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- 2811: Black Boy By Richard Wright
- ... He met an Irish chap who was as cynical as Richard was. He introduced Richard to Irish, Jewish, and Negro group of friends. He met a Negro literary group on Chicago's South Side. The Great Depression arrives. Jobs are scarce. Aunt Cleo, his mother and his brother become ill. He got a job from a distant cousin selling insurance policies. He became an insurance agent. Sometimes if the clients could not ...
- 2812: Success In Times Of Paradox
- ... and etc. The low degree of informationalization results from the insubstantial basis of China. In China, economic basis is weak, financial capacity is limited, and IT is far behind the developed countries. Because of the great population, there is great divergence among various areas in China. Every country desires to develop IT industry. Especially, developing countries need information innovation to promote the development of economy. But, because of the weakness of economic basis and insufficiency ... the course of the development of IT, we can find that, in general, IT is in the stage of growing and application from the 1980s to a long time in the future. Although Japan had great achievement on IT, from 1980s it began to develop some high-tech instead of promoting deeper application, trying to obtain monopoly profit. However, Japan ran counter to the situation of today's IT and ...
- 2813: Iowa - An American Portrait
- ... has more than two- hundred- thousand farms; ninety- eight percent of Iowas total land is used for production; with ninety percent of total land being used for the production of food. Reverence for the great land and rich soil of Iowa began with the Native Americans. Many years later, European immigrants settled the land of Iowa. They first settled near the Mississippi River and spread through out Iowa in the ... crop, Iowans found that farming had become the ideal way of life. Working on the farm involved all of the members of the family, which brought them together and made them stronger through hardships and great opportunities. Draft horses used for plowing later became a luxury and farming soon lost its fun and joyful qualities. It was a time of greater hardship than ever before, but the freedom Iowa farmers had ... was exhausted quickly, putting the mills out of business. Quaker Oats, a factory in Cedar Rapids, was a prosperous business. It employed hundreds of Iowans, as it still does today. The land of Iowa is great in size and full of life, with green pastures, wetlands, forests, and prairies. Some of the first settlers to Iowa claimed that the land was green as far as the eye could see. Despite ...
- 2814: Civil War
- ... of the first shots at Fort Sumter; the battles of Shiloh, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg; Sherman's dramatic march to the sea; the surrender at Appomattox. In fact, Civil War wasn't simply the story of great battles and great generals, it was also an elaborate portrait of ourselves, American people- individuals and families, northerners and southerners, soldiers and civilians, slaves and slaveowners, rich and poor, urban and rural. Twenty years before Civil War started ... were talking about other things rather than the Civil War and they seemed like good friends. Lee signed the paper at that house. Johnston surrendered to Sherman under similar terms at Durham, North Carolina. The great war was over, but that didn't mean any good because millions of free slaves and white people found themselves without any money or homes, and much of the South lay in ruins due ...
- 2815: Why Rome Fell (a condensed version)
- ... The sun had long ago set, the newborn moon peeked out from behind a scattering of thin, high clouds. From a vantage point atop one of seven hills I could see glimpses of how this great city must once have looked. The mammoth buildings seem to shed their long years and are once again as they were; huge, awe inspiring, it is as if a portal in time had opened and ... his own personal glory. Another cause would have to be the anti-Roman nature of Christianity. Gibbons argues that the insensible' penetration of Christianity was fatal to the empire by undermining the genius of a great people. On a pessimistic note, Gibbon also lists as a causes' the inevitable collapse of all human institutions, some arguments on the corrupting nature of luxury, and some detailed reflections on the vanity of human ... old standby that the cause was the corrupting nature of luxury and power. Woomersley argues that the Romans became so content in their superiority that they forgot how to fight and forgot what made them great. Another who disagrees with the premises of Gibbon is author and historian David Jordan. In his work, Gibbon and his Roman Empire, Jordan states that Gibbon imposed himself on his materials and in doing ...
