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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...

Sudanese Migrants in UK Healthcare Needs Grant Proposal

programmes to develop an approach to healthcare that will benefit both the community and the state in the long term....

'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...

Virginia Woolf's Literary Themes and Styles in Three Works

which you are now for the first time entering?"(Woolf). And, even in the modern era, most women still find this to be a certainty,...

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...

The Legacy of Billie Holiday

music, which she may have initially embraced as a kind of personal salvation.3 While male lovers would betray her, seductive jazz...

History/Education & Educational Psychology

Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746-1827) with the first applied educational psychologist, as he attempted to put Rousseaus philosophy into ...

Mark 9:38-50 Exegesis And Sermon

Bible 1995, p. 1489). Marks Gospel is written in rather straightforward and simple language. Mark seems to go from one event in C...

Poetry by Edgar Allan Poe

1836 he married Virginia Clemm, his 13-year old cousin and went to Philadelphia to edit Burtons Gentlemans Magazine, to which he c...

Kandinsky, Beckmann, and Marc

Introduction In the early part of the 20th century there were many artists creating intriguing pieces of work that were very uniq...

Sam Smith's Biography of Michael Jordan

In five pages this paper examines the uniquely human portrait sketched Sam Smith in his biography of Michael Jordan which shows hi...

Biography of George Washington Carver

In eight pages this research paper provides a biographical sketch of African American scientist George Washington Carver. Eight s...

Analysis of Franklin D. Roosevelt's 4 Terms as President of the United States

In thirteen pages a biographical sketch of FDR is presented with the primary concentration being his four terms as President. Six...

Maya Angelou and I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

The writer presents a biographical sketch of this noted African American writer. An analysis of her 1970 book completes this seve...

Charles Johnson's Portrait of Martin Luther King Jr. in Dreamer

In five pages Johnson's fictional sketch is examined in terms of how it represents the actual man. There are no other sources lis...

Ernest Hemingway the Man and His Writings

This paper consists of five pages and includes a biographical sketch of Ernest Hemingway, details on his work including frequent t...

Society and Pip in Charles Dickens' Great Expectations

In five pages this paper discusses the social portrait sketched by Charles Dickens in Great Expectations in a consideration of Pip...

The Life and Poetry of Adrienne Rich

In this paper consisting of six pages a brief biographical sketch is provided and then an examination of three of Adrienne Rich's ...

Pencil's Life Cycle

In ten pages a pencil's history is sketched in terms of its ancient origins and how it has evolved into the writing instruments of...

Biography of Bill Gates

Bill Gates was born on October 28, 1955 in Seattle, Washington ("Gates" PG). His knickname was, or at least his family called him,...

'The Spectacles' by Edgar Allan Poe and His Use of Satire

In ten pages this research paper provides a biographical sketch of Edgar Allan Poe along with critical assessment but the central ...

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...

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...

The Novelist Honoré de Balzac

He went to school at Coll?ge de Vend?me and the Sorbonne as well (PG). He left for Paris, despite parental opposition in 1819 ("Bi...

Socrates

would have meant he was born in 469 B.C. (Taylor 4). According to Socrates trial indictment, he was born in Alopeke, which was lo...

Biography of Bob Marley

his genre, but his music made pop charts in the United States. He was able to break through barriers that other musicians could no...

Scientific Perspectives of Nathaniel Hawthorne

The information, however, should prove sufficient for further investigation on the part of the student. Tales and Sketches: Scie...

Simmons and Gaebelein's A Question of Character

can have a salient effect on the way in which a whole community perceives itself and its behaviour, and consider the question of n...

A Review of Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns

and pure mystery in the boy when he states that "Any time Grandpa had something to say, it was something you couldnt wait to hear"...