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- 5151: William Carlos Williams
- William Carlos Williams was one of the greatest American Poets of the 20th century whose illustrious career spanned half a century. From his beginnings as a pediatrician in Rutherford New Jersey to his Pulitzer Prize in 1963 William Carlos Williams made a lasting impact on American poetry as well as literature. He was an inspiration to many, and in his clear and profound use of contemporary language and environment was truly a poetic voice in contemporary America. Williams was born to a British businessman and a French-Puertorican mother in 1883. He attended the Horace Mann School in New York and later graduated from Pennsylvania University Medical School. After opening his private practice Williams began his career as both a respected Pediatrician and as a prolific writer and poet. While attending the University of Pennsylvania Williams became close friends with Ezra Pound. Though Williams disagreed with Pound when it came to poetry it was his relationship with Pound that opened the door for him into the world of contemporary poetry. Williams unlike Pound and other Imagists did not go abroad but remained at home and became one of the strongest supporters of the American Nativist movement. In fact it was Pound ...
- 5152: The Renaissance Period
- The Renaissance Period The Renaissance was a period of European History, considered by modern Scholars to be between 1300 and 1600. Many dramatic changes happened during the Renaissance. The renaissance was a period of new inventions and beliefs. During a time when Michelangelo and Leonardo Da Vinci were the prime artists In Europe, a young man by the name of Raffaello Sanzio was starting to attract major attention with his ... common. The Renaissance was started by many rich Italian cities, such as Florence and Venice. Because these cities were very wealthy, many merchants started to spend money on many different things, such as paintings, learning, new banking techniques, and new systems of government. These things gave rise to a new type of scholar, the humanist. Humanist is mainly concerned with humankind and culture. They studied various things such as Latin, Greek, and Literature and ...
- 5153: Dizzy Gillespie, His Life.
- ... had them.The town of Cheraw was primarily black town and was very poor.By the time John was 7,he was beginning to learn that noone would take care of him,and that the world was harsh.John looked back on his father as a disciplinarian,others just reguarded him as mean.He would come home and beat his children every week for what they must ve done while he ... 4h to pay tuition.He hated it.He was anxious to leave the school and make a living on his own.When his sister got married,he heard that her husband was moving them to New York city.He went with them to find a job.His brother Wesley soon moved there as well,so he and John lived in the same apartment.They shared expenses,but rarely saw each other ... prevented him from getting other jobs.They were thought to be jealous of his growing skill as both a player and as a player .He would often be seen after show kissing passionatley with a new woman every show.They were often white,so he also had to fight off a lot of jealous boyfriends.Because of this,he ALWAYS carried a knife with him.This habit has lead to ...
- 5154: Knowledge Building And Corpora
- ... continue to converge, and it is more common for people to have computers at workplace and at their homes, our interaction with one another likewise has undergone a change, people will continue to interact in new and different ways. Global competitive pressures and continuos innovations are forcing many organisation to rethink the manner in which they do business and re-engineer themselves, by taking an interest in Knowledge Management ie the ... CSCW ?: One possible outcome of converging electronic communication and other systems is the electronic workspace - an organisation-wide system that integrates information processing and communication activities. The study of such systems is part of a new multi-disciplinary field: Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW). Drawing on the expertise and collaboration of many specialists, including social scientists and computer scientists, CSCW looks at how groups work and seeks to discover how technology ... the quality of the resulting decisions (Kraemer, K.L., and King, J.L., June 1988) ? Computer conferencing ?: The computer serves as a communications medium in a variety of ways. In particular it has provided three new approaches - a) Real Time Computer Conferencing: allows groups of users, who are either gathered in an electronic meeting room or physically dispersed to interact synchronously through their work-station or terminals. b) Computer Tele- ...
- 5155: Elizabeth Blackwell
- Elizabeth Blackwell Elizabeth Blackwell was a great woman. She was the first woman to receive a Medical degree in America. She opened an Infirmary for women and children in New York.Elizabeth Blackwell was born on February 3 1821 in Bristol, England. But was raised differently then most children at this time. See women were treated differently than men. Women were given little education and ... to study and work hard to reach her goal. Elizabeth studied very hard. She read every book in her house and was the teacher's best pupil. She never got bored of learning or trying new things; and years later she became a medical student. All the young men teased her in her class, but she learned to deal with it. For a long time the Blackwell's ran a sugar ... the ship. This made Elizabeth even madder and more eager to become a doctor. She and her family were very lucky to survive this trip. In October 1832, the Blackwells settled in a house in New York. They became involved in anti-slavery activities and held meetings in their house. At this time no medical school had ever accepted a female student, in fact no women had ever been except ...
