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- 5181: Gandhi: A Man with Virtues
- ... began to teach a method of “passive resistance,” to, the South African authorities. _Part of the inspiration for this method came from the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy. Christ and Henry David Thoreau, a 19th century American writer, also inspired Gandhi. In 1914 the government of the Union of South Africa made important concessions to Gandhi's demands. They included recognition of Indian marriages and abolition of the poll tax for them ...
- 5182: Brief History of Library Automation: 1930-1996
- ... the present . Library Automation 1980-present The 70's were the era of the dummy terminal that were used to gain access to mainframe on-line databases. The 80's gave birth to a new revolution. The size of computers decreased, at the same time, technology provided faster chips, additional RAM and greater storage capacity. The use of microcomputers during the 1980's expanded tremendously into the homes, schools, libraries and ...
- 5183: Albert Einstein from Start to Finish
- ... something in German and took his last deep breath and was there pronounced dead. Albert Einstien contributed so much to the world. Some not so good and some the greatest. He was abused by the American government though. They used their enemy to make th em a weapon. I feel that Hitler would still be alive today if he had not helped us though. He lived a unhappy life. This unhappy ...
- 5184: The Arrival of Email
- ... the Internet." However, Microsoft is not alone. Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co. recently agreed to settle a discrimination lawsuit initiated by employees. "The smoking gun: an E-mailed joke, playing on stereotype s about African- American speech patterns, that a colleague had zapped around the office." ("When the Devil is in the E-Mails," BusinessWeek, June 8, 1998, pp. 72-74) The critical problem facing companies: How do you manage E ...
- 5185: Victims In Progress of Technology
- Victims In Progress of Technology Technologies' place in society has increased dramatically since the industrial revolution era. The public's view of technology has been one of positivism, meaning that science(technology) leads to progress and that progress, in return, is positive. Those countries which enjoy such technologies have formed ethnocentric ...
- 5186: THe Life and Work of John Keats
- ... He wrote poetry of great sensual beauty and with a unique passion for details. In his lifetime he was not associated with the senior poets who began the movement at the time of the French Revolution. He was unlucky in the respect he didn't, fit into the older, respected group based on his age, nor in the younger group, for he was neither a lord nor in the upper classes ...
- 5187: Virtual Reality: What it is and How it Works
- ... see what your kitchen will look like before you actually refurnish could help you save from costly mistakes in the future. The entertainment industry stands to gain a lot from VR. With the video game revolution of bigger and better games coming out all the time, this could be the biggest breakthrough ever. It would be fantastic to have sword fights which actually feel real. As well, virtual movies (also called ...
- 5188: The Ninja
- ... raised in New York City, Eric Lustbader graduated from Columbia University in 1969. Lustbader has had a number of fascinating best-selling novels, including Black Heart and Angel Eyes, he introduced Elton John to the American music scene. He spent fifteen years in the music industry in various capacities, including working for both Elektra and CBS Records. He is a former writer for Cash Box magazine where he wrote lead stories ...
- 5189: Max Planck
- ... ten to the negative twenty-seventh power). The fact that Planck's constant was not zero and it was in fact a number made the unseen physical world indescribable by classical methods which sparked a revolution in physical theory. When Planck discovered the theory of quantum he was forty-two and then later won the Nobel Prize for physics in 1918. After his discovery he still contributed to physics increasingly. Planck ...
- 5190: James Taylor
- ... a life long profession. James first joined a rock band with his brother at the age of 16. The band was called the Fabulous Corsairs. James Taylor was and still is the embodiment of the American signer/songwriter. His work is an excellent sample of what kind of person he is. Taylor is a sound, good-natured person, with a good heart and soul, which is clearly shown, through his music ...
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