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- 3021: The History of Walmart
- ... big-city discounting to small-town America. Sam's Roots From humble, hard-working roots, Sam Walton built Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. into the largest, fastest-growing, and most profitable retailer in the world. A child of the Depression, Sam always worked hard. He would milk the cows, and by the age of eight, he started selling magazine subscriptions. When he turned 12, Sam took on a paper route that he ... all 50 states and it's still growing. In an average week, approximately 60,000,000 customers will shop at Wal-Mart throughout the world. In the United States, on average, every man, woman and child spends 5360 annually there as well. In his autobiography "Sam Walton, Made in America: My Story," Sam shares with us, "If you believe in your dreams, there's no limit to what you can do ...
- 3022: Money And Information
- ... sell it. Richard Stallman identified this anti-authoritarian stance; when asked if he thought that some hacking was undertaken in a spirit of political rebelliousness he replied: I dont see a connection directly with abuse of power by governments, but abuse of power on a smaller scale by sysadmins (system administrators) seems directly relevant (Stallman: email interview). He emphasised as a contributory factor behind hacking the behaviour of grass-roots system managers and administrators, and he ...
- 3023: Mimosa
- ... This could be taken as that it did not actually affect Vito physically young but rather it altered him mentally. He would become like Adam and Eve before evil and like that of a young child, all ignorant of all troubles. Complexity and all other dilemma s that plagued their lives. So in this garden he would escape his troubles through the means of ignoring them and not acknowledging their existence ... Lucia and she would feel controlled and distant to herself....she wished to remain as herself and win the love of her father with what she was, not as a cheap imitation of his favorite child. Though she had her faith toward Christianity and mocked Lucia for her exploration into other various religions, she herself eventually found herself unconsciously slowly becoming into what she has dreaded for so very long, she ...
- 3024: Massacre Of Wounded Knee
- ... Knee Creek and destroyed them. Four days and three nights after the massacre, a burial party heard an infant's cries. A mother's body sheltered her daughter and the baby had miraculously lived. The child was named Zintkala Nuni - "Lost Bird." Lost Bird depicts how unity was destroyed by the massacre. Progressively, the unit of tribes and bands weakened. Lost Bird was adopted by a kind white family. She had ... relations with other Indians and lived a hard life. Lost Bird always studied her bracelet, cap, and mocassins, the only remnants of the life she might have led had things been different. The poor, innocent child never really belonged anywhere. After the fateful event at Wounded Knee, she was doomed to live the rest of her life as a wandering lost soul - stuck between the whites and Indians, and never truly ...
- 3025: Drunken Boat
- ... a desolation that is inconsolable, and weary from a lifetime of struggle and hard work (1175): If I desire any European water, it's the black pond And cold, where toward perfumed evening A sad child on his knees sets sail A boat as frail as a May butterfly. Rimbaud closes his poem propelling his boat not towards revolution, but towards death. Rimbaud's "water-drunken carcass" is worn and "Covered ... and indulgence have not brought him any closer to an understanding of himself. His excess brought him a "triumphant uproar" and he "seeped through all (his) seams" green waters "Sweeter than sour apples to a child" (Rimbaud 1173). But by the end of the poem, these things no longer matter to him. He has done too much, seen too much, experienced too much. In his quest for an understanding of this ...
- 3026: Macbeth 14
- ... to hear it from the witches' masters and is greeted by an apparition that can read his mind and answer his question. The armed head represents Macbeth, telling him to beware of Macduff. The bloody child represents Macduff, who we later find out was not of woman born. Macbeth wonder why, then, he should fear Macduff but just to be safe he will kill him anyway. The crowned child is Malcolm, with the tree representing Burnham Wood, and says not to fear until Great Burnham wood moves against him. Macbeth feels safe since a wood can never move and he knows no people not ...
- 3027: The Adventures Of Huckleberry
- ... you know" (44). This simile enhances this description of the storm in a few ways. The last part, "...you know" (44) adds more character to the description. It is beginning to sound more like a child, Huck. Also, anyone can imagine what rolling barrels down a long set of stairs sound like and when the reader really thinks about it, he/she realizes that, that is what thunder sounds like. Huck's vivid description of thunder, both visually and audibly, add to his personality and allows the reader to experience a different side of Huck. Huck is not just a naive child who is oblivious to natural wonders. He is responsive to the beauty of the natural world about him. There is more to him then meets the eye. Huck shows the reader this by his choice ...
- 3028: Hills Like White Elephants
- ... She can not just tell him straight out that she wants to have this baby. The woman is so in love with the man, that she is willing to take the life of her unborn child. The man is in love with her as well, but also dose not want her to have the child. She was talking about the landscape around the train station, and without warning he comes out and says "Its really a simple operation, Jig, its not really a operation at all"(1). That was the ...
- 3029: HITLER, MUSSOLINI, STALIN
- ... on December 21, 1879. His mother worked as a house servant for various upper class families and his father was a cobbler. During his childhood, Stalin was nicknamed 'Soso'. Stalin was rather weak as a child, acquiring many diseases. He was scarred by smallpox and another disease disabled his left arm. Nevertheless, as a teenager, Stalin was in excellent shape and had a muscular build through much of his life. Stalin was said to have an exceptional singing voice and sung in his school choir. He also was a bookworm as a child, and a very religious teenager. On the other hand, he was also physically barbaric and sadistic toward animals and humans. He appreciated throwing rocks at birds and greeted people, even his friends, with a "satanic ...
- 3030: Main Theme In Lady Oracle
- ... journey a woman takes from her teenage years until the present through her own thoughts and recollections. The protagonist, Joan Foster, is plagued by the memories and results of her mother's mental and emotional abuse. Joan does her best to change her interior and exterior appearance so people don't find out the secrets of her past, of which she is very ashamed. By the end of the novel Joan ... to tell the story, we are able to learn a lot about the protagonist's troubled adolescence. Joan harbors a lot of resentment and anger towards her mother because of the serious emotional and mental abuse that she was put through. As a teenager, Joan was morbidly obese which is what encouraged her mother's mistreatment and condescending attitude. A good example of this can be found when Joan's mother ...
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