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- 751: Henry David Thoreau
- ... Huguenot and Scottish-Quaker ancestry, was baptized as David Henry Thoreau, but at the age of twenty he legally changed his name to Henry David. Thoreau was raised with his older sister Helen, older brother John, and younger sister Sophia (Derleth 1) in genteel poverty (The 1995 Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia 1). It quickly became evident that Thoreau was interested in literature and writing. At a young age he began to show ... Emerson's household, and during this time he came to know Bronson Alcott, Margaret Fuller, and many other members of the "Transcendental Club" ("Thoreau" 696). On August 31, 1839 Henry David and his elder brother, John, left Concord on a boat trip down the Concord River, onto the Middlesex Canal, into the Merrimack River and into the state of New Hampshire. Out of this trip came Thoreau's first book, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (25). Early in 1841, John Thoreau, Henry's beloved older brother, became very ill, most likely with tuberculosis, and in early May a poor and distraught Henry David moved into the upstairs of Ralph Waldo Emerson's house (35). ...
- 752: Human Nature and the Declaration of Independence
- ... government of writers and political-social thinkers of their time. The three essays that were given to us in class, Politics by Aristotle, Of Commonwealth by Thomas Hobbes, and Of the Limits of Government by John Locke are all very intersting essays on how government is supposed to funtion. Although the founding fathers probably read all three of these essays and simialar philosphical thought went into the writing of The Declaration of Independence I think that the only essay of the really used by the founding fathers was Of the Limits of Government by John Locke. Unfortunately the version of this essay given to us in class was truncated and consisted actually of two different essays written by John Locke. . Thomas Hobbes [1588-1679] is the founder of the theories of Hobbism which calls on absolute monarchy in order to deal with what he calls inherently selfish, aggrandizing nature of humanity. Aristotle[384- ...
- 753: Articles Of Confederation
- ... was the first constitution of the United States of America. The Articles of Confederation were first drafted by the Continental Congress in Philadelphia Pennsylvania in 1777. This first draft was prepared by a man named John Dickinson in 1776. The Articles were then ratified in 1781. The cause for the changes to be made was due to state jealousies and widespread distrust of the central authority. This jealousy then led to ... apart from those of organization, made it impossible for Congress to execute its constitutional duties. These were analyzed in numbers 15-22 of The FEDERALIST, the political essays in which Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay argued the case for the U.S. CONSTITUTION of 1787. The first weakness was that Congress could legislate only for states, not for individuals; because of this it could not enforce legislation. Second, Congress ... Fifty-five delegates representing 12 states attended at least part of the sessions. Thirty-four of them were lawyers; most of the others were planters or merchants. Although George Washington, who presided, was 55, and John Dickinson was 54, Benjamin Franklin 81, and Roger Shermen 66, most of the delegates were young men in their 20s and 30s. Noticeable absent were the revolutionary leaders of the effort for independence in ...
- 754: Charles Dickens 3
- ... if you read my essay. This will be a discussion on the famous author Charles Dickens and his life. The great author Charles Dickens was born on February 7, 1812, he was the son of John and Elizabeth Dickens. Charles Dickens father, John Dickens, was a clerk in a Navy pay office. John was very bad with finances so he was put in jail because of his debt. Charles' whole family joined his father in jail and Charles was stuck working for Warrens Blacking Factory. After his ...
- 755: AZT
- ... the initial testing have set the AZT research back and have fostered unlooked for antipathy. As the treatments become more sound and more reliable, AZT will find it's place in AIDS treatments. EndNotes Lauritsen, John. Poison by Prescription - The AZT Story. New York; Asklepios Publishing, 1990. pg.7. Lauritsen, John. Poison by Prescription - The AZT Story. New York; Asklepios Publishing, 1990. pg.7. Lauritsen, John. Poison by Prescription - The AZT Story. New York; Asklepios Publishing, 1990. pg.23. Lauritsen, John. Poison by Prescription - The AZT Story. New York; Asklepios Publishing, 1990. pg.49. Whitmore, Arthur. AZT Approved for Preventing ...
- 756: James Rachels' Death and Dying
- ... evening while the youngster is taking a bath, Mike sneaks into the bathroom and drowns the child, and then arranges things so it will look like an accident. In the second case, a guy named John will gain a large inheritance and plans to drown his cousin, but as he enters the bathroom John sees the child slip and hit his head and fall face down in the water. John watches and does nothing. Now, Mike killed the child while John let the child die. Now did either man behave better, from a moral point of view? "If the difference between killing and letting ...
- 757: Suicide in Las Vega
- ... from alienation in a relationship. Or career. Las Vegas is not always what they imagined." I think of Allison, working her way out of town. She is not alone. As a young man, serial killer John Wayne Gacy worked his way out of Las Vegas by being a pallbearer at over seventy-five funerals at a local mortuary. In his last interview, Gacy remarked that being in prison was like "being ... The date under his heart, shy of a close-range bullet wound, was the day, month, and year their divorce became final. Sometimes they are criminals, attracted to the glamour of not going back. Judge John C. Fairbanks, 70, of New Hampshire, stole $1.8 million from his law clients, disappeared on December 28, 1989, the day after he was indicted, and hid out for years. On Thursday, March 24, 1994, Fairbanks checked into the mgm Grand under an assumed name. On Sunday, he was found dead. Judge John C. Fairbanks was not a casual man. He succeeded at everything he set out to do. His suicide note, written to his son, was taped to the mirror. This means Fairbanks got to take ...
- 758: History Of The Computer Indust
- ... 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 ...
- 759: Vegetarian Diet
- ... of torture and death, to a point where it becomes easier for us to contemplate and carry out the torture and killing of human beings. (20) This moral argument for vegetarianism is also noted by John Robbins who states that "the suffering these animals undergo has become so extreme that to partake of food from these creatures is to partake unknowingly of the abject misery that has been their lives"(14 ... eaten. Due to the increased demand for food, livestock farmers have had to keep up by devising new and more efficient ways to raise more animals, giving way to the industrialization of meat farming. As John Robbins accurately writes, "the raising of chickens in the United States today is not, however, a process which overflows with compassion for these animals" (52). Chickens, as we grew up believing, were farmyard animals that ... order to keep up with the demands of omnivores. This includes the use of growth hormones in the animals to produce more eggs and fatter animals, which are then passed on to their human consumers. John Robbins describes some of the products used in todays pork industry in his book Diet For A New America: ... will also be given products like the new feed additive from Shell Oil Company. Called ...
- 760: Happiness In Brave New World
- ... Brave New World destroys them to keep pestering insects and things of that sort from infringing on people s happiness. It is evident that Bernard and Lenina shift their attitudes after they meet the savage, John. Bernard gets a taste of power after bringing the savage home to London and becomes satisfied and happy as defined by Brave New World, a complete turnaround from his previous, almost American ideals. Lenina finds ... he does not wish to see, lest they should seem more hostile even than he had supposed, and he himself be made to feel guiltier and even more helplessly alone. (63) However, after he discovers John, he becomes just as artificial as every other conditioned human: And I had six girls last week, he confided to Helmholtz Watson. One on Monday, two on Tuesday, two more on Friday, and one on ... World s society, reciting many of the hypnopζdic teachings blindly, and being happy to be a member of the alpha caste, My word, said Lenina, I m glad I m not a Gamma (63). After John s discovery, though, she fell in love with him, an emotion that is uncouth in Brave New World s society, you see, Fanny, I like him (169), Lenina says this to her friend Fanny ...
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