Felix Frankfurter Essays

  • State and Federal Authority in Screws v. United States

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    Jackson Papers, 5. [47] See Justice Murphy’s dissent, wherein he insists that “it is idle to speculate on other situations that might involve § 20 which are not now before us.” Screws et al. v. United States, 325 U.S. 91, 136 (1945). [48] Felix Frankfurter to Chief Justice Stone, November 30, 1944, Harlan Fiske Stone Papers. [49] Justice Frank Murphy’s Notes on Screws et al. v. United States, Frank Murphy Papers. [50] Screws et al. v. United States, 325 U.S. 91, 139 (1945). [51] Memorandum

  • Herbert Croly

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    Herbert Croly At the turn of the 20th century, Herbert Croly – as far as the accelerating world was concerned – was a man without a name. Painfully shy and without many friends, he was admitted to Harvard in 1886 as one of 96 "special students" who would not be eligible for a degree. Perhaps the world should have realized he would one day be reckoned with when was given the former room of newspaperman William Randolph Hearst, who was expelled from Harvard a year before Croly entered its halls

  • Al Capone's Legacy

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    Between 1920 and 1930, the American Prohibition Era began and ended in a whirl of justice, scandal, crime, and punishment. Whether it is the oppositional nature of people that drives them to do what they are told not to, or whether Americans of the day and age simply enjoyed their alcohol a bit too much, anyone can say. Whatever the cause, the Prohibition Era and the time periods surrounding it became the centerpiece in a story of incredibly extravagant law enforcement, dangerous businessmen, shady

  • Civil Liberties of the Early Twentieth Century

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    All throughout history civil liberties have been established, fought for, and abused. During the first quarter of the twentieth century, the civil liberties in the United States of America were tested. There were many events where the freedoms that our founding fathers had fought for Passive Voice (consider revising). Prejudice, fear, and racism all played a role during these events, during many of which they decided the outcome. Two events that demonstrate when the civil liberties in America were

  • never say never

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    "Ok, so let me see if I've got this straight." I was on the phone with my friend Bob. I've known Bob for years. He's a former Navy guy who now does electrician work at Disneyworld. He's seriously bright, but doesn't know squat about computers. And he was trying, once again, to figure out what the heck I was doing with my life. "You're starting another Notes publication?" He stretched out the word "another" so it seemed that he was entirely incredulous of my actions. "Well, yeah," I responded with

  • The Power of Rasputin

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    Grigori Rasputin was born in 1869 or 1872, a fact disputed among historians; and he grew up a peasant in a family in Siberia, Russia. He and his brother both fell in a river and almost drowned but were pulled out by a passerby, and his brother died of pneumonia due to the incident. This detail perhaps foreshadows his death, which coincidentally was a death from drowning. Not much else is known about his childhood, but there is one story telling of his supernatural power. He apparently was able to

  • Arthur Machen’s The Great God Pan

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    human perception and knowledge. Machen’s use of this divine entity and his success in rediscovering a minor figure of the classical pantheon, yet “mostly neglected by earlier authors of English literature” (Pasi 69), provide what Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari argue to be the significant value of a minor author, “…by using a number of minority elements, by connecting, conjugating them, one invents a specific, unforeseen, autonomous becoming” (106). “The Great God Pan” uses a detective plot and English

  • Analysis of Mendelssohn’s Italian Symphony

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    Introduction Felix Mendelssohn was one of the most famous composers during the 19th century. Although in his music he did show some features of romanticism, he was strongly influenced by traditional genres such as counterpoint etc. In this essay, the biography of the composer, background of the genre and analysis of the piece will be investigated Biographical Sketch of Mendelssohn Mendelssohn was born in Hamburg in 1809. His father Abraham Mendelssohn was a banker, while his mum Lea Mendelssohn

  • Robert Schumann

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    Robert Alexander Schumann was born in the small riverside town of Zwickau, Saxony, in 1810.The youngest of five children, Robert Schumann was brought up in comfortable, middle-class respectability. As a child, he apparently exhibited no remarkable abilities. At the age of six, Robert was sent to the local preparatory school, run by Archdeacon Dohner. He had in fact already begun his education, with the young tutor who gave lessons in exchange for board and lodging at the Schumann home. At the age

  • Essay On Felix Mendelssohn

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    Felix Mendelssohn was a German Romantic composer, pianist and conductor. His incredible talented started as a child and from there flourished and gave him a place among the best composers of the 1800s. Felix Mendelssohn’s work included symphonies, concertos, oratories, piano and chamber music. From an early age he worked so persistently at what he loved to do so much. Many people cannot name any of his works but there is one in particular that everyone has heard is his “Wedding March” from “A Midsummer

