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Summary

The Epigraph to Poe's “Berenice” by Michael Beard addresses an issue of a Latin epigraph “Dicebant mihi sodales si sepulchrum amicae visitarem, curas meas aliquantulum fore levatas,” originally written by an Arab. Alterton and Craig have best translated the following quotation as: “My companion said to me, if I would visit the grave of my friend, I might somewhat alleviate my worries” (Beard 611). Michael Beard assumes that this Latin phrase is not rooted in Arabic literature, however, such a trope is frequently seen in Arabic poetry as an evocative opening line, or a preface.
If we look at an Arab ...

Introduction

The influence of many successful personalities has been very important for many people looking for career paths. By identifying with the interests of these people, students in schools have been able to curve their career paths. As a business student, I have often dreamt about leaving a legacy that not only serves the world innovatively, but also culminates in the achievement of my dreams. It is for this reason that I have found Sir Richard Branson to be very inspiring as business personality. In this paper, I will ventilate on the biography of Sir Richard Branson. I will highlight his career ...

Introduction

In Latin America, there were different forms of labors that the slaves were assigned to during the slavery era. Juan Francisco Manzano was one of the slaves who wrote about the slavery and their daily lives through an autobiography. In Latin America, the works of Manzano is considered to be the few narratives that was done by a slave about slavery. Manzano is claimed to have taught himself how to read and write. In looking at Manzano’s tell of slavery, it proves to be almost similar to other works done about slavery in the Latin America especially in the ...

One of the most renowned musicians spanning different points in time is Ludwig Van Beethoven. His date of birth was not accurately disclosed; but the first information revealed in his biography is his baptismal date which was noted as December 17, 1770 at Bonn, Germany. His musical career was allegedly influenced by his father, Johann, who was noted to have taught him when he was still very young. As such, at the age of seven and a half, Ludwig was disclosed to have made his first public appearance at Cologne .
The number of musical scores and compositions of Beethoven ...

Although slavery has been condemned as a crime against humanity, there was once a time when men and women were considered as less than animals and were made to work under the harshest circumstances. While treatment towards both the genders might have differed, the general attitude towards slaves was the same which was exhibited by those who were well off and had enough money to afford servants. The premise of this paper is to compare and contrast the arguments which have been given by Fredrick Douglas in his autobiography. Douglas was the son of a slave and saw very little of his ...

- How do artists use silence and solitude to influence their work? Why incorporate silence and periods of solitude? How do they affect your own art making?
Artists use silence and solitude in their work through the various forms of art that represent solitude and silence. Such forms paint a picture of thoughtfulness and being lonely that eventually show a moment of silence and solitude. This happens when an artist intentionally creates some space for silence to be seen in his work. The importance of these two is that they rejuvenate the artist’s creativity and positively influence the art. ...

Why Americans Love P. T. Barnum
If Americans love one thing it is a good show. Aside from other things that P. T Barnum may have represented to others—a politician, a performer, a manager, a legislator, to some a scam artist, Americans loved him because Americans love being entertained. It is beyond the scope of this essay to go into depth on that, but there would not be a lack of information to make a strong case for our love of entertainment.
That is exactly what Phineas delivered time after time, with acts that earned him large amounts of money at the time. Names which ...

The Early Dreams of Ross Perot

Born Henry Ross Perot on June 27, 1930, Perot grew up in the rural Texarkana, Texas (bio.com, 2011)1. Hard work was engrained into Perot’s life from a very early age. At as young as seven he was already working a myriad of jobs. Perot credits the values learned in his childhood to his later success in life.
After high school, Perot enrolled in the United States Naval Academy (Entrepreneur.com, 2008). After returning from duty, he was hired at IBM and was quickly recognized as a talented salesman. Discontent with being a mere salesman, Perot continually thought up ways to improve ...

Günter Grass reached adolescence during the last two months of World War II when all hopes of a successful resistance to Hitler had been lost. Grass was drafted into the Nazi Waffen SS tank division when he was only seventeen. At that time, anyone who still had all their limbs were being sent by the Third Reich to the rapidly retreating front. Although it has been sixty years since the war ended, but Germans who belonged to Heinrich Himmler's personal army as a member of the Nazi Waffen-SS still have a tough time. In his autobiography Peeling Onion, Grass himself admits ...

