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Mathematician Blaise Pascal

the sum of the angles of a triangle is equal to two right angles" (Ball, 1960, p. PG). ?tienne was captivated by his sons mathema...

Why China Did Not Have a Scientific Revolution and Europe Did

both "accepted and encouraged the natural philosophy that evolved into early modern science" (Bekar and Lipsey, 2001). Study has...

Rural America and English as a Second Language

as an anecdote in this article is one located in a "corner" of Iowa (2001). The author explains that "urban school districts oft...

British Scientist John Frederic Daniell's Life and Work

only due to contacts, but also dui to the reputation he had already been establishing for himself. Daniell had been conduc...

Living on One's Own is Better

virtue of an extensive library and the contributions of fellow students. Not only is the type of school all-important to ones aca...

Annotated Bibliography of U.S. Colonial Military Life from 1700 until 1800

Brinkerhoff, Sidney B. & Chamberlain, Pierce A. Spanish Military Weapons in Colonial America, 1700 - 1821. Harrisburg, Pa.: Stackp...

The Meaning of Life According to Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky

quite a bit about himself, he insists that he is lying. There is no point in this narrative in which the Underground Man becomes ...

Globalization and its Effects

as officially achieving "mature" status. Singapore began its quest for modernization and sustainable development in 1960. ...

Seeing by Annie Dillard

single plant cell under a microscope. Green chloroplasts align themselves along the cell wall, zooming around the perimeter in th...

Success and Influence of Oprah Winfrey

first in Nashville, and later in Chicago. It was through her experiences as a common news reporter that Oprah saw many of the pro...

Life and Music of George Frederic Handel

Giulio Cesare is Handles opera about Julius Caesar and is considered to be one of his finest. The action pivots around Cleopatras...

Maya Angelou's 'And Still I Rise'

in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt...

Greatness and Marie Curie

as a whole, do not necessarily have to like an individual to admit that they were great in one way or another. The point seems to ...

Ethics and Making Decisions

to be stopped by the police following a fight then it is easier to make the decision to report him, rather than if the explanation...

African Americans and the Civil War's Effects

Lincoln, and Northerners in general, are popularly seen as advocates for the black race. However, what is less well-known is that ...

Importance of Psychology Study

the condition these people lived in fear and anxiety and confusion for their entire lives, feeling alone. Today we know a great ...

Analyzing On the Use and Abuse of History for Life by Friedrich Nietzsche

for Life," commenting that ...we must seriously despise instruction without vitality, knowledge which enervates activity, and his...

Victorian England and the Rural Life Philosophy of Richard Jeffries

an almost detached amusement. He describes them rushing about, in a hurry to get to work and to work as hard as they can. However,...

Investment Banker Jay Cooke

In only three years, Cooke was rewarded for his knowledge and ability by being admitted to membership in E.W. Clark & Company, i.e...

Life and Art of Jacob Lawrence

"[A]fter school while his mother worked, Lawrence attended a day- care program at Utopia Childrens House, where he studied arts an...

Relating Antony and Cleopatra to Real Life

were clearly outlined as the primary focus in the introduction above. And, these are issues that are very big in Antony and Cleopa...

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor

talks of having a bobcat and javelinas as pets (Marie, 1985). She rode horseback and even learned to drive a car by the age of se...

The Life and Art of Charles Rennie Mackintosh

schooling. High Ability Studies, 11 (1), 55-68. This study was extremely helpful in comprehending the complexity of this topic....

The Life and Works of Charles Dickens

these experiences. He rarely spoke of this time of his life" (Charles Dickens: His Childhood). In an understatement perhaps, we ca...

Student Worldview Questions Answered in the First Person

hear from him again. If a good friend does not return a call right away, I wonder if she still cares about me. The cliche is that ...

Malcolm X's Life and Philosophy

believed that everything we had heard to the contrary from the Martin Luther Kings and the Roy Wilkinses and the Whiteny Youngs wa...

Films My Darling Clementine, Manhattan, and Identity

character and Brian, however, are that Brian did not go through a stage where he involved himself in an affair to ease the transit...

Overview of Territorial Jurisdiction

the point where each river crossed the Polish frontier" (2003). Some members believe that the limit was something that should not...

Biography of William Faulkner

This was only the first of many contradictions that would emerge in William Faulkner that would make his life more difficult than ...

Martel's The Life of Pi

his epistle that "he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind ... he is a double-minded man, unstable in...