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- 14121: History of the Computer Industry in America
- ... it changed the American society. From the first wooden abacus to the latest high-speed microprocessor, the computer has changed nearly every aspect of peoples lives for the better. The earliest existence of the modern day computer ancestor is the abacus. These date back to almost 2000 years ago. It is simply a wooden rack holding parallel wire on which beads are strung. When these beads are moved along the wire ...
- 14122: William James: The Later Years
- ... laboratory experiments about the same time as Wundt and his students. Ironically, while James made much of the value of experimentation, he himself found it boring. He usually spent no more than two hours a day in the laboratory. Yet he believed in it and had his students perform a broad array of experiments. Although James hated to do experiments, he forced himself to when it was the best way to ...
- 14123: Hemingway’s Greatest Hits
- ... Work Cited Carson, David L. “Symbolism in A Farewell to Arms.” English Studies. Vol. 53 (1972): 518-22. Dow, William. “Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms.” Explicator. Vol. 55.4 (1997): 224-225. Eby, Cecil D. “The Soul in Ernest Hemingway.” Studies in American Fiction. Boston, MA: Autumn, 1984. 223-226. Egri, Peter. “The Fusion of the Epic and Dramatic: Hemingway, Strindberg and O’ Neil.” The Eugene O’ Neil Newsletter. Vol ...
- 14124: Benjamin Franklin Autobiography Analytical Essay
- ... views of the times. He has much in common with the ideals of the enlightenment, and that of the Whigs. He was a man of his times and on that led the way for present day today.
- 14125: The Period of Ramses II
- ... and precise proportions, and was built well. Another example of great architecture during this time was the Hypostyle Hall. This structure “made possible the standard basilica form so widely used ever since, including our own day” (Sullivan 181). It was so astonishing that “it is one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World” (Sullivan 180). This temple was really significant, because it was such a colossal structure made for the ...
- 14126: Argentine Marxist Revolutionary And Guerrilla Leader Che Guevara
- ... Che's final revolutionary adventure was in Bolivia: he grossly misjudged the revolutionary potential of that country with disastrous consequences. The attempt ended in his being captured by a Bolivian army unit and shot a day later. Because of his wild, romantic appearance, his dashing style, his intransigence in refusing to kowtow to any kind of establishment however communist, his contempt for mere reformism, and his dedication to violent, flamboyant action ...
- 14127: Macbeth Fear
- ... see what fear can do to a person, it made Macbeth mad for power which he ended up getting. But after the first of his crimes the rest became easier for him, pretty soon he'd just order it and not think twice. That was not the case when he first murdered Duncan. All though the play his fear of being caught, and the witches prophecies coming true make him do ...
- 14128: Joan of Arc Was A Saint
- ... to help me to govern myself. The first time, I was terrified. The voice came to me about noon: it was summer, and I was in my father’s garden. I had not fasted the day before. I heard the voice on my right hand, towards the church. There was a great light all about. (Trask 5) Because of the fact that she heard these voices, Joan is sometimes regarded as ...
- 14129: Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770 to 1827)
- ... asked him to give him a theme on which he then improvised so astonishingly well that Mozart ran out into the adjacent room and commented to his friends, “keep an eye on this one. Some day, he will give the world something to talk about.” He was supposed to stay for some more instruction from Mozart, but unfortunately his mothers sudden ill health prompted his return to Germany. By the time ...
- 14130: Macbeth Thematic Essay
- ... from a real possibility. After hearing this from the witches, Macbeth begins to be driven by a negative type of ambition. Macbeth's very first words in the play are, "So foul and fair a day I have not seen" (I.ii.38). These words, of course, remind us of the witches, and they link Macbeth with forces of evil before he ever meets the witches. Macbeth's ambition is also ...
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