...The autobiography and biography on Wilma Mankiller are altogether very different. The biography Community Hero: Chief Wilma Mankiller, written by Susannah Abbey, mainly focuses on Mankiller’s childhood, her ability to lead and accomplishments. Abbey also uses quotes from Mankiller, mainly showing how she felt, and proof for her accomplishments. On the on the other hand, Every day Is a New Day, an autobiography by Mankiller, hardly focuses on her accomplishments and childhood. Instead, Mankiller mostly talks about the indigenous people who inspired her and enhanced her leadership skills, and the history of how the indigenous people were treated, as well as expressing her feelings on these topics. These differences can be found within the the biography and autobiography. For instance, the fact that Wilma Mankiller talk less about her childhood in her autobiography than Susannah Abbey in her biography can be seen throughout both the biography and autobiography. In Abbey’s biography, Community Hero: Chief Wilma Mankiller, most of the first and second page is dedicated to Mankiller’s childhood, from lines 1-31. In Mankiller’s...
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...English 394 Seeing the World Differently: An Analysis of “When the Light Gets Green” Robert Penn Warren’s short story “When the Light Gets Green” is full of interesting images and themes. We led by a young boy who is looking back at an important period in his life. It is time that a child loses his innocence. The critic Paul West put it best when he said that “Most of Warren’s best stories are painful, guilt-ridden commemorations of some young person’s rites of passage.” This story is no different. We see a kid return to the farm he loves, only to be met with questions. His grandfather, Mr. Barden, is not the same as he remembered. The grandson has trouble understanding his grandfather’s sudden flaws, and by reexamining his grandfather, is not capable of loving him anymore. At the beginning of the story we follow the grandson’s memory of what his grandfather looked like. The first line says “My grandfather had a long white beard and sat under the cedar tree.” This was how he imagined his grandfather while he was at school, but when he returned he was shocked to see that the beard was actually “gray and pointed.” This opening paragraph sets the tone for the entire story. The grandson had a majestic image of his grandfather in his mind, but the passage of time sheds light on imperfections that were previously unimportant. Paul Runyon says that “’When the Light Gets Green’ is a strongly autobiographical reminiscence of his grandfather Penn.” Runyon point helps...
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...Henri Becquerel, whose real name was Antoine, was a French physicist. He was born on December 15, 1852 in Paris, France. He died on August 25, 1908 at Le Croisic. (Henri Becquerel Biography). His wife was Mlle Janin, who was the daughter of a civil engineer. His son’s name was Jean, who was also a physicist. The son was the four generation of scientists in the family. (Henri Becquerel – Biographical). He came from a family of scholars and scientists. His father’s name was Alexander Edmond Becquerel and he was a Professor of Applied Physics and he has also done research phosphorescence and solar radiation. His grandfather’s name was Antoine César and he was a Fellow of the Royal Society and also the inventor of an electrolytic method for extracting metals from their ores. (Henri Becquerel – Facts)....
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...Marianne Angeli Diaz Professor Jan Lombardi English 221 21 May 2015 The Storyteller Who Started a Movement As I sat through another session in class, I did not think I would become so immersed about the wonders of magical realism. But as the Magical Realism group presented the historical significance of this movement, I found myself nodding at everything they said. I was intrigued by the ways this movement influenced Latin America, portraying enchanting events in realistic tones. As they moved on further about the people who started it all, the person that grabbed my attention became the key of discovering stories that truly captured magical experiences in the real world: Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Throughout his life, not only did Marquez brought Latin America stories that incorporated magic to real life, but he was also the one who started the most recognized movement in Europe: the power and influence of magical realism. Being from Latin America himself, Marquez was inspired by the place where he was born and the avid experiences he remembered with his maternal grandparents in Aracataca, Colombia. His grandmother, Tranquilina Iguaran Cortes, was the one who “gave Marquez a deep reservoir of folkloric knowledge about omens, premonitions, dead ancestors, and ghosts” (EGS). Since people pay closer attention to stories that paint pictures in their mind, we can say these tactics work well in literature, where describing the events illustrate a better portrait rather than just...
