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Wisdom Of The New Essays and Term Papers
Critical Biography On J. D. Salinger"The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it." -James Bryce*
In 1945, a novel was published that would forever change the way society views itself. The book, entitled The Catcher in the Rye, would propel a man named Jerome David Salinger to fame as one of the most ...
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Pythagoras Of SamosBorn: about 580 BC in Samos, Ionia
Died: about 500 BC in Metapontum, Lucania
Pythagoras (fl. 530 BCE) must have been one of the world's greatest men, but he wrote nothing, and it is hard to say how much of the doctrine we know as Pythagorean is due to the founder of the society and how much is ...
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Witchcraft 2It seems that in today’s society, new religions and practices are popping up all over the place. One of the oldest, yet fastest growing faiths today is witchcraft. This earth-based, nature oriented belief has been established since the thirteenth century, but it is not until recently that it ...
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SocratesTHE LIFE AND DEATH OF
Philosophy was both serious and dangerous, chose to ignore both. Ignoring the first made him one of the most engaging of all philosophers, ignoring the second was to cost him his life. He was born in a middle class home in Athens, in 470 BCE. His parents were Phaenarete and ...
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Could Gambling Save Science: Encouraging An Honest ConsensusVisiting Researcher, The Foresight Institute
P.O. Box 61058, Palo Alto, CA 94306 USA
hanson@charon.arc.nasa.gov 510-651-7483
To appear in Social Epistemology, 1992. (version appeared: in Proc. Eighth
Intl. Conf. on Risk and Gambling, London, 7/90.)
C O U L D G A M B L I N G S A V ...
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Fritz HaberThe name has long been associated with the well-known process of synthesizing ammonia from its elements. While primarily known for developing a process which ultimately relieved the world of dependence on Chilean ammonia, this twentieth century Nobel prize winner was also involved in the varying ...
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Camp David AccordBy 1978 the thirty-year war that had been fought between Egypt and Israel had come to a point where there was a chance for peace. The area that had been at the center of the turmoil was the West Bank of the Jordan River and the Gaza Strip. The problem was that both countries believed that they ...
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The Aeneidby Virgil and Inferno by Dante are both works centering around adventures. In both of these adventures, love is intertwined with suffering. Why are love and suffering connected as such? In , Aeneas suffered a great deal and then was fated to lead his people to Italy and Rome. Aeneas ...
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Uncle Tom's Cabin: An Analysis“The book, Uncle Tom's Cabin, is thought of as a fantastic, even
fanatic, representation of Southern life, most memorable for its emotional
oversimplification of the complexities of the slave system,” says Gossett
(4). Harriet Beecher Stowe describes her own experiences or ones that she
has ...
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Medea: SummaryTitle of Work: Medea Country/Culture: Greek Literary Period: Classical Type
Authorial information: Euripides was born in 484 BC and took up drama at
the young age of 25. At most drama competitions, however his plays came in
last place until he was about 45 or 50 years old. In his entire life, ...
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt - LiFranklin Delano Roosevelt, who lived from 1882 to 1945, was the 32nd President of United States (Electric Library). Roosevelt became the president in March 1933 at the depth of the Great Depression, was re-elected for an unprecedented three more terms, and died in office in April 1945. He died ...
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Anne Bradstreet: The Heretical PoetGreg Saxon
The purpose of this research is to discuss heretical elements in the
poetry of Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672). This is not to imply that Bradstreet was
a heretic in the sense that American religious reformer Anne Hutchinson was.
Hutchinson (1591-1643) emigrated to Boston in 1634 and ...
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Edgar Allen Poe's: "The Murders In The Rue Morgue"In Edgar Allen Poe's short story, "The Murders in the Rue Morgue",
a classic detective story is played out in a seedy Paris suburb. The story
begins as the narrator meets Monsieur C. Auguste Dupin, a poor but well-
read young man. As they become close friends, they live together in
seclusion, ...
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The Holy Bible And Its HistoryThe 66 books which make up the Holy Bible were originally written in ancient languages; Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek by men who were inspired by God. The Bible itself tells us that all scripture is by inspiration of God.
Old Testament
The Pentateuch (the Law)
Geneses, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, ...
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Computer Mediated EvnvironmentsCHOICE IN COMPUTER-MEDIATED ENVIRONMENTS
In the last several years, the increased diffusion of computer and telecommunications technologies in businesses and homes has produced new ways for organizations to connect with their customers. These computer mediated environments (CMEs) such as the ...
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Freedom And RevolutionIn 1922 Emma Goldman complained Soviet Russia, had become the modern
socialist Lourdes, to which the blind and the lame, the deaf and the dumb
were flocking for miraculous cures(1). The Russian Revolution was the first
occasion where decades of revolutionary ideas could be applied to real ...
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Culture AwarenessI was planning to take a leisurely trip this summer, but now I think
I'll have to change my plans. Instead I'll probably have to take a crash
course in Sensitivity for the Culturally Unaware. Maybe it's because I grew
up in Chicago, perhaps the most culturally diverse city in the country.
Maybe ...
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Hiroshima And Nagasaki BombingFifty four years ago, the detonation of the first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima (and later on Nagasaki) ushered to the Nuclear Age. It was a moment full of horror, in which the eyes of the whole world were opened to the unimaginable possibility of nuclear holocaust. The ...
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Macebth: Power Of KnowledgeIn William Shakespeare's Macbeth the protagonist is lured to murder the king, Duncan, by the desire for power, an appetite whetted by witch's prophecies and his wife's encouragement. But when he reaches the kingship, he finds himself insecure. He attempts to remove threats that decrease his ...
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Thomas Paine And Samuel Adams Contributing To "Selling The Revolution"Thomas Paine and Samuel Adams each contributed to “selling the
revolution” to a complacent society through their pamphlets, and writing
such as Common Sense, and The American Crisis, The Rights of Man, and The
Age of Reason, all of which concentrated on the emotions of the society
during the ...
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