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- 6411: The Work of John Collier
- ... represent human characteristics is what brings the attention of this relationship that is in possible turmoil. This relationship is in question due to the old man asking the younger man how his wife enjoys her new setting. When the old man says "I thought you and Mrs . Gaskell were very great friends of Captain Felton." (Touch of Nutmeg 30). This has the young man thinking about his wife and her little ... man to possibly find out what is going on with his life. We are left not knowing whether there is another guy or does she just take these trips to ease h erself from these new surroundings which she is not used to due to the countryside being much slower then the East. It may just be that the wife has the dream of keeping her East coast lifestyle alive no ... is the dominant plot that is worked upon in these four short stories that were written by John Collier. Bibliography Contemporary Company,1983. Vol. 10. Collier, John. "The Chaser." 75 Short Masterpieces: Stories from the World's Literature. Ed. Roger B. Goodman. New York: Bantam Books, 1961. Collier, John. The Touch of Nutmeg and More Unlikely Stories. Ed. Clifton Fadiman, New York: The Press of the Reader's Club, 1943.
- 6412: Computers and The Disabled
- ... in the work place just like people without disabilities. The self esteem disabled individuals have gained from the experience to work and be self supporting, is immeasurable. Computerized wheelchairs have given disabled people a whole new perception on life. It has given them the mobility to go just about anywhere they want to go. It has given them the ability to explore an unknown world, and progress intellectually as well as spiritually. Computerized vans allow many disabled people to drive, by having onboard computerized lifts to place the disabled in the driver's seat. Movement sensitive hardware, as well as ... ease. With the newest technology these children can now go to public schools with their peers, and have an active social life. They also are learning that there is a place in this fast paced world for them, and are teaching the rest of us that with strength and the will to succeed, all things are possible. The Windows 95 help system was designed to help users with hearing, motor ...
- 6413: Langston Hughes Voice Of A Tim
- ... refusal of white-owned businesses in all-black neighborhoods to hire black salespersons. Using the slogan Don't Buy Where You Can't Work, these campaigns persuaded blacks to boycott those businesses and revealed a new militancy. During the same years, blacks organized school boycotts in northern cities to protest discriminatory treatment of black children. (Encarta) The Civil Rights Movement in America technically lasted from the early 1930s through the late ... whites reaction. They seemed to be caught off guard by the fact that a people they had considered so inferior could rise up and challenge them. The movement really began to take off as a new voice began to sound in America: the voice of a people who could not and would not be treated unequally. James Langston Hughes was born on February 1, 1902 in Joplin, Missouri. He came from ... he showed an early talent for writing, specifically poetry. His works were being published in the high school newspaper on a regular basis. After finishing high school, Hughes furthered his education at Columbia University in New York City, an accomplishment unheard by an African-American at the time. It was here, in this new environment, that Hughes talent for verse really began to flourish. During the mid-1920s, a movement ...
- 6414: Model Rockets
- ... or space rockets. Model rockets usually eight less than 4.5 kilograms. Many of them measure between 20 and 61 centimeters long. Model rockets can elevate as high as 480 kilometers an hour.(Rocket,Model World Book Encyclopedia 1992) Rocketry is dated back to 1048 AD were the Chinese knew them as Fire Arrows. Rockets first came to the new world during the war of 1812. Rockets are used in war, space travel, and scientific research. They can also be used as distress signals for ships and airplanes.(A Brief History of Rocketry http://www. ...
- 6415: Exxon Valdez
- ... gullomot. In some areas, that have been hardest hit by the oil spill, many of the species have an elevated level of mortality. Even though the Exxon Valdez is the most-studied oil spill in world history, it is also a particularly difficult one to research because of the lack of baseline data on the ecology of Prince William Sound (Birkland 1998). Among all the animal casualties, there is another victim ... of oil drenched birds, and beaches smothered with oil and one has to wonder, "Will this happen again?." The answer we long to hear is "Never", but accidents are bound to happen. Recently, the freighter New Carissa ran aground on the Oregan Coast and gave officials there numerous problems the likes of which included oil spillage. So when you ask yourself, "How did the New Carissa run aground and leak oil with all these new rules and regulations," the image of another Exxon Valdez oil spill isn't to hard imagine. BIBLIOGRAPHY Birkland, Thomas A. 1998. In the Wake ...