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...this writer to deal with three major concerns regarding this post-New Testament Christian personality. First concern: to provide some background and personal history. Next, to set forth the contributions of Ignatius and the significant impact he had on the Church in general among his contemporaries, right up to the present day. Finally, the writer will reveal how the life of Ignatius relates to and has personally influenced his own. Background and personal history Iñigo Lopez de Oñaz y Loyola, whom we know as St. Ignatius, was born the youngest of thirteen children in northeastern Spain in 1491. He was raised in a noble Basque family of high Catholic piety but lax in morals. His father had several children by another woman, and his grandfather's lawless behavior led to the top two floors of the Loyola castle being demolished by order of the crown. Iñigo hardly knew his mother, Marina Saenz de Licona. As was the custom of the time, “A few days after his birth Iñigo was handed over to a wet-nurse, Maria de Garin, wife of the blacksmith living in a cottage a few miles from Loyola.” He was in Maria’s care until he was between one and two years old. His mother, Marina died when Iñigo was still a child. His father, Don Beltrán Yañez de Oñaz y Loyola, died when he was sixteen. One of his brothers went on the second voyage of Columbus and another died in battle also far away. Iñigo was raised to be a courtier and diplomat in service to the crown. He...
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...Robert Frost, a great literary writer found a way to use nature as a tool to express human experiences. Throughout the course of his life he has inspired writers and created a new view on how we as humans view nature and the world around us. Robert Frost has been known to be a complicated poet because he did not focus so much on weather a line rhymed. Frost wrote deliberately to paint a picture or create a story for his readers. He wrote with care to express what he was truly feeling. Most of his poems are written with undertones that would require the reader to look deeper into what was written. When most poems are examined more in depth Frost becomes much more complex, showing that there is a deeper and sometimes darker undertone to the engaging words of the poems. Frost had experienced pain and tragedy, with many deaths of family members, during his life. He finds that his suffering makes the thought of death both fascinating and tempting. Frost considers death but has decided to pursue life and the choices that one faces along life’s paths. Frost uses his greatest inspiration, nature, to tell stories of happiness, tragedy and pain. Nature is the one thing that remains constant. It continues to flow and carry on through good and bad. I feel that Frost noticed this and found a way to connect and mimic nature’s process: the circle of life. In nature this includes life and death. After the cycle of death, nature creates anew and continues to blossom and bloom. ...
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...old. Tenth was John Tomlin he was 16 years old. Eleventh was Kelly Flemming she was 16 years old. Twelfth was Daniel Mauser he was 15 years old. Thirteenth was Corey Depooter he was 17 years old. Rachel Scott’s friends said she could light up a room with her smile that her smile was contagious. She wore hats to school just so she could feel different and if anyone said anything bad about her she didn’t care. She loved art and poetry. She loved life. Daniel Rohrbough was known as “the boy who held the door open” for friends during the shooting allowing them to escape from the school. He enjoyed electronics and computer games. He worked at his father’s stereo business every day after school, and during the summer. He also worked on his grandfather’s farm harvesting wheat. Dave Sanders was the only teacher killed in the shooting. He taught business and computer to his students. He also coached the girls’ basketball team and the girls’ softball team. He loved every one of his students. When he heard gun shots he ran into the cafeteria and sounded the alarm. He knew he had to protect the students. He and a janitor helped get more than 100 students out of the path of the shooters. He left behind a wife, four children, and five grandchildren. His last words were “Tell my family I love them”. He died doing what he loved teaching his students. Kyle Velasquez was known as a “gentle giant”. He enjoyed doing chores and family activities. He suffered a stroke when he was a little kid which...
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...Astronomy: Then and Now Have you ever heard the saying you can’t teach an ole dog new tricks? What about the one where three old dogs teach new tricks? I’m sure you have heard that one, anyone who knows about our solar system can thank the three old dogs. Well, they’re not dogs at all, and at their time they weren’t old but in our time their long gone. Of course, I am speaking about Ptolemy, Copernicus, and Kepler. Funny thing is each one of them challenged and changed their predecessor's work, for the better of course, but we will get to that later. We have these three men to thank for a whole lot of new tricks. To name a few would be, our solar system, the way we form our maps, and we can’t forget the numerous mathematical formulas used to make ideas come to life. In this research paper, we will touch base on the lives of three great astronomers and the tricks they have taught us. We will also see how astronomers of today contribute to our everyday lives. Some say that our first astronomer was a great astronomer. Other say, “Ptolemy was the only great astronomer of Roman Alexandria.” (Brown, 2016) It’s all a matter of opinion, but what we cannot deny was Ptolemy was a great astronomer of his time and today. We do not know much about Ptolemy’s personal life. What we do know about him came from his work. He was born around 85ce in Egypt to a Greek family even though he bore a roman name. To say Ptolemy was diverse is an understatement. He was also diverse in his studies...
