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- 461: Psychological Doubles
- ... 48) Such duality of roles is expressed in terms of split personalities in both The Beast in the Jungle by Henry James (1843-1916) and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894). In these fictional works, the characters are unable to cope with the split. Stevenson seeks to reproduce the double by way of splitting a personality between accepted roles. In this case ... Hyde. Jekyll is an apparently respectable man , contends Calder (ii), who contains within him a potential for profound wickedness, released in the shape of Mr. Hyde . According to Calder (ii) AJ Symonds, a friend of Robert Stevenson, and many others found this chilling to contemplate. The society of men is Stevenson s main focus and is evident in the number of ways in which he presents Hyde in terms of society ... Saturday Evening Post, Vol. 269. (1997): July 17, pp. 44-53. Schwartz, S. Individual Differences In Cognition: Some Relationships Between Personality And Memory. Journal of Research in Personality, Vol. 9. (1975), pp. 217-225. Stevenson, Robert L. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. New York: Penguin: 1979. Thompson, Terry. James s The Jolly Corner. The Explicator, Vol. 56. (1998): June 22, pp. 192-195.
- 462: Profiles In American Enterpris
- ... the main officers: Name Age Title Salary Edwards, Benjamin F. ,III 64 Chairman of the Board, President, Chief Executive Officer, Subsidiary Officer $1,512,627 King, Eugene J. 64 Vice President, Subsidiary Officer NA Proost, Robert L. 58 Vice President, Subsidiary Officer NA Avis, Robert 64 Vice Chairman of the board, Subsidiary Oficer $1,174,034 Dissett, Robert C. 58 Subsidiary Officer $893,849 Mesker, David W. 64 Treasure, Subsidiary Officer NA Ewdards, Mary G. 53 Treasure NA Sisler, David M. 60 Vice President NA In the subsequent paragraphs the organization of ...
- 463: Us Presidents 30-42
- ... control over the Republican Party to be nominated for president in June 1924. Coolidge also gained enough of the people's confidence to be easily elected over his major opposition, John W. Davis (Democrat) and Robert M. La Follette (Progressive). When Coolidge entered the campaign with a series of "nonpolitical" statements late that summer, it was as the apostle of prosperity, economy, and respectability. His opponents exhausted themselves with charges about ... that the U.S.-supported invasion of Laos had not gone well. Later that year, several newspapers published secret documents from an analysis of the Vietnam War prepared at the request of Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara during the Johnson administration. Arguing that some of the revelations in these "Pentagon Papers" were a threat to national security, the Department of Justice tried to halt their publication. The U.S. Supreme Court ... had little success in gaining its acceptance by Congress. Late in 1987, Reagan failed twice to fill a Supreme Court vacancy with judge's holdingstrong conservative views. The Senate, 58-42, rejected the nomination of Robert Bork after the Judiciary Committee found him insufficiently inclined to protect individual rights and liberties. A second judge, Douglas Ginsburg, withdrew from consideration after it became known that he had smoked marijuana while teaching ...
- 464: Natural Language Processing
- ... the question, "Why did John leave a small tip?" While MARGIE applied syntax and semantics well, it forgot about pragmatics. To solve this problem, Schank moved to Yale and teamed up with Professor of Psychology Robert Abelson. They realized that most of our everyday activities are linked together in chains which they called "scripts." (Daniel Crevier, 1994) In 1975, SAM (Script Applied Mechanism), written by Richard Cullingford, used an automobile accident ... Despite the success of SAM, Schank said "real understanding requires the ability to establish connections between pieces of information for which no prescribed set of rules, or scripts, exist." (Daniel Crevier, 1994, page 167) So Robert Wilensky created PAM (Plan Applier Mechanism). PAM interpreted stories by linking sentences together through a character's goals and plans. Here is an example of PAM (Daniel Crevier, 1994): John wanted money. He got a ... the subject of a following sentence beginning with "He" as "the boy." (G. McWilliams, 1993) In the 1950s, Noam Chomsky believed that NLP consisted only of syntax. With MARGIE, Roger Schank added semantics. By 1975, Robert Wilensky's PAM could handle pragmatics, too. And as Joe Weizenbaum did with ELIZA in 1958, over 35 years later IBM is adding tricks to its NLP programs. Natural Language Processing has had many ...
- 465: Stonewall Jackson
- Stonewall Jackson, born January 21, 1824 was one of the most famous confederate generals and one of the best officers to serve for General Robert E. Lee. But Jackson wasnt just born a general, he earned it. Since his parents died when he was very young, life was very rough for him. He was raised by his uncle, Cummins ... upper third of his class. His military career had just begun. As soon as he received his commission as lieutenant of artillery, Jackson was assigned to the war zone in Mexico. There he first met Robert E. Lee. Jackson served at Veracruz, Contreras, Chapultepec, and Mexico City, and rose to the temporary rank of major within a year. In 1850, after the Mexican war was over he went to Florida to ... to fight on and eventually win. In 1862, in the Shenandoah valley Jackson earned international fame by defeating 60,000 Union soldiers with only 17,000 troops. After the campaign ended he went to help Robert E. Lee in Richmond. He and Lee were very close to each other and knew each other like brothers. Other battles Jackson fought in were The Seven Days Battles, Cedar Mountain, the Second Battle ...
