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- 1411: Edgar Allen Poe
- ... his family. Poe's mother, Elizabeth Arnold Poe, was a widow at the age of eighteen. Two years after his birth, she died of tuberculosis (Asselineau 409). When his mother died, Poe was adopted by John Allan (Perry XI) at the urging of Mr. Allan's wife. In 1815, John Allan moved his family to England. While there, Poe was sent to private schools (Asselineau 410). In the spring of 1826, Poe entered the University of Virginia. There he studied Spanish, French, Italian, and Latin ... he sent one poem and six stories (Asselineau 411). His story, "Ms. Found in a Bottle," won , and he received one hundred dollars for it (Targ IX). Through the influence of one of the judges, John P. Kennedy, Poe became employed as an editor of the Southern Literary Messenger, published in Richmond (Asselineau 411). Under Poe's editorship, the Messenger 's circulation rose from 500 to 3500. While in Richmond, ...
- 1412: Ernest Hemingway
- ... marry her but money was a problem so they moved to Paris. Because he had a child on the way and no real publications, he decided to move back to Canada. It was there that John Hadly Hemingway was born in 1923. His nick name was Bumby, that was also the name he preferred to be called by. When he was in the Spanish was he fought the way he wanted ... accidently shot himself while cleaning a gun yesterday morning at 7:30 a.m. No time has been set for the funeral services, which will be private." After that announcement had been made, his son John said the following: "Mary made a mistake in saying that he was cleaning a shotgun, I mean, somebody said 'What was he doing?!' and she said 'Cleaning a shotgun.' There also was a big point ... Catholic Douay version. One of the things that he said during the ceremony is, "Oh Lord, grant thy servant Earnest the remission of his sins. Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord." Latter that day John said " we where awfully disappointed. But the priest just plain didn't realize." The first line that the priest did say that was wrong was "one generation passeth away, and another generation cometh, but ...
- 1413: A Short History On Computers
- ... numbers (characters). At the time, however, punched cards were a huge step forward. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Electronic Digital Computers The start of World War II produced a large need for computer capacity, especially for the military. In 1942, John P. Eckert, John W. Mauchly (left), and their associates at the Moore school of Electrical Engineering of University of Pennsylvania decided to build a high - speed electronic computer to do the job. This machine became known as ENIAC ... and 20 adders using decimal ring counters, which served as adders and also as quick-access (.0002 seconds) read-write register storage. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Modern Stored Program EDC Fascinated by the success of ENIAC, the mathematician John Von Neumann (left) undertook, in 1945, an abstract study of computation that showed that a computer should have a very simple, fixed physical structure, and yet be able to execute any kind of computation ...
- 1414: Coca-Cola and its Evolution
- ... as an insignificant one man business and over the last one hundred and ten years it has grown into one of the largest companies in the world. The first operator of the company was Dr. John Pemberton and the current operator is Roberto Goizueta. Without societies help, Coca-Cola could not have become over a 50 billion dollar business. Coca-Cola was invented by Dr. John Pemberton, an Atlanta pharmacist. He concocted the formula in a three legged brass kettle in his backyard on May 8, 1886. He mixed a combination of lime, cinnamon, coca leaves, and the seeds of a ... as a nerve and brain tonic and a medical elixir. Coca-Cola was named by Frank Robinson, one of Pemberton's close friends, he also penned the famous Coca-Cola logo in unique script. Dr. John Pemberton sold a portion of the Coca-Cola company to Asa Candler, after Pemberton's death the remainder was sold to Candler. Pemberton was forced to sell because he was in a state of ...
- 1415: Liberalism and Freedom
- ... reassemble society and educate citizens in the responsibility of leading an intelligent, meaningful life (Gerstle, 1994). At this time the world was facing many changes, among these are the industrial revolution and world war one. John Dewey elaborates on the feeling of the time in the following quotation: "The fact of change has been so continual and so intense that it overwhelms our minds. We are bewildered by the spectacle of ... of man's character replaced the "unrealistic" optimistic view, human natur e has since become less relevant in liberal thought. In an attempt to explain the new "irrational" tendencies of man, liberal thinkers such as John Dewey sought some of the answers in the study of humans from a scientific standpoint (Gerstle,1994). Psychiatry and Psychology offered answers in instinct, habit and other new observations of the human manner of thinking ... of Liberalism; Westview Press, Boulder, CO. 1978 Beiner, Ronald: What's the Matter With Liberlism? University of California Press, Los Angeles, 1992 De Tocqueville, Alexis: Democracy in America; Penguin Books Ltd., Middlesex, England, 1984 Dewey, John: Liberalism and Social Action; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1935 Dietze, Gottfried: Liberalism Proper and Proper Liberalism, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1985 Dunbar, Leslie: Reclaiming Liberalism, WW Norton & Co., New York, ...
