Founding Brothers When retracing our country's history during the 1790's and reviewing the decisions executed by our founding brothers, we can discern a trend in the manner in which these men governed that parallels their actions taken throughout the Revolutionary era. ... The founding brothers" dedication and sacrifice to the shaping of the country are commendable characteristics which are hard to refute. ... Ellis, author of Founding Brothers, was "A legend in his own time, Americans had been describing Washington as "the father of the country" since 1776- which is to say, befor...

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The eldest brother, Wilbur, was born in 1867. ... Wilbur found his motivation through academics. ... His youngest brother, Orville, was born in 1871. Much more than his brother Wilbur, Orville, fit the "stereotype of a budding inventor" (The Wright Brothers). ... Their bicycle business was the brothers' "best known pre-aeronautical occupation" (The Wright Brothers). ...

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In Joseph Ellis' view, the founding brothers that he writes about both organized the republic and held it together through its tricky, early years. ... Joseph Ellis writes Founding Brothers with an objective point of view. ... He is unbiased and does not favor one founding brother over the other. ... Ellis won the Pulitzer Prize in History for his book Founding Brothers in 2001. In 2002, Ellis appeared on the History Channel when the show produced Founding Brothers as a three and a half hour long documentary. ...

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Joseph Ellis's Founding Brothers: the Revolutionary Generation provided me a chance to enrich my knowledge of founders of the American republic--John Adams, Aaron Burr, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Washington. ... In an extremely boring and hard-verse-using narrative, Ellis basically told me our founding brothers multiple characteristics-private and public personality. Our founding brothers sometimes fought like babies without reason, but sometimes they did help each other for nation. ... ; Burr, a duel-loving killer, was one of the mo...

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Joseph Ellis opens up "Founding Brothers" by explaining "No event in American history which was so improbable at the time has seemed to inevitable in retrospect as the American Revolution" (Ellis 3). ... He believed that if the brothers put an end to slavery it would cause political and economical problems, which would in turn corrupt the union it had already created. In order to protect the newly established union, the brothers kept any discussion about slavery on the down low and hidden from the public eyes at all times. ... When the founding brothers "created a seal...

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Ellis asserts in "Founding Brothers" that 1789-1799 was "the most crucial and consequential [decade] in American History [T]he subsequent political history of the United States then became an oscillation between new versions of the old tension . ... (Ninety percent of the population of slaves in the United States was found in the South.) ... By remaining silent, our founding brothers passed on the most difficult dispute to the next generation. ...

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In order to explain why Warner Brothers Made a series of gangster films in the thirties it is important to understand the cinematic and social situation at that time, as these films were heavily influenced by political, financial and social affairs. ... Warner Brothers began making films as a small, family run, production company in the early 1920's. ... Studios such as Paramount and Warner Brothers began buying cinemas in populous areas, thus taking control over the distribution of their own films and increasing profitability. Paramount constructed and bought theaters in wealthier areas...

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The Founding Fathers I It was not easy for the Americans or colonist to get their independence for the mother country "Great Britain-. ... During the revolution the colonist found who were on their side, same as the British army discover how much support they were having from the immigrants of Grand Britain that were living here. ... After the revolution, the Founding Father had to faced the dilemma. ... John Adams is one of the favorite characters on the "Founding Brothers-. ...

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Inevitably military contracts ensued and the Wright brothers began training soldiers for the military in aeronautics. ... Over time the planes that the Wright brother continued to invent changed the way of warfare for the military. ... Though the immediate success and impact of the flyer was found in military and combat aspects, they also found success in the creation of commercial flights. Airlines such as American, United, Delta, etc. are all impacted by the success that the Wright brothers found well over a century ago. ... These historical attempts would not have been remotely possible wi...

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MacLeod's ethnography on the Hallway Hangers and the Brothers, shows how no matter the aspirations and determination of some of the members, class structure still remains. While the Hallway Hangers reject the "achievement ideology " and the Brothers accept it and have higher aspirations for their futures, both groups still end up following similar paths throughout their lives. MacLeod stated that "if the Hallway Hangers show that opting out of the contest is not a viable option, the Brothers show that dutifully playing by the rules hardly guarantees success either they show how rigid and...

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Bounding to the living room, I found my little brother lying lifelessly in the arms of my mother. ... Nine long minutes passed before the paramedics arrived, and during that time, I managed to keep my brother alive. ... Along with sparking my interest in community service work, my brother's brush with death has played a significant role in defining my choice of career paths. ... Saving my brother was the most significant accomplishment of my life, and I am proud of my efforts to heighten community awareness of the need for emergency training. As I watch others learn and teach resuscitatio...

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This essentially describes the society that is found in Airstrip One in Oceania in the novel 1984 by George Orwell. The Big Brother is the dictator in the fascist dictatorship and he is the figure the government uses to spread their aggressive propaganda. ... Winston is in a very special position in society, because he can truthfully see what really goes on in the world, before it is destroyed and reforged to favor the predictions of Big Brother. ... This quote is found shortly after Winston attempts to interrogate and old man about what life was like before the Party, but he soon realizes tha...

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Through his charm and his manipulative talks, he was able to find out that the person in charge of the trust fund, who was a doctor at a mental institute called, "Wallbrook," where he meets his older brother, Raymond Babbitt, for the first time. ... Taking care of Raymond during their trip together was more than anything Charlie had ever expected; Raymond has many idiosyncrasies that drive his younger brother insane. ... Every time Raymond got nervous or found himself in a strange place, he would recite "Who's on first?" ... Charlie used Raymond's finely-honed math skills to win appr...