The creative world or the world of one's fantasies is inevitable connected with its author - the person that creates it, on whose experiences and personal perceptions it is based on. In this context, creation of everything requires the presence of the author, and it depicts part of the author's personality within the creation itself. Thus, it can be argued that personality of the author is present in all of his creations. On the other hand, some works are more descriptive of author's perception than others. This phenomenon can be explained either by the degree of author's participation in ...

Autobiography: A Self-Recorded Fiction, John Barth

The Autobiography: A Self-Recorded Fiction is one of the short stories in John Barth’s short story collection, Lost in the Funhouse. Lost in the Funhouse is classified as a metafictional book. Barth put his stories in print form, but he used a metafictional voice that has characteristics fit for electric media such as computers. It is, therefore, evident that Barth appreciated the presence of technology when writing his literature works.

In this particular short story, The Autobiography: A Self-Recorded Fiction, Barth uses a metafictional voice to tell the story. The story has only one character who tells their own story in a ...

A Matter of Perspective: Reflections on Conflicting Views of History

If the study of history is a matter of perspective, then so is the question of whether it is better to contemplate history from a personal perspective, or from the vantage point of the great and powerful. Irene Nemirovsky’s Suite Francaise, and Charles de Gaulle: A Brief Biography with Documents represent two vastly different viewpoints. Charles Cogan’s 1996 biography features never-before-seen primary sources and recounts the life of a man whose political fortunes were part and parcel of French post-war history. Thomas Carlyle’s “Great Man Theory” of history (an inheritor of Plutarch’s “exemplary lives” model) was a remnant of ...

Introduction

The term research refers to the organized method used in investigating, experimenting and evaluating a specific situation or aspect and using the insights from such a process to come to a conclusion. Research is based on theories, facts, observation and predictability of results to map a way forward. Research strategies have been classified into either qualitative or quantitative research methods. Qualitative research methods have generally been defined as research that seeks to find data about subject matter that goes beyond simple numerical data. Some of the methods employed by qualitative research include interviews, observation, questionnaires and detailed document analysis. Quantitative research methods on ...

George Perle

Composer George Perle was born in Bayonne, NJ, May 6, 1915, though he grew up in farms in Indiana and Wisconsin (Kozinn 2009). His parents were both Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe, and neither had any musical training; his mother was a housewife and his father was a housepainter (Cummings n.d.). Perle’s first exposure to music was when he heard an aunt play Chopin’s Étude in F minor. About this, he said, “It literally paralyzed me . . . I was extraordinarily moved and acutely embarrassed at the same time, because there were other people in the room, and I could tell ...

The creation of spiritual autobiographies helps readers to understand the intensity of the spiritual growth that the authors experience. Examples of significant spiritual autobiographies include John Woolman who creates “In the Journal of John Woolman” and Anne Bradstreet who creates “To My Dear Children”. There are significant differences in the denominations of the two authors. For example, Woolman is a Quaker while Bradstreet is a Puritan. They create their narrations in similar ways because of the respective attachments that they seem to have with religion. In both their autobiographies, the

y take their time in exampling significant religious occurrences throughout their ...

Looking at the nature of autography, a person writes it analyzing oneself in a historical account of him/her. In simple terms, one writes about him or herself and gives this information to others to read. Autobiographies are one of the best sources of historical data, a statement that I will critically analyze in this paper.
On support of autography as a source of historical data, one of the reasons making it a reliable source of information is the writer. One can write very crucial information about oneself regardless of the implication on the society. This is well illustrated in the just read autograph ...

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin wrote one of the most intelligent and purposeful autobiographies in history. Franklin emerged from the American Revolution one of the most famous men in the world. An inventor/entrepreneur/publisher/writer with a keen sense of self-promotion, Franklin was spectacularly successful at using his celebrity as a platform from which to share the wisdom collected from a life of remarkable achievement. Perhaps the most notable aspect of his memoir is the fact that it combined simple language and personal examples with brilliant, often deceptively complex personal philosophy. The result is a truly “democratic” literary work in that it offers something beneficial for everyone.

