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- 2631: Nostradamus
- ... has a meaning: It is the mean time between division errors (in days) for normal spreadsheet usage according to IBM's analysis. In the next line, there are some doubts whether the gates refer to Bill Gates, or rather to the logical gates on the microprocessor. The cities mean corporations, as in Microsoft and Intel. Intel had the pentium bug, and Microsoft the Windows calculator bug. The other interpretation of city ...
- 2632: Norman Rockwell Bio
- ... to some of his other works, but because of the opportunity to unite and promote the national spirit that country needed to come together and win the war. Then during the sixties and the Civil Rights Movement Rockwell made illustrations portraying the cruelty of racial discrimination and prejudice. Even during his old age Rockwell still maintained a productive artistic life. As typical with most artists, there was no retirement with Rockwell ...
- 2633: Neil Postman
- ... metaphor, or when it is being applied tends to have a more closed outlook. A metaphor, used as a communication skill, is best described in a political way. Think of Reagan s Voodoo economics, or Bill Clinton building a bridge to the 21st century. Politicians can easily scam an ignorant voter, should one not understand a metaphor. For example: Clinton refers to building a bridge, but does not tell us with ...
- 2634: Nationalism And Patriotism
- ... much as please in everyday life. The next thing comes to mind when I think of patriotism is the people who fought and gave their lives during World War II. They fought for the same rights as our founding fathers did. That is to keep our country safe from foreign suppressers who want to corrupt our way of living, and from having one person having to much control over such a ...
- 2635: Napoleon 2
- ... on his knowledge of the Enlightenment. He simplified the laws of old as well as new, and allowed freedom of speech and press. His main idea with these laws was to give all men equal rights. Women were also included into several laws. Another accomplishment was shown through religion. Though he supported Catholicism and declared the majority of the French people were Catholics, he affirmed religious tolerance for all. Though many ...
- 2636: Marxs Alienation
- ... his time, stated that the alienation of man leads to man being viewed as nothing more than a commodity by society. Man, as he put it, was forced into labor and stripped of all human rights. He loses his identity and thus becomes alienated, even to the extent of being alienated to himself. Marx's theories were based on his socialist principals in which an alienated man is one of little ...
- 2637: Maya Angelou 2
- Maya Angelou. Maya Angelou, born April 4, 1928 as Marguerite Johnson in St. Louis, was raised in segregated rural Arkansas. She is a poet, historian, author, actress, playwright, civil-rights activist, and director. She has been working at Wake Forest University in north Carolina since 1981.She has published ten best selling books and numerous magazine articles earning her Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award ...
- 2638: Marcus Tullius Cicero
- ... forth a body of laws conformable to Cicero's idea of a well-regulated State, and is supposed to have treated in the books that are lost of the executive power of magistrates and the rights of roman citizens. The treatise De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum is written after the manner of Aristotle, and discusses the chief good and the chief evil (summum bonum et summum malum); in it Cicero explains ...
- 2639: Life Of John Milton
- ... The third group of pamphlets includes those Milton wrote to justify the execution of Charles I. The first of these, The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates (1649), deals with constitutional questions and particularly with the rights of the people against tyrants. In the final group of tracts, including A Treatise of Civil Power in Ecclesiastical Causes (1659), Milton gave practical suggestions for government reform and argued against a professional clergy and ...
- 2640: Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln was a man who was best known for bolding standing against the difficult problems of his day. Issues such as slavery, negro social and political rights, and saving the Union in a nation based on the Declaration of Independence. Lincoln had many strength as well as flaws. He considered himself a common man and was not interested in his ancestry. Lincoln ...
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