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Cambridge Essays and Term Papers
Henry David Thoreau: The Great Conservationist, Visionary, And HumanistHe spent his life in voluntary poverty, enthralled by the study of
nature. Two years, in the prime of his life, were spent living in a shack
in the woods near a pond. Who would choose a life like this? Henry David
Thoreau did, and he enjoyed it. Who was Henry David Thoreau, what did he
do, and ...
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Tennessee WilliamsThomas Lanier “Tennessee” Williams is acknowledged as one of the greatest American dramatists of the post-World War II era. His stature is based almost entirely upon works he completed during the first half of his career. William’s lyrical style and his thematic concerns are distinctive in ...
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Biography Of Edgar Allen PoeEdgar Allen Poe was one of the most successful writers of all time.
He is known for his tales of the mysterious and macabre. He is reported to
be the first master of the short story form (Edgar Allen Poe). About 12 of
his works are known for their flawless literary construction. Poe had a
rough ...
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Australopithecus AfarenisLouis Leakey found the first fossil remains of the species in 1935 during an excavation in Africa. He found a canine tooth from the A. afarenis species while in Laetoli, Tanzania, which is near Lake Victoria. He met his future wife Mary at Cambridge. It was 43 years until the next remains would ...
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John Donne And The Psychology Of DeathThe seventeenth-century poet John Donne has gone down in the history of popular culture for three lines: “No man is an island,” “Ask not for whom the bell tolls -- it tolls for thee”, and the opening of a poem called “Death be not proud”. This last came from a collection of Donne’s poems which ...
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Analysis Of The Poems Of William WordsworthWilliam Wordsworth is widely considered one of the most influential
English romantic poets. In the preface of his book, Lyrical Ballads,
published in 1798, Wordsworth declared that poetry should contain language
really used by men. This idea, and many of his others, challenged the ...
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Fire 2Fire is a topic on which most people can comment. Fire is a widespread phenomenon. Most of us have seen fires in natural vegetation, or their effects; stark, blackened vegetation or a smoke pall. Because fires such as these can have damaging economic and social effects, can spoil forestry ...
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Black HolesOn December 3, 1995, astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope identified a black hole in the galaxy NGC 4621, located 100 million light-years from Earth in the direction of the constellation Virgo.
This is the second super-massive black hole that astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope ...
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Why Sex Education Should Be Taught In SchoolsMost America teenagers are sexually active and think nothing could ever
happen to them.
But, many of them are misinformed about the risks that are involved in
sex. Teens also don't always know the best ways to protect themselves and their
partners from becoming pregnant or getting STD's.
Alan ...
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Hippie CultureThe Life in America has been molded by many factors including those of the hippie movement in the Sixties. With the development of new technology, a war against Communism, and an internal war against racial injustice, a change in America was sure to happen. As the children of the baby boom became ...
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Rutherford's Gold Foil ExperimentRutherford started his scientific career with much success in local schools
leading to a scholarship to Nelson College. After achieving more academic
honors at Nelson College, Rutherford moved on to Cambridge University's
Cavendish laboratory. There he was lead by his mentor J.J. Thomson ...
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Lenonard BernsteinLeonard Bernstein was born in Lawrence, just north of Boston, on Sunday, August 25, 1918. Bernstein was named Louis at birth, after his mother’s grandfather, but at the age of sixteen he had it formally changed to Leonard, or Lenny.
As a child, Bernstein was sick very often with asthma and ...
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Death Penalty - Herrera Vs ColThe Supreme Court addressed the constitutionality of executing someone who claimed actual innocence in Herrera v. Collins (506 U.S. 390 (1993)). Although the Court left open the possibility that the Constitution bars the execution of someone who conclusively demonstrates that he or she is actually ...
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Charles DarwinLike many students, was only intrested in topics that was intresting to him and although his father was a doctor, Darwin was very unintrested in medicine and he also couldnt stand the sight of surgery. He did eventually get a degree in Theology from Cambridge University, Although Theology was a ...
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Attitudes Toward Marriage In Chaucer's The Canterbury TalesChaucer's The Canterbury Tales demonstrate many different attitudes
toward and perceptions of marriage. Some of these ideas are very
traditional, such as that discussed in the Franklin's Tale, and others are
more liberal such as the marriages portrayed in the Miller's and the Wife
of Bath's ...
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History Of ComputersENG 121
The volume and use of computers in the world are so great, they have
become difficult to ignore anymore. Computers appear to us in so many ways that
many times, we fail to see them as they actually are. People associated with a
computer when they purchased their morning coffee at the ...
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SocratesTHE LIFE AND DEATH OF
Philosophy was both serious and dangerous, chose to ignore both. Ignoring the first made him one of the most engaging of all philosophers, ignoring the second was to cost him his life. He was born in a middle class home in Athens, in 470 BCE. His parents were Phaenarete and ...
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Uses And Abuses Of InformationIn George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, we are presented with a dystopian vision of the future. Orwell’s book follows the life of Winston Smith, a citizen of Airstrip 1, formerly Britain and part of the nation of Oceania. The country is governed by Ingsoc, the English Socialists, a ...
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John Daltonwas born on September 6, 1766 in Eaglesfield, Cumberland, England. was a British chemist and physicist who developed the atomic theory of matter and therefore is known as one of the fathers of modern physical science.
Dalton was the son of a Quaker weaver. When only 12 he became in charge of a ...
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Sheyann WebbOn August,13 1860, Pheobe Ann Moses was born to Jacob and Susan Moses in their one room cabin in Patterson, Ohio. When Annie was around 6, her father contracted pnemonia while traveling the 18 miles home from town in a blizzard, and died in the spring of 1866. Afterward, Susan had trouble ...
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