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Martin Luther King Jr.
Number of Words: 515 / Number of Pages: 2
... In his speech Dr. King hopes to persuade the "Great America" to abolish all racial prejudice.
Dr. King uses many different but effective methods to convince the reader of his point. King uses the words from an old Negro spiritual, the famous line, "Free at last! free at last! Thank God almighty, we are free at last!" (505) This phrase serves as an exclamation point on an emotional speech that is sure to deeply move the reader. King quotes the song "America the Beautiful" stating that he wants everyone to sing it with new meaning. In his speech King comes across as a persecuted African Ameri ...
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Emily Dickinson
Number of Words: 1122 / Number of Pages: 5
... 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 correspondence with Rev. Charles Wadsworth over ...
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Rosalind Franklin
Number of Words: 509 / Number of Pages: 2
... determined the three dimensional structure of DNA when Franklin returned to England. She became the first person to find the molecule¡¯s sugar-phosphate backbone while working with a team of scientists at King¡¯s College in London. Unfortunately, leadership misunderstandings and personality conflicts depreciated Franklin¡¯s effectivness in the laboratory. Maurice Wilkins, the laboratory¡¯s second in command, returned from a vacation expecting Franklin to work under him. Franklin came to the laboratory with the understanding that she would be researching alone. While Franklin was direct and decis ...
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Biography Of Robert Frost
Number of Words: 889 / Number of Pages: 4
... he had shared valedictorian honors at Lawrence (Mass.)
High School. From 1897 to 1899 he attended Harvard College as a special
student but left without a degree. Over the next ten years he wrote (but
rarely published) poems, operated a farm in Derry, New Hampshire (purchased
for him by his paternal grandfather), and supplemented his income by
teaching at Derry's Pinkerton Academy.
In 1912, at the age of 38, he sold the farm and used the proceeds to take
his family to England, where he could devote himself entirely to writing.
His efforts to establish himself and his work were almost immediately
succ ...
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Herman Melville
Number of Words: 528 / Number of Pages: 2
... typee.
1847 Publishes Omoo
1849 Feb. 16: His son, Malcom melvelle is born.
1850 Publishes white jacket. Moves to Arrowhead farm in Pittsburg,
massachustettes.
1851 Publishes the famous moby-dick. Oct. 22 Stanwix Melville is born.
1852 Publishes Pierre which prompted one newspaper made a headline
"herman melville crazy".
1853 Elizibeth Melville is born.
1855 March 2: Frances Melville is born. Publishes Israel potter.
1856 Publishes the Piazza tales.
1856-57 sails to europe and the holy land where he gathers materials for
tyhe long poem clarel.
1857 Publishes ...
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Nationalism And Patriotism
Number of Words: 743 / Number of Pages: 3
... controls of a dictatorship to a free or democratic country. These citizens are often willing to make unusual sacrifices for their new homeland.
The first thing that comes to mind when I think of patriotism is the people who gave their lives to free us from the British during the Revolutionary War. They fought and some of them even died so you and I can have the freedom to pretty much as please in everyday life. The next thing comes to mind when I think of patriotism is the people who fought and gave their lives during World War II. They fought for the same rights as our founding fathers did. Tha ...
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Biography Of Ernest Rutherford
Number of Words: 799 / Number of Pages: 3
... of McGill in Montreal, Canada, carrying out research into radioactivity. The some of the most important work was in the identification of the alpha, beta and gamma radiation. In 1902, with the collaboration of Frederick Soddy, he enunciated and verified the 'spontaneous transformation' theory of radioactive decay, whereby a radioactive atom changes to a different atom on the emission of radiation. In 1903 Rutherford published a general paper on radioactivity and in 1904 published his first book on radioactivity.
In 1906 the then professor of physics at the University of Manchester promised to re ...
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Talcott Parsons
Number of Words: 2254 / Number of Pages: 9
... Malinowski, became the center of debate. His beliefs were questioned and challenged by rival sociologists. His studies became even greater and his theories more significant. Until the time of his death, his principal aim focused on the systematic study of social action and it's components. He looked at the surrounding factors and if and why they influenced the social system. As an award before his death, Parsons received high honors for his accomplishments in sociology. Many people considered him the most intelligent sociologist of his era.
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Charles Dickens 2
Number of Words: 585 / Number of Pages: 3
... child recur in many novels. When his father and mother got out of jail his mother wanted him to stay at work. Happily the father's view prevailed. His schooling, interrupted and unimpressive, ended at 15. He became a clerk in a solicitor's office, then a shorthand reporter in the lawcourts, and finally, like other members of his family, a parliamentary and newspaper reporter. These years left him with a lasting affection for journalism and contempt both for the law and for Parliament. His coming to manhood in the reformist 1830s, and particularly his working on the Liberal Benthamite “Morning ...
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Woodrow Wilson
Number of Words: 754 / Number of Pages: 3
... write in his usual right-handed manner. As often happens following minor strokes, there was recovery: his
right-handed writing ability returned within a year.
Was his career impeded? No, in 1902 he became the president of Princeton. But the problem recurred in 1904. In 1906 it happened again, this time with blindness in the left eye (also supplied by the left internal carotid artery, which is probably where clots were originating which plugged up various small arteries in the left eye and left brain). While the right arm weakness went away, Wilson had enough damage to his left eye that he could never r ...
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