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Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy
1,187 wordsTo begin with I would like to put the introduction of the book as an beginning: Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape- descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea. This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was th...
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Ku Klux Klan Racial Hatred
2,015 wordsTo define an organization of the Ku Klux Klan is an enigma of many historians. Most historians either take the side of the Ku Klux Klan (a. k. a. the KKK) or as most show how hateful and immoral the KKK were. One is not saying these ideas are wrong or right but both should be heard for one to determine the truth of what the KKK really was and really stood for. Behind the Mask of Chivalry describes how and why the Ku Klux Klan rose in popularity in the 1920 s -- through campaigns over issues perc...
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Peoples Republic Of China Republic Of Korea
1,515 wordsPacific Asia's Economic Development, All the Pacific Asian countries have a long history of economic involvement with the United States. Lately the region has been going through a few economic problems. The United States is clearly the only country that will assist the region in overcoming this crisis. Pacific Asia has proved itself to be a break through region in achieving great financial and industrial success in such a short period of time. What went wrong? How will this crisis be resolved? A...
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Opera Seria
1,351 wordsA remarkable musician and composer, whose legend continues to grow more than two centuries after his death, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria in 1756. Before the age of four, he had exhibited such extraordinary powers of musical memory and ear-sophistication that his father, Leopold (a highly esteemed violinist and composer in his own right) decided to sign young Wolfgang up for harpsichord lessons. Almost from day one, the boy's reputation as an unexampled musical prodigy gr...
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Giving Away What Belongs Reputation For Cruelty Ruler
2,251 words... en-handedness and that many others have risen to very high office because they were open-handed and were considered to be so. I would reply that either you are already an established ruler or you are trying to become a ruler. In the first case, open-handedness is harmful; in the second, it is certainly necessary to be thought open-handed. Caesar was one of those who sought power in Rome; but if after gaining power, he had survived and had not moderated his expenditure, he would have undermin...
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Blue Jeans The Ultimate American Icon
1,452 wordsGold was discovered in California in 1849. This resulted in more than eighty thousand Americans rushing to California. The pioneering spirit spread and by 1890, the Wests population reached nearly 17 million. The west became the most racially diverse part of the country. All were in search of a better life for themselves and their families, seeking what would become known as the American Dream. During this time innovation and creation were prompting remarkable growth in industry. New products th...
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Great Musical Ability Music
513 wordsThe Life of Mozart In his time, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart influenced classical music greatly, astounding many with his remarkable genius. This musical giant composed over 600 sonatas, concertos, sonatinas, minuets, librettos, serenades, oratorios, cantatas, operas and symphonies, and is one of the most remembered and revered musicians of his time. Mozart's life was one filled with talent, music and suffering. The young maestro displayed a great musical ability at an early age. Johannes Chrysostom ...
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The Scientific Revolution Medieval World View
1,034 words... iting. The combined influence of the Renaissance and the Reformation had generated an attitude of scepticism towards all authority. Soon this skepticism led to a questioning of established beliefs in the sciences, just as it had in religion and politics. COPERNICUS (1473 -- 1543) As mentioned above, sometime around 150 AD, Ptolemy wrote what was to become the defining text for the science of astronomy, an immense book known as the Almagest or "The Greatest. " It's position as the defining te...
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65 Million Years South America
1,685 wordsMegatherium Geology is the study of Earth. It examines Earths substances, forms, processes and history. Geology also gives start to all other sciences making them work. The farther we take a geological question, the more other sciences come into action. If one brings up the question of geology, the first thought appears is rocks. But rocks are found to be not just stones. These rocks are stories. To figure out the Earth, rocks are where to start. If one takes a closer look at them, she or he may...
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Freedom Of Expression Award Winning
1,084 wordsIn a world that is ready to criticize the slightest fault, or impropriety of a persons character, or way of thinking, authors, such as Salmon Rushdie, are continually under fire. In his writings, Rushdie takes the aspects of typical every day life and satirizes them in a way that enables his readers to realize how nonsensical they may be. Through centuries of diverse writing and literary changes, one thing remains the same: writers, no matter who they are, or what their standing in society is, w...
