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- 17241: How To Prepare A Book Report
- ... author- when and where he was born and lived, titles of some of his/her other books, recurrent theses or subjects in his books, his particular field of interest, prizes or awards won etc, the world view or philosophy he belieces it eg. Was he a realist, existentialist, naturalist, Christian etc? Plan your paragraphs just as you would for any composition. Be sure you introduce an introduction and a conclusion, and ...
- 17242: Transcendentalism Essay
- ... for two years he discovered many things that he found to be true about life and how it is connected to nature. Thoreau was a transcendentalist; he believed that the spiritual reality, not the material world, was the ultimate reality and it could only be known by intuition. Through nature and our own experiences we are able to learn, not by the teachings and gifts of others.(In order to understand ...
- 17243: Jacques Louis David
- ... Robespierre, the principal architect of the Terror. But he survived, instead, and soon began fawning upon the young Napoleon. David was a turncoat and a sycophant, but a great painter. "He was born into a world in which painting was for the privileged few," Wilson writes. "His images showed the power of art to electrify even the commonest citizen." Bibliography: D. L. Dowd, Pageant-Master of the Republic (1948); J. Lindsay ...
- 17244: Money Is The Root Of All Evil
- ... step over that line into evil. Hitler is a prime example, his hatred towards all other races combined with his complete insanity provided for the death of millions of people. Not a person in this world, with their sanity in tact, would deny that he was as evil as they come. His was an evil, not rooted in money, but in a hatred for people; and if the evilest of the ...
- 17245: Polio
- ... of which produce some kind of pollution. Maybe air, water, and even noise pollution are cause by these machines. Efforts to improve the standard of living for humans have resulted in pollution. Much of the world's air, water, and land are now partially poisoned by chemical wastes. Some places have become uninhabitable. This pollution exposes people all around the globe to new risks from disease. Many species of plants and ...
- 17246: What Time Is It
- ... interest and fosters historical thought, while it also encompasses historical development and continuity from 1880 through 1945. The phrase “time is of the essence” is a familiar statement made quite often in today’s hectic world, just as it was imperative centuries ago, and will follow us into the new millennium.
- 17247: No Sugar
- ... understand” “You’ll work where I think fit digging graves if I say so” The tone of his voice was loud and commanding and he said his dialogue like he was the king of the world. He was saying these to make Mary feel afraid and to make himself feel powerful.
- 17248: James Fenimore Cooper
- ... The Last of the Mohicans written in 1826, quickly became the most widely read work of the day, solidifying Cooper's popularity in the U.S. and in Europe. Set during the French and Indian War, The Last of the Mohicans chronicles the massacre of the colonial garrison at Fort William Henry and a fictional kidnapping of two pioneer sisters. Cooper knew few Indians, so he drew on a Moravian missionary ...
- 17249: Janet Jackson
- ... show business today, Janet has been faced with many obstacles in her life. Despite all of the problems, Janet has overcome most of them and has become one of the biggest successes in the entertainment world today. During Janet’s young years she was forced to deal with difficult conditions at home. She recalls in an interview with Steve Pond in the December 1997 issue of ‘US magazine, "My father whipped ...
- 17250: The Pain of Moviegoing
- ... quarter the size of a regular theater, moviegoers ofter have to put up with the sound of the movie next door. This is especially jarring when the other movie involves racing cars or a karate war and you are trying to enjoy a quiet love story. And whether the theater is old or new, it will have floors that seem to coated with rubber cement. By the end of the movie ...
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