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- 3411: Life Of Fredrick Douglass
- ... had no accurate knowledge of his age. Douglass was born to a black mother and a white father, who he believed was his master (Douglass 19). By secretly studying books, Douglass learned to read a crime punishable by death. He escaped slavery when he was barely an adult and wrote the story of his life and how discrimination affected it. Not only is discrimination the theme of Douglass novel, it is ...
- 3412: The Recent Negative Effect of Technology on Society
- ... Take for example when a city builds better and more roads to attract tourists. This actually creates more traffic, not less. Technology also changes our sense of common purpose. New inventions such as the personal computer and machines can change our lifestyles. Even things we take for granted such as the automobile have negative effects on technology. The oil needed for a car to run needs to be imported and sometimes ...
- 3413: Technological Development and the Third World
- ... into highways, airports or dams.With no where to go and no jobs, the people are migrating to the city in search of homes and employment. Slums and squatter dwellings result with problems of rising crime and unhygenic living conditions. This puts terrible strain on both the human and physical environment, creating a situation with little hope for a successful future. SOLUTIONS To combat these crisis, we must adopt some new ...
- 3414: Internal Combustion Engines
- ... camshaft that is geared to the crankshaft . By the 1980s more sophisticated fuel-injection systems, also used in diesel engines, had largely replaced this traditional method of supplying the proper mix of air and fuel; computer-controlled monitoring systems improved fuel economy and reduced pollution. Ignition In all engines some means of igniting the fuel in the cylinder must be provided. For example, the ignition system of Otto-cycle engines , the ...
- 3415: Lee De Forest
- ... audion helped start the explosion of electronics earlier this century. American inventor of the Audion vacuum tube, which made live radio broadcasting possible and became the key component of all radio, telephone radar, television, and computer systems before the invention of the transistor in 1947. (Kraeuter, 79). Forest passed away on June 30, 1961 in Hollywood, CA. De Forest wrote an autobiography entitled Father of Radio, but did not get that ...
- 3416: Marcus Garvey
- ... on his life. Unfortunately, before Garvey could realize any of his plans, his company went bankrupt, and he was arrested for mail fraud in connection with the sale of Black Star stock. Convicted of the crime, fined $1,000, and ordered to serve a five-year jail sentence, Gravey entered Atlanta Penitentiary in 1925. Two years later, President Calvin Coolidge commuted his sentence but ordered him deported to Jamaica. Marcus Garvey ...
- 3417: Michael Crichtons Life
- ... languages. B. He has directed seven movies. C. He is the creator and executive producer of the television series E.R. D. In 1995, E.R. won 8 Emmys. VIII. Computers A. He is a computer expert. B. In 1994 he won an Oscar for technical achievement. IX. Marriage A. Current wife is Anne-Marie Martin. B. Daughter named Taylor. C. He is living in New York right now and he ...
- 3418: Moll Flanders
- ... ended. Moll's vanity and desire for wealth led to pain other then that associated with marriage. Moll fell upon hard times when she found herself without a husband and subsequently began a life of crime in order to provide for her extravagant tastes. She started out as a small thief, first stealing merely for survival. After her first experience with theft, Moll tried to live a clean life using needlework ...
- 3419: Macario Sakay
- ... the countryside. In April 1904, Sakay delivered a proposal asserting that the Filipinos had a primary claim to fight for Philippine independence. The American occupiers had already made support for independence, even through words, a crime. Sakay also acknowledged that they were bona fide revolutionaries and had their own constitution and an established government. They also had a flag. There were several other revolutionary manifestos written by the Tagalog Republic that ...
- 3420: Martin Luther King And Malcolm X Comparison
- ... Alabama for not standing and letting a white bus rider take her seat. The police were called and Mrs. Parks was arrested Mrs. Parks was not the first African-American to be arrested for this "crime." But she was the first to be arrested who was well know in the Montgomery African-American community. She was once the secretary to the president of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of ...
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