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- 8501: Brave New World
- ... first Huxley tried to be journalist. But in 1921, he began writing poetry and short stories. There after, he began writing essays and novels. He received the Award of Merit for the Novel from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in the year 1959. His most famous book, "Brave New World", was published in 1932. In the "brave new world" of 632 A. F. (After Ford), universal human happiness has ...
- 8502: Lou Gehrig
- ... inning game. Only he in major-league history hit 23 grand slam home runs for 13 years in a row he drove in one hundred runs, topping 150 RBI's seven times and setting the American League record of 184 runs batted-in during the 1931 season for twelve seasons in a row he hit more than . 300, and he made 1,991 runs, scored 1,888 runs, and walked 1 ...
- 8503: Becoming A Stronger Person
- Becoming a Stronger Person I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is a story about a Black female growing up in the American South during the 1930s and 40s. Maya Angelou, the narrator and author of this book, writes about growing up in a society filled with racism and hatred. From rape to racism, Maya Angelou ...
- 8504: Martin Luther King Jr.
- ... wait. King was upset by this, but he wasnt surprised, however. He knew that by 1961, that no president of either party would willingly join the civil rights movement. Kennedy and probably every other American leader would delay and temporize forever unless they were pushed and prodded into it. So he figured that the blacks had only one way to pressure the federal government, and that would be massive protest ...
- 8505: Civil War Timeline
- ... Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's unprepared troops at Shiloh on the Tennessee River results in a bitter struggle with 13,000 Union killed and wounded and 10,000 Confederates, more men than in all previous American wars combined. The president is then pressured to relieve Grant but resists. "I can't spare this man; he fights," Lincoln says. April 24, 1862 - 17 Union ships under the command of Flag Officer David ...
- 8506: Descartes
- ... even if this is the only true maxim that Descartes discovered, it is indeed a remarkable achievement. Schopenhauer credits Descartes for discovering the "only correct starting point
in all philosophy." Charles Sanders Peirce, a great American philosopher, said "With Descartes, philosophy put away childish things and became a conceited young man."
- 8507: Booker T. Washington
- Booker T. Washington Booker T. Washington was born on April 5,1856. Born a slave he rose to become the commonly recognized leader of the African American race in America. For the first nine years of his life until 1865 when the close of the Civil War eemancipated the boy Booker and the remainder of his race, he like many other Americans ...
- 8508: Accounting Information Systems in A Changing Environment
- ... any documents professionally, a spreadsheet program for any financial analysis of data not covered in the accounting packages and various other administrative utilities. The complete Microsoft Office retails for just over R3000. The information systems revolution has changed the laborious manual preparation; recording and processing of transactions into high-speed information processing systems that are very accurate. For under R20 000 Halycon Limited can maintain its competitive advantage and remain innovative ...
- 8509: Pablo Picasso
- ... repeated in later works as well. Dating from his first decade in Paris are friendships with the poet Max Jacob, the writer Guillaume Apollinaire, the art dealers Ambroise Vollard and Daniel Henry Kahnweiler, and the American expatriate writers Gertrude Stein and her brother Leo, who were his first important patrons; Picasso did portraits of them all. Major Works Early years: Le Moulin De La Galette (1900) The Blue Period: The Mourners ...
- 8510: A Review Of To Kill A Mockingb
- ... It was published in 1960 by J.B. Lippincott Company in Philadelphia & New York. This is the only book that Harper Lee has ever written. It is also one of the best-loved novels in American literature, winning the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Lee is a very private person who doesnt grant interviews, although her literary agent says she divides her time between her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama and New ...
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