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- 1891: Chemistry
- ... dealt with the preparation of drugs, but soon he became genuinely interested in the subject and started to study it in great detail. His studies led him to Oxford where he joined such scientists as John Wilkins and John Wallis. Together in 1660, they founded the Royal Society of London for the Advancement of Science. From this point onwards, Boyle seriously undertook the reformation of science. For centuries scientists had been explaining the unknown ...
- 1892: The Trancontinental Railroad
- ... absurd. In 1832, Dr. Hartwell Carver of Rochester proposed a railroad that would connect the East Coast to the West Coast, and lawmakers laughed at him. Again, in 1838, another man by the name of John Plum sent a petition to Washington asking the government to fund a Transcontinental Railroad. Congress said that, asking the government “To build a railroad to the moon” was impractical (Blumberg 11). In 1845, Asa Whitney ... other nations, such as the Cheyenne Indians faced extinction over what the United States called a triumphBlumberg, Roda. Full Steam Ahead. Washington, D.C: National Geographic Society, 1996. Chinese Exclusion. Columbia University Press, 1993. Faragher, John. The American Heritage Encyclopedia of American History. New York: Henry Holt Company, Inc., 1998. Geoffrey, Ward. The West. Boston: The West Project, Inc., 1996. Klein, Maury. Unfinished Business. United States of America: The University Press ...
- 1893: The Trail of Tears
- ... in that they succeeded in removing the Cherokee from the state, but not completely from the east. This would bring on a great supporter of the Cherokee people, a white man by the name of John Ross. John Ross campaigned heavily for the Cherokees. Ross was part of the immigration management committee. Ross persuaded General Scott to approve a budget for the captive Indians of seventeen cents per Indian per day. This was ...
- 1894: Computer Viruses
- In 1949 the Hungarian-American mathematician John von Neumann, at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey suggested that it was theoretically possible for a computer program to replicate. This theory was later tested in the 1950s at Bell Laboratories ... risks are inherent in life and one must take them in order to benefit from the experience. References Articles and Books Baase, Sara A Gift of Fire, Prentice Hall, 1997 Cohen, Fred "It's Alive!", John Wiley & Sons, 1994 Davy, Jo Ann, Managing Office Technology, Sep98, Vol 43, Issue 7, p14 Fites, Philip, Johnston, Peter, Krats, Martin The Computer Virus Crisis, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1989. Goldsborough, Reid, Consumer’s Research Magazine ...
- 1895: Brave New World A Comparison T
- ... utopia and expect our world to transform into it. Some of us always look for the easy way out and drugs allow us that. A further similarity of Brave New World to us, si when John is in the hospital after hos mother's death due to soma abuse, and witnesses the workers receiving their soma rations. John begins to throw the soma out if the window, causing hysteria among the workers. For these workers soma is everything. They cannot imagine life without it. People addicted to cocaine, heroine and other drugs go ...
- 1896: Flaws in Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"
- ... the time when Huck says, “It's me. George Jackson, sir”(pg. 95). I do have to give him that the feud was interesting filler, but you can only take so much filler. Then when John Wayne (The Duke) and Elvis (The King) come along there seem to be four or five stops along the river that except for one little detail, are the same. Please excuse the jump back, but ... Jim and eventually embarks on a quest. The quest to find Jim. This journey would be much like the journey he and Jim took just a few years ago. This time though, there is no John Wayne and Elvis to make the story drawn out and boring towards the end. Then Huck finds Jim, meets the wife and kids, and goes back home to lead a normal (or as normal as ...
- 1897: An Interpretation of William Faulkner’s “Dry September”
- ... the acts of violence and hate that can be and were, so common in the South. The bellowing cries of Will Hayes haunt the reader, “What are you all going to so with me, Mr. John? White folk, captains, I ain’t done nothing: I swear ‘fore God.” (line 232) The reader sympathizes with the barber, who unintentionally has landed himself in the center of the action, and trying desperately to ... his beliefs. Miss Minnie Cooper, the evil con-artist who simply cries out for attention in any way. Will Hayes, the colored man who is accused and then harassed. Finally the reader is left with John McLendon, the proud white man who fears loosing his status to a man of color. Faulkner uses these characters to paint a realistic image in his readers.
- 1898: Global Warming
- ... in the attempt to combat global warming (205). Environmentalists and scientists emphasize the fact that humans are primarily responsible for global warming and therefore it is up to us to slow or reverse the process. John Gribbin states, “We got ourselves, and the world, into this mess, and there is nobody else around to get us out of it” (254). Works Cited Broeker, Wallace S. “Greenhouse Surprises.” The Challeng of Global ... D.C.: Island Press, 1989. 196-209. Gay, Kathlyn. The Greenhouse Effect. New York: Franklin Watts, 1986. “Global Warming.” Compton’s Interactive Encyclopedia. CD-ROM. 1996. Great Decisions. New York: Foreign Policy Association, 1990. Gribbin, John. Hothouse Earth. New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1990. Hansen, James E. “The Greenhouse Effect: Impacts on Current Global Temperature and Regional Heat Waves.” The Challenge of Global Warming. Ed. Dean Edwin Abrahamson. Washington, D.C.: Island ...
- 1899: Dead White Males - David Williamson
- ... was rigid and strict. At Welton Academy there were four pillars of ideals that students must attain to and follow. These were excellence, honor, tradition, and discipline. A new teacher was appointed to teach English. John Keating brought with him a style that promoted the individual. This was in direct contrast to the four pillars of ideals. Mr. Keating’s Latin saying of Carpe Diem, which meant seize the day, was ... If the Headmaster found news of this, Knox would have been expelled. Despite all the consequences Know decided to seize the day and forget the whims of society to follow his dreams. Another student of John Keating’s was Charles Dalton. He was more laid back than Knox but he still adhered to the academy’s rules and regulations. Charles was completely taken by the saying, and changed his lifestyle. At ...
- 1900: The Yucca Mountain Nuclear Repository
- ... waste canisters buried inside the mountain do to the surrounding rock? To find out, scientists created simulated disposal tunnels nearly 800 feet below ground. Using electric heating elements, they began heating the rock last December. John McNeely, a mining engineer overseeing the construction and testing in Yucca Mountain, said the heaters will be on four years before the temperature is brought down slowly to mimic the declining temperature of the actual ... Neal "I haven't said I'm against nuclear coming to Nevada. I've said I'd never campaign to bring nuclear waster to Nevada and if I had a veto, I would use it." John Ensign "It's just a continuing saga of 43 other states wanting to dump their waste in Nevada. This is not a Republican thing or a Democrat thing. None of it is fair. Jan Jones ...
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