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- 921: The Beginning of the Universe
- ... the universe began and how it will end. However, the Big Bang model is the most logical and reasonable theory to explain the universe in modern science. ENDNOTES 1. Dinah L. Mache, Astronomy, New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1987. p. 128. 2. Ibid., p. 130. 3. Joseph Silk, The Big Bang, New York: W.H. Freeman and Company, 1989. p. 60. 4. Terry Holt, The Universe Next Door, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1985. p. 326. 5. Ibid., p. 327. 6. Charles J. Caes, Cosmology, The Search For The Order Of The Universe, USA: Tab Books Inc., 1986. p. 72. 7. John Gribbin, In Search Of The Big Bang, New York: Bantam Books, 1986. p. 273. BIBLIOGRAPHY Boslough, John. Stephen Hawking's Universe. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1980. Caes, J. Charles. Cosmology, The Search For The Order Of The Universe. USA: Tab Books Inc., 1986. Gribbin, John. In Search Of The Big ...
- 922: Dizzy Gillespie
- ... small portions of the music that people take and sample with in a new song. Jazz and its historical figures have mistreated and forgotten by today's society. One of the figure most forgotten is John Birks Gillespie, known to the jazz world as "Dizzy" Gillespie. "Dizzy" Gillespie was a trumpet player, composer, bandleader and politician of mostly the early 40's to mid 50's. This was a time period ... Gillespie. Gillespie was one of the chief innovators of this new style of music as well as an important figure to all musicians to follow him and international figure for the United States.(Kerfeld, 137) John Birks was born in Cheraw, South Carolina on October 21, 1917. The young prodigy was first introduced to music by his father, a weekend bandleader. Gillespie's father was not as talented as John was to become, he relied on a more stable income as mason around their home ~own. Four years after his fathers death, when Birks was 14, he began learning the trombone and trumpet without ...
- 923: 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 ...
- 924: Just A Pot Of Basil
- ... I disappeared when I was in the museum, in my little world. Therein lies the significant difference between seeing and imagining, and being told or influenced, that is, being mystified. Mystification, as the art critic John Berger in Ways of Seeing explains, “is the process of explaining away what might otherwise be evident” (Berger 112). I was instantly captivated from the moment I saw the tied-together skeletons stretching as high ... saved in an altered form. There is something magical about the power of the atmosphere of a museum. The silence is filled with a sea of thoughts running through viewers’ minds’. When I first saw John White Alexander’s painting Isabella and the Pot of Basil I was immediately captivated. Even my first glance told me that there was something more to the large pot in the painting than meets the ... to the pot. And sure enough, the small plaque beside the painting described a story that told me that my assumptions were correct. The painting was written as a reflection of a poem written by John Keats. Here, briefly, is the story of Isabella and the Pot of Basil. Isabella had two brothers that expected her to marry a well-endowed man so they could collect a significant dowry from ...
- 925: Grapes of Wrath: Summary
- Grapes of Wrath: Summary John Steinbeck’s the Grapes of Wrath, is a novel which tells a tale of a family and their treacherous migratory experience from Oklahoma to California in search of a solution to their life’s hardships ... phenomenon which caused many farmers to lose everything they owned, and as a result they where forced to relocate, many migrating to California in search for a better life. This is the exact tale which John Steinbeck’s novel delineates. In the Novel the Joads family is exposed the wrath of the Dust bowl and forced to move southwest toward California in search of the “promised land” (French 5). The Dust ... seven-year jail sentence for manslaughter, rejoins the family. Tom returns home only to discover that home is no longer what he had left four years earlier. His family had moved in with their Uncle John, after the banks had taken away their home. The effects of the Dust bowl are already prevalent as Tom enters the novel. His family along with many others had been thrown out of their ...
- 926: Jane Eyre: Jane's Love For Rochester
- ... where she meets, Rochester, the owner of the mansion, and her true love. When she learns of a dark secret he has been keeping, she flees to another part of England where she meets St. John, a man who she does find good looking, but doesn't like his personality. From here she returns to Thornfield where she marries Rochester. If Jane had gone through her life looking for beauty instead ... thinker than to have beautiful features and an abundance of money. It is this attitude of Jane's that allows her to make the right decisions. Jane does not fall in love and marry St. John for even though is more handsome than Rochester and she is attracted to him, he does not have the same intellect. "He was young-perhaps from twenty-eight to thirty-tall, slender; his face riveted the eye; it was like a Greek face, very pure in outline." St.John has beautiful features, but he cannot communicate with and talk at the same intellectual level with Jane as can Rochester. "...there was another barrier to friendship with him: he seemed of a reserved, an ...
- 927: Brave New World
- ... is discon-tented and desires to spend time alone just thinking or looking at the stars. At one point he takes Lenina on a vacation to the savage reservation in New Mexico. There he discovers John (the Savage), son of Linda who had visited the reservation more than 20 years previously and was accidentally left behind. When she discovered she was pregnant (the ultimate humiliation!), she had to remain among the savages. John returns to the Brave New World where he is feted as the Visiting Savage. How-ever, he cannot adapt to this totally alien society and, ultimately, he takes his own life. Characters Bernard Marx- Member ... tube. Lenina Crowne- One of the most popular members of civilization. She is very attractive, and tends to date one person at a time rather that "everybody belongs to everybody". She develops an infatuation for John. John (the savage)- John was born in the savage reservations. His mother is Linda and his father is Thomas, the director of hatchery and conditioning. He does not adjust well to civilization, and is ...
- 928: Comparison of London's White Fang and The Call of the Wild
- ... of the Wild comes from the natural instinct that animals have to be free in nature. The main characters in this story are Buck the four- year-old half Saint Bernard and half-Scottish shepherd, John Thorton and the Scottish half-breed. Buck was stolen from his home in California during the gold-rush in the Klondike. Dogs were a necessity and considering the size of Buck he had the makings ... is when The Scottish half-breed bought him and used Buck for many endurance and strength contests. This over work almost killed the dog. Buck was saved from this inhumane treatment by a man named John Thorton whom he grew to love. Through complete devotion buck risked his life for John but did not succeed because John was killed. After this with having no more attachments Buck went to live with a pack of wolves. Buck was no longer a pet but a wild animal. ...
- 929: Paradise Lost
- ... essence of their communication create an impact of divine, gospel-like proportions, which were received and regarded as perhaps the most innovative and highly appreciated works of poetry to have arisen. One such poet was John Milton whose epic work Paradise Lost (written in 1667) was ultimately the last and great Adamite3 work. John Milton (1608-74), was an English poet, the son of a composer of some distinction. The preparation for his life's work included attendance at St. Paul's School, Christ's College and Cambridge for ... using the terminology associated to science, in order to define. A place for everything and everything in its place, reaching the conclusion that God is omnipresent, after having used language to process His location. Likewise John Donne an acclaimed poet of his period, and as Dean of Saint Paul's Cathedral was a seemingly inexhaustible source of spirituality with which to ordain his poems. Licence my roving hands, and let ...
- 930: 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 ...
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