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- 6111: Anne Bradstreet and Sarah Kemble Knight: Writing Styles
- ... an extremely self-sufficient and independent woman. Sarah Kemble Knight and Anne Bradstreet wrote in different styles and formats, and they emerged from different backgrounds as well. It is their common position as pioneers in American womens literature that binds them together. They broke the mold of the Puritan society of the day to pave the way for all female writers since.
- 6112: Pluto
- ... kilometers (720 miles).Discovered in nineteen seventy eight this natural satellite is nineteen thousand kilometers (12000 miles) from Pluto. One Pluto day is equal to that of six point four days here on Earth.Its revolution period or in laymen's term one Pluto year is two hundred forty seven point seven Earth years.The eccentricity of its orbit is measured at point two seven.The inclination of Plutos orbit is ...
- 6113: A Critique Of the Stanford Experiment
- ... they power and abuse the inmates. If only they experiment would have been conducted a year later, Haney, Banks, and Zimbardo may have been able to foresee the outcome by reading Robert Reich's "An American Morality" which includes a parable entitled "Rot at the Top." The last line in the parable just goes to prove my point, "Power corrupts, privilege perverts." I agree with this totally because I can't ...
- 6114: Anorexia Nervosa
- ... needs, particularly hunger, but also the whole range of emotions. The last characteristic was a feeling of ineffectiveness, lack of self-worth (Matthews 30). From Bruchs characteristics stemmed the guidelines brought forth by the American Psychiatric Association (APA). The first guideline was the refusal to maintain normal body weight. The second was an intense fear of gaining weight. The third was a distorted body image. Then the last characteristic was ...
- 6115: Advertising
- ... substitute for the cloth facial towels, and a package of one hundred cost only sixty-five cents. The manufacturers hired Helen Hayes, Gertrude Lawrence, and Ronald Coleman to model in articles using these tissues, and American women were told that Kleenex Kerchiefs were the "scientific way," as well as the glamorous way, to remove rouge, foundation, powder, and lipstick. In five years their sales steadily increased. Then mail came in saying ...
- 6116: The Roswell Incident
- ... positive assurance for all potential witnesses, it would need to be clearly stated and written into law. Such a measure is essentially what presidential candidate Jimmy Carter promised and then failed to deliver to the American people eighteen years ago in 1976. If, as is officially claimed, no information on Roswell, UFOs, or extraterrestrial intelligence is being withheld, an Executive Order declassifying it would be a mere formality, as there would ...
- 6117: Project Mercury
- ... Glenn, Jr.; and Navy Lieutenant commanders Walter M. Schirra, Jr., and Alan B. Shepard, Jr. Of these, all flew in Project Mercury except Deke Slayton who was grounded for medical reasons. He later became an American crewmember of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. The Mercury module was a bell shaped craft. Its base measured exactly 74.5 inches wide and it was nine feet tall. For its boosters NASA chose two ...
- 6118: Nicolaus Copernicus
- ... of our solar system. However, it was 400 years before it was published. After leaving his uncle, he wrote a treatise on money, and began the work for which he is most famous, On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres, which took him almost 15 years to write. It is ironic that what he devoted a good part of his life would not be published until he was on his deathbed ...
- 6119: A Thousand Acres: The Monopoly Game
- ... what story Jess told, he always had to top it and make it sound more interesting (84). This is significant as to the foreshadowing of Rose and Jess's affair. Jess's story about the American woman in the Vancouver saloon who put a gun to his side for evading the draft is one of pure "bullshit" as was her magic word (83). It could be that he didn't have ...
- 6120: Constitutional Law Marbury V M
- ... review solely to the judicial department. Although his decision loosely construes and even stretches the meaning of the Constitution, Marshall's ruling on this case overall is not detrimental to the well-being of the American people. The Supreme Court is the only branch of government that could act to strengthen the national government during the early history of the Constitution. Clearly, Congress could not take on the states' rights advocates ...
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