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- 3611: Revealing the Mistakes of Puritanism
- ... to. Brown sees the minister on the street, and he tries to hide himself. He sees vivid images of the minister which nobody can believe. He also snatches a young child from his former Sunday school teacher because of his visions on her. Apparently she takes part in some of the witches' Sabbaths. He can no longer see her in the same light, and he doesn't want the child to ...
- 3612: Hackers
- ... phreak/hackers. The message areas on "anarchist" boards are quite active, "chatty" messages are not discouraged. Indeed there are normally several different message areas devoted to a wide range of topics including everything from "skipping school" to "punk rock." The files area contains both warez (but normally only the newest 53 games, and specific to the computer system that the board runs on) and phreak/hack text files. Neither collection is ...
- 3613: Religion and Motivation in Learning
- ... in the future. The religion course encourages us to explore our heritage and our beliefs, something we may never had fully understood. The course helps us to fully understand why we go to a catholic school, for one thing. The course gives an overview of the history of the religion, and what has happened through centuries. It shows us what we believe in, how DO WE understand creation, and then gives ...
- 3614: John Paul Jones
- ... and a passion to sail something. Whether it was a leaf as a child or a bit of wood blown by a small paper sail, John Paul was a seaman from birth. He attended Kirkbean School but spent much of his time at the small port of Carsethorn on the Solway Firth. As he grew up others often found him teaching his playmates to maneuver their little boats to mimic a ...
- 3615: George Berkeley: His View of God
- ... knowledge comes from the senses. In opposition, the rationalists maintained that knowledge comes purely from deduction, and that this knowledge is processed by certain innate schema in the mind. Those that belonged to the empiricist school of thought developed quite separate and distinct ideas concerning the nature of the substratum of sensible objects. John Locke and David Hume upheld the belief that sensible things were composed of material substance, the basic ...
- 3616: John Keats
- ... his young age and it was only until he was at the age of fourteen that he was passionate towards literature. Though his interest was in poetry, John’s guardian forced him to attend medical school. This did not last for John long and soon after he was focused on poetry. John’s guardian called him “Silly Boy” because of this. (www.gopher.nypi.org) John became ill and thought that ...
- 3617: Analysis of “The Road Not Taken” By Robert Frost
- ... March 26, 1874. He was one of America’s most popular poets, and also a four-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize. When Frost was 11, his family moved to Massachusetts where he went to school and eventually where he became a teacher. Over the next ten years Frost made a living by writing and selling his poems, and by teaching at Derry’s Pinkerton Academy. In 1895 he married, and ...
- 3618: John Keats
- ... when he was eight and his mother when he was fourteen; these sad circumstances drew him particularly close to his two brothers, George and Tom, and his sister Fanny. Keats was well educated at a school in Enfield, where he began a translation of Virgil's Aeneid. In 1810 he was apprenticed to an apothecary-surgeon. His first attempts at writing poetry date from about 1814, and include an `Imitation' of ...
- 3619: Lord Byron's Euthanasia
- ... the estate of the "wicked" Lord Byron, George Gordon's uncle. The estste was called Newstead Abbey. During Byron's youth he was plagued by his foot and batteled constantly with obesity. He went to school in Dulwich, in 1799, and to Harrow in 1801. In 1803 he went back to Newstead Abbey to live with his tenant, Lord Grey. It was here that he started to court his distatnt cousin ...
- 3620: Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat"
- ... dispositions might appear. - By Martha Womack Martha Womack, better known to Internet users as Precisely Poe, has a BA degree in English from Longwood College in Virginia, and teaches English and Theatre Arts at Fuqua School in Farmville, Virginia. When Martha first began teaching American literature, she found so much conflicting information about Edgar Allan Poe that she became confused about what to teach her students. As she began to research ...
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