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- 3921: Issac Asimov
- ... that his company had nothing to do with robots, he decided to name is small company U.S. Robotics. Twenty years have passed, now Casey Cowell is Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer of a big and advanced company. U.S. Robotics Corporation is one of the leading companies in information access and has branches and offices all over the world. His dream has come true. Was his success related to ...
- 3922: Isadora Duncan
- ... a newspaper about a wealthy woman entertaining in her home. Isadora was looking for work, and visited the woman. The woman decided to have her perform for a group of her friends. She was a big hit, and following this performance, Isadora received many invitations to perform at the social events of other wealthy women of the area. On one occasion Isadora performed at the home of one of the members ...
- 3923: Hope Is The Thing With Feathers
- ... to emphasize the expenditures. This gives the poem the effect of soft, slow, feather floating in the air. She also capitalizes key words in the middle of sentences that are main symbols or have a big effect on the poem. This also points the reader's eyes to these words so that they will pay closer attention to them. Emily Dickinson compares the "Hope" to "the thing with feathers" or simply ...
- 3924: Hitler 2
- ... growing unemployment, fear of Communism, Hitler's self-certainty, and the diffidence of his political rivals. Nevertheless, when Hitler was appointed chancellor in January 1933, he was expected to be an easily controlled tool of big business. Hitler, Adolf Germany's Dictator - Once in power, however, Hitler quickly established himself as a dictator. The legislature passed the Enabling Act that permitted Hitler's government to make laws without the legislature. The ...
- 3925: Henry Ford 2
- ... engine and as soon as he got that working he moved on to building a two-cylinder engine. He began working on a horseless carriage. Upon completion of it he realized that it was too big to fit out of the doors of the shed. So without hesitation he picked up an axe and chopped out enough of the shed to get it out. He began driving his four-cylinder "car ...
- 3926: Harry Elmer Barnes
- ... controversial volumes. Published volumes are being consigned to sanctioned burnings by the "firemen." Around the world, news of immolations like Elstner's are blacked out. We are supposed to occupy our minds with sports on big-screen TV's, video arcades, fast food, cellular telephones to occupy our minds while traveling, lap top computers and even on-flight computer games. Computerized "chat rooms" that enable us to "speak" to faceless strangers ...
- 3927: Harriet Tubman 3
- ... dying off like sheep" (Taylor 84-86). She explains a role of hers while working in a hospital: (dialect omitted) I would go to the hospital, I would, early every morning. I'd get a big chunk of ice, I would, and put it in a basin, and fill it with water; then I'd take a sponge and begin. First man I'd come to, I'd thrash away the ...
- 3928: Hannibal 2
- ... troops who came from warmer climates died from the cold. Some troops died of hunger because food was short o come by. Others died in fights with mountain tribes. Some of the mountain tribes rolled big stones down the mountains and caused men and animals to fall from the narrow mountain passage (Green 33). When Hannibal reached the Italian side of the Alps, he had lost nearly half of his soldiers ...
- 3929: Georges Seurat - Hi Painting
- ... funny dog jumping all around in not yet in the picture. Only in the final version are the figures given a plasticity that is no longer Impressionist and would have pleased the Cubists. In the big preliminary study for the overall concept they appear rather as abstract patterns. The shadows of the figures were very carefully modeled. The light- dark contrasts of the shadows make them seem actually real. The spatial ...
- 3930: George Wallace
- ... the schoolhouse door" to block two black students from enrolling at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. Wallace fearing significant jail time for defying the federal courts backed off. He then made another speech denouncing "Big-government." His views drew much criticism from northern politicians and officials. Another tense moment was the nationally publicized fire house and police dog incidents in Birmingham. The Civil Rights movement intensified while Wallace tried to ...
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