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- 4421: Jim Abbott
- ... is a clear summer night at Fenway Park in Boston. The Boston Red Sox and the California Angels are in a hot pennant race. The Boston Red Sox are the best hitting team in the American League. The Angels need a win and are counting on their rookie pitcher. The old green stadium is overflowing with die-hard Red Sox fans as the rookie takes the mound. He has to concentrate ... of America's heroes have disappointed their fans. Being a hero is a responsibility that Jim handles this beautifully, offering help and encouragement to young and handicapped athletes throughout the country. He is a true American hero, a one- of-a-kind success story. His ambition, determination, and accomplishments are true motivational achievements.
- 4422: Herman Melville
- ... the huge white whaleMoby Dick, which had destroyed his leg, Melville created one of the great figures of literature; in the book as a whole, he produced one of the finest novels written by an American, comparable to the best in any language. As Melville's work became more profound, it lost its appeal to the average reader, and its originality and symbolic meaning escaped most of the critics. Moby Dick ... of that unfavorable. He kept on writing until his death in 1891 but was virtually ignored. Only in the 1920s did the critics rediscover him and give him his merited place in the history of American literature. His "Billy Budd, Foretopman," now considered one of his best stories, was not published until 1924.
- 4423: Albert Einstein and His Theories
- Albert Einstein and His Theories Einstein, Albert (1879-1955), German-born American physicist and Nobel laureate, best known as the creator of the special and general theories of relativity and for his bold hypothesis concerning the particle nature of light. He is perhaps the most well-known ... light beam is transferred in individual units, or quanta-contradicted a hundred-year-old tradition of considering light energy a manifestation of continuous processes. Virtually no one accepted Einstein's proposal. In fact, when the American physicist Robert Andrews Millikan experimentally confirmed the theory almost a decade later, he was surprised and somewhat disquieted by the outcome. Einstein, whose prime concern was to understand the nature of electromagnetic radiation, subsequently urged ...
- 4424: Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac
- ... Science. He was an honorary member and fellow of the Indian Academy of Science, the Chinese Physical Society, the Royal Irish Academy, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the National Institute of Sciences in India, the American Physical Society, the Tata Institute for Fundamental Research in India, the Royal Danish Academy, and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He was a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences.[4] The world wide ... at Cambridge and Lighthill was Dirac's successor to the Lucasian Chair. Dirac offered the first course in quantum mechanics in Britain, entitled Quantum Theory (Recent Developments) . Among his students was J. R. Oppenheimer, an American, who later on was in charge of the Manhattan Project, which created the first atomic bomb.[10] Dirac's work should be understood in the context of the development of quantum physics. The theoretical work ...
- 4425: Blaise Pascal
- ... extremem right, 1 next to it, and 3 next to that again. To increase by one the number showing in any aperture, it was necessary to turn the appropriate frum forward 1/10th of a revolution. Tus in this sum, the drum on the extremem right of the machine would be given two turns, the drum immediately to its left would be moved on 7/10ths of a revolution, whilst the drum to its immediate left would be rotated forward by 1/10th. Tht total of 487 could then be read off in the appropriate slots. But, easy as thes operation was, a problem ...
- 4426: Edgar Allen Poe: Writing Style
- ... way of writing in which he does not have to reveal too much, or paint a pretty picture for the reader in order to attract his attention. In D.H. Lawrence's Studies in Classic American Literature, the author states, "Poe's narrowness is like that of a sword, not that of a bottleneck: it is effective rather than constricting. Nothing adventitious is in his great stories, only the essentials, the ... Bloom, Harold, Ed. Modern Critical Views on Edgar Allan Poe. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1985. 2.Buranelli, Vincent. Edgar Allan Poe. Boston: G.K. Hall & Co., 1977. 3. Lawrence, D.H. Studies in Classic American Literature New York: The Viking Press, 1961. 4.Lawrence D.H. Modern Critical Views on Edgar Allan Poe. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1985. 5. Wilbur, R. Modern Critical Views on Edgar ...
- 4427: Biography of Edgar Allen Poe
- ... followed by The Prose Romances of Edgar Allan Poe. The same year Burton's was sold, and Poe became editor of its successor, Graham's Magazine. Under his management, it becamer perhaps the most important American magazine of its day. In it was printed his first detective story, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, which attracted wide attention for his creation of the detective Dupin, and his method of logical deduction ... unproven scientific statement and wild imagining, springing from his disturbed state. He wandered from one city to another, drifted back to Richmond and on to Baltimore, where he died. Poe was the originator of the American short story. There had been other short works of fiction, but Poe perfected the short story as an art form. Jules Verne, Rudyard Kipling, and Conan Doyle were influenced by him, particularly in their early ...
- 4428: Biography: Helen Keller (1880-1968)
- ... During the Second World War, she visited soldiers who had lost their sight or hearing. She devoted much of her time to fund- raising for organizations for the deaf and blind, helping to found the American Foundation for the Blind, and serving as vice-president of the Royal National Institute for the Blind in Britain. She campaigned to make Braille, the raised form of writing, the standard for printed communication for ... and narrated by Katharine Cornell. It won an Academy Award as best feature-length documentary. Awards Helen Keller has received so many awards that they are too numerous to mention; an entire room at the American Foundation of the Blind in New York City is used to display them. She was awarded her own country's highest civilian honour, The Presidential Medal of Freedom. In 1933, she was elected a member ...
- 4429: Biography of James Polk (11th President)
- ... After trying to negotiate boundaries with Mexico and Canada wanting to extend the country from the Pacific to the Atlantic oceans proved useless, congress declared war and, despite much northern opposition, supported the military operations. American forces won repeated victories and occupied Mexico City. Finally, in 1848, Mexico ceded New Mexico and California in return for $15,000,000 and American assumption of the damage claims. Polk left his office with his health undermined form hard work and later would die in 1849.
- 4430: Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Biography
- ... 1932 by seven million votes. The Depression worsened in the months preceding Roosevelt's inauguration, March 4, 1933. Factory closings, farm foreclosures, and bank failures increased, while unemployment soared. Roosevelt faced the greatest crisis in American history since the Civil War. He undertook immediate actions to initiate his New Deal. . These measures revived confidence in the economy. Another flurry of New Deal legislation followed in 1935 including the establishment of the ... age and survivors' benefits. Roosevelt easily defeated Alfred M. Landon in 1936 and went on to defeat by lesser margins, Wendell Willkie in 1940 and Thomas E. Dewey in 1944. He thus became the only American president to serve more than two terms. After his overwhelming victory in 1936, Roosevelt took on the critics of the New Deal, namely, the Supreme Court which had declared various legislation unconstitutional, and members of ...
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