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- 5021: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- ... poor. Through her childhood as well as her young womanhood she has faced hardships, growing up in Stamps, Arkansas divided by the color barrier Angelou has used these experiences as the backbone of her best writing. Brought up by her grandmother who raised her as well as her older brother Baily Jr. with a strong sense of religion and respect towards all. One of the major barriers or "cages" expressed in ...
- 5022: Abraham of Chaldea
- ... area, a famine struck forcing Abram to move southward toward Egypt. God talked to Abram on the mountain East of Bethel where he built an alter unto the Lord. Each person should have their own personal alter to go before God, this should also be done in public. When he did get to Egypt, Abram told his first recorded lie. Because his wife Sarah was beautiful, he feared she would lusted ...
- 5023: Meta Physics
- ... matter of the other sciences and is concerned with "first principles and causes." What defines first principles and causes is the true foundation of Wisdom, thus leading Aristotle to studying, obtaining the knowledge of and writing his first work or philosophy. Aristotle never titled this work, so those who followed and studied his work actually gave it the title METAPHYSICS. With this idea of Metaphysics Aristotle deals with the highest level ...
- 5024: Realism In The Great Gatsby
- ... then grew apon these plots by making them all have realistic outcomes (such as Gatsby's demise), rather than your typical story book endings. It is mostly thanks to Fitzgerald's descriptive, poetic style of writing that allows him to realistically portray the many plots of The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald's realistic construction and development of plot is extremely dependent upon the setting of the novel in which it take place ...
- 5025: Book Review: Changing Concepts of Race in Britain and the United States between the World Wars.
- ... Great Britain and the United States in the 1920s and 1930s appropriately deals not with its demise but with its retreat. Making extensive use of private correspondence, Ballen relates leading scientists' published research to their personal and political backgrounds, and shows that both racists and antiracists often expressed a more virulent prejudice in private than in public. Ballen avoids a crude internalist/externalist dichotomy, and develops a more subtle approach which ...
- 5026: Wilson, Woodrow
- ... won 435 electoral votes to 88 for Progressive candidate Theodore Roosevelt and 8 for the Republican candidate, President William Howard Taft. Progressive as President By presenting his program personally before the Democratically controlled Congress, employing personal persuasion as well as patronage, and appealing to the American public with his stirring rhetoric, Wilson won passage of an impressive array of progressive measures. The Underwood Tariff Act (1913), the first reduction in duties ...
- 5027: Redemtion And Salvation In A T
- ... France. Darnay is saved again by another person's doing and not his own. Dr. Manette, a hero among the French revolutionaries, frees Darnay by swaying the crowd in his favour: "His[Dr. Manette] high personal popularity, and the clearness of his answers, made a great impression" (Dickens p 265). This trial really shows how lucky Darnay is that he met the Manettes. For it was only Dr. Manette's imprisonment ...
- 5028: Orson Welles
- ... directing and starring in: 'Doctor Faustus', 'Everyman', 'Le Medicin Malgre Lui', 'Julius Caesar' with Orson as Cassius, 'Dr. Jekkyl and Mr. Hyde', with Orson as both. He also built and managed a large puppet theater, writing his own melodramatic scripts and directing his assistants with the utmost authority. As he moved into his teens Orson was already well on his way to becoming a legend. Everybody seemed to be convinced that ...
- 5029: Wayne Gretzky: Comparing Two Biographies
- ... in last five years. The owner of the Oilers Nelson Skalbania wanted Oilers to go public, so he could raise money easily. In order to go public, he had to get Gretzky out of the personal service contract and make Gretzky property of the team. Because Skalbania knew what he needed wasn't more Stanley Cups. He didn't need to sell more ticket. His arena was already sold out. He ...
- 5030: Thomas Jefferson
- ... other members of the committee asked him to write a first draft of the Declaration. Jefferson began his work in the parlor of his apartment. For several days, he worked long hours at a desk, writing this Declaration for which he is widely known. He described that his words were not meant to be original or creative, but "to be an expression of the American mind." Thomas Jefferson was a reluctant ...
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