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- 2021: Robert Frost And His Life
- ... POUND, who wrote the first American review of Frost's verse for Harriet Munroe's Poetry magazine. (Though he disliked Pound, Frost was later instrumental in obtaining Pound's release from long confinement in a Washington, D.C., mental hospital.) Frost was more favorably impressed and more lastingly influenced by the so-called Georgian poets Lascelles Abercrombie, Rupert BROOKE, and T. E. Hulme, whose rural subjects and style were more in ...
- 2022: Bruce Lee
- ... fathers. Bruce worked on some odd jobs around the Chinese community. He lived there for two years then decided to move to Seattle with another old friend of his. He enrolled at the University of Washington to study philosophy. Before he enrolled at the University Bruce had already attended Edison Technical School to try and earn his high school diploma. Bruce was earning extra money to open his own Kung-Fu ...
- 2023: Atomic Diplomacy
- ... will provide insight for our current efforts to devise a workable post-war national security policy. There is no way to tell the story of post-war national security without also telling the story of George Kennen. Kennen, the foremost expert of Soviet Affairs in early post-war America, is almost wholly responsible for the policy of containment. Nuclear weapons were part of an integrated system of containment and deterrence. Truman ...
- 2024: Biography of Pocahontas
- ... not survive the journey home and they stopped in Gravesend, England. It was there that she died at just 21 years of age, far from her homeland. Her body was laid to rest at St. Georges Church. It is unclear why she died at such a young age. The cause of her death is rumored to be pneumonia, although it is also possible that she contracted smallpox or tuberculosis. Any ...
- 2025: Hot Springs National Park
- ... late-l7th century. In 1803 the United States acquired the area when it purchased the Louisiana Territory from France, and the very next year President Thomas Jefferson dispatched an expedition led by William Dunbar and George Hunter to explore the newly acquired springs. Their report to the President was widely publicized and stirred up interest in the "Hot Springs of the Washita." In the years that followed, more and more people ...
- 2026: Winston Smith
- ... it is not quite clear whether Winston has been rehabilitated or not. Is he just pretending to have been completely "cured" by the Party or is he afraid of his thoughts of freedom? I believe George Orwell leaves the interpretation up to the reader. "1984" is a frightening novel. It gives the reader an insight into an ugly society where personal values of love and family loyalty are destroyed and replaced ...
- 2027: Honesty
- ... could kill him with my bare hands! But then again, if you did kill that teenager who got the extra cash, you would be the evildoer. The book 1984 written by well-known American author George Orwell shows an example of the un-honourable actions of parents influencing their small children. About 99% of the characters in 1984 acted like robots that did not care about each others feelings or ...
- 2028: Computing
- ... about 256 kilobytes. Machine language is the way all computer handle instructions-the simple, one or zero, yes or no, true or false boolean logic necessary for computers. (Reid 122) Boolean logic was invented by George Boole, a poor British mathematician in 1815. His new type of logic was mostly ignored until makers of computers more than a century later realized his was the ideal system of logic for the computers ...
- 2029: Affirmative Action
- ... but it is a definite possibility to end up somewhere close to live up to these laws again. In addition to that, people say affirmative action is ok because it cures past discrimination (Keyes 1996). George DeWit spoke of this on the topic and said "Discrimination wasn't ok when blacks were the ones getting the short end of the stick. Therefore it's not ok when whites are discriminated against ...
- 2030: Criminal Insanity
- ... believes that violent and psychopathic behavior is caused by environmental factors in additional to biological ones ("Natural Born..." 10 ). Many other psychiatrists and doctors feel the same way as Dr. Raine does. One psychiatrist, Dr. George B. Palermo uses CAT scans to "electronically scan the brain" ("Doctor is Allowed..." 11) of criminals to determine if they where criminally insane at the time of the murders they committed. Dr. Palermo also suggested ...
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