Keywords: Benjamin Franklin, autobiography, American Revolution, memoir

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Joyce Carol Oates is an American writer born in Lockport, NY on June 16, 1938 (“Joyce Carol Oates Biography”). Her desire to write began around age three or four years old, when she made picture books to tell her stories because she did not yet know how to write; even though she loved reading and the stories themselves, her greater impulse was to be the author, the one in control behind the stories (Oates). Oates is an extremely prolific writer. She was able to publish two or three books each year while teaching full time and publishing a literary magazine ...

Contrary to popular belief, history is not only the scholarly, formal, recorded, writings found in texts; it can take several forms: autobiography; biography; letter writing; and diary.

An autobiography is the details of one’s life written by that person. Autobiographies utilize any number of the following aims: to inform; to justify; to reveal; to communicate; to reflect, and to record. Just imagine what this world would be if no footprints were left in ‘the sand of times.” A world without history, what reason would there be to hope? What would be the meaning of hope if there is ...

“Courage” features in Anne Sexton’s eighth and last original poetry collection, The Awful Rowing Toward God, published by Houghton Mifflin. This collection was published in 1975, a year after her suicide (biography). In “Courage,” Sexton takes the reader through four stages of life, using a sequence of symbolic metaphors to illustrate the courageous ways in which humans counter adversity.
Sexton uses the enticing title “Courage” as a theme that she then goes on to explain in the poem. In the first stanza, the “it” is courage and the examples of courage are listed after “it.”
“Courage,” contains four freeverse ...

U.S. Senator, Missouri

2011-Present

Personal Background
Martial Status: Married to Abigail Blunt
Education: B.A. History, Southwest Baptist University (1970) https://ballotpedia.org/Roy_Blunt
M.A. History, Missouri State University (1972) https://ballotpedia.org/Roy_Blunt
Previous Experience: Clerk of Greene County, Missouri (1972-1984) https://ballotpedia.org/Roy_Blunt
Missouri Secretary of State (1985-1992) https://ballotpedia.org/Roy_Blunt
President, Southwest Baptist University (1993-1996) https://ballotpedia.org/Roy_Blunt
U.S. House of Representatives (1996-2010) https://ballotpedia.org/Roy_Blunt

Committee Assignments:

Appropriations Committee 2011- present https://ballotpedia.org/Roy_Blunt
Commerce. Science, and Transportation Committee 2011-2016 https://ballotpedia.org/Roy_Blunt
Rules and Administration Committee 2011- present (became chairman 2015) https://ballotpedia.org/Roy_Blunt
Joint Committee on the Library 2015- present https://ballotpedia.org/Roy_Blunt
Joint Committee on Printing 2015-present (vice chairman) https://ballotpedia.org/Roy_Blunt
Committee on Armed Services 2013-2014 https://ballotpedia.org/Roy_Blunt

Sponsored Legislation

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Jean-François Champollion, the founder of Egyptology, found the cartouche with the name of a pharaoh that nobody had heard about – Hatshepsut. This king of Egypt was depicted near another pharaoh who was known as Thutmose III. Champollion read that the Egyptians used words of feminine gender while describing Hatshepsut, but he did not understand why. Only a hundred years after that Howard Carter accidentally found out that Hatshepsut was a she-king.
Hatshepsut (Hatshepsowe) ruled approximately during 20 years in the fifteenth century B.C. (Hatshepsut Biography). Her reign was the longest among female pharaohs and one of the most ...

Benjamin Franklin and Democratic Citizenship

Benjamin Franklin was born in 1706, Boston, Massachusetts. He was the tenth born son of a candle maker and soap. In his early years, Benjamin went through a formal education. However, he was among people who were self-taught and principles at that time. He worked for both his father and his brother as a printer. In the year 1721, he established the New England Courant, which became the fourth paper in the colonies. His first writings were 14 essays which he published in this newspaper. Due to his unconventional beliefs on religion coupled with his disagreements with Bostonians, he ...

Suzanne observes that; for decades, Hemingway scholars have used the term remate to describe the uniqueness in Hemingway's approach to autobiography and memoir. She also notes that Mary Hemingway's definition and use of the word remate is wrong. This wrong definition necessitates her to argue that reconsidering how we define and use the term remate would change our understanding about A Moveable Feast. She does manage to convince us through her well-dissected arguments, why Mary's definition and use of the term remate as well as that of other scholars is wrong, and that reconsidering the definition of the word ...

