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  • Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre

    Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre

    Sartre was born in Paris to parents Jean-Baptiste Sartre, an officer of the French Navy, and Anne-Marie Schweitzer, cousin of Albert Schweitzer. When he was 15 months old, his father died of a fever and Anne-Marie raised him with help from her father, Charles Schweitzer, who taught Sartre mathematics and introduced him to classical literature at an early age. As a teenager in the 1920s, Sartre became attracted to philosophy upon reading Henri Bergson's Essay

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    Essay Length: 468 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 13, 2009 By: Bred
  • Charles Schwab Case Study

    Charles Schwab Case Study

    Summary Wall Street brokerage firm Charles Schwab & Company has seen a growth rate at over twenty percent each year. By 1998 the company had at least sixty five hundred employees. Schwab has over six million investor accounts worldwide. Gomez Advisors, a research firm, has ranked Schwab first in a number of key categories, including customer confidence. Analysis Chief Executive, David Pottruck and Schwab are looking into ways to “trim fat” off the firms bottom

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    Essay Length: 564 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 15, 2009 By: Yan
  • Charles Dickens - a Tale of Two Cities

    Charles Dickens - a Tale of Two Cities

    Charles Dickens’ and his works are products of what’s referred to as the Victorian Era. Quite literally the time period lasting through the rain of Queen Victoria (1837-1901), it is often characterized by the height of the British Industrial Revolution. Authors of the period, Dickens’ in particular, discussed through there works social inequality and a sense of disgust with the shortcomings of class division. Dickens’, A Tale of Two Cities was no exception. The idea

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    Essay Length: 457 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 19, 2009 By: Edward
  • Charles Schwab Case

    Charles Schwab Case

    Charles Schwab, a Stanford MBA, founded Charles Schwab & Company in 1971 in California. The company quickly established itself as an innovator. A defining moment came with the 19 “May Day,” when Schwab took advantage of the new opportunities deregulation offered. Schwab would not provide advice on which securities to buy and when to sell as the full-service brokerage firms did. Instead, it gave self-directed investors low-cost access to securities transactions. From the late 80s

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    Essay Length: 432 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 21, 2009 By: Yan
  • Charles Bukowski

    Charles Bukowski

    Charles Bukowski was a hero to some while a degenerate to others. He found beauty in the ugliest aspects of life. He spoke of violence and drunkenness, and did it with pride. In “My Madness” Bukowski has created an opinion on life that’s raw, vulgar, and to the point. He had a non-sympathetic attitude in this passage and a non-sympathetic attitude in his life. Bukowski employs no purpose to create a purpose in his literature

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    Essay Length: 964 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Artur
  • Ray Charles

    Ray Charles

    (September 23, 1930 - June 10, 2004) "In music you just can't escape when something is beautiful," Ray Charles recently said. Added the legendary singer/pianist/composer, "Like a good song, you can't get away from a good song. You have a good song, and it will still be beautiful, even when somebody with a bad voice sings it. I love the old writers, who wrote beautiful love songs. I came up on those kinds of songs.

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    Submitted: December 24, 2009 By: David
  • Darwin’s Theory of Evolution

    Darwin’s Theory of Evolution

    Charles Darwin first came up with the theory of natural selection. He took a lot of trips on land and sea, following his interests of nature and the change that happens. He looked at many different kinds of birds, insects and animals, he explained Natural Selection as sustaining of good variations and the rejecting of bad variations. Darwin explained that different alterations occurred in the same species, which helped them to adapt to their surroundings.

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    Essay Length: 450 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 24, 2009 By: Artur
  • The Charles River Bridge Case

    The Charles River Bridge Case

    Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge, 36 U.S. 420 (1837)[1], was a case heard by the United States Supreme Court under the leadership of Chief Justice Roger B. Taney. The case settled a dispute over the constitutional clause regarding obligation of contract. In 1785, the Charles River Bridge Company had been granted a charter to construct a bridge over the Charles River connecting Boston and Charleston. When the Commonwealth of Massachusetts sanctioned another company to

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    Essay Length: 2,208 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: December 27, 2009 By: Artur
  • Charles Cornwallis

