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- 1101: Andy Warhol
- ... Pennsylvania on either August 6, 1928 or on September 28, 1930 (the date on his birth certificate). His father died when Andy was at a very young age. Thus, it forced Andy into a deep depression containing lack of self confidence. Much of his young life has been kept secret. However, he did report being very shy and depressed because he never felt comfortable with his homosexuality. His childhood life may ... careful. "In a word it was a diary. But whatever its broader objective, its narrow one, to satisfy tax auditors, was always on my mind" (Warhol xvi). Later on, he felt the diaries were a great way to explain his everyday occurrences for more than a decade of his life. This view of his life from his eyes is probably the most balanced view ever given. He may have changed since ... the casual proofreading and editing" (Trebay 1732). The reason the editor didn't fit up to par was the mere fact she wanted it to sound how Andy explained the day. "...still the book is great social history with its lip-smacking tales of loveless, sexless marriages, its gimlet-eyed view of other people's success, and its rampant unclosetings" (Trebay 1732). I, myself, found the book very entertaining and ...
- 1102: The Computer Underground
- ... his first wife's maiden name, This is more than just a game, It's real fun, but just the same It's hacking, hacking, hacking. Sys-call, let's try sys-call. Remember, that great bug from Version 3, Of R S X, It's here! Whoopee! Put another sys-call in, Run those passwords out and then, Dial back up, we're logging on, We're hacking, hacking, hacking ... you about the new wave of front end security devices that are beginning to be used on computers. We will attempt to instill in you a second identity, to be brought up at time of great need, to pull you out of trouble. (p/hacker newsletter, 1987). Elite hacking requires highly sophisticated technical skills to enter the maze of protective barriers, recognize the computer type, and move about at the highest ... enjoy, but have to take risks in order to par- ticipate unless you are lucky enough to work for Bell/ AT&T/any telco. To have legal access to telco things, manuals, etc. would be great (message log, 1988). Early phreaking methods involved electro-mechanical devices that generated key tones or altered phone line voltages to trick the mechanical switches of the phone company into connecting calls without charging, but ...
- 1103: British Chartism
- ... eventually uprise. One of the best, most comprehensive examples of a social revolution in this period is Britain s Chartism. This radical movement pushed for democratic rights in order to improve social conditions in industrial Great Britain. It arose from the popular discontent following the Reform Act of 1832, which gave very little importance to large, industrial boroughs in parliament. Movements of mass discontent in Yorkshire and Lancashire caused by industrial exploitation and economic depression had already taken place. In 1838, the cabinet-maker William Lovett and the tailor Francis Place wrote the People s Charter . It is best known for its Six Points , which proposed the following: universal manhood ... O Brien and Feargus O Connor brought together hundreds of starving men and women, preeching violent propaganda (O Conner reached out to so many people also thanks to his newspaper, Northern Star). People all across Great Britain (including European refugees and exiles) were now fighting for one common cause; The Charter . Chartism reached its highest point with the calling of a National Convention just meters from the House of Parliament. ...
- 1104: Moses, A Chosen Leader
- ... same, but, in essence, it demanded the same degree of commitment and dedication from Abraham. Abraham was old and his wife Sarah was barren. God promised Abraham that he would be the father of a great nation. Given Sarah’s condition, Abraham had many inquiries and doubts about the feasibility of this, yet he had faith. God asked of Abraham that he give up all he knew, and all he had ... God to sacrifice his most prized possession, his son Isaac. When God observed the faith and obedience of Abraham, he spared Isaac and allowed Abraham’s nation to flourish. The Old Testament model of a great patriarch is one who possesses faith coupled with voluntary obedience to God’s wishes and gratitude. These things combine to make up God’s standard of moral goodness. If the person obeys God’s laws and meets His standards, happiness may be attained by the individual. The ultimate model of a great patriarch is Moses. The second book of The Bible, the book of Exodus, begins with the Egyptian’s decision to oppress the Hebrews who lived in the land of Egypt for 400 years. (The ...
- 1105: The Boston Massacre
- ... and his troops. I will also hold some depositions from people who were actually close or at the massacre. I will be show the differences on how all three felt about the situation. Due to great burden from the different acts that brought many unwanted taxes from the British government, the minds of the Boston citizens were greatly irritated. Some individuals were so irritated that they were abusive in their language ... danger, but still took it upon themselves to shoot at the citizens who were not harming them in any way. The morning after the massacre, a town meeting was held; at which attended a very great number of freeholders and inhabitants of the town. It was now time for the town to speak up. They were deeply impressed and affected by the tragedy of the preceding night, and were unanimously of ... the Council to Col. Dalrymple, and to pray that he would order troops down to Castle William.”7 Samuel Adams was the strongest antagonist Thomas Hutchinson had to face. He was a complete democrat with great democratic will. He was a great “watchdog” of the rights and privileges granted to the colonies. Samuel Adams observed that the removal of the troops was in the slowest order, taking eleven days, when ...
