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- 521: Indentured Servants and Slaves
- Indentured Servants and Slaves Indentured servants in the 17th century and black slaves in the 18th century lived very similar lives. Both people had to endure a treacherous journey to the New World, both were isolated from their families and their loved ones, both were looked at as subhuman and both had their human rights infringed. The most important differences between these two people were how they got ... end of their servitude. African slaves had no such prerogative. They were kidnapped from their homes and brought to the colonies to live out their usually short life in servitude. During their journeys to the New World indentured servants suffered extreme hardships and many perished. The indentured servants were squeezed into 2 foot by 6 foot slots where they spent most of their time. They were fed old, rotted food, ...
- 522: Investing In Canada
- Investing In Canada Investing In Canada - Factors that are attractive for direct investment in Canada. Canada is the second largest country in the world, occupying close to 10 million square kilometres of land bounded by the Atlantic, Pacific and Arctic oceans. Canada shares a 6,000 kilometre border and the five largest freshwater lakes in the world with the United States. Known as the Great Lakes, they provide a route to the Atlantic via the St.- Lawrence Seaway, permitting direct access to international markets. More international companies are investing in Canada. The ... Benefit Rates: Many international corporations find the Canadian work force to be highly cost- effective. On average, wages in Canada's business centers are lower than those in nearly all major business centers around the world. Hourly wages of Canadian production workers have risen only 5.4 percent since 1990. Canadian manufacturing wage rates showed the second slowest growth among G-7 countries in 1992, averaging 2.6 percent. In ...
- 523: Catcher In The Rye
- ... s protagonist, Holden Caul-field and his visualization of a cliff, which depicts a dividing point between the evident beginning and end. The connection, which binds this gap in reality, was made clear through a new found compassion, consummating Holdens place in society through the realization of his surroundings from which he successfully crosses over. Focusing on the rebellious and confused actuality of adolescents stuck between the innocence of childhood and the corruptness of the adult world, this novel strikes a cord, which most adolescents can relate. The essence of the story The Catcher in the Rye follows the forty-eight hour escapade of sixteen-year-old Holden Caulfield, told through first ... his expulsion from Pency, a fashionable prep school, the lat-est in a long line of expulsions, Holden has a few confrontations with his fellow students and leaves shortly after to return to his hometown, New York City. In the heart of New York City, Holden spends the following two days hiding out to rest before confronting his parents with the news. During his adventures in the city he tries ...
- 524: Computers: Nonverbal Communications
- ... users can interact with them," (Holmes & Dishman, 1994, p. 6). Having been created in their most rudimentary form nearly two decades ago, the technology that supports MUD interaction is well developed and has spawned a new variety of communicative environment, one that thousands if not millions of users have found fiercely compelling. Since MUDs are generally restricted to text-based interaction (some support ANSI codes, and the graphical MUDs are gaining ... a rich culture unto itself, as will be shown. This thesis is meant to explore the modalities by which MUD users avoid the drawbacks mentioned above, specifically, how nonverbal communication takes place in a virtual world composed solely of words. Background History of network computing The first computer network was created in the late 1960s in an effort by the Department of Defense to link multiple command sites to one another ... games in which a user would wander through a textually-depicted maze, occasionally encountering programmed foes with whom to do battle. These first single user adventure games, developed in the early 1970's, expanded the world's notion of computers from mere super-cooled punch-card-munching behemoths to a more user-friendly conception of computers as toys and even friends. Inevitably, the networking technology and the game technology crossed ...
- 525: Heinrich Schliemann
- ... the hill of Hissarlik and consider their results without speaking of Troy or even alluding to it," Georges Perrot wrote in 1891 in his Journal des Savants. "Even then, they would have added a whole new chapter to the history of civilization, the history of art" (qtd. in Duchκne 87). Heinrich Schliemann's life is the stuff fairy tales are made of. A poor, uneducated, and motherless boy rises through his hard work and parsimonious lifestyle to the heights of wealth (Burg 1,2). He travels the world and learns its languages ("Heinrich Schliemann"), takes a beautiful Greek bride, and together they unearth the treasures of Troy and the citadel of Agamemnon, thereby fulfilling the dream he has chased since childhood (Calder 18 ... View of a Flawed Man of Genius"). Schliemann himself once wrote, "If my memoirs now and then contain contradictions, I hope that these may be pardoned when it is considered that I have revealed a new world of archaeology. The objects which I brought to light by thousands are of a kind hitherto never or but rarely found. It was an entirely new world for me; I had to learn ...
