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A Biography of Alice Munro

bootleggers and prostitutes and hangers-on lived" (Fraser, 2001; wls-fraser.shtml). She claims that these were the people she knew...

U.S. Civil War Gen. Joseph Hooker

chose to split the Confederate army into two groups, nonetheless. "Lee left 10,000 men under Jubal Early, while he and Thomas Ston...

Biography of Caligula

that "The soldiers used to dress him in a miniature army uniform and little army boots (or Caliga) and paraded him around the camp...

Sylvia Plath's Literary Contributions

bees), and her mother, a former student of Otto Plaths, a high school teacher (Bloom 1). Although Dr. Otto Plath suffered from ca...

Dickens and His Life

would never come true" for his father was arrested and then sent off to prison for failing to pay a debt (Anonymous Charles Dicken...

Lives and Learning by Plato and Augustine

text in which he is painstakingly honest, demonstrates that his spiritual path was not easy. It is clear from the beginning that t...

Significant Contributions of Immanuel Kant

divided into public and private rights. Then the work goes on to Part II and is headed Metaphysical first principles of the doctri...

Woman First Eleanor Roosevelt

about sex" (Young, 1999; 183). She was, however, incredibly devoted to her husband, even despite the fact that he had strayed and ...

Biography of Harriet Tubman

her sister (Lowershore.net). It was at this time, when she escaped, that she took on the name Harriet (Tubman was her married name...

They Did Not Expect Him by Russian Artist Repin

religious themes or other such esoteric spiritual works. Repin sought to bring real life into his artwork. One way that he...

Biography of John Brown by Stephen B. Oates

himself was raised by a strict, fundamentalist father who beat him often for the slightest infraction of rules or signs of religio...

David McCullough's John Adams

but rather simple happiness. But, he was a man of vision and determination as well. He was an excellent lawyer and began to make a...

Biography of Joseph Goebbels

compensated, perhaps over compensated, with his dogmatic embrace of the philosophy of the Third Reich. However, these early expe...

Biography of Benjamin Franklin

at night so no one knew who was writing the pieces. They were a smash hit, and everyone wanted to know who was the real Silence Do...

Milton Lomask's Aaron Burr

traitor to his country. In this work we see a young man, Burr, who is a diligent student from a good family. He is a man with a se...

William Butler Yeats' 'The Wilde Swans of Coole'

between what is real and what is a mere reflection is indicated in the line that says, "Under the October twilight the water/Mirro...

NBC's Jeff Zucker

At NBC, Zucker and traveled the world to track down the information the NBC Sports commentators used on air as background to...

A Look at Great Expectations in the Context of the Author's Life

1824-1827 he was a "day pupil at a school in London" (Cody). But the year in the blacking factory "haunted him all of his life" t...

Report to Greco by Niklos Kazantzakis

that gives life meaning. He pictures humanity not as part from God and creation, but as an integral part of the process, as life e...

Confessions by Augustine of Hippo

back by the love of temporal pleasure" (Augustine 167). In accepting Christianity, Augustine records that he "no longer desired a ...

Faith and Reason in the Thinking of Thomas Aquinas and Dante Alighieri

be an object of science. To this question, Aquinas answers "no." First of all, following the medieval style of reasoning, he posit...

'I Shot the Sheriff' by Bob Marley

is a wanted man being tracked down by the police, but that his guilt has already been decided. "They say that they want to bring m...

Florida Marsh Scene by Herman Herzog

chosen to create this marsh scene very differently. Hence, it pays to note the attributes of the composition. The composition is...

Alice Walker/Everyday Use

Johnson muses about the past and, in so doing, tells the reader a great deal about both herself and her daughters. Mrs. Johnson ...

A Sociological Analysis of the Role of Malcolm X

at a speaking engagement ("Biography of Malcolm X," 2007). Of course, the 1960s were tumultuous times. Yet, prior to his demise, h...

A Comparative History of F.D. Roosevelt and Mackenzie King

an attorney ("William Lyon Mackenzie King," 2002). Roosevelt was also born to privilege. His family had been members of the aristo...

The Life and Contributions of Walter Payton

devastating effects of cancer and the lack of available organs for the purposes of transplant. Indeed, the 1980s is often dubbed t...

Glen Huser

winning competitions and his short stories were being published in Canadian literary magazines. Husers first novel, Grace Lake, ...

Glen Huser

A 3 page research paper that reports on the life and career of Canadian children's literature author Glen Huser. The writer offers...

The Life and Ideas of Economist Adam Smith

reflected that the fruits of capitalism were well worth the journey. Interestingly, there would be a significant ideological confl...