- 1106: Comparing Henry David Thoreau and Herman Melville's Writings
- ... man was affected by nature. They translated their philosophies though both the portrayal of their protagonist and their own self exploration. In Moby Dick, Melville writes about Ahab's physical and metaphysical struggle over the great white whale, Moby Dick, symbolic of man's struggle against the overwhelming forces of nature. Ahab's quest is reported and experienced through the eyes of Ishmael. Melville's use of the third person's ... tendencies for the controlling darkside of human nature which can't and won't interact with nature and consequently leads to its own ultimate destruction. "Chief among these motives was the overwhelming idea of the great whale himself. Such a pretentious and mysterious monster caused all my curiosity… the undeliverable, nameless perils of the whale."(pg. 16). Ishmael sees Ahab as a man possessed, almost demonic in a belief that he ... out the weakening of man's original calling by the results of the industrial revolution, division of labor, the robotics of factory life and materialistic vision of life. The end result is self- destruction and depression of ones independence, spirit and development of mental and spiritual heights as described here, "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperati on. From the desperate ...
- 1107: Margaret Sanger
- ... Sanger's life and career as well as become aware of some of the missteps that she made and how they reflect on both. Margaret Sanger was not born a crusader, she became one. A great deal of her early life contributed to the shaping of her views in regards to birth, death, and women. Born Margaret Louise Higgins on September 14, 1879 in Corning, New York to Michael and Anne ... was not wasted, though, as Margaret and her movement came to have the backing of the entire medical profession and a majority of the population (who, by that time, was in the midst of the Great Depression). It became apparent to Margaret that the movement would go no further if it depended on what happened in Washington D.C., and so, when a package from Japan containing contraceptives was confiscated and ...
- 1108: Alexander Hamilton
- ... island of Nevis in the West Indies on the 11th of January 1755. His father was James Hamilton, a Scottish merchant of St. Christopher. His grandfather was Alexander Hamilton, of Grange, Lanarkshire. One of his great grandfathers was Sir R. Pollock, the Laird of Cambuskeith. Hamilton's mother was Rachael Fawcette Levine, of French Huguenot descent. When she was very young, she married a Danish proprietor of St. Croix named John ... Its inception and approximately three-quarters of the work are attributable to Hamilton (the rest belonging to John Jay and James Madison). Hamilton also won the New York ratification convention vote for the Constitution against great odds in July 17-July 26, 1788. Chancellor James Kent stated that "all of the documentary proof and the current observation of the time lead us to the conclusion that he surpassed all of his ... 1790, advocated a private bank with semipublic functions and was patterned after the Bank of England. His Report on Manufacturers, 1791, itself entitles Hamilton to a position as an epoch economist. It was the first great revolt from Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (1776). It, in part, argued for a system of moderate protective duties associated with a deliberate policy of promoting national interests. The inspirations from this work ...
- 1109: Gambling: Losing the Gamble
- ... totally unaware of what is going on around them. Players gain satisfaction by accumulating six-packs of soda or beer; meanwhile, they lose their paychecks in the process. Gambling is a drug that gives a great high, but when you come down, it causes severe depression for days or weeks to come. One of the biggest problems associated with gambling is drinking. Casinos encourage it for obvious reasons. Cocktail waitresses in revealing outfits bring free drinks on a regular basis while ... don't, the game has now done them in. If they are not staying at the hotel, they end up driving home drunk and jeopardizing innocent people's lives. When they awaken with a hangover, depression becomes a major problem. Reality of what they have done sets in. Future earnings are gone, and there is no way to reverse what has been done. Of course there is always going back ...
- 1110: The Byzantine Empire
- The Byzantine Empire The Byzantine Empire, the survivor of the Roman empire, flourished into the oldest and longest lasting empire in our history. It began with Constantine the Great's triumph of Christianity. He then transferred his capital from Rome to the refounded Byzantium in the early 4th century, year 330 AD, and named it Constantinople after himself. This city became the surviving safe ... of the Western Roman empire by the 5th century. It was by far the largest and richest city in Christendom during the Middle Ages with a population of about one million people. (Encarta) Constantine the Great had established a criterion for the empire to follow throughout its history. It included the harmony of the church, the leaders and the teachers of the empire. Constantine created a successful new monetary system based ... constitution. It slowly formed a similar establishment of late Roman institutions. Byzantine followed the Romans orthodox Christianity as well. The predominant language of this era was Greek, although some subjects spoke Latin, Coptic, and Armenian. (Great Ages) The Greek language led to a Greek culture. The Byzantine empire stood out for their Christian religion and their expression of it in their artwork. These Romans carved exquisite ivories, illuminated manuscripts, and ...
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