Justin Bieber

Justin Bieber
Justin Bieber was born to a young, unwed mother in Ontario, Canada. At two years old, his mother purchased a drum set for him. In addition to learning to play those drums, he also learned piano, guitar and trumpet, and was noted to have natural vocal talent, by the age of 13 (Justin Bieber, n.d.). Following a local talent show in which he placed second, Bieber’s mother began posting videos of him playing and singing, said to have been done in order to simply share with their friends and family. However, the young musician soon began ...

There are so many factors and fronts from which an autobiography can be criticized. Ake: The Years of Childhood is an autobiography written and based on the childhood encounters of Wole Soyinka. It highlights the enchanting accounts of the author’s childhood experience in a small town of Abeokuta located in Western Nigeria. While most childhood experience exhibits various similarities, the region of child development highly affects one’s childhood experience. This autobiography presents the childhood experiences exhibited across the region of West Africa. While these encounters may not represent Africa as a whole, there are certain childhood encounters ...

Essay Plan

Introduction/Thesis
In 'Spiders in the Centre of Their Webs': The NSW Police and Bushranging in the 1860s, Susan West speaks of bushrangers that rose to prominence in late 19th century Australia. This paper will look at the rise of bushranging in Australia and discuss the culpability of Australian Law in regards to the rise of the bushrangers. The sources that will be utilized were chosen because they seemed to be upon initial inspection relevant to the thesis topic.

This paper uses a number of primary and secondary sources including books, online websites, and PDF’s. The purpose of all ...

In a sense, any rock music is revolutionary. By its very beat and sound it has always instinctively rejects restrictions and celebrates freedom and sexuality. At first, this music was not taken seriously by anyone. It was thought that this is another fashion that will soon disappear, as it was the case with charleston, boogie-woogie and twist. But this music very fast “won” the world. In the development of the music of the late 1960s trends towards an increase of its role in society, characteristic for the 1960s, manifested especially evidently: from another means of entertainment rock music through ...

Biography

Nikola Tesla was born on July 10, 1856 in Smiljan, Croatia, as a fourth child to parents Milutin Tesla and Djuka Mandic. His father was a Serbian Orthodox Priest while his mother was an inventor of household appliances. Although pressured by his father to join the priesthood, Tesla was mostly interested in sciences.
His calling was towards electrical engineering, for which he studied at the Polytechnic Institute in Graz, Austria, the Realschule, Karlstadt and the University of Prague. Tesla moved to Budapest and began his career working with a telephone company in 1881 and it was during this time ...

Nymphs and a Satyr" and "The Dance."

Art has different forms and has different meanings for artists and art lovers. At times, the subject matter or painting style of two distinct artists brings forward similarities and contrasts of individual art period or art movement. The paper will discuss the formal treatment and iconography of “Nymphs and a Satyr" by Adolphe-William Bouguereau and "The Dance" by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux. It focuses on what they were used for and if they communicate a message and what is the cultural context behind. Adolphe William Bouguereau was born in France in 1825 and studied at Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris where ...

Final Reflective Portfolio

This paper is a reflection of the skills I have gained in this class. It focuses on four texts and analyses them as indicators of my development as a reader and creator of literary and cultural texts. Three of the analyzed texts were created for this class while the fourth was written for a math class.

Part 1: Texts

The Ultimate Book of Martial Arts
Fay Goodman's book entitled The Ultimate Book of Martial Arts is already an entertaining read by itself. However, different parts of the book contain paratextual elements that give it a new meaning and make it a more ...

The distrust between East and West may be as old as the confluence of the two parts of the world themselves. After all, it was during his attempt to conquer India that Alexander the Great fell ill with the fever that was the only thing that kept him from world conquest (Biography.com Editors). The ongoing war between the feverishly fervent establishment of Islam and the coolly complacent secular-Christian West is only becoming more and more entrenched by the news cycle, as the West seems to have forgotten that it’s only been a few centuries since its leaders were ...

Immigration/Amnesty for Undocumented Immigrants

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Immigration/Amnesty for Undocumented Immigrants

Introduction

Illegal immigration has been at the center of controversy for many years in US politics. However, there have been different solutions presented to deal with the issue of illegal immigration. These differing solutions have been presented to the public with the help of media outlets, such as FOX News and CNN. Furthermore, it should be noted that when US citizens get “their news from CNN” the views expressed on this media outlet did not in any way influence “pro- and anti-immigration attitudes” (Gil de Zúñiga, Correa, & Valenzuela, 2012, p. 608). ...

