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- 2091: Word Processing
- ... each item of information. A whole range of educational points come up if children devise the input forms in the classroom. How do you put index - M/F, m/f, boy/girl? What if the house does not have a number? What exactly is meant by location? Databases and information retrieval are being used as a powerful educational tool in schools. In one country primary school the whole of the parish register of about a hundred years ago has been put on file. All sorts of exciting work is taking place as he information comes out. What did the people do? Is that the same house they lived in a hundred years ago? How has the village altered? In another school the 9 to11 year olds built up a database on school meals. With the full cooperation of the staff they ...
- 2092: John Grisham
- ... on the veranda with Renee, his wife of eighteen years. He also loves watching his two children, son, Ty, age fourteen, and daughter, Shea, age twelve. The Grisham family lives in a 204-year-old house on 100 acres outside of Charlottesville, Virginia. The grounds include tennis courts, swimming pool, croquet courts, horse stables, a full-time house keeper and maintaince man, and a private jet. Grisham swears, "We still think of ourselves as normal people" and defines normal as coaching his kid's Little League teams, teaching Sunday School, going on mission ...
- 2093: John F.Kennedy: Biography
- ... on in 1943 he developed Malaria and was sent back to the United States. He never went back to sea, but he became an instructor for the Navy. John ran for a spot on the House of Representatives in 1946. After that in 1947 he became a senator. Doctors soon discovered, when he was sick, that there was a problem with his adrenal glands. J.F.K. ended up having to take pills everyday for the rest of his life. Kennedy was one of the people that voted for most of the social welfare programs of president Truman. John was liked in the House of Representatives and was reelected two more times after 1946. The first time was in 1948 and the second time was in 1950. At a dinner party in 1951, Kennedy met Jackie Lee Bouvier, his ...
- 2094: Temptations Of Odysseus
- ... and the cannibal Laestrygonians. By the time he arrives at Circe s island his ship is the only ship left. Odysseus, being more cautious now, sends a group of men ahead to check out her house. The men called to Circe, and she came out of the house. She invited them in to share a meal. Unfortunately for them, Circe had mixed a magical drug into their food. This drug caused them to forget their native land, and turned them into pigs(Odyssey ...
- 2095: Tell Tale Heart Critical Analy
- ... walls of insanity. On the surface, the physical setting of The Tell Tale Heart is typical of the period and exceedingly typical of Poe. The narrator and the old man live in an old, dark house: (for the shutters were close fastened, through fear of robbers) (Poe 778). Most of the story takes place at night: And this I did for seven long nights-every night just at midnight (778). The ... man take the necessary actions to avoid getting caught? Unfortunately, for him, the answer is yes. There is no hiding his insanity. The narrator thought his calm demeanor had fooled the officers called to his house to investigate: My manner had convinced them. I was singularly at ease (780), that is until he heard the heart beating. However, there was no heart beating. Any sane person knows that a dead heart ...
- 2096: The Life And Works Of Frederic
- ... in a former monastery in Valdemosa. There, due to unfavorable weather conditions, Chopin became gravely ill and showed symptoms of tuberculosis. For many weeks, he remained so weak as to be unable to leave the house. Nonetheless, he continued to work intensively and composed a number of masterpieces: the series of 24 preludes, the Polonaise in C minor, the Ballade in F major, and the Scherzo in C sharp minor. On his return from Majorca in the spring of 1839, and following convalescence in Marseilles, Chopin, still greatly weakened, moved to George Sand's manor house in Nohant, in central France. Here, he was to spend long vacations up to 1846, with the exception of 1840, returning to Paris only for the winters. This was the happiest, and the most productive ...
- 2097: Witness
- ... Amish boy (played by Lukas Haas). The boy witnesses a brutal killing and identifies the policeman who did it from a photograph on the wall at headquarters. John Book and his witness hide in the house of the boys s mother Rachel (played by Kelly McGillis) on a farm in the Amish country. The detective and the Amish widow gradually enter into a frustrated love affair, over objections of her father ... quiet, gentle and deeply religious. Her son Samuel is fascinated with this strong, friendly policeman from the big city, but Rachel and her father are alarmed at the idea of having a gun in their house. This violates everything that their pacificism represents. John Book is forceful and strong enough to overcome their objections, and he shows that not only he is a good cop but is also a good man ...
- 2098: The Life of Edgar Allen Poe
- ... Poe, an actress. Poe also had a sister. At age three Poe was orphaned when he father disappeared one night and never returned and his mother died of tuberculosis. Poe then went to a foster house where he was adopted by John and Fanny Allen. Poe then at age six moved to England where he attended private schools. As a teen Poe was very gifted in foreign language. He wrote some ... expected John to pay of his debts. John would not pay of the debts and made John work as a clerk at his firm to pay them off. In 1827 Poe moved out of Johns house. In a letter to John Poe wrote, "I have heard you say when you little thought I was listening and therefor must have said it in ear that you had no affection for me" (letters ...
- 2099: Witchcraft
- ... Trees will be lightened up and logs are burned. A piece of the log will be saved to light up the tree in next year. That leftover piece is kept all year long in the house as a sign of protection to the house. Candles are also burnt as a sign of ensuring wealth and happiness. Then it comes the "Candlemas" (February 2nd). This is the first one of the three spring festivals. Lavender and white candles are burned ...
- 2100: Hacking Crime Or Craft
- ... companies computers and hacks into them, they can reek havoc on the telephone system. Phone numbers can be changed. The type of phone that a phone number has can be changed; i.e. a regular house phone can be changed into a pay phone. When a person tries to dial out, they get a request for money. Many things can happen by hacking into a telephone company (74). Being a rebel ... hacker wouldn't be complete (Vegetable 2) Hackers also need to hide some of the tools that they use. Tools such as the different color boxes. If a federal agent broke into a hacker's house or apartment and found a blue box and knew what the box did, then a hacker could be sent to jail or put on probation. Hackers hide all of their tools in safe places, and ...
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