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Papers on People and Biographies
The Writings Of Cicero
Number of words: 3723 | Number of pages: 14.... Cicero presents very convincing arguments for a
Composite government, clearly his view is possibly only due towards his
belief in the roman structure of government.1 Cicero was limited to roman
borders of experience, and this point was best illustrated by his
disagreement with Aristotle's writings on the decay of states. Cicero was
unable to think on the level of Aristotle's logic. He quite simply used
roman history as a mapping of the paths of the decay of states.
In contrast, Aristotle understood the underlying forces and influences that
transpired when a state degraded. Cicero quite frankly could not understand
the forces .....
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Criticism Of Alexander Pope
Number of words: 1173 | Number of pages: 5.... at a height of only four and a half feet. In his early twenties he frequently visited London and became acquainted with the literary publishers there, including Wychereley and Walsh (Collier's Encyclopedia, 397) In 1709 the "Pastorals," Popes first published work, appeared in Tonsong's Poetical Miscellanies. (Collier's Encyclopedia, 397)
After his first published work "Pastorals," Pope's confidence in his writings grew. As his poems grew in numbers his topics became more abstract. In Pope's composition of "An Essay of Man," pope thought of the happiness, worship and glory in his description of man. As he composed his poem .....
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Adam Smith
Number of words: 814 | Number of pages: 3.... would automatically produce what the people demand. He knew this would work be more effective and efficient than any governing body or groups of planners to decide the Three Economic Problems: What to produce? How to produce it? For whom to produce? He knew because the people, the consumers would be making those decisions for themselves. Smith also noticed that self-interest lead to increased trade and bargaining. “It is in this manner that we obtain from one another the far greater part of those good offices which we stand in need of” (Classic Readings in Economics, pg 7). “It is this same trucking dispo .....
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Anne Boleyn
Number of words: 375 | Number of pages: 2.... love was the love of being
queen. Being queen seems to be one of her childhood dreams, which is
understandable, because many girls dream of being a princess or a queen when
they get older. Anne's final and strongest love was the love for her daughter.
Elizabeth was the most important thing in Anne's life, and she would have done
anything that she could for her daughter. For instance, she fought with Henry
many times for the sake of Elizabeth, and the most important is that she chose
death so that her daughter would have a better life.
Anne was a very respectable character for the most part. She was
unselfish in the end by ch .....
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James Joyce
Number of words: 1326 | Number of pages: 5.... “In 1941, suffering from a perforated ulcer, Joyce dies in Zurich on January thirteenth” (Encarta, 1).
“Joyce’s story, “Clay”, starts off on Halloween, which is the Celtic New Year’s Eve and Feast of the Dead. In Irish customs, it is a night of remembrance of the dead ancestors and anticipation of the various fortune telling games” (Masterplots, 1). The story is about Maria, a middle age spinster who works in the kitchen of a laundry established for the reform of prostitutes. She makes her way across the city of Dublin to the seasonal festivities at the home of her former fa .....
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Michael Smith Biography
Number of words: 437 | Number of pages: 2.... behavior of the entire organism. Prior to Smith's innovation, mutation was achieved by exposing random cells to mutagens (radiation or chemicals). This approach was unreliable because both radiation and chemicals mutated proteins randomly, making it impossible to determine how specific proteins had been affected. Scientists needed a way to deliberately alter a protein molecule's DNA structure (its sequence of amino acids).
In the early 1980s Smith decided to try altering a viral DNA molecule because viruses transmit their genetic code into bacterial cells when they are inserted into a bacterium. The bacteria then multiply, dupli .....
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Aldous Huxley
Number of words: 962 | Number of pages: 4.... 1913, Huxley studied at Eton College (Aldous (Leonard) Huxley). While at Eton, Huxley developed a condition of near blindness that plagued him until his death (Philosopher’s Corner Presents: ). After receiving his Bachelor of Arts in English at Balliol College, Oxford, Huxley worked in the War Office in London and taught at Eton and Repton (Aldous (Leonard) Huxley). While at Oxford, Huxley was introduced to the literary world and became good friends with D.H. Lawrence (-Biography). In 1916, Huxley published his first book of poems, The Burning Wheel (Philosopher’s Corner Presents: ). From 1920-1921, he was a part of the edit .....
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Stephen Crane Biography
Number of words: 296 | Number of pages: 2.... Crane attended Claverack College also the Hudson River Institute, and the University of Syracuse for one semester where he was most known for playing baseball.
Crane was obsessed with war and any form of violence. In 1891 he started writing for newspapers in the New York area. Stephen Cranes first work was a novel called Maggie: A Girl of The Streets. Then Crane wrote the Red Badge Of Courage, a novel about a civil war soldier, which earned Crane international acclaim at age 24 this was Cranes most famous work. Crane was then hired as a reporter in the American West, and Mexico. At age 27 Crane moved to Jacksonville, Florida where .....
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Thomas Jefferson: The Man, The
Number of words: 751 | Number of pages: 3.... a slave holding society, whose family and admired friends owned slaves, who inherited a fortune that was dependent on slaves and slave labor, decide at an early age that slavery was morally wrong and forcefully declare that it ought to be abolished?" (Wilson 66).
Wilson also argues that Jefferson knew that his slaves would be better off working for him than freed in a world where they would be treated with contempt and not given any real freedoms.
Another way that Thomas Jefferson shows his moral character is in his most famous achievement, the drafting of the Declaration of Independence. This document is probably the most importan .....
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Nicholas Ferrar
Number of words: 1266 | Number of pages: 5.... of Parliament, where he
tried to promote the cause for the Virginia Company. His efforts were in vain
for the company lost their charter anyway. Nicholas is given credit for founding
a Christian community called the English Protestant Nunnery at Little Gidding in
Huntingdonshire, England. After Ferrar was ordained as a deacon, he retired and
started his little community. Ferrar was given help and support with his semi-
religious community by John Collet, as well as Colletÿs wife and fourteen
children. They devoted themselves to a life of prayer, fasting and almsgiving
(Matthew 6:2,5,16).
The community was founded in 1626, w .....
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