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- 1261: Louis Leakey
- ... Reck s find because the age of the skeleton could not be proven. Further, Reck could not return to the site because, as he was German and Britain had won that region of Africa in World War I, he was not able to go there. Leakey was fascinated with the site and told Reck that they would one day go back. For the time being, this had to be put on ... dug at many sites, finding many stone tools, animal bones, and other artifacts. His search, however, was for proof of the use of a specific Chellean hand-axe style found in other parts of the world. This he found in 1929, and its discovery pushed back the age of the Great Rift Valley in Africa a great deal. Further, it provided critical evidence for a level of sophistication in East Africa ... With no prospect of grants to lead an expedition, Leakey finally had to accept a grant to write an anthropological study of the Kikuyu tribe that he grew up with. Leakey returned to Africa with new wife Mary, who engaged in archaeological digs of her own while Louis undertook the Kikuyu study. After the works were published, though, Leakey was still unable to find a position he desired. At one ...
- 1262: The World They Made Together
- The World They Made Together The book The World They Made Together by Mechal Sobel suggests that a cooperative relationship between Africans and British in seventeenth and eighteenth century Virginia influenced and molded both cultures’ perceptions and values as a united religious entity. Religion ... Great Awakening. Between the two groups were large discrepancies in the understanding of death and the afterlife. For example, for Africans, the funeral was considered an important element in "the rite of entry into the world of the dead" (Sobel 174). Africans believed that after death "the good…go to the good homeland of the forefathers, the bad to the realm of ‘misery,’ but ‘eventually God takes pity on them,’ ...
- 1263: The Self Portraits Of Gertrude Stein And Pablo Picaso
- ... he was unable to read English, her main language of expression (37). The level of intimacy that was achieved by Picasso and Stein goes deeper than the Saturday evening soirées, though. Stein was to the world of literature what Picasso was to the world of art. They shared the same vision for their respective means of artistic expression and excelled at introducing the world to a new, more free style of relaying its ideas. Stein shared in Picasso’s struggle “not to express what he could see but not to express the things he did not see, that ...
- 1264: Behind Closed Doors: The Correlation Between Multiple Personality Disorder and Child Abuse
- ... Schoenewolf, 1991), that possibility was thrown out. It has now been shown that traumatic experiences in life cause Multiple Personality Disorder. The pattern seems to be that for every severely troubling episode in life, a new personality is born to help with that particular incident. The subconscious will withdrawal the conscious and take over whenever the threat of abuse surfaced. The anxiety of the subversion would frighten the children to the ... with it head on. Ideally, this step allows multiples to become a well-rounded individual who is capable of handling problems on their own without help from the alters. However, it is not an ideal world. Very few MPD sufferers ever achieve total integration. The personalities that have integrated disappear, leaving behind their best traits. Those personalities that have resisted tend to regress until their presence is no longer felt. While ... were able to confirm allegations of parental abuse in 17 out of 20 reported cases. The earlier treatment begins the easier it is to recover, but it isn't commonly until early hood that the world of multiples begins to collapse. While many multiples continue to deny that there is anything wrong with them, those who are brave enough to seek help are among the strongest individuals known. They risk ...
- 1265: Federal Express
- Since 1971, time sensitive packages and letters have been delivered safely and punctually to anyone, anywhere in the world. Often times, the contents of these packages contain life saving materials. The company that makes efficient delivery possible is Federal Express. FedEx s guaranteed overnight delivery, or your money back offer, makes it a unique ... go into making this company work like a well-oiled machine; including packaging, the variety of modes of transporting, and the ability to track the where abouts of the package from any place in the world. With these attributes nearly perfected, FedEx has truly "made the world small" (Kinney, 6-10). From its relatively humble beginnings in 1971, to its current world dominance; what makes FedEx such a well-oiled machine? HISTORY This year marks the 28th anniversary of the founding ...
- 1266: The Atomic Bomb and Hiroshima
- ... decisions and the outcomes that take place during this time of war will better our knowledge and decision-making in the future. Over a century ago the first atomic bomb was created in Los Alamos, New Mexico. It was created by a top-secret operation code named the Manhattan Project. Three weeks after the first test of the atomic bomb President Truman made the decision at a war time conference, in ... unconditional surrender. This meant that the Emperor would be able to retain his position and Japan was not ready to surrender under these terms. Throughout the history of warfare it is not uncommon to find new developments. The atomic bomb was used to shorten agony of war and save American lives as stated by President Truman. Japans deep belief of death before loss of honor and loyalty to the Emperor lead ... thousand people were wiped out by the atomic bomb known as “Little Boy”. The survivors of this crushing bomb were envious of the deceased. At this moment, it was the beginning of the end of World War II. During the month of August 1945, Japan agreed to an unconditional surrender. The question puzzling many researchers and historians is “…whether it was essential to use the bomb in order to compel ...
