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- 321: Walking Across Egypt
- ... forgetfulness as she washes the toilet seat with mouthwash rather than with alcohol. And again displays it as she falls through the bottomless rocking chair. Later she displays physical inability when she asks her son Robert about helping with some yard work, which she had always taken care of before. "I'm too old to keep a dog," (20) she says to the dogcatcher as he is leaving with a brown ... her age whether or not she is physically able to do them, simply because people associate age with inability and dependence upon others. Her family and friends are expecting and encouraging this dependence. Elaine and Robert, Mattie's two unmarried children, along with other family and friends, are encouraging her to be what they expect a seventy-eight year old woman to be. They talk about how she needs to get ... as she seems to think. When she decided to try and help a young juvenile, Wesley Benfield, become a better person by taking him to church and offering him to stay the night with her, Robert thought that Mattie was sick. "Robert was thinking about the symptoms. What condition was his mother entering? Was it a phase of some sort? Was she having some of those tiny strokes they talk ...
- 322: Big Bang
- ... of the Sun. These lines came to the attention of Joseph von Fraunhofer, a German optician and physicist who carefully plotted the position of those lines. Then in 1850 German physicist's Gustav Kirchhoff and Robert Bunsen refined the spectroscope. They then learned to heat different elements to incandescence and using the spectroscope identified an elements corresponding lines on the visible portion of the electromagnetic spectrum(Parker). In 1863 Sir William ... that, consistent with big bang Cosmology, galaxies evolved and were very active billions of years ago (Parker). Finally the empirical evidence big bangers had predicted was observed in 1965 by Bell Labs Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson. Robert Dicke of Princeton University was the first to search for fossil remains of the big bang. Dicke suggested that the Big bang emanated from a previous universe and that a temperature in excess of ...
- 323: Western Films
- ... and Rio Lobo (1970). Elements of the darkish film noir genre found their way into westerns during the post-war period of the late 1940s and 1950s. Two genuine noir westerns, both starring noir actor Robert Mitchum, were Raoul Walsh's bleak, stylish and intriguing Pursued (1947) and Blood on the Moon (1948). The most prominent examples of 50s noir Westerns were the series of eight films that teamed actor James ... bounty hunt against a corrupt sheriff in the town of Big Whiskey. Western parodies and comedies that mocked the genre include Cat Ballou (1965) and Mel Brooks' Blazing Saddles (1974). Sexual frankness brought audiences to Robert Altman's McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971). Title roles for big box-office stars in westerns that rewrote the genre were among the greatest box-office successes. Paul Newman starred in Hud (1963) and Hombre (1967) and with Robert Redford in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) as two light-hearted bank robbers. And Dustin Hoffman portrayed Jack Crabb - the sole, white 121 year-old survivor of Custer's Last Stand and ...
- 324: Watcher
- ... Stanley, (22) not knowing how to call a bird. Charlie viciously kills Stanley and buries him the biggest of the two manure piles. On his stay at his grandmother s, Charlie made a new friend Robert Thompson. He was Aunt Evelyn s new boyfriend. Thompson was well educated and was studying to become a doctor. Grandma Bradley and Thompson did not get along at all; she refused to feed him and constantly threatened him. Charlie knew three things that made Robert Thompson a remarkable human being. He was going to write a book about a poet called Allen Ginsberg, who he actually met a year prior. Second, he knew a tremendous amount about what made people ... Buddhist. Charlie learned many different meditation methods and ways of praying by Thompson. He also thought a few things about what makes people tick. At the end of the story the Ogden boys beat up Robert and Charlie saw the whole thing from the corn patches. Thompson left and returned with the police and asked Charlie to tell them what he saw, and replied I don t know what he ...
- 325: China
- The World is forever in debt to China for its innovations. Ancient China was extreme advance and many of its discoveries are still in use today. This is what Robert Temple, the author of The Genius of China 3000 years of science, discovery and invention. The book is based on 11 main parts of Chinese innovation. Within these 11 categories, there are 3 main parts that contain the most significant inventions. Robert Temple concentrates the bulk of his examples in these three categories, agriculture, domestic and industrial technology , and engineering. Temples examples were not limited to these fields of innovation. The Chinese excelled in many other ... Chinese. Not did the rest of the world copy Chinese inventions, they claimed that they were the first to invent it. The author opened my eyes to the greatness of anicent China. What the author, Robert Temple, did do gave me even more reason to respect China. The Genius of China 3000 years of Science, discovery, and invention By Robert Temple Book report by Mike Leung 600-82-1189
- 326: Who Didn't Kill JFK?
