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Kobe Bryant
<view this essay>.... out with 23 points and 13 rebounds. Harsh words were exchanged between him and Karl Malone after a flagrant foul committed by O'Neal early in the third quarter led to Malone receiving a technical. Robert Horry, meanwhile, gave Jazz guard Jeff Hornacek a rough forearm, earning himself an ejection. But this is nothing compared to the tension between Laker coach Del Harris and his point guard, Nick Van Exel. In Game Four, Van Exel had been pulled by Harris for waving off the coach's instructions, screaming vulgarities as Harris waved an admonishing finger in his face. Tonight, however, Van Exel is having a hell of a game, hitting key jumpers from all over the .....
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Princess Diana
<view this essay>.... Hall an all girls boarding school. Then in 1974 she transferred from her preparatory school to West Heath. Three years later in 1977 she left West Heath to continue schooling at Institute Alpin Videmanette in Switzerland. After finishing schooling, Diana got a job working as a part time kindergarten teacher at the Young England School in Pimlico. On top of that, she also was a part time nanny who spent her time looking after a small child (“Diana” Internet).
On February 24, 1981 the engagement of Prince Charles and Lady Diana was announced (Delano 36). The couple later was married at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London on July 29, 1981. The wedding ceremony at .....
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Duke Ellington
<view this essay>.... Williams. With the help from American trumpeter James "Bubber" Miley, Ellington often incorporated in his music the jungle effect. This effect was made by placing a plunger at the opening of a brass instrument, therefore, muffling or muting the notes played out. The result sounded like a person wailing, giving the piece a voice-like quality. In "Concerto for Cootie," Cootie Williams does a solo using the jungle effect, making it sound like a voice is singing along. His opening solo is repetitive, going over the same set of notes over and over again. The overall feeling is as if the music is wooing the listener.
Ellington's oth .....
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Pablo Friere
<view this essay>.... an alternative method of education. There is an absolute need for students to "Tear down the wall" (Pink Floyd) of conformity in education and express their individuality.
Education in itself can be a contradiction. The teacher (oppressor), is there to educate/teach the student (oppressed) but is he really? As Freire indicates "Narration (with the teacher as narrator) leads the students to memorize mechanically the narrated content. Worse yet, it turns them into "containers," "receptacles" to be "filled" by the teacher. The more completely she fills the receptacles, the better a teacher she is. The more meekly the receptacles permit themselves to be filled, the .....
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The Beliefs Of John Locke And Thomas Hobbes
<view this essay>.... to maintain a stable society, people made an unwritten “social contract”. So people chose a leader to rule them. Any attempt to break this contract is punishable by whatever penalty the monarchy may exact in order to protect his subjects from returning to that state of anarchy. However Hobbes justified the absolute power not on grounds of divine right, but on its usefulness. The only people retained only the right to protect their own lives
John Locke, another English philosopher, adopted many of Hobbes work. His most important political work also appeared in 1690, the Two Treatises of Government; there he argues that the function of the state is to protect th .....
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Theodore Roosevelt
<view this essay>.... as a world power. He was the hero that the country needed after years of low morale. He was the dreamer and the doer that mad America great. His obsession with greatness led the country in pursuit of a greatness that the entire nation embraced.
Little Teddy Roosevelt was a puny child. Suffering from asthma, there was little the fragile boy could do athletically. When he first entered school, the other children mocked him for his weak stature.
This incident molded the future president. He became obsessed with strength and the “macho” attitude of men. He constantly worked out by lifting weights and boxing. He believed that if he grew up muscular he w .....
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Princess Diana
<view this essay>.... rise above adversity. As a young girl she received her studies while she attended preparatory school in Riddlesworth Hall, in Diss, Norfolk. This is where she got basically what we get at our elementary schools. Around the age 13 in 1974 she went as a boarder to West Heath, in Sevenoaks, Kent. While studying there she showed talent as a musician, for playing the piano, dancing and domestic science. She was also once awarded for the girl giving maximum help to the school and her school fellows. In 1977 she left West Heath and went to finishing school at the Institute Alpin Videmanette in Rougemont, Switzerland. After the Easter term in 1978 she left the school .....
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Albert Camus
<view this essay>.... father in the horrors of World War I in 1914. After the loss of his father, him, his brother and his mother moved in to his grandmother's three-bedroom apartment with his two uncles. The only way Albert "escaped" from this harsh reality was on the beaches of Algiers. At the age of fourteen, Camus was diagnosed with the first stages of tuberculosis. This disease plagued him for the rest of his life. At age seventeen, Albert moved in with his uncle by marriage, Gustave Acault, who provided Albert with a better environment as well as an actual father figure. After enduring the hardships of his childhood, Camus began writing at age seventeen.
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