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- 4111: Albert Einstein
- ... where he had originally studied. It was not until 1914 that Einstein was tempted to return to Germany to become research director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics. World War I had a strong effect on Einstein. While the rest of Germany supported the army, he felt the war was unnecessary, and disgusting. The new weapons of war which attempted to mass slaughter people caused him to devote much of ...
- 4112: Andrew Carnegie On The Gospel
- ... all of these problems of social difference, that the poor would also advance with the times, thus diminishing the difference slowly but surely. As the rich get richer they bring up the standard and, in effect, the poor with them as the economy grows. The government comes up with a way to run money that is suited to be in the best interest of the most possible people. In the end ...
- 4113: George Meade
- ... Monterey, and Veracruz. During these he served under General Zachory Taylor. To sum up, General George Meade accomplished many things during his time at war. Each of General George Meade's accomplishments had one major effect on how life is today. To start, if Meade had not defeated Lee at the Second Battle of Bull Run the war would not have started off positively for the North. This was important because ...
- 4114: Karl Marx
- ... the increase in prices of goods resulting from it, the people of the society hoard their money which, because that money is out of circulation, causes more money to be printed. The one increases the effect of the other and thus, the downward spiral. Marx views revolution with two perspectives. One takes the attitude that revolution should be a great uprising like that of the French revolution. The other "conception" is ...
- 4115: Analysis Of King Lear
- ... part that he has some guilt in the matter. After the storm, when Lear's madness has run its course, both he and Cordelia are taken prisoner by Albany's army. We see the full effect of Lear's transformation in his joy at his reunion with his daughter, uncaring of his status as a prisoner: "He that parts us shall bring a brand from heaven, And fire us hence like ...
- 4116: Frank Lloyd Wright
- ... of a many different materials, the house was intended by Wright to have a homey feeling, a feeling of unity. The light fixtures and other items were built into the house to keep the unity effect alive. The house was designed and built between 1906 and 1910, and is located in Chicago. The building was commissioned by Frederick C. Robie, a 30 year old engineer at the time he approached Wright ...
- 4117: Ernest Hemingway - The Man And
- ... the society. It is interesting that Hemingway became the best chronicler of the lost generation, for he hated them and took no part in it. (Hotchner 188) Perhaps the one situation that had the most effect on Ernest Hemingway was his father committing suicide. Ernest had never had a good relationship with father. In the novel For Whom the Bell Tolls, the hero Jordan touches on the subject of his father ...
- 4118: Edgar Allan Poe
- ... the narrator, his crowning act of perversity, is reminiscent of the crazed killer of the old man in "The Tell-Tale Heart," who had succeeded in hiding his atrocity, only to betray himself in direst effect, again to the police. Later, we shall see a similar psychological imolation performed by the narrator on himself in "The Imp of the Perverse." "The Black Cat" illustrates many manifestations and vehicles which the perverse ...
- 4119: Bill Gates
- ... Apple's Macintosh only controlled 9% of the market(Schlender 40). "The PC story would be far different if Apple had licensed its operating system software to other computer makers early on"(Cook 64). In effect, they had a monopoly on their own system and software. Their lack of competition kept prices up and software selection down. Apple has just recently licensed some Macintosh operating systems to other companies. Microsoft has ...
- 4120: Ben Franklin
- ... fish, tropical birds and herons. He even examined fog and conceived several theories about it. In addition to his research, Franklin was a prolific writer of scientific observations. He wrote about his observations on the effect of oil on water, the cause of the Aurora Borealis, water spouts, whirlwinds and thunderstorms, the direction of rivers and tides, salt and seawater, sunspots, heat absorption by the color of an object, magnetism and ...
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