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- 5771: Malcolm X
- ... take care of eight children and endure threats from the KKK, suffered a nervous breakdown. As a result, Malcolm and his siblings were taken by the welfare department. Malcolm was later enrolled in a reform school and did very well grade wise. He was the best student in his class and wanted to become a lawyer. When the school heads heard about this, they sent a person to talk to Malcolm. This person told and convinced Malcolm that he was black and that he could never become a lawyer because of it. As a ...
- 5772: Isaac Newton
- ... the perfect time for a scientific revolution like the one Newton created (Anthony, 82). Nevertheless, it was not easy for him to gain the knowledge and background necessary for great discoveries. He was sent to school at Grantham at age 12, where his mechanical proficiency excited some attention. He used this ability to build sundials, windmills, and clocks that were surprisingly accurate. However, he was not a prodigy, as is shown by school reports of him being "idle and inattentive". In 1656 he returned home to learn the business of a farmer, as was requested by his mother, but spent most of his time solving problems, making experiments ...
- 5773: Exotica - Character Analysis
- ... where we are introduced to Francis (Bruce Greenwood), the tax auditor. At first, we assume he is a typical man seeking entertainment of a sexual nature from the young and innocent, (as depicted by her "school girl" ensemble) Christina (Mia Kirshner). However, as the story develops we find that Francis has a more honorable reason for attending this club. The narrative slowly reveals a man torn by the murder of his ... nor the desire to touch Christina. What he needs from her is not physical but merely mental alleviation. Christina represents the proverbial daughter as she acts as a reminder of Francis' lost child through her "school girl" apparel as well as her 'link' in the past to his family. As Francis watches her dance he imagines her as his own daughter thus making his memory of her a reality. This is ...
- 5774: Babe Ruth
- ... before he was known well by local police. When he was 7, Kate and her husband finally decided they could no longer tend to the mischievous boy, and brought him to St. Mary's Industrial School for Boys. Despite his crying and begging to be brought home, his custody was singed over to a group of strange men dressed in black robes. Though he didn't realize it at the time ... 6'6'' and well built to about 250 pounds, which meant he could accomplish any objective without raising his voice or using physical force. The first time George swung a baseball bat was at the school. He knew then he was to be a hitter. He said to a friend, "It was one of those things you could just feel." Brother Mathias taught him to be a better ball player. He ...
- 5775: Rabindranath Tagore
- ... and plays. His Collected Poems and Plays was published in 1966. He also composed several hundred popular songs. In 1929 he also began painting. Rabindranath Tagore was a dedicated internationalist and educator. He established a school in 1901 in his estate in Bengal. He did this to teach a blend of eastern and western philosophies. His school was expanded into an international university in 1921 called Visva-Bharati. He also lectured and traveled throughout the world. Rabindranath Tagore wrote primarily in Bengali, but translated a number of his works into English himself ...
- 5776: Evil - By Edgar Alan Poe
- ... a dark and macabre feel to them. His beliefs on God and morals also had much to do with the way he wrote. He did not attend church or believe his stories should carry some high moral purpose. He believed that the church and morals in stories were just man's way of trying to interpret what God wanted. He believed that his critics, including members of the church, had no ... decides that the cat must have fled the house when he saw what was happening. A few days later the police come to the house to search for the wife fearing foul play. They searched high and low but found no signs of foul play. They were just on their way out when the man started going on about how well the house was built. In attempt to prove his point ...
- 5777: Cdr
- ... will encounter throughout this report are: CD-ROM – Compact Disk Read Only Memory, (non recordable CD) CDR – Recordable Compact Disk Floppy disk – a square 3 ½ inch disk, with a capacity of 1.4mb Cartridge – A high capacity form of storage, slightly larger than a floppy disk Byte - The way that data is measured MB – megabyte, (1,000 bytes) Gig – gigabyte, (1,000mb) Piracy – The illegal reproduction of copyrighted material. Factors influencing ... 900 Tape 4 – 8gig $100 Medium Floppy 3 ½ inch disk drive $20 - $30 3 ½ inch floppy disk 1.44mb $2 Short As this table shows, the economic benefits of CDR are obvious. Low cost and high capacity. When it comes to sociological benefits, you can not put a price on the ability to freely read and write up to 650mb of data on one storage media, that has a longer shelf ...
- 5778: Reform Judaism In The 19th Cen
- ... Jewish law but storehouses of wisdom and ethics (Gay 155). Illustrations of commandments that he rejected during this time period were the celebration of Shabbat on Saturday. The reason for this was there was normal school on Saturdays and the Jews felt school was more important than observing the word of God (Gay 155). Holdheim also went a little far fetched and said that he couldn't find anything wrong with intermarriage , even though the Torah clearly states ...
- 5779: Camera Techniques Used In Shakespeare In Love
- ... use of words. The next technique was the angle of shot, which can make the viewer feel more powerful than the character or can exaggerate the characters importance, depending on which angle is used. A high angle shot was used in the scene in which Will and Lord Wessex dual. A low angle shot was used to show the Queen importance. The final technique that was used in the film to ... of reality. The silent scenes in the film helped to intensify our attention and gave us a feeling of anxiousness. Included in the silent scenes was music; there was no dialogue but either low or high volumes of music. The musical selections were important because they had no lyrics; they were strictly instrumental which made the scenes more intense and more meaningful. The combination of all of these techniques made for ...
- 5780: HITLER, Adolf (1889-1945)
- ... as young Hitler wrote later, "the thought of slaving in an office made me ill . . . not to be master of my own time." Passively defying his father, the self-willed boy filled most of his school hours with daydreams of becoming a painter. His one school interest was history, especially that of the Germans. When his teacher glorified Germany's role, "we would sit there enraptured and often on the verge of tears." From boyhood he was devoted to Wagner's ...
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