E.E. Cummings
.... Finally, '(im' on the last line should bring the reader's eyes back to the top of the poem, where he finds 'mortals)'. Placing '(im' at the end of the poem shows that the performers attain a special type of immortality for risking their lives to create a show of beauty, they attain a special type of immortality (36-7). The circularity of the poem causes a feeling of wholeness or completeness, and may represent the Circle of Life, eternal motion (Fri 26). Cummings first tightly written ideogram was !blac, .....
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Evolution Of The Corvette
.... of the success and attention the Corvette was getting, it became time for Chevy to give the Corvette a whole new look. In 1958 the car got an extensive makeover. The Corvette achieved its new look with an immense use of chrome, as well as a new quad headlight design. The Corvette also boasted a new engine that with all the options had horsepower ratings of around 315 hp. Even with these new, more powerful engines the Corvette was truly not as fast as the 1957 models. In 1961 the Corvette was touched .....
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Early Chinese Immigrant
.... referred to as the "buying and selling of pigs." Hawaii made use of this practice in order to fulfill the great demand of the booming sugar industry. In 1962, the United States congress prohibited American citizens in American vessels from engaging in such activities. However, the laws were easily evaded, and not strictly enforced. In an 1869 magazine article called "Our Manufacturing Era," a writer named Henry Robinson described California's enormous economic potential. He stated that, "If Chinese labo .....
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Eastern Philosophy
.... after Confucius was born, leaving the family in poverty; but Confucius nevertheless received a fine education.
"To learn and from time to time to apply what one has learned -- isn't that a pleasure?"
Analects 1:1
He was married at the age of 19 and had one son and two daughters. During the four years immediately after his marriage, poverty compelled him to perform menial labors for the chief of the district in which he lived.
HIS CARREER .....
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Effects Of The Atomic Bomb
.... was used on Nagasaki, and given the nickname "Fat Man" after Winston Churchill (Outlaw Labs). The blast from an atomic bomb's explosion will last for only one-half to one second, but in this amount of time a great deal of damage is done (Physicians and Scientists on Nuclear War, 1981). A fireball is created by the blast, which consists mainly of dust and gasses. The dust produced in this fireball has no substantial effect on humans or their environment. However, as the gasses expand a blast wave is produc .....
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English And French Relations I
.... and culture that Quebec was left behind by comparison. In 1905, while Laurier tried to implement dual educational systems in Saskatchewan and Alberta, Clifford Sifton essentially forced Laurier to abandon it because Sifton desired to make Canada an English nation. Sifton's "white mans Canada" offended French, Blacks Asians, and others alike. French Canadians began to feel that Quebec was the only place their language and culture would be tolerated. The stage was set for unrest and discontentment in .....
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Early History Of Judaism
.... : Jerusalem. This
topic will be covered in detail first, and then the multiple Judaism
arguments will be presented. In this way, it is possible to keep a
common focus in mind when reading about all the other situations in
which the religion has found itself. A brief conclusion follows the
discussion.
A Place to Call Home No other religion has ever been so attached
to its birthplace as Judaism. Perhaps this is because Jews have been
exiled and restricted from .....
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Edison
.... He could have had an operation to fix his hearing, but later in life he said that not being able to hear well helped him concentrate. Despite his disability, Edison was able to later develop two devices that pertained to sound: the transmitter and receiver for the telephone and the phonograph (Thomas Alva Edison Biography).
Edison was very creative and inventive and continued throughout his life to think of new inventions and designs. Edison saw many ways to put things and ideas together in no .....
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Elizabethanfood
.... prepared in vast quantities and what was left over gone to servants. After the servants ate, the remaining food was given to the poor who waited outside the rich men's gates--reminds one of Lazarus and the rich man.
Kitchen Equipment: brick ovens, working table, spits, pots, posnetts, chafing-dishes, graters, mortars and pestles, boilers, knives, cleavers axes, dripping-pans, pot-racks, pot-hooks, gridirons, frying pans, sieves, kneading troughs, fire shovels, barrels, tubs, pantry, buttery (wine and .....
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Open Arms
.... to laugh at, the convenient
symbol of a group of serious people who were all guilty of the same idolatry and could be dismissed with the same
scorn. Lord Acton had said that she was greater than Dante; Herbert Spencer exempted her novels, as if they were
not novels, when he banned all fiction from the London Library. She was the pride and paragon of her sex.
Moreover, her private record was not more alluring than her public. Asked to describe an afternoon at the Priory,
the story-teller alwa .....
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Galileo
.... to mathematics and science, but in Pisa at the time there was only one notable science teacher, Francisco Buonamico. Buonamico was a Aristotelian, therefore Galileo became a disciple to him, and as shown in Galileo¹s book Juvenilia he was very into Aristotelian physics and cosmology. Due to a lack of money, Galileo was forced to drop out of the University of Pisa in 1585. Soon after dropping out, Galileo became a lecturer at the Academy of Florence.
While in Florence , Galileo was successful i .....
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Origin Of Man
.... the other groups of animals to which he is related. It is believed that over 60 million years, descendants of the early primates gradually evolved to produce modern man. Tree-living creatures, more like rats than men, were followed by the ancestors of today's lemurs and monkeys, and by a primate called Dryopithecus, believed to be the common ancestor of both apes and man.
A breakthrough in man's evolution came when creatures became adapted to standing and walking in an upright position, free .....
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One Hundred Years Of Solitude
.... honor of flying the first atomic mission. General Ent formally assigned the 393rd Heavy Bombardment Squadron, based in Nebraska, to Colonel Tibbet. Its fifteen bomber crews would provide the world’s first atomic strike force capable of delivering nuclear bombs on Germany and Japan. Their training base was at Wendover, Utah and the code name this project was named “Silverplate.” Tibbet was warned to commit as little as possible on paper and tell only those who needed to know to do their jobs properly. .....
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Orientalism And Colonialism
.... that area. Indigenous children learning western ways of culture and natives who aid in the European exploitation, successfully gives the West control the land. In addition, once a new culture is introduced to one generation, the possibility of successful reinstatement of the past culture is nill.
In my opinion, the entire destruction of the majority of the world's nations was caused by Western influence. Before European intervention, ways of life were individualistic. In fact, the third world as .....
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Origin Of Heiroglyphics
.... Ancient Egyptian traders must have noticed how helpful a written language was and how it could help their governments bureaucracy function much more smoothly. Then, they brought back the idea back to Egypt, where it was quickly and openly accepted.
The Egyptians, however, did not acknowledge the borrowing from Sumerian culture. Instead, they believed that writing had been invented by their god of learning, Thoth, so they called it “words of the gods” (Warburton, 70). And since written words came f .....
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