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- 2951: Book Report on "The Lost World"
- Book Report on "The Lost World" Characters: The main character in the book is Ian Malcolm, a middle aged mathematician and a little bit of an explorer. The man who set up the exploration, Richard Levine, is a rich and reckless yet well known adventurer who spends a lot of his time and money exploring different places around the world and helps at a middle school to give students of ideas of careers in science. Sarah Harding is a zoologist who was hired to possibly deal with some of the animals. Jack Thorne is the ... record all the footage he wanted until all the cameras went out. What did you learn from it, did it inspire you, or what impression did it make on you? I learned a lot of new things about dinosaurs like some of the predictions about they're behaviors, and the way they lived.
- 2952: Is History Destined To Repeat Itself? McCarthyism in the New Millennium
- Is History Destined To Repeat Itself? McCarthyism in the New Millennium Arthur Miller wrote the play "The Crucible" as a warning to the public that people must realize and accept their responsibilities so that another outbreak of hysteria will not transpire. Miller dealt with McCarthyism ... hate crime, committed against Matthew Shepard is one example of this. The brutal thugs who murdered Matthew Shepard simply because of his sexual orientation deserve swift and certain punishment. Their acts are despicable. Unfortunately, a new form of McCarthyism is welling up in the aftermath of this crime, and it is despicable, too. Ignoring the pleas of grieving father Dennis Shepard not to "use [his son] Matt as part of an ... good, and no harm shall come to thee.(90)" In the play, Proctor is seemingly comforting Marry Warren, but in actuality, it is the man behind the play, Arthur Miller, who is telling the whole world to do what is morally right. This play can be applied quite easily to the issues surrounding the homosexual population in America. It seems as though, especially in Matthew Shepard's case, people are ...
- 2953: Chicano Literature
- ... I write my final paper on. Whitman's "Oh Captain, My Captain" happens to be my favorite Whitman poem. I cried the first time I read it. I've read works by some of the world's finest authors: Mark Twain, William Shakespeare, Anne Rice, Stephen King, Hunter S. Thompson, Upton Sinclair, Alex Haley, etc. I suddenly realized that I have never read a work of fiction, or a play by ... appeared in her book Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories, which was originally printed in 1991 and was the recipient of such awards: PEN center USA Was Literary Award (1991), Lannen Literary Award (1991), QPB New Voices Award in Fiction (1992), and the Anisfield Wolf Award (1992). Cisneros also wrote My Wicked Ways in 1980 and The House on Mango Street in 1984, which in 1985 was a recipient of a ... 156) Rudolfo Anaya The next story I read from Growing Up Chicana/o was a chapter, "Solomon’s Story", out of the novel Tortuga. The author, Rudolfo Anaya, is a professor at the University of New Mexico in the Department of Languages and Literature. His most prized work is titled Albuquerque, published in 1992, won the PEN Center USA West Literary Award. Anaya has been a novelist since the days ...
- 2954: Atomic Bomb
- ... a numerous amount of many more to this day are left unanswered. The horrific display of Hiroshima and Nagasaki still haunts and sickens people to this very day. Nonetheless, Hiroshima affected both United States and world history forever, and has made the change in military warfare uncanny. No doubt, August 6, 1945 began as any other day. Before it had ended, something dramatic occurred that would change the way nations dealt ... split second in which a blinding flash of light told the crew of its success, approximately seventy thousand souls, who until that fateful moment, had been going about their normal everyday lives, perished, and the world changed. The intense heat of the explosion horribly burned those not killed or vaporized immediately by the blast. Eyewitness accounts describe traumatized people wandering with their skin trailing from their bodies 'like wandering ghosts'. All ... second atomic bomb. Its target, Nagasaki- a port city in Southern Japan was thirty percent destroyed, and approximately forty thousand of its citizens were killed. On August 14, 1945 Japan surrendered-unconditionally, thus ending a world conflagration in which fifty million people died." The bombing of Hiroshima was one of the most controversial actions taken by the United States in the 20th century. There lie many arguments for and against ...
- 2955: Contemporary Chicano Literatur
- ... I write my final paper on. Whitman's "Oh Captain, My Captain" happens to be my favorite Whitman poem. I cried the first time I read it. I've read works by some of the world's finest authors: Mark Twain, William Shakespeare, Anne Rice, Stephen King, Hunter S. Thompson, Upton Sinclair, Alex Haley, etc. I suddenly realized that I have never read a work of fiction, or a play by ... appeared in her book Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories, which was originally printed in 1991 and was the recipient of such awards: PEN center USA Was Literary Award (1991), Lannen Literary Award (1991), QPB New Voices Award in Fiction (1992), and the Anisfield Wolf Award (1992). Cisneros also wrote My Wicked Ways in 1980 and The House on Mango Street in 1984, which in 1985 was a recipient of a ... 156) Rudolfo Anaya The next story I read from Growing Up Chicana/o was a chapter, "Solomon’s Story", out of the novel Tortuga. The author, Rudolfo Anaya, is a professor at the University of New Mexico in the Department of Languages and Literature. His most prized work is titled Albuquerque, published in 1992, won the PEN Center USA West Literary Award. Anaya has been a novelist since the days ...
