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Robert Frost - The Road Not Taken
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 791.... impossible to travel down every path. In an attempt to make a decision, the traveler "looks down one as far as I could". The road that will be chosen leads to the unknown, as does any choice in life. As much he may strain his eyes to see as far the road stretches, eventually it surpasses his vision and he can never see where it is going to lead. It is the way that he chooses here that sets him off on his journey and decides where he is going.
"Then took the other, just as fair, and having perhaps the better claim." What made it have the better claim is that "it was grassy a .....
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Benedict Arnold
Number of pages: 7 | Number of words: 1834.... on the British. Major General Horatio Gates was the commander of the Army of the North. His English counterpart was General John Burgoyne. The open-field battle style considerable favored the British troops of Burgoyne. The American’s had their backs against the wall; they were almost out of options, until their savior literally rode in on horseback. This man was General . He rode in from Freeman’s Farm where Gates, Arnold’s superior, had taken his authority away because of Arnold’s “insubordination”. Arnold thought nothing of Major G .....
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Robert Capa
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 423.... and have a large capability of movement. With this camera he was able to jump into battles to take pictures that no one else was ever able to take.
One of the main things that tried to capture were the emotions of his subjects. He always tried to portray things such as their sorrow or their shock, mainly focusing on the expressions of the subjects’ faces to show what emotions they might be feeling.
Despite his worldwide recognition Capa denied the title of a photographer. He always preferred to refer to himself as a photo journalist. To try to prove that h .....
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Emile Durkheim
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1395.... society in question (Hess, est. Al; 1996; 8). Due to his contribution sociology is today consider part of science.
Durkheim was born ‹pinal, France, he was an outgrowth of a distinguished line of rabbinical scholar (Rothschild; 1999). He graduated from the ‹cole Normale Sup¾rieure in Paris in 1882, then taught law and philosophy. However, in 1887 he began teaching sociology, first at the University of Bordeaux and later at the University of Paris. His knowledge of law and religion helped him to come up with a new theory, which concerned him with the basis of social stabil .....
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Ernest Miller Hemingway
Number of pages: 11 | Number of words: 2994.... and to please her,
always.
Mrs. Hemingway treated Ernest, when he was a small boy, as if he were a
female baby doll and she dressed him accordingly. This arrangement was alright
until Ernest got to the age when he wanted to be a "gun-toting Pawnee Bill".
He began, at that time, to pull away from his mother, and never forgave her for
his humiliation.
The town of Oak Park, where Ernest grew up, was very old fashioned and
quite religious. The townspeople forbad the word "virgin" from appearing in
school books, and the word "breast" was questioned, though it appeared in the
B .....
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The Life Of Ludwig Van Beethoven
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1466.... art and ability, states in his
Heiligenstadt Testament a promise of his greatness yet to be proven in the
development of his heroic style.
By about 1800, Beethoven was mastering the Viennese High-Classic style.
Although the style had been first perfected by Mozart, Beethoven did extend
it to some degree. He had unprecedently composed sonatas for the cello
which in combination with the piano opened the era of the Classic-Romantic
cello sonata. In addition, his sonatas for violin and piano became the
cornerstone of the sonata duo repertory. His experimentation with additions
to .....
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St. John The Evangelist
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1204.... live, how should he behave, and how moral his life should be. He was one of the first to follow those holy principles, and show them to others. One of his greatest challenges was writing a gospel.
is mostly known for writing a fourth Gospel. If you would ask any person to list his challenges almost everybody would tell you that he wrote a gospel. It is believed that he wrote a Gospel at the year of 96, after the death of Domitian. His object in writing it he tells us himself: "These things are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and tha .....
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George Washington Carver
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1134.... by varied occupations that included general household worker, hotel cook, laundryman, farm laborer, and homesteader. In his late 20s he managed to obtain a high school education in Minneapolis, Kansas, while working as a farmhand. After a university in Kansas refused to admit him because he was black, Carver enrolled at Simpson College, Indianola, Iowa, where he studied piano and art, afterward transferring to Iowa State Agricultural College (Ames, Iowa), where he received a bachelor's degree in agricultural science in 1894 and a master of science degree in 1896.
Carver le .....
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