- 5156: Causes Of The Civil War
- ... said that the slaves were better cared for then the free factory workers in the North. Southerners said that slaveowners provided shelter, food, care, and regulation for a race unable to compete in the modern world without proper training. Many Southern preachers proclaimed that slavery was sanctioned in the Bible. But after the American Revolution slavery really died it the North, just as it was becoming more popular in the South ... for criminals. The South felt these views were not important. All of t hese views eventually led to an attack on the slavery system in the South, and showed opposition to its spread into whatever new territories that were acquired. Northerners said that slavery revoked the human right of being a free person. Now with all these views the North set out on its quest for the complete abolition of slavery. When new territories became available in the West the South wanted to expand and use slavery in the newly acquired territories. But the North opposed to this and wanted to stop the extension of slavery into ...
- 5157: King Lear: Themes
- ... chaos. Although Lear is perceived as "a man more sinned against than sinning" (p.62), the treatment of the main characters encourages the reader to reflect on the presence or lack of justice in this world. The characters also vary in their inclination to view the world from either a fatalistic or moralistic point of view, depending on their beliefs about the presence or absence of a higher power. The theme of justice in relation to higher powers can be illustrated from ... sincerity of Cordelia's words. Thus, he puts his relationship with his daughters in jeopardy which results in a constant source of grief for King Lear. King Lear holds firm to his belief that the world is governed by the gods and in justice. Therefore he does not question the will of the gods in letting him suffer from his daughter's unkindness, but prays If it be you that ...
- 5158: Comparison Of Social Indicator
- ... landscape stands in stark contrast with the country's wide spread poverty. Landlocked and endowed with few natural resources sustainable for commercial exploitation, Nepal remains one of the poorest and least developed countries in the world with its social indicators one of the lowest in the entire Asia Region. Unlike Australia, whose social welfare system is among the finest in the world, Nepal suffers much from its lack of an organized system of social welfare and adequate health services. Life expectancy at birth in Nepal is 57 years and the infant mortality rate at 82 per 1,000 live births is among the highest in the world. Medical facilities are shockingly incomplete, partly due to the huge skill shortage and Nepal's woefully inadequate transport network - 1 qualified physician has to be shared amongst 12,700 Nepalese. Australia, however, enjoying the ...
- 5159: Investigative Report Of Internet Addiction
- ... aware of the newest type of addiction, Internet addiction. Many people would call it exaggeration to classify spending a lot of time on the Internet as an addiction, but since the subject is a fairly new not everybody is taking it as serious as they should be. Growth of the Internet I am sure that everybody knows what the Internet and used it at least a couple of times so there ... commercially introduced to the public late in 1989 the number of the networks that form the Internet have been increasing exponentially. As you can see in figure 1 in the United States there is a new network connected to the Internet every 30 minutes. Figure 1 Number of Networks connected (Source: ftp://nic.merit.edu/statistics/nsfnet) Not all these networks are commercial, some are educational some are for organizations and ... access to all sorts of information and all kinds of people is a positive that can be overused. * A different kind of community that can draw people who tend to "shy out" in the real world because this new virtual community does not require the social skill that real life does, all you have to do is be good on the keyboard. * Adopting new personas and playing your favorite kind ...
- 5160: Comments On This Be The Verse
- ... description that Larkin uses is a very typical description of what is considered a modern household, again implying that nothing is anyone's fault, but that we are all contributing to "fucking up" of the world. The third stanza presents the problem in it's simplest form, and then provides the solution to the problem. The problem is stated on the first line, and the second line emphasizes the fact that this is a growing problem that seemingly can't be stopped. The last two lines of the poem then provide the solution: to stop reproducing. This is where Larkin says to the world that there is no way out of this problem. That the human race will either have to cease to exist, or simply live with all of it's problems. Like all of his poems, Larkin wrote "This be the Verse" with very careful planning and word placement. And even though this is a funny poem, it has a very deep message to share with the world. Everyone knows that the world is full of problems, and that hundreds of organizations are trying hard to fix all of the problems in order to make our lives better. However, as demonstrated in ...
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