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Albert Einstein
Number of pages: 8 | Number of words: 1936.... and is preoccupied with thoughts, feelings, and aspirations to which he clings because of their superpersonalvalue. It seems to me that what is important is the force of this superpersonal content and the depth of the conviction concerning its overpowering meaningfulness, regardless of whether any attempt is made to unite this content with a divine Being, for otherwise it would not be possible to count Buddha and Spinoza as religious personalities. Accordingly, a religious person is devout in the sense that he has no doubt of the significance and loftiness of those superpe .....
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Fredrick Douglass 4
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 600.... was fifteen he was given up to another member of the Auld family, Thomas. The good days of Frederick's slave life were over. He was now forced to labor in the field and was starved and beaten frequently. There he organized religious services for the slaves. Thomas had a difficult time controlling Frederick and was sent to Edward Covey, a poor farmer known as the "Slave Breaker". After a severe beating Frederick received when he was sixteen he decided to finally fight back. Later Frederick wrote, "At that moment from whence came the spirit I don't know - I resolved to f .....
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B. F. Skinner
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 1070.... the music. In college, he was very
independent, and sometimes even a prankster. He graduated from Hamilton College
in 1926 and later received his P.h.D. in psychology at Harvard University.
(Ulrich, 1997)
John B. Watson
John Broadus Watson was born in Greenville, South Carolina on January
9th 1878. He went to college at Furman University and the University of Chicago.
Watson created "Psychological behaviorism" in 1912. He told the world about his
theory of behaviorism in a 1913 paper entitled ``Psychology as the Behaviorist
Views It.'' In the paper he described Behaviori .....
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James Watt
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1286.... introduced to several scientists who at the time encouraged him later to travel to London to further himself in instrument making.
In 1755 he set out on horseback and arrived in London after either twelve days or two weeks. He tried to get a job in the instrumentation field although the shopkeepers could not give him a job as he did not do an apprenticeship and was too old. Finally though he found John Morgan of a company called Cornhill who agreed to bend the rules and offer an apprenticeship for a year. knuckled down and wanted to learn everything he wanted in one year that .....
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Donald Barthelme
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1103.... to Many Distant Cities" (1983); and "Paradise" (1986). He also wrote Snow White, a parody of the popular children’s fairy tale, the novel. He won the National Book Award for Children’s literature for the book titled "The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine: or, the Hithering, Thithering, Djinn" (1971) (Marowski and Matuz, 3?). In 1976 he received the Jesse H. Jones Award from the Texas Institute of Letters for his book The Dead Father. His book Sixty Stories was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Faulkner award for Fic .....
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Sophocles
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 811.... noted as being a talented actor, performed in many of his own plays. In one of his plays called, "The Woman Washing Clothes," he performed a juggling act that was talked about all over town for many years because the audience was so fascinated. But before you knew it was to take another route and end his acting career to venture elsewhere. For many years served as a dictated priest in the service of two heroes named Alcon and Asclepius, who was the god of medicine. Not only did he do this but he also served on the Board of Generals which was a committee that administe .....
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Kelly Flinn Biography
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1445.... stayed the same way until she got to high school. She began to notice boys and began to date. No one in her family had ever talked to her about the “birds and the bees,” or even about dating. Instead, independence, self-reliance, and strength were the most important things. If they had problems, they worked it out on their own. This served her poorly when she found herself in trouble with the Air Force years later. (pg. 9)
When Kelly was 15, she went to Space Camp in Huntsville, Alabama. She found out how much she loved space and the challenge and the control she ex .....
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The Greatest Accomplishment Of President John Adams
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 739.... We had originated from Britain and the French had helped us in our war, therefore if we borrowed from one country, the other would catch on and turn on us. The government couldn’t tax its citizens, for taxation had always backfired in the past. Because of these money issues, John Adams decided not to join the war.
Another reason why Adams didn’t join the war was due to the nation’s confusion as to which side to defend. America was already divided into two supporting groups; whichever side was chosen, half the country would be extremely upset. The Federalists supported the .....
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