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- 411: Information Management
- Introduction The relentless advance of IT and telecommunications systems has brought dramatic benefits to individuals, businesses and other organisations. These years, the world has developed into an information economy, and the applying of new technologies is at the centre of the activity. New technologies are being developed at a record pace. Those celebrities such as Bill Gates of Microsoft, Steven Jobs of Apple all emerged to create information technology dynasties for 1980s and 1990s have become the ...
- 412: Walt Whitman
- ... Freidel- page 292-293). Whitman lived during the time of the Civil War; a fact that increased his patriotism. Whitman was considered one of the most important American Poets of the 19th Century. (Encyclopedia of World Biography- page 249). He influenced the direction of 20th Century poets such as Erza Pound, William Carlos Williams, Carlos Sandberg, and Allen Ginsberg. Whitman praised democracy and spoke of the flesh as well as the ... a family of nine children and he had a rough childhood. The Whitman family first settled in the Huntington area by the middle of the seventeenth century. This helped him to write two of the world’s greatest literary works, "There was a Child Went Forth" and "Song to Myself." (Lowen, Nancy- page 6). "There was a Child Went Forth" was about his siblings and his childhood. Out of nine children ... symbol of life "the babe of vegetation," "the handkerchief of the Lord." Whitman praised God and nature. He exposed his gentle nature to his fellow man, and in doing so expressed his love of the world. This was a love he grew up with and carried with him everywhere he went. Whitman loved Long Island and it became a major part of his works. (Webster, Orville III- page 122). He ...
- 413: The Life And Times Of The Man
- ... on March 7, 1876, and on March 10, the first message transmitted by telephone passed from Bell to Watson in their workshop: "Mr. Watson, come here, I want you!" After a year of refining the new device, Watson and Bell, along with Hubbard and Sanders, formed the Bell Telephone Company in 1877. Bell immediately married Mabel Hubbard, daughter of his new partner, and sailed to England to promote his telephone. The phone company grew rapidly, and Bell became a wealthy man. He turned to other interests on his return to the United States in 1879, while also defending his patents (which were upheld in 1888) against numerous lawsuits. With money from the Volta Prize, awarded to him in 1880 by the French government, Bell established the Volta Laboratory. Among the new devices he invented there were the graphophone for recording sound on wax cylinders or disks; the photophone, for transmitting speech on a beam of light; an audiometer; a telephone probe, used in surgery until ...
- 414: Native Americans
- ... the map of the United States. Twenty-seven states and large numbers of cities, towns, rivers, and lakes bear names from the languages of the first Americans. Native American farmers were the first in the world to domesticate potatoes, tomatoes, and many other food plants that help feed the peoples of the world today. The Native Americans were also the first to raise turkeys. They found uses for such native American plants as rubber, tobacco, the sugar maple, and the cinchona tree (for quinine). The Native Americans had lived in America for thousands of years when the first European explorers set foot on their land. When Christopher Columbus landed in the New World, he called the native people indios (Spanish for Indians) because he thought he had reached India. Because of European colonization of North and South America since 1500, Native Americans have been greatly reduced ...
- 415: Catcher in the Rye: Theme of the World Having An Outward Appearance
- Catcher in the Rye: Theme of the World Having An Outward Appearance The theme that the world has an outward appearance that seems fair and perfect but really they're as Holden put it "phonies." This is shown countless amount of times in his journey through New York and even before he left. The setting is in the 1950's; so I'm pretty sure that he didn't encounter any transvestites, lesbians, or anything that extreme of phoniest. Or on ...
