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Voltaire
Number of Words: 361 / Number of Pages: 2
... and was forced to flee Paris again. In 1759 purchased an estate called "Ferney" near the French-Swiss border where he lived until just before of his death. Ferney soon became the intellectual capitol of Europe. Throughout his years in exile produced a constant flow of books, plays, pamphlets, and letters. He was a voice of reason, and an outspoken critic of religious intolerance and persecution. returned to a hero's welcome in Paris at age 83. The excitement of the trip was too much for him and he died in Paris. Because of his criticism of the church was denied burial in church ground. He w ...
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Emily Dickinson
Number of Words: 1124 / Number of Pages: 5
... and already different from the others. Like all the
Dickinson children, male or female, Emily was sent for formal education in
Amherst Academy. After attending Amherst Academy with conscientious thinkers
such as Helen Hunt Jackson, and after reading many of Emerson's essays, she
began to develop into a free willed person. Many of her friends had converted
to Christianity, her family was also putting enormous amount of pressure for her
to convert. No longer the submissive youngster she would not bend her will on
such issues as religion, literature and personal associations.
She maintained a ...
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The Life Of Richard Feynman
Number of Words: 1128 / Number of Pages: 5
... early work, and was quickly
promoted to one of the directors of the theoretical division. Feynman had
written that there were four main questions that needed to be answered
before the work could progress.
1. How big must the bombs be? What is the critical mass and radius for each
material? 2. What material would best serve as a tamper? 3. How pure would
the uranium or plutonium have to be? 4. How much heat, light, and shock
would be created in a nuclear explosion?
This work was very difficult, mainly because the materials (uranium and
plutonium) whose properties they were trying to discover were ...
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Paul Ehrlich
Number of Words: 935 / Number of Pages: 4
... This was a very effective way to cure syphilis.
II. Background
A. Family
Paul Ehrlich was born on March 14, 1854 in Strehlen, Silesia. Ehrlich was born in to a middle-class, Jewish family. He was the only son and fourth child of Ismar and Rosa Ehrlich. His father owned a small distillery. Ehrlich had an Orthodox Jewish upbringing in a time when being a Jew was controversial.
B. Childhood
When Ehrlich was six years old he started his schooling at the local primary school. At age ten, he boarded with a professor’s family in Breslau and went to St. Maria Magdalena Humanistic Gymnasium. ...
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Hemingway’s Greatest Hits
Number of Words: 1392 / Number of Pages: 6
... how this is connected to "At the start of the winter came permanent rain". In the book, Miss Barkley afraid of the rain because she has a nightmare and she sees death in the rain. She says, "Sometimes I see me dead in it", which she is referring to the rain as a death. It is raining the entire night when Miss Barkley is giving childbirth and when both she and her baby die (Malcolm 54-55).
Most of the reader fined out that A Farewell to Arms is fun and excited to read. Hemingway makes the language very easy to understand and it is suitable for all ages. Agnes W. Smith, the editor of Mr. Hemingway ...
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Eli Whitney
Number of Words: 1966 / Number of Pages: 8
... at one time he was the only maker of ladies' hatpins in the country.
In his early twenties, Whitney became determined to attend Yale College. Since Yale was mostly a school for law or theology, his parents objected. How could Yale College help enhance his mechanical talents? Finally, at the age of twenty-three, Whitney became a student at Yale. By this time, he seemed almost middle-aged to his classmates. After he graduated with his degree in 1792, he found that no jobs were available to a man with his talents. He eventually settled for teaching, and accepted a job as a tutor in South Carolina, his s ...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Number of Words: 1087 / Number of Pages: 4
... express himself by writing the best of
poems and philosophical ideas with inspiration.
To get an idea of how Ralph Waldo Emerson might have become such an
inspiration to the people, some background on his life is essential. Can you
imagine living a life with all your loved ones passing away one by one? A
persons life could collapse into severe depression, lose hope, and lose meaning.
He can build a morbid outlook on life. Ralph Waldo Emerson suffered these
things. He was born on May 25, 1803 and entered into a new world, a new nation
just beginning. Just about eight years later, his father woul ...
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Tina Turner
Number of Words: 353 / Number of Pages: 2
... signing a piece of paper. Before long Tina realized that Ike could be a very violent and controlling person. She knew it would take some risks, including her career, but she had to get out of that situation even though it could have cost her her life.
She left Ike with only 36 cents and a gas card; she lived in poverty and was totally removed from the music scene with out Ike’s guidance. Tina was strong and only in a matter of time did she come back with her international hit album hit, “Private Dancer”. Tina is now very successful, and content with her life. She wrote a book, and even had a hit mov ...
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Aristotle - Happyness
Number of Words: 1017 / Number of Pages: 4
... that the highest end is a life of pleasure. Hedonists have defined happiness as “ an equivalent to the totality of pleasurable or agreeable feeling.”(Fox, 3) Some pleasures are good and contribute to happiness. Not all ends are ultimate ends but the highest end would have to be something ultimate; the only conceivable ultimate end is happiness.
Happiness is perhaps the only clear ultimate end. Happiness is what we strive for by itself and not to get anything else. “So it appears that happiness is the ultimate end and completely sufficient by itself. It is the end we seek in al ...
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Lenonard Bernstein
Number of Words: 1035 / Number of Pages: 4
... and despite his father’s protest, this teaching relationship with Miss Williams lasted for two years.
When Bernstein decided that he needed a more professional teacher, he went under the education of Helen Coates, who would later become a life long friend and secretary. After four years of working under Helen, he was accepted as a student of Heinrid Gebhard, who was the best piano teacher in Boston.
At the age of seventeen, Bernstein was accepted at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was interested in many other things other than music. For example, philosophy and history w ...
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