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Martin Luther King Jr. 5
649 Words - 3 Pages.... Gandhi, from whom he derived his own philosophy of nonviolent protest. He moved to Alabama to become pastor for a Baptist church. Just after he received his Ph.D. in 1955, King was asked to lead a bus boycott in Montgomery. It had been formed after Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give her seat to a white passenger. Throughout the 381 days which the boycott lasted, he was arrested and jailed, repeatedly threatened, and his home was bombed. The boycott ended later that year when the Supreme Court outlawed segregation in public transportation. This was his first victory and alone made Dr. King a highly respected leader. When he went to India in 1959, he studied Gandhi's ....
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The Biography Of John Marshall Harlan II
851 Words - 4 Pages.... onto Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar to do his graduate work, and returned to the United States upon completion in 1923.
After returning from England, Harlan began working for a law office in New York. At the same time, he was studying law at the New York Law School. In 1925 Harlan received his law degree and was admitted to the New York bar. In 1931 John Marshall Harlan II became a partner in the firm he'd begun working in while attending law school, and spent much of his early career working for the firm.
Harlan was appointed an Assistant U.S. Attorney for New York in 1925. He also served as a Special Assistant Attorney General from 1928 to 1930. Prior to working as Special ....
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Wang Lung
492 Words - 2 Pages.... and thatched with straw from their own wheat." Then O-lan arrived from the great house. She took much of the responsibility that Wang had once had, which gave him more time to work his land and eventually buy more land. When difficult times fell upon the family and their land, they traveled south to the city. Although the "great fat fellow", out of fear, gave the gold, which he used to return to his land, it was O-lan's ingenuity in searching out the jewels that made a wealthy man. With these jewels, bought much
land from the Great House and he also hired numerous men to work this new land.
In his later years, Wang Lung became conceited and egotistical. ....
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Sigmund Freud: 1856 - 1939
820 Words - 3 Pages.... He hoped to go into
neurophysiological research, but pure research was hard to manage in those
days unless you were independently wealthy. Freud was engaged and needed to
be able to support a family before he could marry, and so he determined to
go into private practice with a specialty in neurology.
During his training he befriended Josef Breuer, another physician and
physiologist. They often discussed medical cases together and one of
Breuer's would have a lasting effect on Freud. Known as Anna O., this
patient was a young woman suffering from what was then called hysteria. She
had temporary paralysis, could not speak her native German but could speak
French and English, c ....
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Anne Bradstreet: The Heretical Poet
2104 Words - 8 Pages.... Puritan writers were instructed to, but to express herself. It
is this personal expression that forms the basis of the heretical elements
in her poetry.
To understand why personal expression may be considered heretical,
the society in which Bradstreet lived and wrote must be examined in order
to comprehend what kinds of human activities and behaviors were acceptable
and how Bradstreet deviated from these behaviors.
Bradstreet was not truly unorthodox in that she did not dissent
from accepted beliefs and doctrine. She was a woman of the 17th Century
and lived in a male dominated, intensely religious society. She lived
within the limitations not only of the beliefs and s ....
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Orson Welles
1179 Words - 5 Pages.... Y! The truthful answer is that I don't. Everything about me is a contradiction and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There is a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them." [To Kennety Tynan, 1967]
is often referred to as a "Renaissance man", an individual who’s ambitious and concerned with revolutionizing multiple aspects of life. He was a prolific writer and talented actor who often appeared in his own productions. A gifted artist, Welles, coupled his abundant energy w ....
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H G Wells
349 Words - 2 Pages.... the Worlds, and The Shape of Things to Come; each of these fantasies was made into a motion picture. Wells also wrote novels devoted to character delineation. Among these are Kipps and The History of Mr. Polly, which depict members of the lower middle class and their aspirations. Both recall the world of Wells's youth; the first tells the story of a struggling teacher, the second portrays a draper's assistant. Many of Wells's other books can be categorized as thesis novels. Among these are Ann Veronica, promoting women's rights; Tono-Bungay, attacking irresponsible capitalists; and Mr. Britling Sees It Through, depicting the average Englishman's reaction to war. After World ....
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Biography Of Karl Marx
940 Words - 4 Pages.... line of rabbis, but, a year or so before Karl was born, his father--probably because his professional career required it--was baptized in the Evangelical Established Church. Karl was baptized when he was six years old. Even though Karl was baptized as a youth he still faced discrimination because of his Jewish background. (Marx may have seen from this discrimination that religion wasn’t necessary and was “ the opium of the masses)
In October 1835 Marx matriculated at the University of Bonn. The courses he attended were exclusively in the humanities, in subjects such as Greek and Roman mythology and the history of art. He participated in the usual student activi ....
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