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- 3451: Katherine Anne Porter
- ... s first visit to the circus. The main character, a young girl named Miranda, gets very upset when she sees a clown, with a horrid expression on his face, almost fall off a thin wire high in the air. Dicey, Miranda's older relative, is ordered by Miranda's father to take Miranda home. Dicey is very upset about missing the circus. Later that evening, Miranda's family returns joyfully. Miranda ... goes through many changes. His Uncle David, gives him balloons as presents, which interest Stephen greatly because of his deprived childhood. Soon after Stephen arrives at his grandmother's house, he begins to go to school where he becomes fond of a girl named Frances. Stephen begins to steal balloons and lemonade for her so she will continue to like him. His grandmother's servant, Old Janet, becomes aware of Stephen ...
- 3452: Herman Melville: An Anti- Transcendentalist Or Not
- ... Herman Melville felt from his mother. This was one of the first symbolists to the Biblical Ishamel. In 1837 he shipped to Liverpool as a cabin boy. Upon returning to the U.S. he taught school and then sailed for the South Seas in 1841 on the whaler Acushnet. After an 18 month voyage he deserted the ship in the Marquesas Islands and with a companion lived for a month among ... This he has accomplished by writing stories, which had a depth, an essence of their own. Melville was not o much concerned with the commercial success of his works, but that was still a very high contributing factor to the motivation behind his writings. Although he mainly drew on his personal experiences while formulating the stories that he wrote, he greatly embellished them through his imagination and creativity to create literary ...
- 3453: Fermentation
- ... next several years Pasteur identified and isolated the specific microorganisms responsible for normal and abnormal fermentations in production of wine, beer, and vinegar. He showed that if wine, beer, and milk were heated to moderately high temperatures for a few minutes, microorganisms would be killed and thereby sterilize (pasteurize), the batches and prevent their degradation. If pure cultures of microbes and yeasts were added to sterile mashes uniform, predictable fermentations would ... essential for the fermentation, but it cannot act alone. A coenzyme, conveniently called co-zymase, works along with apozymase to bring about the alcoholic fermentation of sugar. The co-enzyme is able to withstand very high temperatures and avoid being denatured, which allows the enzyme to work efficiently in many environments. In addition to these two components, phosphorus is needed. There are still many other steps in the production of ethyl ... occurs - starches and sugars are converted into carbon dioxide and ethyl alcohol. The only difference between wine and bread other than one being a liquid and one being a solid is that bread bakes in high temperatures. When wine is stored, it is stored in somewhat low cellar temperatures not coming near the boiling point of ethanol, 78.5 degrees Celsius. In the oven this temperature is far exceeded. The ...
- 3454: Fashionably Loud
- ... lower than two hundred dollars, has become a must in ones wardrobe coming from Vogue. All of these Magazines also played a large role in what I choose to wear, all through middle and high school all of us girls would bring in our Magazines for the month. We would observe what the models were wearing and thought it was just the coolest thing ever. So naturally we all wanted to ...
- 3455: The Life of Elizabeth Blackwell
- ... was to help others and she decided that the best way for her to fulfill her dream was to go to college and become a physician. When they got to America, her mother opened a school. Elizabeth taught for many years although she did not enjoy it. A few years later, she decided to do what no woman had ever done before... attend medical school. She applied to many schools. Twenty-nine of them denied her acceptance. But Geneva Medical School of New York accepted her. Unfortunately, it turned out that they only voted her in as a joke because they did not believe a woman was capable of being a doctor. After two years ...
- 3456: Fordism And Scientific Managem
- ... problems. Fordism proved particularly suitable to manufacturing in a mass consumption economy, required only occasional innovation of new products and used machines that only made specific goods. Often, these were of low-quality, low-value, high-volume nature, and competition was price based. Low quality could easily become poor quality; workers were poorly motivated with resulting high labor turnover and absenteeism; and coordinating the flow of materials through production processes was difficult (Wood, 1993). Fordism led to massive increases in productivity in certain industries, but the human cost was significant. At one ... be completed and impose strict guidelines upon employees and their job descriptions. This has led to a great deal of dissatisfaction among employees in production lines with alienation and monotony of workers that encouraged a high turnover of employees at organisations that imposed these techniques. Henry Ford developed much of his conceptions upon Taylors ideas of scientific management. These theories imply that contemporary organisations and their managers should take ...
- 3457: John Kennedy
- ... started out by going to a couple of Public schools in Brookline. He later moved onto Private schools in Riverdale, New York, and Wallingford, Connecticut. In the years 1935 and 1936 John attended the London School of Economics. Later on in 1940 at Harvard University he graduated with honors. John also did some graduate work in economics at Stanford, the prestigious university. In his college thesis he wrote "Why England Slept ... In 1962 James Meredith, whom was surrounded by US marshals, was escorted onto the University Of Mississippi campus. When a riot broke out due to the racism of whites against this colored man going to school at the college, two people were killed and some two hundred marshals and National Guardsmen were injured. President Kennedy was In favor of the desegregation of schools and public places. John was a civil rights ... sat in the front seat. Since it was a nice day the top was down on the convertible and the windows rolled down. Suddenly shots were fired at the president from the seven story Texas School Book Depository. The first hit John in the throat. Connally was also wounded by that same bullet through the back, came out his chest and got lodged in his thigh. Another shot was fired, ...
- 3458: Jim Henson, a Gentle Genius
- ... Henson created the muppets which led to his great success with children. Henson was very successful in life. He accomplished many things that people might dream of as a child. His success first started in high school when his family first moved to Washington and he became fascinated by television. In the summer of 1954, just before he entered the University of Maryland he learned that a local station needed someone to ...
- 3459: James Cameron
- ... Kubrick s 2001: A Space Odyssey, and he drew himself crazy trying to figure out how they had shot that film. Cameron also wrote sci-fi stories and fantasized a lot instead of doing his school work. It was actually during one boring biology class that Cameron wrote a short story which would later become the movie The Abyss. When Cameron was 17, his family moved to Orange County, California because ... 5 million the first week, but box office dropped steadily as the weeks went by. It settled with a total domestic gross of $150 million which was not that impressive when the budget was as high as $125 million. The total world gross went up to $350 million. Cameron had, since the middle of the eighties, thought about during a kind of sci-fi movie taking place a couple of days ...
- 3460: Sean Gagnon
- ... he was the one that had gotten in the end. But by looking at Gagnon (gon- yoe) he is definately all grown up. The skinny kid who once stood 180 cm as a junior in high school is now a 189 cm, 96 kg monster with a very mean steak. He just happens to play ice hockey for a living. Only this time, he is the one beating everyone up. Gagnon has ...
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