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- 571: Jonathan Swift: Misguided and Incorrect Criticisms
- ... of mankind (Ward 124). These strange actions by Gulliver actually showcase man as over-anxious, someone who acts hurriedly and irrationally and as a result errs in his work (Bloom, Gulliver 45). The reader can roll his eyes at Gulliver's foibles, but when criticizing his writing the reader is criticizing himself for being incomplete and incoherent (Ward 125). Contrary to criticism, Gulliver's Travels is far more coherent than it ...
- 572: Charles Dickens
- ... in a middle class family. His father was a clerk in the navy pay office and was well paid, but his extravagant living style often brought the family to financial disaster. The family reached financial "rock bottom" in 1824. Charles was taken out of school and sent to work in a factory doing manual labour, while his father went to prison for his debt. These internal disasters shocked Charles greatly. He ...
- 573: Neil Armstrong
- ... day. The launch was successful. Because of problems with the spacecraft control system, the crew was forced to undock after approximately thirty minutes. The spacecraft-target vehicle combination had begun to encounter increasing yaw and roll rates. The crew regained control of their spacecraft by using the reentry control system, which prompted and early landing in a secondary landing area in the Pacific after 10 hours, 41 minutes, and 26 seconds ...
- 574: Michael Jackson
- ... had many songs. Michael Jackson's first solo album is called "Off the Wall," and it first released in 1979. The songs on "Off The Wall" include "Don't Stop Till You Get Enough" and "Rock With You." His following albums include "Bad," "Thriller," and "Dangerous." Michael had a 2 CD album called "HIStory Past, Present, and Future Book 1," and it first released in 1995. The first CD has his ...
- 575: Kurt Cobain
- ... open to individual interpretation. The words along with the knowledge of his life, will be the instrument on how to gauge his depression from the basic punk sound of his early material, through the pop-rock phase, to the story telling of his later work. His forceful sound and his forceful stage performances, or only one side of him musically. As evident in the intense acoustic performance that he did for ...
- 576: Jonas Salk
- ... the use of leg braces or wheelchairs or even the iron lung. The only organization that has been formed to help this type of people is the Arkansas League of Polio Survivors located in Little Rock. This organization was founded by Margie R. Loschke who is a post- polio sufferer herself. It is a non-profit establishment, there are no dues, and they give moral support to those who are suffering ...
- 577: Hayden Carruth
- ... of it lament man's hardness of heart. In the second verse, a lighter through reads, "As the kittens were born the father of the little girl bashed the head of each one against a rock. She watched." -The Camps In this and many other of his works he illuminates the harshest situations but rarely offers a solution. If justice is truly Carruth goal why does not he offer a solution ...
- 578: Eric "Eazy-E" Wright
- ... stop the violence campaign led by the single "We're All In The Same Gang". With N.W.A, Eazy broke down all the doors of mass exposure previously closed to rap music. Attempts to rock the young musician's foundation were generally useless. Arrests for performing N.W.A's biggest hit "F*** The Police", and other attempts at censorship only helped pave the way for his success. By the ...
- 579: Castles: Seen by the Light of a Thousand Candles
- ... impervious to most assault tactics (until the advent of artillery warfare). The heel of the Achilles that was the stone castle was the use of mining. Although useless against castles built on a foundation of rock or an island, mining was especially effective by using the weight of the stones against the enemy. A tunnel would be built under the wall, and foundation stones would be removed. The castle was shored ...
- 580: The Aztec Indians
- ... went it said that Aztec people would create a empire on in a swampy place where they would see an eagle eating a snake while perched on a cactus which is growing out of a rock in the swamplands. This is what priests claimed they saw while entering the new land. By the year 1325 Their capital city was finished. They called it Tenochtitlan. In the the capital city aqueducts (piping ...
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