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The Life Of Sally Ride
<view this essay>.... tennis circuit. However, her
plans changed. Her mom said, “She could not make the ball exactly where
she wanted it.” So she decided to go off to college. At the age of
twenty-seven she enrolled at Stanford University. There she worked hard to
obtain four degrees. In 1973, she received her Bachelor of Arts in English
and her Bachelor of Science in Physics. In 1975 she received her Masters
in Physics and a Ph.D. in 1978.
In 1977 she responded to an ad in the Stanford University newspaper
for NASA astronauts. She was originally looking for postdoctoral work in
astrophysics. Previously, astronauts had always been military pilots, but
now NASA wante .....
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Peter The Great 4
<view this essay>.... to the throne.
Eight million people lived in Russia. Ninety-five percent of all of the population consisted of serfs, the merchants, nobles, and elite only populated five percent of Russia. The elite, like the serfs, were not very well educated at all. Timmerman, a knowledgeable man from Germany, taught and showed Peter all of the nautical instruments need to navigate a ship. Peter became very interested in nautical things. Peter soon left Russia and plundered Europe for knowledge, inventions, and great minds to bring back to Russia. His voyage ended in the rich and luxurious city of Amsterdam. Peter began to study Holland’s ships and navy, and hired .....
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The Marquis De Sade's Attitude Towards Women
<view this essay>.... naked. He cared little for
forced sex. Rape is not a crime, he explained, and is in fact less than
robbery, for you get what is used back after the deed is done (Bloch 108).
Opinions about the Marquis de Sade's attitude towards sexual freedom for
women varies from author to author. A prevalent one, the one held by Carter,
suggests Sade's work concerns sexual freedom and the nature of such,
significant because of his "refusal to see female sexuality in relation to a
reproductive function."
Sade justified his beliefs through graffiti, playing psychologist on
vandals:
In the stylization of graffiti, the prick is
always presented erect, as an .....
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Martin Luther King Junior
<view this essay>.... King, Sr. (1899-1984), a Baptist minister, and Alberta Williams King (1904-74). He entered Morehouse College at the age of 15 and was ordained a Baptist minister at the age of 17. Graduating from Crozer Theological Seminary as class president in 1951, he then did postgraduate work at Boston University.
King’s studies at Crozer and Boston led him to explore the works of the Indian nationalist Mohand as K. Gandhi, whose ideas became the core of his own philosophy of nonviolent protest. While in Boston, he met Coretta Scott of Marion, Ala. They were married in June 1953, and the following year King accepted an appointment as pastor of the Dexter Avenue Ba .....
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The Life And Works Of Frederic
<view this essay>.... also aspire to own them and make music at home. Thousands of amateur pianists began to take lessons, buy printed music, and attend concerts. Virtuosos like Friedrich Kalkbrenner, Sigismund Thalberg, and Franz Liszt became the first musical superstars, touring Europe and astonishing audiences with music they had composed to display their piano technique. Frederick Chopin was born in a small village named Zelazowa Wola located in Poland on March 1st, 1810. His passionate love of music showed itself at an early age. There are stories, for instance, of how when his mother and sister played dances on their grand piano he would burst into tears for the sheer bea .....
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