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Life Of John MiltonMilton, John (1608-1674), English poet, whose rich, dense verse was a powerful influence on succeeding English poets, and whose prose was devoted to the defense of civil and religious liberty. Milton is often considered the greatest English poet after Shakespeare.
Milton was born in London on ...
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The History Of Greek TheaterTheater and drama in Ancient Greece took form in about 5th
century BCE, with the Sopocles, the great writer of tragedy. In his
plays and those of the same genre, heroes and the ideals of life were
depicted and glorified. It was believed that man should live for
honor and fame, his action was ...
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Lt. Colonel Jay R. Jensen's "Six Years In Hell"The book I have chosen to read for this review is one entitled
"SIX YEARS IN HELL." It is a book written by one Lt. Colonel Jay R. Jensen in a
first person manor. He was a military pilot who flew over Vietnam and was
captured and taken as a POW. This book covers his time in the military ...
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With Malice Toward None By SteStephen B. Oates is a professor of history at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and the author of eight other books, including The Fires of Jubilee and To Purge This Land with Blood. His task in this biography was to perpetuate Lincoln as he was in the days he lived. His purpose of this ...
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DonkeyThe Steam in Martin Grainger's Woodsmen of the West
In the beginning of the 20th century, the logging industry in B.C. and around the world saw a dramatic change in the way logs were being logged. Techniques came and went although some stayed longer than other. New technologies played a very ...
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The History Of Greek TheaterTheater and drama in Ancient Greece took form in about 5th century BCE, with the Sopocles, the great writer of tragedy. In his plays and those of the same genre, heroes and the ideals of life were
depicted and glorified. It was believed that man should live for honor and fame, his action was ...
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Yuan Shih-k’ai’s Transformation Of The Chinese MilitaryYaun Shih-k’ia (1859-1916) was one of China’s most successful rulers, but his rise to power came the way many modern dictators claim control. Yuan would use his military family lineage and knowledge to create the first modern and dominant army in China. This army would later be the reason he ...
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Atomic BombOn August 2, 1939 Albert Einstein wrote to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. This was right before the start of World War 2. In this letter Einstein and several other scientists told Roosevelt of the efforts Hitler was making to purify U-235 in which he hoped to make an . This is when the United ...
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27 Years Of Influential 60 MinSince 1968 America has been better enlightened than previously concerning current events and happenings around the world. A considerable factor for this occurrence is the television program 60 Minutes which debuted on the air in September of 1968. Many other television newsmagazines have been ...
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Slave Ownership In The Southern United StatesCritical Review: "Historians and the Extent of " "Only a minority of the whites owned slaves," "at all times nearly three-fourths of the white families in the South as a whole held no slaves;" "slave ownership in the South was not widespread;" "not more ...
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Autobiography On Ernest HemingwayEarnest Miller Hemingway was borin in Oak Park Illinois. After
graduating from high school, he got a job at a paper called "Kansas City
Star". Hemingway continually tried to enter the military, but his defective
eye, hindered this task. Hemingway had managed to get a job driving an
American Red ...
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Franny And Zooey And The RazorFranny And Zooey & The Razor’s Edge
Many novels use religion as the central object of their plot. Franny and Zooey, by J.D Salinger and The Razor’s Edge, by W. Somerset Maugham both display religion as having they key role in their novels. Religion is the main guide in ’s Edge ...
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Benjamin Banneker, the son of Robert and Mary Bannaky was born in Baltimore County, Maryland in 1731. His grandfather was a slave from Africa and his grandmother was an indentured servant from England. His grandfather was an African prince known as Banna Ka , then later as Bannaky, and his grandmother, Molly ...
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The Importance Of A College Education
You make a living by what you get. You make a life by what you give" (Winston Churchill, circa 1940) Learning the importance of getting a good college education did not come to me until I was 31 years old. Many of my friends, and colleagues and I were of the same age, however they were ...
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Cults 2As the new millennium approaches the number of doomsday cults that exist is expected to increase. Because of the approaching new millennium, these cults will predict many cataclysmic events. Many people feel that cults are nothing more than a nontraditional religion, but a distinction can be ...
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Albert Einstein From Start To FinishAlbert Einstien was born on March 14, 1879 in Alum, Germany. He
was born with extreme deformities, however he out grew them except for his
misshapen head. He was a late talker to add to his problems. He was
branded as a loner because he had no love for anyone but his mother who he
spent all of ...
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Richard Nixonichard Milhous Nixon was the thirty-seventh president of the United States and the only president to have resigned from office. He was on his was to success after receiving his law degree from Duke University Law School in 1937. California Republicans persuaded Nixon in 1946 to be their candidate ...
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FrankensteinThe term Gothic conjures up images of frightened women, graveyards, and haunted castles in the mist, popular settings for horror films. But is this what Gothic means? The Oxford Companion to English Literature defines Gothic as, “Tales of the macabre, fantastic, and supernatural, usually ...
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The Way A Man Breaks The BondsTV walls blurring, the sound dulls out all knowledge. BOOM! The sound of University doors closing. Jets fly over a city. BOOM! The sound of a city dying. "'A man running… the running man… a man alone, on foot… watch…'" BOOM! The sound of a man awakening from his stupidity, ...
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The Black CatA Glimpse Into the World of “”
Those who have read any of Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories know that most of them are full of suspense and mystery and that they efflict a feeling of horror and shock upon the reader.
Poe studies the mind, and is conscious of the abnormalities of ...
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