    Charles Cornwallis

    The Beginning On December 31, 1738, Charles Cornwallis was born the second Earl Cornwallis, since his father, the fifth Baron Cornwallis, had been rewarded as a Viscount and the first Earl Cornwallis. In 1661, Sir Frederick Cornwallis was rewarded a baron try by Charles II for service to the Stuarts. His mother was the niece of Sir Robert Walpole. His uncle became he Archbishop of Canterbury. Cornwallis was educated at Eton and moved in

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    Essay Length: 2,309 Words / 10 Pages
    Submitted: December 29, 2009 By: Kevin
  • Charles Edward Spearman

    Charles Edward Spearman

    Charles Edward Spearman (1863-1945) studied psychology in Germany and received his PhD at Leipzig. Spearman is noted as a pioneer in psychology and believed in the two-factor theory of intelligence. He wrote his first paper outlining this theory in 1904 with Bernard Hart (Gregory, 1987). Spearman claimed that testing a persons abilites to complete tasks against expected outcomes could be measured and expressed in a mathemactical formula, that mathematical formula is now known as the

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    Submitted: December 30, 2009 By: Vika
  • Charles Dickins

    Charles Dickins

    Charles Dickens wrote 2 different endings to the book, Great Expectations. He wrote a second one since people didn’t like his first ending. So, Charles Dickens revoked it and wrote a second one. In this essay the issue of which ending is more proper for the rest of the book and which ending is better will be discussed. In the original ending Pip sees Estella again while he is walking along with little Pip,

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    Essay Length: 340 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 1, 2010 By: Monika
  • Charles Curtis

    Charles Curtis

    Charles Curtis Early Life  Born Jan 25, 1860 in a log cabin in Kansas Territory as a member of the Kaw tribe  Mother, Ellen Pappan Curtis, died when he was 3  Father, Oren A. Curtis, abandoned him to fight in the Civil War  Was sent to live with his paternal grand parents, William and Permelia Curtis in 1863 Permelia instilled strong Methodist and republican values into Charles  1866 went back

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    Submitted: January 1, 2010 By: regina
  • The Signal-Man by Charles Dickens. Easy a for Year 10, High School

    The Signal-Man by Charles Dickens. Easy a for Year 10, High School

    The Signal-Man by Charles Dickens is a pre-20th century short story, written in around 19th century. It is a Gothic story as a genre. A Gothic story is a type of romantic fiction that predominated in English literature. The Gothic novel emphasized mystery and horror and was filled with ghost haunted rooms, underground passages, and secret stairways. These ingredients are essential and crucial for Gothic story in order to create suspense to the readers. In

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    Submitted: January 1, 2010 By: regina
  • Darwin

    Darwin

    Darwin showed that mankind was the result of a slow biological evolution. He was a biologist and natural scientist so his major ideas were that all plants and animals had evolved from earlier forms and that this process occurs through natural selection. He came up with two theories, one stating that all existing vegetable and animal forms were descended from earlier, more prehistoric forms by way of a biological evolution; secondly, that evolution was the

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    Essay Length: 450 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 1, 2010 By: Monika
  • Charles Schwab & Co

    Charles Schwab & Co

    Introduction: This case introduces Charles Schwab & Co the US’s largest financial services providers of securities brokerage, wealth management, and related financial and investment. It was founded in 19 by Charles Schwab as the first discount brokerage after the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) eliminated the fixed-rate commissions. The company was purely brokerage service provider and gradually included many other services like, analyzing financial statements, providing advice, and developing high-tech tools to trade. The

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    Essay Length: 664 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 3, 2010 By: Artur
  • Charles Spearmans Model of Intelligence

    Charles Spearmans Model of Intelligence

    Unit Four Individual Project Charles Spearman’s model of intelligence and Howard Gardner’s multiple intelligence theory are two of the most widely used theories of intelligence. In order to understand how similar the two theories are we must first understand their differences. These two men differed in opinion on how IQ and intelligence should be measured, and they differed in opinion on what made a person “smart”. In order to examine these things they first had

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    Submitted: January 3, 2010 By: Mike
  • Charles Chestnutt

    Charles Chestnutt

    The historical and sociopolitical context of Charles W. Chesnutt's The Marrow of Tradition is the legacy of Reconstruction, and - more specifically - the circumstances surrounding what H. Leon Prather calls the "Wilmington Racial Massacre and Coup of 1898." This tradition is what the title of the novel primarily refers to - a tradition whose marrow is colonial racism. Eric Sundquist, in his To Wake the Nations, gives The Marrow of Tradition the recognition it