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...which only covers about 300, 000 of the total population. His parents Nils and Anna Torvalds both attended the University of Helsinki during the 1960’s. Nils was a Communist who spent some time in Russia in the mid-70’s, and would later go on to become a radio journalist. While his mother worked for a newspaper as a translator, plus his grandfather was the editor and chief at another newspaper. Linus’s parents split when he was at an early age, so he would spend most of his childhood living with his mother and grandparents. His maternal grandfather, Leo Toerngvist, who was a professor at the University of Helsinki, who had the most profound influence on Linus while he was growing up. Linus spent much of his spare time with his grandfather’s Commodore Vic 20, but quickly grew bored and yearned for something more extensive to work with. So using BASIC programming language he started to create new programs for it. He would then go on to utilize the more difficult, and powerful assembly language. While his dad tried to get him interested in sports and other social activities, Linus had been consumed by his passion for programming, and mathematics. Torvalds isn’t afraid to admit he cared little for those other interests. THE CREATION OF LINUX In 1987 Linus would go on to purchase his first computer, which was a Sinclair QL. The world’s first 32-bit computer for home use. This was a large step up from the computer that his grandfather had, however Linus quickly grew unhappy...
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...RESEARCH PAPER JHUMPA LAHIRI’S “MRS. SEN’S” (INTERPRETER OF MALADIES) Name: Babar Ali Kaiser Student ID: 1142131 Instructor: Dr. Christina Sommerfeldt Course: English 111 Term: Winter 2007 Jhumpa Lahiri, through the stories in her book “Interpreter of Maladies”, sheds light on the experience of immigrants from the subcontinent who face difficulties in adjusting and integrating and as a result feel homesick and isolated in a new world so different from their homeland. The short story “Mrs. Sen’s” is about a thirty-year old Indian woman who migrated to the United States with her husband. Her husband is a professor of mathematics at the university and is gone all day leaving Mrs. Sen behind by herself. She feels lonely and isolated when her husband is away and she therefore baby sits an eleven year old boy named Elliot. She thinks of the times she had back home “sitting in an enormous circle on the roof of her building, laughing and gossiping and slicing fifty kilos of vegetables through the night” (115). She attempts to find the life she had in India but finds it hard to do so in this society which is new to her. Her only connection to the society is the little boy, Elliot. The short story “Third and final continent” is also about a young woman just like Mrs. Sen, who migrates to the United states after getting married but unlike Mrs. Sen, she adjusts well to the life in the United States. At the start of the story, Lahiri describes Mrs. Sen’s apartment as...
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...NORTH AMERICAN FICTION BRIEF INTRODUCTION: Before starting our study of American Fiction we must understand what American Literature is in itself and which pieces of writing we can include within this label. It is believed that when a piece is written in North America, more precisely in the USA, it would automatically be given this epithet. But it should be taken into account that this idea is quite broad and doesn’t reflect the real essence of the term. However, there is also another definition that gathers this essence: American Literature is the one that represents the Americanism, the singularity of the USA philosophy and culture. This way, instead of focusing on who the author is, it is focused on the content of the writing. In that which concerns Fiction, the following documents are the ones considered as narrative: Speeches Letters Short Stories Essays Political Documents Sermons Novels Diaries 1 FIRST LITERARY EXPRESSIONS The first documents in which the idea of Americanism is very present are the Sermons. They respond to the strict Protestantism settled in the New Continent after the arrival of the Pilgrim Fathers and Puritans in the Mayflower (1620) and the Arabella (1630). They established a theocratic community whose main and only point of reference was the Bible. That is why the idea of the ‘city upon a hill’ is still very present in American mentality. As we all know...
