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- 6721: The Industrial Revolution
- The Industrial Revolution The Industrial Revolution was a period in history when mankind found innovative and efficient ways of producing goods, manufacturing services and creating new methods of transportation. This not only revolutionized the way the market system functioned, but also changed the way people perceived their status in society and what they required as basic necessities. However, the price that ... placed in central locations of the townships (known as centralization), the previous system was dismantled and categorized into steps. No longer would one person be required to build, market or transport their product since the new system introduced the art of specialization. Specialization allowed a person to perform a single task and guarantee them wages as a source of income. However, as wonderful as this might seem, this new system led to the emergence of a n working class (proletariat) and forced them to depend on market conditions in order to survive as producers. Although seemingly content at first, those who became employed ...
- 6722: Acronyms, Idioms and Slang: the Evolution of the English Language.
- ... and technologically. And both of these are unavoidable. Perhaps the more noticeable of the two today is the technological evolution of English. When the current scope of a given language is insufficient to describe a new concept, invention, or property, then there becomes a necessity to alter, combine, or create words to provide a needed definition. For example, the field of Astro-Physics has provided the English language with such new terms as pulsar, quasar, quark, black hole, photon, neutrino, positron etc. Similarly, our society has recently be inundated with a myriad of new terms from the field of Computer Science: motherboard, hard drive, Internet, megabyte, CD, IDE, SCSI, TCP/IP, WWW, HTTP, DMA, GUI and literally hundreds of others acronyms this particular field is notorious for. While ...
- 6723: Alexander Graham Bell
- Alexander Graham Bell Alexander Graham Bell is a name of great significance in American history today. A skillful inventor and generous philanthropist, he astounded the world with his intuitive ideas that proved to be both innovative and extremely practical in the latter half of the 19th century. Most notable, of course, are Bell's work in developing the telephone and his ... researching the possibility of a device that could transmit the human voice electronically over a distance. After building his first working telephone model, Bell's fame spread quickly as people in America and around the world began to realize the awesome potential this wonderfully fascinating new device held in store for society (Brinkley 481). His telephone an instant success and already a burgeoning industry, A. G. Bell decided to turn his attention back to assisting the deaf and following other ...
- 6724: A. A. Milne
- ... of the Brady Bunch. Not only is A. A. dedicated to his work, he also puts his life at risk for the good of his country. Milne stayed assistant editor of Punch until 1914 when World War I broke out. Alan wanted to be a part of it and help his country. He felt that it was a “war against war”. (WWW) On February 10, 1915 he volunteered to fight in ... ve imagined. (WWW) On 1916 he had to leave his job in the was and go back to London because he had a bad fever. After he recovered he was put in charge of a new signaling school and stayed there until he was released from the army on February 14, 1919. (WWW) Milne’s wife and child began his immeasurable amount of success. They had great love for one another ... also when Christopher met his cousin Lesley for the first time. They fell in love, married, and ran away together. (WWW) Dorothy Milne was very surprised and upset by this not only because Christopher’s new wife was also her niece but also because Dorothy hated her niece’s father, her brother. Alan was very disappointed as well. Alan’s last book was published in 1952 and finally Christopher Robin ...
- 6725: Judith Sargeant Murray
- ... women and men intellectually equal. As a novelist, essayist, dramatist, and poet, Murray asserted her opinions about the equality of the sexes. Harris explains "As a commited feminist she urged American women to enter a 'new era in female history,' yet published her own writings under a man's name in hopes of more widely disseminating her ideas"(xv). Murray addressed many controversial topics, including female education, racial prejudice, equality of ... that an educated woman would make a better wife. Her second husband was John Murray, the minister responsible for transporting the Universalist religion fron England to America. They traveled and worked together to establish the new religion here. Murray's husband advocated education for women and encouraged her to continue her endeavors after their marriage; subsequently many Universalist feminist tenets sprung from the mind of Judith Sargent Murray. Rossi asserts "Perhaps ... in the feminist movement. Her literary masterpieces engage the intellect and imagingation of her readers. She has given the feminist movement a solid foundation of which to base their arguments, even in the politically correct world of today. Dunlop informs us that "Judith Sargent Murray illustrates the historiometrician Dean Keith Semonton's dictum that "the most illustrious intellects tend to be those who least conform to the domination views of ...