- 1267: The History of the Internet and the WWW
- The History of the Internet and the WWW 1. The History of the World Wide Web- The internet started out as an information resource for the government so that they could talk to each other. They called it "The Industrucable Network" because it was so many computers linked to gether that if one server went down, no-one would know. This report will mainly focus on the history of the World Wide Web (WWW) because it is the fastest growing resource on the internet. The internet consists of diferent protocals such as WWW, Gopher (Like the WWW but text based), FTP (File Transfer Protocal), and Telnet ... of companies and organizations with the mission to realize the full potential of the Web. With a background of system design in real-time communications and text processing software development, in 1989 he invented the World Wide Web, an internet-based hypermedia initiative for global information sharing. while working at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory. He spent two years with Plessey elecommunications Ltd a major UK Telecom equipment manufacturer, ...
- 1268: Mrs Dalloway
- ... as of Bloomsbury, & sits dressed in a turban watching his Prince dance'' (Diary 2.138). His novel came out well before she finished hers; she read it and noted, ``Morgan is too restrained in his new book perhaps'' (Diary 2.304). A note of the Anglo-Indian society that dominates A Passage to India resonates in Mrs. Dalloway's background, sounded in part by returning Indian traveler, Peter Walsh, but also ... voice. Forster describes the effect of this kind of percussion in A Passage to India: Godbole...said a word to the drummer, who broke rhythm, made a thick little blur of sound, and produced a new rhythm. This was more exciting, the inner images it evoked more definite, and the singers' expressions became fatuous and languid. They loved all men, the whole universe, and scraps of their past, tiny splinters of ... pace, its pauses and plunges, its movement through time, and its movement through and around characters' minds. Like Forster's drummer, Woolf's prose breaks rhythm, makes thick little blurs of sound, and produces a new rhythm; it evokes inner images; and it ultimately melts scraps of the past and tiny splinters of detail into a final unified downbeat of ``universal warmth.'' One of the elemental components in the polyrhythmic ...
- 1269: Prisoners of War
- ... to: Mrs. Provato ENG 2A0-04 Wednesday December 8, 1993 Dear: The International Red Cross I am writing a letter to you today to mention how the prisoners of war were treated throughout the second world war. If you have never been a Prisoner of War (POW), you are extremely lucky. The prisoners of war during the World War II, (1939-1945) were treated poorly with no respect or consideration and were given the living conditions worse than animals. It was an extremely bad situation that no human being could survive. They were ... in today's society. The prisoners had to live with leftover scraps of food, dirty water, and no hope of exiting, plus the constant shooting. They were not prisoner whom had committed a crime, rather brave warriors whom stood up to defend us. 4 It is a life no one wants to encounter, and we pray no one does, and we remember how they were abused and how they suffered ...
- 1270: Ben Franklin
- ... caused by lightning were one of the most dangerous problems colonists had to face. "Soon after the rods were invented, all of Philadelphia, Boston, London, and Paris began using them" (Fleming 17). Some of the new electricity related words conceived by Franklin included the condenser, conductor, electric shock, positive and negative electricity, and plus and minus charges. He wrote Poor Richard's Almanack in 1732 to explain the practical application of ... mind was Franklin's determination to question, to seek explanations of natural phenomena that could be checked by experiment of documentation" (54). Clark also believes that Franklin was intrigued by the processes of the natural world and he tried to interpret them. Franklin used his vast knowledge of geology, meteorology, physics, chemistry, astronomy, mathematics, aeronautics, navigation, agriculture, medicine, hygiene, seismology, hydrography, ethnology, oceanography, and paleontology to come up with the theories ... them. Franklin redesigned the street lights to, as he said, have "four flat panes and a funnel on top to draw up the smoke" (Fleming 16). The globe-shaped lamps were replaced with Franklin's new ones so they stayed bright until morning. When Franklin noticed that criminals were getting away without punishment, he sought to reform the city police. He then formed the Union Fire Company in 1736. He ...
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