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- 8911: Computers In Society
- ... been cutting ourselves off from our peers, friends, relatives, and the world around us. It began with the telephone. A new and innovative way that we could talk to our friends and loved ones from great distances, while the calling and receiving parties were both in their own homes. Then came the radio. A new and innovative way to listen to the sounds of other cultures, and those tunes we loved ...
- 8912: The Life of Ian Fleming
- ... open doors". The Fleming family earned their social stripes with service and blood. Ian's father was a service-oriented land-owner in Oxfordshire and a member of Parliament. When Valentine Fleming died in the Great War, Ian was almost nine. Winston Churchill wrote the obituary for the Times. Fleming's mother, Evelyn St. Croix Rose Fleming, inherited Valentine's large estate in trust, making her a very wealthy woman. The ...
- 8913: Drug Abuse
- By: ARMZ Drug Abuse Drug abuse affects all of us in our daily lives. It ruins families and destroys relationships. Teens especially are prone to drug abuse due to immense peer pressure, everyday stress, and depression. Marijuana use is on the rise everywhere, and with marijuana comes the harder drugs, making drug abuse an important and critical issue in the world today. There are many issues on different drugs but one ...
- 8914: Christamas
- ... of their income. As Christmas has been as commercialized as it has, with the "pressure" to buy at least one gift to each person, gladly an expensive one, the whole Nowember and December are a great celebration for the shopkeepers. There is no time at the year when they make that much money. So even if it looks like the stores want us to get the right Christmas atmosphere by having ...
- 8915: William Carlos Williams: A Poet On A Mission
- ... Flowers, says the romantic young man, are the subject of William Carlos Williams' poems; familiar ordinary things, says the critic" (3). Many readers looked for lofty poetry laced with symbolism and gorgeous thoughts. Because this great fairy-tale style poetry was the main product of the time, Williams' works were often misunderstood and overlooked. The people expected a glamorous type of writing, but what he gave them was a plain style ...
- 8916: The Life and Work of Washington Irving
- ... 1609-1664). Irving's mocking tone and funny descriptions of early American life offset the nationalism in much American writing of the time. Generally considered the first important contribution to American comic literature, and a great popular success from the start. The work brought Irving lots of fame and financial reward. In 1815 Irving went to Liverpool, England, as a silent partner in his brothers' commercial firm. When, after a series ...
- 8917: Personal Writing: The Current
- ... interview with him, “I only have one friend I can truly trust. I can always count on this friend to be there for me and give me help when I need help the most. This great friend is my canoe.” Works Cited 1. Angier, Bradford, and Zack Taylor. Introduction to Canoeing. Harrisburg: Stackpole Books, 1973. 2. Elvedt, Ruth. Canoeing: A to Z. Minneapolis: Burgess Publishing Company, 1964. 3. Keys, Earl. Personal ...
- 8918: Biography of Rasputin
- ... of Rasputin's many prophecies proved to be true. Rasputin was most definitely one of the main causes of the overthrow of the czarist government and the rise of Bolshevism. One is reminded of the great French Revolution which began in 1789. When early acts of violence were reported to the weak French king, Louis XVI, he is to exclaimed, “Why, this is a revolt!” A more discerning rejoinder was, “No ...
- 8919: Confused In America
- ... air ticket to go home. To comfort myself I thought of a principle by which I have been doing things these days: Just fight and fumble in America to get whatever I can, with my great motherland backing me up. The worst of it is to go back to go on being a professor and moonli ghter and in any case, I will still be among the para-middle-class. As ...
- 8920: Biography of Samuel Clemens
- ... he was in a strange world that had developed so much from his small town of Hannibal. “My heart is in my own century,” Twain said,”but I wish the twentieth well.” There were other great phrases that he said, such as: “I was young and foolish and now I'm old and foolish.” Twain churned out quotable phrases like a cigar churns out smoke. Clemens eventually bought a house on ...
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