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Aristotle
Number of Words: 1060 / Number of Pages: 4
... there the following year.
, like Plato, used his dialogue in his beginning years at the Academy. Apart from a few fragments in the works of later writers, his dialogues have been wholly lost. also wrote some short technical writings, including a dictionary of philosophic terms and a summary of the "doctrines of Pythagoras" (the guy from the Pythagorean Theorem). Of these, only a few short pieces have survived. Still in good shape, though, are 's lecture notes for carefully outlined courses treating almost every type of knowledge and art. The writings that made him famous are mostly these, which w ...
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Christoper Marlow
Number of Words: 2929 / Number of Pages: 11
... others, such as Ovid’s Amores and Book I of Lucan’s Pharsalia (Henderson 276). During the next five years he lived in London where he wrote and produced some of his plays and traveled a great deal on government commissions, something that he had done while trying to earn his M.A. degree. In 1589, however, he was imprisoned for taking part in a street fight in which a man was killed; later he was discharged with a warning to keep the peace (Henderson 276). He failed to do so; three years later he was summoned to court for assaulting two Shoreditch constables, although there is no knowledge on whether or ...
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Socrates
Number of Words: 362 / Number of Pages: 2
... this and they looked at him in a whole new manor. He went from seeming very dignified to just another poor commoner on the street. Once more and more people learned about him, they began to stay away from him, forbidding their kids to listen to a word that he said, for he was contridicting everything that Athens has stood for and known their whole life. He was put to trial and found guilty, and was sentenced to death.
Without and the many scientist that died to learn more about the earth and the way of living, we might still be living in the past. With coming out and not being afraid of the trut ...
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Jacqueline Kennedy
Number of Words: 2831 / Number of Pages: 11
... and daughter also shared the same large, square face.
Even when Jacqueline was a child, she graced the presence of others with her natural social skill. At her second birthday party, Jacqueline played hostess and offered to share her toys and pony rides with all her little guests. At the age of two, she also participated in a dog show in Easthampton with her Scotty dog named Hootchie. Throughout Jacqueline’s life, animals have always played an important role. Her great love for animals enhanced her tender and caring appeal which she passed to her children and also was absorbed by all the people w ...
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Ralph Waldo
Number of Words: 654 / Number of Pages: 3
... initiated the entire club. As we know he was already a major part of the movement and know got himself involved more. Many people and ways of life throughout his career including Neoplatonism, the Hindu religion, Plato and even his wife influenced Emerson. He also inspired many Transcendentalists like Thoreau. Emerson didn’t win any major awards, but he did win the love and appreciation of his readers. Literary Information Emerson wrote many genres of writing including poetry and sermons, but his best writing is found in his essays. Even though he is noted for his essays, he was also a strong ...
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Henry James And William Dean Howells
Number of Words: 1046 / Number of Pages: 4
... participant in the American social scene. (Matthiessen 14)
The first phase of James' writing begins when he is twenty-one, in 1864 and continues until 1881. He was extremely popular during this time, especially during after publication of a short story Daisy Miller, which is concerned with the destruction of a naive American girl by European mores. James continues the theme of placing Americans without sufficient social experience into
the complex society and culture of Europe with The American, which chronicles a man whose finds himself unable to buy his way into French society. (Matthiessen 14)
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Albert Einstein
Number of Words: 688 / Number of Pages: 3
... He also learned how to play the violin from the age 6 to 13, he also had religious education at home where he was taught Judaism. Two years later he entered the Luitpold Gymnasium and after this his religious education was given at school. He studied mathematics, mostly calculus, beginning around 1891.
In 1894 Einstein's family moved to Milan but Einstein remained in Munich. In 1895 Einstein failed an examination that would have allowed him to study for a diploma as an electrical engineer at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule in Zurich. Einstein renounced German citizenship in 1896 and was to ...
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George Washington Carver
Number of Words: 442 / Number of Pages: 2
... land farmable, and continued research. Much of the land in the South had been over-farmed. All of the soil's nutrients had been depleted by the cotton and tobacco plant. Carver improved soil with his own blend of fertilizers. He also advised farmers to plant peanuts and sweet potatoes, he told them this would help the soil. So many farmers did this and were stuck with peanuts and sweet potatoes. So he made over 300 bi-products from plants such as cereal, oils, dyes, and soaps. In addition, Carver developed a "school on wheels" to teach farmers from Alabama the essentials for soil enrichment.
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Biography Of Robert Cormier
Number of Words: 343 / Number of Pages: 2
... it to a magazine; it became his first
published work.
After college, Cormier went on to write commercials for a local radio
station, and soon switched to newspaper work. He was a writer and editor at
the Fitchburg Sentinel for 23 years, where he won three major journalism
awards. He later wrote short stories for popular magazines such as McCall's
and the Saturday Evening Post. Cormier married in 1948, and despite his own
childhood experiences, he and his wife sent their four children to local
parochial schools.
Cormier's first three books were moderately successful, but in 1974 The
Chocolate War l ...
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Miller
Number of Words: 837 / Number of Pages: 4
... in it. As we drive down the streets of our respected cities we have to worry about certain things like; Is my seatbelt on? Does my license plate show 100%? Am I driving within the five mile per hour cushion of the speed limit? Etc. And as we wonder about all these things we pass cops left and right who are just waiting for someone to mess up or be suspected of DWI or car theft or something even worse. Is it just me or is it annoying to see a selected few criminals who do break the laws ruin it for the rest of us who don’t. Now we have to worry about making small mistakes, which is very uncomfortabl ...
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