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- 5261: Charles Darwin
- ... mammals high up on mountains, and realized that rocks must have been lifted from the ocean. Darwin also studied plants and animals. On the Galapagos Islands, he found animals that resembled animals on the South American continent, but not exactly the same. He understood that they must have come to the islands from the mainland, and then adapted into new species. He also observed the plant and animal life of South ...
- 5262: Bruce Lee
- ... meant "return again." She felt he would return to the United States where he was born while his parents were on tour with the Cantonese opera. A nurse suggested he be called Bruce as an American name for him. Childhood Bruce Lee was born in San Francisco at the Jackson Street Hospital in Chinatown. When he and his family returned to Hong Kong in 1941, he was called Sai Fon, which ...
- 5263: Laziness
- ... affects roughly two percent of the population in the United States. It has the greatest prevalence among Scandinavians and Northern Europeans, where it affects three percent of the population, and the least prevalence among North American Indians, with just half a percent being affected. Psoriasis seems to affect both males and females equally. There are two types of the disease. Type I generally occurs during adolescence, with an average age of ...
- 5264: Oscar Wilde
- ... in Russia. According to some, it was canceled at the last moment, probably for political reasons; others say he saw it performed there but that it ran unsuccessfully. Throughout that year he lectured in 70 American cities as well as Ontario and Quebec in Canada on the arts and literature. The tour was an unmitigated smash and Wilde returned to London in 1883 in triumph and richer by several thousand pounds ...
- 5265: Trifles By Susan Glaspell
- ... to a man's role in society. The dictionary defines the word trifle as something of little importance or value, or to deal with something as if it were of little significance or value (The American Heritage Dictionary). The play opens in Minnie Wright's kitchen. Minnie's husband has been murdered, he was found strangled with a rope around his neck. The County Attorney, the Sheriff, his wife and a ...
- 5266: The Presidency of Woodrow Wilson
- ... African Americans to use different water fountains, Atlanta went was as far as to have African Americans to swear to a different bible than there white counterparts in courtrooms. Du Bois was the first African American to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard University. In 1909 he founded the National Association for the advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Americanizing consisted of making all immigrants learn English and basic laws, so that ...
- 5267: The Remains Of The Day - Digni
- ... greatness" we are after. Yet another point the author is trying to put across is the fact that without proper dignity, one may find oneself in daunting situations that one could otherwise had avoided. The American senator who was present at the major discussions at Darlington Hall prior to the peace negotiations is a perfect example. He stated that all present were dreamers and amateurs, incapable of handling the future of ...
- 5268: The House Of Seven Gables - Sy
- American Literature reflects life, and the struggles that we face during our existence. The great authors of our time incorporate lifes problems into their literature directly and indirectly. The stories themselves bluntly tell us a ...
- 5269: Robotics
- ... technological advances such as radio control, but for the most part they can only perform a set routine of entertaining but otherwise useless actions. Modern robots used in workplaces arose more directly from the Industrial Revolution and the systems for mass production to which it led. As factories developed, more and more machine tools were built that could perform some simple, precise routine over and over again on an assembly line ...
- 5270: Aristotle vs. Copernicus
- ... Copernicus's theory also stated that the sphere of the fixed stars was stationary. Another important feature of Copernican theory is that it allowed a new ordering of the planets according to their periods of revolution. In Copernicus's universe, unlike Ptolemy's, the greater the radius of a planet's orbit, the greater the time the planet takes to make one circuit around the sun. But the price of accepting ...
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