- 6416: Crazy Horse
- ... his hair was wavy so his people gave him the nickname of Curly (Guttmacher 23). He was to go by Curly until the summer of 1858, after a battle with the Arapaho's. Curly's brave charged against the Arapaho's led his father to give Curly the name Crazy Horse. This was the name of his father and of many fathers before him (Guttmacher 47). In the 1850's, the ... the trail, only that they wanted to use the Bozeman Trail. He offered them guns, ammunition, gifts plus money. The Indians did not sell (Ambrose 213-214). In June 1867, the government officials produced a new treaty. This treaty, like all the ones before, only promised lavish gifts to those who would sign. One of the Oglala chiefs, Red Cloud, wanted more for his nation than the simple gifts offered. He ... move from the forts; Reno, Philkearny and C.F. Smith. During the summer of 1868 his request was accepted. The troops moved. A civil war hero William Tecumseh Sherman moved into the territory as the new commander of the plains. He had plans to get the treaty signed. His hopes were to, shut up the congressional critics, get the Sioux to agree on a treaty and maintain the army's ...
- 6417: Robert Frost
- ... is AABBA CCDDC and that pattern continues for every stanza (Silberner 110). The alliteration and the rhyme scheme of this poem make it flow very smoothly. "Fire and Ice" is a poem about how the world will end. Frost is debating with himself as to whether or not the world will be destroyed by fire or ice. Frost seems as if he is deeply entrenched in thought about whether the earth will become a flaming ball or a gigantic ice cube. I see this poem ... Frost. It tells me that Frost analyzed every idea that popped into his head. No wonder he graduated as co-valedictorian of his class. The imagery of this poem is in the destruction of the world. It takes a little imagination but I can picture the earth as a new sun. I can also picture the earth totally covered by a massive sheet of ice. The theme of "Fire and ...
- 6418: Nathaniel Hawthorne
- ... savage, half-despairing." Other stories he had destroyed before publication because he thought they were " morbid." (The Vanguard Press, pg.34) Hawthorne traveled to many different places for brief amounts of times. He traveled to New Haven, to Swampscott, and to the mountains of Vermont. Hawthorne kept a notebook with him every place he went in which he jotted observations of places and people, ideas for stories, and phrases, which pleased him. He sold tales and sketches to New England magazines. He was even persuaded to edit a Boston magazine for six months. (American writers II, pg.230) In 1837, at the age of thirty-two, Hawthorne published his first collection, Twice-Told Tales, Longfellow, the most popular poet of the day, gave it a flattering review. New York magazine editors read it and offered him jobs with them. Within two years Hawthorne would be married to his wife Sophia. Hawthorne soon realized that supporting a wife was not as easy as ...
- 6419: European Union 2
- ... Union's competence, institutional structure, and decision-making processes. Some future objectives of the Union are: - to implement the Treaty of Amsterdam, which revises the basic treaties on which the EU is founded. It contains new rights for citizen, freedom of movement, employment, strengthening of institution. - to enlarge the EU, to include countries from central and eastern Europe as well. This was specified in 'Agenda 2000', a detailed strategy for 'strengthening ... EC Treaty. Each has its constitutional role. The main three are the European Commission, the Council of the EU and the European Parliament. The European Commission has the main role to steer the Union in new directions. It operates as a source of policy initiatives and works closely with the Parliament and the Council. Basically it represents the common interests of the Union and it has the sole right to initiate ... three fundamental powers: - legislation power - the power of the purse - the power to democratic supervision. The Parliament is also able to guide and promote the EU's development and co-operation programs with all the world's developing countries. By adopting resolutions on its own initiative, the Parliament is a political driving force generating several initiatives for the development of the Community policies. It regularly works together with the Commission ...
- 6420: Jonathan Swift: Misguided and Incorrect Criticisms
- ... regulations and eventually, after being forced to act wisely over and over, be able to make good decisions on their own (Tuveson 11). Critics have claimed that Swift's chief goal is to free the world of passion. This is not the case, as a passionless society would render Swift incapable of satire, and he realizes this (Ward 6). Swift only wants man to realize that he is made up of ... nor a perfect writer, but the criticisms leveled against his beliefs and writings simply out of ignorance and naivetι will continue to be dismissed as misguided and incorrect. Works Cited Bloom, Harold, ed. Jonathan Swift. New York: Chelsea, 1986. ---, ed. Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels. New York: Chelsea, 1996. Brady, Frank, ed. Twentieth Century Interpretations of Gulliver's Travels. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice, 1968. Dennis, Nigel. Jonathan Swift: A Short Character. New York: Macmillan, 1968. Knowles, Ronald. Gulliver's Travels: The ...
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