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Edwin Hubble, 2002.
A biography of the life of the astronomer Edwin Hubble.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 5 sources, $ 44.95
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This paper is on Edwin Hubble's life and the important steps he made in the observation in astronomy. There is no doubt that Edwin Hubble played an important role in the learning process concerning the universe.
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Edwin Hubble, 2005.
An analysis of Edwin Hubble's impact on 20th century cosmology and astronomy.
1,229 words (approx. 4.9 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 41.95
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This paper covers Hubble's time and place in his scientific era, a compact biography and a brief explanation of his scientific achievements. It looks at how he discovered that there are more galaxies than just the Milky Way and how he tackled two of the most fundamental questions about the universe, its age and size.
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"Born in 1889, Edwin Hubble grew to be a very "large mass of ego," as author Bill Bryson states in A Short History of Nearly Everything (2003) (114). He was born in a small Missouri town on the edge of the Ozarks and grew up in Wheaton, Illinois; on the outskirts of Chicago. His father was a successful insurance executive, so life was always calm and Hubble abiding. Accordingly, Hubble was remarked to be a tough and poised athlete, charismatic, chic, and immensely good-looking-"handsome almost to a fault," in the words of William H. Cropper; as well as "an Adonis" in the words of another admirer (115). These fated gifts were used more or less in constant acts of valor-rescuing drowning swimmers, leading frightened men to safety across the battlefields of France, embarrassing world-champion boxers with knockdown punches in exhibition bouts."
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The Hubble Space Telescope, 2004.
An analysis of the world's first Earth-orbiting reflecting telescope, the Hubble Space Telescope (HST).
3,346 words (approx. 13.4 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 95.95
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This paper discusses the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), the first Earth-orbiting reflecting telescope. The paper examines how the Hubble Space Telescope serves a vital function in increasing our knowledge of the universe. The paper explains that since its launch in 1990, despite several crucial problems, it has revealed a universe full of mysterious bodies, nebula, star systems and galaxies and has expanded the possibilities that humankind is not alone in the universe.
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"The first scientific idea for a telescope such as the HST came about in 1946 when Lyman Spitzer issued a proposal for a space telescope with a primary mirror between sixteen and fifty feet in diameter. Throughout the 1960's and 1970's, with the ultraviolet observatories OAO-2, OAO 3 and the IUE in the planning stages, the space telescope remained only a dream, due to the lack of technology. Yet Spitzer did not give up, for by the 1970's he had offered another proposal for a space telescope which would be able to provide images of very faint objects as contrasted to ground-based telescopes which suffer from distortion due to the Earth's atmosphere. According to Spitzer, such a telescope would not "supplement our present ideas of the universe we live in, but rather would uncover new phenomena not yet imagined and perhaps would modify profoundly our basic concepts of space and time" (42)."
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Hubble Space Telescope, 2001.
History & purpose of space-based observatory. Instrumentation. Projects & discoveries. Outline.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 4 sources, $ 39.95
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"The Hubble Space Telescope is a cooperative program of the European Space Agency (ESA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for the operation of a long lived space based observatory for the benefit of the international astronomical community. The idea was first developed in the 1940s, designed and built in the 1970s and 80s, and made operational only in the 1990s. This was to be a different type of mission for NASA, to create a long term space based observatory. In order to accomplish this goal and to protect the spacecraft against instrument and equipment failures, NASA had always planned on regular servicing missions. The Hubble has special grapple fixtures, 76 handholds, and is stabilized in all three axes. The Hubble is a 2.4 meter reflecting telescope which was deployed in low ..."
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Edwin Morgan's Poetry, 2003.
This paper analyzes the diversity of voice in Edwin Morgan's poetry and the nature of authorial voice in general.
2,392 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 9 sources, MLA, $ 73.95
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The paper discusses how Edwin Morgan assumes a false persona in his poetry. In particular, the paper discusses the issue of the authorial voice, that is the voice or speaker used by the author when s/he seemingly speaks for her/himself. The paper looks at how the notion of authorial voice is understood by twentieth-century critics and illustrated in Morgan's poetry.