- ... on the beached and Kennedy decided not to provide the air support the CIA had promised the exiles. (Marrs pg141) The CIA, Mafia, and the Cuban exiles all felt they had been betrayed by Kennedy. Robert Davis a CIA station chief described the feeling of the people who felt betrayed by Kennedy, he said, "if someone had gotten close to Kennedy, he'd of killed him. Oh, they hated him!" (marrs ... was now even more enraged with JFK's policy's they felt they had to stop him. When Kennedy was elected he made more enemies than friends. John soon after taking office appointed his brother Robert, to be his attorney general. (Waggoner pg 17) As time passed the Kennedy administration took a strong stand against organized crime. The Kennedy brothers worked harder to stop the Mafia than any other Presidency had ... Campbell Exner during the first year of his White House tenure." Despite the aid from the Mafia Kennedy still went after their organization. (Oglesby, The JFK Assassination: The facts and the theories pg 214) When Robert Kennedy had Carlos Marcello deported to Guatemala this was the icing on the cake, the Mafia had it with Kennedy's. (Marrs pg165) The Mob wanted revenge, they had their motive, the had professional ...
- 327: Federal Express
- ... revolutionary ideas into practice, made his vision a reality. FedEx is providing value at the delivering stage for existing companies and this value will only grow with the growth of E-commerce. Works Cited Sigafoos, Robert A., (1983) Absolutely Positively Overnight, 3, 31 Sigafoos, Robert A., (1983) Absolutely Positively Overnight, 3, 32 Sigafoos, Robert A., (1983) Absolutely Positively Overnight, 5, 43 www.fdxcorp.com/aboutfdx/corporate.html www.cisco.com/warp/public/779/ibs/profiles/fedex.html Sigafoos, Robert A., (1983) Absolutely Positively Overnight, 15, 169 http;//news. ...
- 328: William Blake
- ... turned out to be the best companion Blake could have chosen. Blake and Catherine never had children. In 1784, Blake s father passed away after he started his own printing press. He took his brother Robert in to live with him as an assistant pupil to relieve him from the agonies of poverty. In Blake's eyes, Robert was his son. The establishing of the printing shop helped Blake and Catherine become financially secure for rest of their lives. From that point on, he lived as an engraver and illustrator with the help of his wife and brother Robert. Once again tragedy struck, and in 1787, only shortly after beginning work, his brother Robert fell ill and passed away. In a dream, Blake said that he saw the soul of his brother rise ...
- 329: McCarthy's Communist Witch-Hunt
- ... result of McCarthy's Communist witch-hunts, the character of private citizens and of Government employees was virtually destroyed by public condemnation on the basis of deliberate untruths. For example, McCarthy was responsible for stripping Robert Openheimer, the "father" of the atomic bomb, of his security clearance. Because Openheimer had publicly questioned the ethical implications of the atomic bomb for years, he was a suspect of subversion. McCarthy was unstoppable; politicians ... the fact that the films had been made at the urging of the Office of War Information after the World War II, to make Americans sympathize with their new ally. The committee interviewed actors like Robert Taylor, Ronald Reagan, and Gary Cooper and studio owners such as Walt Disney. Some witnesses testified to alleged subversive activities and named names of alleged communists. But ten witnesses, known as Hollywood Ten, all screenwriters ... doctrine of judicial restraint. That meant that the Court would not overrule the clearly expressed policies of other branches of government. Most of the justices disapproved of HUAC's heavy-handed tactics, but, as Justice Robert Jackson explained in 1949, they felt "it would be an unwarranted act of judicial usurpation to strip Congress of its investigatory power or to assume for the courts the function of supervising congressional committees." ...
- 330: Creation As Seen Through Greco
- ... Ymir, and he was evil. As Ymir slept, he began to sweat. There grew beneath his left arm a male and a female, and from his legs another male was created. These were the first frost giants, all of whom are descended from Ymir. Then the ice-melt formed a cow, named Audhumla. Four rivers of milk flowed from her and fed Ymir. Audhumla nourished herself by licking the salty blocks ... end of a third day there was a complete man, His name was Buri, and he was strong and handsome. Buri had a son named Bor, who married Bestla, the daughter of one of the frost giants. Bor and Bestla had three sons: Odin, Vili and Ve (8). In this myth there is no violence whatsoever. The evil Ymir merely sweats, sleeps, and drinks the milk of Audhumla the cow. Unlike ... In the Norse creation myth a slight similarity can be seen with the Greco-Roman myth in that siblings band together to defeat a common foe. The brothers Odin, Vili, and Ve hated the brutal frost giant Ymir, and they slew him. So much blood flowed from the slaughtered giant that it drowned all the frost giants save Bergelmir and his wife, who escaped in a boat made from a ...
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