The Autobiography of Malcolm X was published after Malcolm X’s death in 1965. It is said that this posthumous publication managed to change the public’s opinion of Malcolm X as of a violent activist. The Autobiography shows Malcolm X from the other perspective, viz. as a person capable of self-criticism as well as the one who had a long hard way to self-improvement and spiritual growth.
In general, Malcolm X’s route to being an educated person was a complicated one with many obstacles on the way. He did go to school, but quit it when he ...

Introduction

There are numerous reasons that may support the current upward trend being experienced by the travel industry. This is highly evident among young people who have a lot of free time at their disposal and those who are already employed full-time . With the combination made by a stable income and a significant amount of free time after work, more and more people from the younger generations are becoming enticed to spend their hours and money traveling to different locations.
The trend in travel and tourism is so strong that evidences of its growth are now evident even in rural ...

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Thomas Alva Edison is one of the most prolific American inventor and innovator of all time and he accomplished this feat despite the fact that he was not formally educated in science and technology. According to observers, Edison was able to secure more than 1,000 patents in his lifetime, which includes significant inventions such as the utilization of electricity for lighting, the camera, the motion picture, and the phonograph. Apart from his work, Edison’s personal life is also as remarkable as his inventions. Thomas Edison was of British and Dutch origin. His father being a ...

Hinduism, which remains the oldest surviving religion known to man was also the religion practiced by the royal family of Siddhartha Gautama, which confers that the Hindu philosophy of Samsara is the truest and most profound for its spiritual effect on the people of India. Although the Buddha is a wise man who has contributed greatly to humanity with a simplification of the concepts and ideals of the Hindu philosophy; the Buddhist philosophy comes from the ancient teachings of the Hindu religion and texts. One must consider Buddhism as the less complex and elementary version of the Hindu religion, which has ...

Life of Charlemagne was a biography of the life of Charlemagne, who was a Frankish king and the emperor of Western Europe. The biography was written by Einhard, a dedicated servant of the emperor and his son Louis the Pious. The text is considered as one of the most valuable works of the early middle ages as it portrays the way of life among the people who existed at that time. Einhard was a Frankish courtier and scholar. Though he was from a poor background, he was able to study at Fulda. He was an exceptional student and due ...

The book “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass”. Is one of the most celebrated and finest slave narratives of the nineteenth century. It is an autobiography of a well-known Afro-American during his life as a slave. The whole book exploits the author’s early life, a life that ended soon after his escape from slavery. At the time of his escape from slavery, it is said that Douglass was approximately twenty years old. The book is a formative of some of the experiences that he faced in his lifetime during his demonstration for the cruelty of the slavery as well as his ...

"The Lives of the Twelve Caesars" (De vita Caesarum) is the main work of Roman historian Suetonius, written during his tenure as secretary of Emperor Hadrian. It is a collection of biographies of Julius Caesar and the first 11 Roman princeps, from Augustus to Domitian. This work is one of the most important works of antiquity. It is written in simple language, and each biography of Emperors is written in a certain pattern. For example, Suetonius description always starts on the origin of of the each ruler, the early years of his life, his social activities, then proceeds to personal qualities ...

"The Lives of the Twelve Caesars" (De vita Caesarum) is the main work of Roman historian Suetonius, written during his tenure as secretary of Emperor Hadrian. It is a collection of biographies of Julius Caesar and the first 11 Roman princeps, from Augustus to Domitian. This work is one of the most important works of antiquity. It is written in simple language, and each biography of Emperors is written in a certain pattern. For example, Suetonius description always starts on the origin of of the each ruler, the early years of his life, his social activities, then proceeds to personal qualities ...

A game changer in the modern world in the origins of political struggle has been the ability of enacting political changes vianon-violent struggle. From apartheid in South Africa, to the Velvet Revolution of Czech, to the Civil Rights movement in The United States, to non-violent struggle for freedom led by Mohandas Gandhi, it has change the very nature of what concerned citizens can accomplish through. As a leader and inspiration of this movement, Mohandas Gandhi is not just an important thinker for India. His influence has affected governments and promoted freedom across the globe and the change his ideas lead ...

