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Kurt Cobain
925 Words - 4 Pages.... caught on fast and changed rock and roll music forever. Nirvana, along with a few other Seattle bands, molded the music of the 90's, alternative.
Where did it all start for Kurt? Kurt Donald Cobain was born February 20, 1967. He was a happy child living with his mother and father in Aberdeen, Washington. But the happiness, soon interrupted in 1975 when Kurt's parents got divorced. Kurt was ashamed. He longed for the typical "Brady Bunch" family, but instead he lived in a trailor with his mother. In result of this Cobain became extremely anti-social, he had few friends, and was beat up alot.
On his 14th birthday Kurt recieved his first guitar. He had been writing poetry s ....
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Madame Liang
778 Words - 3 Pages.... to china because they then will be forced to work on farms, and not permitted to express their feelings in art. Hsuan is a well renowned artist and is almost a famous as Pablo Picaso.
" 'You are an artist?' he asked. (He is Hsuan Teng)
'How did you Know?' she replied. (She is Joy)
'Paint under your nails,' he said."
She makes a profession out of painting, and Joy uses many Chinese colors in all of her paintings. perhaps one of the most artistic women in this novel. has art because she has style. has style in many ways. Just to name a two, managing an elaborate restaurant, and she wears only the best. "She turned restlessly in the huge bed. The down quilts were light, ....
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Darwin Vs. Wallace
1099 Words - 4 Pages.... With today's social and political climate, this question is back with greater force than ever. This is why this subject is more important now than ever. In Jay Gould's book
The Panda's Thumb, an overview of and an argument for Charles Darwin's evolutionary thinking is conducted with flowing thoughts and ideas. This essay titled "Natural Selection and the Human Brain: " takes a look directly at two hard fought battles between evolutionists and creationists.
Using sexual selection and the origins of human intellect as his proponents, Gould argues his opinion in the favor of evolutionary thought.
In this essay titled "Natural Selection and The Human Brain: ," Gould tells ....
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The Life Of Mohandas Gandhi
1244 Words - 5 Pages.... a
Barrister-at-Law (Ibid 34). While in England, Gandhi was exposed to the
western material style of life which he chose not to follow. Four years
later Gandhi was sent to work for an Indian firm in Durban South Africa,
which served to be one of the major turning points in his life. (Ramana
607) While in Durban Gandhi found himself being treated as a member of an
inferior race, thus drawing him into the struggle for Indian freedom.
While studying philosophy he came across “Civil Disobedience” by Henry
David Thoreau and John Ruskin's plea to give up capitalism for farm life
and traditional handicrafts (Sharpe 1979 43). These opinions stimulated
Gandhi's ideas for non-vi ....
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Jean Sartre
1214 Words - 5 Pages.... and Paris. He became fond of and later joined the French Resistance. There he developed his major philosophic work " Being and Nothingness (1943)" In 1945 he gave up teaching and founded the political and literary magazine Les Temps Modernes. He was very profound in his struggle against Socialism. Later he supported Soviet positions but criticized their policies. In the 1950’s he wrote many pieces of literature on political problems. In 1964 Sartre won the Nobel Prize in literature, saying that he refuses to compromise his integrity as a writer, he refuses to accept the prize. He then becomes an outcast in society, for having turned on Existentialism and lives ou ....
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Francis Bacon's New Atlantis
1486 Words - 6 Pages.... universe, he pointed the way that
science, as a new civil religion, might take in developing such a theory.
Bacon divided theology into the natural and the revealed. Natural theology is
the knowledge of God which we can get from the study of nature and the
creatures of God. Convincing proof is given of the existence of God but nothing
more. Anything else must come from revealed theology. Science and philosophy
have felt the need to justify themselves to laymen. The belief that nature is
something to be vexed and tortured to the compliance of man will not satisfy
man nor laymen. Natural science finds its proper method when the 'scientist'
puts Nature to the question, torture ....
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Bill Gates: Biography
649 Words - 3 Pages.... programming computers at age
13.
In 1973, Gates entered Harvard University as a freshman, where he lived down the
hall from Steve Ballmer, now Microsoft's executive vice president for sales and
support. While at Harvard, Gates developed the programming language BASIC for
the first microcomputer -- the MITS Altair.
In his junior year, Gates dropped out of Harvard to devote his energies to
Microsoft, a company he had begun in 1975 with Paul Allen. Guided by a
belief that the personal computer would be a valuable tool on every office
desktop and in every home, they began developing software for personal
computers.
Gates' foresight and vision regar ....
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The Life Of Edgar Allen Poe
384 Words - 2 Pages.... a few months later Poe left home.
For the next four years Poe struggled to earn a living as a writer.
He returned to Mrs. Clemm's home and submitted stories to magazines. His
first success came in 1833, when he entered a short-story contest and won a
prize of 50 dollars for the story "MS. Found in a Bottle." By 1835 he was
the editor of the Southern Literary Messenger. He married his cousin
Virginia, who was only 13, and Mrs. Clemm stayed with the couple. The Poes
had no children.
This success would not last. Poe's stories, poems, and criticism in
the magazine, The Southern Literary Messenger soon attracted attention, and
he looked for wider opportunities, not a ....
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