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- 1561: Teletubbies
- Teletubbies Interactive Teletubbies designed by Microsoft was designed for kids to interact with the Teletubbies doll, play fun games with patterns and colors, and discover magical songs. The toy provides endless fun and joy for children from ages 1 to 4. Unlike ordinary toys, Teletubbies' cute appearance combined with multimedia capacity ... to imitate and, in turn they are also inclined to listen. Research has shown that young children need to enjoy repetition in order to learn. The deliberate and frequent repetition used in the Interactive Teletubbies doll reassures, comforts and delights a child and sets an effective stage for learning. Teletubbies' liberal use of repetition, large movement, bright colors, and deliberate pace nurtures and reinforces the development of children's listening and ... engaged in which they can see themselves, either by identifying with characters or with a situation. With these things provided, Teletubbies are known to builds self-esteem for children. Children are more engaged by the doll in which they can see themselves, either by identifying with characters or with a situation. The inserts of real children doing real things allow the young children to see themselves in a variety of ...
- 1562: A Raisin In The Sun
- ... into his manhood today, didn't he? Kind of like a rainbow after the rain." Walter found his backbone and became a man, part of Mama's quest. Mama's dream was to have a house of her own with a little garden for flowers. She was the matriarch of the family, after her husband died she was the one who had to look after the well being of the family ... a man and decided to move to Clybourne Park. Clybourne Park was a white neighborhood but it was the most affordable for the family. Mama had used $3,500 for a down payment on the house, but when Walter lost the money the thought of moving was questionable. It was Walter's decision to move or not, and he did. He crossed into manhood at that point, thus fulfilling the rest ... head of the household when Mama gave it to him and he truly became a man when he stood his ground and decided to move to Clybourne Park. Mama's dream was to own a house with a graden but her quest was to pass the role of head of the family to Walter and to make sure he became a man. Mama passed the role when she gave him ...
- 1563: Albert Einstein
- ... which he returned to his original curiosity, religion. While Einstein was visiting America in 1933 the Nazi party came to power in Germany. Again he was subject to anti-Semitic attacks, but this time his house was broken into, and he was publicly considered an enemy of the nation. It was obvious that he could not return to Germany, and for the second time he renounced his German citizenship. During these ... An Impact Biography, 1920. Dukas, Helen and Banesh Hoffman, eds., Albert Einstein: The Human Side, Princeton: University Press, 1979. Einstein, Albert, Carl Seelig, ed., Ideas and Opinions, New York: Bonanza Books, 1954. "Einstein, Albert." Random House Encyclopedia, Random House Press, 1990 edition. Hunter, Nigel, Einstein, New York: Bookwright Press, 1987. Nourse, Dr. Alan E., Universe, Earth, and Atom: The Story of Physics, New York and Evanston: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1969.
- 1564: Ethan Frome: Fantasy is an Escape From Winter
- ... worth standing up for. Her energy and warmth excite him and allow him to escape from his lonely, monotonous life. While Zeena is visiting an out of town doctor, Ethan and Mattie, alone in the house, intensely feel her eerie presence. The warmth of their evening together is brought to an abrupt end by the accidental breaking of Zeena's prized dish. Zeena's fury at the breaking of an impractical ... rigor of life in a harsh land with its rocky soul, its cold winters, and its bleak, desolate beauty" (McDowell 65). Wharton writes: The snow had ceased, and a flash of watery sunlight exposed the house on the slope above us in all its plaintive ugliness. The black wraith of a deciduous creeper flapped from the porch, and the thin wooden walls, under their worn coats of paint, seemed to shiver in the wind that had risen with the ceasing of the snow (20). The downtrodden image painted in this quotation describes the environment, as well as describing Ethan. Just as his house was once new and beautiful but is now torn by many harsh winters in Starkfield, so to was Ethan. The ravages of winter destroy both man's will to survive and the buildings he ...
- 1565: Of Mice and Men: Friendship
- ... a disabled man named Lennie. Throughout the book, Steinbeck paints a vivid picture of George and Lennies dream, which also happens to be the common American Dream. The American Dream is to have a house, some land, money, and maybe kids. This was their dream, except for the kids. Throughout the book these two friends face many trials and tribulations, but still held on to their dream. In the beginning of the book, we first hear of the story of the dream. The dream is to make some money, own a little house, have a couple of acres, some cows, pigs, and rabbits. As Lennie puts it; An live off the fatta of the lan. (p.14) This is the dream of many Americans; give or take the ... their mind. That is all they worked to get. This book gives inspiration to people who are trying to achieve a goal and have the odds against them. Although George and Lennie never get the house, land, and animals; they get something even greater, true friendship.
