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People and Biographies Term Papers and Reports
George Patton
3678 Words - 14 Pages

.... diet of combat regalia, Georgie was convinced that the profession of arms was his calling.       GENERAL PATTON`S PERSONAL SIDE ARMS. THE IVORY HANDLED REVOLVERS BECAME HIS TRADEMARK DURING WW2. TOP SMITH & WESSON .357 MAGNUM. BOTTOM COLT .45 MODEL 1873. Young George didn't want to be just any soldier; he had his sights fixed on becoming a combat general. He had one major obstacle to overcome, however. Though he was obviously intelligent (his knowledge of classical literature was encyclopaedic and he had learned to read military topographic maps by the age of 7), George didn't learn to read until he was 12 years old. It was only at age 12 when Ge ....


Ben Franklin
1118 Words - 5 Pages

.... visited Josiah and told him of a new law which said that children must attend school. Josiah sent Ben to the Boston Latin School because the only expenses were books and fire wood. At the Latin School all the children were expected to learn fables by heart. The fables had lessons which the school master thought was an important part of learning. Ben's best friend's name was Nathan. Ben helped Nathan learn the fable "The Wolf and the Kid", while Ben learned "The Dog and his Shadow". At the time of the recital of the fables the school master said, "and Ben will recite "The Wolf and the Kid", which was Nathan's fable. Ben thought, "If I say that it is Nathan's fab ....


The Harmful Effects Of Discrimination And Segregation
538 Words - 2 Pages

.... may be segregation, but the people must be equal-Separate but Equal”. After this ruling all facilities were separated according to race, but in fact were not even close to being equal to each other. The white mans facilities were almost 100 times better than the blacks. Then in the Brown vs. Board of Education in Topeka case it was brought to attention that segregation and discrimination obviously affect the children’s state of mind. In the experiment to prove this hypothesis many black children were given a variety of white dolls and black dolls. They were then told to describe what they thought of each doll. The results were in fact that majority of the y ....


Law And Politics
885 Words - 4 Pages

.... force – his/her person, liberty, and property. On this basis, an individual can’t lawfully use force to destroy another person. Furthermore, the people of a nation (possibly through elected officials) should have the right to choose which laws are just and which ones are not. If a nation were founded on this basis, it seems that order would prevail among the people. Furthermore, such a nation would have the simplest, easiest to accept, most limited, nonoppressive, just, and enduring, government imaginable – whatever its political form might be. Under such an administration, everyone would understand that they possessed all the privileges as well as all the ....


Ernest Hemingway Vs. F. Scott Fitzgerald
1206 Words - 5 Pages

.... writes gritty, earthy material while on the other hand Fitzgerald's writing is centered around social hierarchy and longing to be with another person. Although the works that these two literary masters are so uniquely different, one thing that they have in common are their melancholy and often tragic conclusions. To explore the two distinct writing styles, one can begin with how the stories do. (That is, how they begin too.) The opening paragraphs of Fitzgerald's "Winter Dreams" and Hemingway's "Indian Camp" epitomize the basic difference between their writing styles. "Winter Dreams" begins, "Some of the caddies were poor as sin and lived in one-room houses with a neur ....


Duke Ellington 2
960 Words - 4 Pages

.... bound together by a subtler but no less incisive pulse” (Holmes). During this period of his career, Duke would have the extreme fortune of working and learning from musicians that would initialize their career by playing in Duke’s orchestra, and eventully gain historic jazz notoriety from their times with Duke (Holmes). Such players as Jimmy Blanton, the “doomed young virtouoso of the stringed bass”, and Ben Webster, adding to the sax section that already housed Jonny Hodges, Harry Carney, and Barney Bigard (Holmes). The trumpet section during this time in Duke’s orchestra comprised such legends as Rex Stewart and Cootie Williams. Joe Nanton ....


Donald Barthelme
1065 Words - 4 Pages

.... (Anderson et al, 919). He is the author of a number of collections of short stories including “Come Back, Dr. Caligari” (1964); “Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts” (1968); “ City Life” (1971); “Sadness” (1972); “Great Days” (1978); “Overnight to Many Distant Cities” (1983); and “Paradise” (1986). He also wrote Snow White, a parody of the popular children’s fairy tale, the novel. He won the National Book Award for Children’s literature for the book titled “The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine: or, the Hithering, Thithering, Djinn” (1971) (Marowski and Matuz, 3?). ....


Igor Stravinsky
1187 Words - 5 Pages

.... not want him to pursue a musical career. His background was musical. His parents viewed his efforts as a musician as childish, but on the other hand indulged him in it with the piano and the operas and the ballets. In 1902 he was sent to St. Petersburg University to study criminal law and legal philosophy to honor his parents’ wishes. While he was there, he still concentrated on his music and especially his composing. In the summer of 1902 he was introduced to the Russian composer, Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov. Rimsky was extremely impressed with Stravinsky’s early compositions that he convinced him not to enter the conservatory for academic training, but to study privately ....



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