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- 3541: Earth 2 Puzzle
- ... coeducational, and dancing together led to "hell and damnation". Grace Hall Hemingway, Ernest's mother, considered herself pure and proper. She was a dreamer who was upset at anything which disturbed her perception of the world as beautiful. She hated dirty diapers, upset stomachs, and cleaning house; they were not fit for a lady. She taught her children to always act with decorum. She adored the singing of the birds and ... forbidden words just to create a ruckus. Ernest, though wild and crazy, was a warm, caring individual. He loved the sea, mountains and the stars and hated anyone who he saw as a phoney. During World War I, Ernest, rejected from service because of a bad left eye, was an ambulance driver, in Italy, for the Red Cross. Very much like the hero of A Farewell to Arms, Ernest is shot ... In Our Time, but with some changes. The publisher felt that the sex was to blatant, but Ernest refused to change one word. Around 1925, Ernest started writing a novel about a young man in World War I, but had to stop after a few pages, and proceeded to write another novel, instead. This novel was based on his experiences while living in Pamplona, Spain. He planned on calling this ...
- 3542: The Abstract Wild
- ... blind to its true importance as an ecosystem. The wild and the sacred of the forest is lost. The degradation of wild nature is a direct result of our language and economic perceptions of the world. Of course, the first step toward finding solutions to ecological problems would be changing our language. Turner offers the solution that if "we refuse these three moves- the abstraction of things into resources, their commensurability in translatable units, and the choice of money as the value of the units- and economic theory is useless(64)." The preservation of the wild nature requires a deeper geocentric view of the world. Chapter five delves into the Turner’s knowledge and experience of the white pelican. Little is known about these ancient birds because they avoid human contact. Turner is intrigued by their behavior. He observes the ... the mistake of wilderness for wildness. It was Henry David Thoreau who was first mistaken. Thoreau was an American pioneer of the wild. His most famous quote is "In Wildness is the preservation of the World." Unfortunately, that quote is now severely misconceived; for we have replaced Wildness with wilderness. The word Wildness has negative connotations in today’s society. Thoreau was describing Wildness as a good virtue connected with ...
- 3543: History of The Internet
- ... language, TCP/IP, the standard protocol. The Internet allows people with access to these networks to share information and knowledge. Resources available on the Internet are chat groups, e-mail, newsgroups, file transfers, and the World Wide Web. The Internet has no centralized authority and it is uncensored. The Internet belongs to everyone and to no one. The Internet is structured in a hierarchy. At the top, each country has at ... every year. It was also estimated that at this rapid rate of growth, everyone would have an e-mail address by the year 2020. The main cause of this growth was the creation of the World Wide Web. The World Wide Web was created at CERN, a physics laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland. The Web's development was based on the transmission of web pages over the Internet, called Hyper Text Transmission Protocol or HTTP. ...
- 3544: Suicide in Las Vega
- ... lot filled with empty Boeing 707s, I will sit in my car watching early-morning business flights descend into the starch of a Nevada dawn and I will suddenly see how Las Vegas is our new mirror. Reflecting how things are going to be done. And who will win or lose. "There's a small but steady amount of suicides we call 'jumpers,'" states Sgt. Bill Keeton of Metro Police. "They ... rooms shook. "It's not necessarily gamblers," Keeton goes on. "Just people who've planned one last fling. We used to get a lot from Los Angeles. Now it's people from all over the world. We had a young man fly in from Ireland. On his immigration card, it said he seemed either on drugs or depressed. He came here and went to a pistol range, shot targets for a ... Not so," argues Mark Moreno, a lawyer and longtime Las Vegas resident. "The position of Las Vegas as a family-entertainment destination is best for gaming right now. There are three men responsible for the new Las Vegas. Bill Bennett from Circus Circus, Kirk Kerkorian with the mgm Grand, and Steve Wynn with the Mirage." I imagine asking these three wise kings about the suicides in their hotels. The suicides ...
- 3545: Book Report A Voyager Out
- ... Mifflin Company. 1986 Katherine Frank s novel A Voyager Out tells the life story of Mary Kingsley. She talks of her childhood, her young adult life, and her traveling life. She wanted to tell the world what this woman explorer did for Africa. Mary Kingsley had a famous family, many of whom were writers. Mary herself wrote two books. In her books however, she leaves out a lot about her life ... not produce much however. He left a lot of his works unfinished, and many others unstarted. Because he did not do much in his lifetime, it has been said that his greatest gift to the world was his daughter. Her mother, Mary Bailey, was the innkeeper s daughter. Four days after her father and mother were married, Mary Kingsley was born. If her father had not married her mother, Mary would ... so he was usually the victor of the fights. There was one instance when Mary decided to leave home for a small vacation. Mary had never been away from her home so this was a new experience for her. Only a short time into her trip, her mother became ill and Mary had to return to take care of her mother. After staying at her mother s bedside for quite ...
