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- 8441: Munro’s Trademarks
- ... A sweetish sour masculine smell; shaving lotion, uneasy stomach, clean starched shirt and some secret hairy foulness.” (Munro, p. 90) He introduced himself as Uncle Bill to Del, and he was really her mom’s American brother, meanwhile the door opened on the other side of the car and a tall lady got out, and Uncle Bill introduced her as his new wife, she was so young and perfect. Uncle was ...
- 8442: New Weapons and Technology In World War I
- ... the British and French as a weapon. The tank would tear straight through the barbed-wire entanglements. The British tank was a wonderful vehicle created by General Swinton. He got some of his ideas from American farm tractors. The tank weighed about twenty-seven tons, it had a cruising range of twenty-five miles in the battle. It had a few weaknesses such as limited range, and frequent mechanical failure. The ...
- 8443: Madness In Yellow Wallpaper
- ... wrote this story in hopes of helping others in a similar situation and also to help heal a dying soul, that of her own. (3127) Works Cited Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. “The Yellow Wallpaper.” Anthology of American Literature Volume II: Realism to the Present, Sixth edition. Ed. George McMichael. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1997. 671-682. Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. “Why I Wrote ‘The Yellow Wallpaper.’” The Forerunner, October 1913. (http://www.cwrl ...
- 8444: Nanotechnology: Immortality Or Total Annihilation?
- ... would be able to use nanotech as a tool for increased efficiency in the area of production (DuCharme 60). The overall effects of nanotech on producing materials were best summed up by Dowie, "This new revolution won't require crushing, boiling, melting, etc. Goods would now be built from the atom up by nanomachines" (4). Nanotech will also be able to benefit us in other ways. One great advantage to nanotech ...
- 8445: Dr. Harvey Wiley: Courageous Pioneer and Crusader
- ... select 100 items at random , at least five would have been altered. Manufacturers of medicine discovered the financial possibilities of selling worthless and oftentimes harmful nostrums by playing on the fear and trust of the American people. "Patent" medicines preyed on the power of suggestion and promised cures for practically any ailment , ranging form dandruff to cancer. Many of these panaceas contained varying degrees of harmful ingredients. Soothing syrups used by ...
- 8446: Mosquito Coast
- ... well-regarded 1982 novel, this film adaptation has brought to the screen some of the least appealing parts of the book's lead character, a brilliant but iconoclastic inventor. He rages against the phoniness of American life: neon, fast food, TV, pollution, crime and phony evangelism - in short, all the old and usual suspects. These may have been timely villains back when Jessica Mitford first wrote about planned obsolescence in the ...
- 8447: The Death of John F. Kennedy
- ... 2000. Kent, Zachary. Encyclopedia of Presidents: John F. Kennedy. Chicago, Regensteiner, 1987. La Fontaine, Ray and Mary. Oswald talked: The New Evidence in the JFK Assassination. Gretna: Pelican, 1996. Mailer, Norman. Oswald’s Tale: An American Mystery. Toronto: Random, 1995. Manchester, William. The Death of a President. New York: Harper & Row, 1967. Nolan, Martin F. “In our memory, forever young.” Boston Globe. May 29, 1997, A1 and A22. 7 January 2000 ...
- 8448: Programmers
- ... This incredible invention is the electronic computer has been around for over a Half-century, but its ancestors have been around for 2000 years. However, only in the last 40 years has it changed the American society. Even before the first computer was conceptualized, data had already been stored on hard copy medium and used with a machine. As early as 1801, the punched card was used as a control device ...
- 8449: The Biography of Ernest Hemingway
- ... where he added a year to his age and was hired as a reporter. (For that reason Hemingway’s birth date is often given as 1898 rather than the correct 1899.) Hemingway joined a volunteer American Red Cross ambulance unit as a driver. He was so seriously wounded at Fossalta on the Italian Piave on July 8, 1918, that he recalled life slid from him, “like you’d pull a silk ...
- 8450: Ethan Frome Character Flaws
- Ethan Frome My Cousin Is Cheating On Me with My Maid is something that you would expect to see at the beginning of The Jerry Springer Show, not in early American literature. But as I have seen in the movie Ethan Frome, it is possible for this situation to occur in colonial America. The main characters, Ethan, Zena, and Mattie, each have major character flaws, but ...
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