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Steven Spielberg
Words: 716 - Pages: 3.... Studios directing contract at the age of twenty.
Spielberg learned his craft doing television work, which included an
episode of the Rod Serling series Night Gallery and the classic cult movie Duel.
His first feature, The Sugarland Express, was released in 1974, and he was soon
offered the chance to direct a thriller about a great white shark terrorizing a
small New England beach town. Jaws cost $8.5 million and grossed $260 million.
Spielberg followed it up two years later with Close Encounters of the Third Kind,
earning a Best Director Oscar nomination and proved to the world that he was one
of the best directors of the .....
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Cicero
Words: 3921 - Pages: 15.... doctrines are untrue, just that he is somewhat blinded by his roman beliefs and assumptions.
The assumptions of can be noticed when one inspects his view of the ideal governing body, which he expresses through Scipio (in the commonwealth). Although presents very convincing arguments for a Composite government, clearly his view is possibly only due towards his belief in the roman structure of government.1 was limited to roman borders of experience, and this point was best illustrated by his disagreement with Aristotle's writings on the decay of states. was unable to think on the level of Aristotle's logic. He quite simply used roman hi .....
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Presdent James Abram Garfield
Words: 2032 - Pages: 8.... and died. His widow was left with four children--James, the youngest, not quite two; Thomas, ten years old; Mehitabel (Hitty), seven; and Mary, four. Mrs. Garfield courageously decided to run the farm and keep her family together. Thomas and Uncle Amos helped Mrs. Garfield with the farm work. She herself also sewed for the neighbors, and her girls learned to card wool and weave cloth. James early showed a love for books and his mother determined that he should have an education. When he was four years old, a log schoolhouse was built on the Garfields' lot.
The Boy on the Towpath
When he was 15, James was big enough and strong enough to do .....
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Henry James
Words: 1046 - Pages: 4.... rootless, and by the age of eighteen he had already crossed the Atlantic six times. He avoided participation in the Civil War because of a poor back and began a role which he would maintain throughout his life and writings, one of a detached observer rather than participant in the American social scene. (Matthiessen 14)
The first phase of James' writing begins when he is twenty-one, in 1864 and continues until 1881. He was extremely popular during this time, especially during after publication of a short story Daisy Miller, which is concerned with the destruction of a naive American girl by European mores. James continues the th .....
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Freud And Marx
Words: 1110 - Pages: 5.... as being caused by some aspect of human greed or
other similar instinct. They did however, disagree on what the vehicle for these
instincts' corrupting influences are. Freud claimed that tension caused by the
stuggle to repress anti-social instincts eventually was released and caused the
social evils he observed. Marx also saw instincts at work but not the tensions
and Id that Freud saw, Marx simply credited man's greed and the subsequent
oppression of other men as the root to all that was wrong with civilization. It
is interesting to note that both Freud and Marx saw conflict but each traced it
back to sources each was respectively educat .....
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James Earl Ray
Words: 890 - Pages: 4.... a staple in Black culture. King’s presence has made the United States a different place today. The impact of his life is evident internationally. However, like several great leaders of the century before him, there was a point where he fell.
The date was April 4, 1968. The location: Memphis, Tennessee. King Jr. was visiting Memphis on a conference trip. He had done the same thing before and he had also been televised while doing so. This visitation was different in the fact it would be his last. Martin Luther King Jr. did not retire and he did not give up his cause, he was killed, assassinated by the bullet of the man . It is no .....
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Artist: Turner: Outline
Words: 365 - Pages: 2.... with the advances of other fields.
2. Events that took place throughout Turners life.
a) Turner supported abolition and painted “The Slave Ship” between 1833 and 1840 the emancipation of the slaves in the British colonies began.
b) Turner wanted to have a marriage between art and industry and painted “Rain, Steam and Speed, The Great Western Railway, “yet artists disliked the industrial revolution saying it was repulsive.
3. The changing style of Turner.
a) Turners’ works have changed greatly throughout his career and now his late works have been regarded as highly as his earlier works.
b) Many .....
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The Biography Of Ernest Hemingway
Words: 744 - Pages: 3.... edited the high school newspaper, twice ran away from home, and on graduating from high school, Hemingway headed for Kansas City Star, a national newspaper, where he added a year to his age and was hired as a reporter. (For that reason Hemingway’s birth date is often given as 1898 rather than the correct 1899.)
Hemingway joined a volunteer American Red Cross ambulance unit as a driver. He was so seriously wounded at Fossalta on the Italian Piave on July 8, 1918, that he recalled life slid from him, “like you’d pull a silk handkerchief out of a pocket by a corner,” almost fluttered away, then returned. It is thought by some literary .....
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The Works Of Edgar Allan Poe
Words: 1308 - Pages: 5.... as well as “Song,” “Dreams,” “Visit of the Dead,” “Spirits of the Dead,” “Evening Star,” “Imitation,” “Stanzas,” A Dream,” “The Happiest Day,” and “The Lake”. A while later I was appointed company clerk, but I wanted to leave the army. In order to do this; I had to find a replacement. Finally, I found a man, who wanted to reenlist anyhow, if I paid him seventy-five dollars.
After leaving the army, I drafted a poem dubbed “Al Aaraaf.” Carey, Lea and Carey decided that they would publish it if Allan gave his consent and guaranteed that if it was not a success that he would pay them .....
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Nostradamus
Words: 2050 - Pages: 8.... that he holds in today’s history books, however, art not about his success as a physician.
Apart from his professional works he produced a number of prophetic works. We discern between the Centuries and the Prognostications. The Prognostications are like an Almanac. They contain a series of Predictions about the next year. Because these predictions were fulfilled (or not) more than 440 years ago few are interested in them.
“The really interesting stuff is the Centuries. This name comes from the fact that each Century contains 100 prophetic verses of 4 lines. These verses are called quatrains. wrote 10 Centuries, which are com .....
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