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The World House Essays and Term Papers
Panopticism“Our society is not one of spectacle, but of surveillance; under the surface of images, one invests bodies in depth; behind the great abstraction of exchange, there continues the meticulous concrete training of useful forces; the circuits of communication are the supports of an accumulation and a ...
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Canterbury Tales: Power CorruptsThe pilgrims in Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales exhibit human characteristics ranging from righteousness to corruption. Two of the pilgrims, the Clerk and Frere (Friar) demonstrate traits on opposite ends of the spectrum of human nature. The Clerk, wishing to educate himself and others, ...
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William ShakespeareFamily and Education
-born in Stratford-on-Avon
-his father was a prominant citizen or "gentleman"
-Shakespeare read everything available in print
-he read the classics, French and Italian plays, legends, folk plays, mythology, historical chronicles, and the Bible
-Gutenberg printing press had ...
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John F. Kennedy And CubaA popular misconception is that President John F. Kennedy's assassination was an isolated event perpetrated by one man. This could not be farther from the truth. Instead, it was the result of a complex combination of domestic and foreign events. When President Kennedy was in office, he had to deal ...
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Nuclear Physicists And The Development Of A Nuclear BombScientists in the 1930s, using machines that could break apart the nuclear cores of atoms, confirmed Einstein's formula E=mc² . The release of energy in a nuclear transformation was so great that it could cause a detectable change in the mass of the nucleus. But the study of nuclei -- in those ...
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William Lloyd Garrisonwas America's greatest fighter against slavery. He became the most villified man in the country. He was considered a dangerous radical, he was scorned by society, attacked by the press, and hunted by enraged mobs. But this crusader against slavery never feared to stand alone. Throughout his ...
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The Growth Of The InternetThe Internet has caught on like wild fire. No one ever intended for it to be so commercially successful. In the beginning, its main purpose was to send and receive messages; no one anticipated that one-day people could buy books and cars over a computer. Though with the advancement of certain ...
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The Native American Attitude Toward The LandThe Native American people were a people of great love towards the
land. The way the great people of the past have shown their love is by the
way the oral tradition has past on the great ways of the traditional
worship of the land and the many gods play roles in their life. The Native
American ...
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Iraq And The United StatesIn the past seven years there has been a great deal of tension concerning the United States and Iraq. The United States have been discussing conducting air strikes against Iraq. The 1991 Gulf War may not have been as successful as believed. The United States spent millions of American dollars to ...
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Spot DiagnosisPsychiatrists and Psychologists around the world are
entrusted with the minds of millions of people who are in a less
than perfect mental state. What is it exactly that we expect
from these professionals when we send our loved ones into their
offices? I am not sure what I expected from them, but ...
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The Themes Of Great GatsbyA good novel has a number of themes. Throughout this book several appear. The following are important themes of The Great Gatsby.
The Great Gatsby is a novel about what happened to the American Dream in the 1920’s, a period when the old values that gave substance to the dream had been corrupted ...
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BauhausPost World War I Germany set the stage for the most organized art movement in art history. The movement was a reaction to the social changes the Germans were facing. The country had been crushed in the war. Their economy was collapsing. Mobs of unemployed people roamed the street waiting for ...
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Julius Caesar: Military And Political StrengthPerhaps no other man in the history of the world symbolizes military
and political strength as much as does Gaius Julius Caesar. This man became a
legend for his military exploits and an almost global setting, his political
manipulations which covered decades of cycles which covered power and ...
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Booker T. Washington: Fighter For The Black ManBooker T. Washington was a man beyond words. His perseverance and will to work
were well known throughout the United States. He rose from slavery, delivering
speech after speech expressing his views on how to uplift America's view of the
Negro. He felt that knowledge was power, not just ...
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Billie HolidayTo understand the controversy that Billie presented one must first go to the root or source of such controversy and examine Billie\'s childhood. Billie was born Eleanora Harris to her father Clarence Holiday and mother Sadie Fagan who were just fifteen and thirteen years old, respectively, at the ...
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Analysis Of Clockwork OrangeThe film, “A Clockwork Orange,” is, to me, an almost exact replica of today’s society. Basically, one kid, who seems to have come from a financially sound home and community, goes through about three stages--1. He violates the laws society has set forth to maintain order. 2. He is caught and ...
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Catcher In The Rye 2In The Catcher In The Rye Salinger portrays the main character Holden Caulfield as a protector of innocence which is shown through his protection of children, giving up his own innocence to help others, and his disgust of the graffiti on the walls. Holden is a very strong minded individual and is ...
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Booker T. Washington: Fighter for the Black Man was a man beyond words. His perseverance and will to work were well known throughout the United States. He rose from slavery, delivering speech after speech expressing his views on how to uplift America\'s view of the Negro. He felt that knowledge was power, not just ...
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Death Of A Salesman - Willys I“Willy Loman is destroyed by his own ideals”
Willy Loman is a travelling salesman who has worked for the Wagner firm for 34 years. He is now 61 years old and his job has been taken off salary and put on commission. He has a family and he boasts to them that he is “vital in New ...
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Lee Iacocca, born Lido Iacocca on October fifteenth 1924, was the son of
an Italian immigrant named Nicola Iacocca. He had one sister named Antonette.
The family lived in Allentown, Pennsylvania. His father was some what of an
entrepreneur in the food service industry. The family business was called ...
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