- 2956: Eleanor Roosevelt
- ... The Women’s Democratic News" where she became more independent towards herself and work. Eleanor Roosevelt became very involved in women issues, being that she also joined the newly organized Women’s division of the New York State Democratic party and moved swiftly into positions of leadership. Not only was she responsible among organizations and people, she later became her husband, Franklin D. Roosevelt’s eyes and ears, dedicating her life ... than Eleanor Roosevelt. Perseverance was another great quality of Eleanor Roosevelt. From the time she was a little girl she had to persevere. Both her parents were considered to be handsome and gay socialite among New York society. She was a very plain, shy insecure child, who knew that she was neither pretty nor graceful and that she was a disappointment to her beautiful mother. Although she was the apple of ... wishes, her grandmother sent her to a private school in England when she was fifteen. It was here that Eleanor started to blossom and become a person in her own right. Upon her return to New York, she had her debut into New York Society in 1902. In 1903, Eleanor became reacquainted with her distant cousin, Franklin Delano Roosevelt whom she knew from childhood. Eleanor and Franklin fell in love ...
- 2957: Harry Elmer Barnes
- ... America of his day. Barnes argued that propagandists and "court historians" were fashioning a present, based on a falsified and inaccurate telling of the past, that was designed to meet Establishment desires to participate in world wars. Ironically,Barnes' article was omitted from the first edition the collection.(1) Barnes may be best remembered as the author of the generally accepted definition of "revisionism," "Revisionism means nothing more or less than ... light of a more complete collection of historical facts, a more calm political atmosphere, and a more objective attitude." (2) Barnes had discovered that a more nearly accurate version of the history of the First World War was only possible after the fighting had ended and the emotional excesses had lessened. He was unable to predict that similar corrections of Allied propaganda and popularized conceptions of the methods of warfare in the Second World War would meet even sterner resistance. Today - half a century after the conclusion of the Second World War - it would be fair to expect a less emotional environment, one in which historians, researchers and ...
- 2958: Answer America's Call
- ... What is this generation's call? With the Cold War dead and behind us, America is calling from a different line. No longer is America in need of a sophisticated high budget military, but for new minds and ideas. Long gone are the days of fighting in the streets over a lone silver dollar. Instead America is in the race for new technology and the minds and sophistication that go with it. So long M-16, hello IBM, satellites, and laser technology. Earlier generations had no idea of what electronics could provide. The strongest country in the world was the one with the most men. Then came guns, then nuclear weapons, and finally computers. No longer do we need to send most of our country's men off to fight. Rather we ...
- 2959: Leprosy
- Leprosy Leprosy is one of the world’s oldest and most misunderstood diseases. It has afflicted mankind for centuries and is also referenced in the Bible. Some of the oldest documented cases date back to 600 BC in China and India (LEPROSY 1). For several years Leprosy has “ ... etched a terrifying image in history and human memory, of mutilation, reflection and exclusion from society” (A World 1). Throughout history there have been misconceptions of body parts falling off and isolation. Leprosy was the first bacteria that was found to cause disease in humans (Leprosy: A Misunderstood 1). In 1874 Gerhard A ... in the “poverty belt” of the globe. Seventy percent of all cases are found in India, Indonesia and Myanmar (A Brief 2). Brazil alone accounts for eighty percent of all cases in South America (A World 1). Simply coming into contact with a person suffering from leprosy will not cause transmission. However, studies have shown that family members in contact with victims on a daily basis have a five to ...
- 2960: Oliver Cromwell
- ... his youth Cromwell was not very studious, since he enjoyed outdoor sports, such as hunting; but he was an avid reader of the Bible, and he admired Sir Walter Raleigh's The History of the World. Cromwell learned that the sins of man could be punished on earth but that God, through His Holy Spirit, could guide the elect into the paths of righteousness. (Kathe, 1984) In the early parts of ... with General Sir Thomas Fairfax, succeeded in halting the royalist attacks at Winceby in Lincolnshire and then successfully besieged Newark in Nottinghamshire. He was now able to persuade the House of Commons to create a new army, which would not merely defend eastern England but would leave and attack the enemy. (Sherwood, 1997) This new army was formed under the command of Edward Montagu, 2nd earl of Manchester, in 1644. Appearing in the House of Commons, Cromwell accused some of his fellow officers of being incompetent or of being ...
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