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- 671: ... Raymond Carver and others. I was surprised when I began to read "The Death of an of a passage. The author Roland Barthes is a brilliant writer, he is able to weave phrases and create new uses for verbs, nouns and adjectives. Though he is a brilliant writer I have to assume that he was not a very bright man or that he at least has very little common sense outside of the literary world. If he wrote in a more simple, to the point modern style I would have read the story, absorbed its content, and would not have given it a second look. The story could be summarized ...
- 672: ... surprised when I began to read "The Death of an title would be a wordy, whimper of a passage. The author Roland Barthes is a brilliant writer, he is able to weave phrases and create new uses for verbs, nouns and adjectives. Though he is a brilliant writer I have to assume that he was not a very bright man or that he at least has very little common sense outside of the literary world. If he wrote in a more simple, to the point modern style I would have read the story, absorbed its content, and would not have given it a second look. The story could be summarized ...
- 673: " Macbeth's eventual demise is by virtue of his obsession for power and retaining his power. Before he desired the power of being king, Macbeth was a respected noble. He was labeled, "brave Macbeth" (Act I, scene, ii, line 16) for his actions in battle. During a conversation between Duncan and the Captain, the Captain describes how Macbeth brutally slew the rebel Macdonwald: Disdaining fortune, with his brandished ... Macbeth is a "tyrant, whose sole names blisters our tongues" (act IV, scene iii, line 12). He also comments that Macbeth is treacherous and Scotland "sinks beneath the yoke; / It weeps, it bleeds, and each new a gash/ Is added to her wounds (act IV, scene iii, lines 39-41). Generally, Malcom is saying that his country is suffering under Macbeth's rule. Duncan "Was a most sainted King" (Act 4 ...
- 674: Great Depression
- Greg Squires The Great Depression was the worst economic slump ever in U.S. history, and one which touched virtually all of the industrialized world. The Depression began in late 1929 and lasted for nearly a decade. Many factors played a role in bringing about the Depression; however, the main cause for the Great Depression was the combination of the ... first industries to prosper were those that made materials for cars. The booming steel industry sold roughly 15% of its products to the automobile industry7. The nickel, lead, and other metal industries capitalized similarly. The new closed cars of the 1920's benefited the glass, leather, and textile industries greatly. And manufacturers of the rubber tires that these cars used grew even faster than the automobile industry itself, for each car would probably need more than one set of tires over the course of its life. The fuel industry also profited and expanded. Companies such as Ethyl Corporation made millions with items such as new "knock-free" fuel additives for cars. In addition, "tourist homes" (hotels and motels) opened up everywhere. With such a wealthy upper-class many luxury hotels were needed. In 1924 alone, hotels such as the ...
- 675: What is Virtual Reality
- ... is a way for humans to visualize, manipulate and interact with computers and extremely complex data" The visualization part refers to the computer generating visual, auditory or other sensual outputs to the user of a world within the computer. This world may be a CAD model, a scientific simulation, or a view into a database. The user can interact with the world and directly manipulate objects within the world. Some worlds are animated by other processes, perhaps physical simulations, or simple animation scripts. Interaction with the virtual world, at least with near real time control of ...
- 676: ... mother. He grew up in Trinidad's multi-racial society and graduated from San Fernando's Naparima College in 1938. Selvon began writing fiction and poetry while he served in the Royal Navy Reserve during World War II. After the war, he began his literary career as the fiction editor of the TRINITY GUARDIAN'S literary magazine until he immigrated to England in 1950. In London, his short stories and poetry were published in various journals and newspapers, including LONDON MAGAZINE, NEW STATESMAN, and THE NATION. His first novel, A BRIGHTER SUN, was published by Wingate Press in 1952, and since then he has published several other novels, including THE LONELY LONDONERS (1956), I HEAR THUNDER (1963 ...
- 677: Song Of Myself: Individuality And Free Verse
- ... enraptured by the senses, vicariously embracing all people and places from the Atlantic to the Pacific oceans. Sections 1 and 2, like the entirety of the piece, seek to reconcile the individual and the natural world in an attempt to uncover the individual's humanity. Born near Huntington, New York, Whitman was the second of a family of nine children. His father was a carpenter. The poet had a particularly close relationship with his mother. When Whitman was four years old, his family moved to Brooklyn, New York, where he attended public school for six years before being apprenticed to a printer. Two years later he went to New York City to work in printing shops. He returned to Long Island ...
- 678: The Life and Times of Ronald Reagan
- ... earned acceptable marks through "quick studies" before tests. Reagan was particularly drawn to moralistic dramas featuring heroes who against great odds prevail by being true to their core value. In Reagan's view of the world heroes were important and necessary. After his high school graduation in 1928, Reagan enrolled at Eureka College, a small college in Eureka Illinois. He majored in economics, joined the college football, track, and swimming team ... American in 1940, and in Kings Role, in 1941. In Knute Rochne, Reagan played star halfback George Gipper who died begging his coach to have his teammates "win one for the Gipper." "In 1942 during World War II, Reagan entered the army as a second lieutenant."7 He was disqualified because of poor eye sighted. He spent the next four years making military films. He then returned to acting. Until this ... those who feared that nuclear war might come from the very arms race that Reagan proposed as a path to "strenghtthan." The Democratics nominated former Vice-President W.F. Mondale who made history by selecting New York representative Geroldine Ferraro as his running mate. At the begging of his second term Reagan underwent successful surgery for cancer in 1985. His call for extensive changes in the federal income tax helped ...
- 679: Virtualism In Architecture
- ... of Virtualism in Architecture. This division was between whether VR was used FOR architecture (VR used as a tool to aid in architectural design). Or whether it was used AS architecture (architectural design within the world of VR). Therefore this paper will be divided into two sections, each discussing the two different ideas with the aim of applying a necessary critical perspective. Firstly, what is virtual architecture and how does it ... Docklands There s a lot of utopian rhetoric about cyberspaces and virtual realities It is dangerously wrong to think that we can run away from our problems by hiding inside our gadgetry. Cyberspace does offer new kinds of public spaces new (however) does not, by definition mean better. Bruce Sterling, Electronics Frontier Foundation, www.eff.org The second area of contention is that revolving around VR as architecture. It takes the concept of VR and ...
- 680: World Art
- ... it and the best way to appreciate art is to look at the history of it and its evolvement through time. The Great Ages consists of four distinct ages: The Old Stone Age, The New Stone Age, The Bronze Age, and The Iron Age. These four Great Ages is the complete history of art from the beginning to the present day. Each age is named characteristically for the type of material used for that time. Stone was used in the Old and New Stone age, bronze in the Bronze Age, and iron in the Iron Age. The Great Ages began with The Old Stone Age starting at 100,000 BCE. The people lived in tribes and clans and ... is everything. She has no particularity, no image, because she is beyond particularization, she is everything known to man in the universe. As 10,000 BCE came around so came about the starting of the New Stone Age and the end of the Old. In the Old Stone Age, the Great Goddess, alone made the universe, but as the New Stone Age emerged, it was thought that she needed a ...
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