Biography Of Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
.... by
starting a Saab dealership and writing short stories.
In 1957, his father died of lung cancer. His sister and her
husband soon died which would one day lead him to write the novel Slapstick.
Kurt Vonnegut's writing style is exemplified in the novel
Slaughterhouse-Five. This novel also shows Vonnegut's view on war. He
entered World War II in 1939 and stayed there for the remainder of the war.
Vonnegut was captured by the Germans and imprisoned in Dresden, Germany.
He witnessed first .....
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John D. Rockefeller: Obsession Into Success
.... It states: "Full blown cases of obsessive-compulsive
states present a dynamic equilibrium in which obsessive preoccupation with
ego-alien fantasies... are precariously balanced by rituals representing an
exaggeration of social standards, such as cleanliness, punctuality,
consideration for others. The dynamic formula is similar to bookkeeping in
which on the one side of ledger are the asocial tendencies which the
patient tries to balance precisely on the other side with moralistic and
social attitudes... .....
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Letter To Charles Darwin
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what it had to teach, and not , when I came to die, to discover that I had
not lived.
Following the advice of my friend Emerson, I, like you, went out
and experienced nature as a transparent eyeball, observing as much as I
could. I noticed the Pickerel under the ice in the pond, I never pondered
the possibility of the different kinds of Pickerel to be originated from
the same species. When you were observing nature in the Galapagos Islands,
you saw all the different types of plants and animals and .....
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An Autobiography: Tom Landry
.... for the Dallas Cowboys. He led them to many
playoffs and Super Bowls. He was a great coach for them. After he had been
coach for twenty-nine years there was a controversial firing. It was a
controversy because the great things that he was doing for the Cowboys.
Jerry Jones, coach of a Florida college team, had plans for buying the team.
After he bought it, he fired Tom Landry. The firing happened on February
25, 1989. Jerry Jones named himself head coach. Up to this day Jerry
Jones has never bee .....
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The Literary Contributions Of King Alfred The Great
.... attracted to the book and was determined
to own it. Forestalling his brothers, he took it to his teacher who read
it to him. He then went back to his mother and repeated the entire book
from memory to her (Fadiman 14, Keynes 75). This talent was the foundation
of Alfred's later reputation as a scholar, translator, and patron of
learning.
As Alfred's role as king and patron began, he solemnly noted on
several occasions his disappointment in the state of educational
opportunity in England. "Former .....
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Daniel Webster
.... and an outstanding
skilled public speaker or an orator. In 1823, Webster was returned to
Congress from Boston, and in 1827 he was elected senator from Massachusetts.
New circumstances let Daniel Webster become a champion of American
nationalism. With the Federalist Party dead, he joined the National
Republican party, he joined with Westerner Henry Clay and then endorsing
federal aid for roads in the West. In 1828, since Massachusettses had
shifted the economic interest from shipping to manufactu .....
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Willem De Kooning
.... artists to work
during the Great Depression. By the next decade, he had attained a place in
the downtown art scene among his fellow artists.
By the late 1940s, de Kooning along with Arshile Gorky, Jackson
Pollock, Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman, began to be recognized as a major
painter in a movement called "Abstract Expressionism". This new school of
thought shifted the center of twentieth century art form Paris to New York.
Willem de Kooning was recognized as the only painter who had one foot in
Eu .....
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Alfred Nobel
.... he always
wrote in Swedish, which is also the language of the will he composed in Paris.
The fields embraced by the prizes stipulated by the will reflect Nobel's
personal interests. While he provided no prizes for architects, artists,
composers or social scientists, he was generous to those working in physics,
chemistry, physiology and medicine—the subjects he knew best himself, and in
which he expected the greatest advances.
Throughout his life he suffered from poor health and often took cures at
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Aristotle
.... is the complete exercise of the
specifically human function of rationality. In contrast to the Platonic belief
that a concrete reality partakes of a from but does not embody it with the
exception of the Prime Mover (God), form has no separate existence but is
immanent in matter."
Aristotle's work was lost following the decline of the Roman Empire but
was reintroduced to the West through the work of Arab and Jewish scholars,
becoming the basis of medieval scholasticism.
In my opinion Aristotle .....
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Thomas Jefferson
.... In January of 1772, he married Martha Wayles
Skelton and established a residence at Monticello. When they moved to
Monticello, only a small one room building was completed. Jefferson was
thirty when he began his political career. He was elected to the Virginia
House of Burgess in 1769, where his first action was an unsuccessful bill
allowing owners to free their slaves.
The impending crisis in British-Colonial relations overshadowed routine
affairs of legislature. In 1774, the first of the Intolerable Act .....
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Martin Luther King And Malcolm X - Two Views, One Cause
.... to figure that out. Malcolm's paper, "The
Ballot or the Bullet," makes that clear. In his paper, he is constantly
criticizing whites as a whole. He does not consider, even for a moment,
that a white could actually support equality for all men. "Usually, it's
the white man who grins at you the most, and pats you on the back, and is
supposed to be your friend. He may be friendly, but he's not your friend"
(261).
However, in a later work of his, "1965," one can see that Malcolm was
learning to acc .....
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Pablo Casals
.... just after his first performance in
Paris on 1898, this sparked his long and monuments career.
Soon Casals began a great deal of touring across Europe and the
Americas, making his fresh, new style increasingly more and more popular.
Because of his popularity, at the time, the solo cellist performer became a
very highly thought of occupation. After his long tour, Casals met and then
joined up with two other famous and acclaimed French performers. These
were the violinist Jacques Thibaud and the pi .....
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Biography Of Dr. Maria Montessori
.... Dr. Montessori
lectured on the function of the school teacher, Whose task it was not to
judge the children. She felt it was the teachers role to help guide and
enlighten something that was asleep in the student. Mental work would not
exhaust the child, it would give the child nourishment. Through her
observations and trial and error, she developed what became known as the
Montessori Method of education. She experimented with materials that would
awaken the childŐs potential. It was a radical depart .....
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Linus Carl Pauling
.... defect that influences the production of
hemoglobin. He was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work. In
later years Pauling fought ardently against nuclear weapons testing, warning the
public of the biological dangers of radioactive fallout, and presented a
petition to the United Nations in 1958 signed by over 11,000 other scientists.
In 1962 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, becoming the second person, after
Marie Curie, to win two Nobel Prizes.
Throughout his scientific career, P .....
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George Frideric Handel
.... like a forerunner of the piano. With the help of one of Handel's
friend, they smuggled the instrument up to his attic in his house. Every
night he would sneak up to the attic after everyone was asleep and he'd
play it until he finally mastered it. The instrument could not be heard
through the closed doors. When he was about twelve, he went to Berlin to
study and while there he became well-known for playing the Harpsichord.
Handel's parents wanted Handel to grow up in the profession of law, but
music was .....
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