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- 5221: Invisable Man - Black Leaders
- ... himself an education. He was accepted at Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute. He paid for his education by working as a janitor. After graduation he taught at Malden for two years and studied in Washington D.C. He then became an instructor at Hampton and taught Native Americans and founded a night school. He was then hired to start a school in the city of Tuskegee, Alabama. He built the school ... of all blacks grew. Du Bois graduated from Fisk and was accepted at Harvard where he had to enroll as an undergraduate. He attained his second BA in 1890, his MA and finally his Ph.D. in 1895, becoming the first black to attain that degree at Harvard. Du Bois then went on to study the historical and sociological conditions of blacks. His research was published in a series of articles ...
- 5222: The Life of John Calvin
- ... the same importance. Many people have regarded predestination as the essential point of Calvin's theology, or more recently, the sovereignty of God, and the divinity of Christ. This too is a similarity between present- day Catholicism and Calvinism. The Calvinist religion, similar to our own Catholic religion, regarded the bible as the basis of all Christian teachings. Calvin was very knowledgeable of the scriptures and often quoted them in his ... in seven sacraments: Baptism, Confirmation, Eucharist, Reconciliation, Holy Orders, Marriage, and Anointing of the Sick. Calvin is often referred to as the theological genius of the Reformation. His teachings are the basis for the present day Presbyterian religion. The Institutes of the Christian Religion sojourns as a theological masterpiece, the basis of reformed Protestantism, and the single most portentous work of the Reformers. It singularly exposes many of the apparent differences ...
- 5223: The Demon Lover
- ... may have been too upsetting for Kathleen to think about or even remember at that time. Like her lover s face, the promise may have been forgotten. She may have gone to the house the day she had promised to meet him subconsciously. She was suppose to wait for her lover s return, yet she got married to another man. There is an impulse to think that no matter what she ... had made a promise that would make him a part of her no matter what she did to get rid of him. He lover was so sure that he would return to her on the day of his departure. When Kathleen says that he is going far away, he replies, Not so far as you think. If he were going to war, he would not say he was not going far ...
- 5224: Eli Whitney
- ... out the plantation manager, Phineas Miller. Miller, a few years older than Whitney, was a Yale alumnus and the fiancee of Mrs. Greene. Whitney accepted the offer. Over time Whitney got settled in, and one day while neighbors were visiting the plantation, their conversation fell to discussing the bad times. There was no money crop whatsoever; the only variety of cotton that would grow in that region was the practically useless ... to Whitney's cotton gin. It never became more complicated than that. A demonstration of his first model was given to a few friends. In one hour, he produced what would normally be a full day's work for several workers. With no more than the promise that Whitney would patent the machine and make a few more, the men who had witnessed the demonstration immediately ordered whole fields to be ...
- 5225: Computer Crime In The 1990's
- Computer Crime In The 1990's We're being ushered into the digital frontier. It's a cyberland with incredible promise and untold dangers. Are we prepared ? It's a battle between modern day computer cops and digital hackers. Essentially just think what is controlled by computer systems, virtually everything. By programming a telephone voice mail to repeat the word yes over and over again a hacker has beaten ... is no point because hackers with the aid of a computer possess tremendous power. They cannot be controlled and they have the ability to break into any computer system they feel like. But suppose one day a hacker decides to break into a system owned by a hospital and this computer is in charge of programming the therapy for a patient there if a hacker inputs the incorrect code the therapy ...
- 5226: Child Labor In Victorian Engla
- ... often crowded and rented by the room or even by the corner. Dirty floors and leaky roofs did not stop people from living in over crowded basements and attics (McMurtry 159). The majority of the day of young workers was spent without their family. The factory system split up families for as much as fourteen hours. The time they did have together was either spent eating or sleeping. Young daughters developed ... most dangerous of child occupations (Yancey 33). People who worked in mines faced daily threats of cave-ins and explosions (Yancey 27). Girls and boys as young as five worked twelve to sixteen hours a day. Children were sent down to haul up loads of coal from crammed passages (Yancey 33). Often accidents would occur when children lost hold of mine carts causing them to run over them (Yancey 34). In ...
- 5227: A Lack Of Respect
- ... thinking. The setting of the story is the Klondike along the Yukon River in the cold of winter. London gives the reader an extremely detailed picture of the place in which this all is happening. Day had broken cold and grey, exceedingly cold and grey is used by London to give us the introduction to the landscape of a winter day with chilling temperatures. The frozen moisture of its breathing, when describing the dog creates the feeling that rather than just cold, it was extremely cold. The rivers are frozen with three feet of ice and ...
- 5228: Marijuan For Medicinal Purpose
- ... it's on the cover of every newspaper, and parents and kids discuss it regularly in the household. It is no longer considered someone else's problem; it is now everyone's problem. Not a day goes by that a person doesn't worry about AIDS. The fear of AIDS is heightened only by the fact that there is no cure. People with AIDS must live with the fact that they are eventually going to die. Their death comes slowly and painfully. Each day they take pills and shots that provide temporary relief, but in the long run, they only make matters worse. Some pill's side effects are worse than some of the disease's symptoms. What if ...
- 5229: Biography: Jefferson, Thomas
- ... Declaration of Independence and the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, and the father of the University of Virginia. Bibligraphy Noble E. Cunningham, Jr., In Pursuit of Reason: The Life of Thomas Jefferson (1987); Merrill D. Peterson, Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation: A Biography (1970). Jefferson Memorial Monument in Washington, D.C., honoring Thomas Jefferson. Dedicated in 1943, the domed white marble structure was designed by the American neoclassical architect John Russell Pope; it houses a 19-ft (5.8-m) statue of Jefferson by Rudulph ...
- 5230: The Old Gringo, By Carlos Fuen
- ... great authors, of the characters portrayed in their novels. Most of the story revolves, however, not around the old gringo but the young gringa, Harriet Winslow. Harriet Winslow is a Yankee spinster, who decides one day in 1912 to break loose from her humdrum life by taking a job as governess in Mexico. Once she arrives, she is immediately caught in the middle of the Mexican revolution. Here, she meets the ... going on to serve in the United Nations, the Mexican government and as the Mexican Ambassador to France from 1974-1977. He has written stories, short novels, and essays. Fuentes is still living to this day and at this point in time, his books have been influenced by different items he has studied and is continuing to study. Studies of Ambrose Bierce and Pancho Villa are what led Fuentes to write ...
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