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- 1291: The Merchant Of Venice-portia
- ... unsuccessful, she decides to use her intelligence and says, "I see sir, you are liberal in offers. / You taught me first to beg, and now methinks / You teach me how a beggar should be answer'd" (IV.ii.438-440). The only main difference between the two women is the way they are perceived by the other characters. Portia is thought of as a perfect angel possessing no flaws, which is ... lead. Shakespeare foreshadows the theme of appearances when Portia says to her new husband, "You see me, Lord Bassanio, where I stand, / Such as I am But the full sum of me / Is an unlesson'd girl, unschool'd, unpractic'd, / Happy in this, she is not yet so old / But she may learn; happier than this, / She is not bred so dull but she can learn" (III.ii.149-164). After saying ...
- 1292: Mental Training-sports
- ... ruined the enjoyment of the run of the boat is spoiled for that moment; ones motivation to get back on the water diminished that tiny bit. This adds up over the duration of a sloppy day of vaulting and vaulting becomes toxic. So technique is important. Concentrate on quality vaulting until you can depend on a continuous improvement in form and height while vaulting. Warm up slowly increasing your speed in ... time to give you the energy you will need to feel strong and concentrated as a person develops speed. Set a pace. Be sensitive to how you are feeling. You might already know that one-day vaulting will be invigorating, and another day it will just make you tired. The human body needs rest to realize gains from your efforts. If vaulting becomes a period of suffering that you endure in order to vault well or stay ...
- 1293: The Count of Monte Cristo
- ... story. Dantes' enemies used the rivalry between the two parties in order to convince the Royalists that Edmond is a Bonapartist, therefore it is the basis for his arrest and inevitable captivity in the Chateau D'If.. Basic Plot: The Count of Monte Cristo is a story about a sailor, Edmond Dantes, who was betrayed during the prime of his life and career by the jealousy of his friends. His shipmate ... to Edmond. Danglars and Ferdinand wrote a letter accusing Edmond of carrying a letter from Elba to the Bonapartist committee in Paris. Caderousse, a neighbor, learned of the plot but kept silent. On his wedding day Edmond was arrested and taken before a deputy named Villefort, a political apostate, who, to protect himself, had Edmond secretly imprisoned in the deepest dungeons of the Chateau D'If. There Dantes' incarceration was secured by the plotting of his enemies outside the prison, particularly towards Villefort, who wished to cover up his own father's connections with the Bonapartists. Dantes suffered for ...
- 1294: Why the North Won the Civil War
- ... the Southern plantations. This was facilitated by the fact that a single worker could now do the same amount of work in a few hours that a group of workers had once needed a whole day to do (Brinkley et al. 201). This allowed slaves to pick much more cotton per day and therefore led most plantation owners to expand their land base. The monetary gains of the cash crop quickly took precedence over the basic necessity of the food crop, which could be gotten elsewhere. In ... booming. By the onset of the Civil War, the confederate states were dolefully noting the fact that there were thirty-eight Union arms factories capable of producing a total of 5,000 infantry rifles per day, compared with their own paltry capacity of 100 (Catton, Glory Road 241). During the mid-1800s, the Industrial Revolution dug its spurs deep into the side of the Northern states. Luckily, immigration numbers were ...
- 1295: Irony Moll Flanders
- ... surprisingly, after her marriage she succumbs to incestuous fantasies:" I was never in bed with my husband but I wished myself in the arms of his brother; ... I committed adultery and incest with him every day in my desires, which, without doubt, was as effectually criminal in the nature of the guilt as if I had actually done it" . Robin dies after five years, and there is an interval consisting of ... is older. Certainly both Molls have a propensity for moralizing throughout the book. At the same time, both Molls are aware of that necessitates the younger woman's immoral life:" I wanted to be plac'd in a settled state of living, and I happen'd to meet with a sober good husband. I should have been as true a wife to him as virtue it self could have form'd. If I had been otherwise, the vice came in ...
