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- 281: Accomplishments of John D. Rockefeller
- Accomplishments of John D. Rockefeller John D. Rockefeller belongs in the turn of the century because he was a major asset in making the US and the world what it is today. Rockefeller accomplished many things in his lifetime, which helped shape ... Oil had purchased and thus controlled nearly all the refining firms in Cleveland, plus two refineries in the New York City area. Before long the company was refining 29,000 barrels of crude oil a day and had its own cooper shop manufacturing wooden barrels. Standard prospered and, in 1882, all its properties were merged in the Standard Oil Trust, which was in effect one great company. It is estimated ...
- 282: Independent Study Project on Role Playing Games
- ... the company that produces the infamous Dungeons and Dragons game, still is the most popular RPG, partly because of the wide spread use of the game, its huge selection of modules (different storylines for the D&D system) and because it was the first game ever produced. When something comes out and its the best, and the first ever produced, people still tend to go to it. The first people also tend ... have made their own portable tape players, but people still refer to them as "Walkmen" even though they aren't Sony. The evolution of RPG's grew with the demand. Soon, it was seen that D&D didn't have every single possible module for every type of game wanted to play. So companies produced games based on Super Heroes, a very popular item in comic books, trading cards, and ...
- 283: Australia Day
- Australia Day is a day set aside to commemorate the arrival of Captain Arthur Phillip and the First Fleet at Sydney Cove on the 26 January 1788. On the day of his arrival, Captain Arthur Phillip declared the area that became the colony of New South Wales to be a British possession. This landing started the first permanent European settlement on this island continent. ...
- 284: Detroit Riots
- ... disorder of any American city in the 20th century. Prior to July 23, 1967 Detroit had managed to avoid riots that had erupted in other major cities such as Harlem, Cleveland, Chicago, and Los Angeles. Day 1 At 3:45 a.m. on Sunday July 23, 1967 twelve officers did a routine raid in a Blind Pig on 12th street. There were 82 people arrested. As the last squad car was ... smaller crowd of about a hundred or so people that were swarming the streets taunting the police and firemen. After that the looting began to take off in different spots all over the entire city. Day 2 In the second day of rioting the Mayor issued a curfew. All people had to be off the streets between 9 p.m. and 5:30 a.m. and no alcoholic beverages were to be sold or possessed ...
- 285: Atomic Bombs
- ... nuclear reaction. An atomic bomb could now be developed. Many scientists and other skilled workers participated in the making of the first atomic bomb. However, only few knew what they were making. In 1944, after D-Day, a spy was sent to find how far the Germans had come in the building of the atomic bomb; He reported that they had given up in their attempt to make it (Smyth, 145). Still ... totally destroyed by the blast. After the bomb exploded, Robert Oppenheimer, the head of the Manhattan Project, said, "Behold. I have become death, destroyer of worlds." (Feis, 170) When Harry Truman became President after Franklin D. Roosevelt's death, he appointed a committee, headed by Secretary of War, Henry Stimson, to advise him about the atomic bomb. The committee argued about whether to drop the bomb on a Japanese city ...
- 286: Creative Writing: Unexpected Horizons
- ... of of some of the best fishing on the east coast of Florida. The sea is a very dangerous place when riled by a storm, even a mild one, so we always made sure the day would be at least close to perfect before we ventured out into the blue darkness of the open sea. My dad and I had seen the destruction careless boaters could get themselves into, and we did our best to avoid it. That Saturday, though, looked as if it were a perfect offshore fishing day. The sky was clear as glass, with a couple straggling cirrus clouds, but nothing worth paying attention to, and above that, the fish were supposedly hitting offshore. All-in-all, the long awaited perfect fishing day had come, at least in our minds it had. In the meantime, my dad backed the boat into the salty murky water as I got the boat ready for our day long journey. I ...
