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- 6001: A. A. Milne
- ... tales never failed to create a utopian setting. A. A. Milne was born on January 18, 1882. His parents were John Vine Milne and Sarah Marie Milne. (Second Plays) As a child, he attended the school for young boys that his father ran. Milne was never terribly close to his mother and would often eschew her. Milne referred to her as restfully aloof. (Page at Pooh Corner) His parents had three children, all sons. Milne was the youngest and often wished he had a sister. At the school he attended, Henley House, he had teachers that included H. G. Wells, who undoubtedly helped ignite his flame for writing. (The Oxford Companion to English Literature) As you can see, he was exposed to writing ...
- 6002: 1984
- ... goods by consuming them. Overproduction and equal distribution of goods would allow true socialism, which the party was never interested in from the beginning. The Party realizes that throughout history a society divides itself into high, middle, and low classes. The high class is maintained by keeping the middle and low classes in constant drudgery and everyone is kept content by means of "doublethink" and "newspeak." The only peace war creates is reserved for the government. 5 ...
- 6003: Origins and Bibliography of the Big Bang Theory
- ... are estimated to be quite heavy. Their rest-mass energies are on the order of 50 to 100 times the mass of the proton, and their observation should become possible with the next generation of high-energy accelerators. So far, the Weinberg-Salam theory has passed every unambiguous test to which it has been subjected. Weinberg and Salam shared the 1979 Nobel Prize for physics for their model. Many other unified ... role, including quasars (1963), the 3-kelvin microwave background radiation (1965), pulsars (1967), and the possible discovery of black holes (1971). In addition, the rapid technological advances of the 1960s and '70s gave experimenters new high-precision tools to test whether general relativity was the correct theory of gravitation. The distinction between special relativity and the curved space-time of general relativity is largely a matter of degree. Special relativity is ...
- 6004: Billy Sunday
- ... and Great Interest Manifested." This headline resulted in the town preparing and having everything ready for Billy when he arrived so he could start preaching. There were some newspapers that didn't give Billy such high praise like the Truth Seeker, a national left-wing periodical. The Truth Seeker called Billy, " a baseball player turned preacher who was entrancing thousands of Protestant evangelicals." At the same time many other newspapers were ... 3. The shake-my-hand-method of dealing with inquirers; 4. Overemphasis on statistics and their exaggeration; 5. The "vulgar display" of gifts presented to the revivalists by visiting delegations at each service; 6. The high-pressure methods used to obtain his farewell offering. As the press coverage got worse controversy about Billy grew. There were threats made on his life and police arrested many hecklers at the revivals. Everywhere Billy ...
- 6005: Albert Einstein
- ... Einstein was born March 14, 1879 in Germany. His family owned a small business that manufactured electric machinery. The business failed and they left Germany. Albert was fifteen years old and he dropped out of school. When Albert was five when he received his first compass and he began to investigate the world. Little did he know that that compass would make him famous. By the age of ten he becomes so fascinated by the world of science he self-educates himself to learn as much as possible. Albert then went to a secondary school in Switzerland. Albert felt that the academics and education were not satisfying enough so he started cutting his classes and used all his free time to learn about physics. He had learned so much that ...
- 6006: Hillary Clinton
- ... youth group, and was also a Girl Scout. As First Lady, she currently serves as honorary President of the Girls Scouts of America. After graduating from Wellesley College in 1969, Hillary enrolled in Yale Law School, where she developed her strong concern for protecting the interests of children and families, and served on the Board of Editors of the Yale Review of Law and Social Action. While she was there, she ... that time, she worked as a full-time partner of a law firm, founded Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, introduced Arkansas' Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youth, chaired an education committee that set public school standards in Arkansas, managed a home, and cared for her husband and child. She also founded the Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families and served on the board of the Arkansas Children's Hospital. In ...
- 6007: Corporate Finance
- ... adopt someone else's way of doing business. And when you start to form a third culture out of the fabric two equally strong companies, the task is enormous, especially if your trying to maintain high performance in the marketplace at the same time" (Leonard). To deal with any problems, special task-oriented teams are organized who will specialize in this area. Step 9 deals with financing and finally, the tenth ... growth strategies. Today's business environment is being dominated by mergers and fast growth. In order be a player in the highly competitive markets, expansion of firms is necessary. It is almost impossible to achieve high profitability all alone. This growth is achieved through new product development, acquisition of new plants and more machinery, and business development activities. Firms are merging due to pressures from their competitors. Corporations today must understand ...
- 6008: Resident Physician Stress And
- ... responsibility. The daily actions of ordering medication, following outcomes of tests and communicating with patients and their families all fall upon the resident. The resident is still supervised by the attending physician. As during medical school, residents must learn to manage enormous amounts of information, new research, treatment protocols and processes of medical practice. This requires a great deal of study-time, as well as time in lecture, discussion groups, and ... monitor the impaired physician's fitness to work. Medical schools around the country are recognizing that young doctors need help with personal demands as they enter the roles as caregivers. The University of South Carolina School of Medicine launched a special final month called Capstone. Capstone month brings the senior class back together for a series of lectures on some nontraditional topics: physician burnout, the medical marriage, how to deal with ...
- 6009: Abe Lincoln
- ... her own. Abe and Sarah quickly grew to love their new stepmother, who kept an immaculate house and even pushed Abe to do his studies. At age eleven, Abe was to required to go to school regularly when there was a teacher, and whenever this was, Abe got to walk a beautiful four miles each way which he did not mind. Though his lifetime of schooling never amounted to more than a year, he was always reading, which kept him up at the pace of the other kids who went to school all the time. Many called him lazy because of his constant reading and thinking, which just made Abe grin. By the time he was fifteen, he was a tall and strong boy who worked as ...
- 6010: Sir Wilfrid Laurier of Canada
- ... young lad went to college, De L'assomption. In his studies he took subjects such as Latin, Latin classics, pre- revolutionary French literature, Greek, English and some philosophy. The education which Laurier got from this school was to prepare him for priesthood but he decided to study law in Montreal at McGill University. At the University Laurier was very hard working and serious to try to accomplish his first major goal ... the francophone community. On July 13, 1896 Laurier became the Prime Minister of Canada. He was the first Prime Minister to be French. During his early years as a Prime Minister he resolved the Manitoba school question by the Laurier-Greenway agreement. This agreement had everything the Catholics wanted and the issue was put to a close. In October 1899 England had declared war against the Boers in South Africa. Laurier ...
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