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Orwell's "Such, Such Were The Joys....": Alienation And Other Such Joys
Number of Words: 1660 / Number of Pages: 7
... home might be far from perfect, but at least it was a
place ruled by love rather than by fear, where you did not have to be
perpetually taken out of this warm nest and flung into a world of force and
fraud and secrecy, like a goldfish into a tank full of pike. (23)
Young Orwell, impacted by this, “hard,” disorienting situation, realizes he is
alone in a hostile, harsh environment. Orwell uses the image of the “warm nest,”
a womb, from which the child is thrown, then innocently forced into a
destructive reality. This reality is Crossgates, an educational institution but
also a primary residence, the ...
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The Life Of Aristotle
Number of Words: 2310 / Number of Pages: 9
... his
dialogues have been wholly lost. Aristotle also wrote some short technical notes,
such as a dictionary of philosophic terms and a summary of the doctrines of
Pythagoras. Of these, only a few brief excerpts have survived. Still extant,
however, are Aristotle's lecture notes for carefully outlined courses treating
almost every branch of knowledge and art. The texts on which Aristotle's
reputation rests are largely based on these lecture notes, which were collected
and arranged by later editors.
Among the texts are treatises on logic, called Organon ("instrument"), because
they provide the mea ...
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George Mason's Views
Number of Words: 854 / Number of Pages: 4
... and their principals.
The essence of America from the start was the opportunity for people of all backgrounds, culture, races, and religions to start fresh in a society granting freedoms and rights not available in other countries. The question from colonial times was the origin of those rights. Were rights able to be granted from person to person? Or were those rights inherited based upon the culture the given person is born or assimilated into?
Given George Mason’s views, a person is both his or her own individual authority and a product of his or her environment. When born, those rights, i ...
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Glenn Theodore Seaborg
Number of Words: 793 / Number of Pages: 3
... of California at Berkeley. In that capacity he served until his appointment by President Kennedy to the Atomic Energy Commission in 1961, when he was designated Chairman of the Commission. His term of office expires in 1968. From 1959 to 1961, he was also a member of the President's Science Advisory Committee. Dr. Seaborg was given a leave of absence from the University of California from 1942-1946, during which period he headed the plutonium work of the Manhattan Project at the University of Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory. He was co-discoverer of plutonium and all further transuranium elements ...
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Peter The Great
Number of Words: 2447 / Number of Pages: 9
... it is necessary to know his background and the influences that shaped his life. was the fourteenth child of Alexei Mikhailovich, born in Moscow on May 30, 1672. Tsar Alexis died when Peter was four years old. His mother raised Peter. Tsars' Alexis son from his first marriage, Feodor Alekseevich succeeded to the throne but his reign did not last long. On April 27, 1682, Tsar Feodor died. In line to succeed him were, his brother Ivan and Peter who was his half-brother. Peter was only ten years old. With the assistance of the semiprofessional musketeers garrisoned in Moscow, sister of ...
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Profiles Of Courage
Number of Words: 581 / Number of Pages: 3
... Senator. Daniel Webster, House of Representatives member, was a Federalist and was most famous for is "Seventh of March" speech. While slavery seemed to be the main issue of the time, the speech spoke mainly of preserving the Union. Although he was opposed to slavery, he seldom brought it up in his political activities. These pressures haunted him around the time he was fighting to be re-elected. Thomas Benton was a Senator of Missouri who had negative relations with President Jackson. Benton supported the Missouri Compromise, but opposed the National Bank and slavery. Seeing how Missouri w ...
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Thomas Aquinas
Number of Words: 558 / Number of Pages: 3
... His brothers captured
him and imprisoned him at Roccasecca. There he was imprisoned for nearly
two years. His parents, brothers, and sisters attempted to force him to
change his mind, they threatened him and forced temptations on him, but he
eventually escaped and joined the Dominicans.
The Dominicans then sent Thomas to Cologne to study with Albertus
Magnus, the smartest man of the time. In 1252 Thomas was in Paris
composing 'Commentaries on the Books of Sentences of Peter the Lombard'.
He was later admitted as master of theology at the University of Paris.
Albertus Magnus introduced Thomas to ...
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Lucretia Rudolph Garfield
Number of Words: 511 / Number of Pages: 2
... home in the capital as well as one in Ohio they enjoyed a happy domestic life. A two-year-old son died in 1876, but five children grew up healthy and promising; with the passage of time, Lucretia became more and more her husband's companion. In Washington they shared intellectual interests with congenial friends; she went with him to meetings of a locally celebrated literary society. They read together, made social calls together, dined with each other and traveled in company until by 1880 they were as nearly inseparable as his career permitted. Garfield's election to the Presidency brought a cheerful ...
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
Number of Words: 2210 / Number of Pages: 9
... left behind by their mother (Clendenning). This allowed the two sisters to form an everlasting, inseparable bond.
As Harriet grew older, Catharine was busy devoting her life to the education of women because at the time they were merely thought only good enough to be wives and housekeepers. Catharine’s hard and enduring work paid off because she eventually founded a school in Hartford, Connecticut. It was at this seminary that Harriet received her formal education. Oddly enough she did not attend college, but ended up becoming a teacher at her alma mater (Hedrick, BBR March 95).
In 1833, Lyman ...
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Michael Jordan 2
Number of Words: 1192 / Number of Pages: 5
... like `I’m the best today and I’m going to show you and tomorrow I’m going to show you and the next day I’m going to show you again.’ That was how he competed. All the great geniuses of the world were like that. We’re talking about Einstein, Edison, and Roosevelt. These people came across something and worked to perfect it (Collins, 61).
“Michael Jordan is the most competitive human being I’ve ever met. I’ve met many CEO’s from fortune 500 companies. Michael is more competitive then all of them, David Faulk” (Faulk, 62) He con ...
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