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- 5051: The Adventures Of Huckelberry
- ... voice and dialect, further familiarizing the reader with Huck¹s culture and surroundings. The skill with witch Twain elevates the dialect of an illiterate village boy to the highest levels of poetry established the spoken American idiom as a literary language. Twain also uses metaphors to illustrate his themes such as slavery as a metaphor for all social bondage and injustice. Twain also uses irony in order to attack the ³civilized ...
- 5052: J. Edgar Hoover
- ... found that completely interesting. It then follows throughout the next couple of days and how his files are destroyed and so forth. The first part ends with the burial of the man who greatly influenced American politics, whether for better or worse. From this point on, the book goes right in order starting from the earliest part of J. Edgar’s career in the Justice Department all the way up until ...
- 5053: The History of The Internet
- ... Zakon 14). On November 1 the New York state senate passed a bill which, barring a constitutional challenge, made speech that is "harmful to minors" punishable as a felony. Ann Beeson, chief cyberlitigator for the American Civil Liberty Union (ACLU), said "The law will show how nonsensical state regulation of the Internet is. It will affect online users not just in New York, but throughout the world. In addition to violating ...
- 5054: The Impact of AI on Warfare.
- ... is on their side, then it can not be misused. This has been proven to be false when in the Gulf War a whole battalion of British armoured vehicles were accidentally annihilated by an allied American stealth fighter which contained complex computer systems which were thought to be faultless. The major problem with the use of highly sophisticated weapons is the cost of development. The best solution to this problem has ...
- 5055: Ferdinand Magellan
- ... began, the Spanish captain of San Antonio challenged Magellan’s authority, and Magellan had the captain arrested. The fleet sailed across the Atlantic Ocean to the coast of Brazil. The ships then followed the South American coast to the bay where Rio de Janiero now stands. They remained there for two weeks and then sailed south in search of passage to the Pacific Ocean. However, the ships could not find a ...
- 5056: George Bush
- ... pay raises. Crime rate is down and although he did not back a hate-crimes bill the President Clinton urged him to sign his inclusive rhetoric and multicultural appointments have please the Hispanic and African American communities. His pulling together of political factions saying it is better to work together than to work alone has impressed many leaders of both major parties. Bush is quoted in Time magazine saying, "I’m ...
- 5057: The Basics of A Hard Drive
- ... invetion of keyboards and nanotechnology they reduced the size of the computer by nearly 200% and every year the keep getting smaller and smaller and it is estimated that nearly 85 to 90 percent of American homes have at least one computer in their home. Now that I have bored you to death with the history of computers here's the fun stuff. Programs that let you play games and surf ...
- 5058: To Kill A Mockingbird 2
- ... and accusations. The novel centers around the trial of Tom Robinson. To the people of Maycomb county, Tom Robinson is just a "sorry nigger," who committed an unthinkable crime. Tom represents the black race in American society. He is a victim of racism, which was the major controversy in the culture at the time. Like Boo Radley, Tom Robinson is characterized by what the people of Maycomb County say about him ...
- 5059: The Awakening 4
- ... But they need not have thought that they could possess her, body and soul"(685). Unable to have a full human existence, Edna chooses to have none at all. Works Cited Chopin, Kate. "The Awakening". American Literature Volume II: Realism to the Present, 6th edition. Ed. George McMichael. Upper Saddle River: Prentice-Hall, 1997. 683-775.
- 5060: Ulysses S. Grant’s Leadership and Simplicity
- ... lead a besieged army. Within a month Grant had turned the tables and had defeated the enemy forces. Grant was much more than just an incredible battlefield commander. He produced the foundation of the modern American army. Grant emphasized a strategy of maximum firepower with maximum mobility (Perret, 28). Simplicity was the basis of Grant’s nature. He saw the war in its simplest form, which meant that he saw it ...
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