The current paper relates differences between entrepreneurial and leadership styles based on analysis of the three persons, namely: Bill Gates, Steven Jobs, and Timothy Cook. The main concepts of leadership and entrepreneurship were outlined and applied to the persons who were identified. The main problem of the research is to reveal whether leadership behaviors affect career outcomes. The topic of the research is of great interest because of much attention paid by scholars and publicity to the issues of leadership qualities and their influence on career and personal development. The methodology of the project is based on analysis of ...

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Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Wife of Bath’s tale and her prologue are deemed by many to be some of the best parts of The Canterbury Tales. The story vividly describes the role of a woman in the Middle Ages through the character of Alison. However, her position does not seem to be very typical for that period of time, as she believed her experience in marriage matters could dominate the male authority. This idea is constantly expressed with the help of the notion of woman’s “sovereignty” over her husband.
In The Wife of Bath’s tale, the ...

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This is of great importance for colonized people. The books about different life paths of colonized people and their culture, no matter if they are historical or fictional, act upon other people’s beliefs about themselves. They make a lot of others never give up in spite of any adversities, see flowers in every hardship and motivate them to pursue their dreams notwithstanding the cruel reality around. Also, the books proved that the world did not belong to colonizers but to colonized people who could not only survive in the savage conditions but furthermore achieve their end and change ...

Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther is considered as the most readable of Luther’s biography. It paints a clear picture of the man and his role in history. It was done by Roland H. Bainton, a professor, author, historian and ordained Congregational minister. Bainton in his academic career wrote more than thirty books, which proved to be influential in the Christian history. Although Luther was regarded as a controversial theologian, and a heretic leader of a revolutionary movement, Bainton described him as a devoted, courageous and brave Christian, who maintained his bold stand in his struggle ...

Noam Chomsky changed dramatically not only the flow of the linguistic science, but also psychology and political science. He is considered to be one of the most prominent scholars of his generation, who revolutionized the modern perception of how we learn, think and talk. Being in a quite respectable age (87) Noam Chomsky leads active scientific and political life.

Background

Since his very childhood, Noam Chomsky was an extraordinary child. At the age of ten he wrote a scientific article on the dangers of fascism in Europe. As he tells in his interview his interest for language could be traced ...

Miles Davis was, arguably, the most influential jazz musician of the modern era. A trumpeter, his varied musical styles influenced a number of musicians. The life of Miles Davis deserves closer attention. The composer's life, musical style, and his influence on musicians of his generation, and those of later generations paint a picture of an extremely gifted and rare musical genius.
Born to Miles Davis, Jr. and Cleota Henry in Alton, Illinois on May 25, 1926, the young Miles Dewey Davis III was raised in an upper-middle-class family with all the privileges accorded to a white residential neighborhood, in ...

Sojourner Truth was one of the most amazing figures in United States history, female or otherwise. It is common to frame her story in terms of her status as a woman, particularly a black woman; however, she would have been remarkable regardless. Truth was the original self-made woman, choosing her own name and path in life during a time when people of her race and gender were openly discriminated against. Truth utilized her remarkable talents for evangelistic preaching to encourage both the abolitionist and suffragist movement in the United States.
It is clear, even from her most basic, bare-bones biography, that ...

He is a man with a very roaring appetite to start business ventures and see them excel. He enjoys new challenges, especially situations in which the market has a few large firms as the most dominant. That is Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson, the great entrepreneur from Britain. His marketing strategies as well as his balloon adventures make him attract lots of media attention. He is an icon I would love to emulate in matters of business. As a young child with dyslexia and nearsightedness no one anticipated him to rise to fame. Despite going to an exclusive learning institution known as Stowe ...

James Riddle “Jimmy” Hoffa was American labor leader who suddenly disappeared under mysterious circumstances in 1975. Jimmy Hoffa was the personification of all that is associated with the words "union boss". His rise and fall is the classic story of a “self-made” man, a man who made himself, made his way from the bottom of society through perseverance, energy and talent, but then mired in the abyss of corruption and politicking (Biography.com, 2017).
The 1920s in the USA was a time of class struggle and the rapid growth of the trade union movement. Jimmy Hoffa`s colleagues at the ...

