Like his close friend Thomas Jefferson‚ James Madison came from a prosperous family of Virginia planters‚ received an excellent education‚ and studied law though only informally and quickly found himself drawn into the debates over independence. In 1776‚ he became a delegate to the revolutionary Virginia Convention‚ where he worked closely with Thomas Jefferson to push through religious freedom statutes‚ among other liberal measures. The youngest member of the Continental Congress‚ Madison was
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From the extraordinary works of Gavan Dawes‚ The Shoal of Time: A History of the Hawaiian Islands brings the story on how James Cook was the first to discover the Hawaiian Islands‚ his decision to befriend the natives and the decision to stay at the islands when it seemed he should go to save his own life. Did he deserve to die for attempting to make a wrong a right? Did the Hawaiians make a terrible mistake in taking the life of Cook? Some would say he made the wrong decision and that is the reason
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One of Snarky Puppy’s primary influences is James Brown. Nicknamed “The Godfather of Soul”‚ Brown’s career spanned six decades and had 16 Billboard #1 hit songs. James Brown was also a key figure in the development of several musical genres‚ including funk and R&B. Snarky Puppy has credited James Brown as a key influence in their work‚ and it’s easy to see why. James Brown was known for his funk groove‚ utilizing out-of-the-box guitar licks and horn sections to create a unique timbre‚ and Snarky
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What kind of poet was Wordsworth? Write about his life and his place in Romantic poetry. Explicate (explain) one of his poems‚ or compare and contrast a few of his poems. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH‚ who was considered as the one the nest romantic poet in his era‚ was born in 1770‚ at Cockermouth‚ on the Derwent‚ located in Cumberland. His family history is very much similar to the Scott’s; as like Scott he was also the son of an attorney‚ law-agent to the earl of Lonsdale‚ a prosperous man in his profession
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Saint James The Great 1. How Did Saint James Became a Saint? Saint James accepted Our Lord’s invitation to become an apostle. He preached the Gospel and he died the death of a martyr which meant automatic sainthood to the early Christian community. ames gave up everything to follow Our Lord. After Our Lord was taken up into heaven. Preached in Samaria‚ Judea‚ and Spain. First Apostle to be martyred. He was stabbed with a sword by King Herod Agrippa I in Jerusalem in the year 44. 1492 was also
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World Literature II April 8‚ 2014 William Wordsworth There is no doubt that nature was the prodigious source of inspiration for William Wordsworth. Like many other romantic poets‚ he possessed great love for nature but unlike them he never expressed his anger for nature’s unkindness to him. Wordsworth started perceiving the nature closely and had a desire to give his feelings some words. Wordsworth enhanced his poetry with his outstanding imagination. William Wordsworth not only used nature‚ but
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James K. Polk James K. Polk was born on a family farm in North Carolina on November 2nd 1795. When he was ten he and his family traveled by wagon to the western area of Tennessee to create a plantation‚ where they did very well. They were stable financially and had thousands of acres and over fifty slaves. James Polk was homeschooled and when he finished‚ he turned to his family farm for work. At age twenty Polk decided to continue his education at the University of North Carolina. He graduated
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In James Baldwin’s essay “Letter to My Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of Emancipation” in The Fire Next Time‚ Baldwin advises his black‚ adolescent nephew living in the 1960’s during the African-American Civil Rights Movement on what living a free life means based on Baldwin’s own experience as an adult. As an existential thinker‚ Baldwin attributes a person’s identity to the collection of accomplishments and failures in his or her entire lifetime‚ as opposed to accepting a person as determinately
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career‚ the effect of James Dean on popular culture is truly remarkable. It is not just the films themselves‚ but the persona and the magnetism that James Dean exhibited that attracts such fascination and admiration. James Dean’s performances hint at so much more. His reaction to the world around him seems to sum up how so many young people around the world relate to their lives. He was reared by his aunt and uncle in Fairmont Indiana and every September they have a James Dean festival there which
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James Patterson: Master of Description and Plot James Patterson should be included in an anthology because he has mastered the art of description and plot. He’s capable of creating lives in his books like no other author from past or present. He has created a fictional world inside of his Alex Cross series‚ where many fans of his like to live. With each new book he can fill a mind with unbelievable detail and imagery. A small two book series‚ nicknamed the “bird books”‚ blew away many critics
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