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believed that by speaking directly to the voters that another opinion might be formed. Having been involved in several wars, the...

a good university (Hole, 2005). "Marie studied physics and mathematics and quickly received her masters degrees in both subjects. ...

charities was remarkable. She was coming into her own, moving out of the extremely heavy shadow cast by the royal family (particu...

Porter, 2005). Her education was obtained at convent schools and when she was 16 she ran away (Books and Writers, 2005). This i...

how evil is nothing tangibly heinous, but instead reflects the "absence of good."ii In other words, man merely makes bad choices ...

conditioning is one of the simplest, but most profound discoveries concerning human behavior and the behavior of animals as well. ...

He engaged in studies involving the Greek Bible and published, in 1532, "a commentary on Senecas De Clementia, proving his skills ...

One may classify the action as the various things that this Pope engaged in as he grew up. He was ordained in 1946 (Christensen, 2...

author notes that, "the most usually presented idea - that Euclid was an ordinary mathematician/scholar, who simply lived in Alexa...

the Imperial Court, Mozart was such a mischievous child that he climbed into the lap of the Empress Maria Theresa and gave her a k...

below. The Faulknerian characters viewpoint is that ...of a passenger looking backward from a speeding car, who sees, flowing aw...

and early career help illustrate how he was a relatively simple man who would likely have remained obscure without WWII and Nazi G...

himself with the Western cultures, going to France and learning, it seems, as much as he could. It was while in France that his pe...

in American culture, despite her pro-immigration sentiments, which were directly opposed to the anti-immigration public feeling of...

and stained glass" (Pioch). It was also in this year that he did his traveling to Italy where he did a great number of paintings t...

"spent the next four years in the Charterhouse in devotion and prayer" (Kreis). During his time there he composed poetry and Latin...

now retired. He was a pupil of Don Jose Luzan in Zaragoza, learning from his own invention when he visited Rome. He has no master ...

or they commit murder and allow us to watch, as is the case in "The Tell-Tale Heart." Its always tempting, in a first-person nar...

enough to get by, or is making enough money to pay bills and go on an annual vacation a worthy goal? In defining how much money on...

music and his family had a lot of musical talent. He was not the first to exhibit this unique gift and his desire for a musical li...

year of starting, and he was 23 years old. He needed a bigger challenge" (Williams [1], 2000). Williams notes that he was incredib...

20th century possessed a "rigid class structure"-to a large extent it still does-and that was clearly shown in the novel (Aldous H...

in Cleveland he learned about how sewing machines work and then opened a store where he sold machines and fixed them in 1907 (Blac...

honorable discharge (Blackinventor.com, 2006). After the war he worked in a patent law firm as an office boy (Blackinventor.com, 2...

one else to do them and she saw a need (Krain, 2002). "She recruited another nurse and began working out of a fifth floor apartmen...

globe he would presently find it out" (OConnor; Robertson). Halley then attended Queens College Oxford (Edmund Halley: 16...

eliminating any bias a person may gain by seeing the disability instead of the person (Cohn, 2000). Computers, fax machines, the ...

depictions of Black America" (Nobelprize.org). Another critic notes that, "Morrison powerfully evokes in her fiction the legacies ...

the lions share of the credit" (Bruns, 2007). McCullough says that Adams had an "astute political mind" as well as being an eloqu...

When Berry was a junior in high school he dropped out so that he could be a boxer, once fighting on the same...