- 526: John DeLorean and His Acomplishments
- ... Forget about being an individual" the head of Chrysler engineering had told him. He quit, and took a job as an engineer at Packard. Immediately, John was put to work on the development of the new Ultramatic Transmission. Being a small car company, Packard expected its engineers to be involved in all aspects of production. They would design the part, supervise initial machining, and generally keep track of it throughout the ... alarming rate. Detroit was abuzz in rumors that the division would be combined with another. Knudson was determined to fix Pontiac, and not preside over its funeral. He had already hired Pete Estes as the new head of engineering. DeLorean signed on with Bunkie as the director of advanced engineering (under Estes,) in 1956. Knudson also brought in a new management team and conducted vast surveys of Pontiac owners to find out how the division was viewed by the general public. Knudson immediately recognized that the youth market was the best opportunity for Pontiac' ...
- 527: The Start of World War 2 For the United States
- The Start of World War 2 For the United States World War II was a war that everyone will remember and will be remembered for many years to come. It could even be said that it killed more people, destroyed more property, and had far more reaching effects than any other war in history. New technologies were used in the war, such as the Atomic bomb, which opened up the nuclear age. Pearl Harbor was one of those events that will never be forgotten by Americans. Pearl Harbor was ...
- 528: The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty
- The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Nuclear weapons have been a major concern of National Security agencies since the end of World War 2. The first nuclear bomb in the history of the world was exploded on July 18, 1945 at Alamogordo air base in New Mexico. Although the first nuclear bomb was just a test, the second and third were far from that. On August 6, 1945 the U.S. warplane "Enola Gay" dropped a nuclear bomb on the ...
- 529: Interplay Between Fantasy And Reality In The Gothic
- ... within the reality. On a basic level this means that the stereotypical gothic castle where the story ( a fantasy ) unfolds is always in a real place. Dracula is fantasy but takes place in the "real world", The Overlook Hotel and the things that go on there in The Shining are pure gothic fantasy but the hotel is set in a real region of the Colorado Rockies and is near real towns ... does get dangerously snowed-in in winter ). I could go on for hours but you probably get the point by now. It is very rare that a gothic text is set in a purely fantastical world - modern sci-fi gothic can be an exception. You also find that the writer very rarely begins the story in the gothic setting, it is introduced via the real world. In The Shining we travel through Colorado to get to the Overlook for instance. This helps make the distinction between real and fantasy even clearer, we have seen what is "normal" and this heightens ...
- 530: Socialism
- ... constitutional change to violent revolution. ORIGINS OF SOCIALISM Some scholars believe that the basic principles of socialism were derived from the philosophy of Plato, the teachings of the Hebrew prophets, and some parts of the New Testament (the Sermon on the Mount, for example). Modern socialist ideology, however, is essentially a joint product of the 1789 French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution in England--the word socialist first occurred in an ... notion of a future centralized socialist state. Their most eminent theorist was Georges SOREL. Syndicalist ideas also had intermittent success in the British and American trade union movements, for example, the INDUSTRIAL WORKERS OF THE WORLD, an American-based syndicalist union active around the turn of the century. Guild socialism in England, dominated by George Douglas Howard Cole (1889-1959), the academic economist and historian, represented a modified and milder form ... latter, in turn, vehemently denounced Lenin and the Bolsheviks for their adoption of terrorist methods in the consolidation of their revolutionary gains in Russia. Marxist unity, like the Second International, thus also fell victim to World War I and its aftermath: from then on Marxists have tended to be either Marxist-Leninists--that is, communists embracing the elitist doctrine of the vanguard party--or moderate revisionists moving ever closer to ...
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