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- 931: Prince William
- In this essay, Prince William will be discussed based on information obtained through research on him and his family including general and personal information on him, his schooling and the important influences in his life. Prince William Arthur Phillip Louis Windsor is one of the most known people in the world – despite the fact that he is only sixteen. This essay contains general information on Prince William, personal information, Prince Williams’s education and his life story – obtained from various magazine articles throughout his life. General information will include who Prince William is, where he was born, different forms of his name, and what other monarchists he is related to and how he is related to them. For personal information, Prince William’s physical description, his "likes and dislikes," and his personality will be discussed. His childhood schools will be mentioned and a description of Eton College will be included. The public can ...
- 932: Margaret Atwood
- ... Canadian Short Stories in English ¨ 1987, The Canlit Foodbook ¨ 1989, The Best American Short Stories ¨ 1995, The New Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories in English ~ STYLE ~ Although many have used Margaret Atwoods style of writing poetry, not one has yet to compete with her words. Typically, Margaret sticks to formal style of poetry, using original text with separated stanzas. Margarets stlye of writing gives an overwhelming effect to the reader; moreover, her style of writing adjusts to the theme of the particular piece. ~ THEMES ~ The essential features of Atwood’s fictions and poetry has been described as a search for a personal and national identity. Survival is a central ...
- 933: Basketball and Its History
- ... s basketball were redrawn, making it more like the men's game. Games are supervised by referees, umpires, official scorekeepers, and timers. Penalties and Free Throws A player subjected to illegal body contact, termed a personal foul, receives one or two free throws, from a foul line about 4 m (about 15 ft) from the basket. Each successful free throw counts for one point. Typical fouls include pushing, holding, charging, and ... in addition to the basket; this is called a three-point play. In professional basketball, excessive fouls are penalized by granting the opponents extra free-throw chances. A player who exceeds the maximum number of personal fouls allowed (in amateur play, five; in professional play, six) is eliminated from the game. Interference with certain shots that are near or about to drop through the basket is called goaltending on defense, and ... league existed, such well-known Olympic and college players as Nancy Lieberman, Carol Blazejowski, and Inge Nissen were prominent professionals. Both Blazejowski and Lieberman won the Margaret Wade Trophy for collegiate player of the year. Personal Reactions I wasn't very excited when I first learned I had to do this report. I figured that there was nothing I didn't already know about basketball. But after many weeks of ...
- 934: The Queen Of Spades, Pushkin
- ... that the great nineteenth-century Russian composer, Rimsky-Korsakov, wrote a successful opera based on the play in 1898; and both the play and the opera would later inspire the British playwright Peter Shaffer in writing AMADEUS). Pushkin's short stories--such as "The Queen of Spades," upon which Tchaikovsky based his great opera "Pique Dame"--are the first great works of prose fiction in Russian to stand the test of ... filthy from the long overland journey, Pushkin arrived for his meeting with the Czar. He left the interview ecstatic, believing he had been given an ideal arrangement: his sovereign had agreed to act as his personal censor. Soon, the poet was again writing and talking about controversial themes. Consequently, to no one's surprise except apparently his own, Pushkin was scolded by the chief of gendarmes, Count Benkendorf, who informed him in no uncertain terms that he ...
- 935: Employment Skills
- Employment Skills Introduction In my essay I will talk about the skills required to get a good job nowadays. There will be three main points I will be discussing such as academic, personal management, and teamwork skills. I will give you examples of these skills, and reasons why this skill is important for you to get a job. Academic Skills Academic skills are probably the most important skill ... use it, quickly and effectively after a few tutorials. You must continue doing this for the rest of your career. It is one thing that will always be useful in any situation, not just jobs. Personal Management Skills Personal management skills is the combination of attitudes, skills, and behaviors required to get, keep, and progress on a job and to achieve the best results. Personal management skills can be further divided into three ...
- 936: Billy Graham
- ... nine times. This includes thirty-two consecutive more than any other individual in the world, placing him as the most popular American for about forty years. This essay is going to talk about Graham's personal life, and what kind of family he grew up in and im also going to talk in detail about how he became an evangelist, because I feel it is very important yet interesting. His accomplishments in the fifties are uncomparable, so I will be including a considerable amount of information concerning that topic. Finally I will be talking about his personal achievements, books written, and how he has been a companion to some of the American Presidents. William Franklin Graham Jr. was born in Charlotte, North Carolina on November 17, 1918. Graham was raised on a ... created. Following graduation from Wheaton Graham entered what could be considered a transition state that lay somewhere between formal education and the great preacher as whom we know him. During this time he amassed several personal skills that would benefit him once he began his own ministry, and also made contacts with people that would later work for or with him. Immediately following graduation he took a pastorship at Western ...
