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- 1271: Langston Hughes
- ... easy to see why most of his poems of this period (1921-1930) would be festive and cheerful. Unfortunately, the party didn¹t last into the next decade and the country fell into a deep depression. The period between 1931 and 1940 was a dark period for Hughes, and for African-Americans in general. On top of the financial difficulties the depression brought, widespread racism re-surfaced in the North. The celebration in Harlem was replaced by angry whites who were anxious to put blame on someone for their troubles. ³White Man² is a direct attack on ... you copyright it / And make the money. / You¹re the smart guy, White Man! / You got everything!² Its intensity makes the reader frantic just from reading it. The line about Louis Armstrong refers to the great jazz trumpet player, the first black man to be recognized as a successful jazz artist by a white audience. Only now, ten years later, we see that it is the whites who profit from ...
- 1272: Catcher in the Rye: Theme of the World Having An Outward Appearance
- ... think about it that's even worst than Old Ackley. At least Ackley knew that he had a problem, that he need to do something about his face; but Stradlater thought that he was a great guy. He actually thought that there was nothing wrong with never washing his razor. I think that what mad, Holden so made Stradlater was perpetrating in other word being "phony" every time he went out ... in the Rye that explains the Holden behavior all through the book. In short it said his activities "describes a developing nervous breakdown." And if you think of the symptoms you would a agree. Unexplained depression, show countless time in the story as "I felt depressed as hell." And the why that Salinger keep using the world depressed, not bad or mellow but depressed he may have been hinting at it ... eventual nervous collapse. This book has been a joy to read. Holden was very funny at times especially when he called Sally to ask her about "trim a tree" for Christmas. Salinger is ether a great writer or he just lucked up this good of a story. Sometimes I wonder if the author of books always think as deep as the reader. I mean do authors read a commentary over ...
- 1273: Why Exercise is Important
- ... can sweeten a foal mood. The subjects rated their own moods, warmed up for 5 to 10 minutes, then performed four sets of bench press and squats. Afterward, the same mood test recorded less tension, depression, and anger. In a separate study* at the University of New Orleans, 42 subjects recorded the same results after a 50-minute bench-step class. “You can experience the psychological benefits of exercise in a ... cholesterol performed a 350 calorie workout on a stationary bicycle at moderate intensity. Immediately after they had finished, their total LDL (bad) cholesterol had lowered, while levels of HDL (good) cholesterol increased. It’s a great study and offered some great medical results considering the fact that high cholesterol rates is one of the primary sources for heart attacks.* But the buck doesn’t stop their: You need to get on the cycle at least ...
- 1274: People and Events of World War II
- ... were key in their respective nations war-time actions, Joseph Stalin, absolute ruler of the USSR, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, and Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, Prime Minister of Great Britain. Joseph Stalin was born in 1879 as Ioseph Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, the son of peasants. A Marxist and nihilist at a young age, he helped Vladimir Ilyich Ulianov, also known as V.I. Lenin, take ... Roosevelt lost usage of his legs. In 1932, Roosevelt started his first term of office as the President of the United States of America. During this term, he helped to negate the effects of the Great Depression. Roosevelt also won second, third and fourth terms with victories in 1936, 1940, and 1944. When the war in Europe broke out, Roosevelt quickly declared the US's neutrality, and began building up the ...
- 1275: 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 ...
- 1276: Shaping a Nation
- ... important contributions to our nations history were, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Franklin D. Roosevelt. They were involved in the three most important wars fought by the United States of America. George Washington was a great president who led this country to independence. He fought the British until they surrendered. The United States won the war. Furthermore, he appointed people to counsel him in making decisions that helped form economic and ... them unite. He abolished slavery with the thirteenth amendment and managed to keep the southern states from seceding from the Union. Franklin D. Roosevelt was the president that brought the United States out of the great depression and positioned it as a superpower. His most significant contribution was introducing the New Deal. He also was the president to create social security. Roosevelt helped the Allies in World War II with the ...
- 1277: Personal Writing: Exchange Student in Japan
- ... was my sister, Kazu my brother, Mino was the father and Junko the mother. They really had different names, but they spoke English beautifully even though they did not think so. They made me a great dinner and then I took a bath. I went to sleep and awoke the next day really excited to begin my life in Japan. Kazu, the brother took me out my first day there. We ... was traveling with. We all met up in this conference room, and we were given schedules. I was with my best friend Lisa, and the two Erica's were together as well. It worked out great, and everyone treated us like superstars. We had our own room where we could relax and miss classes if we were tired. The time difference was fourteen hours so it was a little weird at ... I found to be very important among the Japanese. Lisa and I taught many English classes, and we helped correct everything from homework to sentences written on the board. The first day of school was great. We met the principle, and prepared speeches for the next day. We would be speaking to the entire school in Japanese the next day. Something new for us to anticipate. That night we went ...
- 1278: Yamamoto
- ... in the government, was assassinating anyone who did not share in their views for a united Asia (Yamamoto received many death threats, because he wanted to avoid war with the U.S.A. or with Great Britain at all costs), and was using propaganda to convince the Japanese to believe in a united Asia. The Emperor could not stop what was going on in his country because Emperors stayed out of ... I moved in Japan, the culture shock would be enormous, starting with the simple language barrier, and the difference in religion. Isoroku Yamamoto was correct in his thinking that war between the U.S.A., Great Britain, and Japan should be avoided at all costs, and in the event of war between the U.S.A., Great Britain, and Japan, Japan would lead in the beginning, like the first 6 to 12 months, but would eventually lose the war. One quality I admire about Yamamoto is that he was able to ...
- 1279: 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 ...
- 1280: Could Gambling Save Science: Encouraging an Honest Consensus
- ... futures they could, by both starting a business and betting against cold fusion (essentially taking out insurance), really only be betting on their ability to develop cold fusion if it were real. Insights from a great many people whose opinions on the cold fusion controversy were ignored, such as inarticulate folks without Ph.Ds, could have been integrated in a decentralized manner. Popular play would end up subsidizing professional efforts on ... of popular interest, offering more "direct democracy" in setting research priorities. NEUTRINO MASS Betting markets could also function in the absence of overt controversy, as in the following (hypothetical) story. Once upon a time the Great Science Foundation decided it would be a "good thing" to know the mass of the electron neutrino. Instead of trying to figure out who would be a good person to work on this, or what ... concern to you. (Most of these issues have been raised by at least three independent commentators in previous discussions.) ISN'T GAMBLING ILLEGAL? Yes, betting markets on science questions appear to be only legal in Great Britain, where they are highly regulated. Even Nevada, which allows sports betting, prohibits general betting to avoid scandals that might "taint" the gambling industry. Which is a shame because most of the arguments against ...
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