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Emily Murphy: A Great Canadian
<view this essay>.... Girls. Emily married Reverend
Arthur Murphy in 1887 in Anglican church of St. John's in Cookstown and in
1904 she and her husband moved to Winnipeg. Mrs. Murphy "conducted the
literary section of the Winnipeg Tribune for a few years before moving to
Alberta in 1907." In her new home Emily became very active in civic
affairs especially in law that would improve the rights of women and
children.
In 1900's in Alberta any man who, for example, had a farm and was
married could sell that farm and leave his wife and children walking away
with the money. Mrs. Murphy was angry that Alberta would allow such
disgrace. In 1910 Emily was still fighting for the Dow .....
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Howard Stern: The King Of Mass Media Or The Anti Christ?
<view this essay>.... Stern’s effects on children.
c. stern’s effects on minorities.
Conclusion:
Thesis:
Howard Stern has lost all sense of morals and values, if he had any at all. Stern has absolutely no respect for himself nor does he have any towards his cohorts, and the general public as a hole for that matter. He constantly pushes the limits, and is a nuisance to the air waves. His words are offending and detrimental to our society.
In the past people have viewed Howard Stern as a vulgar pig who degrades every one that he encounters. After constantly ducking from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC), and m .....
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Frank Lloyd Wright 3
<view this essay>.... yet Frank Lloyd Wright single handily changed the history of architecture. How did Frank Lloyd Wright change architecture?
Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect, who was a pioneer in the modern style, is considered one of the greatest figures in 20th-century architecture. Wright was born June 8, 1867, in Richland Center, Wisconsin. When he entered the University of Wisconsin in 1884 his interest in architecture had already acknowledged itself. The university offered no courses in his chosen field; however, he enrolled in civil engineering and gained some practical experience by working part time on a construction project at the university. In 1887 he le .....
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Charlemagne
<view this essay>.... well-known family. ’s grandfather was Charles Martel, the man who was responsible for the defeat of the Saracens. was also the eldest son of Bertrade (also known as Bertha Greatfoot) and Pepin the Short, the first to become king of the Franks. With the almost full extinction of schools in the 8th century, many historians say that received very little education, but did learn the art of reading from Bertrade.
The one thing that kept motivated throughout his entire life was his deep devotion to the church. was a tall young man with light blond hair, and was described by his secretary as, “face laughing and merry. . . his appearance was always stately an .....
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President Millard Fillmore
<view this essay>.... law firm. He was admitted to the bar in 1823. After setting up a law office in East Aurora near Buffalo, he married Miss Powers in1826. As his legal business expanded he took on a student clerk in his office, his future law partner and political associate, Nathan Kelsey Hall.
In 1830 the Fillmors moved to Buffalo, where a year or two later they joined the Unitarian Church. Fillmore formed a law partnership with Hall and developed a thriving practice. His massive frame, benign air, dignified mien, and conciliatory temper commanded respect and admiration. His popularity in Erie County marked him as one of the outstanding political leaders in western New York, and .....
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William Henry Gates
<view this essay>.... the night before the final exam. In June 1975, Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard to pursue a career in computers full time.
Later that year after dropping out of Harvard he moved to New Mexico. There he and Allen Kay established Microsoft to produce their Basic for the MITS. Eighteen months later they were a few hundred thousand dollars richer and were hired by Tandy to develop software for its radio shack computers. Gates and Allen then moved their headquarters to Seattle, Washington. In Seattle, Gates re-wrote an operating system and called it MS-DOS, which stands for Microsoft Disk Operating System. Microsoft would eventually sell the rights of MS- .....
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John Coltrane
<view this essay>.... technically and imaginatively equal to both; as a composer he was superior, although he has not received the recognition he deserves for this aspect of his work.
In composition he excelled in an astonishing number of forms – blues, ballads, spirituals, rhapsodies, elegies, suites, and free-form and cross-cultural works. The closest contemporary analogy to Coltrane's relentless search for possibilities was the Beatles' redefinition of rock from one album to the next. Yet the distance they traveled from conventional hard rock through sitars and Baroque obligatos to Sergeant Pepper psychedelia and the musical shards of Abbey Road seems short by comparison wi .....
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Sigmund Freud: 1856 - 1939
<view this essay>.... was interested in science above all; the idea
of practicing medicine was slightly repugnant to him. He hoped to go into
neurophysiological research, but pure research was hard to manage in those
days unless you were independently wealthy. Freud was engaged and needed to
be able to support a family before he could marry, and so he determined to
go into private practice with a specialty in neurology.
During his training he befriended Josef Breuer, another physician and
physiologist. They often discussed medical cases together and one of
Breuer's would have a lasting effect on Freud. Known as Anna O., this
patient was a young woman suffering from what was then ca .....
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