|
» Biographies Essays and Papers
1984: Winston's Hatred Of Big Brother
<view this essay>.... expressed his feelings which proves he was a sane human, Winston
was more logical than the Party, and he was not himself when he said he
loved Big Brother. Winston, the Party's opposition, had the only hope to
rebel. Winston wrote in his diary "if there is hope, it lies in the
proles."
Winston was sane and acted upon feelings knowing he would be
executed for them. When Winston first met Julia, he thought that she was a
spy and he wanted to bash in her skull. When he read her message which was
"I love you", he was stunned and also pleased that someone had feelings for
him. If Winston was totally under Big Brother's power he wouldn't have felt
the urge .....
Number of words: 716 | Number of pages: 3 |
|
The Life Of Walt Disney
<view this essay>.... the animals. When he was seven, he and his sister
began attending school, but in 1917 his family returned to Chicago.2 In
Chicago he took a summer job on a railroad. When he began at McKinley High
School, he took the money he earned to pay for art classes at the Chicago
Academy of Fine Arts.3 When he was sixteen he lied about his age to join
the American Red Cross during World War I.
Walt Disney had difficulty holding a steady job. His father
advised him to take a job at the Chicago jelly factory. But, he
determinedly replied," I want to be an artist."4 His first endeavor was
the Iwerks-Disney firm. He and his friend , Ub Iwerks, rented a small
st .....
Number of words: 1332 | Number of pages: 5 |
|
Upton Sinclair
<view this essay>.... was worth the expense of its populous' health and well being.
was among a swarm of Muckrakers that erupted during American industrialism. He was among many journalists to expose the wrongs of society and propose ways to fix it. But few muckrakers took their stories as deeply as Sinclair. His depiction of the terrible sanitary conditions at one specific meat packing plant in Chicago touched the publics stomachs rather that their hearts. Although he certainly wanted to give the public a view from the inside, public uproar was his among lesser expectation. The details regarding the unsanitary and disgusting conditions in meat packing factories appear to b .....
Number of words: 728 | Number of pages: 3 |
|
Jasper Daniel AKA Jack Daniel
<view this essay>.... found a perfect cave spring and bought 500 acres around it. Jack then moved his distillery to this location and over 130 years later the distillery stands here today.
In the rolling hills of southern middle Tennessee lies the city of Lynchburg where Jack was born and lived all of his life. This is the county seat of Moore County, which is Tennessee’s smallest county. This town, like most other small towns in middle Tennessee has a square for the hub of the town. One of the major structures here is the Courthouse. Back in 1885 people of Lynchburg built this structure with bricks made in the town. Now, my favorite item of historic relevance in Moore County is th .....
Number of words: 1023 | Number of pages: 4 |
|
The Life Of Ernest Hemingway
<view this essay>.... Ernest's mother, considered herself pure and proper. She was a dreamer who was upset at anything which disturbed her perception of the world as beautiful. She hated dirty diapers, upset stomachs, and cleaning house; they were not fit for a lady. She taught her children to always act with decorum. She adored the singing of the birds and the smell of flowers. Her children were expected to behave properly and to please her, always. Mrs. Hemingway treated Ernest, when he was a small boy, as if he were a female baby doll and she dressed him accordingly. This arrangement was alright until Ernest got to the age when he wanted to be a "gun-toting Pawnee Bill". .....
Number of words: 2861 | Number of pages: 11 |
|
Rene Descartes
<view this essay>.... wanted to accomplish something in life, something like a new and stable basis for all knowledge..
In 1637 he published Discourse on the Method for Conducting One’s Reason Rightly and for Searching for Truth in the Sciences which he wrote in France. This book introduced three ideas, one on optics, one on geometry, and one on meteorology. Four yeas later he wrote Meditations on First Philosophy which is his version of a unified and certain body of the human knowledge. The Catholic and Protestant Church was angered by his book, claiming that Descartes’ hope was to replace the teachings of Aristotle. In 1644 he publish Principles of Philosophy which he hoped wou .....
Number of words: 853 | Number of pages: 4 |
|
Elie Wiesel
<view this essay>.... forced to leave Signet by the Hungarians
because he was a foreign Jew.
After several months Elie saw Moshe the Beadle once again. Moshe the Beadle
told his story about his journey that the Jews were forced to get out and dig
grave which would become final resting places for prisoners who were killed.
Luckily, Moshe the Beadle was able to escape. He pretended that he was dead in
order to escape being killed. Not only did Moshe tell his story to Elie, he
wanted to warn the Jews of Signet of what could happen to them. However, they
only thought it was a vivid imagination speaking from his lips. No one wanted to
believe his story and people lived life as us .....
Number of words: 2392 | Number of pages: 9 |
|
Biography Of Galileo
<view this essay>.... received another job at the University of Padua as the chair of Mathematics. Galileo taught at the university for eighteen years. In 1584, Galileo discovered the principle of which showed that the period of a pendulum remains the same no matter what the amplitude is. Galileo discovered this while watching a chandelier swing in the cathedral next to the Tower of Pisa. He proved the isochronism theory in 1602. In 1606, he invented the hydro-static balance this device that found the specific gravity of substances by weighing them under water. Galileo also found that Aristotle's belief that objects fall at velocities proportional to their weight was wrong. He .....
Number of words: 655 | Number of pages: 3 |
|
|