- 1296: John Grisham
- ... degree in accounting, Grisham enrolled at the University Law School. After his first class in tax law, Grisham transferred out and into criminal defense law. In 1981 he graduated from law school with a J.D. degree (Current 221). John Grisham wasted no time going right into his new business of a lawyer. After finishing college Grisham set up a private practice in Southaven (Ferranti 42). Almost as soon as he ... term, Grisham resigned his seat and decided to try something he never had dreamed about, writing (Hubbard 44). Meanwhile during all this Grisham was still a lawyer. Grisham's inspiration for writing hit him one day when he never expected it. One day at the De Soto County courthouse, Grisham listened to the testimony of a 12-year-old rape victim. Grisham wondered what it would be like if the girl's father had killed the rapist ...
- 1297: Egypt Civilization
- ... a form of writing called hieroglyphics. The script is made of about 750 signs which include pictures of people, animals, plants, and objects. The last priests who wrote in this way died in about A.D. 400, and the ability to read hieroglyphics died with them. The Egyptians were a practical people, and to them knowledge was important because it was useful. They needed ways to measure their fields, and predict ... stars, and charted the skies. One of their greatest achievements was their creation of a calendar. It is very close to the ones we have today. They set the beginning of the year on the day the Nile began to rise because that was the most important event to them. Astronomers noticed that the Niles rising happened at the same time the brightest star in the sky (Sirrus, the Dog ... until the Dog Star again rose at dawn, they worked out a calendar of 365 days. They learned they needed to correct the calendar every so often by adding extra days, as we add a day in leap years. They also divided day and night into 12 parts, hours to us, and they created shadow clocks that marked the time by the shadow cast by an upright arm onto a ...
- 1298: The Life and Times of Ronald Reagan
- ... doctor. Nelle Reagan was in need of one. The midwife had told her that her delivery would be so difficult that a doctor would be required. By luck in Tampico, an unexpected blizzard hit the day before and a doctor named Harry Terry got stuck in Tampico. Terry performed a delivery that took such a toll on Nelle Wilson Reagan that he advised her not to have any more children. So ... jobs to help pay for his expenses. One of those summer jobs he had was as a lifeguard on the banks of the Rock River. It was a role that allowed him to shine. All day, seven days a week Reagan- lean, tall, and tan-would demand counter stage at Lowell Park. From 1927 through 1932, Reagan pulled 77 people from the swift Rock River current. "Without question Dad's (Reagan ... The release had been negotiated by the Carter administration. "Just a few weeks into my fathers presidency he was wounded by a would be assassin's (John Hickley Jr.) bullet on a street in Washington D.C. The bullet lodged about a quarter of an inch from his heart."9 Reagan survived the attempt on his life. He quickly recovered. Despite many doubters, Reagan jammed his programs through Congress in ...
- 1299: Wicca
- ... times what they give. If they do bad, they will receive three times that bad deed. Wiccans celebrate 8 major and minor sabbats. Sabbats are like holidays. They are as follows: Candlemas (Imbolc, Oimelc, Lady Day) February 2 Spring Equinox (Vernal Equinox, Festival of Trees, Alban Eilir, Ostara, Right of Eostre) First day of Spring Beltane (May Day, Rood Day, Rudemas, Walpurgisnacht) May eve and May 1. Summer Solstice (Midsummer, Alban Hefin, Litha) First day of summer Lammas (August Eve, First Festival of Harvest) August 1 Autumn Equinox (Fall Sabbat, Mabon, Alban ...
- 1300: Ira Remsen: A Scientist Unknown His Work
- ... The life of Ira Remsen Ira Remsen was born on February 10, 1846 in New York city. Even though he was born in the United States, he was educated in Germany. He received his M.D. at Columbia University in 1867 and he also earned a Ph.D. at the University of Munich and Gφttingen in Germany. After receiving his degrees, Remsen began his investigation in pure chemistry at the University of Tόbingen. It was in Germany and in Europe Remsen did most ... American Chemical Journal. Also in that same year, he made a remarkable, accidental discovery with a fellow researcher Constantine Fahlberg when they were working on a derivative of coal tar. One night, after a long day in his laboratory He we was having dinner with wife. When he was eating a regular roll. Remsen noticed that it was quite sweet at first, but it left a bitter after-taste. He ...
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