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- 2511: John D. Rockefeller: Obsession Into Success
- ... accounts of his early life and family exist, so it is difficult to pinpoint these influences. Rockefeller seemed to make his fortune with hardly any effort; a brief outline is appropriate. After dropping out of high school and serving a clerical apprenticeship, Rockefeller went into business, forming a produce house with one partner and $4,000 of capital between them. In its first year its gross income was $450,000, with a ... newly-freed subsidiaries. In 1906 Standard Oil's railroad rebate schemes were discovered and the company was fined $29.2 million. The judge, luckily for Rockefeller, had made an incompetent decision (his fine was too high by at least an order of magnitude) and the decision was reversed in a higher court. Standard Oil paid nothing. In the year following the 1892 decision, Rockefeller donated over $1.5 million to ...
- 2512: Of Mice And Men
- ... San Francisco with his family and more frequent trips to the Monterey peninsula (Fontenrose 2). In 1918, he became ill with pneumonia and almost died, but he was able to recover. After graduating from Salinas High School in 1919, Steinbeck enrolled at Stanford University, taking courses in English and Marine Science (Bloom 11). He was always an excellent student, eager to learn both in and out of school, interested in books, music, science, religion, and sports (Fontenrose 3). During this time, he worked as a sales clerk, farm laborer, ranch hand, and factory worker, and left Stanford permanently in the fall of ...
- 2513: Taoism
- ... way, and follows the divine Way, will live a good life and also a good afterlife. Taoism has been steadily in decline for many years (Hume 148). The old estimates of Chinese Taoists ran as high as fifty million, but no one really knows how many Taoists are left. The estimates for U.S. Taoists range from 10,000 to 15,000 (Gaer 148). Taoism has changed over the years and ... and the measures of moral principles. Even with some of the lost beliefs, Taoism still has some of its original concepts (Hume 148). Modern Taoists have two schools, a Northern and a Southern. The Northern school emphasizes meditation and metaphysical speculation, and practices breathing exercises. The Southern school is headed by a so-called pope, who is in charge of all the priests (Hodous 139). Even though Taoism is on the verge of extinction, there are still temples to worship the religion ...
- 2514: Woodrow Wilson
- ... Wilson went to private schools his whole adolescent life. When Wilson went to college, he studied to be a politician. Later Wilson decided he wanted to become a lawyer, this failed so he enrolled in school to study history. Over time, Wilson gained a lot of respect and rose to high places because of his essays and public addresses. As the University President, Wilson resigned and looked into the Democratic point of view on politics. Wilson moved on to become the 28th President of the United ... a part of history that needed one. Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924). Bibliography The History of American President's CD ROM. (c)1994. Westing House. Encarta 95 & 97 Encyclopedia. (c)1994-1997 Microsoft. US History Book. (School Edition)
- 2515: Hemingways For Whom The Bell T
- ... fishing in the north woods of Michigan, a period of his childhood which left important impressions later reflected in several of his short stories such as "Up in Michigan" and "Big Two Hearted River." In high school, Ernest edited the school newspaper, excelled in football and boxing, and ran away from home twice. Upon his graduation, seventeen year old Hemingway headed to Kansas City to enlist in World War I, in outright defiance of his ...
- 2516: Manuel Noriega
- ... wealthy, powerful, a political asset, and finally a threat to the United States National Security. Manuel Noriega was born in 1934 in Panama City, Panama. Noriega grew up very poor and could not afford any high level of education. Like most who could not afford schooling he attended a military college in Peru. His schooling in Peru would ultimately give him his start to gaining contacts, friends, and most importantly American ... throughout Central America, and third world countries further extending the arm of Communism and the reach of the Soviet Union. During the same time Castro took control of Cuba, Noriega was in the Peruvian military school. America fearing that these third world military schools would be a breeding ground for future communist leaders, implanted many agents to keep watch over them. One of these recruitment s would be Manuel Noriega. America ... Arias who ironically was Noriega s hero when growing up. After the coup in 1968, and under the power of Omar Torrijos, Noriega became lieutenant colonel and was also appointed Chief of Military Intelligence. The high status in the field of military intelligence is where his assistance was even more sought after. America still trying to gain information on the Communist movement still employed Noriega to supply information on Castro ...
