Papers on People and Biographies
Voltaire
Words: 361 - Pages: 2.... While in England was attracted to the philosophy of John Locke and ideas of the great scientist Sir Isaac Newton. After his return to Paris he wrote a book praising English customs and institutions. The book was thought to criticize the French government and was forced to flee Paris again. In 1759 purchased an estate called "Ferney" near the French-Swiss border where he lived until just before of his death. Ferney soon became the intellectual capitol of Europe. Throughout his years in exile produced a constant flow of books, plays, pamphlets, and letters. He was a voice of reason, and an outspoken critic of religious intolerance and per .....
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Plato And Confucious
Words: 1827 - Pages: 7.... ruler of the city or regime would create a perfect and just man. And he felt that the ruler must be older, while the ruled younger. Age is something that gives his perfect regime more control than one based on wisdom. He
thought that the philosopher should be seen as the father, over the younger people of the city. He also feels that old men are afraid of death, and therefore less likely to risk torment in the afterlife by having selfish desires, such as for money. He believed that men would obey the laws in hopes of rewards and fear of punishment in this life and the next. He believed that the ruling regime must be most skilled at gua .....
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The Work Of John Collier
Words: 2114 - Pages: 8.... a novelist, said though not a writer of the very
first rank, he possessed considerable literary skill and a rare capacity
to entertain (Contemporary Authors 111). Collier's readers are involved in
his writings by trick endings or "take away endings" in which readers are
given all clues but asked to finish, the story on their own (Critical
Survey 1169). His subject manner is often the line between logical or
psychological meaning. The subject contains an irony that is well balanced
between an element of horror and humor. His short stories are based on
relationships of the young and old. Collier's characters are hoping to
fulfill t .....
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Emily Dickenson
Words: 725 - Pages: 3.... own way of thinking, a way of thinking shaped neither by the church or society.
By the time she was twelve, her family moved to a house on Pleasant Street where they lived from 1840 to 1855. Emily was already writing letters, but composed most of her poetry in this home. Emily only left home to attend Mount Holyoke Female Seminary for two semesters.
Though her stay there was brief, she impressed her teachers with her courage and directness. They felt her writing was sensational.
At the age of twenty-one, Emily and her family moved to the Dickinson Homestead on Main Street. This move proved to be very difficult for Emily. This was diffi .....
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Charles Darwin
Words: 969 - Pages: 4.... scientific inclinations were encouraged by his botany professor, John Stevens Henslow, who was instrumental, despite heavy paternal opposition, in securing a place for Darwin as a naturalist on the surveying expedition of HMS Beagle to Patagonia.
Under Captain Robert Fitzroy, Darwin visited Tenerife, the Cape Verde Island, Brazil, Montevideo, Buenos Aires, Chile, the Galapagos Islands, Tahiti, New Zealand, and Tasmania. In the Cape Verde Island Darwin devised his theory of coral reefs.
Another significant stop on the trip was in the Galapagos Islands, it was here that Darwin found huge populations of tortoises and he found that different .....
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Twiggy
Words: 1263 - Pages: 5.... girl. He saw her potential and immediately took her to get a haircut at a Mr. Leonard’s trendy salon in London. Mr. Leonard put her picture in his shop window, and a short time later that picture was featured in the London Daily Express with a caption that read “This is the face of 1966” (Wilson). Davies, who preferred to be called Justin De Villeneuve, was quite an interesting character with his past resume containing ex-model, ex-antique dealer, and ex-hairdresser. After he discovered her, he (age 25) became ’s (age 15) agent and boyfriend. He took her to Paris and a short while after her popularity grew, she was put on the cover .....
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Gwendolyn Brooks
Words: 1107 - Pages: 5.... fine example of all three of these key elements. First and foremost is the use of ordinary speech. For instance the lines They eat beans mostly, this old yellow pair / Dinner is a casual affair. Each of these words are easily understandable. Though plain speech, each word is used more differently and more intensely than in ordinary discourse. Old yellow pair resounds with more meaning than old couple. "Yellow" implies faded or old; "Pair" is more compassionate than "couple", suggesting more of a connection than just a matchup. Though easily readable, the first line sets a tone of tenderness. Dinner is a casual .....
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Ted Bundy
Words: 2143 - Pages: 8.... or more victims killed within a short time span," and spree
killings, which Ressler et al. defines as "a series of sequential homicides
connected to one event committed over a time period of hours to days and
without a cooling off period."
Ted Bundy is one of the worst serial killers in history. His antisocial
personality and psychotic character made him feared across the country. After
all was said and done Ted left behind a trail of bloody slayings that included
the deaths of 36 young women and spanned through four states. The biggest
question in many people's mind was how could someone as intelligent,highly
accomplis .....
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Saddam Hussein
Words: 579 - Pages: 3.... risk when Iraq went to war with Iran from 1980 to 1988. Hussein started this war to control Arab-inhabited areas and especially for oil resources. Hussein is also known as a ruthless leader who used chemical weapons on Kurdish people seeking freedom in the 1980’s. In August, 1990, Hussein invaded and annexed Kuwait for violating oil production laws set by the Organization of Petroleum Exports Countries(OPEC). (Kuwait had lowered the price of oil.) The Iraqi forces killed many Kuwaiti people and stole or destroyed much property. Hussein apparently wanted to use Kuwait’s vast oil resources to help Iraq’s economy. Many people believed th .....
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Argentine Marxist Revolutionary And Guerrilla Leader Che Guevara
Words: 1414 - Pages: 6.... and a hatred of military politicians and the army, the capitalist oligarchy, and above all the US dollar/imperialism. Yet although his parents, notably his mother, were anti-Peronist activists, he took no part in revolutionary student movements and showed little interest in politics at Buenos Aires University (1947) where he studied medicine, first with a view to understanding his own disease, later becoming more interested in leprosy. In 1949 he made the first of his long journeys, exploring northern Argentina on a bicycle, and for the first time coming into contact with the very poor and the remnants of the Indian tribes. In 1951, a .....
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