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Margaret Mead
Words: 246 / Pages: 1 .... and was educated at Barnard College and at Columbia University. In 1926 she became assistant curator of ethnology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, and she subsequently served as associate curator (1942-64) and as curator (1964-69). She was director of research in contemporary cultures at Columbia University from 1948 to 1950 and adjunct professor of anthropology there after 1954. In 1968 she was appointed full professor and head of the social science department in the Liberal Arts College of Fordham University at Lincoln Center in New York. She also served on various government and international commissions and was a contr .....
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Dantes Views Of Chivalry And Warfare - Cantos Xii And Xxviii
Words: 2735 / Pages: 10 .... but he passes judgement on himself as a member of the cavalry.
It is fitting that Dante chooses to use the canto, the "Violent against their Neighbors," as a metaphor that seeks to explain chivalric warfare. Chiron and his men are described as a massive army, the coming of which is described as such, "between it and the base of the embankment / raced files of Centaurs who were armed with arrows, / as, in the world above, they used to hunt." [02]Their numbers are in the "thousands" (XII, 73 ), and it seems appropriate that Dante chooses the centaurs, a mixture of both man and horse, to represent a medieval army, for during chivalric wars of Medi .....
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James Earl Jones: A Voice In The Crowd
Words: 2739 / Pages: 10 .... day by day, and they became
for me, once and for all, my mama and my papa@ (18) .
Less than three years later, the Connollys moved to Dublin Michigan
where James Earl and his >brother= Randy grew up in a remodelled chicken barn.
His early school life had a great impact on his style of speech and diction. AOn
my first day at school, I could not believe my ears,@ recalls Jones, AThey
called me James Earrrrl instead of James Uhl, as it had sounded in the
South@(40).
After the initial shock of hearing Northern dialect, Jones Aquickly
absorbed this different rhythm and style@ and embarked on the first half of a
long vocal journey leading to his dis .....
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Abraham Lincoln - Civil War President
Words: 733 / Pages: 3 .... it to court) for certain Confederate supporters who were too loud in
their support, but it prevented unrest when unity was needed to fight the
Confederacy. Lincoln appointed generals that, though not always successful,
were competent, including the famed Ulysses S. Grant. Lincoln kept
national unity, moderating his own views of slavery to keep the border
states of Kentucky, Missouri, Delaware and Maryland. He managed to stop
and European nations from interfering with his foreign diplomacy and his
speeches, such as the famed Gettysburg address, held the peoples's support
to him and the Union.
During the Civil War, all was not concentrated on .....
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A Little Bit About Einstein
Words: 1370 / Pages: 5 .... at a school in Ulm. Contrary to what you would think Albert hated formal schooling. He often did poorly in subjects such as Geography, Language, and History, but excelled in Mathematics and Science. He generally did his real studies at home where he concentrated on physics, mathematics, and philosophy. One year one of Einstein’s teachers suggested that he leave school, so at mid-term the 15 year old boy quit school. Einstein then moved to Italy to help his father in business. In 1895, he failed the entrance exam for the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. They suggested that he studied at a Swiss school in Aarau. There he studied .....
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The Life Of Edgar Allen Poe
Words: 384 / Pages: 2 .... as a writer. He
returned to Mrs. Clemm's home and submitted stories to magazines. His first
success came in 1833, when he entered a short-story contest and won a prize of
50 dollars for the story "MS. Found in a Bottle." By 1835 he was the editor of
the Southern Literary Messenger. He married his cousin Virginia, who was only 13,
and Mrs. Clemm stayed with the couple. The Poes had no children.
This success would not last. Poe's stories, poems, and criticism in the
magazine, The Southern Literary Messenger soon attracted attention, and he
looked for wider opportunities, not a good choice. From 1837 to 1839 he tried
free-lance writing in New York Cit .....
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Bill Gates
Words: 1635 / Pages: 6 .... to mess around with the
computer"(Gates 2). Back in the sixties and early seventies computer time was
expensive. "This is what drove me to the commercial side of the software
business"(Gates 12). Gates, Allen and a few others from Lakeside got entry-level
software programming jobs. One of Gates early programs that he likes to brag
about was written at this time. It was a program that scheduled classes for
students. "I surreptitiously added a few instructions and found myself nearly
the only guy in a class full of girls"(Gates 12).
In 1972 Intel released their first microprocessor chip: the 8008. Gates
attempted to write a version of BASIC (Begin .....
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Cleopatra 2
Words: 457 / Pages: 2 .... would be born by the jealousy of Caesar's adopted son Octavious. Octavious feared that the son of Caesar would be the true heir of the throne. Octavious convinced the council that Caesar was getting to powerful and must be stopped. Thus lead to the unexpected assassination of Julius Caesar.
Besides the death of Caesar, Ptolomey could have well been the reason for civil war. Marc Antony, (Caesar's most trusted horse master), was entitled to half of the Roman empire while sharing the other half with Octavious. Octavious and Antony made a marriage with each other which was later used to create a civil war. Octavious declared war with Egypt and the e .....
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The Life Of Richard Feynman
Words: 1128 / Pages: 5 .... bomb. The things that he worked
on included calculating the critical mass and the critical radius of the
bombs, finding a suitable material for insulating the bomb so the neutrons
would not escape, and calculating exactly how much uranium or plutonium
would be needed. He was very successful in this early work, and was quickly
promoted to one of the directors of the theoretical division. Feynman had
written that there were four main questions that needed to be answered
before the work could progress.
1. How big must the bombs be? What is the critical mass and radius for each
material? 2. What material would best serve as a tamper? 3. How pure woul .....
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Margaret Thatcher
Words: 1948 / Pages: 8 .... integration with Europe inspired a strong challenge to her leadership. Ms. Thatcher was ousted from leadership, and resigned in November 1990 and was succeeded as party leader and prime minister by her protégée, John Major: who, consequently, only served one short term.
Margaret Hilda Roberts was born October 13, 1925 to Beatrice and Alfred Roberts in the flat above her parents small grocery store. Margaret's father was the greatest influence in Margaret's life, politically as well as religiously and socially. Alfred Roberts came to Grantham during the First World War where he met and married Beatrice Stevenson. "The y .....
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