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- 1591: Creation As Seen Through Greco
- ... nothing else. Then from Night and Death, Love, or Eros, and Aether, or "upper air", was born, and that's when things started to turn around, bringing beauty and order, as Love created Light and Day. Nyx, alone, was the mother of Hypnos, Thanatos, and Moros, who are "sleep", "death" and "doom." In some instances, she is also the mother of The Fates and Nemesis (3). Only two basic concepts are ... ice-melt formed a cow, named Audhumla. Four rivers of milk flowed from her and fed Ymir. Audhumla nourished herself by licking the salty blocks of ice all around. By the end of her first day she had uncovered the hair of a head. By the end of her second day the whole head was exposed, and by the end of a third day there was a complete man, His name was Buri, and he was strong and handsome. Buri had a son named Bor, ...
- 1592: The Lottery
- ... in the beginning of The Lottery creates a mood of peacefulness and tranquillity. This setting also creates an image in the mind of the reader, the image of a typical town on a normal summer day. Furthermore, Shirley Jackson uses the setting in The Lottery to foreshadow an ironic ending. First, Shirley Jackson begins The Lottery by establishing the setting. To begin, she tells the reader what time of day and what time of year the story takes place. This is important to get the reader to focus on what a typical day it is in this small town. The time of day is set in the morning and the time of year is early summer. She also describes that school has just recently let out for ...
- 1593: Coffee Break
- ... three other coffee shops that are no more than 20 yards away from each other. The coffee shops for the most part are an attraction to the crowd that gathers on the streets during the day and night. Feeding the people their beloved drug almost anytime of the day. The coffee adapts to all seasons. In the summer the most popular being coffee being, iced. In the colder months people switch back to the hot coffee and the varying ways it can be concocted ... A while ago I was reading one of those bathroom-reading books that had all the random facts and quotes. It said that if a person consumed 80 to 100 cups of coffee in a day you could go into convulsions and die. I have had bad days in which I have had like maybe 10 cups, but never have I got close to 80. I began to realize that ...
- 1594: The Year 2000 Problem
- ... total worldwide costs to be $1,635,000,000,000 (One-trillion, 635 billion dollars) (Jones 58). To put this number into perspective, if five people were to spend $100 for every second of every day, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, it would take them about 100 years to finish the task! The year 2000 problem is not only limited to what happens with computers between December 31, 1999 and January 1 ... established that an entire year’s cycle of events should be used to test all of the modifications that have been made to a system. Also, one should be sure to test to see which day of the week is 01/01/00. January 1, 1900 was a Monday, but January 1, 2000 will be a Saturday. Other possible failure dates: 1/10/2000 (1st 9 character date), 2/29/ ...
- 1595: Philip “Pip” Pirrup’s Development
- ... acknowledged that he “was so humiliated, hurt, spurned, offended, angry, sorry . . . that tears started to my eyes” (91). Pip’s quest to become a gentleman and escape from his common roots originated on his first day at Miss Havisham’s house. That single instant in his life impacted his life in such a way that he could not look back without remembering that day or how his life would be if it hadn’t happened. It was on this day that Pip began to drift away from Joe. Being a blacksmith without formal education, Pip saw Joe as a hindrance to becoming a gentleman. He tells the reader to: Imagine one selected day struck ...
- 1596: As I Began This Assignment I E
- ... of radio stations increased from 12 AM and 12 FM stations in 1949 to 21 AM stations and 14 FM stations in 1954. The total number of hours that local radio stations aired programming per day extended from 17 hours in 1949 to 22 hours in 1954. There was a large variety of programs being broadcast on radio in 1949; including short news bulletins, hour-long news broadcasts, sitcoms, sketch comedies ... total space was 194 column inches. During this period the number of television stations, 6, remained the same, which was somewhat of a surprise to me. The number of hours that television was broadcast per day increased from 13 in 1949 to 18 in 1954. It is interesting to note that in 1949 the broadcasts did not begin until 10:00 AM and was off the air by 11:15 PM ... in 1954. In contrast to the drastic changes in television, the number of film theaters dropped only slightly from 139 in 1949 to 125 in 1954. The number of times a film was shown each day ranged from 1 to 6 in 1949 and from 1 to 7 in 1954; while the average number of times a film was shown increased dramatically during this period from 2 per day in ...
