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- 2931: Invasion Of Normandy
- ... harder to get onshore. If the paratrooper had not done there job of taking out the big German guns it would have been very bad. 28,850 men went onshore. By the end of the day there was 150,000 people on shore and they had control of the beach. they did not get there objective of the inland area to conquer but they still succeeded in the largest naval invasion ... section of beach that was uncovered. that proved to the allies that would be a perfect place to invade. Since the tide only went out once a month the allies could not wait an extra day for problems. This had to be done in one day and one day only. The allies were actually very lucky to get the tide because the water went back about 150 feet and all the mines and obstacles stood out like sore thumbs. They ...
- 2932: Going Out On My Own
- ... out to be an old hippie friend of my father’s from the early seventies, and was hired on the spot. I was hired as a cook and was soon running the kitchen for the day shift. Our menu mainly consisted of home cooked favorites such as boiled pot roast with new potatoes and honey glazed carrots, meat loaf with a spicy tomato sauce, and my personal favorite chicken fried steak ... my due, and their financial problems were not going to become mine. After bantering back and forth over exactly what I was worth we came to an agreement. I would receive thirty-five dollars a day, free meals, free beer and they would pay all of my income tax on that money. Due to the pay arrangement I had to quickly learn to budget my money. It was very easy to spend a day’s wage in a night, drinking cold beer, shooting pool or throwing darts until closing time in some grungy, Campus Corner bar. I soon realized that I had to discipline myself into putting nine ...
- 2933: Hofstadter
- ... anti-Stalinist literary critics of the Partisan Review, but one that as a historian he was uniquely positioned to express. Hofstadter was reacting not just to the left- and right-wing ideologues of his own day but also to Charles Beard (again), Van Wyck Brooks, and other forerunners who had sought what Brooks called a "usable past" -- history that could be put in the service of social justice. In Brooks's era the notion seemed an advance, a step in the march of progress. By Hofstadter's day the Nazis and Stalinists, by manipulating history for their own evil purposes, had exposed the naiveté of the "usable past" doctrine. Hofstadter preferred not to "use" the past but, as Christopher Lasch pointed out, to ... Tradition is both cutting and amusing. "Because the abiding significance of their deeds would be so great and so good," he wrote of the Gilded Age moguls, "they did not need to fret about their day-to-day knaveries." Of Hoover he wrote dryly, if poignantly, "The man who had fed Europe had become a symbol of hunger, the brilliant administrator a symbol of disaster." Like his literary gifts, Hofstadter' ...
- 2934: Alive Book Report
- ... the last expedition was supposed to consist of three people which were Roberto Canessa, Nando Parrado, and Antonio Vizintin. All three boys were stocked with a 10 days ration of flesh. Unfortunately, on the third day of the expedition Canessa and Parrado realized that the crusade for civilization was going to longer than expected. So due to there position they were forced to send Vizintin back to the plane and take ... food. The two boys walked the Andes for seven more days until they finally found a pasture of cows. With a little more walking they found a Chilean peasant who contacted the proper authorities. One day later the remaining 14 passengers still in the Fairchild were rescued. The Fairchild had crashed on October 13, 1972 and the remaining passengers were rescued on December 20th of that same year. The end of ... eat the meat. Methol starved himself for days, but when his wife finally died he knew that he had to survive so he could look after their children. Reluctantly he ate his ration of flesh day after day, and in the end he was one of the survivors. Since the inside of the Fairchild was mighty squished during sleeping hours, fights would often break out between passengers. One night Moncho ...
- 2935: Greek Mythology
- ... void appeared Erebus, the unknowable place where death dwells, and Night (Nyx). All else was empty, silent, endless, darkness. Upon the birth of Love(Eros) brought a start of order. From Love came Light and Day. Once there was Light and Day, Gaea appeared. Gaea was the Earth goddess. Erebus then slept with Night, producing Aether and Day. Aether was the heavenly light and Day was the light of the Earth. Night solely produced Death, Doom, Dreams, Fate, Nemesis, Sleep, among others that come to man out of the darkness. Meanwhile Gaea ...
