This report is based upon the book "Katharine Hepburn: American Women of Achievement." Kathern Hepburn was born on November 8‚ 1909 in Hartford‚ Connecticut. She found her love for acting in college at‚ Bryn Mawr College1. Hepburn was an actress of the 20th century cinema‚ often referred to as a legend. When she was younger she always played roles in plays of strong women who dealt with men as equals. In her family she was one of the 3 girls out of 6 children‚ 3 boys and 3 girls. Katharine tried
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hero. Virginian. George Washington is one of‚ if not‚ the most famous people in history‚ however there is more to him than what meets the eye. There were social‚ economic‚ and cultural influences on George Washington that affected his lifetime achievements. George Washington was born February 22‚ 1732 to Augustine and Mary Bell Washington. Augustine was a “wealthy planter”(Burn 19) and owned a “plantation sometimes called Pope’s Creek”(Middlekauff 8). “Boys of Washington’s status---he was the son
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Minor response to "Softest of Tongues" Change is an inevitable part of our lives and sometimes accepting that change can be difficult. In the poem "Softest of Tongue" poet Vladir Nabokov expresses the burden of accepting change and saying goodbye to the past. Nabokov writes of a character that goes through the process of change‚ by identifying the problem‚ accepting the decision for change and then starting a new beginning. However the character starts to have difficulties in letting go of his past
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Achievements of Albert Einstein in his life * Einstein showed that absolute time had to be replaced by a new absolute: the speed of light. Einstein went against the grain and totally dismissed the "Old Physics." He envisioned a world where space and time are relative and the speed of light is absolute (at the time‚ it was believed that space and time were absolute and the speed of light was relative). * He asserted the equivalence of mass and energy‚ which would lead to the famous
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Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda. By Noam Chomsky Seven Stories Press. 2002 Synopsis of the book. Chomsky examines and explores the use of propaganda in the mass media. His focus remains on the "elite" as he would call them‚ or the corporations and politicians that control the mass media in our country. He speaks of how the U.S. government used propaganda in order to gain support for our country’s involvement in wars from Wilson’s presidency to Bush Sr.‚ and now
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What Motivated Vladimir I to convert to Christianity and how did the new religion change the culture of Eastern Slavs? Paganism was a mental mindset of the Eastern Slavs living in a world where a majority of the European countries surrounding them had already converted to a monastic religion. Vladimir I‚ a great prince of Kiev‚ reigned from 980 till 1015 and succeeded in the mass conversion of the Eastern Slavs.1 Throughout his reign Vladimir’s agenda had always been to strengthen his empire‚ in
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Accordingly‚ this film is more faithful to the original novel than Hihintayin kita sa Langit by Carlos-Siguion-Reyna (another Filipino film loosely based on Wuthering Heights of Emile Bronte). I have enumerated the 31 morphology of folklore by Vladimir Propp with respect to the analysis of the movie. 1. Absentation Andrea finds a dirty boy who had lost home hiding out in their truck. Her father pities the boy and takes him in on as his own. One day‚ Andrea’s parents have news that they
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An Analysis of Writing Techniques in the Achievement of Desire This essay is elegantly written with well-chosen words. Besides that‚ Richard Rodriguez’s adept skills in depicting the author’s complicated yet conflicting mental activities through various literary devices is also the shinning point of this piece of work. In the essay‚ the author mainly used several techniques such as flashbacks‚ comparisons and contrasts‚ definition‚ quotation‚ and satire to enhance the readability and entertainment
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INTRODUCTION Elpidio Rivera Quirino‚ also known as “Apo Lakay”‚ born in 1890‚ was a Filipino politician and was the sixth President of the Philippines. He entered politics when he became a representative of Ilocos Sur from 1919-1925. He was elected senator from 1925-1931. He was part of the independence mission to Washington that freed the Philippines from American control in 1934. After the Japanese invasion in World War II he became a leader of the underground and was captured and imprisoned;
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extent did Lenin establish Communism in Russia from 1920-1924? From an early age‚ Lenin opposed the Romanov autocratic regime‚ even more so following the execution of his brother for the assassination of Tsar Alexander III. Lenin was an avid follower of the writings of Karl Marx and believed communism was the way forward. He believed that everything should be owned by the government and then distributed evenly amongst the people. During the February 1917 revolution in Russia‚ Lenin was in exile
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