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- 3871: Battles Of World War One
- World War One dominates the history of the 20th century. Its effects were felt long after it ended. Its uneasy outcome paved the way for a second and worse conflict. World War One had many bloody battles and campaigns, but in this essay I will discuss which battle was the most important. Which battle was the most important one in World War One? The theme of the war was a huge military effort that involved many battles and about 70 million soldiers, 9 million of which were killed. It is extremely difficult to decide which ...
- 3872: New Technologies In Television
- The future of home television is at a crossroads with new technologies available in every direction. Will recordable DVD replace the home VCR? Will HDTV succeed with consumers? What is affecting the mass rollout of these new technologies? The DVD story is a classic computer technology tale. All the key elements are there: vaporware, standards wars, compatibility problems, extremely high initial prices, and confusion at every turn. Even the technology's name ... knowledge, it's not surprising that Philips, Sony, Hewlett-Packard, Ricoh, and Yamaha, along with media manufacturer Mitsubishi, would prefer a rewritable DVD format that builds on existing technology and smoothes the transition to a new one. It is also no mystery that the architects of the DVD Forum's DVD-RAM format find this threatening. They are not contenders in the CD-R and CD-RW arena, so there ...
- 3873: The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
- ... left for St. Louis to visit his sister Elizabeth and find himself a job. He did't plan on stay'in there for long though. Sam only wanted to make enough money to go to New York (Paine 52). Well Sam's plans did not exactly go as he reckoned they would. He had many print'in jobs cross the whole country. Dur'in this time Sam met a fella named ... fix'in (64). Anyway it took him round a year to raise enough money to go to the Amazon but he finally had it and set forth on the Paul Jones down the Mississippi to New Orleans. Sam reckoned the voyage would take bout a week of time but his foresee'in was more than just a bit off (70). Horace Bixby was cap'tn of the boat. I reckon his ... Howard 134). By this time Orion's print'in business had failed. But Orion's second cousin was a rich boy. He was able to fix up Orion with a proper job. Nevada was a new territory and it needed itself a Territorial Secretary. This job was much like be'in a governor and was considered a real honor. There was one problem left to resolve. It would take Orion ...
- 3874: Global Stratification- A Socio
- By: James Cory E-mail: captainobvious@rocketmail.com The industrialization and technology of the world’s higher income nations has a negative effect on the plight of the world’s poorer nations. The high-income nations’ industrialization encourages child labor, poor living conditions in exchange for material things, and higher world pollution. When the higher income nations became industrialized in the 1800’s, the lower income nations were slow to catch up. Now, the low and middle-income countries are trying to catch up to ...
- 3875: Benedict Arnold
- ... home through the wilderness alone to work with his cousins. The army had excused him without penalty because of his young age. In 1762, when Benedict was just twenty-one years old, he went to New Haven, Connecticut where he managed a book and drug store and carried on trade with the West Indies. (B Arnold) In 1767, he married Margaret Mansfield, a daughter of a sheriff of New Haven County. They had three sons together. When the Revolutionary War was just beginning to break out, Benedict Arnold became a prosperous ship owner, merchant, and trader. Within days, Arnold became very interested in the ... were not for the extraordinary field general-ship. (Lake Champlain) The Massachusetts Committee of Safety became suspicious of Arnold’s behavior and conduct. Benedict was fed up so he resigned his commission at Crown Point, New York. Arnold tried to persuade the General of New York into letting him invade Quebec. Arnold understood that he would later face consequences with the Massachusetts Committee because of his actions, but he prepared ...
- 3876: An Analysis Of Roddy Doyles Wr
- ... the victim’s thoughts need to be made known. By writing down only the thoughts of the victim, Paula Spencer, Doyle has focused the reader on her feelings, and has entered the reader into the world as seen through the eyes of an abuse victim. Secondly, in the case of this particular novel, the effect of the book would be ruined, as the theme is conveyed by the use of the ... a modern urban preadolescent”(Hutchings 1). Paddy Clarke is a ten- year old boy who is living in Dublin with both his parents, his younger brother and two younger sisters. Paddy is living in a world where times are tough. He is learning that adults are very unpredictable and don’t necessarily always express how they really feel. He also learns that there are two sides to boyhood: the need to act tough and cruel, as well as, the need for friendship and parental love and caring (Heron 1).Roddy Doyle depicts this rough world Paddy Clarke lives in through his use of the vernacular language. As Turbide says of Doyle: The author’s own view is that his job is simply to describe things and people as they ...
