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- 1601: Charles W. Chesnutt
- ... While in Cleveland Chesnutt studied Law. While in Cleveland Chesnutt supports his mother and father while supporting his own family. Chesnutt begins to write for Family Fiction. While working at Nickel Plate Railroad Company and writing for Family Fiction he continues to study law. A year later, he passes the Ohio Bar Exam and joins the law offices of Henderson, Kline, and Tolles. Chesnutt published "The Goophered Grapevine" in the Atlantic ... the Atlantic Monthly. Chesnutt decides to start his own firm of Attorneys, stenographers, and court reporters. Employing a large number of minority who were not hired by larger firms. Chesnutt starts to feel overwhelmed with writing and being a full time attorney. Charles takes a two month vacation to Europe. When he returns he decides to give up his firm and become a full time writer. As a full time writer ... to support his family, Chesnutt was forced to reopen his court reporting business which he closed in 1899. Chesnutt shifted his literary concentration towards essays and short articles regarding racial issues. He also experimented in writing entertaining, non-controversial novels about the high society of the North. The result was "Baxter's Procrustes," his last novel to be published in the Atlantic. When Chesnutt finally completed a new novel about ...
- 1602: Secure Electronic Transactions
- ... Using Netscape Navigator version 4.0 (or later) or any of Microsoft Internet Explorers will contain different security protocols. These browsers use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology. This technology will automatically scramble or encrypt your personal data before you send it to your merchant. SSL technology shows you that your Web site is secure when an unbroken key or a lock appears in your browser window. For new technology online security ... and security 53% Can’t inspect product 20% Unfamiliar with the process 6% Don’t want to wait for delivery 3% No concerns 13% A survey dealing with a percentage of commercial sites that collects personal information about consumers. Based on a sample of 361 commercial sites from the Media Matrix’s top 7,500 URL’s in January 1999 Internet commercial sites that collect information. Internet Commercial Sites: Personal Information 93% Demographic Information 57% Both (Personal and Demographic) 56% They found that these commercial sites collect information about the consumer including their name; telephone number; E-mail and postal address. These sites were ...
- 1603: Stocism in "Enchiridion"
- ... bring an end to suffering and we will be happy. As I understand it, Epictetus clearly distinguishes between the external and the internal body: The outer body is subject to circumstances such as illness, torture, personal losses etc. The inner body, however, is completely in our own control. We have the power to free ourselves inside, our duty is to make our minds master over expectations, desires, and needs. We should ... embraced it and let it define their existence, or, as Epictetus would put it, “have become enslaved by something that is not in their power.” In my opinion, Stoicism is a powerful tool to achieve personal happiness in a world that is not (and never will be) perfect (in fact, it is far from it…). We can ask ourselves what the meaning of our life is, but we have no once ... present moment, and that is the highest blessing for beings like us […]. To secure and promote this feeling of cheerfulness should be the supreme aim of all our endeavors after happiness. Given the fact that personal happiness is our ultimate goal and the world around us naturally places obstacles to personal happiness in the form of pain, cruelty, injustice, etc., Stoicism reminds us that we choose our own thoughts and ...
- 1604: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- ... wife influenced Emerson. He also inspired many Transcendentalists like Thoreau. Emerson didn't win any major awards, but he did win the love and appreciation of his readers. Literary Information Emerson wrote many genres of writing including poetry and sermons, but his best writing is found in his essays. Even though he is noted for his essays, he was also a strong force in poetry. Emerson was known for presenting ideas in an expressive style. He wrote about numerous ... it was visiting England, the Transcendental Movement or if it was abolishing slavery. He didn't receive much fame during his lifetime, but after he passed away in1882, he was remembered for all of his writing, not just one good essay. "Emerson was the most important figure during the Romantic Period" (Myerson 3). He left his mark on writing, especially the Romantic Period. Bibliography "Emerson, Ralph Waldo." Microsoft Encarta. CD- ...
- 1605: Timothy Findley
- ... to be an artist of some form. He studied dance and later acting, which had more success. While acting, he met one of his current life long friends; actress Ruth Gordon. Gordon convinced Findley that writing was his real talent and that he should pursue it further with more concentration. So findley gave up acting after his first short story was published in The Tamarack Review to concentrate on his writings ... 1967) and The Butterfly Plague (1969). It was The Wars that gave Findley the recognition that he deserved; he received the Governor General’s Literary Award for this novel. In his early years of his writing career, Findley also wrote scripts for television, radio, and film. The most success of his film career came from the television series The Whiteoaks of Jalna, and The National Dream; for which he received an ACTRA award for co-writing with his partner, William Whitehead. After The Wars, Findley came out with six other popular novels, two collections of short stories and Inside Memory: Pages from a Writer’s Workbook (1990), a collection of ...
