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- 1311: Summary of The Heart of Darkness
- ... to tell the story that Conrad himself had experienced in his own life. After being examined by a doctor who measures his skull and cautions him to remain calm in the jungle, Marlow takes a French steamer to the mouth of the Congo River. The steamer moves very slowly, making many stops along its way, and Marlow marvels at the vastness and mystery of the jungle. They pass a French gunboat firing shells into the dense, black depths of the jungle. Marlow is told that there are enemy natives hidden there, but it is struck by the absurdity of this war with the darkness and ...
- 1312: Silent Dancing: Memories of Childhood
- ... I got a taste of what was to come in my adolescence. It prepared me quite well, I think, for the social interaction of dating. It seemed innocent enough, but it was our first sexual revolution, a revolution in thinking and feeling that would influence the way we spent the rest of our formative years. I think back to these carefree and exploratory days in trying to sort through my interactions with other ...
- 1313: Chamberlain and Fabri: Strong Advocates
- ... need for jobs, which in turn caused a demand for raw materials, thus the need for new markets increased dramatically. A second important trend of this time was the spread and peaking of the Industrial Revolution which led to advances in all different economic areas of Western nations that in turn allowed people to produce more and more goods than could ever be consumed. This trend goes hand in hand with the severe depression struck the West between 1873-1890. This definitely caused a need for new markets, especially outside of Western nations because these countries (as a result of the Industrial Revolution) could not consume nearly as much goods as it was producing. So in order to avoid massive amounts of unemployment, new markets had to found; Furthermore, these markets had to come from outside of the ...
- 1314: Albert Einstein
- ... created by the random movement of molecules that make up the liquid. Einstein derived a mathematical formula that predicted the distance traveled by the particles and their relative speed. This formula was later confirmed by French physicist Jean Baptiste Perrin in 1908. Einstein's work on the Bownian movement is regarded as the first experimental evidence of the existence of molecules. (Discovering Science) The second paper, "On a Heuristic Viewpoint Concerning ... between measurement made by observers in two separate system moving at constant velocity with respect to each other. (Discovering Science) Einstein's work on relativity was by no means the first in the field. The French physicist Jules Henri Poincare, the Irish physicist George Francis FritzGerald, and the Dutch physicist Hendrick Lorentz had already analyzed in some detail the problem attacked by Einstein in his 1905 paper. Each had developed mathematical ...
- 1315: Symbolism
- ... to Syalin who murdered many of his own people in order to maintain his dictatorship of Russia. The novel animal farm can be compared to the people who had a major role in the Russian Revolution. Each character in the novel represents certain characteristics that are shown in the people who were involved with the Russian Revolution. Old Major can be compared to Karl Marx because Old major taught Animalism and Karl Marx taught Communism both believed that workers do the work and the rich keep the money also both died before ...
- 1316: Castro Rise The Power
- ... and Fidel Castro and his followers were sentenced to three years of imprisonment. Batista, in order to gain some popular support, released them after a few months. Castros rebellion failed, it sparked hopes of revolution everywhere in Cuba. After a few years of exile in Mexico, Castro and a small band of about eighty-five men returned to Cuba in December of 1956. Many of the men perished during the ... regret in the passage of the Helms-Burton legislation. So while the rest of the world move on and look to the future, U.S.-Cuban relations continue to deteriorate. The Cuban Economy The Cuban revolution actually improved the standard of living from that of pre-Castro times. When Fidel Castro took over, he guaranteed free education and health care to all Cubans. In fact, Cubas education is free at ...
- 1317: Breakup Of The Soviet Union An
- ... to its people that life could be good; as a result, these three struggles show how perestroika was developed and implemented. Gorbachev had a choice, he could turn perestroika into a truly, people s democratic revolution, going to the utmost, really bringing the society total freedom, or to remain a Communist reformer, operating in the familiar and controlled milieu of the party bureaucracy (Sneider). He attempted to make a society that ... in Russia since the age of Stalin. Due to the changes caused by Peter the Great, the priests had less influence and by the nineteenth century, Russia was a multi-religious society. However, the 1917 revolution led to the official policy of eradication of religion in the country. Churches had no legal status and their property was confiscated. Private religious education of any kind was strictly forbidden (Russia). The Soviet Union ...
- 1318: Hockey
- ... to field hockey, it involves hitting an object with sticks between two goalposts. Probably the first ice hockey players were North American Indians who used field tools that were curved at the lower end. The French word for the similarly shaped shepherd's crook, hoquet, was attached by French explorers who watched the Indians' ball-and-stick games. Although the original game called for nine men on each side, the number of team players involved could vary from one community to another. Soon a ...
- 1319: English Phonetic Interference
- ... in unnecessary places but usually before soft vowels- some of the most common mistakes made by my former roommate. We had a long discussion about how he was spelling in Russian like [he] did in French . He too claimed that he had been taught to spell in Russian differently than he had been taught to spell in French, and while living in France had little or no reason to ever write in Russian. I decided to test for phonetic influence using a diktant in two parts, the first part being a simple paragraph ...
- 1320: Emmy Noether
- ... of his time. Her mother was Ida Amalie, for whom Emmy was named. As a child, Emmy Noether did not concentrate on mathematics. She spent her time in school studying languages, with a concentration on French and English. Her mother taught her the traditional skills of a young woman of that time. She learned to cook, clean, and play the clavier. At the time of her graduation from high school, she passed a test that allowed her to teach both French and English at schools for young women. At the age of 18, Emmy Noether decided to take classes in mathematics at the University of Erlangen. Her brother, Fritz, was a student there, and her father ...
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