The Life And Work Of Chaim Potok
.... Society of America 1965 to 1974. He is currently the chairman
of the Publication Committee at The Jewish Publications Society. Chaim
Potok also served his people and religion through all of his writings which
are all in some way related to or involve Judaism.
Now, to go in-depth into his writings. First, his novels. The first
novel Potok wrote was The Chosen, which won him the Edward Lewis Wallant
award, in 1969, here is a quotation about that book:
"So why did Potok's book make such a .....
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Charles Darwin
.... Uncle Josiah Wedgewood. After he
abandoned medicine, his father urged him to attend Cambridge University to
study to be a clergyman. At Cambridge he met John Steven Henslow who
helped him regain his interest in nature. It was Henslow who was
influential in getting Darwin the position of naturalist on the boat The
Beagle. In April of 1831, he graduated from the University.
In the fall following his graduation, the government decided to
send the H.M.S. Beagle, under the command of Captain Fitz .....
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Queen Elizabeth I
.... long keeps what it quickly picks up. With the
help of these tutors, she was not only fluent in two languages, but in four
languages. She was fluent in the languages of Greek, Latin, French, and
Italian.
When Henry died in 1547, her brother, Edward, took over the throne at
ten years of age. Edward, with a short reign on the throne, died in 1553,
and Elizabeth's half, older sister, Mary took the throne. Mary, like
Edward, died on November 17, 1558, after a short time on the throne.In
October .....
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The Life Of Charles Dickens
.... in London. He was further educated by reading widely in the
British Museum (Huffam).
In late 1822, John was needed back at the London office, so they
had to move to London. This gave Charles opportunities to walk around the
town with his father and take in the sights, sounds, and smells of the
area. This gave him early inspiration that he would use later on in his
life when he started to write (Mankowitz 13-14).
James Lamert, the owner of a boot-blacking factory, saw the
conditions that .....
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Charles Manson: Orgins Of A Madman
.... his
mother and rented a room for himself. He supported himself with odd jobs
and petty theft. His mother turned him into the juvenile authorities, who
had him sent to "Boys Town," a juvenile detention center, near Omaha,
Nebraska. Charles spent a total of three days in "Boys Town" before
running away. He was arrested in Peoria, Illinois for robbing a grocery
store and was then sent to the Indiana Boys School in Plainfield, Indiana,
where he ran away another eighteen times before he was caught and sen .....
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Desiderius Erasmus
.... to the Apostles. He
also wrote a short satirical skit in which Pope Julius II had trouble
getting into heaven. In the skit, Pope Julius II is made out to be more of
a Muslim than a Catholic. Writing this had to take considerable courage,
for, though the Church was in decline, it still had considerable power. He
also published the Greek version of the New Testament in Latin, so
Europeans could read it.
Erasmus was a traveller. He lived in many places in Europe at different
times. He had lived in .....
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Emily Murphy: A Great Canadian
.... In 1900's in Alberta any man who, for example, had a farm and was
married could sell that farm and leave his wife and children walking away
with the money. Mrs. Murphy was angry that Alberta would allow such
disgrace. In 1910 Emily was still fighting for the Dower Act "which would
recognize a married woman's entitlement to a share of the common property
in a marriage". For the first time the act was turned down, Emily not
giving up tried very hard until 1911 when Dower Act was passed. "It
pr .....
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Cleopatra - Queen Of Egypt
.... What would you be doing when you're 17? Most teens would party, but
when Cleopatra was 17, she became the Queen of Egypt. Cleopatra V11 was
born in 69BC. and died in 30Bc. Between 69BC. to 30BC, she was the last
pharaoh. Cleopatra lived most of her life in Alexandra with her brother
Ptolemy. Cleopatra married her brother Ptolemy, because they wanted to
rule Egypt together. They did for quite some time. But it all changed
when Ptolemy got sick and died. After the death of Ptolemy she found a
grea .....
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Notes On Emily Murphy
.... such success that the bill, when passed, was substantially as she
wished. It was on this occasion that Mrs. Murphy, most hapily married to
the Reverend Arthur Murphy, received a letter from a grateful but
misinformed pioneer woman who wrote:"God bless you, Janey Canuck, I have a
troublesome husband too."
((p. 71))
Not content with vague anticipation of benefits to be conferred in some
shadowy future, Mrs. McClung and Mrs. Murphy joind forces to call upon
Sifton on March 2 and ask that a suff .....
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Mohandas Gandhi
.... then returned to India and studied law in Bombay, but he
quickly denounced it, feeling that it was immoral and could not satisfy
one's conscience. Despite this, he used his schooling to help plead for
Indian settlers in South Africa that were being oppressed by the white
population. His personal experiences, including being ejected from a train
in Maritzburg, of not being allowed the same rights as others lead him to
begin a movement to help his people.
While in South Africa, Gandhi made himself p .....
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History Of Adolf Hitler
.... He failed the
first time he tried to get admission and in the next year, 1907 he tried
again and was very sure of success. To his surprise he failed again. In
fact the Dean of the academy was not very impressed with his performance,
and gave him a really hard time and said to him "You will never be
painter." The rejection really crushed him as he now reached a dead end.
He could not apply to the school of architecture as he had no high-school
diploma. During the next 35 years of his live the y .....
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Inventor Project April 1, 1996 Albert Einstein
.... to the frequency of the radiation. The formula for this is E=hv,
where E is the radiation, h is a universal constant known as Planck's constant,
and v is the frequency of the radiation. This proposal, that the energy
contained within a light beam is transferred by individual units, or quanta,
contradicted the hundred year old tradition of considering light as a
manifestation of continuous processes.
My third and most impotant paper, "On the Electrodynamics of Moving
Bodies", contained what has become .....
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Descartes
.... during his time at the Jesuit college La Flech_
and it had an important influence on his work, as we shall see later. The
second was the scepticism that had made a sudden impact on the
intellectual world, mainly as a reaction to the scholastic outlook. This
scepticism was strongly influenced by the work of the Pyrrhonians as
handed down from antiquity by Sextus Empiricus, which claimed that, as
there is never a reason to believe p that is better than a reason not to
believe p, we should forget about t .....
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King Henry VIII
.... had fallen in love with a lady of the court,
Anne Boleyn.
When the pope (Clement VII) would not annul his marriage, Henry turned
against Wolsey, deprived him of his office of chancellor, and had him
arrested on a charge of treason. He then obtained a divorce through Thomas
Cranmer, whom he had made archbishop of Canterbury, and it was soon
announced that he had married Anne Boleyn.
The pope was thus defied. All ties that bound the English church to
Rome were broken. Appeals to the pope's court .....
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Carl Gustav Jung
.... much outside of class and detested math and physical education
classes. Actually, gym class used to give him fainting spells (neurosis)
and his father worried that Jung wouldn't make a good living because of his
spells. After Carl found out about his father's concern, the faints
suddenly stopped, and Carl became much more studious.
He had to decide his profession. His choices included archeology,
history, medicine, and philosophy. He decided to go into medicine, partly
because of his grandfather. C .....
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