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Culture From CraniumThroughout the history of anthropology it has been a popular view
that people are largely products of their culture, and not the other way
around. Yet culture is an exclusively human phenomenon. While it is true
that everyone lives within a cultural context, and that context accounts
for varying ...
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Charles DickensCharles John Huffman Dickens was born in Portsmouth on Feb. 7,1812. He moved with his family to London when he was about 2 years old. Many events and people in his books were based on events and people in his life. He was the son of a clerk who was imprisoned for debt. Even when his father was ...
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Canines On The Police ForcePolice dogs have become a vital part of the police force. They are well trained, obedient dogs that, unlike humans, do not fear the daily challenges that arise on the job. Police units throughout the world use K-9 units. They are employed by most local police forces and by many governmental ...
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The Poetry Of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow And John Greenleaf WhittierWhen a man’s human dignity is beaten out of him, his liberty deprived and is to be perpetually subject to the will of his master at all times, he no longer has faith in himself or his abilities. He is also compelled to spend his entire labor for the benefit of another and receive in return only ...
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Dell Computer CorporationThe marketing concept that has proven to be the most successful for the also happens to be their business. The differentiated marketing: different buyers, different strategies. The bold-concept – direct customer contact – has made Dell one of the most successful companies of the 1990s.
Through ...
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The Invention Of The AirplaneThe story of is a Puritan fairy tale. It is the story of how two honest, straightforward, and God-fearing Americans accomplished something fantastic and magical -- creating a craft of stick and fabric that mounted the air like the chariots of the gods, opening the sky to all humankind. Their ...
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"In Cold Blood" Review"In Cold Blood" is a tragic story of two men, Eugene Hickock and Perry
Edward, who murder an entire family in search of money and then find themselves
running from the law. While writing the book, Truman Capote used only facts to
create a novel out of an actual event. He had thousands of notes ...
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The Causes Of World War 1, And The BattlesThe First World War had many causes; the historians probably have not yet
discovered and discussed all of them so there might be more causes than
what we know now. The spark of the Great War was the assassination of the
Archduke Francis Ferdinand, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, and ...
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Clockwork OrangeThe picture opens to a close up of an eye with a peculiar long eyelash. The camera fades back onto the face of a young gentlemen, he begins to narrate: "There was me, that is Alex. And my three droogs (friends), that is Pete, Georgy and Dim. And we sat at the karuba milk bar trying to make up ...
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Ida B. Wells 2“One had better die fighting against injustice than die like
a dog or a rat in a trap.”
- Ida B. Wells
Ida B. Wells was an important figure in Black American
History. She was born a slave in Mississippi in 1862.
Wells was able to gain an education and, later, became a
journalist ...
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Crusoe Savage ManThe book Robinson Crusoe1 written by Daniel Defoe is about a young man who learns about the real world by "traveling the seas," in doing so he skips the "middle station" of his life and away from the safety nets of his parents. Jean-Jacques Rousseau author of, The First and Second Discourses2, ...
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Ayn Rand: Human ExistenceAyn Rand contributed many things to the philosophical world, based on her philosophy of Objectivism. Objectivism is the idea that rational self-interest should be the basis of action and that self-fulfillment is an individual’s moral responsibility, with productive achievement the noblest ...
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Death Of A Salesman 2Willy Loman: A Man With A Dream
A common idea presented in literature is the issue of
the freedom of the individual in opposition to the
controlling pressures of society. Willy Loman, the main
character in Death of A Salesman by Arthur Miller,
epitomizes this type of person; one who looks to his ...
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The Yellow Wallpaper: The View From The Inside"The Yellow Wallpaper", written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, is a story of a woman, her psychological difficulties and her husband's so called therapeutic treatment of her aliments during the late 1800s. The story begins with a young woman and her husband traveling to the country for the summer ...
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Commanders Of The Army Of TheIn his civil war book Potomac Warren Hassler Jr. fantastically recounts the events that transpired between 1861 to 1865 during which seven men were given the reigns of the North's Army of the Potomac and asked to lead the Union to victory. However, one of the greatest commanders in history stood ...
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Death Of A Salesman: WillyCharley says something in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman that
sums up Willy's whole life. He asks him, "When the hell are you going to
grow up?" Willy's spends his entire life in an illusion. He sees himself
as a great man that is popular and successful. Willy exhibits many
childlike ...
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Flowers For Algernonis a story about a failed scientific experiment. However, the radio play also deals with other issues such as love and friendship, medical ethics, tampering with human intelligence and the consequences, and conflict of interest.
On one level is about a scientific experiment that goes wrong. ...
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Chinese Economic ReformTwo years after the death of Mao Zedong in 1976, it became apparent to many of China's leaders that economic reform was necessary. During his tenure as China's premier, Mao had encouraged social movements such as the "Great Leap Forward" and the "Cultural Revolution" which had had as their bases ...
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Compaq ComputersCompaq Computer Corporation was founded in February 1982 by Rod Canion, Jim Harris and Bill Murto, three senior managers who left Texas Instruments and invested $1,000 each to form their own company. Their first idea was a portable personal computer that was sketched on a paper placemat in a ...
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Transcendentalismwas a movement in philosophy, literature, and religion that emerged and was popular in the nineteenth century New England because of a need to redefine man and his place in the world in response to a new and changing society. The industrial revolution, universities, westward expansion, ...
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