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Eng Trans 1958 Eng Trans 1948 Camus
658 wordsAlthough born in extreme poverty, Camus attended the lee and university in Algiers, where he developed an abiding interest in sports and the theater. His university career was cut short by a severe attack of tuberculosis, an illness from which he suffered periodically throughout his life. The themes of poverty, sport, and the horror of human mortality all figure prominently in his volumes of so-called Algerian essays: L'Every et l'endpoint (The Wrong Side and the Right Side, 1937), Notes (Nuptia...
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Albert Camus English Tr Life
481 wordsAlbert Camus is a French novelist, essayist and journalist whose works had great influence in the mid- 20 th century. He was recognized as a man of great personal integrity as he "sought to define the way of life that would respect in equal measure the logic of the heart, the logic of the mind, and the limitations imposed on the individual by reality." Compared to the other existentialists, Albert Camus is considered to be more optimistic in his views. Camus was born in Mondovi, Algeria on Novem...
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Biography On Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks
745 wordsGwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks was born on June 7, 1917, in Topeka, Kansas. Her parents were David Anderson Brooks and Keith Wims Brooks. Her mother had come home to Topeka from Chicago to give birth to her child. When Gwendolyn was one month old, the family returned to Chicago. Despite her extensive travels and periods in some of the major universities of the country, she has remained associated with the city's South Side. She was one of two children. Her brother, Raymond, became an artist. Encoura...
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U S Supreme Court Board Of Education
873 wordsOne man, Thurgood Marshall, has impacted millions of children and adults across America. Thurgood Marshall was an American jurist, civil rights leader, and associate justice of the U. S. Supreme Court (Encarta Marshall, Thurgood). He was involved in many famous cases, such as Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, in which this report will mostly be about. This famous case dealt with racial imbalances in schools in the United States and the lack of equality children in Southern schools faced at...
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Extermination Camps Forced Labor
1,071 wordsFrom the time Adolf Hitler became the dictator of Germany in January 1933, until the surrender of his Third Reich at the end of World War II in May 1945, Hitler's Nazi led government engaged in two wars. One was a declared war of military expansion against the nations of Europe, which began with the 1939 invasion of Poland and reached its peak in mid- 1942, when German armies occupied much of the continent and had penetrated deep into the Soviet Union. The other was a war against the Jews of Eur...
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Downward Spiral Lasting Impression
1,050 words... om the depression. The Works Progress Administration was then formed out of the CWA. It also was the most successful of all the New Deal programs, as it pulled over $ 10 billion into the economy within only three years, (1935 - 1938). There was a heavy emphasis on spending money on wages rather than machinery or materials- the use of human labor was valued. Roosevelt favored this program because it had an emphasis on creating jobs as a way of maintaining morale by de-emphasizing welfare-like...
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Reefer Madness Illicit Drugs
1,411 wordsIn high school when I first learned about the alluring world of illegal pharmaceuticals, I was scared. My fear was based on all my prior knowledge of drugs was from government propaganda and popular beliefs. Now Im older, and more experienced about drugs. When did the America first begin to be wildly afraid of a plant that has been on this continent since our forefathers ()? Americas fear of illicit drugs can be as far traced back as the prohibition era of the early 20 th century. Pot, a nicknam...
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Baton Rouge Louisiana Charles Scribner Sons
1,088 wordsBy: Russ Crawford E-mail: Russ Crawford Mark Twain, Samuel Clemens, or None of the Above? Mark Twain was one of the most popular and well-known authors of the 1800 's. He is recognized for being a humorist. He used humor or social satire in his best works. His writing is known for "realism of place and language, memorable characters, and hatred of hypocrisy and oppression" (Mark Twain 1). Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens on November 30, 1835. He was born on the Missouri frontier in a...
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Treaty Of Versailles Britain And France
1,073 wordsHitler had three main aims in preparing Germany for war. His first goal was to tear up the Treaty of Versailles which brought an end to WWI. This treaty blamed Germany for starting the war, it took away large amounts of land, money and materials from her, and cur her armed forces down to a minimum. Hitler's second aim was to unite all Germans into one single country. As there were millions of Germans scattered in neighboring countries such as Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland, these countries w...
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Adolf Hitler Soviet Union
863 wordsAdolf Hitler was born April 20, 1889, in a small town in Australia called Brandon. His dad's name was Alios Hitler and was a customs official. He was 51 years old when Adolf was born. Klara Post, Adolf's mother, was a farm girl and was 28 when Adolf was born. Klara and Alios had 6 children, but only Adolf and his sister Paula survived childhood. Adolf was a good student in elementary and got good grades. When he reached high school his studies dropped, and he dropped out of school when he was ju...
