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Stephen Crane
Words: 700 - Pages: 3.... minister, his father greatly influenced his ideas and attitudes towards writing. His father was a kind minister, but his mother believed that God was a God of wrath. The effects of his preoccupation with faith are evident in most of Crane’s work, Throughout his writings he tried to shake the thought that God was wrathful (Colvert, 12:101).
began his formal education at a military school where he studied the Civil War and military training ("Stephen" n.p.). After military school he proceeded to attend Lafayette College in the fall of 1890 where he played baseball. Eventually, he was forced to withdraw from Layette because h .....
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Ludwig Van Beethoven
Words: 1459 - Pages: 6.... proving to himself and the world the extent of his skill. Thus, faced with such great impending loss, Beethoven, keeping faith in his art and ability, states in his Heiligenstadt Testament a promise of his greatness yet to be proven in the development of his heroic style.
By about 1800, Beethoven was mastering the Viennese High-Classic style. Although the style had been first perfected by Mozart, Beethoven did extend it to some degree. He had unprecedently composed sonatas for the cello which in combination with the piano opened the era of the Classic-Romantic cello sonata. In addition, his sonatas for violin and piano became the cornerston .....
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Thurgood Marshall
Words: 809 - Pages: 3.... living in. The NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) was probably the most significant of these foundations. This was the same organization that became the leading lawyer of. was born in the year of 1908 in Baltimore, Maryland. He was prepped and raised by his mother, Norma Arica Marshall, and his father, William Canfield Marshall. Thurgood's mother was one of the first African Americans to graduate from Colombia University and his father was the first black person to serve on Baltimore's grand jury in the 20th century. Their accomplishments influenced young Thurgood in the years yet to come. Thurgood was al .....
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Richard M. Nixon
Words: 1623 - Pages: 6.... grew up in Whittier, California,
where she met Frank Nixon. They fell in love at first sight, and were married
four months later in June 1908. Frank converted to Quakerism.
Frank and Hannah's first son, Harold, was born in 1909, only a year
after they were wed. In 1908, Frank bought a lemon ranch in Yorba Linda, CA, and
built a small house there. Then, on January 9, 1913, Richard Milhous Nixon was
born in that very house. Hannah and Frank would have three more children: Donald
(born in 1914), Arthur (born in 1918), and Edward (born in 1930).
The Nixon family lived on the edge of poverty. The lemon ranch didn't
make enough money to provi .....
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Henry Adams
Words: 420 - Pages: 2.... as non-sexual. For example, “America was ashamed of her…have strewn fig-leaves so profusely all over her” (Adams, 384). However, during this time of the technology revolution, women were beginning to be viewed differently, especially in Europe. Women were viewed as beautiful and mortal beings. People such as Rodin were representing women in paintings and sculptures sexually. Sex was becoming something more than just a means of reproduction. Suddenly Adams was far, far away from his Puritan custom-bound life.
People were no longer motivated by religion, being saved by God, and going to heaven; science, technology, mo .....
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Kublai Khan
Words: 381 - Pages: 2.... His name was known all over Asia and also in Europe. The court
at Cambulac attracted an international group of courageous men. One of
these men included the famous Venetian Marco Polo. Kublai Khan did much
to encourage the advancement of literature and arts as well. He was a
devout Buddhist. Kublai also made Buddhism the state religion during his
dynasty. Although Buddhism was the main religion, during his reign many
other religions evolved and were tolerated.
Kublai moved the Mongol capital from Cambulac to the place closer
to Beijing. From then on he ruled and empire that extended from eastern
Europe to Ko .....
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Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Dream For America
Words: 915 - Pages: 4.... and is showing his reason for the argument. He wants everyone to know this is why they are all coming together; they need to let the people of the United States know what is still going on.
In the third paragraph, he is using personification. He declares, “We have come to our nation's Capital to cash a check” (King, 1996, p. 358). A Capital is not a bank and therefore it cannot cash a check. Rev. King is comparing this to the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. He is attempting to persuade the audience with the promise that all men and women have the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I f .....
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Hobbes
Words: 1548 - Pages: 6.... The laws that are enacted are contrary to our self-interest, so without the terror of some ever-present power to instill fear in all man, we would abstain from no measure in order to preserve our own well being. In a state of war man is in "a Continual fear and danger of a violent death; and the life of man (is) solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short." (. Pg. 107)
The only way to prevent entering a state of war is to erect one common power, which is known as a commonwealth or sovereign, who is "One person, of whose Acts a great Multitude, by mutuall Covenants one with another, have made themselves every one the Author, to the end he may .....
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Pablo Picasso
Words: 342 - Pages: 2.... 1906 marked a radical change in color and mood for Picasso. He became fascinated with the acrobats, clowns and wandering families of the circus world. He started to paint in subtle pinks and grays, often highlighted with brighter tones. This was known as his "rose period."
For Picasso the 1920's were years of rich artistic exploration and great productivity. Picasso continued to design theater sets and painted in Cubist, Classical and Surreal modes. In the early 1930's, Picasso did a large quantity of graphic illustrations.
During World War II, Picasso lived in Paris, where he turned his energy to the art of ceramics. From 1947 to 1 .....
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Andrea Dworkin
Words: 1418 - Pages: 6.... to be humiliated, shamed, defamed,
pornography says that women say no but mean yes - Yes to violence, yes to pain.”
(Dworkin p 203)
In response to Dworkin's fiery rhetoric, Wendy Mcelroy writes that
Dworkin has scientific backing and even cites evidence to the contrary. “In
Japan, where pornography depicting violence is widely available, rape is much
lower per capita than in the United States, where violence in porn is
restricted.” Mcelroy attacks the belief that pornography cause violence,
stating that even if a correlation is present, is does not necessarily mean
there is a causal relationship. (McElroy 102)
Lynne Segal sees i .....
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