Lazzaro Spallanzani
.... that they
remained free of microorganisms when put into flasks that were sealed and
the contents boiled for one hour (Lazzaro...1).The entrance of air into
the flask through a slight crack in its neck was followed infusoria. He
reported no spontaneous generation in strongly heated infusions protected
from aerial contamination. In 1765, after cutting up thousands of
earthworms and exploiting the ability of the aquatic salamander to regrow
its tail, he resolved to investigate reproductive phenomena in animals ans
plants(Gillispie,3). He proved this by cuting theworms the area that
affected the segmental regenerative response. Am .....
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Salvatore “The Bull” Gravano
.... 36 men one really stuck out. That man was Gambino
crime boss John "The Teflon Don" Gotti. The feds have been after Gotti
since he orchestrated the hit on former boss Paul Castellano also known as
"Big Pauly". That’s when John Gotti came into power. Gotti and the Bull
were responsible for over twenty-six murders . Gravano confessed to as
many as nineteen of those twenty-six murders including the one of his
brother-in-law. In return for turning his back on the oath he once believed
in , he had his sentenced reduced to five years in a federal penitentiary.
Gotti was found guilty not of the actual murders but of ordering the
murders .....
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Comparison Of John F Kennedy And Abraham Lincoln's Lives
.... established the Peace Corps Of
America which was an agency that promoted world peace and friendship by
training American volunteers to perform social and humanitarian service
overseas (“John” 1). Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in 1963
and was succeeded by Lyndon Johnson. Many historians have found several
interesting similarities through research about two of America’s greatest
presidents.
Researchers and historians have compiled many interesting
similarities on Kennedy and Lincoln. There are many numerical coincidences
between both of the presidents and others affiliated with them. The names,
Lincoln and Kenned .....
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Richard Linklater: Man Of Youth
.... written for this film
set during Prohibition. With the music in Dazed and Confused it is able to
make me excited about them going to the party in the woods. The music is
able to complete the cruise scenes. Suburbia had a music star come back to
the town to change the lives of everyone. His musical influence was
important to keep the film together.
Richard Linklater's beliefs are that even though the main
characters are good guys, they are the worst off. Richard Linklater may
be trying to punish the guys that where always cooler that him when he was
younger, by not letting them get what they want. In The Newton Boys the
guy c .....
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Thomas Jefferson And Alexander Hamilton
.... the Articles of
Confederation with a strong centralized government. The states were to have
virtually no power. Hamilton thought that under this essentially
monarchical plan, the national government would have unlimited sovereignty.
Hamilton worked to promote commerce, industry, and a strong central
government, under which, he believed, the economy would flourish.
The debts incurred during the revolution were massive. The end result
left the nation's finances in disorder. Public credit was at a low reflux,
and the economies of the states were still adjusting to the changes from
independence. Hamilton wanted the federal governm .....
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Caravaggio
.... live in Rome
for the first five years. According to biographers he was needy and
stripped of every thing. Caravaggio never held a job for more than a
couple of weeks during this time, but when he did, he usually was an
assistant to painter of much less skill. Despite the poverty he worked
under, during this time he created over forty works. These early pictures
"reveal a fresh, direct, and empirical approach; they were apparently
painted directly from life and show almost no trace of the academic
Mannerism then prevailing in Rome. The felicitous tone and confident
craftsmanship of these early works stands in sharp contrast to .....
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
.... people and
ways of life throughout his career including Neoplatonism, the Hindu
religion, Plato and even his wife influenced Emerson. He also inspired many
Transcendentalists like Thoreau. Emerson didn’t win any major awards, but
he did win the love and appreciation of his readers.
Literary Information
Emerson wrote many genres of writing including poetry and sermons, but his
best writing is found in his essays. Even though he is noted for his essays,
he was also a strong force in poetry. Emerson was known for presenting
ideas in an expressive style. He wrote about numerous issues including
nature, society, conspiracy and freed .....
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Karen Louise Erdrich
.... community life and took on
a new reference point, different from reservation life. She realized that
the different people she met had their own problems and confusions and that
she wanted to write about them.
Louise enrolled in an MA program at John Hopkins University. She
wrote poems and stories while she was there that incorporated her Indian
heritage which later became part of her books. She started sending her
work to publishers and most of them rejected her work.
She returned to Dartmouth as a writer in residence after she
received her masters degree. Michael Dorris was impressed with her work
when he attended one of h .....
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Rachel Carson
.... I can believe I have at least helped a little.”1
Rachel Louis Carson was born on May 27, 1907 in Springdale, PA.
Her childhood was characterized by a love of nature and literature. Her
family said she was born with a “seashell in her ear”. She graduated from
the Pennsylvania College for Women in 1929 with a degree in Marine Biology
and from John Hopkins University in 1932 with a masters degree. The death
of her father and family was responsible for preventing her from pursuing
any further higher education. She took a job from the Fish and Wildlife
Service. She worked there from 1935 to 1952.
"The next period of Carson .....
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Approach To Edgar Allen Poe’s Writings
.... maelstrom and are coming
closer to the center(Schopper). In the “Black Cat”, the husband in the
story was cruel and unjust to the cats. The cats were probably
representing Poe when he was defenseless and young. Poe’s child hood
played a key factor exposing the “evil old man” figure(Schopper).
Most of Poe’s stories have a motif of obsessive-compulsive
behavior(Edgar Allen Poe web page). this would be expected of Poe when
taking a look at his life. He was kicked out of West Point for gambling.
This was a very addictive form of recreation. He would have this
personality trait from a certain element in his childhood. This
char .....
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The Autobiography Of Malcom X
.... Negroes became increasingly active
in the struggle for civil rights. The liberal, intellectual Afro-American
leaders such as Martin Luther King and their supporters, who fought for
equality of and integration among black and white, had participated in
freedom rides and protest marches to finally abolish segregation. But
suddenly, they faced opposition from not one, but two parties advocating
racism and segregation: The white racists and the so-called Black Muslims.
This radical Negro cult called "Nation of Islam" became in an astonishing
short time a nation-wide movement and a threat to the White society,
because of its radical pr .....
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
.... independent private schools and college prepatory schools,
Emerson entered Harvard. Emerson later says of Harvard, “ It has done
little for me on the whole.” If this is true at least Harvard is where he
says his, “...mind commenced its characteristic and beautiful activity.”
Over the years Emerson became interested in the church and eventually
enrolled in divinity school. In 1829 Emerson married seventeen year old
Ellen Tucker, however seven months later, she died of “consumption.” With
Ellen’s death, Emerson’s and most tender and loving relationship was lost.
It is possible that this tragedy was a mitigating factor in Emerson’s .....
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