Ansel Adams President Jimmy Carter‚ in presenting Ansel Adams with the Presidential Medal of Freedom‚ best describes the life and work of Ansel Adams. "At one with the power of the American landscape‚ and renowned for the patient skill and timeless beauty of his work‚ photographer Ansel Adams has been visionary in his efforts to preserve this country ’s wild and scenic areas‚ both on film and on earth. Drawn to the beauty of nature ’s monuments‚ he is regarded by environmentalists as a monument
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What do you think is the importance of Eva Smith in An Inspector Calls and how does Priestley present her? In J. B. Priestley’s polemic play‚ An Inspector Calls‚ the character of Eva Smith is presented through‚ at first‚ the Inspector‚ and then‚ through each individual member of the Birling household. Although the audience does not once encounter Smith’s character‚ her character is developed through the information elicited from the family‚ and it is certainly arguable that overall‚ she is put
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Writing Assignment 5 Yolanda Kelley July‚ 5 2014 Lending a Helping Hand Hubert H. Humphrey once said‚ “The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor." Community Service‚ what inspires people to contribute money‚ time or services unconditionally to a cause regardless of the potential risk they may be exposed to? Whether or not a person desires to cultivate within a community‚ perform civil service or simply to occupy spare time‚ volunteering offers a means
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The Legacy of John Adams In the early history of the United States‚ many founding fathers and people before them helped shape the underpinning for our nation’s liberty. Of the founding fathers and persons who were essential in the naissance of the great nation known today as the United States of America‚ John Adams is undoubtedly one of the most vital of them all. John Adams by David McCullough did not only do Adams’ life story justice‚ it also painted the man and his works so vividly in every
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“The Truth of John Smith” The text I have chosen to write this essay about is an account by John Smith about his experiences in the New World and his first encounter with Native American people. The text I’m using is from the coursepack page 105 to page 107‚ General History of Virginia‚ New England and the Summer Isles‚ from the second chapter in book three. Although this text holds many interesting aspects‚ I have chosen the one aspect that interested me the most‚ namely‚ in which way the truth
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Jane Addams played a significant role is shaping the Human Service profession. Jane Addams work in developing the settlement house movement has had lasting effects in our field even today. She was successful in changing the overall attitude toward welfare. Before the late 1800’s‚ there was still an attitude of the “worthy” poor vs. the “unworthy” poor. This negative attitude would cast continuous judgment on all people receiving assistance. Upper-class community members would accuse people who were
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Dear Kahled Hosseni‚ Hello Mr.Hosseni. In my English class‚ we just got finished with your novel The Kite Runner.Your book‚ has been the best school book I have ever read in English class. I was very surprised of all the information that I learned about the political struggle in Afghanistan‚ and especially surprised that this was a story of your childhood in Kabul from then on.From your childhood‚ Kabul seemed to be a very wonderful place. I was fascinated by the fact that instead of supermarkets
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Nature of Man In order to connect with his Christian dominated audience‚ all of Shakespeare’s plays contain important allusions to the bible. The Tempest is no exception. Throughout the play various allusions to the Genesis story of Adam & Eve are made. This serves to portray men in a state of nature which plants the question of whether men are intrinsically evil or good. In the play the island is described as a Utopia. This can be seen in Gonzalo’s speech in Act 2‚ Scene 1 “No kind of traffic
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Analysis of The Wonders of the Invisible World In this primary document‚ Cotton Mather‚ a Puritan theologian‚ writes about his fears of losing the entire country to the devil and his minions as the Christian religion‚ in his mind‚ is being slowly eradicated from the entire country due to witchcraft. In 1693 Cotton Mather wrote a literary piece called The Wonders of the Invisible World a year after questionable events in defense of the persecutions of those accused and convicted in Salem for witchcraft
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BESSIE SMITH 1894 – 1937 Bessie Smith‚ known as “Empress of the Blues”‚ was born on April 15 1894 in Chattanooga‚ Tennessee. She was one of seven children to a part-time Baptist preacher and his wife. However‚ by the time Bessie was nine years old both of her parents were dead. Bessie and her brother Andrew were already singing on the streets of Chattanooga for spare change. Bessie’s older brother Clarence had joined a travelling vaudeville1 show as a comedian and dancer and in 1912 he
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