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"Critics attempting to encapsulate the poetry of Edwin Morgan in a single term soon find themselves bewildered. His position as the most eminent contemporary poet in Scotland is, indeed, largely due to his enthusiastic multiplicity, in terms of language--Morgan has translated works from Russian, German, French, and even Hungarian--but also in terms of poetic devices. With some cubist restlessness, Morgan has created and abandoned techniques of his own devising: emergent poetry, performance and concrete poetry, instamatics, newspaper cut-outs and even wordless poems. Indeed, his awareness that language is a living and cleverly intelligent tool with which you can play gives rise in his poetry to a prodigious diversity of voices."
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"Yamamoto" by Edwin P. Hoyt, 2002.
This paper is a review of the book "Yamamoto", by Edwin P. Hoyt, a biography of the Japanese naval admiral, Isoroku Yamamoto, architect of Japan?s naval war against the U.S. during World War II.
1,765 words (approx. 7.1 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 56.95
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This paper discusses Hoyt's ability to demonstrates how events in Yamamoto's life shaped the man who changed history. The author feels this book not only tells the story of a complex man but also expands the reader?s understanding of why Pearl Harbor happened the way it did. The author states the book looks into many segments of Japan including family life, the effects of Japanese history on Japan, the nature of Japanese philosophy and the inner workings of Japanese military and politics.
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"Once Yamamoto was in the Japanese navy, he rose rapidly. He was seen as a young officer with great potential, and this brought him another remarkable opportunity. In 1919, he was sent to the United States to study at Harvard. While there, he studied petroleum resources, the very issue that triggered Japan?s drive to conquer southern Asia for its oil supplies, and to fight the United States for interfering with those efforts. In his free time away from Harvard, he traveled to Mexico to learn about the oil industry there."
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Charles Dickens' "The Mystery Of Edwin Drood", 1985.
This paper analyzes Charles Dickens' "The Mystery Of Edwin Drood" by looking at the chosen language and examining drug use by the character John Jasper and the dream-world he creates.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 4 sources, $ 79.95
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"The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens was the last work of the author and has been widely discussed and written about not only for that reason but also because it was unfinished and thus poses something of a problem for critics and readers. The book is thus a mystery in a double sense, leaving the reader uncertain whether Dickens intended that John Jasper was the murderer of his nephew Edwin Drood.
... how Dickens started the novel in the usual way by writing the first two installments. The ideas that were behind this story had been written in Dickens's notebook some time before. The idea of two young people who had been separated for many years after having been pledged to be married was written down as early as 1861 or even 1857, and by the middle of 1869 he was hard at work developing his... "
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The Early Life of Edwin M. Stanton, 2002.
This paper examines the early life of Edwin M. Stanton, Abraham Lincoln's Attorney General, then Secretary of War, during the Civil War.
1,860 words (approx. 7.4 pages), 10 sources, APA, $ 59.95
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This paper describes the historical and biographical context in which Stanton was able to emerge as a public figure. The paper focuses on Stanton's boyhood and early years in the Ohio Valley, as well as his early associations with the abolitionist movement in the antebellum period. The author points out that Stanton had bouts of depression and obsessive-compulsive behavior, which is a significant because of his tendentious, bombastic and moralistic behavior that marked his later professional life.
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"The principal personal characteristics about Stanton that emerge from an examination of his early life are his careerist ambition and his conviction about and confidence in his ability to accurately analyze contingent situations and to exploit such situations with energy, screened by expressions of a sense of moral mission, positioning himself favorably with respect to them. That out of these characteristics grew a series of personal career accomplishments, personal behavior that could be interpreted as psychologically obsessive and controlling, and a sense of moral entitlement to privilege and unconditional positive regard by his peers (whatever he may thought of them) may be inferred from the course of events in his life that preceded his appointment to Lincoln's cabinet as Secretary of War. Sandburg describes Stanton as a "nervous, asthmatic, strong man of many contradictions"."
