Papers on People and Biographies
Timothy Findley
Words: 368 - Pages: 2.... television, radio, and film. The most success of his film career came from the television series The Whiteoaks of Jalna, and The National Dream; for which he received an ACTRA award for co-writing with his partner, William Whitehead. After The Wars, Findley came out with six other popular novels, two collections of short stories and Inside Memory: Pages from a Writer’s Workbook (1990), a collection of articles, journal entries, and reminiscences. Findley has been very active in the writing community; he has helped to found the Writer’s Union of Canada and has served as its chairperson. He has also been President of the Canadian ch .....
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Stephen King
Words: 2341 - Pages: 9.... King. I now think of him as a normal human being instead of someone higher than me.
One of the interesting things of his life is that at the young age of twelve King had begun his writing career. King and his older brother owned their very own newspaper. The paper sold for five cents a copy and was full of local news and fictional works by King (Beahm 2). I found this to be quite humorous. I can see two kids sitting at the mimeograph machine printing out their very own five cent newspaper.
When King was at the impressionable age of four, something occurred that King would hold with him for a very long time. King’s family life was .....
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Sir Francis Bacon
Words: 445 - Pages: 2.... he was found guilty of accepting bribes and was removed
from his office. Retiring to Gorhambury, he devoted himself to writing and
scientific work.
Philosophically, Bacon wrote marks such as the Instauratio Magna (Great
Restoration), setting forth his concepts for the restoration of humankind to
mastery over nature. It was intended to contain six parts: first a
classification of sciences; second a new inductive logic; third a gathering of
empirical and experimental facts; fourth examples to show the effectiveness of
his new approach; fifth generalization derivable from natural history; and a new
philosophy that would be a complete sc .....
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Dante
Words: 953 - Pages: 4.... represents sinners that have gone farther and farther into their sins. As progresses through Hell, he realizes the extent of wrong that a person can ultimately commit. This shows that we must recognize our sins and wrong doings before we end up in Hell, or, existentially speaking, lost in pure, dark evil. It is almost like a small lie that can grow and grow to ultimately consume your life. In its content, the Inferno also shows the reader what a sin is really like by creating a symbolic punishment which mirrors the actual sin. Hell is a place "where penalties are paid by those who, sowing discord, earned Hell’s wages." For example, in .....
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Words: 1595 - Pages: 6.... John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1942 and as a new member Kennedy supported legislation that would serve the interests of his elements. Kennedy usually backed bills sponsored by his party but would sometimes show independence by voting with the Republicans. He also joined with the Republicans in criticizing the Truman administration’s handling of China. In China, the Nationalist government of Chiang Kai-shek, which had been supported by the United States, was unable to withstand the advance of Communist forces under Mao Zedong. By the end of 1949 government troops had been overwhelmingly defeated, and Chiang led his f .....
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The Style And Influences Of Lewis Carroll
Words: 1987 - Pages: 8.... in that Carroll is "a rebellious escapee from the tedious sobrieties of Dodgson . . .". If this is so, then the nonsensical aspects of his writings are the product of a quest to cast away the constraints of ordinary logic (46).
Nevertheless, his obligation towards the science of logic did influence his novels. Heath explains this by pointing out that his works are not actually nonsense, but rather absurdity. He defines the two as being at the opposite ends of a spectrum with nonsense on one end, logic in the middle, and absurdity on the other end. Nonsense completely defies and casts away all rules of logic, whereas absurdi .....
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Bill Gates
Words: 1336 - Pages: 5.... night before the final exam. In June 1975, dropped out of Harvard to pursue a career in computers full time. Later that year after dropping out of Harvard he moved to New Mexico. There, he and Allen Kay established Microsoft to produce their Basic for the MITS. Eighteen months later they were a few hundred thousand dollars richer and were hired by Tandy to develop software for its radio shack computers. Gates and Allen then moved their headquarters to Seattle, Washington. In Seattle, Gates re-wrote an operating system and called it MS-DOS, which stands for Microsoft Disk Operating System. Microsoft would eventually sell the rights of MS-D .....
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Georg Cantor
Words: 2069 - Pages: 8.... to beg his father to become
a mathematician. Finally, just before entering college, his father let Georg
study mathematics. In 1862, Georg Cantor entered the University of Zurich only
to transfer the next year to the University of Berlin after his father's death.
At Berlin he studied mathematics, philosophy and physics. There he studied under
some of the greatest mathematicians of the day including Kronecker and
Weierstrass. After receiving his doctorate in 1867 from Berlin, he was unable to
find good employment and was forced to accept a position as an unpaid lecturer
and later as an assistant professor at the University of Halle in1869. .....
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John Bates Clark
Words: 455 - Pages: 2.... found it more profitable to replace labor with
machinery. Clark believed that to make a sound economy wages had to be equal to
the marginal productivity of labor. This was also beneficial to both the
industry and the labor.
Secondly, Clark ignored the distinction between land and capital,
grouping together both kinds of non-human inputs under the general term
"capital," which he then assumed that the broadened "capital" is homogenous.
John took this Neoclassical approach one step further than others in
applying it to the business firm and the maximization of profits. One of the
results was a theory of the distribution which dem .....
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Christopher Reeve
Words: 716 - Pages: 3.... my classes."
By nineteen-seventy-six he was starring with Katherine Hepurn on Broadway, and had become in such demand that he gave up his last year at Julliard. After screen testing for the nineteen seventy-eight movie Superman, he was given the lead role as Clark Kent/Superman. Reeve was an outstanding Superman both on and off the screen. He made Clark Kent/Superman a believable character, says Reeves "somebody you can take home and introduce to your parents". This part was just like Reeve, A down home good boy with good brains and a great heart.
Reeves went onto appear in a total of 17 feature films, and 12 or so te .....
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