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- 1741: Marijuana
- ... may well be trusted in large part because they are presumed to act in defense of their patients lives. Nurses give great importance to the psychosocial health of their patients. According to Smith, most professional literature related to the psychosocial care of the dying is written by nurses. "The dichotomy between nursing and medicine is striking in this regard" (Smith, 1985, pg. 284). Nurses will undoubtedly, sometime during their career, be ...
- 1742: Business And The Environment
- ... information to the public through a 1-800 number. The number is linked directly to Merck, where questions regarding Merck plants are answered. Emergency response systems are in place at factories, and for Merck transports. Literature regarding operations and safety procedures are distributed by Merck to keep the public informed. 11 Merck's environmental commitment extends to its corporate headquarters. Environmental preservation of woodland and wetlands upon the site was the ...
- 1743: Brown Vs. Board Of Education
- ... up pace, the Korean War began, and we had the entry of the Counter Culture. In addition, racial boundaries were being broken in athletics, with Jackie Robinson entering the Major League of Baseball, and in literature, with many black authors getting published, including Ralph Ellison with his novel The Invisible Man which depicted the feelings of African-Americans as not being seen in American socity. The era that followed the 1950s ...
- 1744: The Library Of Congress
- ... artists and sculptors could outshine European libraries in magnificence and loyalty to classical civilization. A modern guidebook bragged: "America is justly proud of this gorgeous and palatial monument to its National sympathy and appreciation of Literature, Science, and Art. It has been designed and executed entirely by American art and American labor (and is) a fitting tribute for the great thoughts of generations past, present, and to be." This new national ...
- 1745: Winston Churchill
- ... important role in guiding Britain’s people through the trials and tribulations of the Second World War. Churchill was also an accomplished writer who composed several campaign reports and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953 for his six volume history of World War II. But there is much more to this noble man other than his tongue and his pen. Sir Winston Spencer Churchill is a great mind ...
- 1746: William Faulkner
- ... of the seventies" (Faulkner "Rose" 502). Another dead giveaway is that Miss Emily had a black servant. Above all else is the fact that Mr. Faulkner makes the settings of most of his pieces of literature in Jefferson, Mississippi. Faulkner’s underlying theme throughout his works are the coming of age type theme. What makes this story so different and unique is the fact that he has Miss Emily not changing ...
- 1747: Thomas Jefferson
- ... him the two most important things to become an educated man, which was a difficult thing to become during that time. Those two things, time and the resources, allowed him to educate himself in history, literature, law, architecture, science, and philosophy. He also had a great deal of influence on his ideals that came directly from the European culture and thought because he had been a diplomat and friend of French ...
- 1748: Thomas Jefferson
- ... entertaining guests or at his friends' plantations. After two years at William and Mary (A College in Virginia’s capital city), Jefferson left to study law. Thomas still studied French, Italian, and English history and literature. In 1767, Jefferson was chosen to the practice of law in Virginia. Jefferson's main source of income was his land. That’s because most lawyers didn’t make enough money back then. On New ...
- 1749: Thomas Hardy
- ... a " a stinging foretaste of the pain and humiliation of the Victorian class structure." At 14 he was proficient in Latin, knew Shakespeare, the Bible, and Pilgrim’s Progress, which were all major works of literature. Part of Hardy’s education wasn’t in school. He learned how fierce the world can be. He witnessed two executions and heard tales from his father of people being burned at the stake and ...
- 1750: Thomas Edison
- ... attended two more schools. However, his school attendance was not very good. So nearly all his childhood learning took place at home. Edison's parents loved to read. They read to him works of good literature and history. They had many books that young Tom eagerly devoured. Before he was 12, he had read works by Dickens and Shakespeare, Edward Gibbon's Fall of the Roman Empire and Decline, and more ...
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