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- 6641: Albert Einstein
- ... the most modest of the five, was "A New Determination of Molecular Dimensions.Ó It was this paper that Einstein submitted as his doctoral dissertation for which the University of Zurich awarded him a Ph.D. in 1905. (Discovering Science) Fame did not come to Einstein immediately as a result of his five papers. He did, indeed, submit his paper on relativity to the University of Bern in support of his ... extensively on many topics, especially on peace. The growing fascism and anti-semiticism of Hitler's regime convinced Einstein to sign his name to a letter written by American physicist Leo Szilard informing President Franklin D. Roosevelt of the possibility of an atomic bomb. This letter led the formation of the Manhattan Project for the worlds first nuclear weapons. Einstein himself did not participate in the project. (Discovering World History) We ...
- 6642: The Joy Luck Club Essay - Amy
- ... and he was not take any responsible as a husband. Everything Lindo done for him, he never accepted. Sometimes, he said things to hurt Lindo, or just blame at her for no reason. From the day that they met at the evening meal, her husband Tyan-Yu make special efforts to make her cry, he complain the soup is not hot enough and he spill the soup at her and said ... sofa." He threw a pillow and a thin blanket to me" (Tan 1989, p55) Lindo's husband didn't show any respect to her at all. Lindo was treated unfairly by her parents. From the day that she was born, her parents mistreated her badly. When Lindo was two years old, her parents promised the arrange marriage made by the village matchmaker to Huang Taitai's son. Her parents didn't ...
- 6643: Stereotypes In Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own
- ... out? Alas, laid on the grass how small, how insignificant this thought of mine looked; the sort that a good fisherman puts back into the water so that it may grow fatter and be one day worth cooking and eating. I will not trouble you with that thought now, though if you look carefully you may find it for yourselves in the course of what I am going to say. (Page ... have, that spark of imagination which resides within and strives to be majestic – the “sort of fish that a good fisherman puts back into the water so that it may grow fatter and be one day worth cooking and eating.” The reader sees in this statement the deliberation that Woolf feels the thought needs. While the thought looks “insignificant” laid upon the grass it has the workability, with time, to become ...
- 6644: Poetry And Langston Hughes
- ... time and has been able to see the role changes of African-Americans. It uses repetitious statements throughout, and one of these statements also concludes it: “My soul has grown deep like the rivers” (McMahon, Day, and Funk 589). “It is a sonorous evocation of transcedent essences so ancient as to appear timeless, predating human existence, longer than human memory” (Jemie 103). This poem utilizes symbolism at great extent. For example ... Books, 1984. Berry, Faith. Langston Hughes: Before and Beyond Harlem. Westport, Connecticut: Lawrence Hill & Company, 1983. Jemie, Onwuchekwa. Langston Hughes, An Introduction to the Poetry. Ed. John Unterecker. New York: Columbia University Press, 1976. McMahon, Day, and Funk. Literature and the Writing Process. 5th ed. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1999. Rampersad, Arnold. The Life of Langston Hughes: I Dream a World. Vol. 2. New York & Oxford: Oxford University ...
- 6645: Vegetarians
- ... A look at the historical record reveals that these people are correct. In fact, vegetarianism has a long, although not always illustrious, history in the West. A quick review of this history helps put present-day vegetarianism in perspective. The history of Vegetarianism may surprise some people. It may surprise many people to hear that our early ancestors lived on a semi-vegetarian diet for several million years. Some anthropologists have ... known as the Vegetarian Society of the United Kingdom. The movement was carried on into the 20th century by vegetar 52d ian societies working at the grass-roots level, religious groups such as the Seventh-Day Adventists, and prominent figures such as George Bernard Shaw and Mohandas Gandhi. Vegetarian organizations formed in most Western countries, and newsletters, books, and other publications promoting the diet became common. In1908 the International Vegetarian Union ...
- 6646: A Few Greek Gods
- ... disputes between the gods and has done so quite often. He is the swiftest of the gods and is known to carry messages of great importance for mortals. Helios was the sun g od. Every day he rides his flaming chariot across the sky high in the heavens to the Island of the Blessed. He is the Greek explanation of the sun. There are three more godlike creatures that stand out ... the horse and gave it to Demeter. She thought he would n ever create something so beautiful and would then not have to marry him. However, she married him and rode on the horse all day long. However, in the process of making the horse, he had made other animals such as the camel and mule. He did not destroy the misfits but set them aside. They found their way back ...
- 6647: A Separate Peace And A Real Wa
- ... pitch.” What may be even a more important statement is what Gene says following the last statement” The odds were tremendously against the ball carrier, so that Phineas was driven to exceed himself practically every day when he carried the ball. To escape the wolf pack which all the other players became he created reverses and deceptions and acts of sheer mass hypnotism which were so extraordinary that they surprised even ... 18). He explains that because he has no flag to fly for them-or anything else related-he will wear the pink shirt. Finny avoids having to conform to the real rules in school that day when Mr. Patch-Withers asks Finny about it-surly because he normally disapproves of such rebellious behavior. Finny again explains what he explained to Gene and avoids any trouble. Gene comments, “It was hypnotism. I ...
- 6648: Understanding The Cause Of Hom
- ... than half of their total income on housing, yet the Department of Housing and Urban Development estimates families should spend no more than 30%." (Gilbert 1993) Although many homeless adults are employed, they work in day-labor jobs that do not meet basic needs, while technological acceleration excludes others from a competitive job market. Many factors have contributed to declining work opportunities for large segments of the workforce, including the loss ... work." (Hardin 1996) In addition to increasing underemployment, "an estimated 29.4% of the workforce are employed in nonstandard work arrangements" (Economic Policy Institute, 1997) -- for example, independent contracting, working for a temporary help agency, day labor, and regular part-time employment. These kinds of work arrangements typically offer lower wages, fewer benefits, and less job security. "As recently as 1967, a year-round worker earning the minimum wage was paid ...
- 6649: Pride And Perseverance
- ... was eager to look at their faces; but there was no hole or crack through which I could peep. The continued darkness was oppressive. It seemed horrible to sit or lie in a cramped position day after day, without one gleam of light. Yet I chose this rather than my lot as a slave." (Young 18.) Harriet was smart though; she knew that even though her master had traveled as far as New ...
- 6650: The 1930s
- ... find work, while others did all they could to just hang on a little longer. All across North America, tough times were had by all. My grandma had to walk two miles to school every day; the dust was so bad that she could only see a few feet in front of her. The dust was also so fine that it could get in anywhere there were cracks, such as windows ... eat, was when the farmers herded them along the sides of the roads. And there was not a lot of rain either, so they did not have a lot to drink. Men would work all day for fifty cents, and for their meals. Also, a lot of men had to use the Workers Progress Association to get enough money for them and their families to survive. Cars in the 1930's ...
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