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Robert Jackson was a small town New Yorker who rose to the status of a distinguished lawyer, and later became one of the greatest Solicitor Generals. Narrowly missing the appointment of Chief Justice, Jackson was the final associate justice appointed by President Roosevelt. Jackson welcomed the role of a Supreme Court Justice, and developed a practical view of the constitution. Jackson’s main influence to the court came from the Nuremburg trials, in which he was the chief United States…

Alaskan Neverland Peter Pan, the high flying fairy tale character, and Chris McCandless, the subject of Jon Krakauer’s book Into the Wild, seem completely different. However, the two protagonists are very similar in many ways. Chris and Peter may seem like conflicting characters yet they share many similarities such as, both have an alter ego, both experience issues with family and both embrace the idea of ultimate freedom. These traits reveal that one cannot attempt to stay young forever.…

“ You need not be sorry for her. She was one of a kind that likes to grow up. In the end she grew up of her own free will a day quicker than the other girls”. (J.M Barrie Peter Pan) My mother read me Peter Pan when I was younger and wanted to explain the importance of eventually growing up. She said that growing up is a scary thought for some people, and I am one of those people. The thought of having to take PSAT, SAT, and ACT stress me out, how am I supposed to do well on a test when I don't…

What? People do not know who Charles M. Schulz is! Well he had a good life and people around the world do not know anything about it. He is a very talented man who had a exciting early life, he also had a pretty interesting and tiring career with a lot of fans behind him, but he did have a pretty great after life too. With all his loved ones there for him and the Peanut’s right behind him in thought . The Peanut’s started out being just a thought in Charles live, but throughout his life…

IDA TARBELL 3 Ida Tarbell: A Muckraking Investigator Ida Tarbell was a woman who had a whole bunch of ambition. She achieved a lot of accomplishments in her life. She didn’t let anything get in her way. Ida Tarbell was a strong willed woman who revealed the monopoly of the Standard Oil Company, created a new type of journalism, and became famous for doing something she…

Are we alone in the universe? Men have struggled with this idea throughout the whole of human history. M. Night Shyamalan takes a fresh look at this idea in his sci-fi blockbuster film Signs as he follows the journey of a family in crisis as they face an alien invasion. As the story unfolds, Shyamalan reveals his ideas on the universal theme of man’s struggles with faith and a belief in the divine design of the universe through his use of allegory, conflict, and character. The primary way…

M.C. Escher’s art has always been fascinating to look at; his tessellations especially. I was first introduced to him by my psychology teacher when we looked at optical illusions, and then, once again in art class when he was introduced as an amazing artist, rightfully so. Being a fan of his art, I was amazed to find I could translate it in math terms as well; tessellations turn into geometric ratios and formulas. From psychology, to art, to math, M.C. Escher’s art has been widely acclaimed as…

By 1909 many technological inventions that are still used today had already been invented. At the same time, however, there was still so much that the world had not yet seen nor expected. E.M. Forster, realizing the longevity of the era of technology, wrote “The Machine Stops,” in which he imagined a futuristic world entirely consumed by “The Machine”—a world that had witnessed incredible technological advances, but had also seen the almost complete reversal of human social skills. Forster uses…

“If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future?” Wrote Stephen Hawking, but perhaps people from the future do walk amongst us, and we just do not notice them due to them having learned how to blend in. All they would have got to do is to research the dress and mannerisms of our time, and now they are hidden in plain sight. However, what if a person from a hundred years ago were to visit us now? We would probably think they were just a crazy, weirdly dressed homeless person…

“All you need is faith, trust, and a little pixie dust.” This is a quote from Peter Pan a fun, energetic boy that never grows up. With Peter Pan’s story there’s scads that goes into it, some of these points are where he originated from, why he never seems to grow up, and why Captain Hook wants to see him dead. I know it may seem captivating that Peter doesn’t age, but that’s not all of his “talents”. At just seven days old Peter Pan fell out of his crib and just flew to a mystical place called…