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Job In New York Death Of A Salesman
2,166 wordsDeath of a Salesman- Short Plot In the beginning of the play, the main character, Willy Lowman, has just returned home after finding himself unable to concentrate on driving. His wife, Linda, suggests that he ask for a job in New York so that he wont have to drive so much. Willy insists, however, that it is vital to his company that he work in New England. Willy asks Linda about his son, Biff, who has just come home after being away for several years. He cant understand why Biff is unable to get...
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Duke Of Milan Battle Of Anghiari
2,451 wordsPainter, sculptor, inventor. Born April 15, 1452 near the village of Vinci, Italy. He was the illegitimate son of Ser Piero da Vinci, a prominent notary of Florence, who had no other children until much later. Ser Piero raised his son himself, a common practice at the time, arranging for Leonardo's mother to marry a villager. When Leonardo was 15, his father apprenticed him to Andrea del Verrocchio, the leading artist of Florence and a characteristic talent of the early Renaissance. A sculptor, ...
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Death Of A Salesman Willy And Linda
2,146 words&# 9; Arthur Miller is recognized as an important and influential playwright, not to mention essayist and novelist. Although he has had plenty of luck in his writing career, his fame is the product of his ingenious ability to control what he wants his readers to picture or feel. As one of his critics states, " Miller writes ingeniously, conveying the message that? if the proper study of mankind is man, man? s inescapable problem is himself (Brown, 306). ? " Miller accurately puts into ...
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Piece Of Work Frederick Douglass
1,486 wordsMR. CHARLES W. CHESNUTTS STORIES. THE critical reader of the story called The Wife of his Youth, which appeared in these pages two years ago, must have noticed uncommon traits in what was altogether a remarkable piece of work. The first was the novelty of the material; for the writer dealt not only with people who were not white, but with people who were not black enough to contrast grotesquely with white people, who in fact were of that near approach to the ordinary American in race and color w...
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Renaissance Man Remarkable Man
317 wordsIt isnt very often that a true renaissance man comes along. Thoreau was a true renaissance man. Thoreau was interested in many different things. He dabbled in the sciences; particularly botany and biology, as well as much more complex ideas such as philosophy and transcendentalism. Thoreau was a truly remarkable man. Although Thoreau is worldly round for his philosophical ideas, writings and theories, he was also a brilliant scientist. For example, Thoreau prided himself in being able to give at...
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Royal Academy Santa Maria
2,502 wordsJoseph Mallord William Turner, the son of a barber and wigmakers, was born in London in 1775. As a child Turner made money by colouring engravings for his fathers customers. At the age of 14 he entered the Royal Academy. He exhibited his first drawing, A View of the Archbishops Palace in Lambeth in 1790. Two years later he providing illustrations for the Copperplate Magazine and the Pocket Magazine. In 1792 Turner went on his first sketching tour. Most of his pictures during this period were cat...
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Guide To The Galaxy Pieces Of Paper
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Zora Neale Hurston Eyes Were Watching God
2,295 wordsI Define Myself Zora Neale Hurston, I Define Myself Zora Neale Hurston, Renegade Of The Harlem Renaissance Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person. That is natural. There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every mans spice-box seasons his own food. Zora Neale Hurston Frequently trammeled by both her contemporaries and todays black reading audience as a sell out, even reviled as the perfect darkie (Hughes ...
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Wall Street Journal Intellectual Property Rights
1,502 wordsNAFTA: A Promising Future For The U. S. and Mexico After six years of remarkable trade successes, The North American Free Trade Agreement, also known as NAFTA, still continues to cause discussions and debates as to its pros and cons. Even Vicente Fox, the newly inaugurated President of Mexico, failed to receive a commitment from George W. Bush nor Al Gore with regard to an assurance of support to expand NAFTA, during a recent visit to the United States (Wall Street Journal). Neither candidate wa...
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Quot Quot Poem Quot
4,028 wordsDonald K. Gutierrez Kenneth Rexroth, who was born in l 905 and died in l 982, was a major American poet. He wrote poetry for over sixty years, and though he had some recognition during his lifetime, it was far less than his work (prose as well as poetry) deserved. A bohemian, an astute literary and social critic and radical, an autodidact and polymath, a transvaluational thinker and wit, confabulatory, " a translator of poetry from half a dozen languages, Rexroth failed to gain the recognit...
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