The Life And Death Of 2Pac
.... will likely wind
up as a made-for-television drama. Rather, it is the dramatic finale of
the life of rapper/actor Tupac Amaru Shakur, who was shot four times
during this escapade while traveling from a Mike Tyson fight to a nearby
club on September 7th. He later died of the wounds, after six days of
intensive care and several unsuccessful operations.
Tupac Amaru, or 2Pac, as he spelled it --distinguishing him from
the violent Peruvian terrorist group of the same name-- was one of today's
most popular "gangsta rappers." His lyrics are usually vulgar, offensive,
and explicit, and glorify the type of life that he and many other .....
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Byron's Don Juan
.... of Byron's passions developed early. In 1803 he had his first
serious and abortive romance with Mary Chaworth. At the age of15 he fell
platonically but violently in love with a young distant cousin, Mary Duff
(Parker 10). He soon had another affair with a woman named Mary Gray.
Soon hereafter he was involved with many liaisons with such women as Lady
Caroline Lamb and then Lady Oxford.
Then just as Byron was beginning to live his life the way he had
always wanted to, his mother dies in 1811. The following year he became
immensely fashionable and notorious. By 1813 he had began another affair
with his half-sister Augusta. Co .....
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Albert Einstein
.... and he often marvelled at his
uncle's explanations of algebra. Although young Albert was intrigued by
certain mysteries of science, he was considered a slow learner. His failure
to become fluent in German until the age of nine even led some teachers to
believe he was disabled.
Einstein's post-basic education began at the Luitpold Gymnasium when he
was ten. It was here that he first encountered the German spirit through the
school's strict disciplinary policy. His disapproval of this method of
teaching led to his reputation as a rebel. It was probably these differences
that caused Einstein to search for knowledge at ho .....
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Crazy Horse
.... band. The Hunkpatila was one
band of the Oglala's (Guttmacher 12). One of the greatest war chiefs of all
times came from this band. His name was Crazy Horse.
Crazy Horse was not given this name, on his birth date in the fall of
1841. He was born of his father, Crazy Horse an Oglala holy man, and his
mother a sister of a Brule' warrior, Spotted Tail. As the boy grew older
his hair was wavy so his people gave him the nickname of Curly (Guttmacher
23). He was to go by Curly until the summer of 1858, after a battle with
the Arapaho's. Curly's brave charged against the Arapaho's led his father
to give Curly the name Crazy Hor .....
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Catherine II, Empress Of Russia (Catherine The Great)
.... Imbued with the ideas of the
Enlightenment, Catherine aimed at completing the job started by Peter I--
westernizing Russia--but she had different methods. Unlike Peter, she did
not forcibly conscript society into the service of the state, but rather
encouraged individual initiative in pursuit of self-interest. She succeeded
to a degree with the upper classes, but did nothing for the overwhelming
majority of the population--the enserfed peasantry.
To learn the needs of the country and to gain popularity, Catherine in
1767 convoked an assembly of deputies to draft a new code of laws (for
which she wrote the guideline .....
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Aristotle
.... was the first
person to propose the idea of atoms matter and other grand ideas.
Aristotle made the first major advances in the field of philosophy of
nature. He saw the universe as lying between two scales: form without matter
and is at one end and matter without form is at the other end. One the most
important aspects of Aristotle's philosophy was the development of potentiality
to actuality. That can be explained as something possibility in terms of its
accuracy. The actual state compare to the potential state is demonstrated in
terms of the causes which act on things. The four causes include material cause,
efficient cau .....
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Balzac's Pessimistic View Of Nineteenth Century Society
.... up the stairs to lawyer
Derville's study which contrasts the boisterous energy of the clerks.
Chabert reaches Derville's study and is determined to find the lawyer to
help him find justice for his infortunes, "... me suis-je d‚termin‚ …
venir vous trouver. Je vous parlerai de mes malhers plus tard." Chabert
demonstrates some energy left in him by his will to retrieve everything
that he lost. This energy to gain back his power changes to furious and
revengeful energy upon learning what his wife had done, "Les yeux de
l'homme ‚nergique brillaient rallum‚s aux feux du d‚sir et de la
vengeance." After a period of time, Chabe .....
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A Biography On Carl Sandburg
.... were published in the Chicago newspapers he worked
for.
With his love for poetry grew, the demand for his poetry also grew.
In the year 1916, at the age of thirty eight, he published the book,
Chicago poems. Two years later, at the age of forty, he published
Cornhuskers. The public loved these two marvelous books. Other poets
accepted them as wonderful. In the 1920's he became so popular, that he
quit journalism to write full-time as a career. He also moved away from
the black ink to write songs. Some were accepted into songbooks, such as
The Songbag, and The New American Songbag.
Sandburg was then transformed into an Am .....
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Essay On Christopher Columbus
.... when in fact, some of the Native American customs were far more
superior to what the Europeans had in their own. The obstinate Europeans,
did not want to make concessions because they had an assumed air of
superiority.
Columbus has been the all-time heroic figure portayed by people of
1862, they viewed him as a man of great and inventive genius. Columbus in
today's perception is a grasping fortune hunter, an incompetent governor of
the "New World" colonies, those fame to the Indians he "discovered" was
plunder, servitude, and death. Columbus is like Hitler to a greater extent,
in that he persecuted, and tried to progress h .....
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The Life And Work Of Chaim Potok
.... all of his writings which
are all in some way related to or involve Judaism.
Now, to go in-depth into his writings. First, his novels. The first
novel Potok wrote was The Chosen, which won him the Edward Lewis Wallant
award, in 1969, here is a quotation about that book:
"So why did Potok's book make such a heavy impression on me?... he takes a
meager story, told in plain words, about two Jewish boys who are radically
unlike me and turns it into something so universal I couldn't help getting
pulled in by it. " -Lea Davis
The next novel he wrote was the sequel to The Chosen, The Promise,
in 1969, which also won him an awa .....
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Charles Darwin
.... interest in nature. It was Henslow who was
influential in getting Darwin the position of naturalist on the boat The
Beagle. In April of 1831, he graduated from the University.
In the fall following his graduation, the government decided to
send the H.M.S. Beagle, under the command of Captain Fitzroy, to complete
an unfinished survey of Patagonia and Tierra Del Fuego to help map out the
shores of Chile and Peru. Th e voyage was to last two years. Darwin
volunteered his services without salary and offered to pay his own expenses
on the condition that he was allowed to keep all the plants and animals he
collected. On .....
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Queen Elizabeth I
.... When Henry died in 1547, her brother, Edward, took over the throne at
ten years of age. Edward, with a short reign on the throne, died in 1553,
and Elizabeth's half, older sister, Mary took the throne. Mary, like
Edward, died on November 17, 1558, after a short time on the throne.In
October 1562, Queen Elizabeth almost died of small pox.
In 1584, Europe's other major protestant leader, William of Orange,
was assassinated. For the first time in her life, Elizabeth showed some
concern. She was now, the only major protestant leader in Europe. At this
time, Elizabeth's Privy council drew up a Bond of Associat .....
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