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- 20061: Henry David Thoreau
- ... is "Walking". In his essay "Walking" Henry claims, "To preserve wild animals implies generally the creation of a forest for them to dwell in or resort to" and "...in Wildness is the preservation of the world." Henry David Thoreau died May 6th 1862, after a suffering a prolonged case of tuberculosis, a disease which plagued Henry throughout most of his adult life. Bibliography 1. Thoreau, Henry David, Cape Cod. 1865, Tickner ...
- 20062: Internal Combustion Engines
- ... exhaust port and permitting the gases to escape from the combustion chamber. Rotary Engine Wankel Engines In the 1950s the German engineer Felix Wankel developed his concept of an internal-combustion engine of a radically new design, in which the piston and cylinder were replaced by a three-cornered rotor turning in a roughly oval chamber. The fuel-air mixture is drawn in through an intake port and trapped between one ...
- 20063: Cask Of Amontillado
- ... N. Bryllion. The Historic Mr. Poe. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1949. Gruesser, John. "Poe’s The Cask of Amontillado; Criticism & Interpretation." The Explicator (1998): 129-130. Lowell, James R. Tales of Mystery and Imagination. New York: The Book league of America, 1940. Moss, Sidney P. Poe’s Literary Battles. North Carolina: Kingsport, 1963. Platizky, Roger. "Poe’s The Cask of Amontillado; Criticism & Interpretation." The Explicator (1999): 206-210. Thompson, G ...
- 20064: Catch 22
- ... reading. Not to say everyone was a WW-II bombardier, They all were having the same thoughts on war. Mr. Heller uses a perfect blend of realism and totally unreal situations to create his crazy world, a symbol of the absurdity of modern bureaucracy. This novel is a far cry from earlier novels about WW-II, usually heroic with realistic language, just concentrating on the actual fighting. This book is not ...
- 20065: Mark Twain and Racism
- ... end, he is not shown as a human being, but at best a noble savage who acts without reason. Finally, Jim's character is a stereotype. He is a black man trying to find a new home, and buy back his family. He believes in a wealth of superstitions and religious taboos which the white reader often laughs at. He has no desire to pursue academics, nor any concerns of finding ...
- 20066: The Life of Edgar Allen Poe
- ... s stories, poems, and criticism in the magazine, The Southern Literary Messenger soon attracted attention, and he looked for wider opportunities, not a good choice. From 1837 to 1839 he tried free-lance writing in New York City and Philadelphia but earned very little. Again he tried editing. His work was praised, but he was still paid little. His efforts to organize his own magazine were unsuccessful. For the next two ...
- 20067: Great Gatsby 5
- ... perfect example of this. The one on my right was a colossal affair by any standard- it was a factual imitation of some Hotel de Ville in Normandy, with a tower on one side, spanking new under a thin beard of raw ivy, and a marble swimming pool and more than forty acres of lawn and garden. It was Gatsby s mansion. Throughout the novel Fitzgerald uses this type of description ...
- 20068: Gregor Johann Mendel
- ... the basis of the experiment. Mendels work was reported at a meeting of the Brunn Society for the Study of Natural Science in 1865, and was published the following year. Mendels paper presented a completely new and unique documented theory of inheritances, but it did not lead immediately to a cataclysm of genetic research. The scientists who read his papers of complex theories, dismissed it because it could be explained in ...
- 20069: Grapes Of Wrath In Times Of De
- ... keep the family stable. He is failing fast. There seems to be no answer to the drought which has killed the land they farm. So they take to the road. Hoping there will be a new life and work in the west. The whole faimly packs their belongings, and leaves the place they have called home, behind them. Along the way to the west, they have many misfortunes. They still had ...
- 20070: The Life And Death Of Julius C
- By: Vince Henecker E-mail: vinni015@aol.com The Life And Death of Gaius Julius Caesar In my opinion, no other man in the history of the world symbolizes military and political strength as much as Julius Caesar does. Caesar was born on July 12, 100 BC in Rome, Italy (Encarta 2000). His father belonged to the prestigious Julian clan (Internet Explorer) His ...
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