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- 961: Eleanor Roosevelt
- ... my occupations were considerably restricted." But 13 years after her marriage, and after bearing six children, Eleanor resumed the search for her identity. The voyage began with a shock: the discovery in 1918 of love letters revealing that Franklin was involved with Lucy Mercer. "The bottom dropped out of my own particular world," she later said. "I faced myself, my surroundings, my world, honestly for the first time." There was talk ...
- 962: Culture Schock
- ... historical past on the other”. It reflects in effect what humans have added to Nature. It comprises the spiritual, material, intellectual and emotional features of a society and includes, in addition to the arts and letters, the value systems, traditions, modes of life and beliefs of the society. It also absorbs from other cultures and undergoes changes with time, sometimes beneficial, sometimes regressive. (Barlas, 15). Culture shock is a severe psychological ...
- 963: Racism Analysis
- ... which, in Greek, meant Circle Clan. One person thought it would be a good idea to call it the "Ku Klux Klan" as a parody of the fraternity names which always had three Greek alphabet letters in it. They created the Clan to be mischievous and to do it without anyone knowing who they were which accounts for their costumes and masks. They, like most whites, were upset that the black ...
- 964: Hacking Crime Or Craft
- ... lines to re-route calls. There is a password cracker for every kind of password available. The name is self-explanatory, but a password cracker is a program that runs through every possible combination of letters until it finds the right password; assuming of course the password cracker is a sophisticated one. Every major hacker develops his or her pseudonym, or nick-name. It is thought up of by themselves or ...
- 965: The Library Of Congress
- ... the name of the Library of Congress Annex Building to the Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building. In 1980, the building got a hold of its current name, which honors John Adams, the man of letters and president of the United States who in 1800 permitted the law establishing the Library of Congress. The James Madison Memorial Building In 1957, Librarian of Congress L. Quincy Mumford started studies for a 3rd ...
- 966: Woodrow Wilson
- ... his last two years in office provides a troubling example of how brain damage can affect judgment and even block insight into one's own disabilities. Wilson had dyslexia in childhood. Imagine not learning your letters until age 9, not reading until age 12, being a slow reader all your life. Rather than being a prescription for a life as a nonintellectual ditchdigger, this was part of the background of a ...
- 967: William Lyon Makcenzie
- ... t well, either. One of his children was near death, his wife was sick, and a month later, his mother, his greatest supporter, died. In May, 1840, due to his constant bouts of depression and letters of complaint, Mackenzie was pardoned and let out of prison. He hadn’t even served one full year in jail! Upon his freedom, Mackenzie started making new editions of the Gazette. The new editions criticized ...
- 968: William Bradford
- ... wrote Of Plymouth Plantation, recording the history of the Plymouth Colony, and the calamities that led up to their leaving England for Holland, and later to New England. He also recorded some of the important letters he wrote and received in a letter-book, which still partially exists. William Bradford’s letter-book was despoiled during the Revolutionary War, and was later discovered in Nova Scotia in the 1790s, ironically, being ...
- 969: Theodore Kaczynski
- ... in hopes of saving lives and the FBI hoped that if the right person saw it there may me some light shed upon the case. After recognizing some of the same ideas seen in family letters, Ted’s younger brother, David contacted the FBI. Through this information, the FBI began staking the Unabomber’s cabin out. When the investigators raided the cabin and arrested Kaczynski on suspicion, his cabin was found ...
- 970: Samuel Clemens
- ... Life on the Mississippi River. Between 1853 and 1857 Clemens worked a journeyman printer in seven different places. During this trip of making sketches and writing stories, he began eastward by boat. Twain started writing letters telling about his visits to New York and the Middle West in 1867. On his trip he seemed to have gotten him self in a lot a trouble such as disorderly conduct. After time passed ...
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