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Frederick Douglass And Slavery
Number of words: 663 - Number of pages: 3.... holder. He would sometimes take great pleasure in whipping a slave.
Douglass was often times awakened by the screams of his Aunt. She would be
tied and whipped on her back. The master would whip her till he was
literally covered in blood. "No words, no tears, no prayers, from his gory
victim, seemed to move his iron heart from its bloody purpose." The louder
she screamed, the harder the master seemed to whip her. Douglass witnessed
this first as a child. As he grew older, many more of these incidents would
occur. "It struck me with awful force. It was the blood stained gate, the
entrance to .....
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Pablo Picasso
Number of words: 551 - Number of pages: 3.... the city's bohemian street life fascinating, and his pictures of people in dance halls and cafés show how he assimilated the postimpressionism of the French painter Paul Gauguin and the symbolist painters called the Nabis. The themes of the French painters Edgar Degas and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, as well as the style of the latter, exerted the strongest influence. Picasso's Blue Room (1901, Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.) reflects the work of both these painters and, at the same time, shows his maturity toward the Blue Period, so called because various shades of blue dominated .....
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James Baldwin
Number of words: 1941 - Number of pages: 8.... barrier was down… the question of who I was had at least become a personal question, and the answer was to be found in me.” He found the answer to who he was in being a novelist. Between 1948 and 1957, he lived in both France and Switzerland, returning to the United States in 1952 and 1956.
Over the span of Baldwin’s life, he was honored with many awards and recognitions. In 1953, he published Go Tell it On a Mountain, and a year later, in 1954; he received the Guggenheim Fellowship and wrote The Amen Corner, a play that was produced at Howard University. Go Tell it On a Mountai .....
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General George Custer
Number of words: 844 - Number of pages: 4.... just continued on his
path then there would’ve been a better chance of a success at the Little
Big Horn battle.
Not only did George Custer disobey his orders by going off his
ordered path, but he attacked a day early. If Custer had followed Terry’s
orders he would have reached the Indians on the day Gibbons men rescued
Reno (Brady,221). The fact that Custer made a decision to attack early put
him and his men in tremendous danger. It can only be said that no
satisfactory reasons appear which justify Custer’s action (Brady, 226).
George Custer also made the mistake when dividi .....
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Yamamoto
Number of words: 1892 - Number of pages: 7.... did. In 1918, he got married to Reiko, who, ironically, was from Watkamatsu. They had 4 children together, 2 sons, and 2 daughters. It was the standard Japanese family, the mother in charge of the household and of raising the children. He never really loved her, because he had many extramarital affairs, and 2 of the women he "loved". The life and times in Japan right before World War 2 are simply explained: The Imperialist Japanese Army, otherwise known as the "young Turks" was steadily gaining power in the government, was assassinating anyone who did not share in their views for a u .....
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Jesse Jackson: A Brief Biography
Number of words: 277 - Number of pages: 2.... In 1988 he received over seven million
votes, and registered over two million new voters.He never got one electoral
vote. He sees himself as the leader of African-Americans, women, unionists, the
homeless, the unemployed, and the underemployed. He is offended that Bill
Clinton has a large amount of minority supporters. He has been known to get
overly excited and emotional when speaking, and sometimes offends people. In one
speech he said that the Christian Coalition is made up of "Nazis, slave owners,
and segregationists." Another time he publicly remarked, "In Germany, they call
what's .....
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Comparing Hitler And Stalin In
Number of words: 1794 - Number of pages: 7.... the power back in to their countries. These three reasons will prove that Hitler and Stalin were similar in many ways.
The names Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin are synonymous with the word propaganda. In order to understand how Hitler and Stalin used propaganda, an understanding of what the word means, is required. According to Merriam-Webster, "propaganda is the spreading of ideas to further or damage a cause; also the ideas or allegations spread for a purpose". Hitler and Stalin each used propaganda as their tool to further their ideas and help them gain the backing of the people in t .....
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Grace Hopper Biography
Number of words: 523 - Number of pages: 2.... begin following her graduation.
Upon graduating, Grace was accepted to the Bureau of Ordinance at Harvard University. That is when she was introduced to and assigned to work on Mark I -- the first large-scale U.S. computer and precursor of electronic computers. Her first assignment with Mark I was to "have the coefficients for the interpolation of the arc tangents completed [in about one week]"… not a problem for Grace. She would then be the third person ever to program the Mark I. At that same time, the Mark I was being used to calculate the angles at which naval guns were to be aimed .....
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Lazzaro Spallanzani
Number of words: 703 - Number of pages: 3.... 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 generation in strongly heated infusions protected
from aerial contamination. In 1765, after cutting up thousands of
earthworms and exploiting the ability of the aquatic salamander to regrow
its .....
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The Work Of John Collier
Number of words: 2114 - Number of pages: 8.... in
his writings by trick endings or "take away endings" in which readers are
given all clues but asked to finish, the story on their own (Critical
Survey 1169). His subject manner is often the line between logical or
psychological meaning. The subject contains an irony that is well balanced
between an element of horror and humor. His short stories are based on
relationships of the young and old. Collier's characters are hoping to
fulfill their dreams and they do have them fulfilled but only to discov er
they have been dreaming the wrong thing.
"The Chaser" is a story that deals with a .....
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