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Martin Luther King Jr. And Malcolm X
Number of Words: 2089 / Number of Pages: 8
... African-American culture and had a great influence on black Americans. However, King had a more positive attitude than Malcolm X, believing that through peaceful demonstrations and arguments, blacks will be able to someday achieve full equality with whites. Malcolm X’s despair about life was reflected in his angry, pessimistic belief that equality is impossible because whites have no moral conscience. King basically adopted on an equality philosophy, whereby he felt that blacks and whites should be united and live together in peace. Malcolm X, however, promoted nationalist and separa ...
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The Work Of Poet And Philosoher Archibald Lampman
Number of Words: 1734 / Number of Pages: 7
... influenced him to
write such popular pieces as "Heat" and "A sunset at Les Eboulements" and
yet in his darkest moments we get the main topic of this essay "The City of
The End of Things". Like most great poets, Lampmans moods and feelings had
a direct effect on the nature and topic of his poetry. Lampman chief
poetry was done after a great joy in his life, or a great sadness. Sadly,
Archibald was not a rich man and lived not a happy life, and most of his
poetry reflects that. "The City of The End of Things" was written in a time
of great sadness and hate for the world. Published one year after h ...
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Thornton Wilder
Number of Words: 1367 / Number of Pages: 5
... early education began in Hong Kong, where his father was
serving as American consul general in Shanghai (Goldstone 11). He was then
schooled at Berkeley, California; Chefoo, China; and Ojai, California
before completing high school back at Berkeley in 1915. He studied the
classics at Oberlin College and Yale University, where he received his
Bachelor of Arts degree in 1919 (Unger 356). Wilder spent a year as a
resident of the American Academy at Rome, where he began writing The Cabala.
Back in the United States he taught French at Lawrenceville High School in
New Jersey from 1921-1928 a ...
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Dwight Eisenhower
Number of Words: 813 / Number of Pages: 3
... an appointment to the academy by Senator Joseph Bristow of Kansas where later he played for the academy’s football team (16, Ambrose). A knee injury forced him to quit and end his hopes of being a star halfback. In 1915, Eisenhower graduated from the academy and the Army assigned him to Fort Sam Houston, where he held the rank of second lieutenant.
While coaching sports teams when off duty at Fort Sam Houston, he met Mamie Geneva Doud, a visitor from Denver, and started taking her to social gatherings at the base. On July 1, 1916, the day of his promotion to first lieutenant, Dwight and Ma ...
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The Art Of Rock And Roll By Charles Brown
Number of Words: 3478 / Number of Pages: 13
... turned out to be primarily folk, jazz, and pop. They
simple changed the pattern and style of that music and started forming rock.
Assumption three states that it is just as valid to study rock and
roll as European classical music. Rock will prove to be a valid means of
producing competent musicians and that it demands the same type of performance
as in any musical form. Since it is a valid way in which to study music in
general it is just as valid to start with rock as starting anywhere else.
Assumption four states that simple musical analysis of selected
compositions is a primary tool for u ...
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Georg Fredrich Handel
Number of Words: 307 / Number of Pages: 2
... 100 chamber cantatas while living in Italy. Some of these cantatas were composed while Handel was employed as a household musician to Marchese Francisco Maria di Ruspoli during a sixth month span in 1707. These cantatas were composed for meetings of the Arcadian Academy.
In 1710 Handel became the director of music for the elector of Hanover. Handel then took a position in 1718 as the director of music for the duke of Chandos. During this whole time span Handel had composed many operas and cantatas. Unfortunately, Handel started having trouble with his vision in 1751 and by 1753 was nearly bli ...
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Sir William Lawrence Bragg
Number of Words: 494 / Number of Pages: 2
... London, as director of the Davy-Faraday Research Laboratory, a position once held by his father. He stayed at the Royal Institution until his retirement in 1966.
The work that brought the Braggs fame was based on the phenomenon of X-ray diffraction in crystals, discovered in 1912 by Max Theodor Felix von Laue. Although the wave nature of X rays and the order of magnitude of their wavelength had been established, there were no methods developed to interpret the photographic interference pictures that two of von Laue's colleagues had produced by directing X rays through crystals.
Lawrence Bragg and his ...
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Alphonse Capone
Number of Words: 1263 / Number of Pages: 5
... When Al was in the 6th grade, he got in trouble with his teacher, so she reproved him and he struck her for it. After this incident he quit school, never to return. He worked at many places such as a clerk in a candy store, a pinball setter in a bowling alley, then as a paper and cloth cutter. For a while Capone worked for Yale's Saloon as a bouncer, but only after making a rude comment to a woman caused her brother Frank Galluccio to come after Capone with a knife, cutting a 4" gash on his left cheek, only later to be recruited as a loyal bodyguard for Capone.
Street gangs soon proliferated in ...
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The Life And Death Of 2Pac
Number of Words: 716 / Number of Pages: 3
... or Quentin Tarrantino film. In fact, it is
not a scene from any movie, although the story will likely wind up as a made-
for-television drama. Rather, it is the dramatic finale of the life of
rapper/actor Tupac Amaru Shakur, who was shot four times during this escapade
while traveling from a Mike Tyson fight to a nearby club on September 7th. He
later died of the wounds, after six days of intensive care and several
unsuccessful operations.
Tupac Amaru, or 2Pac, as he spelled it --distinguishing him from the
violent Peruvian terrorist group of the same name-- was one of today's most
popular "gang ...
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Thomas Jefferson's Accomplishments
Number of Words: 627 / Number of Pages: 3
... the British crown and declared the
colonies to be free and independent states. Since solely Jefferson wrote
it, the declaration held the essence of his ideals, and he spent the rest
of his life applying its principles to the new American government.
Jefferson's chief accomplishment as president was the Louisiana
Purchase. This land which once belonged to France, is close to one-third
of the amount of land that makes up the United States today. In the early
years of the United States, Louisiana was of concern chiefly because it
bordered the Mississippi River, which was vital to U.S. trade. A ...
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