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Winston was a quiet individual, harboring his hatred for Big Brother mostly in fear of getting caught. ... Winston finds himself openly discussing his hatred for Big Brother including the readings of Anti-Party manifesto and getting involved with other rebellious groups. I also found Winston to gain confidence through his relationship with Julia. ... They rebelled together with their sexual behavior and open conversations of treason, but eventually Big Brother won and destroyed their relationship, because nobody is supposed to love anything more than Big Brother. ...

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The parable follows a a linear structure in which the younger son asks for his part of the inheritance, leaves to recklessly spend it in 'wild living', finds himself in hard times without resources, and returns home to find acceptance from his father as well as anger from his older brother. ... He resents his brother's return and declines to celebrate. ... On his son's return, the father said and repeated 'For this son of mine was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.' His son became selfish and filled with greed (dead, lost), and the consequences o...

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He was the youngest son of 16 brothers, and had two younger sisters. ... Franklin also mentions his brother James and that important event on his life, when he used to work with him as a printer. ... But besides the opinion from others, he was also concerned for the particular opinion of his brother. ... Later, at night, he went to the printing-house and place it under the door, so that at the next morning it was found. ... He supported education so much, that he also helped found what eventually became the University of Pennsylvania. ...

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They also found the dimorphic structure in the human brain. ... Byne compared the brains of nineteen heterosexual men and seven women and found the male nuclei were larger, as LeVay had initiated. ... Hamer of National Cancer Institute studied the DNA from forty pairs of homosexual brothers and found thirty-three of them share genetic markers on the X-chromosome in a region know as Xq28. ... The finding does not explain all the homosexuals; seven out of forty homosexual brothers did not have the common genetic factor. ... Hamer's team has not found the gene that makes some men gay but the...

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He found that low serotonin levels in the brain contribute to violent tendencies. ... An article found in Discover Magazine supports this theory. " Hamer found that some male homosexuality is passed through the maternal side. ... If two brothers shared a marker, chances were pretty good that they shared the genes in the neighborhood of that marker as well. Thirty-three of the 40 pairs of brothers, Hamer found, shared the same set of five markers in a region of the chromosome called Xq28, far too many to be a coincidence. ... Another study conducted by Bailey and Pillard found that of gay men w...

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At the beginning of the plot, both brothers argue over borrowed money for a long time not coming to a conclusion. ... Dunstan's threats towards Godfrey of telling about his secret marriage have made Godfrey realize that it's worth it to sell his horse and render his brother the monetary loan. ... In the end of the book, Godfrey Cass, already married to Nancy, found out about his brother's death, which occurred fifteen years ago. ... This conclusion coincides with the statement "People need people", since Godfrey truthfully mourned over his brother, but it was an unusual mourn. M...

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The arrogant claim by the "more tough and serious" brother, Pedro was "we killed him openly [] but we're innocent' as well as "we're going to kill Santiago Nasar," supports the idea of their self-lust and obligations to restore their sisters' pride. ... Due to the obligations of maintaining honor within the family, the brothers speak openly of their plan to everyone, which made it seem as though a joke, and a bad one, but also showed a sense of fear of going through with it. ... When he did not, Pablo and Pedro continued in search for him at Clothi...

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In the context of the book no other event was more prominent than Winston's Affair with Julia, this event really showed Winston's rebellious side, and made him less and less careful about the watchful eye of big brother because he knew he was to be caught in the long run eventually, so he made sure he enjoyed his time left. I believe Winston's affair with Julia was his way of rebelling against big brother, which is a stupid thing to do because he was always going to get caught. ... He knew it could have been a trap, as he was suspicious of O"Brien in the first place, however he...

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In a further research on this subject, Michael Bailey, a psychologist, and Richard Pillard, a psychiatrist, studied the rates of homosexuality in identical and non-identical twin brothers of gay men, as well as adoptive brothers. Their studies have shown that 52 percent of the identical twin brothers were gay, as opposed to 22 percent of non-identical twins, and only 11 percent of the adoptive brothers who were genetically unrelated, were gay as well. If homosexuality is a genetic trait, the identical twin brothers should share the same sexuality since the genes in twins are identical (Bailey ...

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Advocates for States' Rights, and advocates for a strong central government, found themselves at a standstill with each other. ... It and pit brother against brother from 1861-1865. ... They gave the states the right to nullify any national laws that they found to be unconstitutional, and secede from the Union if wished. ... In contrast however, the South continued to be stuck in their old ways, and found the practice of slavery to be indispensable to their livelihoods. ...

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Louis with her mother and her mother's parents, brothers, and boyfriend, while she was eight; back in Stamps from age nine to thirteen; and in California with her mother, to age sixteen. Her brother was her constant companion during all but the last year. ... Louis, Maya found her mother, whom she had known only as someone who had abandoned her and who probably was dead, to be a wonder of light-skinned beauty and hurricane energy, in constant social demand. ... Freeman, her mother's boyfriend, who suffered similar neglect; when he began to abuse her sexually, an abuse at first accom...

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In The Prisoner of Chillon the three brothers have to suffer for their father's beliefs. ... In days of political and religious intolerance and persecution, however, it is very easy to end up in prison or even to lose one's life, as it happens with his brothers. But while the father is burnt at the stake for his attempt to enlighten other people (as he was probably a heretic belonging to one of the more radical factions of that time) "his lineal race / In darkness found a dwelling-place". ... In The Prisoner of Chillon the lack of speech is not connected so much with an inability to ...

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