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Noble Eightfold Path Noble Truth
1,161 words
Today's Western religions revolve around a central
God that is one and the same for all of the
followers of that religion. For instance, a
Catholic goes to Church and prays to the same God
as the person sitting beside them. There are many
Eastern religions where that is not the case.
Buddhism, one of the world's oldest religions, is
one such instance. Buddhism, in fact, stresses a
more individual approach to spirituality. In 563
B. C. , in India, a man named Siddartha Guatama
was born into the r...
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Regionalism And Humor In Huck Finn
1,043 words
Effective message through dialect, regionalism,
and humor in Mark Twain's Some writers use
dialect, regionalism, and humor in their literary
works to enhance their themes. Mark Twain's
ability to write in the vernacular allows him to
capitalize on humor and dialect. In the novel, The
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, the
author conveys an effective message through
dialect, regionalism, and humor in southern
culture. No one in the early days of Clemens fame
would have argued against t...
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Chose To Fight Mighty And Heroic Beowulf
1,166 words
Justification for the Abandonment and Solitude of
Beowulf Beowulf is the classic tale of a mighty
and heroic Get leader who comes to an unpleasant
and seemingly early end. Throughout his life,
Beowulf had been an excellent leader and had led
his army to many victories over many foes, of his
land and of many others as well. At his peak,
Beowulf was the mightiest warrior on all the
earth: There was no one else like him alive. In
his day, he was the mightiest man on earth,
high-born and powerful. (...
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Allen Ginsberg Jack Kerouac
1,447 words
Born on March 12, 1922, the youngest of three
children in a French-Canadian family that had
established itself in Lowell, Massachusetts, Jack
Kerouac was by the age of ten already aiming to
become a writer. His father ran a print shop and
published a local newsletter called the Spotlight.
Before long he began writing and producing his own
sport sheet, which he sold to friends and
acquaintances in Lowell. He attended both Catholic
and public schools, and won athletic scholarships
to the Horace Ma...
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Larry Bird Second Round
1,378 words
Jalen Rose is the starting forward for the Indiana
Pacers and has a great chance of being named most
improved player of the N. B. A. His coach and
longtime legend Larry Bird said that he might just
be the best player on his roster as of the 2000
season. Life was not always this great for Jalen
and his childhood proves it. The first time I saw
Jalen play was when I was watching a show on high
school basketball players on ESPN. The way he
played and involved his teammates made me like him
ever sin...
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Sachin Tendulkar Story Explains Why He Loves Cricket
1,656 words
Numbers don't suffice when the subject is Sachin
Tendulkar. I have gained considerable knowledge
about his personality and his cricketing skills by
conducting surveys and interviews, as I wanted to
explore more about my subject. I decided to find
about Sachin's personality as a person and also to
know more about his family. I also wanted to
include in this project the achievements he has
made in cricket and in his life, and last but not
least his preparation and hard work involved in
improving h...
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Hall Of Fame Straight Man
577 words
In 1931, at Empire theater in New York City, Lou
Costello and his crew grew worried that they would
not be able to find a replacement for his straight
man who became ill and was unable to perform.
Fortunately, a fellow by the name of Bud Abbott
was working the box office at the theater and
offered to substitute. These two men performed so
well together that Abbott played straight man to
Costello's buffoon from then on. William Bud
Alexander Abbott, the clown in the straight man
/clown relationsh...
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Ayn Rand Peter Keating
1,391 words
... er is due to carelessness in maintaining his
integrity. His business etiquette involve
sacrificing himself and dedicating his whole lifes
work as a service to the people, for the people.
He suppresses the outcries of his conscience,
acting only on the behalf of strengthening public
relations and obtaining higher profits. The man
owns his fortune, but he did not own himself. The
public mob lay claim to his existence. His fortune
is a mere donation from the public in return for
the service tha...
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Reason Why She Steals Perfect Record Marya
710 words
Theft; the act or instance of stealing ones good
without their consent. It is a bad habit that is
often acquired and is insidious. Once developed
one often justify it with fallacious reasoning to
convince themselves that it is indeed normal. This
was complex Marya, from the short story Theft by
Joyce Carol Oates went through. Marya is a
remarkably brilliant student who had to support
herself through college by working at a local
library because her family was poor. She also is
very competitive a...
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Hall Of Fame 1 Million
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... that will say, 'A gift from Barry Sanders. ' "
All of this giving, all of this helping, and
Sanders still turns down most of the endorsement
offers that come his way, deals that could bring
him an additional $ 4 million to $ 5 million a
year, Sc! harder says. "You can put $ 1 million in
front of him that he turns down, but he " ll say
yes to the Michigan state seat-belt patrol
campaign, " Schaffer says. "A lot of football
players have tremendous egos. They like to see
themselves on TV. Not B...
