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Miles Davis
Words: 1678 / Pages: 7 .... with arranger Gil Evans. Davis’ career was briefly interrupted by a heroin addiction, although he continued to record with other popular bop musicians.
1955 was ’ breakthrough year. His performance of "round midnight" at the Newport Jazz Festival alerted the critics that he was "back". Davis form a quintet which included Red Garland, Paul Chambers, Philly Joe Jones, and John Coletrain. In 1957 Davis made the first of many solo recordings with the unusual jazz orchestrations of Gil Evans, and he wrote music for film by Louis Malle.
In 1963Davis formed a new quintet including the talents of Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, Tony W .....
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Charles Babbage: The Pioneer Of The Computer
Words: 1062 / Pages: 4 .... research.
In 1810 Babbage Entered Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1814 he graduated Peterhouse and received his MA from Cambridge in 1817. In 1820 he founded the Analytical Society with Herschel and Peacock. Babbage started work on the Difference Engine in 1823 through funding from the British Government and in 1827 published a table of logarithms from 1 to 108000. In 1828 he was appointed to the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics at Cambridge, though he never presented a lecture. He founded the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1831 and in 1832 he published "Economy of Manufactures and Machinery". 1833 marked the beginni .....
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Benito Mussolini: Biography
Words: 137 / Pages: 1 .... HE was the editor of the
Socialist party News Paper. Mussolini rise to power In tribute to the
postwar Milan, Mussolini and other war vetrines founded Fasci di
Combattimeto in March 1919. The Nationalistc,antilieral, and antisocialist
movement attracted the lower and middle-class support and took its name
from the faces, an ancent Roman symble of Roman disciplen. When the Fascist
thretend to march on King Victor Emmanuel 3rd he invited Mussolini to a
coalition goverment. By this time the fascist leader transoformed the
country in to a single-party totalitarian regime. The party controlled
representing groups differnt sectors of the ecomeny. The systo .....
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Alexander Graham Bell
Words: 314 / Pages: 2 .... school.
Alexander Bell meet Thomas Watson at an electrical machine shop, Watson and
Alexander formed a friendship after Alexander told him of his idea about
transmitting speech over a wire. On June 2,1875, when working in the
transmitting room Watson produced a twang when trying to loosen up a wire.
Alexander working on the transmitter was able to send sounds that resembled that
of a human voice. Next, Alexander discovered that a wire vibrated by speech
when placed in a conducting liquid, like mercury and would produce a current.
Basically speech could be transmitted by wire. On March 10,1876 Alexander and
Watson were working on the ma .....
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The Presidency Of Woodrow Wilson
Words: 622 / Pages: 3 .... well as farmers have the needed
for water. Big business was a problem with monopolizing; especially J. P.
Morgan was a steal company that had a monopoly. This monopoly was in
violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act in 1902. A Supreme Court ruling
found 5-4 that the Northern Security Company was in violation. Protection
the consumer was a big subject as well The Jungle was a book about the meat
inspections of 1906. The Meat Inspections Act of 1906 was to outlaw
incorrectly labeled meat.
Woodrow Wilson was next in the line of presidents. He was a strong
jawed, leader, and moral man. He did not like any republicans, including
Teddy Roosevelt, and .....
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Lazzaro Spallanzani
Words: 703 / Pages: 3 .... he worked toward his
docterine in law. In 1753 or 1754 he became a doctor of philosophy. Then,
he recieved instructions in metaphysics and theology and took minor orders.
Within a few years he became a priest and added himself to two
congregations in Modena (Gillispie,2).
Spallanzani, in hundreds of experiments tested various rituals for
rendering infusions permanently barren and finally found that they
remained free of microorganisms when put into flasks that were sealed and
the contents boiled for one hour (Lazzaro...1).The entrance of air into
the flask through a slight crack in its neck was followed infusoria. He
reported no spontaneous gene .....
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Examples Of Charles Dickens Chthonic Journeys
Words: 655 / Pages: 3 .... money problems and his having to work even though he wants to go to school and get an education.
Throughout the essay there are countless examples as to how Dickens experienced chthonic journeys. One is that his family is in terrible condition. His father is in jail due to money problems, which then left the family with no money to pay their rent. Their father/husband borrowed money from people and never repaid them. Back in the
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1800’s if you owed people money and couldn’t pay them back you would go to jail. With no house to live in everybody but Charles Dickens goes to live in jail with their father
because they have no place .....
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John Gotti
Words: 2139 / Pages: 8 .... an injury that affected his gait for the rest of his life.
He quit school at sixteen and rose to leadership in a local street gang of thieves called the Fulton-Rockaway Boys, named after two streets in their neighborhood. At an early age he exerted his bad temper, dominance and readiness to engage in fistfights. These were just the right characteristics to develop his potential as a Mafia boss.
In the mid-1960's, Gotti's boss Carmine Fatico moved his headquarters out to Ozone Park near JFK Airport. Gotti, his brothers, Angelo and Willie Boy became relatively successful hijackers. That is, until they got caught in 1968 and landed in prison.
In 197 .....
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Antonin Scalia
Words: 641 / Pages: 3 .... Bar in 1970. While In Virginia, Scalia taught law at the Virginia Law School until 1974. In 1971, Scalia became General Counsel of the Office of Telecommunications Policy for the White House, and from 1972 to 1974, he was the chairman of the Administrative Conference of the US. Scalia was then appointed the assistant attorney general of the Office of Legal Counsel for the Department of Justice. In 1977, Scalia returned to teaching after 6 months serving as the resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute in DC. Him and his family picked up and moved again to Chicago, Illinois. While In Chicago, Scalia taught at the University of Chicago’ .....
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Andrea Dworkin
Words: 1418 / Pages: 6 .... kidnapped,
maimed; pornography says women want to be humiliated, shamed, defamed,
pornography says that women say no but mean yes - Yes to violence, yes to pain.”
(Dworkin p 203)
In response to Dworkin's fiery rhetoric, Wendy Mcelroy writes that
Dworkin has scientific backing and even cites evidence to the contrary. “In
Japan, where pornography depicting violence is widely available, rape is much
lower per capita than in the United States, where violence in porn is
restricted.” Mcelroy attacks the belief that pornography cause violence,
stating that even if a correlation is present, is does not necessarily mean
there is a causal relation .....
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