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- 5021: Mark Twain
- ... Twain A onetime printer and Mississippi River boat pilot, Mark Twain became one of America's greatest authors. His 'Tom Sawyer', 'Huckleberry Finn', and 'Life on the Mississippi' rank high on any list of great American books. (Compton's Concise Encyclopedia) Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens on Nov. 30, 1835, in the small town of Florida, Mo. (Compton's) He was the fourth of five children. His father was ...
- 5022: Censorship Online
- Censorship Online There is a section of the American populace that is slowly slithering into the spotlight after nearly two decades in clandestine. Armed with their odd netspeak, mouses, glowing monitors, and immediate access to a world of information, both serious and amateur Hackers ...
- 5023: John Wilkes Booth
- ... brother Edwin Booth were famous actors, and John himself was one of the most promising performers of the time. He entered Lincolns private box and shot him in the head during the play our American Cousin. At first, Booth organized a group that planned to kidnap Lincoln and exchange him for captured confederate soldiers. Booth changed the plot to murder after the main confederate army surrendered on April 9, 1865 ...
- 5024: The Short Life Of Tupac Shakur
- ... the strong selling album "Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z...," which produced the singles "I Get Around," "Keep Ya Head Up," and "Papa'z Song." That year he was nominated for an American Music Award as best new rap hip hop artist. The next year he appeared with Thug Life on the "Above The Rim" soundtrack and on the group's album "Volume 1." In a photo on ...
- 5025: Self Reliance Through Hardship
- ... and self-reliant himself. Hardships for the male head of the household are tradition. I hope you know who this guy was. I hope you know he was student body president. He was an All-American, for Christ s sake. (Haslam, 2) It is not a choice for him, rather an expectation. For Gerald, it is a natural part of life. Self-reliance is something so inevitable, it is almost foolish ...
- 5026: Napoleon And Unrest In Europe
- ... Compensation for the victors. 2) Restoration of balance of power. 3) Legitimacy: restoring the monarchies of pre-napoleon Europe. Legitimacy threatened Liberals causing revolts. The response was The Troppau Protocol and Carlsbad decrees. These banned revolution and promised military intervention. The first failure of the Troppau protocol was Greek Independence from the Ottoman Empire. This sparked two series of revolts. In Eastern and Central Europe the focus was nationalism. In Western ...
- 5027: Abraham Lincoln
- ... On March 4, 1861, Abraham Lincoln was sworn in to be the 16th president. Right after he was elected, he went straight to the Civil War. The Civil War started on July 4, 1861. No American president had ever faced such a crisis. Lincoln had to find for himself the necessary powers to preserve, protect, and defend. In 1862 President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. The Emancipation Proclamation was a bill ...
- 5028: Short Story, Critical Analysis
- Short Story, Critical Analysis of Two Kinds Amy Tan's two kinds is a short story which dipicts the relationship between an immigrant mother, an American daughter and their inability to understand each other. Although most mother/daughter relationships have difficult times, when neither side is willing to bend, sometimes in winning the battle, you lose the war. The story "two ...
- 5029: The Origins of the Computer
- ... their predecessors with public amenities previously unheard of courts, theaters, circuses, and public baths. And these were now large permanent masonry buildings as were the habitations, tall apartment houses covering whole city blocks. This architectural revolution brought about by the Romans required two innovations: the invention of a new building method called concrete vaulting and the organization of labor and capital on a large scale so that huge projects could be ...
- 5030: Simone Debeauvoir The Second S
- ... to act the master, to take inferior creatures. Affairs with servant girls have always been tolerated, whereas the middle-class women who gives herself to a chauffeur or a gardener loses caste. The savagely racist American men of the south have always been permitted by the mores to sleep with black women, before the Civil War as today, and they make use of this right with a lordly arrogance; but a ...
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