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…that still to this day defines the principal objective of the Enlightenment: 'Dare to Know'! Briefly put Kant had defined the role of the philosopher as 'investigator' (compare this view with that of the British philosopher, John Locke, who, a hundred years…

…of their drivers. The existing criticism on automobiles in The Great Gatsby usually centers on one or the other of these two functions.(O'Meara, 75). The result of the car is that it ends up killing Myrtle. Kenneth and Irving Saposnik discuss the automobile imagery…

…. Bibliography Cocking, Rodney R.; Sigel, Irving E. Cognitive Development from Childhood to Adolescence: A Constructivist Perspective. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1977. Cohen, David. Piaget: Critique and Reassessment. New York: St. Martin's Press…

…with the pianist Ellis Larkins, and in 1955 she appeared in the film "Pete Kelly's Blues". In 1956, she recorded "The Cole Porter Songbook," which were followed by anthologies devoted to George and Ira Gershwin, Duke Ellington, Irving Berlin, and other composers…

…, John S. "Doubts in the American Garden: Three Cases of Paradisal Skepticism." Studies in Short Fiction 25 (1988): 249-59. Three works are discussed in this article: "Rip Van Winkle", "Young Goodman Brown", and "The Fall of the House of Usher." In all…

…. As Matisse said: 'Let colours be the forces of painting'. Bibliography: ·<Tab/>Abstract Expressionism - The Triumph of American Painting, Irving Sandler, Pall Mall Press ·<Tab/&gt…

…(unlike many of his Oxfordian peers); it's almost distressing to see how little he has to offer. Back in 1994, Continuum brought out Irving Leigh Matus's Shakespeare, IN FACT, a badly edited but scathing deconstruction of the Oxford movement. Matus acknowledged…

…by British writing. Some writers, such as John Barlow wrote epic and mock epic poetry similar to the writings of John Milton and Alexander Pope. Washington Irving's The Sketchbook, which included "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle…

…years after his birth, she died of tuberculosis (eapoe.org1997). When his mother died, Poe was adopted by John Allan who was convinced to do so by his wife Frances Allen. At the age of five Edgar began his formal education under Elizabeth Fisher. He…

…1) When and where were you born? I was born the 12th of October, 1919 in Lincoln, VT. Five generations of Purintons have been born and raised in Lincoln. 2) Do/did you have any siblings? I had two brothers, John and George. John was five…