- 416: Analysis of "The Age of Anxiety" by W.H. Auden
- ... of reality 4. The fourth age a. Presents circus imagery "as a form of art too close to life to have any purgative effect on the audience" b. Rosetta's definition of life and the world 5. The fifth age a. Conveys the image of man as "an astonished victor" b. Man believes he has made peace with the meaning of life c. Anxiety declines as "He [man] learns to speak / Softer and slower, not to seem so eager" d. Man is no longer confined to a prison of prismatic color, but is free in the dull, bland place that is the world e. Emble's opposition of the fifth age (1) Refuses to go willingly into middle age (2) Demands to know why man must "Leave out the worst / Pang of youth" (3) Is disturbed by time ... man's adaptation to the fifth age 6. The sixth age a. Man begins to show age b. "Impotent, aged, and successful," Malin's portrayal of a man of this age is indifferent to the world 7. The seventh age a. Hypothetical man is tired out b. Malin is ready for this age in contrast to the others' reluctance to die just yet VI. Second act of Part II, "The ...
- 417: Analysis of "The Age of Anxiety" by W.H. Auden
- ... of reality 4. The fourth age a. Presents circus imagery "as a form of art too close to life to have any purgative effect on the audience" b. Rosetta's definition of life and the world 5. The fifth age a. Conveys the image of man as "an astonished victor" b. Man believes he has made peace with the meaning of life c. Anxiety declines as "He [man] learns to speak / Softer and slower, not to seem so eager" d. Man is no longer confined to a prison of prismatic color, but is free in the dull, bland place that is the world e. Emble's opposition of the fifth age (1) Refuses to go willingly into middle age (2) Demands to know why man must "Leave out the worst / Pang of youth" (3) Is disturbed by time ... man's adaptation to the fifth age 6. The sixth age a. Man begins to show age b. "Impotent, aged, and successful," Malin's portrayal of a man of this age is indifferent to the world 7. The seventh age a. Hypothetical man is tired out b. Malin is ready for this age in contrast to the others' reluctance to die just yet VI. Second act of Part II, "The ...
- 418: Satan A Seducer (paradise Lost
- ... Angels. Then, God drove Satan and his followers out of Heaven and into the place of utter darkness, filled with misery, called Chaos. Milton's expression of the condition of Satan's followers in this new place is, " now they lye Groveling and prostrate on yon Lake of Fire" (Book I, 279-80). Despite this wretched place, Satan tries to revitalize their spirits by preaching, " Here at least We shall be ... playing a psychological game with the 'fallen angels' by telling them good things about the dreaded place that God had sent them to. Satan's speech successfully managed to convince and comfort them with the new hope of regaining Heaven. The part of Satan's commentary that favoured the hearts of his followers, and at the same time effectively persuaded them that they still had a chance of obtaining happiness was when he ended his speech with a profound announcement. He informed them of the New World and the new creature that would be created, "There went a fame in Heav'n that he ere long Intended to create plant A generation equal to the Sons of Heaven" (Book I, ...
- 419: Us Presidents 30-42
- ... on the idea that if the government aided big business at the top of the nation's financial structure, business would then create more jobs and relieve unemployment at the bottom. Yet, he inaugurated a new policy of government assistance to those in need in time of economic crisis, though not directly to the masses of unemployed. 32. President - Franklin Delano Roosevelt Term - March 4, 1933 to April 12, 1945 While Roosevelt was governor of New York, the Great Depression tightened its grip on the country. Roosevelt, seeking new ideas, enlisted a "brains trust" of Columbia University professors to help him devise programs against hard times. These professors included Rexford Tugwell, Raymond Moley, and Adolf Berle, Jr. All became leading figures in the ...
- 420: Led Zeppelin
- ... that his innocence looked like it needed a paint job. Page had something else on his mind. A representative of their record company, he said, had just called to report that the sales of the new album, Houses of the Holy, were spectacular. Page had been officially told that Led Zeppelin were the biggest-selling group in the whole world. A silent moment of triumph passed between Plant and Page. Across the hall, an Al Green record played on Jones's portable stereo. "Well," said Jimmy Page, turning to the visiting writer. "What do you ... of 1990, these discs represent a stunning reassessment of Led Zeppelin. "Putting the material together, I had a big smile on my face," Page said recently. "I love the running order. It's shed a new light on things and made them fresh. I think it's an interesting little journey..." 22 years after their formation, the warm glow of myth surrounds Led Zeppelin. Few other than Jimmy Page, Robert ...
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