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A Portrait Of Duke Ellington By Tracy Frech
Number of pages: 7 | Number of words: 1730.... more interested
in painting and the arts. For a few years he painted public posters. Duke
then decided to put together his own band.
At this point in his life things started to change for the better for Duke,
but not for long. In those days, this new music was just beginning to develop and
would later be given the name of jazz. In that time it was considered to be low
and vulgar because it was music that grew directly out of the Black culture. In
those early years, segregation was at one of its all time worst points in
history. I think that is why Duke Ellington was .....
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Adam Smith 2
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 517.... theories Smith later adapted in part to form a basis for his own.
The book dealt with the basic problem of how social order and human progress can be possible in a society where individuals follow their own self-interests. Smith argued that this individualism led to order and progress. In order to make money, people produce things that other people are willing to buy. Buyers spend money for those things that they need or want most. When buyers and sellers meet in the market, a pattern of production develops that results in social harmony. Smith said that all this would h .....
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Ernest Hemingway: His Life And His Stories
Number of pages: 9 | Number of words: 2301.... high ideals, was very strict and censored the books he allowed his children to read. He forbade his Ernest's sister from studying ballet for it was coeducational, and dancing together led to "hell and damnation"
Grace hall Hemingway, Ernest's mother, considered herself pure and proper. She was a dreamer who was upset at anything which disturbed her perception of the world as beautiful. She hater dirty diapers, upset stomachs, and cleaning house; they were not fit for a lady. She taught her children to always act with decorum. She adored the singing of the birds and the sme .....
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Albert Einstein Biography
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 662.... Einstein was recognised as a leading scientific thinker. After holding chairs in Prague and Zurich he advanced (1914) to a prestigious post at the Kaiser-Wilhelm Gesellschaft in Berlin. From this time he never taught a university courses. Einstein remained on the staff at Berlin until 1933, from which time until his death he held a research position at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
In the first of three papers (1905) Einstein examined the phenomenon discovered by Max Planck, according to which electromagnetic energy seemed to be emitted from radiating object .....
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Rocky Marciano
Number of pages: 11 | Number of words: 2772.... weights until he was totally fatigued."
After supper, "Rocky and his pals often spent hours pummelling a stuffed mail sack that hung from an oak tree in the Marchegiano's back yard....In hot weather, they usually finished their workouts by racing over to Saxton's Spring to get a cold drink of water."
Unfortunately, Rocky's experience of growing up in a multi-ethnic, working-class setting contributed to his involvement in a number of "altercations." Although most were territorial battles that took place at James Edgar Field, some occurred well beyond....
Even prior to his .....
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Manuel Noriega
Number of pages: 8 | Number of words: 2123.... and created a riff between the Soviet Union and The United States creating the Cold War.
What importance does this have to Noriega and Panama? On January 1, 1959 Fidel Castro led a successful coup against the government in Cuba which at the time was controlled by Fulgencio Batista. By Castro taking control of the Cuban government, he placed communism within a close range of America. This was important because it was feared by most Americans that this takeover by Castro would lead a domino effect throughout Central America, and third world countries further extending the .....
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James Bryant Conant
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 311.... it allows students to learn at an
appropriate level. A student who can read at a speed of 125 words per minute
should not be in the same English class as a person who only reads 50 words per
minute. On the opposite end, there is a downfall to this idea of separation of
classes. Students are put into certain groups and therefore they become
stereotyped into certain categories. A person at a high intelligent level may
be called a "brain" while a person at a low intelligent level may be called
"stupid". The students therefore form an identity with the group they belong
to an .....
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Socrates
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 1003.... actions. The charges against were merely excuses by his enemies to murder him in a legal way. made his enemies by going on a search to find someone wiser than he was. went on this search because the Oracle at Delphi said he was the wisest man there was but believed that to be false (5). This lead to a futile search for a person who did have wisdom so could prove the oracle wrong. went to people who had a reputation of wisdom and then he would question and talk to them to find out if they in fact were wise. When he met someone who thought they were wise, would come "to th .....
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