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- 1041: Diane Arbus
- Diane Nemerov was born in 1923 in New York City. Her father owned a fashionable Fifth Avenue department store called Russeks. His wife, Gertrude Russeks', family founded it and it is now defunct. The family lived in an apartment on Central Park West ... on a secret affair with him against her parent's wishes. They were married less than a month after her eighteenth birthday. He was nineteen. It was Allan Arbus, who introduced Diane to photography. During World War II, he was trained at the Signal Corps photography school at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey. Each night when he returned home, he would teach Diane what he had learned in a makeshift darkroom set up in their bathroom. After the war and sampling other careers, they both worked ...
- 1042: Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
- ... like a colossus. The 1800s are no less awe-inspiring than ours for its intellectual mindset and technological feats. Yet his morally severe and pompously conservative age was very different from our secular, deregulated world founded on naturalistic principles and fast information exchange. Darwin's theory of evolution was published in the On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection in 1859. As its implications sank in, late ... ship, H.M.S. Beagle. VOYAGE ON H.M.S. BEAGLE AND PERSONAL LIFE From 1831 to 1836, Darwin served as naturalist aboard the H.M.S. Beagle on a British science expedition around the world. The aristocratic Captain of the Beagle, Robert Fitzroy, fearing the loneliness of command, had requested a young gentleman companion - and that's how a self-financed Darwin cruised the world as an imperial-evangelical mission. Fitzroy meticulously surveyed the South American coast ready for the merchant traders. Darwin was converted to evolutionism by the results of his voyage on H.M.S. Beagle several ...
- 1043: What Is Witchcraft
- ... constantly changing environment, people should be more aware and open-minded to things, especially to those that are rejected by our old traditional sets of values. We should get to know why does the Old World reject some beliefs by studying the original meanings behind those myths. The more we keep ourselves open to ideas, the more chances we have to explore ourselves and to advance our lives and our society ... religion that believes in Gods and the harmonic relationship between humans and the natural environment. This research paper is to redefine, in more accurate words, the truth of one of the oldest religion in the world. 2.0 Methods In this research paper, I have used information from the Internet such as some homepages built by some Coven and believers. I also used books that are mainly about the general structure ... Boyle, on the 14th of November 1998. I asked him general ideas and some specific details about the Craft and the religion. 3.0 Results 3.1 Brief historical background of the Witchcraft in the world. Scholars like anthropologists, archaeologists and historians believe that the practice of "Witchcraft" has been existed for the around 20,000 to 40,000 years (Johnson). In every society, practitioners' vocations vary, like midwives or ...
- 1044: Modern Torture
- ... that "No one shall be subjected to torture, or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment." Yet, almost fifty years after the declaration, physical and psychological abuse of men, women, and children around the world continues unabated and is often ignored. Prevalence data, collected by international organizations, suggests that systematic torture is practiced in some 65 countries worldwide (Amnesty International, 1991). Additionally, there are credible allegations of torture in another 32 countries (A.I., 1984). Baker (1992) has suggested that, of the 23 million refugees in the world outside their own countries, between 1,150,000 and 8,050,000 people have experienced torture. Many of these people are found among the 600,000 refugees who have reached California. Disabled by the aftermath ... slow process that is designed to render its victim helpless, dependent and devoid of all human qualities. Torture destroys the sense of self; it confuses right and wrong; any belief in the stability of the world is taken away; "truth" becomes a word without meaning. Methods of torture are limited only by the fiendish fantasies of those whose business it is to break others down. Physical methods include beating, electric ...
- 1045: Genomics
- The Impact of Genomics on the Worlds Economy Genomics, the science of manipulating, building, studying, and designing molecules, is going to change the face of the worlds economy as we know it. Companies are rushing to adapt to the rapidly changing economic environment as new discoveries are being made in this field. Genomics has the potential to affect all aspects of every sort of industry. Since genomics deals with things on a molecular level, its technology can be applied ...