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The Magic of Simplicity: Edwin Arlington Robinson, 2006.
A biography of the life and works of Edwin Arlington Robinson.
2,455 words (approx. 9.8 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 74.95
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This paper looks at the life of the poet E.A. Robinson whose works are highly autobiographical and which can be considered short and perfunctory. The simplicity and profound emotional experience of his poetry is discussed throughout this paper using examples from poems such as as "Richard Cory", "Miniver Cheevey", "The House On The Hill" and "The Mill".
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""The House On The Hill" isn't as well-known as "Richard Cory" or "Miniver Cheevey" and lacks their irony and snappy composition, but it is written as concisely and brilliantly as both poems. It's message is emphasized because despite its brevity, the poem uses repetition of the two main lines in every stanza. He's sending the reader a message about as subtle as smacking face first into a steel flagpole. This is done methodically, however, and although the poem is an emotional one, it lacks the fire and vigor of a piece written on a whim. Instead of sharp sorrow or anger, long thought out resignation and despair are the fuel for "The House On The Hill"."
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?The Mystery of Edwin Drood?, 2002.
Discusses the mystery element in Charles Dickens' novel.
1,500 words (approx. 6.0 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 49.95
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One of the mysteries of "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" is the question that lies at the heart of all mysteries ? Whodunnit? But there is another, at least as compelling question at the heart of this mystery, which is: How did author Charles Dickens intend for this novel to end? And, why does this unfinished novel read so very much like a finished novel? The paper shows that despite the fact that the story is often performed by theater companies that allow the audience to guess what the intended ending might have been ? thus emphasizing the unfinished nature of the book ? the novel itself seems oddly complete. This paper proposes one possible solution to the unfinished novel ? one that is consonant with the tone and intent of what Dickens himself wrote.
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"This improvised ending takes up where Dickens laid down his pen and assumes ? as do many of the proposed endings to this novel ? that Edwin is not really dead. To understand why this is the logical solution, we must go back in time to John Jasper?s Christmas Eve party. During this party, Neville finds his antagonism toward Edwin diminishing because of Edwin?s own friendliness and disarming openness to Neville. They are also drawn together by the fact that each of them believes that there is something peculiar about Jasper: Their increasing distrust of him draws the two of them together."
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"The Last Hurrah" ( Edwin O'connor ), 1999.
Analyzes protagonist Frank Skeffington, a traditional, big-city politician who cares about the people and is opposed by the new breed of elitists.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 1 source, $ 39.95
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Frank Skeffington is the main character in Edwin O'Connor's political novel, The Last Hurrah. The title says much about the story being told and much about the political changes that are taking place in the city of the novel. A political campaign is here identified as a "hurrah," a word showing great excitement, joy, and at the same time a sense of triumph expressed in the word "hurrah."
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"Frank Skeffington is the main character in Edwin O'Connor's political novel, The Last Hurrah. The title says much about the story being told and much about the political changes that are taking place in the city of the novel. A political campaign is here identified as a "hurrah," a word showing great excitement, joy, and at the same time a sense of triumph expressed in the word "hurrah." An election is therefore something of a sporting event, watched by cheerleaders on both sides, each side cheering on their candidate to the finish. The fact that this is the last such campaign for Skeffington is indicated in the title, and he seems to know this as well. He is old, and since he believes this is his last hurrah, he asks that his nephew be part of the campaign so he can impart some of his knowledge to someone, his son having failed him in that regard. This occurs in an ..."
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John Philip Sousa and Edwin Franko ( and Richard Franko ) Goldman, 1999.
An examination of their careers, lives, professional bands, innovations, popularity and compositions.
2,025 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 5 sources, $ 71.95
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"This paper deals with the professional bands of John Philip Sousa and Edwin Franko Goldman. It covers the careers of these two men, as well as that of Richard Franko Goldman, Edwin's son, who took over the Goldman Band from his father. It considers the activities of the bands and their influence on band music during the rest of the twentieth century.