- 1597: Rose Schneiderman And The Tria
- ... was one of the largest shirtwaist manufacturers at the time of the fire. Located in the top three floors of the ten-story Asch Building in Greenwich Village, it usually employed 900 workers. On the day of the fire, only between 500 to 600 workers were there. When the fire was out, 146 were dead. Each death was avoidable. Minutes of a Women's Trade Union League meeting held a day after the Triangle Waist Company fire refers to the public indifference to the deplorable working conditions and the pleas for safety reform. One irony of the fire was that a massive strike of garment workers ... way to identify there mother, daughters, wives, or sisters. Some victims could be identified by the name on the pay envelopes found stuffed into pockets and stockings. The Women's Trade Union League met the day after the fire and were joined by 20 other organized groups. They took action forming relief committees to aid family victims through the Red Cross. They agreed to broaden their investigation of fire hazards. ...
- 1598: A Modern Version Of Oedipus Ki
- ... son would be sacrificed and consumed by sadness in order to end the dark era of his fathers ruling. He would marry his mother and kill his father, without knowing it. So it came the day when a different kind of chief began to rule the tribe. This leader's name was Wind of Rage and he had a completely different way of thinking he was filled with dreams of conquest ... his strange coming to the servant's life but also his fighting abilities) grew up to become one of the tribes best warriors enjoying a very happy life. Everything was alright for him until one day a stranger told him that his fate was sealed with a prophecy that said that he would kill his father and marry his own mother. These phrases changed Black hawk's life from that day on. At first he didn't believe it but after a while he started to worry about it so he decided that for the love he had for his parents it would be better ...
- 1599: Solutions For Trash And Landfi
- ... We even throw away so much aluminum every three months that we can rebuild our entire commercial air fleet. Each person, yes, included you, in America creates about 4.4 pounds of trash every single day. Did you also know? That it takes 100 years for tin to break down, 500 years for aluminum, and glass takes one million years. One reason garbage in landfills does not decompose quickly is because ... never will with so many of us not caring where or what will happen to it. Most of us just make sure our garbage is out of the house and on the cub on trash day. Sadly 73 million Americans live near a hazardous waste site. America biggest problem is we are running out of places to put it. There were 5,345 landfills in the United States and its territories ... that swoop perilously close to bulldozers to the Bulk of New York daily generation of 13, 200 tons of municipal waste. The city's businesses, using private craters, dispose of another 13,000 tons a day. This waste goes to private landfills or incinerators outside the city. Landfill neighbors have tried to shut down the dump since before it opened in 1948, with opposition escalating over the years. Today, Fresh ...
- 1600: Go Ask Alice!
- ... doctor. Her mother nags a lot. Alice’s parents like Beth, because she is pretty nice. In the holidays Beth goes on a summer camp for six weeks and Alice stays at her grans. One day she meets Jill Peters and she invites her for a party. Alice doesn’t like taking drugs. She wants to stop it and to go home, but her grandpa has a little heart - attack and ... finally Alice takes a job in some crappy little lingerie store. Chris takes a job in the boutique from Sheila. Sheila is very attractive and the owner of the shop. Alice gets more homesick every day, but she is afraid of telling Chris. She quiets her job and gets a job at Mr. Maria Mellani who is very fat and jolly man. Alice adores her job and Mellani is like second ... at home and so she leaves home again. She hitch - hikers to Denver and there she shares a place with a couple of kids. For a few nights she sleeps in a park, but one day she goes to a nice church where she gets help. They give her to chance to take a shower and she gets clean clothes. She is allowed to take acid there. They want her ...
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