Jimmy Wales Essays

  • dave

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    looks right and it is accurate to your knowledge so I will use it and site it no problem. Well this brings to my first discussion of pros and cons of using Wikipedia as a citation for college papers. Wikipedia was launched on 15 January 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, the site was designed to complement Nupedia, an online encyclopedia designed to be edited by experts (this information was sited from Wikipedia due to the lack of information available on Nupedia). This sounds like it would be

  • See Father He is Big and Strong

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    after four days of life, discarded him in "the rim of a tire under a soft black Georgia sky" (133). His father decided to leave his mother even before Cholly was born. Fortunately, he was rescued by his Great Aunt Jimmy, who raised him thereafter. He grew an intense love for his Aunt Jimmy, but her death marked the first of many episodes that began a downward spiral of his adolescent life. At Aunt Jimmy’s funeral, Cholly is placed into a traumatic world of racism when two white hunters interrupt him

  • An Analysis Of Why Jimmy Doyle Will Never Succeed In Life Due To His F

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    An Analysis of Why Jimmy Doyle Will Never Succeed in Life Due to His Father In "After The Race", by James Joyce in the book "Dubliners", the main character, Jimmy Doyle will be an unproductive citizen, fooling around with his friends and living off of his father's money for the rest of his life. In this short story he demonstrated that he doesn't realize the value of money, because he has never had to work for it, hence he is too frivolous with it at times. Jimmy also likes to be with his friends

  • The Burden of Prejudice and Racism

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    school yard. Such a wonderful day that was. Nothing could have ruined it. Little Jimmy, since it was such a wonderful day decided to go to the corner store and buy himself a little treat. As little Jimmy started walking over to the store, clouds flocked over the dazzling sun and the sudden pitch dark meant no trouble. On the other side of the road were three white boys from Jimmy's same school. Upon recognizing Jimmy, the boys ran over the street to where he was. "Hey Negro, what's up?", one

  • Thoroughly Modern Millie

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    Dorothy Brown, Trevor Graydon, Jimmy Smith, and Muzzy. Millie Dillmount is a totally modern woman. She’s come to the cite from the country in search of a husband. She strives to become a successful business woman and to marry well and be rich. She has every intention of marrying her boss. Miss Dorothy Brown is an orphan new to the city from California. She’s very naive and has no friends or family. Trevor Graydon is Millie’s new boss. He is a single business man. Jimmy Smith is a man in the paper clip

  • The Country Girls Were Considered A Menace To The Social Order

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    1. Discuss the significant of each of the following citations. Provide several examples that support each quote.      A. "The country girls were considered a menace to the social order. Their beauty shone out too boldly against a conventional background. But anxious mothers need have felt no harm. They mistook the mettle of their sons. The respect for respectability was stronger than any desire in Black Hawk Youth."            The

  • James Joyce's Dubliners

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    Race, the main character, Jimmy Doyle, attempts to escape his responsibilities as a student. Jimmy’s father pays for Jimmy to be educated in England, Dublin, and later at Cambridge in order for Jimmy to be able to support himself financially. Jimmy, however, “did not study very earnestly and took to bad courses for awhile” (36). This shows that Jimmy did not only shirk his responsibility to his father, but also chose not to plan for his own future. Joyce portrays Jimmy as a character that cannot

  • Stolen

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    Jimmy and Ruby are the most obvious victims in Stolen, but all suffer in their different ways. Discuss The most obvious victims in a tragedy like the Stolen generation are those in whom the pain and suffering endured is visible to all. Jane Harrison’s ‘Stolen’ presents Ruby and Jimmy as the most obvious victims but not necessarily the greatest, as may be naively assumed. The remaining characters, Anne, Shirley and Sandy all suffer huge depths of despair, yet their suffering appears to lessen to

  • White Resistance to Somewhere in the Darkness

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    notion of resistance to the book that could easily be encountered with a particular population of suburban, white readers, namely those who would seem to have the most in common with Jimmy and who, paradoxically, would most likely resist the book. The readers who comprise this group have much in common with Jimmy. They are largely lower-middle class and come from either fatherless homes, what might easily be considered dysfunctional two-parent homes, and/or live with extended families in lieu

  • Amy Tan's Mother Tongue and Jimmy Santiago Baca's Coming Into Language

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    Amy Tan's Mother Tongue and Jimmy Santiago Baca's Coming Into Language In the course of reading two separate texts it is generally possible to connect the two readings even if they do not necessarily seem to be trying to convey the same message. The two articles, “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan, and “Coming Into Language” by Jimmy Santiago Baca, do have some very notable similarities. They are two articles from a section in a compilation about the construction of language. The fact that these