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...2/21/2016 F11MANA3001 Jeff Bezos 104 Get your Wikispaces Classroom now: (https://www.wikispaces.com/t/y/classroomswitch/banner/1/) the easiest way to manage your class. Jeff Bezos 104 (/Jeff+Bezos+104) Edit 35 (/Jeff+Bezos+104#discussion) 25 (/page/history/Jeff+Bezos+104) … (/page/menu/Jeff+Bezos+104) Jeff Bezos It takes a lot of guts to leave the comforts of your stable job on Wall Street, then move your family halfway across the country and invest all of your parents’ life savings to start up a new business with merely a 10% chance of success. However, Jeffrey Preston Bezos, later wellknown as “Jeff” Bezos, decided to make the gamble. “I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew one thing I would regret is not trying.” With this philosophy in mind, Bezos created Amazon.com in 1995. Initially, Amazon was just an online bookstore. Over the years though, Amazon diversified its merchandizes and began to sell DVDs, videos, MP3 players, video games and electronics, etc. The humble business, which kicked off in Bezos’s garage, has become a giant online retailer today, shipping a vast range of products to customers around the world. The inspiration for Amazon sparked off when Bezos discovered an amazing phenomenon: internet usage was increasing by 2300% a year. This statistic set off an alarm in his head. He began to brainstorm ideas on how to build a business plan around this growing industry. After doing some research...
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...domestic brewers, brewers located within the United States, are Anheuser-Busch and Miller. These two companies control 50 percent and 29 percent of domestic beer sales, respectively. With 80 percent of the beer market controlled by the two megabrewers the United States is a tough environment for a small craft brewer like Samuel Adams to survive. The U.S. population is over 311 million people, the world’s third largest population after China and India. American consumes nearly 200 million barrels of beer a year, or 20 gallons per person, second only to China which has four times the amount of people the United States. Samuel Adams Boston Lager is brewed by the Boston Beer Company and founded by 1984 by Jim Koch using his great–great–grandfather’s 1870 beer recipe. Due to the economic downturn and other environmental forces the general beer market has been flat in recent years, yet quality craft beers like Samuel Adams has seen double-digit growth. The craft brewing industry has had a strong growth curve over the past decade and Samuel Adams has been positioned perfectly to capture this momentum. Technological advances have been a positive development for the Samuel Adams brewing and packaging process. Samuel Adams brewers are constantly experimenting with new techniques and pioneering tools to get freshly brewed beer into the hands of the customer faster. Sociocultural forces are constantly changing and over the past decade consumers have demanded healthier products...
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...English Department University of Heidelberg HS Literature: Science and Religion Instructor: Dr. Prof. Jan Stievermann WS 11/12 Jonathan Edwards: The Theory of Conversion and His Disposition towards Science Angela Abram Am Güterbahnhof 26, 69181 Leimen angeljoy89@yahoo.com English philology, semester: 5 Matriculation number: 2828314 April 9th, 2012 1. Introduction 3 2. Jonathan Edwards 4 2.1. His Life and Calling 2.2. The Conversion Experience 6 3. Edward’s Disposition towards Science 10 3.1. Science as a Way to Know God 3.2. Book of Nature vs. Book of God 13 4. Is Empiricism Important? 14 5. Jonathan Edwards: A Scientist and Christian 18 6. Conclusion 21 Bibliography 23 Honor Pledge 24 1. Introduction Throughout the centuries the relationship between science and religion has been at times harmonious and at other times at odds with each other. Even today we still find many religious groups who see science as a threat to their belief system. Among these groups are Evangelical Christians. We hear of concerned mothers protesting against the teaching of evolution in front schools, pastors warning their congregation about the dangers of science and many more instances of believer trying to “fight against” scientific findings that are not compatible with the word of God. However, a closer look reveals that there...
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...Barack Obama Dreams from My Father “For we are strangers before them, and sojourners, as were all our fathers. 1 CHRONICLES 29:15 PREFACE TO THE 2004 EDITION A LMOST A DECADE HAS passed since this book was first published. As I mention in the original introduction, the opportunity to write the book came while I was in law school, the result of my election as the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review. In the wake of some modest publicity, I received an advance from a publisher and went to work with the belief that the story of my family, and my efforts to understand that story, might speak in some way to the fissures of race that have characterized the American experience, as well as the fluid state of identitythe leaps through time, the collision of cultures-that mark our modern life. Like most first-time authors, I was filled with hope and despair upon the book’s publication-hope that the book might succeed beyond my youthful dreams, despair that I had failed to say anything worth saying. The reality fell somewhere in between. The reviews were mildly favorable. People actually showed up at the readings my publisher arranged. The sales were underwhelming. And, after a few months, I went on with the business of my life, certain that my career as an author would be short-lived, but glad to have survived the process with my dignity more or less intact. I had little time for reflection over the next ten years. I ran a voter registration project in...
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