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- 2671: Donald Barthelme
- Donald Barthelme has been called probably the most perversely gifted writer in the U.S. As well as one of the best, most significant and carefully developing young American writers (Harte and Riley, 41). He was born April 7, 1931 to Donald and Helen Barthelme in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Barthelme had a wide range of careers during his lifetime. He worked as a newspaper reporter ... Circle Award, the PEN/Faulkner award for Fiction, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize all in 1982. Barthelme also had the privilege of being widely regarded as one of the ablest and most versatile American stylists (Robert et al, 919). Donald Barthelme passed away July 23, 1989 from cancer in Houston Texas. According to the Literature book Barthelme s stories contain plots that are unconventional episodic, a clutter of styles ... with squares filled in with black on each page. All of the stories that I read came from Barthelme s book Forty Stories. He is widely regarded as one of the ablest and most versatile American Stylist (Anderson et al, 919). Barthelme does write about a variety of different topics, which does make him a versatile writer. He is a writer that makes the reader think about what they are ...
- 2672: Internet Security
- ... virus protection data files once a month. It is important to keep these files updated if one is a frequent and/or heavy Internet traveler because new viruses are being created every day. Only one American surveyed uses a credit card for purchases on the Internet. Most people never use their credit cards on the Internet because they are afraid that someone may be able to intercept the data transfer and ... who does report a valid bug. The company that reported the bug felt that this was too little in comparison to the security problems the glitch could cause. Surprisingly, this greedy company was not an American firm, but was actually a Danish software company that felt that the information it had was worth much more than Netscape was offering. Software bugs are common, but the companies that are responsible for the ... basically was the same as the White House's "hands-off" policy that had been announced on July 1, 1997. However, one central principle was made: "what is illegal offline is also illegal online." The American government wants to make the Internet a worldwide free-trade zone. European officials do not agree entirely. They agree not to seek new Internet taxes, but they do wish to have sales taxes and ...
- 2673: Dizzy Gillespie
- ... music as Stravinsky was to ballet."(Yardley, Jan.11). Lavonda Elam, a singer in her late thirties, said at "Dizzy's" funeral service: "He was a fine, powerful musician, and he added so much to American music. I am here to give him some of my time. It's the least I can do because he affected my life as a black American woman." (Watrous, January 13). His solo's and compositions are published in books so other musicians can study and learn from all that he accomplished. His works both melodic and improvisational are consider standard material ... Dizzy" led his band on tours through many foreign countries such as Syria, Pakistan, Greece, and Turkey. The tours and concerts were sponsored by the state department in conjunction with International Exchange Program of the American National Theater and Academy. The money that funded Mr. Gillespie's band was taken from the presidents emergency fund for international affairs. He enjoyed the warmth of politics so much that he ran for ...
- 2674: Benedict Arnold
- By: Anonymous No other American is remembered quite the same as Benedict Arnold. He was a brave soldier, a patriot- and a traitor. Benedict was born in Norwich, Connecticut, on January 14, 1741. When he was 14 years old, Benedict ... command. Despite his relief of command, Benedict led his troops into battle. He charged from place to place, rallying Americans and was again wounded in the leg. He received much of the credit for this American victory. In 1778 Benedict married Peggy Shippen, the daughter of a wealthy Loyalist when he was assigned to military commander of Philadelphia. Life in Philadelphia was pleasant but very costly. Before he knew it, Arnold ... On September 21, Benedict met with Major John Andre of the British army to discuss and arrange the details. Two days later, Andre was captured when he attempted to return to the British lines. Some American soldiers stopped and searched him and found incriminating papers hidden in his stockings and the plot was revealed. Andre was executed as a spy. Arnold learned this news in time for him to escape. ...
- 2675: Origins and Bibliography of the Big Bang Theory
- ... What's a Quark?", SCIENCE 85, VOL 6, pp 66-71, 1985 3. Bruce Schechter, "The Moment of Creation", DISCOVER, April 1983, pp 18-25. 4. Lawrence R. Sulak, "Waiting for the Proton to Decay", AMERICAN SCIENTIST, 70, 616-625, 1982. 5. Mary K. Gaillard, "Toward a Unified Picture of Elementary Particle Interactions", AMERICAN SCIENTIST 70, 506-514. - - - - The following background articles were downloaded from American Adacemic Encyclopedia via Dow Jones News Retrevial Service; Nov 12, 1985 UNIFIED FIELD THEORY Classical attempts at devising a unified field theory, principally those of Einstein, were concerned with the combination of gravitation (the ...
