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Term Papers on Biographies
E. E. Cummings
Number of words: 819 - Number of pages: 3.... Latin School, he entered Harvard University in 1911 and remained there until 1916, when he received his Master’s degree” (Ulanov 565). It was during this time that E.E. Cummings was publishing his first poems for the Harvard Monthly Journal (Smelstor 455). After earning his Master’s at Harvard, he then moved on to volunteering as an ambulance driver in France during WWII. “From his experiences in La Ferte’ Mace’ (a detention camp) he accumulated material for his documentary ‘novel,’ The Enormous Room (1922), one .....
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Poul Voulkos Ceramist
Number of words: 1534 - Number of pages: 6.... for the production of contemporary art. But in the 1950s, the scene was slim -- few galleries and fewer museums. Despite the obscurity, a handful of solitary and determined artists broke ground here, stretching the inflexible definitions of what constitutes painting, sculpture and other media. Among these avant-gardists was Peter Voulkos.” In 1954, Voulkos was hired as chairman of the fledgling ceramics department at the L.A. County Art Institute, now Otis College of Art and Design, and during the five years that followed, he led what came to be known as the " .....
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Harry Shippe Truman
Number of words: 1714 - Number of pages: 7.... Harry read most of the three- thousand books that were in a
nearby library. Harry was very good in school because of reading all the
books. His mom wanted Harry, his brother Vivian, and Their little sister
Mary Jane to enrich their lives so she bought them a piano. She gave the
children lessons and noticed that Harry was especially gifted with the
piano. So, she sent him to get professional lessons with a woman named Mrs.
Edwin C. White. Everyone in his family thought that Harry would become a
concert Pianist. Harry thought so too. Harry had exper .....
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Revealing Marx
Number of words: 1839 - Number of pages: 7.... of basis for Marx's
Communist Manifesto.
The purpose of this paper is to view Marx's concept of alienation (estranged
labour) and how it limits freedom. For Marx man's freedom is relinquished or in
fact wrested from his true nature once he becomes a labourer. This process is
thoroughly explained throughout Estranged Labour. This study will reveal this
process and argue it's validity. Appendant to this study on alienation there
will be a micro-study which will attempt to ascertain Marx's view of freedom
(i.e. positive or negative). The study on alienation in .....
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Babe Ruth 2
Number of words: 553 - Number of pages: 3.... also when Babe Ruth was coming home from a football game. That a man burst out of the audience and yelled “ my boy, my boy… he’s dying, just sign this it would mean the world to him” but not only did he sign the ball but he also visited him in the hospital After a eccentric conversation with Johnny Sylvester. Babe promised to hit a home run for the kid but Johnny Sylvester declined he didn’t only want one home run he wanted two. So Babe laughed and promised, in the next game Babe did do that for him. And more, after the much-antici .....
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Essay On The Life Of Frederick Douglass
Number of words: 1671 - Number of pages: 7.... of being a slave early in his life. The very fact that the slaveholders did not give their slaves an actual birth date was one of the first examples not of brainwashing but a form of brain molding that was customary for all slaveholders to take part of. Since the slaves did not know their birthday, they were more easily treated like cattle or other property of the plantation, which was the objective of the slaveholders. The slaveholders felt that the more ignorant and little minded that slaves were, then the more effective they would be in the fields. Thi .....
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Descartes 2
Number of words: 10519 - Number of pages: 39.... science and Christian
theology. Descartes had been taught according to this outlook
during his time at the Jesuit college La Flech_ and it had an
important influence on his work, as we shall see later. The
second was the scepticism that had made a sudden impact on the
intellectual world, mainly as a reaction to the scholastic
outlook. This scepticism was strongly influenced by the work of
the Pyrrhonians as handed down from antiquity by Sextus
Empiricus, which claimed that, as there is never a reason to
believe p that is better than a reason n .....
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Miscegination Is Genetic Suicide:- A Critical Look At Race-m
Number of words: 1665 - Number of pages: 7.... it\'s sub-species and it\'s further strains and breeds under those have evolved for a very specific reason - the preservation of the species, and ultimately, life itself. Each species is like a tree, with hundreds of branches, each leading to thousands of other branches. Each branch of the tree is slightly different from the one beside it, due to living in a different environment it has had to adapt and the resulting differences are due to the combination - the formula - of genes, which has survived the best in whatever environment it has encountere .....
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