- 466: The Awakening: Edna and True Love
- ... more like an individual when she was enjoying the act of love making, rather than acting on account of someone else's pleasure. This affair was important to her becoming an individual. The entire pre-Robert time was in preparation to finding him. Arobin's importance was evident with Edna's actions immediately following this affair. She decided to close her house up and move to a smaller, less desirable one ... fully acquire individualism. Edna's true love was found in a person that appeared to have the most character. This character is what made it impossible for Edna ever to have him as her own. Robert refused to get in a relationship with someone that was already married. His class and self-power doubled not only as what attracted her to him, but also what ultimately drove her to take her life in the end. Encountering Robert is where the title of the book arose. The Awakening is in reference to Edna's feelings. She feels like one who awakens gradually from a dream to the reality of life. This is ...
- 467: Battle Of Gettysburg 2
- ... fighting for different reasons. The North was fighting to abolish slavery, while the South was fighting to sustain slavery. The Battle of Gettysburg was a very important battle during the Civil War. The Confederate General, Robert E. Lee had proven to be invincible after his victories at Chancellorsville and Fredricksberg, and was finally defeated at Gettysburg. The Battle of Gettysburg turned the tide of the war permanently against the South. On July 1, 1863 shots were fired outside Gettysburg that marked the beginning of what would become one of the largest and most significant battle in the world. After a Confederate victory at Chancellorsville, General Robert E. Lee divided his army into three different corps. Corp I was under the command of General James Longstreet, Corp II under General R.S. Ewell, and Corp III under General A.P. Hill. Before ... of Gettysburg was a very significant battle. It changed the tide of the war severely. Lee had never been defeated, and was coming from a victory at Chancellorsville and Fredricksberg. This only proved that General Robert E. Lee was human, and was not invincible. Lee gathered his men, and apologized to them, for what he had done. It was all my fault. Get together and let us do the best ...
- 468: Frankenstein: Effects of Alienation and Isolation
- ... Shelley, tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a power-hungry man who brings about his own destruction through the creation of a monster. While searching for the monster in the arctic, Frankenstein is rescued by Robert Walton, a lonely sea captain on a search for the unknown. Frankenstein then narrates to Walton the story of the monster. Through the novel, Mary Shelley explores the themes of alienation and isolation. These themes are most evident through the characters of Robert Walton, Frankenstein, and the monster. Walton is a twenty-eight year old, unmarried man who has spent his last six years in preparation for his sea voyage. During the years, Walton isolated himself from friends ... results of the monsters isolation are deadly and cause both the monster and Frankenstein severe pain. In the novel, Frankenstein, the effects of alienation and isolation can best be seen in the lives of Robert Walton, Victor Frankenstein, and the monster. Alienation is mostly brought on by the person, but isolation can be caused by many things. Another example of isolation can be seen in the monsters desire ...
- 469: The Killer Angels
- ... The book moves back and forth from the North and South perspective. Shaara portrays the terrible butchery of the three days' fighting through the vividly ren-dered thoughts and emotions of men such as General Robert E. Lee, Major General John Buford from the South and from the North, Brigadier General Lewis Armistead, and Colonel Joshua Chamberlain. This is a tremendously moving novel, guaranteed unforget-table. The book instills in one ... beginning of the book we learn about the North from a spy for the South. His job was to scout the North's position as well count the number of troops. He reports to General Robert E. Lee and recalls what he saw. The spy's information proved useful to the Confederates' at the beginning of the Battle of Gettysburg. The fight at Gettysburg is a series of battles. At first the South gains ground but eventually the North secures the better field position and crushes the Southern forces. The author makes it clear that it is General Robert E. Lee's poor judgment and de-cisions that causes the South to lose the Battle of Gettysburg. Lee even credits himself for the South's failure, as quoted in the book, "No blame ...
- 470: Profiles In American Enterpris
- ... the main officers: Name Age Title Salary Edwards, Benjamin F. ,III 64 Chairman of the Board, President, Chief Executive Officer, Subsidiary Officer $1,512,627 King, Eugene J. 64 Vice President, Subsidiary Officer NA Proost, Robert L. 58 Vice President, Subsidiary Officer NA Avis, Robert 64 Vice Chairman of the board, Subsidiary Oficer $1,174,034 Dissett, Robert C. 58 Subsidiary Officer $893,849 Mesker, David W. 64 Treasure, Subsidiary Officer NA Ewdards, Mary G. 53 Treasure NA Sisler, David M. 60 Vice President NA In the subsequent paragraphs the organization of ...
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