- 2676: The Crucible 9
- ... was the gathering power of raw belief in the great Soviet plot that Truman soon felt it necessary to institute loyalty boards of his own. The Red hunt, led by the House Committee on Un-American Activities and by McCarthy, was becoming the dominating fixation of the American psyche. It reached Hollywood when the studios, after first resisting, agreed to submit artists' names to the House Committee for "clearing" before employing them. This unleashed a veritable holy terror among actors, directors, and others ... idiocy (Joe Ryan, the head of the longshoremen's union, was soon to go to Sing Sing for racketeering), I got a wire from Cohn saying, "The minute we try to make the script pro-American you pull out." By then--it was 1951--I had come to accept this terribly serious insanity as routine, but there was an element of the marvellous in it which I longed to put ...
- 2677: Free Speech on Campus
- ... person said something to you that made you mad? For example, my last name is Abdo, which is Arabic. I know that there are some Middle Easterners who are crazy and like to blow up American buildings. Right after the Oklahoma bombing, everyone suspected that it was an Arab terrorist. Well, my mom works at a bank and has a little nameplate on her desk and is as American as she looks with her red hair and green eyes. About three hours after the bombing occurred, a man walked up to her desk and asked her if she or any of her family members ... to jail or be expelled from Auburn for that? Hann was kicked out for speech, and only speech-not for actions, as Georgian huffily insists. As for behavior, the prickly folks whose burning of the American flag was upheld by the Supreme Court were indeed engaged in behavior. But that behavior was based entirely on symbolic speech. So was Hanns. He didnt punch anybody or vandalize any property. ...
- 2678: Barbie Doll
- ... the spectrum concerning choices made when confronted with an unfavored social norm. The poem was written in 1970s America, when the roles of women had begun to change drastically. Women's Lib and the sexual revolution all both come into play in this work. The poem boils down to a sarcastic attack on the image of the ideal woman, which the media showed America and the feminists fought to destroy. Women ... feet bound, and their freckles gouged out. Granted, this is a more extreme example of the "perfect mate" ideal, but it is nonetheless evidence of it. The second work, "Barbie Doll", not only describes the American "perfect mate" ideal, it is based on the ideal. The entire work is an open act of defiance to the ideal. "The poem shatters the ideal woman via a woman who openly embraces it. This ...
- 2679: UFOs: We Are Not Alone
- ... The lights in the sky Ii. Dents in the earth Iii. Unexplained phenomenon A. The writing on the wall B. Geodes Iv. What about religion? A. The christian bible B. The ancient greeks C. The american indian V. Conclusion We once believed that the earth is the only planet in the universe that supports life. Today there is overwhelming evidence that not only suggests, but supports the very real possibility that ... official position as to what the luminous discs were. The united states has had more than it's fair share of unexplained aerial objects. In february of 1960 the n.A.A.D.S. (North american air defense system) spotted a satellite of unknown origin orbiting the earth. They knew that it wasn't a soviet satellite because it was orbiting perpendicular to the trajectory produced by a soviet launch. It ... the dawn of time, man has told stories of heavenly and demonic beings coming to rule, teach, torment, seduce and provide salvation. Every culture has myths of ancient gods who strode through the heavens. The American Indians had the cachinas who taught them to farm and saved them from numerous cataclysms. Greece had zeus who threw lightning bolts from his finger tips and Apollo crossed the sky in his golden ...
- 2680: Spiders
- ... centipedes captured in its web. After mating, the female may ensnare and feed upon her mate--hence the name black widow. Its venomous bite causes muscle spasms and difficulty in breathing. Tarantulas In common American usage, tarantulas are the large, hairy long-lived spiders that make up the family Theraphosidae. Related forms such as funnel-web spiders and trap door spiders are also often called tarantulas. The name came from a smaller wolf spider of Europe but was then applied by explorers of the New World to the giant spiders that they encountered. No North American species has a venom that is dangerous to humans, but tarantula body hairs may induce an allergic reaction. Tarantulas can give you a painful bite. Tarantulas occur in warmer regions, where they feed on both invertebrates and small vertebrates. Many grow to about 2.5 to 7.5 cm (1 to 3 in) long, with a 13-cm species (5-in) legspan, and some South American bird-catching species are larger. Some tarantulas reach an age of 20 years.
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