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Benjamin Franklin Lightning Rod
1,631 words
It is also to understand what it took for Franklin
to be such a famous and respectable man. When one
takes a look at the world in which he currently
lives, he sees it as being normal since it is so
slow in changing. When an historian looks at the
present, he sees the effects of many events and
many wise people. Benjamin Franklin is one of
these people. His participation in so many
different fields changed the world immensely. He
was a noted politician as well as respected
scholar. He was an impo...
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Nineteenth Century Lord Byron
1,292 words
Every Romanticist is heavily indebted to Pickering
& Chatto for their publication of a series of
valuable sets of Romantic texts. From the Works of
Mary Wollstonecraft (published in 1989), to the
Novels and Selected Works of Mary Shelley
(published in May 1996), and continuing with
forthcoming editions of Hazlitt's and De Quincey's
Selected Works, Pickering & Chatto continues to
foster the study of Romantic writers with
excellent scholarly editions. Under the general
editorship of John Mullan, P...
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Immortal Life Vs Name Gilgamesh And Beowulf
1,456 words
Death. Fate. Immortality. Destiny. All are
subjects that we tend to avoid. While most of us
hope for life after death, we tend not to dwell on
this subject because we are uncomfortable with the
unknown. On those rare occasions when we allow
ourselves to think about the fact that our days
are numbered, we wonder if death can be cheated
and immortality gained. Some have suggested that
being remembered is just as enduring as living
forever. Thoughts of destiny and the here after
are not new. They h...
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Poetic Form October 1999
433 words
In Japan, short poems have a long history. The
earliest Japanese poetry such as that of the
Manyoshu, written in 759 A. D. , includes stirring
narrative, dramatic and short lyrical poems which
scholars believe were originally written as part
of the pre-Buddhist or early Shinto ceremonial
rituals (Haiku). This anthology includes anonymous
songs and prayers designed to celebrate and pacify
the gods, prayers for safe voyages, formal
eulogies on the death of an Emperor or Empress and
courting, marri...
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Walter Johnson A Pitcher
697 words
In the beginning there were players like Ty Cobb
who hit. 300 for 23 consecutive years, and the
'flying dutchman' House Wagner. Pitchers like the
'christian gentleman' Christy Mathewson, and the
winning est pitcher in history Cy Young. In the
years when the only Yankees were the people in the
north and there was an upstart franchise called
the American League there was a pitcher, his name
was Walter Johnson. Known as the 'big train'
because of his high powered fastball which was
unequaled in all...
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Martin Luther King Jr First African American
1,058 words
The black population has fought hard to get where
they are in todays society in terms of their
courage, beliefs and faith to accomplish what they
have done in the fields of politics and music.
They have been affective in the field of politics
by having leaders such as Dr. Martin Luther king
Jr. , Malcolm x and Nelson Mandela lead them to a
civil right society where everyone was treated
equally. And they have also been part of the
revolution of music in terms of how many
categories they have inve...
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Santiago Life Was Filled Life Was Filled Man
490 words
Life is a dramatic subject that many writers
choose as a topic. Life is not only an ocean of
melancholy but also offers real joy. Earnest
Hemingway successfully won a Nobel Prize on this
theme by writing The Old Man and the Sea. The old
man, Santiago, was the main character of the
story. During his lonely journey out at sea, he
learned that life offered him an undeniable joy,
plus frustration. Honor, heroism, and struggle
were obstacles Santiago encountered which provided
him courage and faith. ...
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Pablo Picasso Francisco Franco
989 words
Picasso was arguably the most influential artist
of the twentieth century. He had some degree of
influence in all styles of painting which were
used during his time, and was known and respected
by almost every art enthusiast on the face of the
planet. Pablo Picasso, born Pablo Ruiz y Black,
came into the world on the 25 th of October 1881
in the southern Spanish town of Malaga. Pablo was
an artist from early in his life he was a child
prodigy. He began his career as a classical
painter. He paint...
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Ancient Greece Ancient Greek
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In looking at the first few exchanges between
Ismene and Antigone by Sophocles, it is greatly
apparent that there are plenty of social issues
surrounding women from ancient Greece. In looking
at the contextual background of the playwright,
the representation of the women within the play
and at the imagined response of a contemporary and
ancient audience; we can see that this play raises
many gender and socially related issues. Looking
briefly at the contextual element to the play in
terms of the...
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Andy Warhol Pop Art
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When considering the life and works of Andy
Warhol, one thing is agreed upon: for good or bad,
he changed the visual construction of the world we
live in. By the time of his death in 1987 he was
ranked on the same level with Pablo Picasso and
Jackson Pollock as one of the three most important
artists of this century. He was a working man, a
social climber, a person who liked to build
things, an acquirer of goods, and a known
homosexual. These attributes all contributed to
the interesting and com...
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