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- 3501: The Webb Story and the Efforts to Rebut It
- ... his letter. Thus it became possible for the words Rangel never uttered to become embalmed as "fact" in the official Iran-Contra Report from two other Congressional Committees. In 1989 a subcommittee chaired by Senator John Kerry published a report documenting that the U.S. Government had contracted with known drug traffickers to supply the Contras. This important finding was minimized in the dismissive news stories published by the Post and ...
- 3502: The Right Stuff
- ... any reader young or old. All the hard work reading such a long book like this is worth it. You will walk away from it feeling satisfied and informed. Most people do not know that John Glenn was not the first American in space. To find out who was, read this wonderful book by Tom Wolfe. Tom Wolfe does an excellent job keeping his reader’s interest and keeping the reader ...
- 3503: Character Analysis of Metamorphosis
- ... this story are very sad but Kafka makes it memorable by incorporating ironically comic scenes in the story. Work Cited Kafka, Franz. "The Metamorphosis." Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama. Ed. X.J. Kennedy and Diana Gioia. 7th ed. New York: Longman, 1999. 26-33
- 3504: Black Holes 3
- The theory that black holes have existed is not new at all. The thought of them first started in 1783 when Rev. John Michell applied Newton’s theory of gravity to predict the possibility of so-called “dark stars.” Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity predicted in 1915 “Schwartzschild singularities.” In 1967, these were renamed “black holes.” A ...
- 3505: Young Goodman Brown: The Power of Darkness
- ... between the theological and marital ironies of his title ‘Goodman Brown’.” (72) “Hawthorne has an ancestral connection with the Salem witchcraft. William Hathorne had been active in the persecution of the Quakers, so his son John was active in the pursuit of the witches.” (Doubleday, p.201) Perhaps Hawthorne also had a sense of guilt that his forefathers had participated in such injustice of other human beings. Hawthorne’s Puritan background ...
- 3506: The Yellow Wallpaper: The View from the Inside
- ... idea for her treatment), she is still swayed by her husband's direction with the following passage, "I sometimes fancy that in my condition if I had less opposition and more society and stimulus--but John says the very worst thing I can do is to think about my condition, and I confess it always makes me feel bad." Her husband seems to be the one who can change her thoughts ...
- 3507: Seneca Indians: Allies and Enemies
- ... Character of Grant. Red Jacket- Red Jacket was a Seneca chief know for his strong personality, and political shrewdness. Sagoyewatha was his Indian name. He had the ability to stay uncommitted even in crises like John Sullivan's raids on Iroquois settlements in 1779. He greatly opposed land sales to settlers, but to gain his people's support he secretly sold land to keep esteem among the white people. When the ...
- 3508: Social Criticism in Literature, As Found in George Orwell's Animal Farm and Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities.
- ... Publishing Group, 1994. Gardner, Averil. George Orwell. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1987. Kaplan, Fred. Dickens: A Bibliography. New York: William Morrow & Company, Ltd., 1988. King, Martin. Students' Guide to Animal Farm. Scotland: Tynron Press, 1989. Lucas, John. The Melancholy Man: A Study of Dickens' Novels. London: N.P., N.D. Orwell, George. Animal Farm. London: Penguin Books, 1985. Shelden, Michael. Orwell: The
- 3509: Extra-sensory Perception
- ... Geller" Lombard Associates, p. 62-65, 70-80. "ESP - Extra Sensory Perception", Internet, available : http://www.users.bigpond.com/Magnum123/esp.html. Koestler Parapsychology Unit; Internet, available : http://129.215.50.44/index.html. Thomas, John A. "Extra-Sensory Perception Fact Sheet", Internet.
- 3510: El-nino
- ... atmosphere's angular momentum by slowing down the tropical easterlies and speeding the westerlies outside the tropics. As the atmosphere speeds up during El Nino, earth itself slows down to conserve the combined angular momentum. John M. Gipson of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., has tracked the planet's spin by monitoring changes in the length of the day. Over a typical year, the day shortens and ...
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