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- 1911: Atomic Bombs
- ... in the desert (Smyth, 150). The bomb was much more explosive than scientists thought it would be. The 100-foot tower, which housed the bomb, was totally destroyed by the blast. After the bomb exploded, Robert Oppenheimer, the head of the Manhattan Project, said, "Behold. I have become death, destroyer of worlds." (Feis, 170) When Harry Truman became President after Franklin D. Roosevelt's death, he appointed a committee, headed by ...
- 1912: Automation
- ... the backround of Henry Ford, and the Ford Motor Company. Collier, Peter. An American Epic. New York: Summit Books Co.,1987. A chronological study of the political and financial success of the Ford family. Lacey, Robert. Ford, The Men And The Machine. New York: Ballantine Books Co., 1986. A more personal study of the Ford family and the contraversy surrounding the success of the Ford Motor Company. Marcus, Paul: Ford: We ...
- 1913: Australia And The Depression
- ... market response to economic circumstances. Banks determined short-term interest rates through their competition for deposits and were key planners in the foreign exchange market during the early years of depression. The fact that Sir Robert Gibson was Chair of the Commonwealth Bank only added to the Governments predicament. Gibson's thoughts on economic policy were conservative, and under existing legislation, he was answerable to no one except the Bank Board ...
- 1914: Atomic Bomb 7
- ... in the rainwater collected by the navy (2). Russia had exploded even more nuclear bombs during the following years unexpectedly. The United States had reason to believe that a scientist by the name of J Robert Oppenheimer who secretly gave Russia top-secret information on how to make nuclear weapons. During that time not only has Russia exploded atomic bombs but other countries exploded as well. Some countries like Great Britain ...
- 1915: Articles Of Confederation 2
- ... view, realized the precarious situation when he stated the Nation was under the verge of collapse and near-anarchy and that the five year period after 1783 was the most critical time in American History. Robert Morris, secretary of finance, resorted to desperate measures with the Newburgh conspiracy in an attempt to raise funds for a depleted military; but it took an impassioned plea from General Washington himself to put down ...
- 1916: Albert Einstein 3
- ... u, is the frequency of the radiation. This offer that the energy contained within a light beam is transferred in individual units. Virtually no one accepted Einstein s proposal. In fact, when the American physicist Robert Andrews Millikan experimentally confirmed the theory almost a decade later, he was surprised and somewhat troubled by the outcome. Einstein, whose prime concern was to understand the nature of electromagnetic radiation, subsequently urged the development ...
- 1917: Guilt As Reparation For Sin In
- ... 1983. Martin, Terence. Nathaniel Hawthorne. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1965. Ragussis, Michael. Family Discourse and Fiction in The Scarlet Letter. Nathaniel Hawthorne s The Scarlet Letter. Harold Bloom, ed. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1986. Shepherd, Robert D., Ed. The Scarlet Letter. St. Paul, Minnesota: EMC Corporation, 1998.
- 1918: Getting To Know The Caged Bird
- ... make her feel unworthy. Because Angelou is a spirited journalist , (pg.5) she was inspired to begin writing I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by a meeting with novelist James Baldwin, Random House Editor Robert Loomis, and cartoonist Jules Feiffer and his wife, Judy, in 1970. After the inspiration arose, Angelou began her rigid work on yellow legal pads (pg. 9) where she let her ideas flow. The content of ...
- 1919: Gerard Manley Hopkins Terrible
- ... his "terrible" sonnets allow us to assume that the poems are his own religious confessions. "More important, however, was his sense that his prayers no longer reached God" (Benzel 371). Hopkins life-long best friend Robert Bridges received several letters from Hopkins while he wrote the "terrible" sonnets. Hopkins wrote to Bridges that the sonnets "came to him like inspirations unbidden and against my will" (Leavis 5296). Hopkins saw in his ...
- 1920: Heart Of Darkness And Apocalyp
- ... completed the "journey into self" can understand the actions of people such as Kurtz. They are alone in this world of horror
The Horror! Works Cited 1. Apocalypse Now. Dir. Francis Coppola. With Martin Sheen, Robert Duval, and Marlon Brando. Zeotrope, 1979. 2. Conrad, James. Heart of Darkness and Other Tales. Great Britain, BPC paperbacks ltd. 1990. 3. Hearts of Darkness. Dir. Fax Bahr, George Hickenlooper. Paramount, 1991. 4. "HEARTS OF ...
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