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- 581: Beatles Again
- The Beatles to this day are one of the most famous and popular rock 'n roll groups in the world. The Beatles include George Harrison, John Lennon(1940-1980), Paul McCartney, and Richard Starkey(Ringo Starr). All of the Beatles where born and raised in Liverpool, England. John Lennon was considered the leader of the band. George Harrison was the lead guitarist. John Lennon was a song writer, one of the two lead singers, and rhythm guitarist. Paul McCartney was a song writer, one of the two lead singers, and a bassist. Ringo Starr played the drums. ...
- 582: Famous People Of The Civil War
- ... fugitive slave. She was born to slave parents and escaped to freedom. In the 1850's she made many journeys to free slaves through the Underground Railroad. She was aided by abolitionists and Quakers, and John Brown who consulted with her for the Harpers Ferry raid in 1859. During the Civil War she served as an army cook, a nurse, and became a spy for Maryland and Virginia. After the war ... the society. Garrison didn't want slavery to be ended violently, but in the 1850s he used violent resistance to the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law. After the Civil War Garrison worked to help black equality. John Brown John Brown was an abolitionist and is remembered mainly for his raid for the military weapons at Harpers Ferry. During most of Brown's adult years he wandered from job to job, but in the ...
- 583: America and the Computer Industry
- ... intervention (Chposky, 103). The outbreak of World War II produced a desperate need for computing capability, especially for the military. New weapons systems were produced which needed trajectory tables and other essential data. In 1942, John P. Eckert, John W. Mauchley, and their associates at the University of Pennsylvania decided to build a high-speed electronic computer to do the job. This machine became known as ENIAC, for "Electrical Numerical Integrator And Calculator". It ... the particular programs for which it had been designed. ENIAC is generally accepted as the first successful high-speed electronic digital computer and was used in many applications from 1946 to 1955 (Dolotta, 50). Mathematician John von Neumann was very interested in the ENIAC. In 1945 he undertook a theoretical study of computation that demonstrated that a computer could have a very simple and yet be able to execute any ...
- 584: Brave New World 7
- ... work at the hatchery and have been dating, but she starts dating Bernard Marx instead. Bernard is a deformed but highly intelligent man who takes Lenina to a savage restoration. At the reservation, they meet John and his mother Linda, whom was the girlfriend of the DHC and John is his son. Lenina and Bernard take, with permission, Linda and John out of the reservation. Bernard and a friend introduce John to the new world. Lenina tries to make advances toward John but his savage attitude doesn t allow it. The downfall of John begins ...
- 585: The Evolution of the Computer
- ... intervention (Chposky, 103). The outbreak of World War II produced a desperate need for computing capability, especially for the military. New weapons systems were produced which needed trajectory tables and other essential data. In 1942, John P. Eckert, John W. Mauchley, and their associates at the University of Pennsylvania decided to build a high-speed electronic computer to do the job. This machine became known as ENIAC, for "Electrical Numerical Integrator And Calculator". It ... the particular programs for which it had been designed. ENIAC is generally accepted as the first successful high-speed electronic digital computer and was used in many applications from 1946 to 1955 (Dolotta, 50). Mathematician John von Neumann was very interested in the ENIAC. In 1945 he undertook a theoretical study of computation that demonstrated that a computer could have a very simple and yet be able to execute any ...
- 586: Henry Thoreau
- ... and a speaker at commencement, yet he was still unknown. During his lifetime, Thoreau tried his hand at an assortment of odd jobs. His first experiment was with teaching. He, along with his older brother John, opened a private school, but the school was forced to close down after John became ill in 1841. He lived with his friend and fellow scholar Ralph Waldo Emerson, keeping house and doing chores in exchange for rent and board. In 1843, he journeyed to the home of Emersons brother William to tutor. Soon after the death of John in 1842, Thoreau went to live at Walden Pond, partially as a tribute to his beloved brother. When he returned from Walden in September of 1847, he again performed an assortment of jobs. He ...
- 587: Call Of The Wild By Jack Londo
- ... The Call of the Wild interact to reveal the theme the power of love is stonger than all other powers. Buck is the main character and he loves many people. Buck shows his love for John Thorton (his last owner) many times. For example, Buck pulls a sled 100 yards that has a thousand pounds of flour on it because John bet that he could (Page 50). Buck could not have moved the sled if he didn't love John. Manuel shows his love for money by selling Buck, the family dog. "He loved to play Chinese lottery" (Page 2). If he didn't love to play lottery Buck might still live in California. ...
- 588: Jane Eyre
- Jane Eyre The story begins when Jane is 10. Her parents are dead and her aunt at Gateshead Hall has taken her care of. There she lives a miserable life with her cousin John who bully's her. After a fight with John she is put in the room where her uncle died. There she has a nightmare. Late at night she is taken back to her room by Bessie, the nurse. She isn't well so Bessie ... morning a servant visits Jane from her aunt who wants to see her on dying bed. Jane gets permission to visit her. Her aunt gives her a letter written 3 years ago by her Uncle John Eyre in which he wants to adopt Jane and make her his heir. After the funeral Jane returns to Thornfield Hall. The guests are all gone and Mr. Rochester asks her to be his ...
- 589: The Works of Clive Staples Lewis
- ... a professor, until she had to move to a rest home where she died when Lewis was 53. Lewis also considered marriage before Joy when he became a close friend with English poetess Ruth Pitter (John West, How Hollywood Reinvented C.S. Lewis in the film Shadowlands. Online.). C. S. Lewis actually began his writing career at the age of six. He invented an imaginary world called Animal-Land or as ... age of thirteen. He did not publish any of his poems until his Spirits in Bondage: A Cycle of Lyrics, published in 1919 and Dymer, published in 1926, both written under his pseudonym Clive Hamilton (John Visser, Literary Works. Online.). Lewis wrote theology, literary criticism, novels, and autobiographies, along with poetry. For a long time he was an atheist until he said, "In the Trinity Term of 1929 I gave in ... not by their physical appearances but by the meaning of being there. In 1947 he published Miracles, which was based on how people perceive miracles and whether a person should believe in them or not (John Visser, Literary Works. Online.). During 1949, Lewis came out with The Weight of Glory. This theology deals with how Christians value their worldly possessions. Another one of Lewis's more famous works came out ...
- 590: Hofstadter Chapter 1
- ... in democracy, and of a return to the extreme right emerged. The awareness that both military dictatorship and a return to monarchy were being seriously discussed in some quarters propelled the Constitutional framers such as John Jay to bring to attention. II Consistent to eighteenth-century ethos left the Constitution-makers with great faith in universals. They believed in an inexorable view of a self-interested man. Feeling that all me ... was the equality between American and the Britons back home. Finally it was decided that democracy unchecked ruled by the masses, is sure to bring arbitrary redistribution of property, destroying the very essence of liberty. John Jay believed The people who own the country ought to govern it. The result was that while they thought self-interest the most dangerous and unbrookable quality of man, they necessarily underwrote it in trying ... were revealed in the Federalist number 51: You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. As it was then echoed by a dogmatic John Adams who stated, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. Such reflection was something I was unaware of. My conception of the shaping of the Constitution was much more optimistic ...
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