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Leviticus and Christianity

does not have a split hoof; it is ceremonially unclean for you." As this suggests, only animals that chewed its cue and possessed ...

Robert Leroy Johnson

his early teenaged years that he really became interested and involved in music (Robert Johnson: A biography reassessed and revise...

Mary Shelley

the year of 1816 that Mary began to write her infamous novel Frankenstein. "She took a challenge, set by Lord Byron, to write a gh...

Marie Curie

1911 there were many issues that Curie seemed to be dealing with. Her husband had been killed in an accident a few years prior and...

The Leadership of Colin Powell

leaders. Machiavellian leaders on the other hand are dictatorial in nature. They tell the people what to do as if it is for their ...

The Absurd

philosophers and playwrights, addressed themselves to the reality of the absurdity of life and argued that that its reality should...

Prostate Victims & Their Partners/Quality of Life

et al, 2007). Over the last several decades, clinicians have come to regard treatment decisions in terms of quality of life "ben...

2 Dutch Masters, Leyden and Steen

earnings from his art were meager ("Seven Dutch Masters: Jan Steen"). In the popular imagination, Steen is associated with the i...

Homer Hickam/October Sky

of this minister, and "his belief in Gods sense of humor and His fondness for neer-do-wells," inspired Sonny, as this fueled the ...

Post-World War II Developments in Art

world around them. One might legitimately ask why todays artists see nothing but ugliness and degradation when there are still so ...

Genetic Diversity and the Origin of Life

According to one theory, the universe and its components were formed in a single cataclysmic explosion between ten and twenty mill...

Marketing the iPod

the products? Again, executives began offering some answers. Jobs cut them off. The products SUCK! he roared" (Burrows, Grover and...

Four Things That Will Help Improve the Quality of Life for Others

everyone needs to exercise and eat a well-balanced diet. Here, one way to help might be for a person to assist older people with t...

Ivan Pavlov

decided to become a physiologist during his third year" (Lautenheiser, 1999). His focus became narrowed to digestion and blood cir...

Alexander Stephens

leading role in the Compromise of 1850, and supported the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854" (The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson, 2009). ...

Backwoods of Canada by Catharine Parr Traill

For example, she is intrigued when the ship passes islands that have herd of cattle grazing on them. The captain explained that lo...

Three films about Jesus

his home, and is confronted by an angel who convinces him that Mary has told the truth. The next scenes dramatize the "birth of Je...

An Alien Life Form's Speculation on Mankind

This paper speculates how an alien life form would view earthlings if he or she visited the planet in the year ten-thousand A.D. a...

Pipes and Lee/Family to Family

to worship God, i.e., following the dictum given in Proverbs 22:6. Each chapter ends with a simple test, which, by answering it, h...

Stonewall Jackson

West Point (Virginia Military Institute). And in 1842 "began his U.S. Army career as a 2nd Lt., First Artillery Regiment" (Virgini...

A Thoughtful Biography of Tyra Banks

there are a number of stars who are rail thin and actually promote a negative image of the female ideal. She was born Tyra Lynne ...

Andy Warhol

and Coke bottles. Soon he became a famous figure in the New York art scene. From 1962 on he started making silkscreen prints of fa...

Negotiating Conflict

manager, the five approaches all have a place in general conflict management. The five methods are: 1. Mediate the conflic...

Life in Art: How Stephen Crane’s Life Influenced His Writings

played on him. Stephen Crane was born in Newark, New Jersey on November 1, 1871, the 14th child (only eight survived) of a Method...

Robert E. Lee

which point he was quickly "commissioned a brevet 2nd Lieutenant of Engineers" (General Robert Edward Lee). Shortly thereaf...

Norma Rae’s Depiction of Labor

sit down, even when "they are having menstrual cramps" (Giroux). In the film, workers also complain about "plant conditions, speed...

A Conceptual Metaphor for Life

considering the journey chronologically. Starting with childhood, the student can discuss what he remembers of his earliest year...

The Lure of California

Old Globe in Balboa Park and the La Jolla Playhouse on the campus of UCSD. They bring in the greatest playwrights and actors from ...

The General in His Labyrinth (Book Review)

a short period of time, it should be said that what is distinguished is Bolivars story. The novel is biographical more than it is ...

Winston Churchill

then leaving this party to belong to the Liberal Party, "which, he believed, better represented his economic views on free trade. ...