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- 751: The Bogart By Susan Cooper
- ... and very sensitive towards the Boggart, once she understood him. Jessup is very smart, loves computers, and was a member of a computer gang called the Gang 5. The parents of Emily and Jessup were Robert and Maggie Volink. Robert works in the theater and Maggie owns and runs an antique store. The Volink family were excited and amazed that they inherited a castle. But what the Volink s did not know was that a ...
- 752: Bacillus Anthracis 2
- Bacillus Anthracis Robert Koch discovered Bacillus Anthracis, the bacterium for the deadly disease, Anthrax, in 1877. Robert Koch grew the bacterium into a pure culture, demonstrated its ability to form endospores, and produced experimental Anthrax by injecting it into animals. Bacillus Anthracis was the first bacterium shown to be the cause of ...
- 753: Ebonics
- ... freedom has created the English we speak today. Although a little behind the times, Oxford changes the rules as to what is correct English due to what is being spoken. In English Belongs to Everybody, Robert MacNeil, feels that English has prospered and grown because it was able to accept and absorb change (140). So change in the English language helps it grow, yet the dialect of the inner city blacks ... would also shift positions. The flexibility of English would surely be tested. While the standard must be taught and learned, the many dialects in our society must be recognized and no longer scorned. BIBLIOGRAPHY MacNeil, Robert. English Belongs to Everybody. date: 140-142. Pei, Mario. One Language for the World. New York: The Devin-Adair Company, 1958.
- 754: American Language
- ... society.engonly.html (29 April 1999). “English Only.” ACLU Briefing Paper. 1996. http://www.aclu. org/library/pbp6.html (29 April 1999). “Issue of Quebec’s Independence.” The American Geographical Society Fall 1997:37. King, Robert D. “English as the Official Language:The Problem of Multiple Cultures.” Current (Washington D.C.) July/August 1997:3-8. Mc Bee, Susanna. “A War Over Words.” U.S. News and World Report 6 October ... society.engonly.html (29 April 1999). “English Only.” ACLU Briefing Paper. 1996. http://www.aclu. org/library/pbp6.html (29 April 1999). “Issue of Quebec’s Independence.” The American Geographical Society Fall 1997:37. King, Robert D. “English as the Official Language:The Problem of Multiple Cultures.” Current (Washington D.C.) July/August 1997:3-8. Mc Bee, Susanna. “A War Over Words.” U.S. News and World Report 6 October ...
- 755: Excellence In Education
- ... education cannot come to an agreement on how our schools can best achieve excellence for and from our students. One of the many authorities who have contributed a model for what schools should be is Robert L. Ebel. According to Ebel, knowledge is the single most significant and most important goal in the education of children. In his article What are schools for? Ebel answers that schools are for learning, and ... but because it is one successful way of wedding traditional goals with non-traditional means (56). As her support of traditional goals suggests, Ravitch s views regarding schooling have much in common with those of Robert Ebel. Ravitch shares Ebel s opinion that a refreshed stress on traditional academic programs is imperative to reestablish the effectiveness of the American education system. This return to academics is an essential part of Edward ...
- 756: Willem De Kooning
- ... the exhibit curator Gary Garrells of taking an unusual step of collecting a panel of experts to determine when De Kooning's work began to lose coherence. The panel included painter Joseph Johns and curator Robert Storr of New York's Museum of Modern Art. After close examination of his paintings the expert group determined that De Kooning's work faltered after 1988. Gary Garrells declared the paintings made before 1988 ... colors were concentrated with complements of green, orange and violet with subtly toned creamy backgrounds. These paintings reminded of his 1930s and1940s work with an assurance e and freedom only attained by a master painter. Robert Storr, curator from New York's Museum of Modern Art was one of the coordinator of his last exhibition. He wrote in Winter/Spring 1997 issue of MOMA Magazine that the story of De Kooning ...
- 757: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
- ... every state and 170 urban areas. Another important element of the campaign was the support Kennedy received from blacks in important Northern states, especially Illinois and Pennsylvania. They supported him in part because he and Robert Kennedy had tried to get the release of the civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. King, who had been jailed for taking part in a civil rights demonstration in Georgia, was released soon afterward ... cut taxes were debated, and compromises were agreed to, but even the compromises were delayed. A bill to create a Cabinet-level Department of Urban Affairs was soundly defeated, partly because Kennedy wanted the economist Robert C. Weaver, a black man, to be the new secretary. Southern Congressmen united with representatives from mostly rural areas to defeat the bill. Kennedy did win approval of a bill to lower tariffs and thus ...
- 758: To Build A Fire Character Stud
- ... does not even listen to the advice of an old man who has proably been living in the Yukon longer than the Man has been alive. Fifty degrees bleow zero stood for a bite of frost that hurt and that must be guarded against by the use of mittens, earflaps, warm moccasins, and thick socks. Fifty degrees below zero was to him just precisely fifty degrees below zero. That there should be anything more to it was a thought that never entered his head. The Man thinks little of the extreme temperature. He thinks of it as only "a bite of frost that hurt," and nothing more. He doesn t realize that the cold can not only "hurt," but it can kill. During his fateful journey, the Man is given warnings first-hand of the extreme cold ...
- 759: The Awakening: A Woman's Fight for Independence
- ... what a woman's "roles" in life was and how they should act, look, and feel. Second, is her independent nature. The last opposing power she comes across is her undying love for the charming Robert Lebrun. It is the unwritten rule that a woman should marry, have children, and be happy and content with that as their life. Society portrays this to be a woman's rightful job and duty ... She was in control of this new relationship and she loved feeling in control. True, she felt nothing beyond lust for the man but she was able to do as she wished. Her love for Robert Lebrun was truly her biggest obstacle she was to overcome. Every thought and feeling she had sprouted from the love she had for him which kept growing long after the brief summer in Grand Isle ...
- 760: Atomic Bomb 3
- ... bomb. This is when the United States started the Manhattan Project. This was the project of making an atomic bomb. In the project many brilliant minds were used. The most famous of these people is Robert Oppenheimer. He was the major person behind this project. He basically ran the operation and oversaw the hole project from start to completion. Other great people like H.C. Urey, Ernest Lawrence, Isidor Rabi, and ... that a blind girl 120 miles away saw the flash. The creators of the Gadget had mixed feelings. Some felt that the equilibrium in nature was upset. Others were glad that the project had succeeded. Robert Oppenheirmer was excited that the project was a success, but quoted a fragment from Bhagavad Gita. "I am become death the destroyer of worlds." Several of the creators signed a petition against releasing the monster ...
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