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- 7521: Kenichi Ohmae
- Kenichi Ohmae Kenichi Ohmae received his BS degree at Waseda University, his MS at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, and his Ph.D in Nuclear engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. For about twenty-three years he was a partner in Mackinsey and Company, Inc., an international management practice, he also served companies in a wide spectrum ...
- 7522: Biography of Edgar Allen Poe
- ... Romances of Edgar Allan Poe. The same year Burton's was sold, and Poe became editor of its successor, Graham's Magazine. Under his management, it becamer perhaps the most important American magazine of its day. In it was printed his first detective story, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, which attracted wide attention for his creation of the detective Dupin, and his method of logical deduction. The story was translated ...
- 7523: Biography: Helen Keller (1880-1968)
- ... March 3, 1887. That April, the miracle occurred in which Helen associated water with the letters "w-a-t-e-r" which her teacher had signed into her hand. Helen learned 30 words the first day and soon learned to sign the alphabet, write and eventually speak. Helen learned to read lips by pressing her fingertips to the speaker's lips and feeling the vibrations and movement. This method, called Tadoma ...
- 7524: Biography of William Shakespeare
- ... When William Shakespeare was about seven years old, he probably began attending the Stratford Grammar School with other boys of his social class. Students went to school year round attending school for nine hours a day. The teachers were strict disciplinarians. Though Shakespeare spent long hours at school, his boyhood was probably fascinating. Stratford was a lively town and during holidays, it was known to put on pageants and many popular ...
- 7525: Lorenz's Work in the Chaos Field and Basic Chaos
- ... theory and chaotic systems. Fractals are objects similar to themselves and to the corresponding pieces of themselves. This fractal structure exists in the market. If one was to study the monthly, weekly, daily, and intra day stock prices, one would find the same thread of similarity running through them all. “Sensitive dependence on initial conditions” shows up in the stock market, and rightly so. The market is a chaotic system. This ...
- 7526: Richelieu and Olivares: The Quest for European Domination
- ... of the Duke of Mantua, who had been unjustly attacked, and for that of all Italy” (125). Richelieu maintained that he did not support a Machiavellian approach but instead justified his actions for the raison d' etat. “Richelieu at least persuaded himself, even if he did not succeed in persuading everyone else, that his policies were based on traditional Catholic principles regulating the natural conduct of states” (127). Even though Richelieu ...
- 7527: Mother Teresa: The Living Saint
- ... funeral was a very powerful and wonderful experiences said the people that attended. It showed the world how much of an infulece one person can have on the whole conunity. The world bounded together that day. It was the end, but because of Mother Teresa it was a better begining to the rest of us living.
- 7528: Gandhi: A Man with Virtues
- ... out during the re-settling of peoples. Gandhi once again fasted until the riots ceased. Once again on January 13, 1948, he undertook another successful fast in New Delhi to restore peace. O n the day after he stopped his fast, he was assassinated by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu fanatic. In conclusion, Gandhi restored peace time and time again throughout India. His methods were sometimes extreme, yet effective due to his ...
- 7529: The Black Cat Literary Critici
- ... the cat responded. Police found the animal sitting on wife s body showing the narrator s guilt. As the story begins, the narrator is in jail awaiting his execution, which will occur on the following day, for the brutal murder of his wife. At that point, the rest of the story is told in flashback, as the narrator pens "the most wild, yet homely narrative whose events have terrified, tortured, destroyed ...
- 7530: Chaucerian Moral and Social Commentary in the Canterbury Tales
- ... the King of England. However devout and religious the journey was supposed to be a medieval pilgrimage was often full of gaiety and adventure. The journey offered an escape from the obsessive tine of every day life. Chaucer’s language through out the Canterbury Tales is full of bright and colorful description and often time’s outrageous and crude images. The pilgrims’ tales courted the grotesque and the baser elements found ...
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