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Aid Academy Award
1,412 words... an Academy Award for its animated short film, Tin Toy. The film was created completely with 3 D computer graphics using Pixar's Renderman, a technique that uses 'shaders' or small pieces of programming code to describe surfaces, lighting effects and atmospheric effects. Surface shaders are small programs that algorithmically generate textures of objects based on mathematical formulas. These computer generated textures produce better looking objects, thus creating newer and better special eff...
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Babe Ruth Great Depression
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997 wordsHenry Murray Outline Abstract Life and work of the scientist Contributions to psychology Conclusion References Abstract Henry Murray is an American psychologist whose most significant contribution to the science was the development of personality theory based on need and press. For more that thirty years the scientist has been teaching at Harvard. Besides, he is a founder of Boston Psychoanalytic Society. Murray is also the one to have developed a Thematic Apperception Test which is now widely u...
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930 wordsSwimming Upstream by Beth Brant Beth Brant is the daughter f a white mother (Irish Scts) and a Mhawk father. She grew up with her fathers family, n the Bay f Quinte Mhawk in near. Even in her child, she had experiences with racism because her mther's family refused t admit any link t Natives. Mst f her life she stayed in the border regin f near, Canada and Michigan, USA. She married at 17, and gave birth t three daughters. After she divorced her violent, alcoholic husband, she gt a jb t support ...
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Technical Colleges Vs Universities
619 wordsTechnical Colleges vs. Universities Higher education generally involves studying in universities, vocational universities (i. e. technical colleges, community colleges, etc) and other educational institutions, awarding academic degrees. Although some people give a confused account when speaking about differences between technical colleges and universities, the main difference is that an average technical college places emphasis on teaching work skills, whereas an average university is more focus...
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Men And Women South Dakota
1,469 wordsA Book Report: on The Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw 2001. Tom Brokaw is hailing from South Dakota, graduated from the University of South Dakota with a degree in political science. He started his journalism career in Omaha and Atlanta before joining NBC News in 1966. During Watergate scandal investigation, Tom Brokaw was the White House correspondent for NBC news. He had anchored from 1976 to 1981 Today on NBC. Since 1983, he has been sole anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly news. Tom ...
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Half A Million Day Of The Jackal Detective
533 wordsThe Day of the Jackal While reading the Edgar Award winning best novel of 1972, The Day of the Jackal, a thriller novel by Frederick Forsyth that was published in 1971, I realized that this book was so good that it would be considered as a classic in the next 50 to 100 years. The storyline in the novel by the author of The Day of the Jackal is based on a professional killer who is contracted by a French terrorist group to assassinate Charles de Gaulle. The time period of this story is in the ear...
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Illustrator Chris Raschka Illustrations Made By Chris Raschka Book
1,219 wordsChildren's Literature Essay The paper examines the book "The Hello, Goodbye Window" written by Norton Juster and Illustrated by Chris Raschka, analyzes the techniques and elements of art used by the illustrator and proves that the illustrations are worthy of the Caldecott award. It is very difficult to make illustrations for childrens books, as illustrations for children require a real talent. When the child is bored, and doesnt like to watch TV, or play with friends, he takes the book into his ...
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The Hours By Michael Cunningham
705 wordsThe Hours by Michael Cunningham There's just this for consolation: an hour here or there when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst open and give us everything we " ve ever imagined... Still, we cherish the city, the morning; we hope, more than anything, for more (Michael Cunningham, The Hours) In 1999 this very book brought Michael Cunningham the Pulitzer Award for the best novel (Rogers, 2006). The Hours is one of the most touching, affecting, moving, and at the same time...
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Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
905 wordsCrouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon "Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon" was released in 2000. It is a film made in the wuxi style (the derivative of martial and chivalric arts). "Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon" was directed by Ang Lee, with the participation of international cast of ethnic Chinese actors, such as Chang Chen, Michelle Yeoh, Chow Yun-Fat, and Zhang Ziyi. This is an interesting experimentation made by veteran filmmakers, Ang Lee and James Schemes. The movie is based on the 4 th novel in the ...
