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- 8601: Rules Of Prey
- ... owners and plantation owners had slaves to work for them. The slaves were treated really badly. Huck Finn on the other hand, was friendly with them. The book Huck Finn by Mark Twain is an American classic that is a symbol of carefree youth. Throughout the book there are serious themes intertwined with the mischievous antics of adolescence. One of the broadest themes represented in the book Huck Finn by Mark ...
- 8602: John Muir
- ... climb the walls of the one thousand year old Dunbar Castle and play at the seashore near their home. In school John read about the birds and forests of America. He wanted to see the American wilderness. John's father wanted to go to America and so he moved his family to Wisconsin. John loved it there. He spent much of his time exploring the land and animals around his home ...
- 8603: Satire Or Tragedy - Macbeth
- ... tragedy? No. We see it more as satire. It is a sarcastic view of society's morals and values, and how hypocritical people, including ourselves, can be. Putting Macbeth on a parallel with this entertaining American short story allows us to view the play in a different light. We now can see Macbeth as a hypocrite, and we can see him resembling ourselves. How often can the power of want, the ...
- 8604: Ernest Hemingway
- ... with the Kansas City Star. It is said that much of his writing style was learned there. Later in his life he wanted to be in the Army, but his eyesight was bad and the American Army rejected him. He than went to Italy to be an ambulance driver for the Italian army. On July 8, 1918, he was injured when a shell landed 3 feet from him. In the hospital ...
- 8605: Telecommuting
- ... Blodgett, Mindy. "Lower costs spur move to more telecommuting." Computerworld 30.45 (1996) 8. Blodgett, Mindy. "Telecommuting pilot test proves space-saving plan." Computerworld 30.46 (1996) 81-82. Webster's New World Dictionary of American English, Third College Edition. Victoria Neureldt, Ed. 1988 New York 1375.
- 8606: Scarlet Letter Chapter Summari
- ... scenes with current problems and tensions of characters), the introduction of the words "Boston," "Cornhill," "King's Chapel," and "Anne Hutchinson " brings to the mind of the reader a picture of historic Boston and early American Puritanism. The title, The Scarlet Letter, has a symbolic word in it. Thus it is suitable that the first chapter should refer to a symbol (a "token"), the red blossom of the "wild rose-bush ...
- 8607: Software Piracy
- ... both hardware and software sales around the world. However, software piracy threatens the industry's economic future. According to estimates by the U.S. Software Publisher's Association, as much as $7.5 billion of American software may be illegally copied and distributed annually worldwide. These copies work as well as the originals and sell for significantly less money. Piracy is relatively easy, and only the largest rings of distributors are ...
- 8608: A Short Biography Of Benjamin Franklin
- ... planning. They hoped to build their own businesses, insure the growth of Philadelphia, and improve the quality of its life. Franklin led the University of Junto in founding a library in 1731, the first ever American fire company in 1736, a learned society in 1743, a college (the University of Pennsylvania) in 1749, and an insurance company and a hospital in 1751. The group also worked to pave, clean, and light ...
- 8609: William Gibson and The Internet
- ... month, no traffic jams and its reliable. i hope it doesn't happen but it's a scenario one has to consider". eorge Gilder of the Hudson institute stated "there is about to be a revolution, born of nothing less than sand, glass and air, and yet it was one which would have an incalcuble effect upon us all. From sand will come microchips offering super computing power on slices of ...
- 8610: Richard Joseph Daley
- ... really sort of a secret police that Hoover operated." The file notes an association between Daley and possible communist elements as an Illinois state senator. It cites an invitation Daley received to speak at an American Youth for Democracy gathering in January 1944 in Chicago. The invitation, which Daley declined, was issued at the instigation of Robert Travis, referred to in the file as a "reported communist." When Daley first ran ...
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