- 2517: Oleg Vladmirovich Penkovsky
- ... these various and complex inquiries one must start at the beginning. Oleg Penkovsky was born in a small town on the 23rd of April in 1919. By 1939 he had graduated from a Soviet military school and had been part of a group called Komosomol, meaning "young communists." He also went to war serving as a unit commander of an artillery unit. Penkovsky was decorated four times during his 1939-1940 ... not give up that much valuable information just for the sake of one man (Knightly 315). Further speculation brings another idea to light. The idea that Penkovsky was a mere pawn in a game of high stakes diplomacy where the loser was Penkovsky. There may have been high-ranking Soviet officials that did not agree with Krushchev and all his boasting. They may have felt that he was leading them towards nuclear war with the United States. These same individuals could have ...
- 2518: Genetic Engineering, History and Future: Altering the Face of Science
- ... taken Mother Nature millions of years of natural selection to develop. Isolating and removing a desired gene from a DNA strand involves many different tools. DNA can be broken up by exposing it to ultra-high-frequency sound waves, but this is an extremely inaccurate way of isolating a desirable DNA section (Stableford 26). A more accurate way of DNA splicing is the use of "restriction enzymes, which are produced by ... their natural counterparts" (Davis, Rouche 70). In fact the RAC reports that "there has not been a single case of illness or harm caused by recombinant [engineered] bacteria, and they now are used safely in high school experiments" (Davis, Rouche 69). Scientists have also devised other methods of preventing bacteria from escaping their labs, such as modifying the bacteria so that it will die if it is removed from the laboratory ...
- 2519: Genetic Observations Through The Studies of Hybrid Corn, Single Gene Human Traits, and Fruit Flies
- ... wrinkled seeds. Their expected values were 451.5 smooth seeds and 150.5 wrinkled seeds (see figure 1). The chi-squared value was used to interpret data, and the value for chi-squared was too high. Therefore, it was rejected (see figure 1). This test can be used to see how well data fits a theoretical exception. The expected frequency can be found by multiplying the punnett square phenotypic ratios by ... four different traits rather than just two. The Null hypothesis expected a 9:3:3:1 ratio, which it did not have. Both the monohybrid and dihybrid crosses had chi-squaered values that were too high. Therefore, both Null hypothesis were rejected. This may have been due to an observational error. The kernels may have been miscounted or interpreted wrong. The monohybrid corn cross illustrated Mendels Law of Segregation, and ... and Floyd V. Monaghan. 1993. Gregor Mendels Experiments on Plant Hybrids. Rutgers University Press, New Jersey, pp. 45-46, 76, 105-112, 133. Davis, M. 1996. Genetics. LBS 144 Laboratory Manual. The Lyman Briggs School, Michigan State University, East Lansing, pp. 25-36.
- 2520: Ordinary People Vs. The Catche
- ... to give them strength for the test they call life. In Catcher in the Rye, Holden loses his brother Allie at a young age just like Conrad. He cannot find a meaning in life afterwards. School and friends don t matter to him anymore and he wanders through the city of New York searching for some kind of answer. In both books the characters are teenagers and still full of youth ... Pency has been molding boys into splendid, clear-thinking young men. Holden comments by saying: Strictly for the birds. They don t do and damn more molding at Pency than they do at any other school. And I didn t know anybody there that was splendid and clear-thinking and all. Maybe two guys. If that many. And they probably came to Pency that way. (2) I feel sorry for both ... depending on the person who suffers the loss. Both characters handled this loss in the best way they knew possible. They both and up days and down days where their emotions were like rollercoasters rising high and falling low with rapidly. In conclusion, the missing link in the lives of both boys was right in front of them the whole time. They both solved their problems with the help of ...
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