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Sheyann Webb
Number of Words: 440 / Number of Pages: 2
... sharpshooter, Frank Butler. Annie shot all 25 birds while Frank shot only 24. Later, Frank would say that he lost two things to Annie that day: the match and his heart.
Annie and Frank went on the road as a team. Annie wanted a fancy name, so she settled on Oakley, a suburb outside of Cincinnati.Annie loved showbiz. She liked to keep the audience on the edge of their seats. When the Butler and Oakley team joined the Sell's Brother Circus, Frank stopped shooting and became Annie's manager and assistant, managing the money and the schedule, throwing up targets for Annie to shoot at, and loading Annie ...
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Jim Jones
Number of Words: 1658 / Number of Pages: 7
... threat of severe punishment to impose the strict discipline and absolute devotion that he demanded, and he also took measures to eliminate those factors that might encourage resistance or rebellion among his followers. Research showed that the presence of a "disobedient" partner greatly reduced the extent o which most subjects in the Milgram situation (1965) obeyed the instructions to shock the person designated the "learner." Similarly, by including just one confederate who expressed an opinion different from the majority's, Asch (1955) showed that the subject would also agree far less, even when ...
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Karl Marx 5
Number of Words: 585 / Number of Pages: 3
... Marx's transformation from a radical democrat to a communist revolutionary.
Marx's theory of society originates from the simple observation that humans must produce food and material goods in order to survive. As a result of this they must enter into social relationships with others, and production becomes a social enterprise. Alongside this exists the 'forces of production', a technical component to manufacturing including the technology, scientific knowledge and raw materials used in the process of production. According to Marx, each stage of development in these forces will necessarily correspond w ...
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Johannes Brahms
Number of Words: 489 / Number of Pages: 2
... of Singakademie. The next five years he spent travelling to various towns, such as Hamburg, Baden Baden, and Zurich. In 1868 he was back in Vienna and he spent three years conducting orchestral concerts of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde. . After more travel in Germany, Brahms again made his home in Vienna in 1878. Meanwhile, his fame as a composer was growing and growing. In 1886, he was made a Knight of the Prussian "Orde pour le merite," and was also elected a member of the Berlin Academy of Arts. In 1889, Brahms was presented with the freedom of his native city, Hamburg, an honor which was ...
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Hume
Number of Words: 4371 / Number of Pages: 16
... prospect of converting scientists and will take them any way it can. From Plato to Planck the problematic lion of religion must be rendered safe and tame. Religion must be reasonable, after all, we are reasonable "men." Einstein writes that the scientist's "religious feeling takes the form of rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection."
We have been struck dumb, however; we can no longer be incautious with such temptations to ...
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Biography Of Charles Dickens
Number of Words: 777 / Number of Pages: 3
... Smollet, Fielding, and Goldsmith. These left a permanent mark on his
imagination; their effect on his art was quite important. dickens also went to
some performances of Shakespeare and formed a lifelong attachment to the theater.
He attended school during this period and showed himself to be a rather solitary,
observant, good-natured child with some talent for comic routines, which his
father encouraged. In retrospect Dickens looked upon these years as a kind of
golden age. His first novel, The Pickwick Papers, is in part an attempt to
recreate their idyllic nature: it rejoices in inno ...
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Balzac's Pessimistic View Of Nineteenth Century Society
Number of Words: 1841 / Number of Pages: 7
... the beginning of the novel, there is a vision of a
slow non-energetic man walking progressively up the stairs to lawyer
Derville's study which contrasts the boisterous energy of the clerks.
Chabert reaches Derville's study and is determined to find the lawyer to
help him find justice for his infortunes, "... me suis-je d‚termin‚ …
venir vous trouver. Je vous parlerai de mes malhers plus tard." Chabert
demonstrates some energy left in him by his will to retrieve everything
that he lost. This energy to gain back his power changes to furious and
revengeful energy upon learning what his wife had do ...
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Richard Lederer: His Works
Number of Words: 2192 / Number of Pages: 8
... Lederer entered Haverford College as a pre-medical student but soon
found that he was reading the chemistry books for their literary value. Mr.
Lederer became an English major and then attended Harvard Law School, where he
found that he read the law cases for their literary value. So rather than
fighting his verbivorous instincts, He switched into a Masters of Arts and
Teaching program at Harvard. That led to a position at St. Paul's School, in
Concord, NH, where he taught English and media for 27 years. Richard Lederer
said that he would have gladly served them for the rest of his days, but hav ...
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Ira Remsen: A Scientist Unknown His Work
Number of Words: 915 / Number of Pages: 4
... noticed that it was quite sweet at first, but it left a bitter after-taste. He made his wife taste the bread and he found nothing wrong or something unusual about the taste. So Remsen decided to taste his fingers and there he found that same sweet then bitter taste despite washing his hands thoroughly after working in his lab. After dinner, he returned to his laboratory and started to taste all the chemicals he was handling. When he found that chemical, it was oxidation of o-toluenesulfonamide and he called it saccharin. In 1880, Remsen and Fahlberg published their findings in the February issue ...
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The Writings Of David Foster Wallace
Number of Words: 1146 / Number of Pages: 5
... well, as this made me very happy” (Wallace 57). By this piece of work he stands, unwilling to denounce his creation. Frankly, he refuses to denounce any of his creations. Critics may pick here and there at his work, but this does not bother him in the slightest.
Another commonality is that he never truly ends a story. He always leaves it unfinished and for the reader to decide for themselves how it will end. An example of this is also in the story “Girl With Curious Hair”: “...Mr. Wonderful was doing something with the bright thing to the man who was the girl’s father” (Wallace 74). Also in his ...
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