- 287: Hepatitis
- Hepatitis In modern society when a person gets sick with the flu or a cold they will usually go about their normal routine with the exception of a sneeze or a cough throughout the day. Sometimes things can be more than what they appear to be. The symptoms start out like the flu with coughing, fever, aches, and vomiting. However, the disease gradually worsens with symptoms of extreme weakness and ... that were initially concealed by flu like symptoms are now known collectively as the disease of Hepatitis. The disease of Hepatitis is actually by six different types of viral infections, namely, Hepatitis A, B, C, D, E, and G. Hepatitis descries the destructive affect of the viral invasion of the body and liver by six and separate viruses. Each type of viral infection varies from one to another in degree of ... drug users and blood transfusions ( since May 1990, blood donation centers have used a blood screen to detected Hep. C which has greatly diminished the number of cases) (Hepatitis C 1996 pg. 1-2). Hepatitis D, the super man of Hepatitis's. Hep. D is almost identical to Hep. B, except that D is about as twice as strong as B. The symptoms of this super virus is like an ...
- 288: Essay On Toni Morrison S Belov
- ... make forward progress and emerge into a free society. Feel how it feels to have a bed to sleep in and somebody there not worrying you to death about what you got to do each day to deserve it. Feel how that feels. And if that don t get it, feel how it feels to be a colored woman roaming the roads with anything God made liable to jump on you. Feel that. (Beloved 67-68) These are Sethe s words to Paul D that describe her feelings about the torture she received in the barn at the hands of Schoolteacher s boys. Her emotional and physical scars run deep because of the sexual violation and the beatings she ... Betty s real life showed some of the trials of Sethe but not to the same degree. The strive for freedom is alive in both Sethe and in Aunt Betty. Sethe, her husband Halle, Paul D, and Sixo all have a plan to escape at one point in the story. When Halle doesn t show up at the meeting place, Sethe goes back to see if something had happened and ...
- 289: Causes of The Great Depression
- ... between the rich and the middle-class. Henry Ford reported a personal income of $14 million(end note 4) in the same year that the average personal income was $750(end note 5). By present day standards, where the average yearly income in the U.S. is around $18,500(end note 6), Mr. Ford would be earning over $345 million a year! This maldistribution of income between the rich and ... whereas the wealthy were satiated by spending only a small portion of their income. A 1932 article in Current History articulates the problems of this maldistribution of wealth: "We still pray to be given each day our daily bread. Yet there is too much bread, too much wheat and corn, meat and oil and almost every other commodity required by man for his subsistence and material happiness. We are not able ... telescope the future into the present", as the President's Committee on Social Trends noted(end note 18). This strategy created artificial demand for products which people could not ordinarily afford. It put off the day of reckoning, but it made the downfall worse when it came. By telescoping the future into the present, when "the future" arrived, there was little to buy that hadn't already been bought. In ...
- 290: Allen Ginsberg : Howl
- ... America. Ginsberg is describing his fellow travelers, the crazy, lonely members of his community of misunderstood poet artists, unpublished novelists, psychotics, radicals, pranksters, sexual deviants and junkies. At the time that he wrote this he'd seen several of his promising young friends broken or killed: who distributed Supercommunist pamphlets in Union Square weeping and undressing while the sirens of Los Alamos wailed them down, and wailed down Wall, and the ... wild cooking pederasty and intoxication ... (Ginsberg 7) Each of these describe real-life events by people Ginsberg knew, but the poem is especially dedicated to Carl Solomon, Ginsberg's insane hyper-intellectual friend who he'd met in a mental hospital years before. In the poem, Ginsberg makes mention of Solomon's actions at a lecture where he threw potato salad at the professor teaching on Dadaism. It is Carl Solomon ... hear the sound of." (Schumacher 220) Part I of Howl was not completed , though, in the order in which it now appears. Ginsberg went back over the poem, categorizing each stanza thematically from A to D. He then grouped the stanzas accordingly. The categories were: A. Lines proceeding from or around New York, including Columbia University and Madison Avenue, the Lower East Side, and Ginsberg's apartment. B. Lines relating ...
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