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- 971: Early Resistance To British Na
- ... revolts like the Mutiny in 1857. Tara Chand1 says that Indians were impressed by the evident superiority of their colons in war, in administration, and in industry. Indians wanted their country to rank among the big nations, politically and industrially. From the 1870s, they became aware of their prestigious past and politicians began to use that argument in their speeches. Those same politicians also used religious festivities to spread their nationalist ... Gandhi had with the masses and with the British. This relation is extremely dramatic if we want to understand how the beliefs of one man succeeded in convincing an entire people. To achieve goals as big as the struggle for independence and the peace between Hindus and Muslims, the action of one man was not enough; he had to rally the men looking forward to the same objectives. The study of ...
- 972: Hans Christian Andersen
- ... participant in the Louisiana civil rights movement and title character in Ernest Gaines' fictional Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, and to Jack Crabb, the bi-national spokesman and picaresque participant at the Battle of Little Big Horn in Thomas Berger's Little Big Man, Offred offers an inside view of the effects of political change on ordinary citizens - that is, powerless, who are most likely to suffer from a swift, decisively murderous revolution. As a desperate refugee on ...
- 973: Egyptians
- ... and that is why the women were so huge, they had huge babies inside them.\par \pard \tab \tab Kebra Negast tells use about wombs split at birth\tab because the fetuses had grown too big. A Sumerian \tab cuneiform inscription from Nippur says that Enlil, god \tab of the air, violated the child of earth, Ninlil. \tab Ninlil beseeched the profligate: "...my vagina is too \tab small, it does not ... not venture to speculate whether Enlil was \tab an extraterrestrial or a first generation descendant\par \tab but it does emerge clearly from the Sumerian text that \tab his body and its parts were too big for the normal-\tab sized maiden, Ninlil.\par \par \pard\sl480 \tab So does the prove that there were extraterrestrials? No, but it does give one more piece of evidence to support that theory. \par ...
- 974: Exxon Valdez
- ... of local interest groups and present views from all aspects of the general population. Since these councils have access to capital, they have the ability to fund research and projects that allow them to play big roles in the formation of government policies. CONCLUSION In regards to oil spills, they are best summarized by this….so long as there are ships, and humans steering them, accidents will happen, and maybe huge ... In Water. Scientific American 280:38. Keeble, John. 1991. Out of the Channel. New York, NY: HarperCollins Publisher. Knickerbocker, Brad. 1999. Preventing Another Monster Oil Slick. Christian Science Monitor 91:13. Knickerbocker, Brad. 1999. The Big Spill. Christian Science Monitor 91:1. Time for Kids 1999. After the Spill. Time for Kids 4:4.
- 975: Could Gambling Save Science: Encouraging an Honest Consensus
- ... people played, the scores would mean something to observers, and so people might have an incentive to play and play well. But building a game up to this status would be hard, probably requiring some "big name" players to attract others. If the basic idea became plausible enough to enough private patrons in Britain (because that's where it's legal) or government patrons anywhere, idea futures could be seriously tried ... Selections, ed D. Miller, Princeton Univ. Press. [Pow] Power, W. (1989) "Hottest Commodity In Wall Street Pits? Georgetown Hoyas", Wall Street Journal, March 24, p.A1. [Pr] Price, D.J. de Solla (1963) Little Science, Big Science, and Beyond, Colombia Univ. Press, NY. [Red] Redner, H. (1987) "Pathologies of Science", Social Epistemology, 1:3, pp.215-247. [Res] Rescher, N. (1978) Scientific Progress, Camelot Press, London. [Ros] Rose, I.N. (1986 ...
- 976: Billy Budd - Individualism
- ... broke upon buttons and seams" (Melville 13-14). These words put a picture in the readers mind and helps proves a point that Ignatius doesn't care how he looks, where most people do. A big way that Ignatius' individualism shines through is how he lives his life. Ignatius, a 30-year-old man still living at home with his mother, does not have a job. He does not find this to be out of the norm. His mother and he have heated arguments of when he will go out and get a job, "Ignatius a big man like you can't pedal around on no bike delivering newspapers." "Perhaps you could drive me…" "Listen, boy, you gonna go try somewheres tomorrow. I mean it" (Toole 73). When Ignatius does find a ...
- 977: Plagiarism
- ... a couple of word, few sentence, other peopleˇ¦s idea, or they even copy the whole thing. People often want to take things they like, it is part of human nature. But there are a big different between wanting to than actually taking it without permission, this kind of action is called plagiarism. Plagiarism is defined as an act of stealing or using another writerˇ¦s ideas or words without that ... better than one, you can get a different perspective on things, a perspective that you will never see if you are working by yourself. In todayˇ¦s business world, some of the projects are too big for any individual to work on it by him or her self. Besides, companies like the idea of having their employee to work together, it help to improve the relationship between the employee, and help ...
- 978: A River Runs Through It By Nor
- ... almost sure to win (Mclean 5).” Unlike Norman who was rigorously home schooled every morning, while Paul seemed to escape this torment. The boys would spend their afternoons frolicking in the woods and fishing the Big Blackfoot River. The differences that developed between Paul’s and Norman’s fishing styles become evident in the published versions of Mclean’s life as well as his real life. Norman followed the traditional style ... order to help him cope without returning to drinking and depression, Norman wrote stories. In these stories he was able to remember the people he loved the most in their glory days. Paul in the Big Blackfoot shadow casting for trout and Jessie at home in Montana where everyone felt at ease with her warm hearted love and sense of humor. In addition, Norman was able to use his own creative ...
- 979: Comets and Asteroids
- ... Comets have brightness and size variation due to the amount of dust being put off as it floats around space at speeds that could outrun a bullet. Comets follow a reasonably tight schedule in a big loop of passing from one solar system or star's gravity, to the next. Scientists can predict with reasonable accuracy how long it will take to come back around. It is not absolute, however. Things ... and eroded solid dust particles and ice as it blew out. In a typical year, the earth is hit by several thousand tons of space matter in the form of fine dust and rocks as big as boulders, producing brilliant, flaming meteors, and fireballs. If pieces hit the earth, they become meteorites. They are usually groups of copper, iron, nickel, and clods of dirt. Even this debris originated from comets, but ...
- 980: The Canada Goose
- ... because of it's dignity and courage and refusal to give up. Over the years the Canada Goose has picked up many slang names, some of these are: Canadian Goose, Canadian Honker, Honker, Honker Goose, Big Honker, Old Honker, Boy Goose, Bernache (French for Barnacle Goose), Big Mexican Goose, Blackee, Blacknecked Goose, Brant, French Goose, Northern Goose, Reef Goose, Ringneck, Wavy, and White-cheeked Goose (Wormer). The Canada Goose has excellent eyesight which makes it difficult to hunt because the Goose can ...
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