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Charles Darwin
Number of Words: 589 / Number of Pages: 3
... the Beagle made was the Galapagos Islands off the northwestern coast of South America. It was here that Darwin found huge populations of Tortoises; and he found out that diffrent islands were home to diffrent types of tortoises. He found that islands without tortoises, pricky pear cactus plants grew with their fruits spread all over the ground. And on Islands that had lots of tortoises, the prickly pears grew really thick, tall, bearing the fruit high above the tortoises reach. He wondered if the differences in the two plants were from being isolated from one another on seperate islands. In 1836, D ...
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George Orwell
Number of Words: 761 / Number of Pages: 3
... Companiion 516). After leaving school, he joined the "Imperial Indian Police," and after five years in Burma, resigned in 1928 ("," The Oxford Anthology 2140). Burma left him with a "lifelong distaste" for power ("," St. Martin's Anthologies 398). Orwell remained living a "life of poverty" in England and Europe until the mid-1930's (Wadsworth 866).
In 1927 after an attack of "dengue fever" he returned to Europe ("Orwell," The Oxford Companion). In 1936 he took over a village store, married, and was commisioned to write about England's umemployed. When liviing among the poor, he wrote Wigan ...
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Summary And Review Of Rheinhol
Number of Words: 843 / Number of Pages: 4
... sent him to Detroit as pastor where he served for 13 years. The congregation numbered 65 on his arrival and grew to nearly 700 when he left. In 1928, Niebuhr became Professor of Practical Theology at Union Theological Seminary in New York.
During the Great Depression, Niebuhr became a leading spokesmen for "religious socialism," a political ideology drawn from both clergy and laity who took seriously both the "prophetic" moral values of the Bible and the apparently insoluble contradictions of the capitalist system. During the early 30's he supported socialist candidates, but became disenchanted ...
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Albert Camus
Number of Words: 340 / Number of Pages: 2
... personal ideals and for
our judgments of right and wrong.” He maintained that suicide cannot be
regarded as an adequate response to the “experience of absurdity.” He says that
suicide is an admission of incapacity, and such an admission is inconsistent
with that human pride to which Camus openly appeals. Camus states, “there is
nothing equal to the spectacle of human pride.”
Furthermore, Camus also dealt with the topic of revolution in his essay
The Rebel. Camus rejected what he calls “metaphysical revolt,” which he sees as
a “radical refusal of the human condition as such,” resulting either in suic ...
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Shel Silverstein
Number of Words: 1527 / Number of Pages: 6
... War. In 1956, the writer worked again as a cartoonist, but this time for a little-known magazine called Playboy. Despite this wide range of literary audiences, Silverstein’s main purpose was to entertain.
Two of his major collections of works of literature are the critically acclaimed Where the Sidewalk Ends and A Light in the Attic. They have no real historic significance; they were written to entertain. These two books contain some of Silverstein’s most accredited work. Since the books are children’s literature, not many critics have taken the time to review the works. However, Book Revi ...
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Reverend Jesse Louis Jackson
Number of Words: 475 / Number of Pages: 2
... to show himself to the world. After graduating in 1964, he attended the Chicago Theological Seminary until he joined the civil rights movement full time in 1965. Before graduating he joined the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), led by Martin Luther King Jr. King appointed him to the head of Operation Breadbasket in Chicago.
In 1971 Rev. Jesse L. Jackson formed Operation PUSH (People United to Save Humanity.) In the 1970s, Jackson traveled throughout the United States in a campaign for education against drug abuse and gangs. In the 1980s Jackson launched the National Rainbow Coal ...
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Bob Dole: A Race To The Top
Number of Words: 1292 / Number of Pages: 5
... more than the middle class,
more evenly distributes between all income groups (Duffy 1996). Under Dole's
tax cut plan, a family of four with an annual income of 31,000 would see their
tax bill drop from $2,000 to $800, a difference of $1,200. "The way the tax
cut was packaged shows that they were still sensitive to the old anti-Reagan
argument that tax cuts just benefit the rich and they tried to show that their
plan would benefit everybody," remarked Rick Grafmeyer, a tax partner at Earnest
& Young, a national accounting firm (Barnes, 1996, 29).
While Dole flaunts the benefits of his tax-cut p ...
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Bach
Number of Words: 1314 / Number of Pages: 5
... Johann Christoph, who also was a professional organist at Ohrdruf. He continued his younger brother's education on that instrument, as well as introducing him to the harpsichord. The rigorous training on these instruments combined with ’s masterful skill paid off for him at an early age. After several years of studying with his older brother, he received a scholarship to study in Luneberg, Germany, which is located on the northern tip of the country. As a result, he left his brother’s tutelage and went to go and study there.
The teenage years brought to several parts of Germany where he ...
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Biography Of Galileo
Number of Words: 647 / Number of Pages: 3
... in 1595 he preferred the
Copernican theory (sun centered theory)—that the earth revolves around the
sun. Only the Copernican model supported Galileo's tide theory, which was
based on motions of the earth.
In 1609 he heard that the Dutch had invented a spyglass, what is
now called a telescope. In August of that year he presented a telescope,
about as powerful as a modern field glass with a magnification of about 40.
He also saw that the Milky Way was composed of stars, and he discovered the
four largest moons of Jupiter. He published these findings in March 1610 in
The Starry Messenger. H ...
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Einstein
Number of Words: 964 / Number of Pages: 4
... his failure in elementary school was due to the fact that he rejected to be taught by others. He preferred to teach himself instead. So when he was a teenager he taught himself advanced Mathematics and science. carried on with this pattern of independent study for the rest of his life. His father, although a merchant, possessed an inclination for technical matters and so he managed an electrical business where he invented and sold equipment such as dynamos and electrical lamps. He introduced to the mystery of matter when he gave him a compass at the age of four, which seemed to that it came from an ...
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