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Concentration Camps German Workers
1,417 wordsHitler, Adolf (1889 - 1945) Early Years Hitler was born in Braunau am Inn, Austria, the son of a minor customs official and a peasant girl. A poor student, he never completed high school. He applied for admission to the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna twice but was rejected for lack of talent. Staying in Vienna until 1913, he lived first on an orphans pension, later on small earnings from pictures he drew. He read voraciously, developing anti-Jewish and antidemocratic convictions, an admiration f...
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Biff And Happy Death Of A Salesman
585 wordsThroughout Death of a Salesman the males of the Loan family cannot distinguish between the reality of the American Dream and the illusion of it. Willy cannot see who Happy and Biff actually are as individuals or himself for that matter. Therefore, Willy and his sons believe that they all know and have what it takes to be a success in life and in business. In actuality the success of both falls very far from the ideal American Dream of their time. In the entirety of this play Willy Loan fights ba...
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Charles Scribner Sons Baton Rouge Louisiana
1,067 wordsMark Twain was one of the most popular and well-known authors of the 1800 s. He is recognized for being a humorist. He used humor or social satire in his best works. His writing is known for realism of place and language, memorable characters, and hatred of hypocrisy and oppression (Mark Twain 1). Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens on November 30, 1835. He was born on the Missouri frontier in a small log village called Florida. His parents had come to Florida from their former home in ...
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Edwin Arlington Robinson Heiney Pg 248 Coxe
1,198 wordsEdwin Arlington Robinson Edwin Arlington Robinson was a poet who has long been popular among lay readers the non-literary public but the tremendous scope of his work and the power of his mastery over words marks him as one of the greater poets of his time. In spite of its consistent tone his works showed a great versatility. (Heiney pg. 244) Robinson was a poet of true vision and unimpeachable honesty. (Louis pg. 5) He was a man who loved words. Shy and almost wholly inarticulate he wrote with g...
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Severe Depression Theory Suggests
1,028 wordsHow is Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) used to treat depression? To answer this question, we must first answer these other questions: What is electroconvulsive therapy? When depression is diagnosed, which patients are suitable for ECT and which for psychotherapy? If not all depressed patients will respond to ECT, how are we to identify those likely to benefit? Invented by Cerletti and Bini, in 1938, ECT was the first form of therapy that reliably reduced severe depression (Abrams and Essman, 198...
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Chief Of Staff Western Europe
517 wordsGeorge C. Marshall was born on December 31, 1880, in Uniontown, Pennsylvania. He graduated from the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) in 1901 and was commissioned a Second Lieutenant. During World War I he was stationed in France and won acclaim for his direction of the Meuse-Argonne offensive. Before the offensive, Marshall was responsible for; the withdrawal of 200, 000 men, and replacing them with 600, 000 American soldiers, making sure that there were hospitals to treat the sick and wounded,...
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Industrial Recovery Act National Industrial Recovery
845 wordsDuring the 1930 s, America witnessed a breakdown of the Democratic and free enterprise system as the US fell into the worst depression in history. The economic depression that beset the United States and other countries was unique in its severity and its consequences. At the depth of the depression, in 1933, one American worker in every four was out of a job. The great industrial slump continued throughout the 1930 s, shaking the foundations of Western capitalism. These new policies aimed to sol...
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F Scott Fitzgerald Tom Buchanan
2,105 wordsPicture this, a person graduates from high school with honors, goes to college and graduates at the top of his / her class. After college, he / she is offered a job in the field he / she wants with an annual salary of about $ 400, 000 a year. He / she marries the person of his / her dreams, has two children and moves into a large, elegant house. Forty years later that person retires with a pension and lives the rest of his / her life in luxury. This is the American Dream. F. Scott Fitzgerald had...
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Squatters Camp First Book Steinbeck
664 wordsWhen John Ernst Steinbeck was a young man emerging from college, farming was a major business in California. Many men traveled around the state, going from job to job, carrying with them only a small bundle of belongings. Working many long hours at low wages, these? bindle stiffs? as they were called, made just enough money to feed themselves, but never enough for them to start a family and settle down. This was Steinbeck? s first experience with what he would see again many times in the future:...
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Five Year Plan U S S R
1,484 wordsJoseph Stalin was a dictator of the U. S. S. R from 1929 until 1953. He rose from bitter poverty to become ruler of the country that covered one sixth of all the land area in the world. Stalin ruled by terror for most of his years in office. He didnt allow anybody to say anything about his ideas. Stalin killed all who had helped him rise to power because he thought they would threaten his rules. Stalin was responsible for millions of deaths of Soviet peasants who disagreed with his program calle...
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