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- 5881: The Life Of Chief Seattle
- ... and make his fortune. On January 22, 1855, 2,300 Indians assembled at Point Elliot where Chief Seattle and eighty-two headsmen signed the Port Elliott Treaty. The council began and ended in a single day, which may be attributed to the fact that it is unknown whether or not the treaty was ever explained to Seattle or any of the other signers. This marked Chief Seattle's official acceptance of ... Dockstader, Frederick. Great North American Indians. Litton Educational Publishing: New York, 1977 (5) Ruby, Robert. Indians of the Pacific Northwest. University of Oklahoma Press: Norman, 1981 (6) Deloria, Vine. Indians of the Pacific Northwest. Double Day And Company: New York, 1977 (7) Schwantes, Carlos. The Pacific Northwest. University of Nebraska Press: Lincoln, 1989
- 5882: Julius Ceasar 3
- ... time because women were not considered men's equals until the 20th century. Calpurnia was the wife of Caesar. She ordered Caesar to stay home and not go to a Senate meeting that was that day. She stated that she had seen war, blood, and ghosts in her dream and she interpreted that as being a bad sign. She also felt that the dream meant that something was going to happen that day and that Caesar should not leave the house for if he did, he would be in danger. Caesar did not want to stay but she assured him Marc Antony would announce at the meeting that ...
- 5883: Crime And Punishment
- ... his past experiences doing business with her and due to the talk in the city, he became knowledgeable of her vast riches. In addition, he even knew where in her home she kept them. One day Raskolnikov overheard a conversation of two men on the street, "She is quite famous.... She always has money to lay out. She's as rich as a Jew, she can put up her hand on ... The character lives a furtive nightmare existence, whereas their dreams are so sharply accurate as to be mistaken for real experiences." (Mortimer 654) Raskolnikov felt a powerful urge as he left the pawnbrokers flat one day. That feeling was curiosity placed on a dark side. He began to plot the murder of the old woman. first obtaining an ax, and then setting a time and place. Once decided, he proceeded to ...
- 5884: Tim Paterson
- ... Seattle Computer when he came into the store periodically. We were selling his boards. Eventually he asked me to consult for Seattle Computer." After helping the company fix there memory boards at fifty dollars a day, they offered him a full time position and Paterson quit his job at the retail store. The first major task Seattle Computer threw at Paterson was building an operation system for their new computer; the ... demands came a lot of bickering from the company. "The whole process drove me crazy. A lot of bugs - PTR's (Program Trouble Reports)--kept dribbling in and IBM would make a telephone call a day. It really drove me nuts. I felt like a puppet on a string." Two months after the project was complete Paterson decided to return to Seattle Computer. Paterson wanted to see himself progress through the ...
- 5885: Causes of The First World War
- ... of the Somme. John Keegan, a military historian in his interview tells about the Battle of Somme: "It was the biggest barrage that had ever been. So, they were firing over 100,000 shells a day; relentless, relentless banging and booming of this tremendous bombardment. So loud, you could hear it in England, if the wind was in the right direction (60 or 70 miles away). Over million soldiers were killed ... the cause of the war. There was no real cause why German would hate a Frenchmen and voiceovers. Erik Remarque shows that when Paul talks to a dead French soldier where he says, "Comrade, to-day you to-morrow me. But if I come out of it, comrade, I will fight against this, that has struck us both down; from you, taken life-and from me-? Life also." Despite being alive ...
- 5886: Book Report on Tim O'Brien's Vietnam
- ... hand it is not. One thing is for sure, a lot of lives were taken in Vietnam and there were also a lot of hardships that many people faced and some still do to this day. Tim O'Brien, like many Americans was drafted into the war in the 1960's. He was a college graduate from a small town in Minnesota. I could not imagine graduating college and then being ... during the war. Being in infantry was not a fun job. Some of the soldiers would shoot themselves in the foot, just to get sent home. All of the soldiers were always waiting for that day when they would get a desk job in the rear. Tim got his wish, as towards the end of the book he got his rear job. “ I got my rear job, they wanted a typist ...
- 5887: Impact Of Media
- ... of all, let it be said that media is everywhere. Newspapers, magazines, television, billboards, telemarketing, and the Internet. Example: John Doe leads a fairly normal life. Each morning he reads the paper to begin the day. The newspaper is filled with ads and also opinions. Each article may seem to be from an objective point of view but some personal views may come through. John Doe may or may not choose ... the information they receive to make educated decisions. The purpose of advertising is to convince people that a particular company's product is better than their competitor's product. People are bombarded with this every day from different companies, brands and products. It=s hard to say if Nike would do so well without using sports celebrities to help them make it so that consumers of sports equipment will think of ...
- 5888: Personal Writing: My First Murder
- ... kill something, or rather anything, just to see if I could. Even now, I look back and believe that I deserved to feel as badly as I did. I learned a very valuable lesson that day. I saw the barbarian in me and knew that I did not want to see him again. I do not wish to debate hunting, nor do I feel I should write an epitaph to a ... never understood why people travel to far and exotic places to kill magnificent beasts or why people adorn their walls with the heads of animals. I did not kill a lion or a deer that day, but no one can convince me that the squirrel I killed was any less majestic. That squirrel was my one and only trophy, and I have yet to find a reason to seek another.
- 5889: Reality Of A Dream (roughing I
- ... Brewster had struck it rich in the Golden Fleece and sold ten feet for $18,000 - she hadn't money enough to buy a crape bonnet before."(109). To this he replied, " And so on - day in and day out the talk pelted our ears and the excitement waxed hotter around us."(109). What the people were not realizing was the fact that these people finding prosperity were just a fraction of the miners ...
- 5890: Louis Armstrong
- ... but of the 20th century. Armstrong was one of the creators of Jazz and was one of the most popular entertainers from the 1920s. Starting out at a young age he never knew that one day he would be such a popular jazz player and also not knowing that one day he might even be called a hero. Armstrong was born on July 4, 1900 in the Storyville section of New Orleans. At the age of 12 his life changed. When he was parting for New ...
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