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Papers on People and Biographies
Satyagraha, A Weapon Of Non-vi
Number of words: 3590 | Number of pages: 14.... power of, and commitment to, Satyagraha.
Gandhi's concept of Satyagraha was a way of living during a time of oppression, exploitation, and discrimination. It was a tactic used to appeal to people morally, rather than intimidate them violently. It literally means, "clinging to truth" (Gandhi, 1951) and in this case, "Truth symbolizes God and therefore the true Satyagrahi is, accordingly, a man of God" (Gandhi, 1951). If Truth is God, then to cling to Truth would be to cling to God, or to follow His example, to do as God would do, to act as God would act on. God loves all and does not discriminate according to the color of a .....
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Francesco Petrarch
Number of words: 1940 | Number of pages: 8.... disappointment to Francesco. He describes him as:
\"Intelligent, perhaps even exceptionally intelligent, but he hates books\"
He let Giovanni live with him till he could no longer stand the sight of him and sent him to live in Avignon, at the age of 20. It wasn\'t until just before Giovanni\'s death, of the Black Plague, did they start to write each other. Just before his sons death, Petrarch\'s friends though of Giovanni as a good person and wrote Petrarch about this. He never saw his son before his death but in his mind knew that he had started to get his life back together. He also had a daughter, Francesca, s .....
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Alan Dean Foster
Number of words: 670 | Number of pages: 3.... contemporary horror, detective, and western fiction. He has also written numerous non-fiction articles on film, science, and scuba diving, as well as having produced the novel versions of many films, including such well- known productions as Star Wars, the three Alien films, and Alien Nation. Other works include scripts for talking records, radio, and the treatment for the first Star Trek movie. In addition to publication in English, his work has appeared throughout the world. His novel Cyber Way won the Southwest Book Award for Fiction in 1990, the first work of science fiction ever to do so.
Though restricted (for now) to th .....
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John Locke 3
Number of words: 1640 | Number of pages: 6.... a tough course of
studies under the school's headmaster, Dr. Richmond Busby.
This was Locke's first enrollment at a school away from his
home. This experience would be a major building blocks for his
career. During his schooling he was educated in Doctrines of
Political Liberty. This was one of the topics in the Locke's
home when he wasn't at school. John's father was also a
political philosopher. He loved to go into great detail about
society's state of mind by the way they elect their government
representatives. As you can see the Lockes were every well
educated and could grasp many difficult concepts. But the .....
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Artist: Turner: Outline
Number of words: 365 | Number of pages: 2.... and industry and painted “Rain, Steam and Speed, The Great Western Railway, “yet artists disliked the industrial revolution saying it was repulsive.
3. The changing style of Turner.
a) Turners’ works have changed greatly throughout his career and now his late works have been regarded as highly as his earlier works.
b) Many of his later exhibition canvases eluded interpretation in anything other than abstract visual terms.
4. Understanding Turner.
a) In the painting “The Sun of Venice Going Out to Sea” Venice had come to hold an emotional significance for Turner comparable to that of “C .....
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Stephen Crane
Number of words: 700 | Number of pages: 3.... that God was wrathful (Colvert, 12:101).
began his formal education at a military school where he studied the Civil War and military training ("Stephen" n.p.). After military school he proceeded to attend Lafayette College in the fall of 1890 where he played baseball. Eventually, he was forced to withdraw from Layette because he refused to do any work. After leaving Lafayette, he moved on to attend Syracuse University, where he also played baseball, and wrote for his brother’s news service (Colvert 12:102). It is said that Crane wrote the preliminary sketch of his novella, Maggie, while at Syracuse. He eventua .....
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Archimedes
Number of words: 663 | Number of pages: 3.... move the earth. ^? most famous story is attributed to a Roman architect under Emperor Augustus, named Vitruvius. Vitruvius asked to devise some way to test the weight of a gold wreath. was unsuccessful until one day as he entered a full bath, he noticed that the deeper he submerged into the tub, the more water flowed out of the tub. This made him realize that the amount of water that flowed out of the tub was equal to the volume of the object being submerged. Therefore by putting the wreath into the water, he could tell by the rise in water level the volume of the wreath, despite its irregular shape. This discovery marked the .....
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John Dryden
Number of words: 659 | Number of pages: 3.... comedy, was a success. During the next 20 years he became an important and well-known dramatist in England. Some of his most famous plays included names like Ladies a la Mode, Mock Astrologer, and An Evening’s Love. Another play that was famously known because it was banned as indecent was Mr. Limberham. This was unusual for this time period for a play to be banned because of it’s indecency because the Restoration was a time of change. He was also a master of writing the heroic rhymed couplets. They were extravagant and full of pageantry. One of his later tragedies, the World Well Lost, was written in blank .....
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Hitler
Number of words: 1054 | Number of pages: 4.... Unfortunately the both
parties were wrong, he was voted into power , in March and was elected without a
parliament. Hitler proclaimed a "New Germany." He believed that German culture
was to be kept solid. His way of purifying their race was to burn books
Americans, Jew, and Non-Germans. The philosophy was that if you destroy the
ideas in the books, you destroy the people's ability to hold and be aware of any
other beliefs than what they are told. The people of Germany were not exposed to
any ideas that contradicted the beliefs of Hitler. Hitler believed and was
correct, that if you destroy and reason for someone to disagree with y .....
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Dylan Thomas
Number of words: 1428 | Number of pages: 6.... is the ultimate theme within these chosen poems.
In “The force that through the green fuse drives the flower,” illustrates the connection between the earth, the body, and God. He discusses how both nature and man are propelled by the same holy force and therefore are united. He does not propose the question of how the stem grows to create a flower or how blood circulates within the body, but rather what is the ultimate force behind all motion and life on the earth.
“The force that through the green fuse drives the flower / Drives my green age/…The force that drives the water through the rocks / Drives .....
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