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    Submitted: January 4, 2010 By: Monika
  • Charles Dickens

    Charles Dickens

    Charles Dickens is the most widely read Victorian writer. The Victorian era, 1837-1901, was an era of new social developments that caused many of the writers of the period to take positions on the new developments in society. Dickens petitioned that social consciousness would overcome social misery. He often wrote in satire of the society around him, a smug and genius approach to the social injustices that he witnessed, making it widely available to the

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    Essay Length: 2,798 Words / 12 Pages
    Submitted: January 5, 2010 By: Jessica
  • Social Darwinism and You

    Social Darwinism and You

    Application of Social Darwinism: Social Darwinism, when it was popular, was often used to justify acts which would be seen as immoral today; such exploits as Eugenics programs, ruling through power, slavery and others. Colonialism was seen as inevitable, people saw natives as inferior and more unfit to survive and felt justified in seizing their land, resources and rights. Social Darwinism was applied in countries' societies too, also providing justification for exploitive economic policies such

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    Essay Length: 358 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 5, 2010 By: David
  • Charles Manson

    Charles Manson

    Charles Manson is known as one of the most sinister and evil criminals of all time. He organized the murders that shocked the world and his name still strikes fear into American hearts. Manson's childhood, personality, and uncanny ability to control people led to the creation of a family-like cult and ultimately to the bloody murders of numerous innocent people. Charles M. Manson was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on November 11, 1934. His mother, Kathleen

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    Submitted: January 7, 2010 By: Jack
  • Paul Samuelson Vs. Charles Tiebout

    Paul Samuelson Vs. Charles Tiebout

    Paul Samuelson vs. Charles Teibout Fiscal Federalism- is the system of transfer payments or grants by which a federal government shares its revenue with lower levels of government. Federal governments use this power to enforce national rules and standards. Devolution- is the statutory granting of powers from the central government of a state to government at national, regional or local level. The devolution can be mainly financial, for example: giving areas a budget which was

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    Submitted: January 9, 2010 By: Mikki
  • Charles Lutwidge Dodgson: Nonsense Writer of the 1800s

    Charles Lutwidge Dodgson: Nonsense Writer of the 1800s

    Charles Lutwidge Dodgson: Nonsense Writer of the 1800 s Lewis Carroll is a well known and talked about author, whose writings have stirred up much controversy. His work has inspired ballot, puppet shows, and even music videos. (Vink). Lewis Carroll is an outstanding English writer because of his background, his position in English literature, and his many works, such as his novel, “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.” “‘Lewis Carroll,’ as he was to become known, was

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    Submitted: January 10, 2010 By: Mike
  • Charles Banks

    Charles Banks

    Charles Banks, the subject of this engaging biography, was a well-known African American leader whose reputation and influence extended beyond his native Mississippi and the all-black town of Mound Bayou that he transformed into a highly visible symbol of black progress. Born in 1873 in Clarksdale, Mississippi, Banks spent his entire life in the state during an era of mounting racial discrimination and violence. That he became a successful entrepreneur and banker, revered by blacks

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    Submitted: January 10, 2010 By: Mike
  • Charles Manson

    Charles Manson

    Charles Manson has been named "the most dangerous man alive." Society referred to him as the devil. They believed he was the reason society was so bad in the 1960's. The 1950's to the 1960's was uncontrollably filled with violence. Our culture was shattered by the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., and Senator Robert F. Kennedy. At the same time, body bags from Vietnam were building up from a war

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    Submitted: January 11, 2010 By: Jon
  • Charles H. Keating

    Charles H. Keating

    Charles H. Keating Jr. has been the focus of criminal investigations by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Internal Revenue Service, the Justice Department, The Securities and Exchange Commission, and the House Banking Committee for a six-year shadow of the nation’s biggest savings-and loan debacle. The federal government proclaims that he fraudulently managed California’s Lincoln Savings into its closure, and in the process profited for himself and his family an estimated thirty-four million dollars. Consequently,

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    Submitted: January 12, 2010 By: Top

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