  • Mendelssohn And Mohn Analysis

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    Felix Mendelssohn – Violin Concerto in E Minor Felix Mendelssohn was brought up in a wealthy family, with a strong Jewish faith, and was one of four children. He was born in 1809, in Hamburg, Germany, and died in Leipzig, Germany in 1847. Soon after he and his sister Fanny were born, the family moved to Berlin, to elude the French troops of Napoleon. While in Berlin, the Mendelssohn family experienced some wealth; because of this Felix was able to encounter many artists, musicians, philosophers

  • Russian Revolution Leaders: Grigori Rasputin

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    Grigori Rasputin was unique compared to the other Russian Revolution leaders; Rasputin was known as the “Holy Man” because of his healing powers. Many people believed that Rasputin possessed mystical skill in healing the sick and injured. Rasputin’s healing powers introduced him to the Russian court when Rasputin supposedly helped cure Tsar and Tsarina’s son Alexei who was haemophiliac. Rasputin also had the ability to know what others were thinking and to heal people in conditions which were impossible

  • Research Paper on Gregory Rasputin

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    Grigori Rasputin was not a very great person in history. A great person in history does good and important things for his people, country and the world. Early Life and Family: Grigori Efimovich Rasputin was born on January 10, between 1864-1872, along the Tura River in the village of Pokrovskoye. Rasputin was married to Praskovia Fyodorovna in 1889. His mother was Anna Egrovna and his father was Efim Rasputin. Grigori had three children with Praskovia, named Varya, Maria and Dmitry

  • Fanny Mendelssohn Hansel

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    was the closest to Felix Mendelssohn, whom she shared her deep love of music with. Even though they trained side by side, Felix gained more notoriety due to the oppression of woman in the 1800’s. It is argued she was just as good as her brother, Felix, if not better. Despite the families’ conversion to Christianity, Fanny was viewed as young Jewish woman, as she kept the values of a typical liberal Jewish woman. It is very apparent, the influence Fanny had on her brother, Felixs’ career. For in this

  • Animation in the 1920s

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    of a turntable, which was solely used to be the base for the Felix the Cat figurine and propped him up for the shoot; studio lights, which helped transmit the picture and they also needed to be constant; an actor was needed and had to be impervious to heat, cheap, and also constant. In turn, the use of a Felix figurine was perfect for the job not only because of these reasons, but also because the picture was black and white, and Felix was a black and white cat. A scanning disk was also needed since

  • Johann Sebastian Bach Research Paper

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    Johann Sebastian Bach was born on March 21, 1685 to Johann Ambrosius Bach and Maria Elisabeth Lammerhirt in Eisenach, Thuringia, Germany. Bach was born into a musical family of many generations. Bach’s father worked as a town musician in Eisenach and taught Bach how to play the violin. Bach started schooling in religion and studied Latin and other materials at the age of 7. The Lutheran faith that he was raised in influenced many of his musical works. At the age of 10 Bach became an orphan. His big

  • Clara Machumann Biography Essay

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    were born 1845 to 1848, but Emil died at one year old. In 1850, the Schumanns moved to Dusseldorf, German, where Robert became a director of the Dusseldorf Orchestra. Also, Clara’s daughter Eugenie was born that year. Clara’s last child, Felix, was named after Felix Mendelssohn and was born in 1854. Clara Schumann gave birth to eight children, however four of her children died before she her death in

  • Wisdom In The Catcher In The Rye by J. D. Sallinger

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    It is widely agreed that Salinger’s Catcher in The Rye is unarguably the quintessential coming of age and initiation story . This story has been compared against Ellis’ Less Than Zero and T.S. Elliot’s Wasteland as being among the literature that best elucidates the alienation of our youth . The story of Holden’s transition into manhood has been compared against the American transition into consumerism after the world wars . The story has been elevated above bildungsroman to an epic of Odyssean

  • Clara Schumann: Life And Music In The 19th Century

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    Clara Schumann like most women of her day, faced a myriad of obstacles to becoming recognized composers in the 18th and early 19th century. Clara Schumann was an accomplished composer of her times but recognition of this feat did not come with ease. Clara faced many of the common stumbling blocks to women during this time to include the idea that a woman’s place was in the home and that her life focus is to please her husband, run the home and take care of the children. Despite this mindset

  • Biography on Felix Christian Klien

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    Felix Christian Klein Felix Christian Klein was born on April 25, 1849 (O’Conner and Robertson). Felix Klein was born in Düsseldorf, Prussia, which is now present day Germany. Also, known as Felix Klein, he was a mathematician known for his research in non-Euclidean geometry, group theory, and function theory (Felix Klein German Mathematician). Felix Klein’s father was part of the Prussian government. His father was secretary to the head of the government. After Felix Klein graduated from the gymnasium