves. Now this doesn\'t seem to hold true for Sal and his pizzeria at first. Just look at the facts, he has been in this neighborhood for at least 15 to 20 years without any problems that we are made aware of. Obviously he must be making a profit or he would have shut down years ago. The way I see it is that the main problem with Sal these days is that he isn\'t in the business for the love of it anymore, he is .....
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St. Francis Of Assisi
.... his heart moved naturally to deep affection, love and enjoyment. As a poet, he could see right through the outcome of those answers. One night during a dream, he saw his house turned into a palace. The walls of this palace were hung with glorious armory, banners, shields, and swords – all instruments of war. Suddenly he heard a voice, it explained that this was to be his palace, the gathering place for all his knights. The arms were theirs, the banners, and tokens of their countless conquests. To co .....
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St. John The Evangelist
.... everybody would tell you that he wrote a gospel. It is believed that he wrote a Gospel at the year of 96, after the death of Domitian. His object in writing it he tells us himself: "These things are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that, believing, you may have life in His name." In order to write a Gospel you have to be truly involved in holy life by yourself. St. John went threw Jesus’ teachings and he opened himself to Jesus. All of his life he spen .....
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Stephen Crane
.... It is said that Crane wrote the preliminary sketch of his novella, Maggie, while at Syracuse. He eventually decided to quit school and become a full time reporter for the New York Tribune ("Stephen" n.p.).
Crane began his writing career in poverty, hoping that it would inspire him to write. Along with his beliefs in Darwinism, he drew much if his influences from his religious beliefs (Colvert 12:108). Famous writers such as Hamlin Garland, William Howells, Rudyard Kipling, and Tolstoy als .....
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