- 3877: The Tokugawa Period
- ... 1568 and 1600 the daimyo fought among themselves for supremacy in Japan and it was during this period that legislation was passed to separate Japanese people into classes. Imperial sanctions were passed supporting military rule, new legislation was passed separating social classes, confirming the status of the bushi (Samurai), disarming the peasants, and regulating commercial activity. At the same time the Shogun laid the foundations for the local government taxation. But ... in agriculture. There was a large expansion of arable lands, and this expansion was accompanied with advancements in irrigation. There were also advances in how the farmers organized manpower, as sharecropping was introduced to them. New technology introduced to Japanese agriculture also had a lot to do with expanding crop harvests (Beasly 51). As the Farmer’s tools became more advanced the more crops could be grown and harvested. Also, technology ... and improper irrigation. The crops still grew and the people still ate them, but farming was no longer the most important aspect of the Japanese economy (Lehmann 183). The Tokugawa Shogunate did not like this new economic surge, but many of the head daimyo themselves owed money to the businesses. So, it was a fact that no matter how much the government wanted to hold down the economy and stay ...
- 3878: Representation of Women through Art
- ... their representation through the creation of art from the seventeenth century to the twentieth century. These articles are titled "Judith Leyster's Proposition - Between Virtue and Vice" by Frima Fox Hofrichter, "Happy Mothers and Other New Ideas in Eighteenth Century French Art" by Carol Duncan, "Morisot's Wet Nurse: The Construction of Work and Leisure in Impressionist Painting" by Linda Nochlin, and "Like an Artist" by Janis Bergman-Carton. First, the ... of the convinced, easy woman to the decent, uninterested woman. She tries to give the viewer her point of view as a woman during this period of time. Next, the article "Happy Mothers and Other New Ideas in Eighteenth-Century French Art", by Carol Duncan talks about the representation of mothers and families through art. It also talks about the unhappiness in arranged marriages and the authority of the father figure ... up without knowing their parents because they were given to a wet nurse for the first years of their lives. Opposing these views, Drouais painted a family portrait which reflected the ideal family with the new concept of conjugal love and family harmony. New family concepts began to grow after this art became popular. Now, "the unifying element of the new family was the wife mother" (Duncan pg.19). The ...
- 3879: St. Augustin
- ... analysis of St. Augustine Confessions and Beowulf, it is clear that the two authors, St. Augustine and the poet respectively, differ on their views of death, which helps to paint a better picture of the world that each writer lived in. In Augustine s writings, death plays a major role in life; it serves as the stepping stone to a greater existence in heaven. In Augustine s world, Christianity and God both play an important role in how death is viewed. In the poets writings we see a different perspective, one in which the time you spend on earth is of great importance ... to heaven; contingent of course on the fact that you were a Christian. Yet in a moment, before we had reached the end of the first year of a friendship .you took him from this world (Confessions, 75). When all hope of saving him was lost, he was baptized as he lay unconscious (Confessions, 75). This passage about St. Augustine s friend helps to illustrate that as death drew near ...
- 3880: Civil War The Color Bearer Tra
- ... of 1855 Charles Whilden signed on as a civilian employee of the U.S. Army. After an arduous two-month trek from Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, Whilden arrived in the old Spanish city of Santa Fe, New Mexico Territory, on August 27, 1855, where he took up his duties as civilian private secretary to the local garrison commander, Colonel John Breckinridge Grayson of Kentucky, who would later serve the Confederacy as a brigadier general in Florida. Life in New Mexico Territory When Whilden arrived in Santa Fe, the city had been under U.S. jurisdiction for only a few years, and the population was overwhelmingly Hispanic and Roman Catholic, causing the Baptist Whilden to ... to recollect them." So isolated was Santa Fe from the U.S. that mail reached the city only once a month from Missouri. Looking on the bright side of his cultural and geographic isolation in New Mexico Territory, in a letter written in May 1856 Charles expressed his intention to William to remain in New Mexico until "I have paid up all my debts, for I can do it better ...
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