- 937: The Street of Crocodiles
- ... continued to illuminate not only the character of his uncle but also the world in which he wrote and lived. There is often a lyrical, often somewhat pastoral quality to much of Bruno Schulz’s writing. The external reality so closely associated with the subjects and settings of his work are widely regarded as bleak and burnished. The world he represents in his stories is not necessarily in keeping with the ... likely to have been invaluable. The younger Schulz was certainly in a position to be of immense aid to the company’s understanding of his uncle’s unique character. The content of his uncle’s writing commented very little on the author himself. Of course the nature of the narrative is revealing in and of itself and says much about the man who gives it voice. Jacob’s personal experience of his uncle can only have helped to add depth and texture to the figure of the man and his world. I believe the single most brilliant aspect of the original writings of ...
- 938: Social Darwinism
- ... opponent of Darwin's theory). In addition, during his last year at Cambridge Darwin read two books which influenced him greatly, Herschel's Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy, and Von Humboldt's Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent. Darwin later confessed that these books inspired in him a burning zeal to add even the most humble contribution to the noble structure of ... used the voyage to test his theory of evolution, but this is highly unlikely. At the time Darwin's interests were purely geological as can be seen by his correspondence with his sister. For instance, writing about the fossils, which he discovered he said, All the interest, which I individually feel about these fossils, is their connection with the geology of the Pampas. Furthermore, Darwin himself confessed that he could not ... to Malthus meant that hardship and misery were the defining features of human life, to Darwin meant that every species was in constant change, because nature favored the fittest through the process of natural selection. Writing the Origin Three and a half years have passed since Darwin read Malthus in October 1838 before he finally sat down to write his ideas formally in May 1842. There are two main reasons ...
- 939: Is The Mainstream Videogames Media Biased?
- ... it's fans time and again). --editor In another letter in Daily Radar, a DC fan was harshly criticized for his dissappointment for the lack of enthusiasm the dc editors of IGN conveyed in their writing. Meanwhile phrases like "You know where our loyalty lies." show up in the Playstation IGN site. Is it too much to ask that the DC section show more enthusiasm for the DC. The so-called ... are supposed to be fun...please show that you are having fun playing the games. If not either the games are bad (SC, Sonic, NFL 2K, Toy Commander, no way!) or you shouldn't be writing about this particular game or console. I have also noticed the Sega sites are awash with letters claiming writers are biased. To which the staff responds "We are true gamers. We buy every console. We ... two publications for their coverage over the years of videogames in general. Both GameFan and Gamer's Republic (though still young) have shown true appreciation for gaming goodness. They bring a certain credibility to their writing. Form personal experience, games I find fun are games these publications have found fun (Sega, Nintendo, Sony, and even the Jaguar (love Tempest 2000)). Overall the staff of these magazines don't seem to ...
- 940: Really In The Works Of John Grisham
- ... 1981, the same year in which he married Renee Jones, who then became Renee Grisham. John Grisham then began to practice law in Southaven, Mississippi for nearly a decade. He specialized in criminal defense and personal injury litigation. In 1983 he was elected to the Mississippi Sate House of Representatives. He served in the House of Representatives until 1990. While at Mississippi State University, he attempted to write two books, neither ... was eventually bought by Wychwood Press, who gave it modest five thousand copy printing and published in 1988 (http://www.randomhouse.com/features/grisham/about.html). The success, although only slight, spiked Grisham's new writing hobby. As he began his next book, that hobby turned into a full time career. Grisham has gone on to be recognized as one of the worlds's best selling novelists (http://www.olemiss.edu ... s novels are fiction but could easily be nonfiction. His plots are hypothetical, but with its realistic ideas, there is no need for it to be hypothetical. Realism and reality are two different styles of writing. Most contemporary authors, like Grisham, use realistic ideas rather than realism because realism does not come naturally. Grisham uses experiences from his own life to write many of his novels. Many of his novels ...
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