... a time I held a unique position: among the hundreds of isolated creatures who haunted the streets of lower downtown Denver there was not one so young as myself. Of these dreary men who had committed themselves, each for his own good reason, to the task of finishing their days as pennyless drunkards, I alone, as the sharer of their way of life, presented a replica of childhood to which their vision could daily turn, and in being thus grafted onto them, I became the unnatural son of a few score beaten men. ( The First Third) With him as not only the legendary driver of On The Road but also as the driver of the bus with the Merry Pranksters in tow, the two generati ...
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... Nation in 1926, entitled "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain". It spoke of Black writers and poets, "who would surrender racial pride in the name of a false integration", where a talented Black writer would prefer to be considered a poet, not a Black poet, which to Hughes meant he subconsciously wanted to write like a white poet. Hughes argued, "no great poet has ever been afraid of being himself'. He wrote in this essay, "We younger Negro artists now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased we are glad. If they aren't, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too... If colored peopl ...
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... was warned by a Soothsayer, that something was going to happen “Beware the Ides of March” (Act I Scene II), he was told. He was warned several other times also. Even though Julius Caesar was a superstitious man, he chose to ignore the warnings. His superstition shows when he claims his wife, Calpurnia, she can be cured of sterility if she is touched by one of the holy runners. In this case the holy runner is friend Mark Antony who is with him until the end. Two other men in the crowd, Marcus Brutus and Cassius, are nobles and conspire against Caesar. They plan to assassinate Caesar and his friend Mark Antony. Caesar starts to sense this and says to his friend ...
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... involved in the analysis of some part of Nature come to the "Aha!" that there's a power at work imposing order, design, structure and purpose in creation. Modern religious piety salivates at the prospect of converting scientists and will take them any way it can. From Plato to Planck the problematic lion of religion must be rendered safe and tame. Religion must be reasonable, after all, we are reasonable "men." Einstein writes that the scientist's "religious feeling takes the form of rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human bein ...
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... Beethoven did his first shows in Vienna in 1795. He was the first composer that was not supported by wealthy persons; instead Beethoven supported himself with money from selling his music. By 1778, Beethoven started hearing humming and whistling sound in his ears, and it got worse. A few years later, he became completely deaf. Although he was deaf he could still write music. He finished his first symphony in 1800. In 1802, Beethoven became depressed and thought a lot about suicide. He went to a small village in Germany where he stayed for a few years. The next couple of years Beethoven created his most impressing masterpieces. In 181 ...
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... In a crowd, the vociferation and frenzy of that crowd often drowns out the truth, even if each member of that crowd has individually obtained the truth . Kierkegaard makes the statement that "only one attains the goal", in that we all are capable of obtaining said goal (in this case the eternal truth) if we each seek after the goal as individuals. In crowds, he says, it is sure that no one is working, living, striving for the highest aim, but only for one or another earthly aim. Only as individuals (with God as our helper) can we obtain that which is the absolute, eternal truth. In these beginning paragraphs, Kierkegaard has already set his theme for this pas ...
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... displayed his potential at a very young age. He played all positions on the field, and was an excellent pitcher. He also possessed a superb ability to hit the ball. By his late teens Ruth had developed into a major league baseball prospect. On February 27, 1914, at the age of nineteen, Ruth was signed to his first professional baseball contract by Jack Dunn, manager of the Baltimore Orioles, at the time a minor league franchise in the International League. Because Ruth's parents had signed over custody of the youngster to St. Mary's he was supposed to remain at the school until the age of twenty-one. To get around this, Dunn became Ruth's legal guardian. Whe ...
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... Mary Anna Morrison in 1857. His notoriety became known when he was a General at the Battle of Bull Run. Jackson’s men formed such a strong line that another southern general said, “There is Jackson standing like a stone wall. Rally behind the Virginians!”. That is where he earned the name Stonewall. He was an amazing general. In the Shenandoah Valley in 1862, he conquered the North of 60,000 soldiers with his 17,000 men. Jackson fought under Lee in the Seven Days’ Battles, the Second Battle of Run, Antietam, Cedar Mountain and Fredericksburg. His greatest battle though, was in Chancellorsville in 1863. Jackson’s men took a vast defeat here. That night tho ...
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... lost his next bid for the Senate, , Jr.’s decision to join the military helped allay the concerns of his father’s constituency about , Sr.’s opposition to the war. Gore served his time in Vietnam as an army reporter. When he returned to the States in 1971, he worked as a reporter at the Tennessean . When he was later moved to the city politics beat, Gore uncovered political and bribery cases that led to convictions. While at the Tennessean , Gore, a Baptist, also studied philosophy and phenomenology at Vanderbilt University. In 1974 he enrolled in Vanderbilt’s law school. Just two years later, he began to campaign for the Democratic nomination for Tennessee’s ...
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... the X-ray diffraction techniques (that she has become most famous for) while working in a Paris laboratory between 1947 and 1950, with crystallographer Jacques Mering. X-ray crystallography helped determined the three dimensional structure of DNA when Franklin returned to England. She became the first person to find the molecule¡¯s sugar-phosphate backbone while working with a team of scientists at King¡¯s College in London. Unfortunately, leadership misunderstandings and personality conflicts depreciated Franklin¡¯s effectivness in the laboratory. Maurice Wilkins, the laboratory¡¯s second in command, returned from a vacation expecting Franklin to work under ...
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