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- 4741: George Mason's Views
- ... for our modern day Declaration of Independence. George Mason was born and raised in Fairfax, Virginia. He spent a lot of his early adulthood active in the writings of controversial political literature. As well as writing the Virginia declaration of rights, Mason also aided in the drafting of the Constitution. His strong political background allowed Mason to campaign against the ratification of the Constitution even after helping write it because he ...
- 4742: Alexander Hamilton
- ... result was totally outvoted by the delegates on every measure. His restructuring of the American economy also exposed him to attacks from various quarters, attacks ranging from critiques of the merits of his policies and personal assaults; especially by the Republicans. His plan also seemed to favor the interests of wealthy patricians over the great number of agrarian laborers, to encourage a servile dependence on the will of Britain, and to ...
- 4743: Gertrude Stein
- ... in the women’s Harvard Annex. While at Harvard, she was taken under the wing of noted psychoanalyst, William James. James had an effect on Stein’s later writings as well. His method of “automatic writing, in which subjects wrote down their unedited, free-associative thoughts” (Gombar 42), was often the way Gertrude wrote many of her literary pieces. In 1897, she was denied her bachelor’s degree, but the next ...
- 4744: Flo Hyman
- ... s “dignity, spirit, and commitment to excellence”. (Sports Illustrated 1986) Hyman was known for a lot of things. People mostly remember her for her awe-inspiring spiking abilities, her equally strong defensive skills and her personal integrity and charisma. Her great sportsmanship and athletic abilities earned her many awards and accomplishments. Hyman was an All-American at the University of Houston from 1974 through 1976. She had been a member of ...
- 4745: Igor Stravinsky
- ... accorded a position out of all proportion to his real value in the musical, as opposed to the music-business, community," he says in one of such places. It is obvious that Stravinsky holds a personal grudge against the conductors; being a musician, he must have come across them many times. He says, "conducting, like politics, rarely attracts original minds." Stravinsky uses the word "original" in a different way than it ...
- 4746: Jim Morrison and Susan Sontag
- ... title of the work "Thinking Against Oneself: Reflections on Cioran" also reflects her views by stating the need to place blame on oneself. Susan Sontag and Jim Morrison both show a similar pattern in there writing, both of the authors constantly write about the need for self blame in order to ascertain a better soul. Although both Sontag and Morrison tell the same idea there ways of presenting the ideas are ...
- 4747: The "Hemingway Hero"
- ... a great difficulty for Jake, because Brett's presence is both pleasurable and agonizing for him. Brett constantly reminds him of his handicap and thus Jake is challenged as a man in the deepest, most personal sense possible. After the departure of their first meeting, Jake feels miserable: "This was Brett, that I had felt like crying about. Then I thought of her walking up the street and of course in ...
- 4748: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Dream for America
- ... States. Thus, hes is pulling the whole country together; from north to south; from east to west. He emphasizes freedom for all, not civil disobedience. Throughout this speech Martin Luther King, Jr. uses many important writing techniques to introduce all the issues at hand. I found that he intermixed all three elements of ethos, pathos, and logos. This speech has had great importance over the years because of the strong values ...
- 4749: JFK: The Death of a Conspiracy
- ... a bronze casket with the body unclothed, wrapped in sheets, and the head wrapped “around and around” with gauze and bandages. Accompanying the body was the President's wife, Jacqueline, his brother, Robert, and his personal physician, Rear Admiral Burkley. Robert and Jacqueline went to the upper floor of the hospital to await the completion of the autopsy, while the body was taken to the autopsy room. Upon arrival of the ...
- 4750: A Grain Of Wheat And Jomo Keny
- ... thought with a training and outlook essentially African. As a first-hand account of a representative African culture, as an invaluable document in the principles underlying culture-contact and change; last, not least, as a personal statement of the new outlook of a progressive African, this book will rank as a pioneering achievement of outstanding merit." 'Facing Mount Kenya' is a central document of the highest distinction in anthropological literature, an ...
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