- 3546: Catch 22 - Satire
- Catch 22 Joseph Heller satirizes, among other matters, red tape and bureaucracy in his first novel, Catch-22. The novel concerns itself with a World War II bombardier named Yossarian who suddenly realizes the danger of his position and tries various means to extricate himself from further missions. Yossarian is driven crazy by the Germans, who keep shooting at him ... on them, and by his American superiors, who seem less concerned about winning the war than they are about getting promoted. Heller spent eight years writing Catch-22, is a former student at three universities--New York, Columbia and Oxford--and a former teacher at Pennsylvania State College. From 1942 to 1945 he served as a combat bombardier in the Twelfth Air Force and was stationed on the island of Corsica ... 120) (Usborne) The protagonist and hero of the novel is John Yossarian, a captain in the Air Force and a lead bombardier in his squadron, but he hates the war. During the latter half of World War II, Yossarian is stationed with his Air Force squadron on the island of Pianosa, near the Italian coast and the Mediterranean Sea. (Heller) The squadron is thrown thoughtlessly into brutal combat situations and ...
- 3547: Kate Chopin: Adversity And Criticism
- ... not the typical husband. He allowed Kate a lot of freedom. Even with the freedom Kate felt she was trapped into doing what was expected of a woman. Kate and her husband had settled in New Orleans for nine years. During this period of time six children were born: Jean, Oscar, George, Frederick, Felix and Leila. Oscar, job as cotton commissioner had started having problems. In 1880 when the business failed ... store. Kate later uses her experiences with the French, Negro, Spanish, and English culture to write about. She gained the reputation of being a regional writer from this experience. Oscar never fully adjusted to the new location. He contacted Malaria and eventually died of complication in 1882. (Kolaski) the following year Kate, perhaps, enjoyed the attentions of a married neighbor until she returned to St. Louis in 1884. (Howard) Shortly after ... Because she is different from the average house-lady and unwilling to force her self into that role, Edna tries to escape the typical female existence by awakening to the idea that life and the world are hers as well as a man (Kearns). Edna does not love and want the things that she should have. The things she wanted to have and love, she could not because it was ...
- 3548: Robert Johnson
- ... try to keep time, look like, or hold on to my skirt and sort of jig up and down and laugh and laugh." (Lomax, 14) Thus, Robert was first introduced by his church into the world of music and was forever captured by its beauty. Mrs. Johnson didn’t have much trouble with Robert as a child but as he grew older, he became more and more intrigued about the extravagant ... struggled to "Piece together into some kind of coherency, the evil contradictions of life". (Finn, 211) And so he turned to music. Previously captured by the seemingly magical music of blues, Johnson turned to the world of magic for an answer. He traveled deep into the bayous for nearly two years, supposedly to seek the assistance of a root doctor. An uninhabited, muddy jungle is a description fit to describe the ... mystical life as a bluesman. And thus, Robert’s travels began. He stayed for about a week in Robinsonville and then set out on the road, visiting such places as St. Louis, Chicago, Detroit, and New York (all the while using Memphis, Greenwood, and Robinsonville as his base). "Everywhere he went he was hailed and remembered- in Arkansas and Mississippi, hill country and Delta, city and town" (Guralnick, 20). Johnny ...
- 3549: Serial Killers in the U.S
- ... During the past twenty years, serial killings have become more frequent. We have even seen up to a half dozen of their cases on the news simultaneously. Cases such as San Francisco's Zodiac Killer; New York City's Son of Sam; Atlanta's child murderer, Wayne Williams; Los Angeles's Hillside Strangler; and Milwaukee's own, Jeffrey Dahmer. Many times, they fit into a pattern, but sometimes there is no pattern. The phenomenon is world-wide, from England's Yorkshire Ripper, Peter Sutcliffe's killing of 13 women prior to 1981, to Russia's Rostov Cannibal, Anderei Chikatilo, who slaughtered and partially consumed at least 53 men and women over ... the "Duke of Death." Some believe Berkowitz is only making excuses for his behavior and we may never know the whole truth. For whatever reason, he held one of the most powerful cities in the world, New York City, in a state of fear. Even the heads of several organized crime families were reported to have sent out their sol- diers to find him. His rampage ended in August of ...
- 3550: The Presidency and Inexperience
- ... his ‘successor’, so to speak, assumes office. As any CEO of a successful corporation will tell, his successor, much less the successor of any managerial post in the company should be well indoctrinated into his new position by his predecessor prior to completely assuming his responsibilities. You might, then say that the multifaceted task of running a country is not unlike the complex task of running a corporation with its many ... in chief, the president embodies the principle of civilian supremacy over the military. The president appoints the Joint Chiefs of Staff and other military commanders, oversees the military budget, and passes on the development of new weapons systems. The president also directs the country's participation in military alliances. In time of war, the powers of the chief executive may extend even further. The president may find it necessary to establish wide-ranging controls on the economy, as in World War II. A president may even interfere with civil liberties, as Franklin D. Roosevelt did in approving the forced relocation of thousands of Japanese-Americans on the Pacific coast in World War II. (Barnett) ...
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