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- 1251: Lawrence Ferlinghetti's Politics
- ... Ferlinghetti has chosen to express his political views through his poetry. Additionally, Ferlinghetti became more vocal with the use of protests and further publication of controversial and/or anti-government materials through his publishing house, New Directions. By using poetry, Ferlinghetti was able to reach a vast audience including those whom he was criticizing. Through his poetry, Lawrence Ferlinghetti blatantly and subtly criticized the American democratic system and politicians. In 1957 ... under his publishing house. Currently he still disallows the acceptance of government grants to any of his writers (Alspaugh 1146). Economically speaking, Ferlinghetti did benefit from the trial. The publicity created by the trial attracted new names to New Directions Publishing. The publicity also was great enough to propel Lawrence Ferlinghetti's image to the degree where he could successfully release his second collection of poetry, A Coney Island of the Mind. In ...
- 1252: The Life and Times of Peter Straub
- ... is bags and moved to Dublin, Ireland to work on a Doctorate, and eventually start writing seriously. During his 3 years in Dublin, he read many poems in poetry houses, and did readings with his new friend Thomas Tessier. Peter Straub also published two small books of poetry, Ishmael and Open Air, and finally settled down and wrote a novel. Entitled Marriages, this was not a good novel at all, but ... was born while he was writing Ghost Story. In 1979 he returned to America, first making home in Westport, Connecticut, where their second child Emma was born, and finally in the Upper West Side of New York City. In an online interview September 23, 1999, Straub explained his writing process: I usually begin by making lots of notes about the characters and the situation. Then I work up a sort of ... writing career and catapulted him to writing greatness; so much in fact that he has been called the Edgar Allan Poe of our times.5 Along with many of his writings making it on the New York Times Bestseller list, Peter Straub has won such distinguished awards as the British Fantasy Award, the Bram Stoker Award, the International Horror Guild Award, and two World Fantasy Awards, and was elected the ...
- 1253: Albert Einstein
- ... the nineteenth and twentieth centuries there is one whose name is known by almost all living people. While most of these do not understand this man's work, everyone knows that its impact on the world of science is astonishing. Yes, many have heard of Albert Einstein's General Theory of relativity, but few know about the intriguing life that led this scientist to discover what some have called, "The greatest ... He avidly studied the Bible seeking truth, but this religious fervor soon died down when he discovered the intrigue of science and math. To him, these seemed much more realistic than ancient stories. With this new knowledge he disliked class even more, and was eventually expelled from Luitpold Gymnasium being considered a disruptive influence. Feeling that he could no longer deal with the German mentality, Einstein moved to Switzerland where he ... Physics. He quickly learned that while physicists had generally agreed on major principals in the past, there were modern scientists who were attempting to disprove outdated theories. Since most of Einstein's teachers ignored these new ideas, he was again forced to explore on his own. In 1900 he graduated from the Institute and then achieved citizenship to Switzerland. Einstein became a clerk at the Swiss Patent Office in 1902. ...
- 1254: Bill Gates
- ... effects on Bill Gate's life. For at Lakeside, Bill Gates was first introduced to computers. In the spring of 1968, the Lakeside prep school decided that it should acquaint the student body with the world of computers. Computers were still too large and costly for the school to purchase its own. Instead, the school had a fundraiser and bought computer time on a DEC PDP-10 owned by General Electric ... was struck between Lakeside Prep School and the Computer Center Corporation that allowed the school to continue providing it's students with computer time. Gates and his comrades immediately began exploring the contents of this new machine. It was not long before the young hackers started causing problems. They caused the system to crash several times and broke the computers security system. They even altered the files that recorded the amount ... time they were using. They were caught and the Computer Center Corporation banned them from the system for several weeks. They were determined to find a way to apply their computer skills in the real world. The first opportunity to do this was a direct result of their mischievous activity with the school's computer time. The Computer Center Corporation's business was beginning to suffer due to the systems ...
- 1255: Babe Ruth
- ... his young adolescence. George was released to live with his family on a few occasions, but one way or the other he would return to St. Marys. George didnt adjust well to his new home. Living on the streets was the life he was accustom to and now that there were rules to follow he was beginning to feel miserable and regretful. To add to that pain was the ... just feel.(59) Brother Mathias taught him to be a better ball player. He schooled Ruth in the fundamentals of the game. George finally had something to be happy about. He had Brother Mathias his new father-figure and he had baseball. Babe Ruth became a great baseball player while at St. Marys. Even when he was young he was playing in the higher age divisions. By the time he was ... his face. Even so to the Red Sox Ruth was a savior, though none of his teammates looked at it that way. If it wasnt for Babe, they probably never would have won the World Series three times in four years, (1915, 16, & 18). He also set a record when he pitched 29 2/3 consecutive scoreless innings in the 1916 and 1918 World Series, a record which still ...
- 1256: Nuclear Power: Worth the Risks?
