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Socrates
Number of Words: 643 / Number of Pages: 3
... they have already done.
One more act of greed concerns the auto industry and its planned obsolescence of cars. If the people in charge of car companies respected the Socratic philosophy, they would do everything in their power to further the development of the industry. It is too bad they aren’t as wise as that. For example, car bodies in Northern states tend to rust away gradually, thus ruining the car even if it were to last longer anyway. Auto companies have the capability to research and implement newer, more efficient engines that save us money on gas and cause less harm to the environment. T ...
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On J.j. Thomson
Number of Words: 1294 / Number of Pages: 5
... of ether, so these views were not so far apart.
Experiments were needed to resolve the uncertainties. When physicists moved a magnet near the glass, they found they could push the rays about. Nevertheless, when the German physicist Heinrich Hertz passed the rays through an electric field created by metal plates inside a cathode ray tube, the rays were not deflected in the way that would be expected of electrically charged particles. Hertz and his student Philipp Lenard also placed a thin metal foil in the path of the rays and saw that the glass still glowed, as though the rays slipped through the f ...
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Thomas Jefferson
Number of Words: 1554 / Number of Pages: 6
... land to France, they tried to sell it back to Spain. Spain, nonetheless, didn’t have use for this massive piece of land (Boorstin, p.94). Jefferson, however, felt that if the United States owned the land, farmers west of the Appalachian Mountains could use the land strictly for agricultural purposes. If the Treaty of 1795 had not been signed, the United States would have gone to war with France to gain control of the territory.
Initially, Jefferson, through his minister of France, Robert R. Livingston, offered Napoleon $2 million for a small stretch of land on the lower Mississippi River (internet) ...
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E.E. Cummings
Number of Words: 1417 / Number of Pages: 6
... fifth line represents two ones; 'one' on the 7th line spells the number out; the 8th line, 'l', isolates the number; and 'iness', the last line, can mean "the state of being I" - that is, individuality - or "oneness", deriving the "one" from the lowercase roman numeral 'i' (200). Cummings could have simplified this poem drastically ("a leaf falls:/loneliness"), and still conveyed the same verbal message, but he has altered the normal syntax in order that each line should show a 'one' and highlight the theme of oneness. In fact, the whole poem is shaped like a '1' (200). The shape ...
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Maya Angelou 2
Number of Words: 781 / Number of Pages: 3
... her formative years shuttling between St. Louis, Arkansas and San Francisco. She worked as an editor for The Arab observer, an English-language weekly published Cairo. Maya Angelou lived in Accra, Ghana, where Sergejs Golubevs under the black nationalist regime of Karane Nkrumah she taught music, dance, and.
studied cinematography in Sweden. In the 1960's, at the request of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Ms Angelou became the northern coordinator for the souther ...
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James Boswell
Number of Words: 1174 / Number of Pages: 5
... had little leisure, and little encouragement for enquiry; and strangers, not knowing the language, have had no ability.
"I have long wished that the Irish literature were cultivated.2 Ireland is known by tradition to have been once the seat of piety and learning; and surely it would be very acceptable to all those who are curious either in the original of nations, or the affinities of languages, to be further informed of the revolution of a people so ancient, and once so illustrious.
"What relation there is between the Welsh and Irish language, or between the language of Ireland and that of Bisc ...
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Thomas Jefferson
Number of Words: 1173 / Number of Pages: 5
... Thomas' mother, Jane Randolph Jefferson, came from one of the oldest families in Virginia.
Thomas developed the normal interests of a country boy, such as hunting, fishing, horseback riding, and canoeing. He also learned to play the violin and to love music. When Jefferson was fourteen, his father died. Since he was the oldest son he became the head of the family. He inherited more than 2,500 acres of land and 20 slaves. His guardian, John Hairvie managed the estate until Jefferson was twenty-one.
At the age of nine, Jefferson began studies under a tutor. He learned Latin, Greek, and F ...
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Paul Revere
Number of Words: 1168 / Number of Pages: 5
... On the twenty-second day of July, 1754 Reveres father died in his sleep. He was buried in the Old Granary. Paul was very distraught over losing his father. They were close, more like friends than father and son. After his fathers death Paul became the man of the house. He had to take on more responsibilities and work harder to support his large family. After a while the stress was weighing him down and it was probably some sort relief when he went to fight the French. In 1756 he returned. On August 4, 1757 married Sara Orne, or a Revere referred to her “Sary”. After some years of marriage Revere ...
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Nostradamus's Prophecies
Number of Words: 1030 / Number of Pages: 4
... the fight against the 'Black Death' that was feared throughout the Renaissance period. It was then that he began to treat victims of the plague in communities of southern France. “Nostradamus used inventive methods of treatment, and his success in curing extremely ill patients earned him a reputation as a specially gifted healer” (Encarta ‘97 CD-ROM). After traveling for almost four years helping the sufferers of the Plague, he returned to Avignon and won fame.
In 1532, he got his Doctorate and became a Professor at the Montpellier University, but resigned within the same year. He then moved to Agen ...
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Herbert George Wells
Number of Words: 1255 / Number of Pages: 5
... (Borrello, Alfred: 2). He was angry at
their refusal to take effective measures to improve their place in life.
And it was because of this that he did not care for the working class and
envied the solidly established middle class.
As a boy H. G. Wells had always been physically active, but after
he broke his leg at the age of 8 in 1874, he couldn't do too much. During
his period of convalescence he turned to books for the first time. When
Herbert's mother went to work at the gentry's house, she took Herbert with
her (his older brothers were apprenticed into the drapery trade). Sir
Harry Fe ...
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