- 1046: Effects of the Great Depression on Canada
- ... s in Prairie Canada, the Great Depression created harsh conditions and it was a struggle until it ended. The event which triggered the Great Depression was the Stock Market crash of October 24, 1929 in New York. Another important cause was that: Later in the 1930's, the wide adoption of the gold exchange in many countries was widely criticized as a great mistake which greatly contributed to the severity and length of the Great Depression. 1 In Canada, wheat, the most important export, was being over-produced around the world, despite the fact that the 1928 supply of wheat was still available in 1929. A good reason for the stock market crash in 1929 was that, the values of stocks of the New York Stock Exchange were grossly over-valued, but government and business appeared to ignore the signs. 2 Canadian revenues that came in from export sales were dependent largely upon the United States who had ...
- 1047: The New Deal
- The New Deal In 1932 when Franklin D. Roosevelt won the presidency over Herbert Hoover the world was preparing to make tremendous changes. These changes were all for the good of society and helped keep America alive and well. The changes took place in three different aspects of the United States. The economy was affected greatly by the New Deal and helped reshape the stock market. The role of government in the U.S. took great leaps and started to take more control and help guide the country to a greater height. Both ...
- 1048: The Merchant Of Venicethe Merc
- In my opinion, one of the most important world masterpieces we can study is the Gospels in the Bible. Especially the Gospel of Matthew. This book continues to make a profound influence on thousands of people on the earth. It is inspires, teaches, demands ... Matthew is the foundation for our society's moral, cultural, and ethical beliefs, accepted practices, and basic laws. This book affects all people who hear it. It is a fascinating literary masterpiece. Beginning in the New Testament the Bible moves from strict enforcement, punishment, and prophecy, into the glorious presentation of the Son of God. He is spoken of hundreds of times in the Old Testament through symbols and prophecies -- all ... so important to us. The word gospel means "good news." It was the message that Jesus forgives the sins of all who trust in Him. The Gospel of Matthew is the first book in the New Testament, and has been called the most important book that has ever been written for Christendom. Matthew was a Jewish tax collector who obeyed Christ's call and became one of the original twelve ...
- 1049: Sweetness And Power
- ... lives as we know them. To begin to understand and evaluate Mintz s Sweetness and Power, one must first understand who his book is aimed toward, in other words, his audience. In Jack Goody s New York Times review of the book, he suggests that this book is not just for anthropologists: Sweetness and Power is a fine book. It not only tells a fascinating story, it is also something of an antidote to the static quality of much anthropological writing. Yet another review of Mintz s book from J. H. Elliott of The New York Review of Books states: This measured, intelligent, ambitious book has something for everybody .Mintz opens a whole series of doors onto rich and unsuspected worlds. This shows, from two different sources in fact, that ... may be said partly to have determined the other, and second, to show that consumption must be explained in terms of what people did and thought: sugar penetrated social behavior and, in being put to new uses and taking on new meaning, was transformed from curiosity and luxury into commonplace and necessity. He explains the relationship between production and consumption and also how sugar went from a luxury to a ...
- 1050: Flying Home
- ... about such topics as self-awareness, identity, and the racial repression of African-Americans in the United States. His masterpiece, Invisible Man, chronicles the story of a young man striving to find himself in a world where he is hardly noticed. This novel won him much respect in the eyes of the literary community. Earlier in his career, Ellison also wrote many influential short stories. "Flying Home", is one of Ellison ... 1930s, Ellison won a scholarship to Alabamas Tuskegee Institute, where he studied music until 1936(Busby 10). Later, to earn money for his education (after a mix-up regarding his scholarship), he traveled to New York, where he met Richard Wright and became involved in the Federal Writers Project. Encouraged to write a review for New Challenge, a publication edited by Wright, Ellison began composing essays and stories focusing on the strength of the human spirit and the necessity of racial pride. It was during this time that Ellison composed " ...
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