Muammar Al Qaddafi
.... was surprising they even let him in the
army; he had a long police record. He eventually joined the King's police.
This was when the idea of a coup attempt came. He did succeed.
Qaddafi was born in a tent in the desert 20 miles south of the sea.
This is a desolate place- burning hot in the summer, and freezing cold in
the winter. Most people would consider this place to be uninhabitable. His
father was at the bottom of social level in this very poor country. The
name of tribe Qaddadfa means in Arabic, " Spitter or vomiter of blood." In
Qaddafi's early years, in the 1940's there were tank battles in the desert
and thousands of .....
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Emily Dickinson: Life And Her Works
.... She
developed a reputation as a myth, because she was almost never seen and
when people did catch a glimpse of her she was always wearing white. Emily
Dickinson never got married but is thought to have had a relationship with
Reverend Charles Wadsworth who she met in the spring of 1854 in
Philadelphia. He was a famous preacher and was married. Many scholars
believe that he was the subject of her love poems. Emily probably only saw
Wadsworth an additional three times after their first encounter which was
only done by him going to Amherst, where she lived. In 1861 Wadsworth
moved to San Francisco. It is after this time that Emi .....
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Emily Dickinson: Her View Of God
.... and God answers all of her questions, Dickinson then says:
" I shall forget the drop of anguish
That scalds me now-that scalds me now!"
This shows Dickinson's anger toward God. She does not want to have to die
to have her questions answered. She wants to be able to live without these
questions of what God wants, because they are deeply affecting her.
As time goes by, one could say that Dickinson is learning to live
with the questions she has for God. She does not look at death as a bad
thing, she starts to look at it in a positive way. She slowly starts to
seclude herself from others, which is apparent in her p .....
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The Life Of Emily Dickinson
.... death (Whicher 26).
Dressing in white every day Dickinson was know in Amherst as, “the
New England mystic,” by some. Her only contact to her few friends and
correspondents was through a series of letters, seen as some critics to be
equal not only in number to her poetic works, but in literary genius as
well (Sewall 98).
Explored thoroughly in her works, death seems to be a dominating
theme through out Dickinson's life. Dickinson, although secluded and
isolated had a few encounters with love, two perhaps serious affairs were
documented in her letters and poems. But, since Emily's life was so self
kept and private the exact iden .....
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Albert Einstein
.... this time he never taught a
university courses. Einstein remained on the staff at Berlin until 1933, from
which time until his death he held a research position at the Institute for
Advanced Study in Princeton.
In the first of three papers (1905) Einstein examined the phenomenon
discovered by Max Planck, according to which electromagnetic energy seemed to be
emitted from radiating objects in discrete quantities. The energy of these
quanta was directly proportional to the frequency of the radiation. This seemed
at odds with the classical electromagnetic theory, based on Maxwell's equations
and the laws of thermodynamics which .....
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Fiction Authors
.... compare and contrast today's culture with
his proposed futuristic culture.
But one theme that both Brave New World and Fahrenheit 451 use in common is
the theme of individual discovery by refusing to accept a passive approach
to life, and refusing to conform. In addition, the refusal of various
methods of escape from reality is shown to be a path to discovery. In Brave
New World, the main characters of Bernard Marx and the "Savage" boy John
both come to realize the faults with their own cultures. In Fahrenheit 451
Guy Montag begins to discover that things could be better in his society
but, sue to some uncontrollable events, his .....
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Salvador Dali
.... a dreamlike, or
hallucinatory, imagery that was all the more startling for its highly
realistic rendering. Some of Dali's better known paintings are:
"Persistence Of Memory" also know popularly as "Soft Watches" (1931), and
"The Sacrament Of The Last Supper" (1955). These Paintings have become part
of the definitive record of 20th Century art. Dali used many mediums to
illustrate his inspirations. His most popular of course are his paintings,
but he also used such media as jewelry, advertisements, beer-bottle designs,
ballet sets, and costumes. Dali also experimented his talents in film as
well. In 1928 he and childhood mentor .....
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Review Of Ernest Hemingway And Writings
.... while
serving along the Piave River, he was severely wounded by shrapnel and
forced to return home after recuperation in January 1919. The war had left
him emotionally and physically shaken, and according to some critics he
began as a result "a quest for psychological and artistic freedom that was
to lead him first to the secluded woods of Northern Michigan, where he had
spent his most pleasant childhood moments, and then to Europe, where his
literary talents began to take shape." (CLC, 177) First he took a part-time
job as a feature writer for the Toronto Star, eager to further pursue his
journalistic ambitions. In the fall of .....
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Sir Sandford Fleming
.... the Kicking Horse Pass t hrough which the
Canadian Pacific main line was built , greatly facilita ted Canadian
railway construction. In the early years of the 20th ce ntury the Canadian
Northern railway work. He was a strong advocate of a telecommunication
cable from Canada to Australia, which he believ e would become a vital
communications link of the British Empire. The Pa cific Cable was
successfully laid in 1902. He was also interested in th e development of a
satisfactory world system of keeping time. The railway had made obsolete
the old system where every major centre set it s clocks according to local
astronomical con .....
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Eudora Welty: Her Life And Her Works
.... a few solitary people in fixed attitudes, and around it all a
border of dark rounded oak trees, like that engraved thunderclouds
surrounding illustrations in the bible"(Welty,75). Welty's long sentence
structure and word usage allows the reader to feel as though he or she were
the one sitting on the beach. This description helps the reader to be
involved in the story. He or she could feel as though he or she were a
part of the story instead of someone only looking in.
As the story progresses, the main character, a young girl
incorporates her crush on a young boy with the sights at the beach. The
young boy who barely kn .....
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The Dialectical Cut In Socrates' Soul
.... character,
and for that matter, may not be a character at all. It is crucial then to
take up the characteristics of both Theaetetus and Young Socrates in
relation to what the beautiful is. In so doing, it will provide the basis
for political knowledge. To begin, Theaetetus is a youth just returned from
battle. War, being the harshest of all teachers places one under the duress
of necessity. This is a foreshadowing of the struggle, both internal and
external that are about to occur. The exteral battle is the undermining of
the beliefs and opinions of the many. This undermining is very dangerous
for it leads to one of three opti .....
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Biographies: Jackson, Van Buren, And Harrison
.... Van Buren
Van Buren was the next president who had to face the horrible economic
conditions began during Jackson's presidency. In 1836 Van Buren was
elected president, this time I think voters used their heads and knew Van
Buren was the only candidate really ready to face the economic conditions.
Soon after Van Buren took over there a depression began, This was a
time when virtually everyone was poorer. Many people blamed Van Buren for
the Depression because he was president at the time, but it wasn't really
his fault. Van Buren made a long term solution by creating "The
independent Treasury Bill", which in es .....
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