- 1606: Social Security In the Future? Maybe Not
- ... falling short over the long run. In 1993 the President pushed a tax that stated 85% of Social Security became taxable income to people with substantial amount of other retirement savings such as pensions and personal savings. What they are telling is if you are one the smart people in America that pre-planned your retirement with other savings and not just Social Security they can put heavy tax on your ... Accounts (IRA's). The Senators plan proposes that 2% of the 12.4% tax would be taken out and placed in private accounts set up by the government. The money would be one's own personal account with compound interest (Congressional Digest 246). The Institute for Research on Economics of Taxation (IRET) adds, "that they would not be able to touch that money until they retiree or become disabled. The money ... be eventually phased out" (Congressional Digest 244). The plan also has guidelines to problems and questions that people have or arrive. First off people begin to question the safety of the government handling their own personal money. It a viable question considering our national debt and the way they spend tax money, but the there is a viable answer. If you let people drop totally out of Social Security and ...
- 1607: Fannie Flagg Fried Green Tomat
- ... lovingly as the "peanut" she was a bigger handful than an elephant. She was an energetic and lively girl with a powerful imagination. The author claims it spelled trouble, or future writer. Fannie Flagg's writing and show business career began in the fifth grade when she wrote, produced, directed, and starred in a three-act comedy called "The Whopee Girls," which brought the audience to hysteria, but got her expelled from school for using the word "martini." At age 19, Fannie began writing and producing TV specials, and since then has appeared in more than 500 shows and in many motion picture and stage productions, including Candid Camera, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Love Boat, and Grease Fannie Flagg, (as she later changed her name to), was quite good at acting and comedy, but when she decided to take up writing in her late thirties, she never knew that her book would be such a success. The novel, received rave reviews, high praise and gained more serious recognition by critics and the public eye overall. ...
- 1608: Thomas Hardy
- ... in love with her. But in 1872 she broke his heart by returning her engagement ring. She then remarried and had two more children before dying in 1890. Tryphena had a great influence on his writing. On March 7, 1870 Hardy took an architectural trip to a church named St. Juliot. He stayed at the rectory and met the rector’s sister-in-law, Emma Lavinia Gifford. She was younger and ... rolled into one. Hardy questioned him and studied his works to gain knowledge that he was missing out on. At the age of 23 Hardy concluded his training and began to write. Hardy’s first writing was The Poor Man and the Lady, which received praise but no publishing. It was in 1865 that Hardy first got published. How I Built My First House was published in the Chambers Journal, and he followed that in 1868 with his first published novel Desperate Remedies. His writing began to get more popular in 1869 when he wrote Under The Greenwood Tree but he was not well known because he remained anonymous during the first two novels. As most writers do, Hardy ...
- 1609: Stephen King
- ... employee named Tabitha Spruce, who he married in Janurary 1971. Stephen King’s first publication was a short story he wrote and sent to a men’s magazine. This is where his first profit from writing came from, throughout the few years after his graduation he worte stories and sold them to men’s magazines. All of these short stories would be later gathered into a collection known as the "Night ... Bill Thompson, that a major paperback sale would make him financially secure enough to quit teaching, Stephen moved his now growing family to southern Maine because of his grandmother’s ever growing sickness. During the writing of Salem’s Lot Stephen’s mother grew ill and died of cancer at the age of 59. Carrie was published in the spring of 1974. During the fall of the same year King moved ... Stephen King wrote The Shining in the half of a year they lived in Colorado. They then returned to Maine in in the summer of ‘75. It was in his new house that King finished writing The Stand, which was set back in Boulder. Stephen King eventually moved back to the area around his college so he could teach creative writing as a professor. Bibliography www.horrorking.com www.stephenking.com
- 1610: William Henry Gates
- ... on the future. He sees the world in a Apowerful, high-speed network-both within companies and across the so called Information Superhighway@ (Brandt, 57). He hopes to be on top of the Transformation from Personal Computers to nets. Gates predicts that an explosion of low-cost, high-capacity, networks will radically alter how we use technology in the upcoming decade. Now before Bill Gates came onto the scene in the ... to every computer screen across the country, complete with little pictures called Aicons@ to signify different files and programs. Opening these files and programs was like opening different Awindows@, hence the name. Finally, non-Macintosh personal computers had become user friendly; no longer was it seen by the majority of the consuming public as a cold, high-tech piece of equipment whose secrets could only be unlocked by some alien script ... Gates empire.@ reported the June 24, 1995 issue of the Economic magazine. (The Economist, 59) The basis behind these probes was focused upon possible misuse of licensing agreements and royalty fees by Microsoft with many personal computer makers. Just as the operating software of Bill Gates and Microsoft become the standard of personal computers, so would Mr. Gates like to dominate the software end of the up and coming multimedia ...
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