- 1566: Kennedy Assassination
- ... he was announced dead. After the assassination, Oswald got onto a city bus, but once the bus got stuck in traffic, Oswald got off. He then took a taxi to within 4 blocks of his house, but did not go directly to his house. Oswald grabbed a different coat, a handgun, and left without saying a word to his housemaid, who was watching the assassination details on television. He then began walking around Dallas. A police officer named J ... The public in general was not happy with the findings. It seemed as though the Warren Commission had purposely left key points of evidence that might have hurt their case. After careful consideration by the House Select Committee, a second group of people who headed the investigation, they found that,
only 20 witnesses who actually believed they heard the shots from the vicinity of the Grassy Knoll, and 46 who ...
- 1567: Lyndon Johnson
- ... intelligent, ambitious woman, she was a great asset to Johnson's career. They had two daughters, Lynda Byrd, born in 1944, and Luci Baines, born in 1947. In 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt entered the White House. Johnson greatly admired the president, who named him, at age 27, to head the National Youth Administration in Texas. This job, which Johnson held from 1935 to 1937, entailed helping young people obtain employment and ... other minorities. As vice-president, he also undertook some missions abroad, which offered him some limited insights into international problems. Presidency The assassination of President Kennedy on November 22, 1963, elevated Johnson to the White House, where he quickly proved a masterful, reassuring leader in the realm of domestic affairs. In 1964, Congress passed a tax-reduction law that promised to promote economic growth and the Economic Opportunity Act, which launched ... Novak, Robert, Lyndon B. Johnson, The Exercise of Power : A Political Biography (1966); Geyelin, Philip, Lyndon B. Johnson and the World (1966); Goldman, Eric F., The Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson (1969); Johnson, Lady Bird, White House Diary(1970); Kearns, Doris, Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream (1976); Schandler, Herbert, The Unmaking of a President: Lyndon Johnson and Vietnam (1977); White, Theodore, The Making of the President--1964 (1965); Wicker, Tom, ...
- 1568: The Major Years: Isolation and Emily Grierson - A Deadly Combination
- ... to her. Miss Emily was indeed afraid to confront the reality that Backman discusses. Since she did not want to accept the fact that the people she cared about were gone, she hid in her house and did not go out. She was the perfect example of a woman alienated by a society controlled by men who make trouble for her instead of helping her. Minrose Gwin, author of The Feminine ... to challenge these images by not being what the men in her society would consider "normal." The men felt that all women should tend to their homes and be sociable, not locked up in a house with a manservant to clean it. They also felt that it was not right for a man to be doing that kind of work; it was a woman's job to clean the house. " Just as if a manany mancould keep a kitchen properly,' the ladies said; so they were not surprised when the smell developed. It was another link between the gross, teeming world and ...
- 1569: The Bluest Eye
- The Bluest Eye It is the dream of every little girl to be beautiful. The most cherished possession of many little girls is a doll: a beautiful, blonde haired, blue-eyed doll. It is this image that young girls strive to attain. This image haunted Pecola Breedlove as she tried to be accepted in society. The one thing that would change how people despised her, was to be beautiful, like the doll. However, for Pecola, this beauty was nearly impossible to achieve. Toni Morrison uses objects and imagery as symbols of the unattainable beauty in The Bluest Eye. Dandelions are a symbol of the beauty that ...
- 1570: Internet, Its Effects In Our Lives And The Future Of The Internet
- ... the boundaries of time and space. Even from an economic standpoint, the costs of establishing a brand new educational program for a few thousand students are far less than the cost of a building to house the same number of students. New social and intellectual connectivity is proliferating as educational institutions adopt computer-mediated communication for educational interactions. There are many school based networks that link learners to discuss, share and ... is like a library that many people access for the sake of ease. They do this rather than go to the library. Therefore, whoever needs to get this information does not have to leave the house. It starts with information, then goes to groceries, furniture, even real estate. Will it ever end? Will it get to the point where people will never have to leave their computers? And why not? If ... why not just pull a chair up to the computer that lays back into a bed and park it right in front of the bathroom? No one will ever have to leave his or her house. People will become socially inept. Is this the perfect future we are all heading towards? Questions similar to these have come up every time new sources of information have come around. However, at this ...
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