- 2816: Stone Angel
- Question: Hagars father is, " self-made man" . What does this mean? Is it possible today to be a self-made man or woman? Do you know anyone who fits this description? Hagars Father is a great example of a , "self made man." This means that he has created a successful life for him self due to his own efforts. It is possible to be a self-made person, as long as ... a person wants something, that person must take the initiative to go and get it. For example Jason Currie wanted to be a business man, so he went and opened a store. This took a great deal of initiative due to the fact that many people dream of owning their own business, having freedom, and being sucsessful. But this is only a dream for many people because these people don't ... hazordous, but in order to become a self made man it is sometimes nessasary. The last quality needed to become a self made man, also possesed by Jason Currie, is flexiblity. Jason Currie displayed a great deal of flexibility when he moved to a new country and taught him self the nessasary business skills in order to be sucsessful. Using my self as an example, I belive I posess this ...
- 2817: Book Report The 13th Warrior
- ... had begun to fragment into separate kingdoms called caliphates, and the most powerful caliphate was centered in Baghdad. During these times Baghdad was considered the City of Peace, and the center of one of the great flowerings of human knowledge. In Scandinavia at the time, the Vikings embarked on a career of pillage and conquest. The Vikings conquered many places including the Baltic regions, Byzantium, and built fortresses in Russia. The ... wild asses." Overall, the historic era of, The 13th Warrior, seemed like a time of change and expansion extending and spreading the cultures of the Iraqi Muslims and the Vikings. The 13th Warrior was a great historical-fiction novel that gave an idea of what Viking culture was like, as well as the clash with Arab culture. Michael Crichton makes the book more interesting because Ibn Fadlan is the exact opposite ... book was that it was never boring because of the constant change in the subject they were talking about and the suspenseful action and battles. I would definitely recommend this book because it gives a great look into the Viking culture as well as Arab culture while being very entertaining.
- 2818: The Use of Camera Angles in Citizen Kane
- ... shutting down had on the people. It puts into perspective the amount of people that were fired and had no job and in essence no money. These shots help to prove the impact that the depression had on people. The fourth example is at the very end. During the whole movie everyone is trying to figure out the meaning of the word Rosebud and Welles uses a close up of the ... and that shot was a very important one to understanding the movie. Orson Welles used camera shots and angles to portray certain important aspects and details of the movie proving that Citizen Kane is a great example of how angles and shots can impact a movie and help with the understanding of it.
- 2819: Brave New World And Dubliners
- ... The absence of love in Huxley s novel is most obviously deliberate, just as the inclusion of love in certain pieces in Dubliners is intentional. The reason it appears obvious is that Huxley goes to great lengths to describe his world in great detail and yet does not mention love as a part of it. The reason love is brought to bear as a social issue is that without it, imagine how bland things would be. For example ... those mentioned, one other thing strikes a note of discord. The way in which they, as writers, deal with death in their writings. In Huxley s novel, death is not looked upon as something of great import nor something to worry about. In Brave New World the dead are taken to a factory where their remains are disposed of and the chemicals released from the procedure are captured and used ...
- 2820: Personal Writing: "Do You Want To Go To Space Camp This Summer?"
- ... I take this trip. However, I had never been to America or taken a trip by myself, before I went to Space Camp in Alabama. I was scared and worried, but, in the end, the great experiences at Space Camp had a significant effect on my ability to make American friends, my decision to study in the United States, and my career goals. First, it was really fun and interesting to ... a year, and I send him Christmas cards. From th is experience, I learned that despite different languages, we still can understand each other and be good friends. After camp I realized how it is great to study in the United States and to know another culture. Then I went back to Japan and spent my next three years in a Japanese junior high school. However, I simply could not forget ... made a lot of friends and enjoyed classes, trips and activities very much. After summer school, I visited some other schools, but in the end I decided on Cushing Academy. As the result of the great experiences I had at Space Camp, I became interested in studying international cultures. Since I have been at Cushing Academy, I have been looking to lessen the cultural differences here. I am president of ...
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