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- 1331: Robert Frost and Ralph Waldo Emerson: Similarities in Nature
- ... and connate than streets or villages. In the tranquil landscape, and especially in the distant line of the horizon, man beholds somewhat as beautiful as his own nature."(Emerson442) An essay written by Roberts W. French "Robert Frost and the Darkness of Nature" states, in his poems Frost always "seems to be participating in the life of nature, deriving sustenance from it , and finding in it a deeply satisfying source of ... were connected and that by writing poetry it helped to connect him to his spirit. Frost and Emerson both had similar attitudes toward nature. Frost believed nature to have an evil side. In Roberts W. French's essay "Robert Frost and the Darkness of Nature" he writes "Frost expresses a darker attitude toward nature
..he is far from being a lover of nature; reading through his works, one finds that a ...
- 1332: Ernesto Guevara
- ... of l965, Guevara disappeared from the public eye. Castro dropped his association with Guevara because of Che's criticism. Che's plan at that time was to bring about Marxism by starting a world-wide revolution. He went around the world with forces (120 Cubans). In Congo, they attempted to accomplish one of these revolutions. It fell short when Belgian aid arrived to help the current government. Che had little help from the rebels of Congo and eventually failed. His final days were spent in Bolivia where he used bad judgment by trying to start a revolution. His troops were crushed, and he was captured by the Bolivian Army. Che was shot the next day. Ernesto "Che" Guevara is known even today in Vollegrande, Bolivia as a hero to many citizens. He ...
- 1333: Galileo 2
- Galileo Galileo (1564-1642), was an Italian physicist and astronomer, who, with the German astronomer Johannes Kepler, initiated the scientific revolution that flowered in the work of the English physicist Sir Isaac Newton. Born Galileo Galilei, his main contributions were, in astronomy, the use of the telescope in observation and the discovery of sunspots, lunar mountains ... culture, Galileo stands as a symbol of the battle against authority for freedom of inquiry. Galileo was born near Pisa, on February 15, 1564. His father, Vincenzo Galilei, played an important role in the musical revolution from medieval polyphony to harmonic modulation. Just as Vincenzo saw that rigid theory stifled new forms in music, so his eldest son came to see Aristotelian physical theology as limiting scientific inquiry. Galileo was taught ...
- 1334: Falkland Islands War Paper
- ... direction of the war, especially during sea-based encounters. It is interesting that neither side was able to achieve air supremacy during the Falklands War. The main aircraft used by Argentine air forces was the French-built Mirage fighter. After the Stanley airfield was disabled, the Mirages could only operate from mainland airbases several hundred miles from the Falklands. (19) This distance limited the loiter time available to the Argentine fighters ... British only had one small carrier at their disposal, any plans to recover the Falklands would have likely been dismissed as unworkable. (20) Without a doubt, the most effective weapons of the war were the French-manufactured Exocet anti-ship missiles in the Argentinean inventory. One of these missiles was responsible for the sinking of the HMS Sheffield, a British destroyer dispatched to the Falklands as a member of the forward ...
- 1335: Egyptian Cuisine
- ... wheat, aysh baladi. Stuffed with any of several fillings, it becomes the Egyptian sandwich. Aysh shams is bread made from leavened dough allowed to rise in the sun, while plain aysh comes in long, skinny, French-style loaves. Hard, dry aysh can be softened in water, and if you have a fire available, warmed over an open flame. Along with aysh, the native bean supplies most of Egypt's people with ... milk and served hot. Kanafa is a dish of batter "strings" fried on a hot grill and stuffed with nuts, meats, or sweets. Egyptian rice pudding is called mahallabiyya and is served topped with pistachios. French-style pastries are called gatoux. Good chocolate candies are likewise difficult to find, though Western-style candy bars are beginning to make their appearance. The Egyptian ice cream runs closer to ice milk or sherbet ...
- 1336: Dealers Of Lighting, Michael H
- ... a daring raid to obtain the technology that would end up at the heart of the Macintosh. In the late 1960s, Xerox founded a PARC, California. Eventually, that facility, became ground zero of the computer revolution. the dinosaur era of computing, a typical machine filled a large room and was shared by dozens of researchers. Hiltzik credits Robert W. Taylor, who assembled the PARC team, with changing that. A psychologist, rather ... Alto was the world s first personal computer, seams overstated; his strictly technological, mine involving price and marketing. However, in writing the book Hiltzik drew on the recollections of those who participated in the technological revolution of the 1970 s He interviewed all the obvious suspects and not a few innocent bystanders. Long before IBM launched its PC and laid the foundation for Microsoft s Windows with a prototype graphical user ...
- 1337: William Faulkner
- ... which caused his grades to start to fall. Eventually, he quit both athletics and school altogether. In 1919, his first literary work was acknowledged and published. The poem is a forty-line verse with a French title that acknowledges the influence of the French Symbolists. "From Mallarme he took the title of his first published poem; from Verlaine's 'Le Faune' he took the central device of The Marble Faun"(Minter 36). "The Marble Faun brings Pastoral art and ...
- 1338: Helen Keller
- ... to study at the Wright Humason School for the deaf. Anne raised money so that her student could attend the Cambridge School for Young Ladies. In 1896, Helen began her studies at Cambridge which included French, Greek, literature, mathematics, geography, and history. She then went on to attend Radcliffe College in 1980. In 1904, she graduated cum laude and received her AB Degree (Notable 390). Not only did Helen help the ... of Merit, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The National Institute of Arts and letters elected her membership as well. In 1952, during the Louis Braille Centennial Commemoration, Helen was made a chevalier of the French Legion of Honor ("Hero" 2) She had finally received all the recognition and honor that she deserved. Aside from being one of the earliest blind, deaf, and mute person to become active in society, Helen ...
- 1339: Natural Fiber - Natural Color
- ... thousands of years ago, around 2700 B.C., in Indo-Pakistan, Egypt, and Peru. It grew in natural colors - mocha, tan, gray and red-brown - and was prized by the hand-spinner. With the industrial revolution and its newly invented looms, short-fibered colored cotton was displaced by longer fibered white cotton. As the white variety grew in popularity, colored cotton nearly isappeared, kept alive only by the hand-spinners. That ... thousands of years ago, around 2700 B.C., in Indo-Pakistan, Egypt, and Peru. It grew in natural colors - mocha, tan, gray and red-brown - and was prized by the hand-spinner. With the industrial revolution and its newly invented looms, short-fibered colored cotton was displaced by longer fibered white cotton. As the white variety grew in popularity, colored cotton nearly disappeared, kept alive only by the hand-spinners. That ...
- 1340: Wuthering Heights: Romanticism
- ... Romanticism Wuthering Heights, written by Emily Bront๋, can be classified as a Romantic novel, because it contains many tenets of Romanticism. Romanticism was the initial literary reaction to changes in society caused by the industrial revolution: it was an attempt to organize the chaos of the clash between the agrarian and the industrial ways of life. Romanticism was developing in a time in which all of society's rules, limits, and ... or even a place to stay, but to pay for his living was a total disregard for the economic constraints of an agrarian society which could not afford to help a foundling. Before the industrial revolution, only the upper and upper middle classes received an education; Mr. Earnshaw's will to give a low class boy an education broke the established order of the enlightened. When Mr. Earnshaw initially gave Heathcliff ...
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