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Mozart
Number of pages: 7 | Number of words: 1789.... the Augsburg area in 1486; the name is first recorded, for a Heinrich Motxhart in Fischach, in 1331, and appears in other villages south-west of Augsburg, notably Heimberg, from 14th century. The surname was spelled in variety of forms, including Moxarth, Mozhrd and Mozer. His mother’s family came mainly from the Salzburg region, but one branch may be traced to Krems-Stein and Wien. They mostly followed lower middle-class occupations; some were gardeners. 2 Though did not walk until he was three years old, he displayed musical gifts at extremely early age. At the age of four, .....
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Analysis Of King Lear
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1262.... his daughters compete for their inheritance by judging who can proclaim their love for him in the grandest possible fashion. Cordelia finds that she is unable to show her love with mere words:
"Cordelia. [Aside] What shall Cordelia speak? Love,
and be silent."
Act I, scene i, lines 63-64.
Cordelia's nature is such that she is unable to engage in even so forgivable a deception as to satisfy an old king's vanity and pride, as we see again in the following quotation:
"Cordelia. [Aside] Then poor cordelia!
And not so, since I am sure my love's
More ponderous than my tongue. .....
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Diana, Princess Of Wales
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 499.... “No one could bring attention to an issue like she could,” says Landmine Survivors Network head Ken Rutherford, 35. As a result of her deep compassion towards those in need, the public is now more aware and supportive of the causes she faithfully supported.
During her often turbulent 17 years in the world’s spotlight, Diana’s honest and sincere sympathy for those in need remained constant. She traveled thousands of miles a year in support of her causes, even to dangerous locales in Bosnia and Angola. “She did things like this because she wanted to from her heart.” Di .....
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John F. Kennedy
Number of pages: 1 | Number of words: 271.... of Representatives in 1946, and was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1952.
In 1953 he married Jacqueline Bouvier. During recuperation from spinal surgery,
Kennedy completed Profiles in Courage (1956), for which he won a Pulitzer Prize
in 1957. Kennedy attempted to win the Vice-president presidential nomination and
failed; Kennedy began to plan for the presidential election in 1960. He won the
nomination on the first ballot. He campaigned with Senator Lyndon B. Johnson
his running mate, against Vice President Richard M. Nixon, the Republican
nominee. The issues of defense .....
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Cone, James A. Black Theology Of Liberation
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 811.... Cone stated that "Black Theology is not the hope that promises a reward in heaven in order to ease the pain of injustice on earth. Rather it is hope which focuses in order to make men refuse to tolerate present inequalities. To see the future of God, as revealed in his resurrection in Christ, is to see also the contradiction of any earthly injustice with existence in Christ." The purpose of Black theology is not only to find eternal salvation, but also to create heaven on earth. In order to create heaven on earth, the oppressed must be liberated. “The blackness .....
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Pablo Casals
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 565.... performance in
Paris on 1898, this sparked his long and monuments career.
Soon Casals began a great deal of touring across Europe and the
Americas, making his fresh, new style increasingly more and more popular.
Because of his popularity, at the time, the solo cellist performer became a
very highly thought of occupation. After his long tour, Casals met and then
joined up with two other famous and acclaimed French performers. These
were the violinist Jacques Thibaud and the pianist Alfred Cortot. Together,
these three became a trio that gained international fame as t .....
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William James
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 747.... expedition in Brazil with the Swiss-American naturalist Louis Agassiz and also studied psychology in Germany. During this time, William retired due to illness but that didn’t stop his from excelling in the field. Three years later, in 1872, at the age of thirty, William become an instructor in physiology at Harvard University. In 1875, William started teaching Psychology at Harvard and after 1880 he was teaching both classes.
He taught at Harvard for thirty-five years, during which time; he wrote his first (and only) book; had his essays and lectures published in th .....
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Babe Ruth
Number of pages: 7 | Number of words: 1867.... not an only child. He did have a sister named Mary Margaret, also known as Mamie, who was born in 1900. The Ruth’s did have six other children, but none of them survived to adulthood. Soon after Mamies birth his father opened his own tavern at 426 West Camden St. The family would later move into an apartment above the bar. George spent the first 7 years of his life running around the Bay area watching street fights and stealing from the shop keepers. It didn’t take long before he was known well by local police. When he was 7, Kate and her husband finally decided they could no .....
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