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William Shakespeare
Number of Words: 339 / Number of Pages: 2
... the Bible is read more than Shakespeare's plays
-from 1593 - 1613 he wrote 37 plays, acted, helped manage an acting troup and was part owner of the "Old Globe Theatre"
-1593-1594 the theatres were closed because of the plague and Shakespeare wrote his narrative poetry
-little is known about Shakespeare because he did not write about himself, nor did he publish his own plays, he made his money by writing plays that were performed for an audience
-his first play was The Comedy of Errors which was a flop according to the audiences
-Shakespeare wrote comedies, histories, tragedies, and romances
-he would ...
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Sir Francis Bacon
Number of Words: 445 / Number of Pages: 2
... his concepts for the restoration of humankind to
mastery over nature. It was intended to contain six parts: first a
classification of sciences; second a new inductive logic; third a gathering of
empirical and experimental facts; fourth examples to show the effectiveness of
his new approach; fifth generalization derivable from natural history; and a new
philosophy that would be a complete science of nature.
Bacon completed only two parts, however, the Advancement of Learning in
1605, later expanded as De Dignitate et Augmentis Scientiarum (On the Dignity
and Growth of Sciences, 1620); and the N ...
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Comparison: Caesar And Fidel Castro
Number of Words: 487 / Number of Pages: 2
... Cleopatra.
Both Fidel and Caesar where geniuses. Not only where they great military leaders, they were great politicians. Both used propaganda to help become dictators. They used something to blame everything on. Fidel used the U.S. for everyone to hate. And Caesar used slavery to increase in popularity.
Though both leaders had to overtake a dictator but they did it in different ways. Fidel used only violence and threats to make Batista leave. Caesar on the other hand had to defeat Pompey, and then get voted in by the people. He did this by gaining popularity by attacking other countries and d ...
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Henry T. Ford
Number of Words: 1950 / Number of Pages: 8
... repair work without pay, for him all mattered was to play with the machinery of the watch. From his personal experience on the farm he was fascinated my farm machines that reduced the drudgery of farm chores. We can notice there was a lot of a kid in him, and to go around or making his chores easier he invented his own farm machines. His fascination with machines grew as he grew older. At the age of thirteen, for the first time he saw a coal-fired steam engine that was rolling along a long rural road. From that point he grew more fascinated about machines that moved about a roads without any manpower. ...
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Alfred Tennyson And His Work
Number of Words: 922 / Number of Pages: 4
... was the most important of these friendships. Hallam,
a brilliant Victorian young man was recognized by his peers as having
unusual promise. He and Tennyson knew each other only four years, but
their intense friendship had a major influence on the poet. On a visit to
Somersby, Hallam met and later became engaged to Emily Tennyson, and the
two friends looked forward to a life-long companionship. Hallam died from
illness in 1833 at the age of 22 and shocked Tennyson profoundly. His
grief lead to most of his best poetry, including "In Memoriam", "The
Passing of Arthur", "Ulysses", and "Tithonus". ...
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Biography: St. Alphonsus Rodriguez
Number of Words: 694 / Number of Pages: 3
... thirty-nine he
attempted to make up this deficiency by following the course at the College
of Barcelona, but without success. His austerities had also undermined his
health. After considerable delay he was finally admitted into the Society
of Jesus as a lay-brother, 31 January, 1571. Distinct novitiates had not as
yet been established in Spain, and Alfonso began his term of probation at
Valencia or Gandia -- this point is a subject of dispute -- and after six
months was sent to the recently-founded college at Majorca, where he
remained in the humble position of porter for forty-six years, exercising ...
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Generation-x
Number of Words: 302 / Number of Pages: 2
... X Generation in terms of spending money on recreation. Recreation has become a culture of its own. Rollerblading, paintballing, jetskiing, video games, snowboarding, bungee jumping, and of course the mall.
.X-treme.
X-treme sports and pastimes is a X Generation phenomena. Always looking for new thrills, the Gen-Xers have been watching as technology improved or created new equipment to go higher, faster, at lower cost. i.e. in-line skates, jetskis, snowboards.
.open to new technology.
Generation X is familiar with technology and comfortable with the velocity and momentum at which it chan ...
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Fiction Authors
Number of Words: 1489 / Number of Pages: 6
... that still has religious beliefs and marriage, things no longer
part of the changed society, to compare and contrast today's culture with
his proposed futuristic culture.
But one theme that both Brave New World and Fahrenheit 451 use in common is
the theme of individual discovery by refusing to accept a passive approach
to life, and refusing to conform. In addition, the refusal of various
methods of escape from reality is shown to be a path to discovery. In Brave
New World, the main characters of Bernard Marx and the "Savage" boy John
both come to realize the faults with their own cultures. In Fah ...
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The Life Of Julius Caesar
Number of Words: 1364 / Number of Pages: 5
... plan
backfired, giving Caesar full control of Rome and bringing about the end of
Pompey’s life.
Caesar succeeded in bringing order back to the face of Rome. First
he reformed the existing Roman calender. The existing calender was
corrupt because it did not synchronize with the solar year. Priests were
allowed to prolong the calender at their will and some used it to their
advantages. Caesar put an end to this by setting a new calender which
consisted of 365 days and a leap year, every four years.
Caesar abhorred the Senate, for he knew that it was the greatest
stumbling block ...
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Biography Of Andy Warhol
Number of Words: 471 / Number of Pages: 2
... decade for Warhol. Appropriating images from popular culture, Warhol created many paintings that remain icons of 20th-century art, such as the Campbell's Soup Cans, Disasters and Marilyns. In addition to painting, Warhol made several 16mm films which have become underground classics such as Chelsea Girls, Empire and Blow Job. In 1968, Valerie Solanis, founder and sole member of SCUM (Society for Cutting Up Men) walked into Warhol's studio, known as the Factory, and shot the artist. The attack was nearly fatal.
At the start of the 1970s, Warhol began publishing Interview magazine and renewed his fo ...
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