The Life Of Emily Dickinson
.... even to her beloved
sister through a door rarely left “slightly ajar.” This seclusion gave her
a reputation for eccentricity to the local towns people, and perhaps
increased her interest in death (Whicher 26).
Dressing in white every day Dickinson was know in Amherst as, “the
New England mystic,” by some. Her only contact to her few friends and
correspondents was through a series of letters, seen as some critics to be
equal not only in number to her poetic works, but in literary genius as
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Albert Einstein
.... 1909 Einstein was recognized as a leading scientific thinker. After
holding chairs in Prague and Zurich he advanced (1914) to a prestigious post at
the Kaiser-Wilhelm Gesellschaft in Berlin. From this time he never taught a
university courses. Einstein remained on the staff at Berlin until 1933, from
which time until his death he held a research position at the Institute for
Advanced Study in Princeton.
In the first of three papers (1905) Einstein examined the phenomenon
discovered by Max Planck, .....
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Fiction Authors
.... Bradbury, Huxley
includes in his book a group of people unaffected by the changes in society,
a group that still has religious beliefs and marriage, things no longer
part of the changed society, to compare and contrast today's culture with
his proposed futuristic culture.
But one theme that both Brave New World and Fahrenheit 451 use in common is
the theme of individual discovery by refusing to accept a passive approach
to life, and refusing to conform. In addition, the refusal of various
methods of es .....
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Salvador Dali
.... art
style in which imagery is based on fantasy and the world of dreams. It is
thought have grown out of the French literary movement in the 1920's and
has it's roots in Dadaism. These painters developed a dreamlike, or
hallucinatory, imagery that was all the more startling for its highly
realistic rendering. Some of Dali's better known paintings are:
"Persistence Of Memory" also know popularly as "Soft Watches" (1931), and
"The Sacrament Of The Last Supper" (1955). These Paintings have become part
of the .....
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Review Of Ernest Hemingway And Writings
.... instead became a reporter for the Kansas City Star, where he
remained for seven months. His oppurtunity to break away came when he
volunteered as a Red Cross ambulance driver in Italy. In July of 1918 while
serving along the Piave River, he was severely wounded by shrapnel and
forced to return home after recuperation in January 1919. The war had left
him emotionally and physically shaken, and according to some critics he
began as a result "a quest for psychological and artistic freedom that was
to lead .....
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Sir Sandford Fleming
.... Pass and then turning S
to Burrard Inlet on the Pacific. Altrough his spe cific recommendations
regarding the route were not followed, his extens ive survey work of
various routes, including the Kicking Horse Pass t hrough which the
Canadian Pacific main line was built , greatly facilita ted Canadian
railway construction. In the early years of the 20th ce ntury the Canadian
Northern railway work. He was a strong advocate of a telecommunication
cable from Canada to Australia, which he believ e .....
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Eudora Welty: Her Life And Her Works
.... steel, motionless except for the feathery curl behind
a distant swimmer. From my position I was looking through a rectangle
brightly lit, actually glaring at me with sun, sand, water, a little
pavilion, a few solitary people in fixed attitudes, and around it all a
border of dark rounded oak trees, like that engraved thunderclouds
surrounding illustrations in the bible"(Welty,75). Welty's long sentence
structure and word usage allows the reader to feel as though he or she were
the one sitting on the b .....
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The Dialectical Cut In Socrates' Soul
.... Plato make a dialectical cut in Socrates' soul between Theaetetus
and Young Socrates?" In answering this question it becomes central to
assume that the being of the beautiful is not contained in one character,
and for that matter, may not be a character at all. It is crucial then to
take up the characteristics of both Theaetetus and Young Socrates in
relation to what the beautiful is. In so doing, it will provide the basis
for political knowledge. To begin, Theaetetus is a youth just returned from
batt .....
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Biographies: Jackson, Van Buren, And Harrison
.... Mexico, and also bankers accumulated so much money from material
from the west that money became inflated--which encouraged people to move
west to escape this growing inflation.
Martin Van Buren
Van Buren was the next president who had to face the horrible economic
conditions began during Jackson's presidency. In 1836 Van Buren was
elected president, this time I think voters used their heads and knew Van
Buren was the only candidate really ready to face the economic conditions.
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President Gerald Ford
.... King. When his parents got divorced while
he was two, his mother married a man named Gerald R. Ford from whom he got
his most widely known name. Together, they moved to Grand Rapids Michigan
(1, Page 1). During his High School years, he was the most popular Senior
having been a great athlete and competing within 5 sports, his best being
Football. Being good at Football, he got a M.V.P, a scholarship to
Michigan with a Football scholarship and was offered a contract by the
Green Bay Packers and the Det .....
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Harry Shippe Truman
.... books that were in a
nearby library. Harry was very good in school because of reading all the
books. His mom wanted Harry, his brother Vivian, and Their little sister
Mary Jane to enrich their lives so she bought them a piano. She gave the
children lessons and noticed that Harry was especially gifted with the
piano. So, she sent him to get professional lessons with a woman named Mrs.
Edwin C. White. Everyone in his family thought that Harry would become a
concert Pianist. Harry thought so too. .....
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Herbert Hoover
.... through much of Asia, Africa, and
Europe as a mining entrepreneur, earning a considerable fortune. At the
outbreak of World War I in August 1914 he was in London.
Hoover, who as a Quaker passionately believed in peace, was appalled by
the human costs of the war, and he determined to devote his life to public
service. He volunteered to direct the exodus of American tourists from war-
torn Europe and then to head (1915-19) the Commission for Relief in Belgium.
This position brought him public attentio .....
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Thomas Jefferson
.... of the hypocrisy was that Jefferson believed
that the slaves were dependent upon the white man, while he, himself was
dependent upon the slaves. Jefferson also was hypocritcal in his
acquisition of the Loisiana territory. In Jeffersonian principles, large
expansive governments were bad, and small was good. This was a antithesis
of that principle. Jefferson knew that the acquisition of the Loisiana
territory was beneficial to the welfare of the U.S. According to the
constitution, nowhere in the constitutio .....
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Similarities Between Franz Liszt And Kurt Cobain
.... after his parents divorced when he
was eight years old. For some time he even lived under a bridge and was
hospitalized for a heroin addiction. It was not entirely unexpected that
Cobain committed suicide. He had had entered a coma by overdosing on a
mixture of champagne and tranquilizers on March 4. Also, Kurt's family
history showed that two of his father's uncles committed suicide, along
with the fact that there were a lot of dysfunctional marriages and
alcoholism present. During a concert, .....
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The Life And Work Of Frederick Douglass
.... captured and returned to slavery. He
left America, and stayed in the British Isles. There he lectured on
slavery, and gained the respect of many people, who raised money to
purchase his freedom. In 1847, Douglass relocated to Rochester, New York,
and became the person in charge of the Underground Railroad. Here he also
began the abolitionist newspaper North Star, which he edited until 1860.
In this time period, Douglass became friends with another well
known American abolitionist, John Brown. Brown .....
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