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The Minute Waltz by Frederic Chopin

grief for his homeland in the Revolutionary Etude (Machlis 82). Chopin arrived in Paris in 1831 and the majority of his musical c...

Lewis Mumford, A Life by Donald Miller

gave the commencement speech at his daughters graduation from Radcliffe, he concisely summed up the essence of what he found to be...

Stalinist Russia and Jewish Life

with jaw-breaking rolls? These were the difficulties growth. Someday soon, a new, modern just society would arise from the backwar...

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 ...

The First American by H.W. Brands Reviewed

all fire breathing radicals like Samuel Adams (Review of Brands, "The First American, 2004). And...

The Mission of Martin Luther King Jr.'s Life

This is a two part biography of the famed civil rights activist consisting of three pages with the theme of the first part applied...

Edward the Confessor's Life and Rule

days were spent enjoying hunting and pursuing other recreational activities (Edward the Confessor). He would feel more comfortabl...

A Sinbad's Guide to Life Review

turned off or the car repossessed, they might feel at least they are better off than this semi-famous actor/comedian. Sinbad is ...

Thomas Leonard's Interpretation of Fidel Castro

in the introduction, wanted nothing to do with Castro and as such did not desire to know anything about him that was normal or per...

Marine Sylvia Earle's Contributions

has a lot to say about the oceans of the world? Earle was born in New Jersey in 1935 ("Sylvia"). Her parents did not even have ...

Bill Gates

vision guided him in his work (William H. Gates, 2003). That vision would also prove to be precisely on-target, and Gates would b...

An Overview of Alfred Kinsey

- but his dominating persona was not very favorable to colleagues (though he could be friendly and helpful on certain occasions) (...

Borderline Personality Disorder

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

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 Life of Gandhi

significant and lingers to this day. Gandhi lived in India and helped the people resist British domination (Severance, 1997). Bri...

History as Biography: Emerson

what makes history. He states, in the beginning, "Of the works of this mind history is the record...Man is explicable by nothing l...

Book Report on 3 Books

Jewish. The student could also state they did not know he was German. What were the weaknesses, failures, or disappointments for t...

Lady Bird Johnson

her husband. That man, of course, was Lyndon B. Johnson. They were married less than a year after they met and she began the uph...

Technology’s Impact in the Business World; Cause and Effect

with thee increased control that is given over the inventory. In many industries tools such as just in time inventory control are ...

Duke Ellington/Caravan

orchestrate by using this band, an "unrivaled collection of musical eccentrics," as his "laboratory," in which he mastered the art...

Bob Dylan and His 1965 Song Highway 61 Revisited

time he arrived, he had legally changed his name to Bob Dylan, and while always insisting this was not an homage to poet Dylan Tho...

John Moretta/William Penn & Quaker Legacy

historiography of Penn scholarship to-date. However, it would have been enlightening and perhaps made his text more appealing to h...

William Carey: Pioneer Missionary To India

p. 12). It was not until William had to seek new employment because his employer died that he began to take an interest in religi...

Robert Frost/An Overview

and its joys. This quality of Frosts poetry is exemplified by his poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening." In this work, Fro...

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...

Guerrillas Journeys in the Insurgent World by Jon Lee Anderson

as a reporter, his reputation, and his experience working all over the globe that he brings to his account of the world of guerril...

Biography and Designs of Jens Laugesen

(Jens Laugesen biography, 2005). Some of the terms used by the media to describe him include "slick," "urban," "hot," and "cuttin...

Graphic Artist Milton Glaser

Arts ("Milton Glaser," 2005). He would for the most part get his education in New York, but his stint in Italy likely broadened hi...

Andre Young and 'Dr. Dre's' Musical Success

Eazy went on to form NWA with Ice Cube and Dre and they released an album in 1987 (Erlewine). The rest, as they say is history. Of...