- 6726: A Grain Of Wheat And Jomo Keny
- ... my life I have read many novels. This book was very interesting. This is a compelling account of the turbulence that inflamed Kenya in the 1950s and its impact on people's lives. A brand new perspective upon the emancipation of so-called Third World Country .On the verge of Kenya independence, both colonizers and colonized were bewildered and confused. White colonial agents lost faith on their lifelong commitment, and Kenyans were cast into a precarious future, which they had ... Great Britain in 1945. The congress, modeled after the four congresses organized by black American intellectual W.E.B. Du Bois between 1919 and 1927 and attended by black leaders and intellectuals from around the world, affirmed the goals of African nationalism and unity. In September 1946 Kenyatta returned to Kenya, and in June 1947 he became president of the first colony-wide African political organization, the Kenya African Union ( ...
- 6727: Catch 22 And Good As Gold - Sa
- ... and Good as Gold he satirizes almost all of America’s respectful institutions. To truly understand these novels you must recognize that they are satires and why they are. Catch-22 is a satire on World War II. This novel takes place on the small island of Pianosa in the Mediterranean sea late in the war when Germany is no longer a threat. It is the struggle of one man, Yossarian ... of the 1960’s and 1970’s. If these novels are read as anything but satires they will not be appreciated nor understood totally. Works Cited Brustein, Robert. "The Logic of Survival in a Lunatic World." The Critic as Artist: Essay on Books 1920-1970 1972:47-54. Rpt. in "Heller, Joseph." Contemporary Literary Criticism. Eds. Carolyn Riley. Vol. 3. Detroit: Gale, 1975. 228. Bryant, Jerry H. The Open Decision: The ... Detroit: Gale, 1975. 229. Burgess, Anthony. The Novel: A Guide to Contemporary Fiction. 1967:53. Rpt. in "Heller, Joseph." Contemporary Literary Criticism. Ed. Carolyn Riley. Vol. 1. Detroit: Gale, 1973. 140. Heller, Joseph. Catch-22. New York: Dell, Aug 1963. Heller, Joseph. Good as Gold. New York: Simon,1979. Karl, Frederick R. Barron’s Book Notes Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 (1983). American Online. Merrill, Robert. Joseph Heller. Ed. Warren ...
- 6728: Archibald Macleish
- ... the skies till swaying time collapses, crumpling into dark the skies -from the poem Einstein INTRODUCTION Archibald MacLeish was always a loner. Although he married he was always wondering about man s relationship to the world. He wondered why people could not see that they were wasting the little time we have on this earth. He tried to show in his poems the reality of the emotions that words cannot describe ... University. While at Yale MacLeish studied law, but continued his writing and in his off time the university published a book of his works. After Yale, MacLeish decided to focus on his poetry and his new wife and children. During this time off he wrote his first collaboration called Tower of Ivory Then in 1917 he went to France to serve in the war as a private. He rose from private ... severely independent. He showed his fear for society in the poem Panic , which was written at the height if the stock market crisis(Magill 229). In 1939 Archibald MacLeish became the librarian of Congress. This new field of work put an enormous amount of stress on him. More stress was on MacLeish because so many thought of him as a radical because of his views on government. People thought MacLeish ...
- 6729: Futurism
- During the first decade of the twentieth century, a group of young Italian painters united together, under the influence of poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. Before creating their new style, these painters embraced the ideas of Marinetti’s The Foundation and Manisfesto of Futurism which appeared in the newspaper Le Figaro on February 20, 1909 (Tisdall 7). His manifesto of futurism was primarily concerned ... Marinetti’s The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism is a work which begins like a work of poetry, and deals with the celebration with the technology, the future, and the machine, while rejecting the natural world and the past. Marinetti despises the sounds created by canals “muttering feeble prayers”, and “the creaking bones of sickly palaces,” while he embraces the “famished roar of automobiles” (Apollonio 19-20). He orders us to ... bolts and hinges” (Apollonio 20). To Marinetti, technology and the machine, such as the automobiles, are to be embraced and celebrated for its speed and beauty. No longer is a natural landscape beautiful, rather “the world’s magnificence has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed. A racing car whose hood is adorned with great pipes, like serpents of explosive breath – a roaring car that seems to ...
- 6730: Sergei Grinkov And Ekaterina Gordeeva
- Sergei Grinkov And Ekaterina Gordeeva Anna and Mikhail Grinkov were in the Russian police force, and were anxiously waiting the arrival of their new son. On February 4, 1967 in the highly populated capital of Moscow, Sergei Grinkov was born. Sergei received nothing but love and warmth from his loving parents and relatives. One day, Anna and Mikhail decided ... pairs in 1988 and 1994. In 1994 Sergei and Katya skated to Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, they scored four 6.0s and the rest 5.9 for artistic impression! They indulged the judges, with their new fantasy moves. And as if that wasn't enough, they won the World Championships not once, not twice but FOUR times! One in 1986, the second one in 1987 ( by then they were already considered unbeatable ), the third one in 1988 and the fourth one in 1990. ...
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