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Thornton Wilder

Despite the three Pulitzer prizes awarded him, may very well [have turned] out to be one of the few enduring writers of our time...There have been countless other authors who in his day have been far more "discussed." That was inevitable for a man who has neither hastened to follow nor troubled ...

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The Art Of War

The pounding of shells, the mines, the death traps, the massive, blind destruction, the acrid stench of rotting flesh, the communal graves, the charred bodies, and the fear. These are the images of war. War has changed over the centuries from battles of legions of ironclad soldiers enveloped ...

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Farai Chideya

has accomplished many things at 28 years old that many journalists can only hope to achieve. She began her career as an intern at Newsweek while studying at Harvard. After her graduation, she was hired at Newsweek as a reporter and stayed on from 1990-1994. Chideya covered news in Newsweek's New ...

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Significant Presidential Decisions

In today's world many people don't appreciate the importance of president Lyndon B. Johnson's involvement with Vietnam or for that matter realize Lyndon B. Johnson's decision to increase U.S. involvement in Vietnam during the 1960's. As you can already tell Lyndon B. Johnson was the decision ...

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The 411 On Copyright For Net P

Introduction Wow - who owns all these pretty pictures? Net Photog's See me, feel me, touch me, pay me. Net Agencies Service with a click of a mouse. Net Publishers All is fair in love, war and publishing. Net Users Free ride! INTRODUCTION If Francesca were alive today she could track her ...

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JFK And The Warren Commission

On 22 November 1963, President John F Kennedy was shot dead as he took part in a motorcade through the streets of Dallas, Texas. Soon afterwards a man named Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested and accused of having shot Kennedy from the sixth floor of the Texas school Depository building . Even though ...

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Frederick Winslow Taylor: Business Management

Lenoir Community College Frederick Winslow Taylor Business Management David Mercer Tuesday, February 04, 1997 CONTENTS I. Introduction......................6 II. The Younger Years.................7 III Midvale Steel Company.............n IV ...

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Our Town

In 1991, Governor William Weld modified parole regulations and permitted women to seek commutation if they could present evidence indicating they suffered from battered women's syndrome. A short while later, the Governor, citing spousal abuse as his impetus, released seven women convicted of ...

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Benjamin Franklin

was born on January 17, 1706 in Boston, Massachusetts. Since this was on a Sunday, his father had him immediately baptized, to avoid any superstitious curse on him. Franklin was the 15th of 17 children. When he was a boy, Franklin liked to write his name in a fancy manner. But one day an old man ...

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Tennis A Sociological Perspect

Young people have to devote a large portion of their time to studies and/or part-time work. As a result, many of them do not have enough time to engage in leisure activities. Some people, somehow, manage to find some spare time to engage in a number of leisure activities in order to release the ...

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Donald Barthelme

has been called "probably the most perversely gifted writer in the U.S." As well as " one of the best, most significant and carefully developing young American writers" (Harte and Riley, 41). He was born April 7, 1931 to Donald and Helen Barthelme in Philadelphia, ...

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Robert Penn Warren

, born in Guthrie, Kentucky in 1905, was one of the twentieth century's most eminent American writers. He was a distinguished novelist and poet, literary critic, essayist, short story writer, and coeditor of numerous textbooks. He also a founding editor of The Southern Review, a journal of ...

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Biblical Allusions And Imagery In Steinbeck's The Grapes Of Wrath

John Steinbeck always makes it a point to know about his subjects first hand. His stories always have some factual basis behind them. Otherwise, he does not believe that they will be of any value beyond artistic impression. Therefore, most of his novels take place in California, the site of his ...

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The Canadian Government

Part I. GOVERNMENT AND LAW The Governor General represents the monarch in Canada. He/she is appointed by the monarch on advice of . Governors General open Parliment and read the speech from the throne which outlines the governments plans. They also give royal assent to bills, appoint important ...

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DEVELOPMENT OF THE WEST BEYOND

The years 1840 to 1890 were a period of great growth for the United States. It was during this time period that the United states came to the conclusion that it had a manifest destiny, that is, it was commanded by god to someday occupy the entire North American continent. One of the most ardent ...

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Malcolm X 2

Malcolm X, a civil rights leader in the 1960's believed that blacks and whites should be segregated. He also believed that white man was evil and were trying to brainwash all blacks and that Martin Luther King's "non-violent protests" weren't working and that violence was needed for ...

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“Daddy What’s Propaganda”

“ I do not know anymore, Its getting to hard to tell the differences between propaganda and news.” Propaganda-Systematic efforts to spread opinions or beliefs. (The World Book Dictionary,Volume 2, copyright1967) A more modern definition would read the same except now it is more frequently used to ...

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Alcohol And Its Effects On Humans

Does alcohol have any effect on human aggression? Americans are very concerned today over violent crime. This is probably because the US violent crime rate has been increasing. A violent crime occurs every sixteen seconds in the U.S. (Adler 1994). According to Pernanen (1991), studies already ...

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Harlem Slums As A Result Of Th

In comparison with the European urban heritage, which stretches back roughly 5500 years, the American transformation from village to city was achieved in an amazingly short space of time. From the eighteenth century on, Americans experienced the painful yet rewarding metamorphosis of an agrarian ...

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Ragged Dick

is a novel written in the 1800’s by Horatio Alger. It is a story about a young boy named Richard Hunter, also known as , as he progresses though his childhood. is a typical Rags to Riches story where Dick struggles through the hardships of city life, trying to achieve the “American ...

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