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Bob Marley
Words: 2214 / Pages: 9 .... the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) which was the most
prominent Black Power organization of the 1920s (Angelfire 3). Garvey although a
Roman Catholic encouraged his followers to imagine Jesus as Black and to organize their
own church.
From 1930 until the mid ‘60s is known as the Classical Period of Rastafari.
Rastafari was a local Jamaican religious movement with few outside influences. The
movement was dominated by “Elders” with widely varying views. There was no
agreement on basic doctrine or scripture. The Holy Piby and the King James Bible were
used by various Elders, but were freely emended and “correc .....
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Julius Caesar: Addaddination
Words: 1212 / Pages: 5 .... for power. Although he was strong and clever enough to wield that power, his tragic flaw, an unbearable arrogance, brought him to a tragic end. It was Caesar’s overwhelming ambition and arrogant personality that resulted from his success, that made his assassination inevitable.
Caesar was a fortunate man; he had lived in a great city, seen much of the western world, loved a foreign queen and accumulated enormous wealth. In a world where most rarely left their villages and were always under the shadow of debt, famine, and conquest, Gaius Julius Caesar was privileged. Throughout Caesar’s life, he effectively displayed great political and mi .....
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J.P. Morgan
Words: 2994 / Pages: 11 .... was a banker, railroad czar, industrialist, financier, philanthropist, yachtsman, and ladies' man. He was king to a handful of millionaire barons who controlled the country's wealth in an era of little government regulation.
The wealth of the Morgan family did not begin with Pierpont but with his grandfather Joseph Morgan. Joseph prospered as a hotelkeeper in Hartford, Connecticut. He helped to organize a canal company, steamboat lines and the new railroad that connected Hartford with Springfield. Finally he became one of the founders of the Aetna Fire Insurance Company. Joseph's first son was Junius Spencer Morgan, also destined for the life of .....
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Liberalism: Hervert Spencer
Words: 1571 / Pages: 6 .... He was a subeditor of The economist from 1848 to 1853, and then ventured into a full-time career as a free-lance author.
As early as 1842 Spencer contributed to the Nonconformist a series of letters called The Proper Sphere of Government, his first major publication. It contains his political philosophy of extreme individualism and Laissez Faire, which was not much modified in his writings in the following sixty years. Spencer expresses in The Proper Sphere of Government his belief that “everything in nature has its laws,” organic as well as inorganic matter. Man is subject to laws bot in his physical and spiritual essence, and R .....
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Benito Mussolini
Words: 901 / Pages: 4 .... he returned to his paper.
During the Chaos that Gripped Italy after the war Mussolini’s
influence grew swiftly. Mussolini and other war veterans founded
Fasci di Combattimento in March of 1919. This Nationalistic
antisocialist movement attracted much of the lower middle class and
took its name from the Fasces, an ancient symbol of Roman
discipline. The Fascist movement grew rapidly in the 1920’s,
spreading through the countryside where it’s Black Shirt Militia won
support of the land owners and attacked peasant leagues of Socialist
Supporters. To take advantage of the opportunity Fascism shed it .....
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Oscar Wilde
Words: 1256 / Pages: 5 .... and incorporated the Bohemian life style of his youth
into a unique way of life. He came under the influence of aesthetic innovators
such as English writers Walter Pater and John Ruskin. He found the aesthetic
movement's notions of "art for art's sake" and dedicating one's life to art
suitable to his temperament and talents. As an aesthete, Wilde wore long hair
and velvet knee breeches, and became known for his eccentricity as well as his
academic ability. His rooms were filled with various objets d'art such as
sunflowers, peacock feathers, and blue china. Wilde frequently confided that
his greatest challenge at University was learning to live u .....
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J.D. Salinger's Personal Life
Words: 607 / Pages: 3 .... person who happens to have a talent for
writing.
The same goes for dishing the dirt on his life. He's a private person who
wrote very personal stories. I feel that, even if there is not enough on
the pages to satisfy, what is there is filling enough. He gave the world
one novel and 35 short stories and that's all. He has actively resisted
surrenderring his whole life to public scrutiny, and that is not an easy
thing to do. I refuse to chip away at that shell. Besides, who cares about
his old loves and trips to Europe and family problems and all? That's what
fiction is for, after all!
So, some ask, why do I reveal the 22 "missing" stories and th .....
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Biography Of Rasputin
Words: 822 / Pages: 3 .... beliefs of the Khlysty sect. Rasputin perverted these beliefs
into the doctrine that one is nearest to God when feeling “holy
passionlessness” and that you reached this state after sexual exhaustion
that comes after prolonged debauchery. Rasputin did not become a monk.
Instead he returned home and married Proskovia Fyodorovna, who bore him
four children. Marriage did not satisfy him, so he left home and wandered
to Mount Athos, Greece, and Jerusalem living off peasant donations as a
self-proclaimed holy man with the ability to heal the sick and predict the
future.
Rasputin's travels took him to St. Petersburg where he was welcomed
with open a .....
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William James: The Later Years
Words: 1193 / Pages: 5 .... Wundt and his students. In James's opinion, any effort to seize and isolate individual elements of a thought process by means of Wundtian introspection would fail. But he felt that a naturalistic kind of introspection, to observe our own thoughts and feelings as they actually seem to us, could tell us alot about our mental life. This was for him, the most important of the investigative methods. Introspection required both concentration and practice, because inner states follow each other rapidly and often are blended and difficult to distinguish from one another. Just as with practice one can notice, observe, name, and classify objects outside ones .....
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Jacques Louis David
Words: 2120 / Pages: 8 .... ideals of the French Revolution, David imposed a fierce discipline on the expression of sentiment in his work. This inhibition resulted in a distinct coldness and rationalism of approach.
David's reputation was made by the Salon of 1784. In that year he produced his first masterwork, The Oath of the Horatii (Louvre). This work and his celebrated Death of Socrates (1787; Metropolitan Mus.) as well as Lictors Bringing to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons (1789; Louvre) were themes appropriate to the political climate of the time. They secured for David vast popularity and success. David was admitted to the Académie royale in 1780 and worked .....
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