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- 3541: Eric "Eazy-E" Wright
- ... Wright Born September 7, 1963, Eric "Eazy-E" Wright's early reputation on the streets of Compton, California, was a hustler eager to apply his street knowledge to his legitimate game. He dropped out of high school in the tenth grade, but refused that to interrupt his success. In the late `80's he turned to rap music. Along with Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, DJ Yella, and M.C. Ren established the ...
- 3542: Heinrich Schliemann
- ... View of a Flawed Man of Genius." University of Virginia Archaeology Department, "Homeric Questions Part III - Archaeology- 9/6/98." The Mining Company, (6 September 1998) Kiernan, Mary K. "Heinrich Schliemann." Lecture at Vero Beach High School, 21 October 1997. Lost Treasures of Troy. BBC, London. 1994 "The Minoan Costume." FirstNet, Traill, David. Schliemann of Troy: Treasure and Deceit. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995. "Troy." Thinkquest Organization, "Troy VI." Dartmouth ...
- 3543: Herman Melville: His Life and Works
- ... Herman Melville felt from his mother. This was one of the first symbolists to the Biblical Ishamel. In 1837 he shipped to Liverpool as a cabin boy. Upon returning to the U.S. he taught school and then sailed for the South Seas in 1841 on the whaler Acushnet. After an 18 month voyage he deserted the ship in the Marquesas Islands and with a companion lived for a month among ... This he has accomplished by writing stories, which had a depth, an essence of their own. Melville was not o much concerned with the commercial success of his works, but that was still a very high contributing factor to the motivation behind his writings. Although he mainly drew on his personal experiences while formulating the stories that he wrote, he greatly embellished them through his imagination and creativity to create literary ...
- 3544: Biography of Ogden Nash
- ... Strudwick Nash and Mattie Nash. During his childhood years, Nash was educated at several private schools. At these schools, he enjoyed writing his own comical and dramatic free verse poems. After graduating out of grammar school, Nash moved on to one of the best private high schools in the east: St. George's in Newport, Rhode Island. Moving on in his life, he enrolled at Harvard at the age of 18 (from 1920-1921). Contemporary American Poets stated that Nash then ...
- 3545: Pierre Trudeau
- ... its mythology and illusions". He has also been identified as "A staunch, upholder of provincial autonomy holding the justice portfolio in the federal government". Such cumulative appraisal and observation made by past fellow bureaucrat provides high testimonial for the ex-Democratic Socialist. This critique will establish and dispute the prime directives that Trudeau had advocated in his own book written during the years 1965 to 1967. The compilation of political essays ... into the Canadian political spectrum. Early in his life, Trudeau had become somewhat anti-clerical and possessed communist ideologies which were considered radical at the time. Graduating from prestigious institutions such as Harvard and The School of Economics in England, Turdeau returned to Canada in 1949 and resumed his social science endeavors. At this time in Quebec, the province was experiencing tremendous cultural and political differences with the rest of the ...
- 3546: Karl Marx
- ... heart, not even learning to speak the language properly. Shortly before Karl Marx was born, his father converted the family to the Evangelical Established Church, Karl being baptized at the age of six. Marx attended high school in his home town (1830-1835) where several teachers and pupils were under suspicion of harboring liberal ideals. Marx himself seemed to be a devoted Christian with a "longing for self-sacrifice on behalf of ...
- 3547: Cultural Anthropology
- ... need to be redesigned. My Experience: I am a white female so I was able to place myself in the anthropologist’s shoes. I grew up in an upper middle class neighborhood went to private school and I was still taught all about the different races. There is an entire month dedicated to Black History in schools. Thus, I experienced reverse discrimination, not a privilege for being white. When applying for ... of seminomadic foraging populations,” (Friedl 161). He also believes that another reason are not the dominant sex is because it is difficult to provide resources when one is pregnant. My Experience: I grew up in school learning about how women’s roles in society have evolved over time. I realize that women were not and still are not the dominant sex. This is partly because it is still difficult for women ... with Friedl in that the dominant sex is the one that provides the resources. His research was done by past observations and my experience came from personal experience in such areas as dating, work, and school. The times that I was unable to provide resources I was not dominant, but the times that I did provide the resources I had the upper hand. As we continue to grow as a ...
- 3548: Cults
- ... cult to commit suicide (Maaga). Other cults’ founders have more profit motivated reasons for protecting their organization. Scientology, for example, has often been referred to as nothing more than “a money making pyramid” by former high ranking members. The main service provided to members of Scientology is known as auditing. It involves the use of a device called an E-meter that Scientologists claim can cure a person’s physical and ... be done to stop the leaders of these cults before tragedy happens. Works Cited Behar, Richard. “The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power.” Time 6 May 1991: 50-55 Bill of Rights Page. Cornell Law School. Apr 1994 http://www.law.cornell.edu/ constitution/constitution.billofrights.html Groenveld, Jan. Ex-Cult Page. 21 Aug. 1997 Langone, Michael. The American Family Foundation Site. 7 Oct. 1997. Maaga, Mary McCormick. Dept of Philosphy ...
- 3549: Mound Building Cultures
- Mound Building Cultures Over 2,000 years ago, a mound 62 feet high and 240 feet in diameter containing 57,000 tons of dirt was built. Why would the Native Americans build such a mound? This burial site along with thousands of smaller ones was built to be ... which required great effort and cooperation. By 250 B.C. the Adena culture was absorbed by the Hopewell culture. Most Hopewell mounds were very large and round. The biggest mound they built was 20 feet high. Hopewell mounds were also burial mounds. This culture also carried dirt by baskets. Thousands of their mounds still remain in Ohio from the Hopewell culture. Around 500 B.C. the Hopewellians disappeared, giving way to a group of tribes known as the Mississippians, also known as Temple Mound culture. The Mississippians built Monk’s Mound, which covers 14 acres and is 100 feet high. Monk’s Mound is a platform mound with a large house on top where the chief and his servants lived in. This tribe used flint hoes to get dirt. The Mississippian tribe built both ...
- 3550: The Chernobyl Accident
- ... strikes fear, but nineteen similar stations are still running, because neither the former Soviet Union nor its republics can afford to shut them down. The world first learned of this accident from Sweden, where unusually high radiation levels were noticed at one of their own nuclear facilities. At 1:23 am technicians at the Chernobyl Plant took some erroneous actions that would impact the course of Soviet events without exaggeration. (Gale ... the drivers. Once the blocks were delivered, the workers needed to put them in place. Each weighed several dozen tons so eventually crane operators had to perform this task. This outer protective wall, 28 stories high, is placed around the perimeter and other walls connected to the Unit 3 reactor. A steel roof then completed the structure. The destroyed reactor was entombed in a 300,000-ton concrete structure known as the "shelter" or "envelope." In conditions of high radioactivity the mammoth task was completed in seven months, in November 1986. The site around the plant had then been announced safe for about the next thirty years. However today the sarcophagus is cracked ...
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