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- 7131: Adolf Hitler
- ... that day. Many Historians like to speculate what would have happened IF.... perhaps the small town boy would have had a bit more talent....or IF the Dean had been a little less critical, the world might have been spared the nightmare into which this boy was eventually to plunge it. 2. WORLD WAR I While living in Vienna Hitler he made his living by drawing small pictures of famous landmarks which he sold as post cards. But he was always poor. He was also a regular reader of a small paper which claimed that the Araban race was superior to all and was destined to rule the world. The paper blamed Communists and Jews for all their problems and hitler agreed to those views. Hitler agree with most of the points made in the publication. He continued to live a poor live ...
- 7132: The Life of the Great William Shakespeare
- ... was baptized on May 26, 1583, then twins Hamnet and Judith, who were baptized on February 2, 1585. Unfortunately, the boy Hamnet, Shakespeare's only son, died 11 years later (Britannica 254). Shakespeare and his new family didn't stay long in Stratford and eight years after the birth of his twins, they moved to London. There are many theories as to what Shakespeare had done in those eight years and ... his style and approach became more mature and individualized. The historical plays include Richard II (1595), Henry IV, Parts I, II (1597), and Henry V (1598), all of which show excellent examples of Shakespeare's new, mature writing style. The outstanding comedies, which include the best of all the periods are: A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595), The Merchant of Venice (1596), Much Ado About Nothing (1599), As You Like It ... could not excel in writing as Shakespeare did" (Burgess 101). Toward the end of Shakespeare's career, he began to settle down. The family moved back to Stratford and bought a summer house they called New Place and they became leading local citizens (Encarta 96). With no records that show why, William Shakespeare died in 1616 and is buried in Stratford church. After his death, Shakespeare's greatness began to ...
- 7133: Over Population
- Over Population The world’s population is approximately 5.9 billion, and it is still growing. It has just about doubled in the past forty years. We are now faced with the issue of over population. The problem is ... the condom. Also, 60 countries require a husband’s consent for all forms of birth control. Even though there are some conflicts with it, I think family planning seems like the best to solve the world’s over population problem. China’s one child policy is generally denounced by a majority of world nations. Many countries feel that it is not right to restrict the number of children a person can have. They believe it is a person’s freedom to choose how many kids they want. ...
- 7134: Brief History Of Databases
- ... multiple types of end users. The data is stored in one location so that they are independent of the programs that use them, keeping in mind data integrity with respect to the approaches to adding new data, modifying data, and retrieving existing data. A database is shared and perceived differently by multiple users. This leads to the arrival of Database Management Systems. These systems first appeared around the 1970=s as ... a customer=s address changed, all the fields where that customer=s address was stored had to be changed. If a field happened to be missed, then an inconsistency was created. When requests to develop new ways to manipulate and summarize data arose, it only added to the problem of having files attached to specific applications. New system design had to be done, including new programs and new data file storage methods. The close connection between data files and programs sent the costs for storage and maintenance soaring. This combined with ...
- 7135: Connecticut Yank
- ... industrialized capitalist society that he lives in over the feudal society of medieval Britain. But in a closer examination of the work it becomes clear that this observation is much too simple, as the industrial world that Hank Morgan creates is destroyed. Therefore the book can be viewed as a working out of the idea that a quick change in a civilization brings disaster. Civilization and change need to be developed ... a republic. However his plans are destined to fail because he is incapable of understanding values that are different from his own; he is the ultimate know-it all, and sets out to remake the world in his own image. He is given "the choicest suite of apartments in the castle, after the king's"(Twain 31), but he criticizes them because they lack the conveniences of the nineteenth century, such ... explained. "Cause and effect…don't exist in Camelot. Things happen to people in Camelot without purpose, plan, or coherence; God twists and turns the road whenever and however he pleases."(George 60) Hank's world is finally destroyed because he forgot this basic principle of medieval life. He tried to establish the physical aspects of modern industrial life, but he ignored the intellectual ones. He showed all his subjects ...
- 7136: Grapes Of Wrath 4
- ... It won the Pulitzer Prize in 1940. Nationality: He was an American author who lived in Salinas, California. He was educated at Stanford University. He first worked as a fruit picker, but then moved to New York. He didn t like it in New York so he moved back and became an author. Style: John Steinbeck s style is to write about something that he knows first hand. He likes to have all the details before writing his stories ... economy. His family welcomes him back, but they have decided to move to California. They have received handbills that announce of high wages and plentiful jobs in California. The Joad s look forward to this new opportunity but fail to see that these handbills do not tell the full story of overcrowding and unemployment that lead to starvation and madness. One book accurately quotes The Grapes of Wrath is a ...
