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John Coltrane
Number of Words: 5626 / Number of Pages: 21
... traveled from conventional hard rock through sitars and Baroque obligatos to Sergeant Pepper psychedelia and the musical shards of Abbey Road seems short by comparison with Coltrane's journey from hard-bop saxist to daring harmonic and modal improviser to dying prophet speaking in tongues. Asked by a Swedish disc jockey in 1960 if he was trying to "play what you hear," he said that he was working off set harmonic devices while experimenting with others of which he was not yet certain. Although he was trying to "get the one essential . . . the one single line," he felt forced to play everything, ...
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John Locke
Number of Words: 1964 / Number of Pages: 8
... thinking thing in different times and places, which it only does by that consciousness which is inseparable from thinking. This ability to reflect, think, and reason intelligibly is one of the many gifts from God and is that gift which separates us from the realm of the beast. The ability to reason and reflect, although universal, acts as an explanation for individuality. All reason and reflection is based on personal experience and reference. Personal experience must be completely individual as no one can experience anything quite the same as another.
This leads to determining why Locke the ...
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Charles Augustus Lindbergh
Number of Words: 468 / Number of Pages: 2
... West Indies. Lindbergh flew over Yucatán and Mexico in 1929 and over the Far East in 1931, and in 1933 he made a survey of more than 48,000 km (about 30,000 mi) for transatlantic air routes and landing fields. Lindbergh also collaborated with the French surgeon Alexis Carrel in experiments to develop an artificial heart pump. Despite early promising results the experiments were finally given up without entirely achieving their purpose. The two men were coauthors of The Culture of Organs (1938).
In 1932 the kidnapping and murder of Lindbergh's first child, 19-month-old Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr., attra ...
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Madonna
Number of Words: 1055 / Number of Pages: 4
... was brief. Within the next two years she dropped out of the University of Michigan and decided to pursue a career elsewhere. She knew that she wanted to either continue in the field of dance or somewhere in the music industry. She believed that she had greater opportunities in these careers in a large, diversified metropolitan city like New York City.
Once in New York City, she joined a band and began writing musical notes, lyrics, and songs. This was the start of her music career. However, she still wanted to pursue her dance career. She always had two career objectives in mind and believ ...
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Martin Luther 2
Number of Words: 1669 / Number of Pages: 7
... the Protestant Reformation would probably not have seen the light of day. But the religious practices being what they were in the Roman Church, there was little chance at that time for any great change. The Church of Rome, set in its ways, was not about to change into something else. If a change had occurred within the Roman Catholic Church, Luther would have had a different destiny. Luther's fate was sealed, however his job was cut out for him. Luther broke the religious restraints of the Roman Catholic religion. This accomplishment amounts to the establishment of another religion known as Protes ...
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James Cameron
Number of Words: 2095 / Number of Pages: 8
... They were fast and cheap productions, and none of the people working there were professionals so Cameron fit right in. He quickly moved up the ranks in the studio, jumping from one movie to another.
Cameron worked as art director on the sci-fi movie Battle Beyond the Stars, he did special effects work and direction on John Carpenter’s Escape from New York. It wasn't until 1981 when Cameron got his first shot at directing. It was an Italian producer named Assonitis who was to make a sequel to the movie Pirahna. It was going to be called Piranha 2: The Spawning. Assonitis wanted a debut direct ...
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Karen Louise Erdrich
Number of Words: 457 / Number of Pages: 2
... Council newspaper. When
she worked as an editor she learned about urban community life and took on
a new reference point, different from reservation life. She realized that
the different people she met had their own problems and confusions and that
she wanted to write about them.
Louise enrolled in an MA program at John Hopkins University. She
wrote poems and stories while she was there that incorporated her Indian
heritage which later became part of her books. She started sending her
work to publishers and most of them rejected her work.
She returned to Dartmouth as a writer in residence a ...
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Henry Ford
Number of Words: 2304 / Number of Pages: 9
... his career a transitional period. We will begin with the world before Ford.
In the mid-latter part of the eighteen hundreds (c.1860-c.1895), the United States was still tending its wounds from the aftermath of the civil war. It was a time of rebuilding, reorganizing and a time to accept change. The country’s figureheads were also changing. When the most respected of men were generals, soldiers, presidents, and war painted warriors, combat bravery was a greatly revered trait. However when the dust and smoke of war cleared, the public’s attention naturally shifted back to home life. The ...
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The Ambitions Of Napoleon
Number of Words: 1140 / Number of Pages: 5
... After only of one year in the Military School
of Paris he graduated instead of the normal two or three years. Napoleon
was then assigned as a second lieutenant to an artillery regiment.
A year later he returned home for the first time in eight years.
His visit would last two years, leaving him from his regiment in France.
While home in Corsica he wrote a reply to the Corsican aristocrats who had
attacked the Revolution. He organized a local pro-Revolutionary militia.
Then Napoleon got himself elected as second in command of a battalion of
Corsican volunteers. The Revolution changed the status of C ...
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Samuel Adams
Number of Words: 1071 / Number of Pages: 4
... that era, few shone with more brilliancy, or exercised a more powerful influence than .” (Fradin 98)
People like to hear the story of for two reasons. First it is a story of the greatest hero in American history full of much triumph and fighting for the common good. Also they like to hear of how he was a failure in every sense before he found exactly what his life’s calling was. Perhaps it gives people some hope for their own lives because he failed at every job he ever had and still became the greatest man in the history of this fine country.
Adams came from a fairly wealthy family that res ...
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