|
|
|
» Browse Biography Term Papers
Shannon Lucid
Number of Words: 656 / Number of Pages: 3
... By this time America already had a space program.
She could not believe that of the first seven Mercury astronauts, none were
females. This is just one more instance she complained of discrimination of
women in traditionally male held occupations. She experienced the same thing
when she tried unsuccessfully to become a commercial pilot. So from Ś66-'68 she
worked at Kerr-Mcgee Corp. as a chemist. This is also where she met her
husband Michael Lucid. After she was married she returned to school at the
University of Oklahoma, where she earned her B.S. in Chemistry. One interesting
occurrence aft ...
|
|
David Hume's An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Number of Words: 1010 / Number of Pages: 4
... in establishing evidence of truth since every contradiction is possible. Hume uses the example of the sun rising in the future to demonstrate how as humans, we are unjustified in making predictions of the future based on past occurrences. As humans, we tend to use the principle of induction to predict what will occur in the future. Out of habit, we assume that sun will rise every day, like it has done in the past, but we have no basis of actual truth to make this justification. By claiming that the sun will rise tomorrow according to Hume is not false, nor is it true. Hume illustrates that “the ...
|
|
Lyndon Johnson
Number of Words: 1243 / Number of Pages: 5
... President John Fitzgerald Kennedy at one-o'clock on November 22,
1963(Peter Lisagor, 151). Johnson took on the large role as president aboard the
presidential Air Force jet at Love Field, Dallas exactly ninety-nine minutes
after Kennedy died. Coincidentally becoming the second vice president with the
last name Johnson to succeed an assassinated president and nearly one hundred
years apart.(Hugh S. Sidey, 1-2 & Hans L. Trefousse, 1-2)
Within a short time after he became president, Johnson announced a
five hundred million-dollar budget cut and urged a strong civil rights bill.
Both of these we ...
|
|
Poe
Number of Words: 817 / Number of Pages: 3
... named John Neal stated
If Edgar Allan of Baltimore whose lines
About “ Heaven” , though he professes to r-
Egard them as all together superior to any
thing in the whole range of American try,
Save two or three trifles referred to, are non-
sense, rather exquisite nonsense- would but do
himself justice (he) might make a beautiful and
perhaps a magnificent poem. (Neal, p. 35).
This is not exactly negative critisim, but it is not recognizing Poe as a magnificent poet as most other people do. Shoshana Felman does not ...
|
|
Should The Govt. Interfere In
Number of Words: 917 / Number of Pages: 4
... a country a connected feeling.
My first reason promoting total government interference is that the govt. supports handicapped and people with physical disabilities. I attended a speaker in our school's conference and she told us a great deal about the mentally ill. Many of them live in a free market system and they are homeless because they are unable to get jobs to support themselves. Competition is much too great in the market economy. In the controlled system, the mentally ill would get the same benefits as any other working person. Because of this, the mentally ill are able to eat, to be clothed, ...
|
|
Napoleon 2
Number of Words: 810 / Number of Pages: 3
... knowledge of the Enlightenment. He simplified the laws of old as well as new, and allowed freedom of speech and press. His main idea with these laws was to give all men equal rights. Women were also included into several laws. Another accomplishment was shown through religion. Though he supported Catholicism and declared the majority of the French people were Catholics, he affirmed religious tolerance for all.
Though many accomplishments were shown in government as well as religion, Napoleon’s main interests were focused on building an empire. After defeating Italy and Austria, and persuading ...
|
|
The Life Of Mohandas Gandhi
Number of Words: 1244 / Number of Pages: 5
... into the struggle for Indian freedom.
While studying philosophy he came across “Civil Disobedience” by Henry
David Thoreau and John Ruskin's plea to give up capitalism for farm life
and traditional handicrafts (Sharpe 1979 43). These opinions stimulated
Gandhi's ideas for non-violent resistance.
The main principle behind all of Gandhi's teachings is the concept
of Satyagraha (Sharp 1973 76), or non-violence, the lens through which he
viewed the world. Satya (truth) refers to love, and agraha (firmness)
refers to force. This concept of non-violence was designed to secure
social reform and hum ...
|
|
Charles Dickens
Number of Words: 1068 / Number of Pages: 4
... a party, genuinely delighted, delightful, affectionate and
happy, and in some strange way fundamentally sad and dangerously close to tears.
2
At the age of 12 Charles worked in a London factory pasting labels on bottles of
shoe polish. He held the job only for a few months, but the misery of the
experience remain with him all his life. 3
Dickens attended school off and on until he was 15, and then left for good. He
enjoyed reading and was especially fond of adventure stories, fairy tales, and
novels. He was influenced by such earlier English writers as William Shakespeare,
Tobias Smollet, and Henry ...
|
|
Emily DIckinson
Number of Words: 1605 / Number of Pages: 6
... Emily Norcross Dickinson, was a submissive, timid housewife dedicated to her husband, children, and household chores. The Dickinson’s only son, William Austin, also a lawyer, succeeded his father as treasurer of the college. Their youngest child, Lavina, was the chief housekeeper and, like her sister, Emily, remained a home, unmarried, all her life. A sixth member who was added to the family in 1856 was Susan Gilbert, a schoolmate of Emily’s, who married Austin and moved into the house next door the Dickinson home which they called Homestead. Emily and Susan were very close friends and confidantes, ...
|
|
Hitler's Ambitions
Number of Words: 2475 / Number of Pages: 9
... of the constant beatings he had received from his father. Now Hitler’s father’s abuse was put upon Hitler (Flood, p6-7). When the time to choose a secondary school came, Hitler wanted to go to a classical school but was forced to go to a technical school by his father. In secondary school Hitler’s grades dropped dramatically (Heyes p21). Hitler was however very interested in German Nationalism and figures such as, Bismarck and Frederick despite his low grades (History place). This is a marked beginning of his ambitions and his career. After Hitler’s father’s death Hitler was left alone to do ...
|
|
|
