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- 5701: Alan Turing
- ... felt the same was as the Headmaster. In 1928, Turing became interested in relativity, and it was at this time that Alan met Christopher Morcom, and everything changed for him. And it was Morcom s death that prompted Turing to get further involved and motivated to do what Morcom could not. Turing questioned how the human mind was embodied in matter, and whether this matter was released after death. This led him to study twentieth century physics where Alan began to question whether quantum mechanical theory affected the state and his questions of mind and matter. In 1931, Turing won an entrance to King ...
- 5702: A Political Biography On Jfk
- ... Catholic to become president of the United States and, at the age of 43, the youngest man ever elected to that office, though Ted Roosevelt was some months younger when he took office after the death of William McKinley in 1901. Kennedy's Catholicism may have helped him in the Eastern industrial states, and he won most of the Democratic South despite it, but the religious question apparently hurt him in ... blacks. Later that month, he sent a special message to Congress, calling for extensive civil rights legislation. However, Congress delayed action and did not pass a comprehensive civil rights bill until 1964, after Kennedy's death. Assassination In November 1963, President Kennedy journeyed to Texas for a speechmaking tour. In Dallas on November 22, he and his wife were cheered on enthusiastically as their open car passed through the streets. Suddenly ...
- 5703: The Awakening
- ... his love greatly affects the growth of her imagination that as stated earlier is the source of her art. Edna's artistic life is suddenly ended by these two occurrences. Enda then walks to her death in the sea. Stone assumes that Edna drowns herself because she can no longer live as a conventional mother and wife, and society will not accept her newfound self. Then the question of whether or not Edna's death is positive arises and Stone states that "Nevertheless End Portlier succeeds in giving birth to a new self even though the fact that she can not live on earth as this new self is tragic ...
- 5704: The Awakening
- ... the first time by herself into the inviting ocean. Realizing how easy it is and due to her "excited fancy," (Chopin, 30) she accidentally swims out very far. At that moment, "a quick vision of death smote her soul, and for a second of time appalled and enfeebled her senses." (Chopin, 30) For the first time she comes face to face with death. Those are the events described by the book. The movie, on the other hand, only shows Edna swimming out, struggling a little, and returning to shore. In addition, the movie doesnt mention the strength ...
- 5705: The Awakening
- ... one who would understand to confide into. Rather than be forced to live in such a world of tyranny and succumb once again to the mechanical lifestyle she had lived for so long, she chooses death. In death, there are no expectations, no one to impress or be "proper" for, and most importantly she has no one to answer to, except herself. It is all these aspects of the plot, in the story ...
- 5706: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
- ... the motor neurons in the nervous system, several hypotheses have been put forth as to the cause or causes of ALS. Researchers are exploring such areas as genetic factors, susceptibility genes, excitotoxicity, and premature cell death. In 1991, a team of ALSA-funded researchers linked familial ALS to chromosone 21. In 1993 the research team identified a defective SOD1 gene on Chromo-sone 21 as responsible for many cases of familial ... Center (708)-679-3311. ALS is a very uncommon disease, affecting about 1 per 100,000 each year. It more often affects people over age 40, men slightly more than women. The usual cause of death is through respiratory complications. Survival time, as well as the course of the disease (the order in which symptoms develop) varies widely. Historically, from textbooks, ALS has an average survival time of 3 to 5 ...
- 5707: Talcott Parsons
- ... functionalistic ways, influenced by Bronislaw Malinowski, became the center of debate. His beliefs were questioned and challenged by rival sociologists. His studies became even greater and his theories more significant. Until the time of his death, his principal aim focused on the systematic study of social action and it's components. He looked at the surrounding factors and if and why they influenced the social system. As an award before his death, Parsons received high honors for his accomplishments in sociology. Many people considered him the most intelligent sociologist of his era. Methods for Securing Information To gather material on this subject, I used a few research ...
- 5708: Tennessee Williams - Outcasts In His Plays
- ... received by audiences in St. Louis. By 1945 he had completed and opened on Broadway The Glass Menagerie, which won that year's New York Critics Circle, Donaldson, and Sidney Howard Memorial awards. Before his death in 1983, Williams accumulated four New York Drama Critics Awards; three Donaldson Awards; a Tony Award for his 1951 screenplay, The Rose Tattoo; a New York Film Critics Award for the 1953 film screenplay, A ... plays were revived successfully there: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1974), Summer and Smoke (September, 1975), Sweet Bird of Youth (October, 1975), and The Glass Menagerie (December, 1975). On the day of Williams's death, the New York evening papers issued an impressive list of famous actors who have performed in his plays; these include Jessica Tandy, Marlon Brando, Geraldine Page, Paul Newman, Maureen Stapleton, Eli Wallach, Tallulah Bankhead, Burl ...
- 5709: Robert E Lee
- ... returned on June 29, 1843. On September 1, 1852 he was appointed to superintenent of the military acadamy where he had graduated. In 1853, a distressing message reached Lee: Mrs. Curtis had died unexpectedly. The death made him do something he had never thought of doing. He wanted to be confined to the church. It was gunners at Charlestown Harbor who forced Robert E. Lee to make the tough decisions in ... ball through his body." Then Lee's face lost it's color. "Your son's mount was shot from under him. Major Lee escaped on Washington's horse, sir." Lee sighed in relief. Washington's death hit Lee. He was a good friend of the family. Lee had been involved in the war for the whole time that it was going on. He had many battles, and he was fighting very ...
- 5710: Summertime Blues
- ... the earth. Shakespeare then goes on to speak about how exquisite she is. She is different from everyone because she will always have what she has now unlike others that will lose it. Even if death looms before her he has to right or reason to "brag." (Line 11) She will not pale in his shadow. Shakespeare capitalizes Death and personifies him and gives us an image of a grim reaper type character. In Shakespeare's ending couplet, he states that no matter what, as long as people are still living and literate, they ...
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