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- 711: Gulliver's Travels: Political Satire
- ... but six inches tall. Despite their diminutive proportions, the Lilliputians have no fear of Gulliver. The land of Lilliput and its inhabitants really are a political history of the reigns of Queen Anne and King George I. (source 4) Queen Anne was the ruler of England at the beginning of the eighteenth century. During her reign, she tried to rid England of any Roman Catholic influence. King George I ruled from 1714 to 1727. George was from Germany and spoke very little English he also just did not care much for English politics. (Cullom) Due to this fact, most the power in England at the time lay in the ...
- 712: Biography of Aaron Montgomery Ward
- ... Jersey, to a family whose ancestors had served as officers in the French and Indian Wars as well as in the American Revolution. He was named after General G. Aaron Montgomery Ward, a general in George Wahington's Army. When Aaron was nine, his father, Sylvester Ward, moved the family to Niles, Michigan. Aaron's schooling ended when he was 14. According to his brief memoirs, he first earned money in ... purchases to their nearest railroad station. The only thing Aaron lacked was capital. None of Aaron's friends or business acquaintances joined in his enthusiasm for his revolutionary idea, including one of his closest friends, George R. Thorne, a local grocer whom he had known in Michigan. Aaron stubbornly stuck to his purpose and saved all he could from his earnings as a salesman at Pardridge. By 1871, Aaron had saved ... to make his first mailing and disaster struck. The great Chicago fire in the fall of 1871 sent his dreams literally up in smoke. In 1872, Aaron talked two fellow partridge employees into joining him - George S. Drake and Robert P. Caufield. With a total capital of $1,600, they rented a small shipping room on North Clark Street and published their first price list - the world's first general ...
- 713: Our Town Analysis 2
- ... Emily, she suddenly realized how she had wasted her life on earth because they were repeating the same actions everyday of their. She became sad and also regretful that she could not tell her husband George to get on with his life and end this incessant mourning. The setting is very important because the play is set in a small simple town and it demonstrates the precise actions of people of ... and the first act is used to introduce the characters for us to know their attitudes. In the second act the action is sped up and there is a special event which is marriage involves George and Emily. Emily shows a great deal of hesitation and the attendants at the ceremony are discussing the couple and how they were when they were young. In the third act the mood is sorrow and sadness caused by the death of Emily and her reaction at the overview of her own life. The relationship between George and Emily is very evident throughout the whole play. In the first act they shared a boy/girl relationship and were good neighbors. In the second act they share a loving relationship which eventually ...
- 714: The True Devils in Salem
- ... Jesus; I kiss his hand. I saw Sarah Good with the Devil! I saw Goody Osburn with the Devil! I saw Bridget Bishop with the Devil!" Another girl, Betty, continues the cry with, "I saw George Jacobs with the Devil! I saw Goody Howe with the Devil!" >From here on, the accusations grow and grow until the jails overflow with accused witches. It must have given them an incredible sense of ... about a plot of land. Corey claims that he bought it from Goody Nurse but Putnam says he owns it, and Goody Nurse had no right to sell it. Later, when Putnam's daughter accuses George Jacobs of witchery, Corey claims that Putnam only wants Jacobs' land. Giles says, "If Jacobs hangs for a witch he forfeit up his property - that's law! And there is none but Putnam with the ... Jesus; I kiss his hand. I saw Sarah Good with the Devil! I saw Goody Osburn with the Devil! I saw Bridget Bishop with the Devil!" Another girl, Betty, continues the cry with, "I saw George Jacobs with the Devil! I saw Goody Howe with the Devil!" >From here on, the accusations grow and grow until the jails overflow with accused witches. It must have given them an incredible sense ...
- 715: Microsoft Corporation
- ... former high school chums who envisioned a world of home computer technology years before such a dream became even remotely possible. Early Influences Their story begins at Lakeside High, a private high school in Seattle, Washington. The Mothers' Club at Lakeside decided to purchase a computer terminal for the kids with proceeds from bake sales and rummage sales. Students at Lakeside became enthralled with this new toy. True to their innate ... the 8008 chip was very limited in its use, but Allen discovered despite the limitations, the chip was good for repetitive tasks and mathematical data. First Business Venture When Paul Allen entered college at Pullman, Washington, a town on the east side of the state, sixteen-year-old Bill Gates traveled frequently by bus to visit him. On these long trips across the state, Gates wrote a program that facilitated the ... language in East Asia. Eventually, their original expectation of $15 million was realized ten-fold through sales as a result of that contract. Microsoft moved from Albuquerque, New Mexico to its present home in Redmond, Washington in 1979 with most of its twelve employees. According to Gates, the mission of Microsoft was Ato write and supply software for most personal computers without getting directly involved in making or selling computer ...
