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- 5781: Mark Twain (1835-1910)
- Mark Twain (1835-1910) A onetime printer and Mississippi River boat pilot, Mark Twain became one of America's greatest authors. His 'Tom Sawyer', 'Huckleberry Finn', and 'Life on the Mississippi' rank high on any list of great American books. Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens on Nov. 30, 1835, in the small town of Florida, Mo. He was the fourth of five children. His father was ... a highly respected novelist, became his close friend and literary adviser. Twain bought a publishing firm in Hartford, Conn. He earned much money writing, lecturing, and in his publishing house, but he spent it on high living and unsuccessful investments. He lost a fortune promoting a typesetting machine. By 1894 his publishing company had failed and he was bankrupt. Twain set out on a world lecture tour to retrieve his fortune ...
- 5782: Muscle Cars
- ... called hot roders. They where striving for the need for speed, the three big car makers thought they should get in to racing and they did . In 1961 they started producing factory race cars with high horsepower and lots of light weight items to increase speed . These cars were raced by people that worked all week long and raced on the week end . The cars changed from cars intended to be ... 28 Camaro and the Boss 302 Mustang . Dodge and Plymouth also had a factory race car called Dodge Polara 426 which was called the Ramchargers, the Plymouth Belvedere 426 Super Stocks. Some of the other high performance engines were the 426 Max Wedge, 426 Hemi , or 440 Six-Pak . Dodge Viper is the muscle car of the 90s. This sports car has a V-10 and has a top speed ...
- 5783: Motivation
- ... guidelines. Firstly, managers must recognise that there are a variety of different needs that motivate employees and that in order to target these needs managers must encourage employee input. For example those employees who posses high power distance must be given opportunities to exert this influence while employees with high achievement needs must be given opportunities to excel at work. Lawler shares this sentiment in "Choose the Right Management Style" when referring to the management style known as, Involvement-Orientated Approach. In turn these requirements ...
- 5784: The Advantages Of Wealth
- ... already has an advantage. This however, is just the tip of the iceberg as advantages go. The addition of wealth to a family unit has further consequences for the families' children all the way through school and into the child's adult life where the family acts as a safety net. Starting with elementary and secondary education the ability of a family to choose schools for its offspring allows the parents ... of teenagers today. In contrast, the counterpart child will remain sheltered from the realities of life and be able to concentrate energies on growing up and learning. Assuming that both sets of children excel at school at wish to attend university the gap between them will grow. With good grades, the child of the wealthy family will have the advantage of being funded by his family while he attends the college ...
- 5785: Childhood Socialization
- ... up to most and rely on for opinions and thoughts. Other ways to socialize children is through activities with other children of a variety of backgrounds. This can be accomplished by way of play-groups, school, after school programs, extra-cirricular activities and clubs. These sorts of experiences are fun for and at the same time it opens up children's minds to different types of cultures, races, ethnic groups through various friends ...
- 5786: Socrates
- ... One of the reasons I began teaching was to make money. Also, I had to deal with many peoples constant hatred of me, mainly due to my victories in debates against them. Some, with high political positions, even wanted me dead at points of my life. And one even succeeded. So, you see, no matter how simple and easy going my life may seem, there are quite a few difficulties ... I realized that there was no way out. True I could have argued with the court and won. I could have escaped using the plan devised by my dear friends. But since there was a high-ranking leader who wanted me dead, it was going to happen no matter what. Furthermore, my governmental beliefs stand true in all situations; the law should be followed and that is all. There was not ...
- 5787: Using Nuclear Power
- ... then turned this destructive power into huge plants generating "clean and cheap " electricity for the country . It was called progress. Progress also brought with it sickness , mutations , cancer and eventually death to those exposed to high levels of radiation . Government declared that nuclear power is safe and efficient . Also have big Oil corporations who have a lot of money invested in nuclear power and want to see as many plants as ... plants . The average nuclear power plant contains more than 200,000 to 300,000 times the radioactive materials that are in standard nuclear warheads . Radioactivity destroys life , especially human life . A person exposed to a high level of radiation will die within 48 hours of exposure either due to infectious diseases caused by the destruction of the body's immune system from the radiation or by massive tissue bleeding . Humans above ...
- 5788: Margaret Atwood`s The Handmaid's Tale
- ... The Handmaid's Tale This is a futuristic novel that takes place in northern USA sometime in the beginning of the twenty-first century, in the oppressive and totalitarian Republic of Gilead. The regime demands high moral, retribution and a virtuous lifestyle. The Bible is the guiding principle. As a result of the sexual freedom, free abortion and a high increase of venereal diseases at the end of the twentieth century, many women, (and men also, but that is forbidden to say), are sterile. The women, who are still fertile, are recruited as Handmaids, and ...
- 5789: Castro
- ... Fidel Castro. Born near Biran Cuba he grew up on his mother And fathers 200 acre sugar cane plantation (Groiler 1996 n. Page). When Castro turned age six he was sent away to a parochial school for children of the Aflon in Santiago where he was known to be a little bit of a hell raiser. Although he was very capiable of doing his work, he was reluctant to do so if it didn't interest him. After years of struggling through school Castro then attended the University of Havana where he graduated with a low degree on 1950 (One Biography n. Page) many of his friends and associated pushed him to become a member of the orthodox ...
- 5790: Compare Two Biographies Of Wayne Gretzky
- ... the greater. But behind the success, did you know how much Gretzky put on the hockey. In the winter, Gretzky would get in the mourning, skated from seven o' clock to eight- thirty, went to school, came back home at three thirty, stayed on the ice until his mother ready the dinner, ate in his skater, then went back out until nine o' clock. On Saturday and Sundays, he would have ... Toronto Young Nationals, Junior B. The years in Toronto were no way for a kid. He was lonely, living without family. But why Gretzky chose to do this? It was because he could go to school and nobody knew who he was and he would play better hockey. So now we can see how Gretzky was so successful. We could clearly see the omission between these tow book. It was because ...
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