  • The Determined Victor Jimmy Connors

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    The Determined Victor Jimmy Connors The Determined Victor What is a hero? A hero is someone who has achieved many goals in their life; someone admired for his impressive exploits; or someone who shows tremendous courage. A hero controls a great deal of power of authority, or strong influence over others. When people envision a hero, they usually think of a champion, a paragon, a conqueror, or a celebrity. Jimmy Connors represented all these qualities. He displayed power when he was on the

  • Coming into Language by Jimmy Santiago Baca

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    purpose dealt with the cause and effect piece and problem/ solution structure. For this specific essay that I read it is based on the effects of language and its values. I happened to read the essay called, “Coming into Language,” by a convict named Jimmy Santiago Baca. He was born in 1952 as an Apache Indian with a Chicano relation. Ever since Jim was a young individual he has been in and out of jail and roamed the streets before knowing the basics of right and wrong. From an early age he didn’t ever

  • Life

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    in “Jimmy and the Desperate Woman” to develop the theme that real men do take responsibility. I.     D. H. Lawrence’s background influenced him to write the short story, “Jimmy and the Desperate Woman.” A.     One important influence on the story is his parents. B.     In addition to his parents, another influence on the story is a relationship that he had with his wife. II.     To develop this theme, Lawrence creates a believable plot. A.     Primarily, this plot is believable because Jimmy, the

  • Dubliners

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    the Race,” young Jimmy Doyle, fresh out of college, from an affluent Irish background decides to gamble away money his father had given him to invest. Joyce states, “Rapid motion through space elates one; so does notoriety; so does the possession of money. These were three good reasons for Jimmy’s excitement.” (37) However, Jimmy seems to be a fun loving kind of guy, therefore going to the yacht and partying with his friends until the sun comes out is nothing new for him. Jimmy is showing a lack

  • The Transformation of Hal in Shakespeare's Henry IV

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    The Transformation of Hal in Henry IV In Shakespeare's Henry IV, the character Hal, the Prince of Wales, undergoes a transformation that can be characterized as a redemption. Shakespeare introduces Hal, in the opening act as a renegade of the Court.  His avoidance of all public responsibility and his affinity for the company of  the Boar's Head Tavern, have caused serious concern for the King, because Hal is heir to the throne.  The King realizes that to keep order, a ruler

  • The Pros And Cons Of New Labour

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    This essay will address whether New Labour contained policies with which it wished to pursue, or was solely developed in order to win elections. It is important to realise whether a political party that held office for approximately 13 years only possessed the goal of winning elections, or promoted policies which it wished to pursue. If a party that held no substance was governing for 13 years, it would be unfair to the people. New Labour was designed to win elections, but still contained policies

  • Explaining My Aspiration to Study Politics

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    1 Politics affects everyone's lives and I feel that pursuing a degree relevant to our ever 2 changing political system can help me gain the relevant understanding to pursue a wide range 3 of possibilities. 4 My aspiration to study Politics both at advanced and degree level stemmed from the 2010 5 general election; it encapsulated the interest of many people across the country, in part, 6 because of the first historic live TV debate. My study in A-level Politics not only

  • The Constitution Of The UK Constitution

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    ERASMUS In 2000 the report of the Royal Commission on reform of the House of Lords described the UK Constitution as “extraordinarily flexible with the capacity to evolve in the light of changes in circumstances and society”.1 The constitution is a body of fundamental principles or established precedents according to which a state or other organisation is acknowledged to be governed. 2 Most states can look to a written constitution for the rules which define the nature of their constitutional arrangements

  • Exploring Who Built Castell Morgraig

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    generally placed inside Norman keeps, but at Castell Morgraig no trace of a well has been found within the castle walls''. Morgraig also had a rectangular keep and the pattern of Morgraig's keep was similar to some of the welsh castles in North Wales. This evidence could possibly suggest that Morgraig was built under the direction of the welsh prince, Llewelyn. Cathcart King said, "At this time the Normanswere building very different round towered keeps". The castle also appears to be asymmetrical

  • Processing and Preparation of Leg of Lamb

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    In this essay, taking a process from everyday life and discussing it as a staged process that involves layers of decision making. The process chosen for this purpose involves acquiring, preparing, using and discarding a leg of meat, and in the process producing products and by products. Endeavoring to identify the processes involved in treating the leg of lamb in such a way that they will be “interpretable” to future generations is the ultimate aim of this essay. LAMB AS A RAW MATERIAL Wikipedia