Dolly Parton: Career and Influence

Abstract
Dolly Parton is an American singer and songwriter whose overwhelming success, especially in country music, makes her a perfect example of how women can succeed in the music industry. This paper explores Parton’s career, which was influenced by her poor upbringing in a family of twelve siblings, as well as her desire to convey messages of female equality. Dolly Parton was born in 1946 in Tennessee, and pursued music from the age of six. She has released 43 solo studio albums, received numerous awards and appeared in both television and film. The paper addresses the theme of ...

The Autobiography of my Mother and Fresa y Chocolate are masterpiece works that comprehensively develops the idea of rebellion. Authors of the articles explore this subject from unique and diverse perspectives. Characters in these works present attitudes and undertaking that seem to be very rebellious. Examining this rebellion is of high significance as it attracts serious conflicts in the society in different ways. The Autobiography of My Mother focuses on a young woman who is brought up in a loveless household. The girl’s mother died while she was giving birth. Fresa y chocolate (which is a Spanish phrase ...

The essay looks at Frida Kahlo's work and her choice of media for her artworks. The purpose is to assess one of the most important artists of the twentieth century and how her artwork reflects on the painful experiences in her life.
Frida Kahlo was brought up in a male-dominated Mexican society, but she was a free-thinking spirit, ready to take on the world. However, disaster struck, and she was left with a shattered spine and life because of a horrific traffic accident. Those long hospital stays and pain cast life long shadows in her life which was marred ...

The Leadership Profile on Larry Page

All the success stories have something in common – they inspire and can even add wings, they teach that hard work will pay off eventually in popularity and high profits. However, every story of a successful leader has a unique catching feature. The feature which impresses most in biography of Larry Page is his abiding belief in eternal development and innovations. With all the greatest inventions made under his leadership he still says: “We're really only at 1% of what is possible, and maybe even less than that” (Kovach and Smith). This ability of him to see and explore new ...

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Berlin, Symphony of a Great City (1927)

Introduction

A brief glimpse into Berlin, Germany, and film and documentary production in the 1920s will provide historical context to better understand and appreciate the quality and value of this innovative documentary. Cultural life blossomed after the 15 million deaths and destruction of World War I. In the 1920s, the German film industry, despite uncertainties and financial difficulties, became firmly established and very productive (Goesch 61, 72). The emphasis on Expressionism became reality, objectivity and good times in the late 1920s. The art ...

Sima Guang helped improve historiography in ancient China; the concepts that he espoused in co-authoring the Zizhi Tongjian have formed the basis for recording historical events and the same concepts have continued to be in use, even for the modern day historian (Buckley, 45).

Introduction

Sima Guang was a pioneer in the structured recording of historical events in ancient China. He compiled the Zizhi Tongjian, which offers a historical timeline of key events in China from 403 BCE to 959 BCE. Zizhi Tongjian is often referred to as the “comprehensive mirror for aid in government” (De Crespigny, 73). Historians have ...

Soccer player Ronaldo Luis Nazario de Lima played for the national team of Brazil and some European football clubs. His professional career lasted nearly twenty years.
Ronaldo was born on the 18th of September, 1976, in Itagual in Brazil. His parents divorced when Ronaldo was eleven years old and soon afterwards he gave up school to start a soccer career. ("Ronaldo Biography")
Without a doubt, Ronaldo is one of the perfect players of all times. He is called the Phenomenon because of his incredible ability to score goals. He had his own unique attacking style but he also helped ...

Immanuel Kant is the most famous German scientist, philosopher, founder of German classical philosophy, a man whose work had an enormous influence on the development of the philosophical thought of XVIII and later centuries. He was the fourth kid out of nine. Kant enrolled at the University of Konigsberg as a theology student, but was soon attracted to mathematics and physics. ("Immanuel Kant Biography", n.d.) During the study, he worked as a private tutor, published scientific papers. Later he became a professor at his university, teaching metaphysics and logic. Kant continued to write on philosophy until shortly before his ...

Women Then and Now

The 18th and 19th Century in America was a period of development, war, and change. During that time, there were many immigrants in the state. The number of immigrants had risen due to slavery. This essay will discuss the role that American women played in the 18th and 19th centuries. In addition, the essay will explain the roles that American women currently play. The essay will make use of Mary Shelley’s work to discuss the status and roles of women in the 18th and 19th centuries, while Emily Dickerson’s works will be utilized to discuss the current ...