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- 4951: Duke Ellington: An American Legacy
- ... use separate bathrooms. If Duke were to become some one he had much to come over. One thing that we do know is that Duke was always looking for attention and dignity. There are even stories of how he would announce from the top of the stairs in the morning that he was coming down and demand that his parents applaud(Collier,9). Also when his cousins would come over he ...
- 4952: The Constitution
- ... born in did not guarantee freedom of speech. People could be arrested or even killed for expressing their opinion. My parents tell me of some things they went through just to express their thoughts. Those stories have made me appreciate the right to speak without fear of being punished by the government. The writer s of the Constitution wanted people to feel safe that they could express their thoughts, but they ...
- 4953: The Catcher In The Rye- A Stud
- ... which oversimplifies his parents' character, implying he does not wish to disrespect them, yet at the same time he does not praise them. At best he deems them as "nice and all. Holden further cuts short his description, but in a more curt manner, when he states he will not tell his "whole goddam autobiography or anything . From the start the reader picks up Holden's hostility and unwillingness to share ...
- 4954: Lucas: King of Film
- ... fields than just film. He has created companies that produce award winning video games, toy companies produce action figures designed after characters from his movies, many books by many authors based on his original film stories, and countless other wings of Lucas' reign exist in today's world. Since his youth, George Lucas has experienced many influences, which in turn push him to make the greatest contributions to the film industry ...
- 4955: The Chamber
- ... an end to Grisham's hobby. However, he had already begun his next book, and it would quickly turn that hobby into a new full-time career -- and spark one of publishing's greatest success stories. The day after Grisham completed A TIME TO KILL, he began work on another novel, the story of a hotshot young attorney lured to an apparently perfect law firm that was not what it appeared ...
- 4956: Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac
- ... developments of the beginning of this century were carried out by Max Plank, Max Born, Niels Bohr, Albert Einstein, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrodinger, and Wolfgang Pauli. Quantum mechanics was brought to life during the few short years of 1925 through 1927 by most of these men.[11] Dirac was the first to apply quantum mechanics to an electromagnetic field, using the method of second quantization. This work contained the basis for ...
- 4957: Blaise Pascal
- ... at a dinner party someone tapped a glass with a spoon. Pascal went about the house tapping the china with his fork then dissappeard into his room only to emerge hours later having completed a short essay on sound. He used the same approach to all of the problems he encountered; working at them until he was satisfied with his understanding of the problem at hand. A few of his disocoveries ...
- 4958: Bob Dole: A Race to the Top
- ... The worst case scenario would be that he looses the support of his supply-siders, which would not make much difference because he has not gotten that much more than grief from them anyway. In short, it is a tragedy that Dole has sold his soul to win the election, and now he won't end up with either. Dole likes to call himself an agent of change and says that ...
- 4959: The Life of Aristotle
- ... Academy, but lacking Plato's imaginative gifts, he probably never found the form congenial. Apart from a few fragments in the works of later writers, his dialogues have been wholly lost. Aristotle also wrote some short technical notes, such as a dictionary of philosophic terms and a summary of the doctrines of Pythagoras. Of these, only a few brief excerpts have survived. Still extant, however, are Aristotle's lecture notes for ...
- 4960: Napoleon
- ... was granted a constitution, providing for universal male-suffrage and a parliament and containing a bill of rights. Napoleon who felt that constitutions were the mark of a great society said "Constitution's should be short and obscure" (III pg. 124). French-style administration, and free public schools were envisioned. Higher education was opened to all who qualified, regardless of class or religion. Every state had an academy or institute for ...
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