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- 371: All About the Internet
- ... been made possible, as people can shop for just about anything with a credit card. E-Mail E-Mail is an abbreviation for electronic mail, which is a faster and less expensive way of sending letters and documents than postal mail. E-mail allows the user to type and send letters which, in most cases, are received by another computer in a matter of seconds. Documents, images, voice recordings, and videos can be attached to a message and sent along with it to another computer. There ...
- 372: David Livingstone
- ... of crocodiles, hippopotami, javelins of hostile savages. His return was considered a miracle. Two months of rest followed. The boat he considered going back to England in sankand with it all his maps, journals and letters. He now determined to find a route to the east coast of the continent. Sekeletu gladly furnished him with the means of following down the Zambezi River, giving him some 120 tribesmen. He started east ... path, missing Livingstone by a yard. Ar-riving on October 22 with three attendants, he thought surely mail and medicine would be waiting for himbut it was not. The medicine had been sold and the letters destroyed or sold by Arab traders. On October 26, 1871, four days after his arrival, when his spirits were at their lowest ebb, with awful sores on his feet, dysentery, loss of blood, fever, and ...
- 373: Carol Causs
- ... a bricklayer. Despite the hard living conditions, Gauss's brilliance shone through at a young age. At the age of only two years, the young Carl gradually learned from his parents how to pronounce the letters of the alphabet. Carl then set to teaching himself how to read by sounding out the combinations of the letters. Around the time that Carl was teaching himself to read aloud, he also taught himself the meanings of number symbols and learned to do arithmetical calculations. When Carl Gauss reached the age of seven, he ...
- 374: Why We Should Stick To Qwerty
- Why We Should Stick To Qwerty Computer Science 10 The Qwerty keyboard - named Qwerty because the letters q, w, e, r, t, y are arranged next to each other - has been the universal standard since the beginning of the 1890s. Since then, there have been many proposals by other keyboard makers to market products that would enable users to type faster. Other proposals put the most frequently used letters - dhiatensor - in the middle row.i Although these keyboards enable users to type far faster than the qwerty keyboard, they are rarely sold. There are several reasons for this. First, there is no need for ...
- 375: The Life of Jackie Robinson
- ... while running the bases, Hall of Famer Enos Slaughter, whom allegedly hated blacks, lunged at Jackie Robinson spikes first causing him a gash that measured seven inches. (Athlete of the Century 1997) Jackie also received letters from some people that threatened to kill him if he even set foot on the same field as the white players in the southernmost cities of the National League. St. Louis and Cincinnati. In 1945 ... to give in to the segregation on the busses and was honorably discharged. After his retirement from baseball he continued to carry the torch of believing and working for Civil Rights. He had written several letters to different presidents and their aides to encourage enforcement of Supreme Court rulings. Even at the end of his life, he wrote a letter to President Nixon's aide requesting immediate action be taken on ...
- 376: Abolishing Grades
- ... and nothing more, has been the ultimate goal in a student's academic life. This is a standard that was set centuries ago by "grownups" who needed a way of ranking students based solely on letters or numbers. Individuality and creativity were pushed aside so colleges, universities, graduate schools and employers would be able to judge their candidates. In the text, Celebrating Diversity, a short segment called, " Add Teaching To High ... of judging intelligence and performance. The nation cannot take away the grading system because then the nation would not know how to judge a person by the person's character instead of mere numbers and letters. The only feasible way of eliminating this problem is through a gradual removal of grades. This process would have to begin with the generation of children who are not familiar with the grade system. they ...
- 377: The Red Badge Of Courage
- ... And a loud soldier named Wilson is full of boasts. The first sight of battle is terrifying, and Henry feels terrible. The loud soldier, who thinks he's going to be killed, gives Henry some letters for his family. During the first battle Henry fights good. The troops hold the enemy back. while they are resting the enemy comes for more. Now Henry is very scared. When two men standing near ...
- 378: The Killer Angels
- ... think that the one thing why this novel was very powerful for me is that regardless of the viewpoint Michael Shaara takes he probably was using the words of the men themselves drawn from their letters or documents. When reading the book I found out that General Lee was not the one who actually lost the war among many other reasons General's Lee "right arm" Stonewall Jackson, had been killed ...
- 379: The Devils Of Loudun, By Aldou
- ... range of his knowledge is apparent when one considers the variety of references and digressions he uses to support his inquiries and perspicacious observations; he quotes with equal ease from enlightenment works like the Provincial Letters of Pascal to the contemplative writings of the Zen Buddhists. As a psychological study The Devils offers a clear and convincing portrayal of unusual minds caught up in still stranger circumstances. As for the story ...
- 380: The Queen Of Spades, Pushkin
- ... literary genius seems to have been almost limitless: in addition to the long narrative and short lyric poems for which he is most famous, he also wrote short stories, stage plays and literary criticism. His letters are among the best in European literature. Many literary historians believe that the legend which suggests the composer Salieri may have murdered Mozart can be traced back to Pushkin's play MOZART AND SALIERI. (It ...
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