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Ezra Pound, "A Virginal"

levels. First of all, a virginal is an early form of the harpsichord that was a preferred instrument among young ladies during the...

A Thoughtful Biography of Tyra Banks

there are a number of stars who are rail thin and actually promote a negative image of the female ideal. She was born Tyra Lynne ...

Philip Guston

Guston, painting, by its very nature is "impure...We are image-makers and image-ridden" ("Books and Arts" 109). Analyses of 5 wor...

Journal Entry: Martin Luther/Martin Luther King

a Baptist minister and he became a minister himself in 1947 ("King, Martin Luther Jr."). He was educated Morehouse College; recei...

Smither/Augustine As Mentor

the bulk of his presentation. However, he devotes the second chapter to setting the "stage of Augustines mentoring of spiritual le...

William Blake And Christianity

in prints depicting architecture" (Bentley, 2009). Blake spent seven years with the Basire family and achieved a degree of success...

Book Review of Joseph J. Ellis’ His Excellency: George Washington

that George Washington was fueled foremost by ambition. He wrote, "Ambitions this gargantuan were only glorious if harnessed to a...

Autobiography and Analysis

not uncommon for my friends to be beat. During the period, we lived in North Carolina, and it was not uncommon for the children to...

A Biography of Tom Cruise

would marry in 1990 ("Tom Cruise"). They were together for close to ten years and produced two children. His introduction to Ni...

Gregory Bateson: Steps to an Ecology of Mind

them in Steps to an Ecology of Mind ("Bateson, Gregory 1904-1980"). At this time too his influence on mainstream anthropology beca...

Eleanor Roosevelt: A Feminist Biography

("Eleanor Roosevelt Biography," 2007). Orphaned at a young age, Eleanor lived with a grandmother in New York and was educated by p...

Borderline Personality Disorder

reckless driving, overspending, stealing). [Again, not including suicidal or self-mutilating behavior covered in Criterion 5] (Ame...

Biography Of Ida B. Wells

in fact, she had more gumption than most adults, refusing to allow adversity stand in the way of what she knew had to be done. He...

Music of Guide D’Arezzo

1036 (Otten). It was after Guido arrived at Arrezo that he invented his new system of notation, which "brought such order and cl...

Critical Response to Brave New World

Aldous Huxley has no right to betray the future as he did in that book" (Watt 16). Critic Wyndman Lewis agreed with Wells, and ref...

The Nerd Who Made Good

a way to generate good will and avoid legal sanctions. Well see what others have to say about this, Gates full name is William He...

Sir Richard Branson Leadership Approaches And Practices

Virgin Atlantic Airways (Woopidoo, 2005). In 1999, he founded Virgin Mobile and in that same year, published his book entitled, "L...

Stan Berenstain and the Bears

for Good Housekeeping (Martin, 2005). The inspiration for their childrens books appears to have been the birth of their son Leo; w...

The Usability of Web Sites

is able to access desired information almost instantly. One can say that this site has a high usability factor. III. Transparenc...

The Physician’s Touch: the Poetry of Peter Pereira

located in West Seattle; his patients are mostly urban and poor ("Peter Pereira"). On the literary front, he has been published...

Biography of First U.S. President George Washington

are always too many grasping for it here, who have interest and he has none" (Johnson, 2005; 15). Thus his mother decided he would...

U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Stevens' Philosophy

in a firm that specialized in antitrust lawsuits ("John Paul Stevens," 2006). In 1970, Stevens was appointed by President Nixon to...

Karen Armstrong's Muhammad A Biography of the Prophet

a cave and therein, "he had been visited by an angel, who had appeared beside him in the cave and given him orders to Recite! Like...

A Biography of Carlota Lucia de Brito

of Joaquim Jose dos Santos Leal (Meznar). This comfortable position could well be seen as a position that involved some level of ...

Cod, A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky

view at that time which saw nature as indestructible. However, as Kurlansky also shows, no species or aspect of nature has this qu...

Yoko Ono, Artist

the likes of John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg, and Jasper Johns (Wiener, 1998). In 1961, Yoko returned to Japan with Cage in order ...

Biography of St. Augustine

but Augustine lacked "the sincere desire of being heard," so that when he got to Carthage the city seduced him (Portalie, 2004). ...

Industrialist and Movie Tycoon Howard Hughes

Jean Harlow and Katherine Hepburn), his OCD would dominate his life. Hughes lived his final decade of life as a social recluse, a...

Thinking Big with Dr. Ben Carson

with her poor education, she could barely read what they had written (B.S. Carson, MD, 2005). Thanks to all the outside reading h...

George Washington Biography

was unsure of this decision and wrote to her half-brother in England, asking his advice. He told her, "The navy would cut him and ...