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- 8471: Advances in AI
- ... who might benefit from remedial instruction. The test was so successful in determining school performance that it was accepted throughout the western world. In 1916 Lewis Terman from Standford University adapted it for use with American children. It thus became the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Test and is the test most commonly referred to when speaking of an IQ test. This test and others like it take a holistic approach to intelligence ...
- 8472: Louis Armstrongs Influential Career
- ... improvise and elaborate on a given melody. This technique has since been attempted and copied time and time again. Armstrong introduced a freedom to music that continues to impact popular music (Sadie 601). Without this American genius music would not be what it is today.
- 8473: Al Gore For President
- ... a good United States President, but have they really compared and contrasted his plans for our future? He has a lot of good ideas on how to create high quality universal healthcare for every single American. He is now working with Ted Kennedy, who is in charge of healthcare and Medicare, to help him achieve this goal. Not only does he have a plan for seniors, but he also has all ...
- 8474: Marie Curie
- ... accompanied by her two daughters, Maria Curie made a triumphant journey to the United States, where President Warren G. Harding presented her with a gram of radium bought as the result of a collection among American women. She gave lectures, especially in Belgium, Brazil, Spain, and Czechoslovakia. She was made a member of the International Commission on Intellectual Co-operation by the Council of the League of Nations. In addition, she ...
- 8475: Lysistrata
- ... more enticing to the men. The characters presented the most impressive visual component. Lysistrata was portrayed perfectly as a down-to-earth woman who has had enough of war and is willing to lead a revolution to end it. Most of the rest of the women are portrayed as being frothy little things, more interested in clothing, shopping and sex, interests which Lysistrata feels that she can employ to bring about ...
- 8476: Loneliness
- ... They lost someone precious to them, and they did not recognize what they had until it disappeared. Works Cited Erdrich, Louise. Love Medicine. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1984. Kassanoff, Jennie A. "Edith Wharton." American Writers. Sup. 1. New York: Scribner's, 1998. Louise, Heidi, and North, Milou. "Erdrich, Louise." Contemporary Wharton, Edith. The Selected Short Stories of Edith Wharton. New York: Scribner's, 1991.
- 8477: Literary Interpratation Of The
- ... by the cat. Throughout the story, the narrator shows common signs of paranoia, such as delusions, irrational actions, and high amounts of anger. Works Cited Poe, Edgar Allan. The Black Cat. The Heath Anthology of American Literature. Ed. PaulLauter. Lexington, Massachusetts: DC Heath and Company, 1990. 346-353.
- 8478: Jane Eyre - Analysis Of Nature
- ... old foundations before she could build anew. It is necessary to examine these scenes of nature in the context of the early to mid nineteenth-century. This was of course the time of the Industrial Revolution, when as Robert Ferneaux Jordan put it, there was "a shift from the oolite, the lias and the sand to the coal measures. What had been the wooded hills of Yorkshire or Wales became, almost ...
- 8479: John Steinbeck
- ... Steinbeck traveled by freighter to New York City,as all good writers did. Steinbeck worked as a brick layer in the construction of Madison Square Garden. John worked as a reporter for the New York American. He got fired because he couldnt or wouldnt report facts as he found them--only the poetry or pilosophy he saw in them. New York was a cold, frightening place to him and ...
- 8480: Life of John F Kennedy
- ... before Kennedy took office; he allowed it to proceed with modifications and limited support from the United States. He accepted sole responsibility for the failure and received harsh critism from abroad and world wide anti-American feelings. His Presidency was plagued with confrontations with Russia over Berlin, and again when Soviet missiles were spotted in Cuba. This made the United States venerable to a nuclear attack from Russia. Kennedy put into ...
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