- 716: Cinematography Everything You Need To Know
- ... was invented either by Thomas Alva EDISON or by his assistant William K. L. Dickson, both of whom had experimented originally with moving pictures as a supplement to the phonograph record. They later turned to George EASTMAN, who provided a flexible celluloid film base to store the large number of images necessary to create motion pictures. The mechanical means of cinematography were gradually perfected. It was discovered that it was better ... Laurie Dickson, began in 1888 with an attempt to record the photographs on wax cylinders similar to those used to make the original phonograph recordings. Dickson made a major breakthrough when he decided to use George EASTMAN's celluloid film instead. Celluloid was tough but supple and could be manufactured in long rolls, making it an excellent medium for motion photography, which required great lengths of film. Between 1891 and 1895 ... Kramer v. Kramer, 1979; women in a male world, in Nine to Five, 1979, and Tootsie, 1982). The most successful directors of the past 15 years--Stanley KUBRICK, Robert ALTMAN, Francis Ford COPPOLA, Woody ALLEN, George LUCAS, and Steven SPIELBERG--are those who have played most imaginatively with the tools of film communication itself. The stars of recent years (with the exceptions of Paul NEWMAN and Robert REDFORD) have, for ...
- 717: Seinfeld
- ... not seen a cast that relate to each other so well since I Love Lucy. This shows cast resembles the cast of I Love Lucy because both casts have conflicting personalities. In Seinfeld for example, George and Jerry's personalities are the exact opposite. George is a total neurotic, while Jerry has a take it easy personality. Same for I Love Lucy, Lucy is always the leader and Ethel is always the follower. Without coherence Seinfeld would never be where ... sitcom. Another original idea used in Seinfeld is that each character has their own prerogative. They are not afraid to show the audience how they feel towards each other. Just like when Elaine picks at George about his baldness and George returns the favor by insulting her about her figure in a certain dress. These little details and ideas make Seinfeld one of the greatest sitcoms of all time. Many ...
- 718: Literature of Native Canadians
- ... its foliage spread, The golden corn triumphant waves its head . . ." Even some Natives were enticed into believing that the destruction of one culture in favor of another was a noble goal. Contemplate this passage from George Copway's The Life of Kah-Ge-Ga-Gah-Bowh. In the preface, entitled A Word to The Reader, he sets the tone for writing that is to follow; "It would be presumptuous in one ... on the educational system that she attended and which, in other words, was nothing more than an internment camp for wayward Indians and an excuse to beat torture small children for the slightest infration. Erasmus: George Erasmus' essay "Twenty Years of Disappointed Hopes" is an account of the modern Canadian natives struggle for self government. Erasmus contends there could be dire consequences, no matter what transpires, between those who are in ... Taras, et al, Scarborough, Ontario; 1993 Vickie English-Currie, "The Need For Re-evaluation in Native Education," A Passion for Identity: An Introduction to Canadian Studies, Taras, et al, Scarborough, Ontario; 1993 pp 110-119 George Erasmus, "Twenty Years of Disappointed Hopes" A Passion for Identity: An Introduction to Canadian Studies, Taras, et al, Scarborough, Ontario; 1993 pp 120-138 Joane Cardinal-Schubert, "Near the Ledge, Writing on the Stone" ...
- 719: The Mystery That Was Gatsby, T
- ... the life she wants to be a part of. She always thought she should have done better than her current husband and having an affair with Tom reinforces this belief of hers. Her current husband, George Wilson, is just a poor gas station owner in the Valley of Ashes who had to borrow a tuxedo for his wedding. Myrtle would rather be treated like a dog by someone who has money ... for her. All she appreciates is Tom s money. It is strange that all of Fitgerald s female characters clearly share this intense materialism. Could this somehow relate to an opinion he holds about women? George Wilson is married to a woman who resents him and is having an affair right under his nose without him knowing it. He runs a gas station which he lives above in the Valley of Ashes which is the dirtiest area of New York. The valley of Ashes has now become Queens if you were wondering where it was. That's not even the worst of his poverty. George Wilson is just the hard luck guy in this novel and he ends up taking it out on Gastby. He is hard luck and he is not too quick witted. There is no mystery ...
- 720: The Impact of Frederick Douglass
- ... how to write. When he grew older he became more interested in the abolitionist movement witch led to the establishment of his abolitionist paper called the “North Star.” Frederick Douglass was born originally Frederick Agustus Washington Bailey in February 1817, at Tuckahoe, Maryland. Douglass’ parents was his mother Harriet Bailey and his father an anonymous white man. As Frederick Douglass grew up he was determined to learn how to read and ... Negro. Frederick Douglass also urged Abraham Lincoln to give fair treatment to the Negro soldiers. When Lincoln was assassinated Douglass was the orator at the unveiling of the freedmen’s memorial monument to Abraham Lincoln, Washington D.C. In 1877 he became United States Marshal, in 1889 he was appointed Minister and Consul General to Haiti. In 1882 he created the first edition of “Life and Times of Frederick Douglass”, his biography. But sadly in the same year his wife Anna Murray Douglass died. On the day of his death--Feb. 20, 1895, in Washington, D.C.--Douglass attended a convention for women's suffrage. The impact that Frederick Douglass had on American and African American history is that now African Americans are treated more equally than in the ...
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