- 7137: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- ... sections at a time in The Strand magazine in 1901. Conan Doyle wrote a true autobiography, Memories and Adventures in 1924. Arthur’s last published book; Edge of the Unknown, was published in 1930.22 World travel played a big role in the backgrounds for Doyle’s stories and novels. The Doyle family visited Berlin, Germany in 1890 to investigate bacteriologist Robert Koch’s claim to have possibly have found the ... his family to Australia to spread the word about spiritualism.26 In 1926, The Land of Mist was published. Doyle had officially declared himself a spiritualist. He then wrote his first spiritualism book called The New Revelation, and a two-volume history book about spiritualism. In 1927, the death of Mary Foley Doyle, Arthur’s mother, touched the entire family.27 In 1929, The Maracot Deep and other stories were published ... struck. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle died of a heart attack at his home in Windlesham, Crowborough, weighing 243 pounds.30 He was survived by Jean Doyle and their three children. His death greatly saddened the world and all of his faithful followers. Although Doyle was a very clumsy person, he was still a lover of sports, who played rugby and billiards like a paid professional. Doyle was a person everyone ...
- 7138: The Life and Work of Frederick Douglass
- ... in Maryland. He educated himself and became determined to escape the atrocities of slavery. Douglass attempted to escape slavery once, but failed. He later made a successful escape in 1838. His fleeing brought him to New Bedford, Massachusetts. Douglass's abolitionist career began at an antislavery convention at Nantucket, Massachusetts. Here, he showed himself to be a great speaker. Douglass became involved with many important abolitionist causes, both through his literary ... slavery. He left America, and stayed in the British Isles. There he lectured on slavery, and gained the respect of many people, who raised money to purchase his freedom. In 1847, Douglass relocated to Rochester, New York, and became the person in charge of the Underground Railroad. Here he also began the abolitionist newspaper North Star, which he edited until 1860. In this time period, Douglass became friends with another well ... Of The Life Of Frederick Douglass. These books all start with Douglass coping with slavery. Frederick Douglass also had a reason to write these works. As a die-hard abolitionist, Douglass wanted to show the world how bad slavery really was. He did this very well, because he made many people understand the unknown, and made abolitionists out of many people. This man had a cause, as well as a ...
- 7139: Samuel Clemens
- ... novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist, and literary critic who ranks among the great figures of American Literature. Twain was born in Florida Missouri, in 1835, To John Marshall Clemens and Jane Lampton. As a new born Twain already had moved four times westward. In 1839 the family moved again, this time eastward to Hannibal, Missouri. Hannibal was a frontier town of less than 500 residents. As small as the town ... 1853 and 1857 Clemens worked a journeyman printer in seven different places. During this trip of making sketches and writing stories, he began eastward by boat. Twain started writing letters telling about his visits to New York and the Middle West in 1867. On his trip he seemed to have gotten him self in a lot a trouble such as disorderly conduct. After time passed Mark kept writing short stories here ... sketches also. However, in 1869 he became part owner of the Buffalo Express. In 1870 Mark met the girl of his dreams and Olivia Langdon and Samuel Clemens were married in late 1870 in Elmira, New York. In 1884 Mark Twain wrote one of his most popular stories Called The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn. Although Clemens had a remarkable financial success with all of the books he had wrote, he ...
- 7140: Hamlets Impractical Thinking A
- ... of the abstract comes even before he meets the Ghost. In Act I, Scene iv, as Hamlet, Horatio, and Marcellus await the spirit, they observe Claudius, who is drunk. His scholarly mind always searching for new intellectual morsels, Hamlet uses the king s seemingly commonplace actions as the springboard for a discussion of the causes of evil in men. What stands out is how quickly he forgets about practical matters ¾in ... is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable; in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god: the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals ¾and yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? [2.2: 327-332] This burst of abstract thinking distracts Hamlet from more immediate concerns, and it seems afterward that the ... and Hecuba. Moved by the actor s emotions, Hamlet resolves to act more decisively without allowing his words and feelings to get the best of him: Why, what an ass am I! This is most brave, That I, the son of a dear father murdered, Prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell, Must, like a whore, unpack my heart with words And fall a-cursing like a very drab, ...
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