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Eli Whitney Cotton Gin
846 wordsEli Whitney Historians believe that one of the greatest pioneers in the birth of automation, American inventor, pioneer, mechanical engineer, and manufacturer Eli Whitney. Best remembered as the inventor of the cotton gin. He made his first violin when he was only 12. Eli started college when he was 23, in 1788. He left for Georgia and got his first look at cotton business. He graduated from Yale in 1792, and went to Savannah, Georgia to teach and study law. After he graduated he went south to t...
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478 wordsEpic childrens book takes Whitbread Philip Pullman became the first childrens writer to win the Whitbread prize last night with The Amber Spyglass, the final instalment of his magical His Dark Materials trilogy. He has also finally eclipsed his great rival JK Rowling and her Harry Potter stories by writing the first childrens book albeit an epic, complex and highly sophisticated one to take one of the big two literary awards. His victory is a remarkable turnaround for a man who refused to have h...
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Pope John Paul Missionaries Of Charity
1,035 wordsMother Theresa Mother Theresa dedicated every day of her adult life caring for the dying, crippled, the mentally ill, and the unloved. She fed and sheltered them, cleaned their wounds, but what is most important, is that she made them feel good, loved, and wanted. Mother Teresa's Life Mother Teresa was born August 27, 1910, in Skopje, Macedonia, as Agnes Gonna Bojaxhiu from Albanian parents: Nikolle and Drandafille Bojaxhiu. Her father was a well known contractor and her mother was a housewife, ...
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Nobel Peace Prize Pope Paul Vi
1,005 wordsWe all have our own heroes, people we admire and respect, people who made an impact on our life, that made us look at the world with a different eye, Mother Teresa is definitely the one of those people. Although the world is full of good people, great humanitarians that really care, people who donate billions of dollars, people who raise their voice to make a difference, Mother Teresa stands out in the crowd, she is unique. Yes, she fed them, sheltered them, cleaned their wounds, but what is mor...
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Offer Is Made Specific Performance
1,087 wordsA contract is an agreement that is enforceable by law. Modern business could not exist without such contracts. Most business transactions involve commitments to furnish goods, services, or real property; these commitments are usually in the form of contracts. Use of the contract in business affairs ensures, to some extent, the performance of an agreement, for a party that breaks a contract may be sued in court for the damages caused by the breach. Sometimes, however, a party that breaks a contra...
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Actively Involved Elementary School
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904 wordsGordimer (1923 -) South African novelist and short-story writer, who received Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991. Gordimer's main themes are exile, loneliness and strong political opposition towards racial segregation. She was a founding member of Congress of South African Writers, and even at the height of the apartheid regime, she never considered leaving her country. Nadine Gordimer was born into a well-off family in Springs, Transvaal, an East Rand mining town outside Johannesburg. It was th...
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Custom Publishing Beliefs Values
1,397 wordsThe System Today, a serious problem exists all over the world. Racial oppression takes place in the poorest and the richest countries, including America. Racial oppression is characterized by the majority, or the ruling race, imposing its beliefs, values, and laws on the minority, or the ruled race. In most areas, the ruling race is upper class whites that run the system, and have a disproportionate amount of power. In other areas, it may not be the white race, but it is still the race that is c...
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Pied Piper Childrens Books
1,199 wordsThe rat in the hat The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett 269 pp Doubleday &# 163; 12. 99 A talking rat is fighting for his life against a terrier, inside a circle of excited men who whoop and roar and snarl. Another rat bungee-jumps down from the rafters to rescue him. In the instant of astonishment before both rats are whisked skyward, the human onlookers just have time to notice that the rescuer is wearing a tiny boater on his head. He lifts it. Good evening! he squea...
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