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Saint John Of The Cross
<view this essay>.... as a model and the Holy Spirit as our guide to a life of spirituality.
John of the Cross was born Juan de Yepes in 1542 to a poor family of Spanish nobility. When John was a boy, he attended a school for poor children, gaining a basic education, and the opportunity to learn skills from local craftsmen. When he was 17, John began to work at the Plague Hospital de la Concepcion, and its founder offered to let him attend the Jesuit College, so long as he did not neglect his hospital duties. From 1559 to 1563, John studied with the Jesuits, learning Latin, Greek, and other subjects. He was offered the chance to study for the secular priesthood, which wou .....
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Aristotle
<view this essay>.... the household form its stock of property : they are animate and
inanimate : the slave is an animate instrument, intended (like all the
instruments of the household) for action, and not for productions." This
distinction between action and production, is based upon the understanding that
'production' is a course in which a result is desired beyond the immediate act
of doing. Where as, the simple act of completing a task is identified as
'action'. Aristotle, who believed that life was action and not production
theorized that slaves were instruments of life and were therefore needed to form
a complete household. In fact Aristotle went as far as to say that a .....
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John F Kennedy
<view this essay>.... from the Boston area, moving on to a
senator in 1953. He married Jacqueline Bouvier on September, 1953. In
1955 he wrote a book called "Profiles of Courage" which won the Pulitzer
prize in history. In 1956 he almost gained the democratic Vice President,
and four years later he was the first-ballot nominee for president.
Kennedy became the first Roman Catholic President. His Inaugural Address
offered the memorable line: "Ask not what your country can you--ask what
you can do for your country."
As president he set out to redeem his campaign pledge to get America
moving again. His economic programs launched the country on its longest
sustained expans .....
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The Dark Romantics: Poe, Hawthorne, And Melville
<view this essay>.... thousands of writers. It is thought that he uses one person over and over again in his literature as the main character, himself. He uses these main characters simply as a way to express his emotions and innermost feelings. His life was full of pain and agony. From the beginning when he lost his mother to the end when reality and the dream-world became intertwined. The loss of many so-called loves and jobs placed him in a world where only him and his writing existed. It is no wonder that his death still be so feared. The way he wrote of it will allow him to haunt the earth forever. Ironically enough his rationalistic views still created some realit .....
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Alexander Graham Bell
<view this essay>.... working telephone
model, Bell's fame spread quickly as people in America and around the world
began to realize the awesome potential this wonderfully fascinating new device
held in store for society (Brinkley 481). His telephone an instant success and
already a burgeoning industry, A. G. Bell decided to turn his attention back to
assisting the deaf and following other creative ideas including the development
of a metal detector, an electric probe which was used by many surgeons before
the X ray was invented, a device having the same purpose as today's iron lung,
and also a method of locating icebergs by detecting echoes from them. With his
many invention .....
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Ben Hogan
<view this essay>.... his part Ben began selling newspapers,
until he heard that their was big money to be made at the local
golf club for caddies. This was Hogan's ticket into golf, with golf
being considered a "rich man's" game Hogan probably would never have
started playing golf. Because of the poor wages the caddies recieved,
most of the caddies made money by gambling on golf, this was where
Hogan's dedication was shown even as a child. Hogan was much smaller
than any of they other caddies so they usually beat him. But Hogan
wouldn't accept it, instead he would show up for work a couple of
hours early and practice his heart out, " Sometimes I practised until
my hands bled."(p. .....
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B.b. King
<view this essay>.... the Elkhorn Singers and the Saint John's Gospel Singers. A relative who was a guitarist and a preacher showed King his first chords on the instrument. As a teenager he began playing streetcorners for coins, combining gospel songs with the blues. When he started making more money playing in one night then he would in a week on the farm, he decided to head to Memphis. After a few years, King went back to Indianola to work and repay some debts, eventually returning to Memphis to stay. King's trademark is the trilling vibrato he developed in an attempt to duplicate the stinging sound of the steel slide. With the help of the late Sonny Boy William- son he began sin .....
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Mozart
<view this essay>.... virtuoso as well.
In 1762 the Mozart children played at court in Vienna; the Empress Maria Theresa and her husband, Emperor Francis I, received them cordially. Later the Mozart children displayed (1763-66) their talents to audiences in Germany, in Paris, at court in Versailles, and in London (where Wolfgang wrote his first symphonies and was befriended by Johann Christian Bach, whose musical influence on Wolfgang was profound). In Paris the young Mozart published his first works, four sonatas for clavier with accompanying violin (1764). In 1768 he composed his first opera, La Finta Semplice, for Vienna, but intrigues prevented its performance, and it was f .....
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