The importance of the band -- that is, a wind and percussion ensemble -- in American and European culture is that it was the one vehicle by which ordinary people ever heard serious music, or sometimes any music at all, before the invention of radio. Although string instruments were common and were used in folk and popular music, theater orchestras, etc., string ensembles were nevertheless rather rare and were largely the prerogative of the wealthy, as they had been of the aristocracy. As a result, ..."
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"The Last Hurrah" ( Edwin O'connor ), 1999.
Examines the novel's portrayal of a big-city political corruption and drive for reform in the mid-1950s.
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Political campaigns have been the subject of many novels, most recently the best-seller Primary Colors which satirized the first presidential candidacy of Bill Clinton. Each book in this genre offers details of the way campaigns are run at the time of publication, giving the reader insight into a process he or she might only have glimpsed on television, seen described in newspapers and magazines, and imagined according to what little information he or she may have.
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"Political campaigns have been the subject of many novels, most recently the best-seller Primary Colors which satirized the first presidential candidacy of Bill Clinton. Each book in this genre offers details of the way campaigns are run at the time of publication, giving the reader insight into a process he or she might only have glimpsed on television, seen described in newspapers and magazines, and imagined according to what little information he or she may have. These novels take the reader into the campaign and show the dynamics of running for office. A book like The Last Hurrah by Edwin O'Connor takes the reader into a campaign in the mid-1950s in a large Eastern city at a time when city politics were machine politics, run by tight party organizations able to reward and punish those who either helped or hurt its cause. The candidate is Frank Skeffington, mayor for some ..."
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"The Last Hurrah" ( Edwin O'Connor ), 1999.
Examines the novel's depiction of the protagonist as a symbol of the passing of machine politics, including corruption and popularity with the average voter.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 1 source, $ 39.95
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The political world in the novel The Last Hurrah is a world that is changing, and the old guard is losing ground because the attitude of the public has shifted. The portrait is of the old-style political machine which could deliver voters and get a candidate elected almost as a matter of course.
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"The political world in the novel The Last Hurrah is a world that is changing, and the old guard is losing ground because the attitude of the public has shifted. The portrait is of the old-style political machine which could deliver voters and get a candidate elected almost as a matter of course. Some of the methods were seen as skirting the law and as unethical, but they reflected the view that politics was a way to get ahead, a way for a group like the Irish to assert themselves and to carve out a place for themselves in the urban centers of the northeast. The city in this novel is not named, but it is very much like New York or a number of other cities on the Eastern seaboard. Frank Skeffington reads as the sort of politician it is difficult to find today, a man like the earlier Mayor Daley in Chicago. There are two elements that emerge from a reading of this ..."
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Astronomical Distance Ladder, 2004.
An insight into the theory and development of the astronomical distance ladder.
885 words (approx. 3.5 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 31.95
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This paper focuses on the issues surrounding the discovery and refinement of the astronomical distance ladder, beginning with a brief account and definition of the ladder itself before moving onto a definition and discussion of the insights of Edwin Hubble. After considering Hubble?s contributions, it then discusses the developments offered by new scientists attempting to pin down the Hubble Constant in their work. The astronomical distance ladder is a device used by astronomers to measure distances between objects in space. The basic premise of the ladder is that, since we cannot measure distances directly, we make our distance observations based on distances that are already known.
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"As regards the Astronomical Distance Ladder, this was a huge and important step in the direction of the debate. Previous understandings of distance were based largely on the intensity of objects, and the nineteenth century standard generally held to the idea that ?faintness means farness,? but the Hubble constant and its revelation of a constantly expanding Universe opened the door to a wide variety of debates about the way distances are measured (Gingerich 1071). Indeed, then the current debate has largely settled around more specific elements of Hubbles view, rather than a whole-scale rejection of his system or some other form of innovation. Indeed, the large and greater portion of debates relating to the astronomical distance ladder focus ?on recently determined and still controversial values of the Hubble constant.? "
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