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- 3161: Uses And Abuses Of Information
- ... Brother, whilst its enemies are symbolised by Goldstein. This rhetoric is well used in propaganda and there are many examples, either official, as with Marianne and Germania, or unofficial, as in the cartoon stereotypes of John Bull. (Hobsbawm 1983). Conclusion I have not really scratched the surface of concepts of information manipulation that Orwell highlights in Nineteen Eighty- Four, Newspeak for instance. A whole book could be written on this language ...
- 3162: James Joyce
- ... Dead, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and Araby. James Joyce, was born February 2, 1882 in Dublin, Ireland. He was the first of fifteen kids born to Mary Jane Murray, and John Stanslaus Joyce. He was christened James Augustine Aloysius Joyce. His mother was a mild woman who had intelligent opinions but didn't express them. His father was a violent, quick tempered man who was a ...
- 3163: The War Between the States
- ... Leavenworth, Kansas, Whilden arrived in the old Spanish city of Santa Fe, New Mexico Territory, on August 27, 1855, where he took up his duties as civilian private secretary to the local garrison commander, Colonel John Breckinridge Grayson of Kentucky, who would later serve the Confederacy as a brigadier general in Florida. Life in New Mexico Territory When Whilden arrived in Santa Fe, the city had been under U.S. jurisdiction ...
- 3164: James A. Garfield
- ... sought a firm policy of Reconstruction for the South. In 1880, he was elected to the United States Senate. At the Republican Convention in 1880, he failed to win the Presidential nomination for his friend, John Sherman, but became the "dark horse" nominee on the 36th ballot. In November 1880, he became the 20th President, winning with a 10,000 vote margain over the Democratic challenger, General Winfield Scott Hancock. As ...
- 3165: George Washington
- ... the public mind." Historians credit Washington's conduct of the office with the preservation of the national union under the American Constitution. Washington issued his farewell address on September 7, 1796, and was succeeded by John Adams the following March 4. His last official act was to pardon the participants in the Whiskey Rebellion. When relations with France soured in 1798, his Country once more turned to Washington for his service ...
- 3166: Francis Scott Fitzgerald
- ... his finances, along with his constant obsession of gaining extreme wealth. Fitzgerald later went to Princeton University, where writing and football were his main interests. It was there that he met friends Edmund Wilson and John Peale Bishop. Fitzgerald was too small to play football so he joined a fraternity called the triangle club, the second most prestigious cliche on campus, football being first. After Princeton, Fitzgerald was quoted as saying ...
- 3167: Jurrasic Park
- Jurrasic Park By: GR E-mail: keywizard@hotmail.com Jurassic Park Jurassic Park takes place on an Island off the Coast of Costa Rica which is owned by a multimillionaire, John Hammond. On this island he has set up a genetical engineering facility which permits him and his scientist to create dinosaur from blood extracted from prehistoric mosquitos, that have been preserved in amber. Before he ...
- 3168: Theodore Roosevelt: Twenty-Sixth President 1901-1909
- ... Roosevelt had always been an active man determined to work to the end. At the age of 60, on January 6, 1919, he died of an embolism at his home while still working. Bibliography Hunt, John Gabriel. The Essential Theodore Roosevelt. New York: Gramercy, 1994. Miller, Nathan. Theodore Roosevelt, a Life. New York: William Morrow, 1992. Morris, Edmund. The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt. New York: Ballantine, 1979. Lorant, Stefan. "Life and ...
- 3169: King's "A Letter From Birmingham City Jail": An Analysis
- ... them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.'". He also compares himself to "Amos", "Paul", and even characters that were not from the bible, such as "Martin Luther", "John Bunyan, "Abraham Lincoln", and many more. The point is, that he is not trying to impress the clergymen with his biblical references anymore, he has gone on to include them, and historical allusions, showing how ...
- 3170: Buddhism
- ... could be explored that it would take a twenty-page report and forever to do. Bibliography BIBLIOGRAPHY Hopfe, Lewis M. Religions of the World. New York: Macmillan Publi- shing Company, 1991. Mazour, Anatole G. and John M. Peoples. World History People and Nations Revised Edition. Orlando, Florida: Holt, Rinhart and Winston Inc., 1993. www.buddhanet.com
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