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Alvin Ailey
Number of Words: 530 / Number of Pages: 2
... in Rogers, Texas on January 5, 1931, spent his formative years going to Sunday School and participating in The Baptist Young People's Union. At age twelve, he moved to Los Angeles and, on a junior high school class trip to the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, fell in love with concert dance. Ailey began his formal dance training inspired by the performances of the Katherine Dunham Dance Company and the classes with Lester Horton that his friend, Carmen de Lavallade, urged him to take. Horton, the founder of the first racially integrated dance company in the US, was a catalyst for Ailey as the young ...
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Marie Curie
Number of Words: 609 / Number of Pages: 3
... as one
of the greatest scientists of the century and won 2 Nobel prizes, one for
physics in 1903 and one for chemistry in 1911 for isolating radium and
studying its chemical properties. Even Einstein once said of her, “Marie
Curie is, of all celebrated beings, the one whom fame has not corrupted.”
As a child she always wanted to be left alone to finish her work.
But after she won the Nobel prize she could not concentrate on her work as
much, as she was famous. Her laboratory was a leaky shed with a dirt floor,
but it was in this shed that she discovered radium. She performed
pioneering studies w ...
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Dimitri Shostakovich
Number of Words: 1484 / Number of Pages: 6
... to perform their own works, and Shostakovich toyed openly with these novelties. His first opera, The Nose, based on the satiric Nikolay Gogol story, displayed a thorough understanding of what was popular in Western music combined with his "dry" humor. Not surprisingly, Shostakovich's undoubtedly finer second opera, Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (later renamed Katerina Izmaylova), marked a stylistic retreat. However, this new Shostakovich was too avant-garde for Stalin.
In 1928, Joseph Stalin inaugurated his First Five-Year Plan, an "iron hand fastened on Soviet culture," (Johnson) an ...
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David Hume 2
Number of Words: 1039 / Number of Pages: 4
... there would always be enough evidence to prove the opposing view as being the truth. However the truth can be proved when referring to the relations of ideas. When dealing with things like (2+2=4), there is no openness to interpretation and no exceptions. 2+2 must always = 4 because it is based on scientific factual information and there is clearly no argument against it.
Hume boldly states that "impressions" and "ideas" make up the total content of the mind. His definition of 'impressions" is what each person perceives from the physical world through their senses. And according to this theory "ide ...
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My Opinion On Director Hoovers Essay
Number of Words: 373 / Number of Pages: 2
... it is said that advocates of capital punishment should actually witness an execution to see how it is carried out and the trauma a person faces when they know that they are being led to their death. Yes these criminals were young once, innocent and vivacious, full of life with parents, friends and a long gone innocence. But for some reason they became a killer and killers must be dealt with severely and swiftly. Additionally I say to persons against the death penalty, let me show you the crime scene photos of a murder/rape victim. What about their rights to life and liberty? Here in front of you is ...
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Jean Sartre
Number of Words: 1204 / Number of Pages: 5
... many pieces of literature on political problems. In 1964 Sartre won the Nobel Prize in literature, saying that he refuses to compromise his integrity as a writer, he refuses to accept the prize. He then becomes an outcast in society, for having turned on Existentialism and lives out his life in poor health and a few radical followers.
In the dictionary the translation of Existentialism is a branch of philosophy based on the concept of an absurd universe where humans have free will, and that humans are responsible for and the sole judge of their actions as they affect others. This philosophy proposes th ...
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Napoleon 5
Number of Words: 1995 / Number of Pages: 8
... suggested democratic principles, a complicated system of checks and balances that appealed to republican theory, and a Council of State the evoked memories of Louis XIV. The new constitution in fact established the rule of one man—the First Consul, Bonaparte. He was elected the First Consul, he was the first modern political figure to use the rhetoric of revolution and nationalism, to back it with military force, and to combine those elements into a mighty weapon of imperial expansion in the service of his own power and ambition. He can also illustrate his characteristic as a revolutionary by est ...
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Ernest Hemingway
Number of Words: 1486 / Number of Pages: 6
... the Italian army. On July 8, 1918, he was injured when a shell landed 3 feet from him. In the hospital he met a girl and fell in love with her, but she threw him over for another guy. He later met Elizabeth Hadley and married her on September 3, 1921. Later that year he went to France as a correspondent for the Toronto Star. InFrance he made friend with several expatriates, such as Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein.
Hemingway's first wife, Elizabeth left him because of his interest in other women. She took their son with her. On January 27, 1927 he married Pauline Pfeiffer. At this point in his life he sp ...
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Christ Is The Answer - John Saward
Number of Words: 2306 / Number of Pages: 9
... it is forgotten or lost in the fog, Christ's work is still very visible to this day. This is visible through the work of John Paul II. From the very beginning of Pope John Paul II's Pontificate, he stressed the importance of Christocentricity. "The opening words of his first encyclical state the truth upon which all his teaching is built: ' The Redeemer of man , Jesus Christ is the centre of the universe and of history'. " ( Saward , 11 ) The Pope did not rest after stating his first encyclical. The Pope set off on a pilgrimage to spread the importance of Chritocentricity. He wanted all his bi ...
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Edgar Allan Poe
Number of Words: 1457 / Number of Pages: 6
... schools (Asselineau 410).
In the spring of 1826, Poe entered the University of Virginia. There he studied Spanish, French, Italian, and Latin. He had an excellent scholastic record. He got into difficulties almost at once. Mr. Allan did not provide him with the money to pay for his fees and other necessities. Poe was confused and homesick. He learned to play cards and started drinking. Soon he was in debt in excess of two thousand dollars. Poe discovered that he could not depend upon Allan for financial support. His foster father refused to pay his debts, and Poe had to withdr ...
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