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- 1981: Emily Dickinson
- ... with separation. Emily did not conform to society. She did not believe it was society's place to dictate to her how she should lead her life. Her poems reflect this sense of rebellion and revolution against tradition. From all the jails the boys and girls Ecstatically leap,- Beloved, only afternoon That prison doesn't keep. In this poem Emily shows her feelings towards formalized schooling. Being a product of reputable ...
- 1982: Biography: Helen Keller (1880-1968)
- ... own country's highest civilian honour, The Presidential Medal of Freedom. In 1933, she was elected a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. In 1952, she was made a Chevalier of the French Legion of Honour in Paris. Miss Keller received honorary doctoral degrees from Temple University, Harvard, and the universities of Glasgow, Berlin, Delhi (India), and Witwaters and Johannesburg (South Africa). She was named an Honorary Fellow ...
- 1983: FDRs Influence As President
- ... the Federal Relief Administrator. The Reforestation Act of 1933 killed two birds with one stone. First it helped stop and repair some of the environmental damage that had occurred as a result of the industrial revolution. More importantly, however, it created the Civilian Conservation Corps, which eventually employed more than 2 1/2 million men at various camps. Projects included reforestation, road construction, soil erosion and flood control as well as ...
- 1984: Mohandas Gandhi and His Life
- ... Gandhi found out about a new constitution that was to be passed discriminated against untouchables. Gandhi began to fast. Britain new that they better change the constitution, because if Gandhi died there would be a revolution. Gandhi resigned as president of the INC in 1934 and left the organization entirely to pursue a plan to educate "From the bottom up", starting with the rural areas of India, which accounted for 85 ...
- 1985: Richelieu and Olivares: The Quest for European Domination
- ... all Spain's misfortunes and would shrink from no crime or artiface' to destroy him (114). The Cardinal did not think of Olivares very highly either, as it is said in the journal of a French courtier: De Morgues, who knew Richelieu intimately, speaks of the Cardinal's hatred for the Count-Duke (114). As the impending war loomed, Richelieu and Olivares sought allies to defend against each other. Richelieu found ...
- 1986: Mother Teresa: The Living Saint
- ... the age of eighteen, she started her religious order at Our Lady of Loreto in Ireland. She then received her spiritual training. In 1931, Mother Teresa took her name of Teresa from Therese Martin, a French nun. Six years later she took her vows. Mother Teresa then decided to begin her teaching. She taught for twenty years in Saint Mary's High School in Calcutta, India. On September 10, 1946, Mother ...
- 1987: Future Of Radio And The Internet
- ... of the sound we now call radio, the pictures we normally see as television plus the raw data and interactivity confined to our computers. The future is rapidly approaching and a new mass communications technology revolution has started, one that allows all people to communicate at once, and be able to access information for anywhere in the world. It is time to rethink the way we communicate information and not to ...
- 1988: Max Planck
- ... ten to the negative twenty-seventh power). The fact that Planck's constant was not zero and it was in fact a number made the unseen physical world indescribable by classical methods which sparked a revolution in physical theory. When Planck discovered the theory of quantum he was forty-two and then later won the Nobel Prize for physics in 1918. After his discovery he still contributed to physics increasingly. Planck ...
- 1989: Galileo
- ... the doctrine of Copernicus. It had been argued against the said system that, if it were true, the inferior planets, Venus and Mercury, between the earth and the sun, should in the course of their revolution exhibit phases like those of the moon, and, these being invisible to the naked eye, Copernicus had to change the false explanation that these planets were transparent and the suns rays passed through them ...
- 1990: Miller's Incident at Vichy
- ... 25, Marchand, a cheerful and impatient businessman who was 25, Lebeau, a bearded, unkept painter who was also 25 and very out spoken, Monceau, an actor, Leduc, a doctor of psychiatry and captain in the French army, Von Berg, an Austrian prince, and Ferrand, a cafe proprietor. What a profound insight Arthur Miller has given us on these characters who all lead very different lives and were thrown together in similar ...
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