- 1416: Hackers
- ... the criminal element. Correspondingly, some reject the notion that there are different roles and motivations among computer underground participants and thereby 21 refuse to define just what it is that a "hacker" or "phreaker" does. John Maxfield, a "hacker expert," suggests that differentiating between "hackers" and "phone phreaks" is a moot point, preferring instead that they all just be called "criminals" (WGN-Radio. Sept 28, 1988). The reluctance or inability to ... obtain protected information or more powerful access privileges.5 Phreaking Another role in the computer underground is that of the "phone phreak." Phone phreaking, usually called just "phreaking," was widely publicized when the exploits of John "Cap'n Crunch" Draper, the "father of phreaking," were publicized in a 1971 Esquire magazine article. The term "phreaking" encompasses several different means of circumventing the billing mechanisms of telephone companies. By using these methods ... computers. The applicability of phreak/hack information to a wide range of systems does not require the specialization that pirate boards exhibit. This makes it easier to estimate the number of systems in this category. John Maxfield, a computer security consultant, has asserted that there are "thousands" of phreak/hack ____________________ 13 Pirate boards are normally "system specific" in that they only support one brand or model of microcomputer. 43 boards ...
- 1417: Grapes Of Wrath
- "The Downing Sun:Jim Casy John Steinbeck passionately describes a time of unfair poverty, unity, and the human spirit in the classic, The Grapes of Wrath. The novel tells of real, diverse characters who experience growth through turmoil and hardship. Jim ... Christ once said, "When thou makest a dinner or supper, call not...thy rich neighbors...But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind: and thou shalt be blessed." John Steinbeck and Jim Casy along with many other migrants believe in charity, helping others and an end to the insatiable appetite for money and self-indulgence. When Casy is saying grace in chapter eight, he ... eternally when he tells a cop he is starving children and the cop smashes his skull with a board. Jim Casy encounters more external difficulties when he crosses paths with cops. In chapter 20, Floyd, John, Tom and Casy have a physical fight with a deputy. In an unrelated incident, an officer threatened to set fire to the camp Casy's friends were staying at. When Casy was trying to ...
- 1418: Our Living Shield: The First Amendment
- ... were, at the time ascribed, to most people belonging to the United States. The main author, James Madison, transported the previous ideas of f undamental liberties from the great libertarians around the world, such as John Lilburne, John Locke, William Walwyn and John Milton. Madison and other previous libertarians of his time were transposed into seventeen different rights which were to be secured to all those in the United States. These seventeen civil liberties were compressed into ...
- 1419: Grapes Of Wrath - Jim Casy Chracter Analysis
- John Steinbeck passionately describes a time of unfair poverty, unity, and the human spirit in the classic, The Grapes of Wrath. The novel tells of real, diverse characters who experience growth through turmoil and hardship. Jim ... Christ once said, "When thou makest a dinner or supper, call not...thy rich neighbors...But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind: and thou shalt be blessed." John Steinbeck and Jim Casy along with many other migrants believe in charity, helping others and an end to the insatiable appetite for money and self-indulgence. When Casy is saying grace in chapter eight, he ... eternally when he tells a cop he is starving children and the cop smashes his skull with a board. Jim Casy encounters more external difficulties when he crosses paths with cops. In chapter 20, Floyd, John, Tom and Casy have a physical fight with a deputy. In an unrelated incident, an officer threatened to set fire to the camp Casy's friends were staying at. When Casy was trying to ...
- 1420: Political Morality
- ... that time. Specifically, the Church of England headed by the king. Puritan leaders led their followers to a place where they could express their religion with no fear of other faiths. One such leader was John Winthrop. John Winthrop was a powerful Puritan governor in the colony of Massachusetts Bay. He believed that this was a calling from God for him to lead the new religious experiment-a covenant with God to built ... on the evils of technology. While a citizen is entitled to free speech and press, threatening murder is not such an option. There must be limits set. In colonial times these limitations were set by John Winthrop. Total obedience was required and disobedience was not tolerated; therefore, Williams and Hutchinson were banished. I understand the reasoning behind his motives, but his limits were set too low. There was no room ...
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