- 2936: All Quiet on the Western Front: The War Against Disillusionment
- ... War Against Disillusionment In the novel, All Quiet on the Western Front, the theme of disillusionment is seen and stated over and over by the experiences that Paul and his classmates encountered from their graduation day to the end of World War One. Disillusionment is to lose or lack any faith, hope, or belief in something or someone; to hold no illusions about a particular person, place, or thing; to be ... companion Kat died, and in the end Paul himself died. With these events in mind this is how the rest of this is organized: chronologically. Paul and his friends started to lose their innocence the day they enlisted after their school days. In school their master, Kantorek pounded into them an idea that they are men and are obligated to do their duty for the country of Germany. Kantoreks blind patriotism ... to see how the food rations are decreased and the men get younger while the french and English eat more and increase in number. Paul loses more faith in the war effort by each passing day. Another way the author showed the failing effort of the German army was by the earth. When it was first mentioned the author said it was used to “grantest us the great resisting surge ...
- 2937: Progression of Music From the 1940's To the Present
- ... was made public that he fell in love with a married his 13 year old cousin. In 1957 Rock & Roll had been turned upsidedown when Buddy Holly hit the airwaves with "That'll be the Day." Buddy Holly rolled out hit after hit after hit. That is, until his plane went down in Iowa. He died at the young age of 22. That night his music was playing non-stop and has not stopped playing to this day. The blues and gospel of James Brown and Jackie Wilson was popular with the black community. "Someday, maybe someone will discover the reason that Chuck Berry, Do Diddley, Fats Domino, and Little Richard never connected ... the different sounds that it could produce. "The change began in 1968. By 1970 the change in direction of rock music was cemented. No longer were life-or-death rock riffs the order of the day. Groups like Crosby, Stills and Nash, The Band, and Creedence Clearwater Revival suggested a return to country roots, a search for a simpler time." (25 years,p60) Disco returned in 1974. Everything went wild ...
- 2938: Good Vs. Evil In Treasure Isla
- ... there three long years earlier. Ben decides to stay hidden in the woods while Jim goes back to the bunker. While at the bunker, Jim and his men are repeatedly attacked by Silver. The next day, Jim boards the Hispanola and beaches it miles down shore so no one can find it but him. Silver is greatly angered by this and captures Jim along with his men. They happily trade Silver the treasure map for their freedom, but when Silver goes to look for the treasure, he finds that someone has taken it. What Silver did not know was that earlier in the day, Ben Gunn had discovered the treasure and had hidden it in his cave. Jim and his men now have the treasure, and all of Silver s men leave after they get in a fight. Jim ... an act of selfishness, Jekyll s suicide must be looked upon as an honorable discharge from his life of woe. These two stories discuss the continuous battle between right and wrong which we encounter every day. Whether at work, school, or on a ship hunting for treasure, the choice between right and wrong will be made. Stevenson composed both of these pieces with that very idea in mind. The split ...
- 2939: Computer Viruses: Past, Present And Future
- ... with a virus strain created once every three months. By 1989, a new virus appeared every week. By 1990, the rate rose to once every two days. Now, more than three viruses are created every day - for an average 110 new viruses created in a typical month. From those modest four viruses in 1986, today's computer users face thousands of virus strains. Number Of Unique Viruses Here is the frightening ... administrators spent two days plus overtime, one technician spent nine hours, a security specialist spent five hours, and most of the 200 PC on the LAN had to endure 15-minute interruptions throughout a two-day period. In the October 1993 issue of Virus Bulletin, Micki Krause, Program Manager for Information Security at Rockwell International, outlined the cost of a recent virus outbreak at her corporation: • In late April 1993, the ... also connected to 64 other sites around the world (more than half of which are outside the U.S.). The virus had entered the division on program disks from a legitimate European business partner. One day after the disks arrived, the Hi virus was found by technicians on file servers, PCs and floppy disks. Despite eradication efforts, the virus continued to infect the network throughout the entire month of May. • ...
- 2940: Holocaust (devil IN Vienna)
- ... Vienna, by Doris Orgel, Inge a young, intelligent Jewish girl is faced with the same types of problems. Being Jewish at that time was no small problem. Instead of worrying what to wear the next day, she would have to worry about whether or not her family would be safe or taken to a concentration camp. Inge not only had to face the problem of keeping her family together, she had ... Inges father also began to disprove of their friendship and pretty soon if either one were to mention the other’s name she would be punished. Yet the girls refused to forget each other. One day Inge received the news. She was to move away to Yugoslavia to escape Hitler’s regime. The girls promised to never forget each other and they never did; even long after the war was over ... or anther people listened. Hitler had one main dream and that was to conquer the world starting with his homeland, Austria. Austria was once a peaceful country, with sweeping hillsides and quiet towns until one day - the day Adolf Hitler rose to power in Germany. Soon he started invading neighboor countries, and Austria was one of the first to feel its horrible effects. This however did not happen suddenly and ...
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