- Nuclear Power: Worth the Risks? The world's natural resources are being consume at an alarming rate. As these resources diminish, people will be seeking alternative sources by which to generate electricity for heat and light. The only practical short term solution ... all it can to force nuclear power plants into production by wasting electricity and the resources which are used to produce it ( coal, oil, gas) and by failing to recycle. Nuclear power has been promoted world-wide as economically advantageous and necessary to replace fossil fuels as the means of energy production in the 21st century. However this is untrue. There are many other economically viable and environmentally safe methods of producing energy.These include solar power, hydroelectric power and wind power. Today one fifth of the world's total energy production either comes from either wind,water or solar power. It is estimated that by the year 2000 forty percent of the world's energy production will be from sources other ...
- 1257: Wilson, Woodrow
- Wilson, Woodrow Woodrow Wilson, 28th president of the United States (1913-21), secured a legislative program of progressive domestic reform, guided his country during WORLD WAR I, and sought a peace settlement based on high moral principles, to be guaranteed by the LEAGUE OF NATIONS. Early Life and Career Thomas Woodrow Wilson was born in Staunton, Va., on Dec. 28 ... Ruggles Wilson, a Presbyterian minister, and his mother, Janet Woodrow Wilson, the daughter of a minister. Woodrow (he dropped the Thomas in 1879) attended (1873-74) Davidson College and in 1875 entered the College of New Jersey (later Princeton University), graduating in 1879. Wilson studied (1879-80) at the University of Virginia Law School, briefly practiced law in Atlanta, and in 1883 entered The Johns Hopkins University for graduate study in ... control of the proposed graduate college. The Princeton controversies, seen nationally as a battle between democracy and vested wealth, propelled Wilson into the political arena. George Harvey, editor of Harper's Weekly, with help from New Jersey's Democratic party bosses, persuaded Wilson to run for governor in 1910. After scoring an easy victory, he cast off his machine sponsors and launched a remarkable program of progressive legislation, including a ...
- 1258: Wilson, Woodrow
- Wilson, Woodrow Woodrow Wilson, 28th president of the United States (1913-21), secured a legislative program of progressive domestic reform, guided his country during WORLD WAR I, and sought a peace settlement based on high moral principles, to be guaranteed by the LEAGUE OF NATIONS. Early Life and Career Thomas Woodrow Wilson was born in Staunton, Va., on Dec. 28 ... Ruggles Wilson, a Presbyterian minister, and his mother, Janet Woodrow Wilson, the daughter of a minister. Woodrow (he dropped the Thomas in 1879) attended (1873-74) Davidson College and in 1875 entered the College of New Jersey (later Princeton University), graduating in 1879. Wilson studied (1879-80) at the University of Virginia Law School, briefly practiced law in Atlanta, and in 1883 entered The Johns Hopkins University for graduate study in ... control of the proposed graduate college. The Princeton controversies, seen nationally as a battle between democracy and vested wealth, propelled Wilson into the political arena. George Harvey, editor of Harper's Weekly, with help from New Jersey's Democratic party bosses, persuaded Wilson to run for governor in 1910. After scoring an easy victory, he cast off his machine sponsors and launched a remarkable program of progressive legislation, including a ...
- 1259: The Grapes of Wrath: Rose of Sharon and The Starving Man
- ... Chapter 30) Nothing in The Grapes of Wrath outraged readers as did the scene in Chapter 30 where Rose of Sharon offers her breast to save the dying man from starvation. Clifton Fadiman in The New Yorker wrote that "the ending is the tawdriest kind of fake symbolism." Many would agree with him, however, if the novel were to be examined closely, one would find that the ending was only "right ... from a concern only for themselves and their own personal welfare to a concern for all the people; a change accompanied by the disintegration of the smaller family unit, which is replaced by the larger world family of the migrant people. The publication of The Grapes of Wrath caused a nationwide uproar. This account of the migrant workers was taken more of a social document than as fiction. Some saw it as "a distorted call to revolution." As stated in Masterpieces of World Literature, "As a social document, the novel presents such a vivid picture of oppression and misery that one tends to doubt its authenticity." Daryl F. Zanuck even hired private detectives to verify Steinbeck's ...
- 1260: The Bronte Sisters, Jane Eyre
- ... and the remaining parent or relative must raise the child. Both stories make use of the popular nineteenth century motif of the orphaned child who must make his or her own way in an antagonistic world (Dunleavy 242). Besides the absence of a mother figure, both sisters spent most of their lives in isolation on the Yorkshire moors, another important influence on the novels (Abbey and Mullane 414). Rebecca Fraser, a ... since. Perhaps the most wonderful fact about the Bronte sisters is that the liberation of English fiction from the chains of conventionality was brought about by these "little provincial Puritans" (Gosse 62). In the modern world of literature, both are equally hailed as the precursors of feminist novelists for their originality in form and content. Their talents were highly superior to those of their contemporaries (Draper 497). Many critics recognize the ... Literature Criticism, Vol. 3. Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1983. Cerrito, Joann and Paula Keppos. Emily Bronte. Nineteenth Century Literary Criticism, Vol. 35. Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1992. Draper, James P. Charlotte Bronte and Emily Bronte. World Literature Criticism: 1500 to the Present, Vol. 1. Detroit: Gale Research Inc., 1992. Dunleavy, Gweneth A. Charlotte Bronte and Emily Bronte. Magill s Survey of World Literature, Vol. 1. ed. Frank Magill. New York: ...
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