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- 5621: Thomas Edison
- ... Edison was born on February 11, 1847 in Milan, Ohio. He had many family members. He had a father named Samuel Odgen Edison and a mother named Nancy Elliott Edison. Thomas' mother pulled him from school because Thomas' teacher called him a "retard." Nancy Edison taught her son at home. Thomas has six siblings and he was the youngest child in the Edison family. Thomas was interested in many things as ...
- 5622: Giants In The Earth
- ... south of where the Arctic Circle cuts the coast of Norway. Receiving very little education in Norway, Rφlvaag traveled across to America where he moved to Sioux City, Iowa and entered Augustana College, a grammar school in South Dakota. He then moved onto St. Oalf College and graduated in 1905. In 1906, he took to teaching at the St. Oalf s. Rφlvaag has written other works besides Giants in the Earth ...
- 5623: George Orwells 1984
- ... some of the things Orwell wrote about have already come true. The realizations of his predictions are in a way scary and interesting at the same time. For a reading audience I would recommend high school and up, because I believe most young readers would not understand the corollary between communism and the world in 1984.
- 5624: All Quiet on the Western Front: Tragedy of War
- ... All Quiet on the Western Front. I found the young men in the novel All Quiet on the Western Front were expected to take part in military training and battle. When the boys were in school their teaches would try very hard to persuade them to join the army. Most times these teachers successfully persuaded them. Paul, the main character in the novel, realizes once he had reached the front, how ...
- 5625: Accountants
- ... done. Class: Accountants Special Interest: Analyzing Financial Information Subclasses: Financial accountants Tax accountants Internal auditors A college student decides she wants to become an accountant. General accounting and bookkeeping classes can be taken in high school. In college, the student needs to decide on a more specific field of accounting. An accountant has many choices as to what particular field of accounting to specialize in depending on the financial information she ...
- 5626: Adolf Hitler
- ... s father as a strict but comfortable man, and his mother was known to give Adolf much love and affection. As a child, Adolf was very skilled at artwork, and even went to a special school for awhile, but he didnt do well there. His father died in 1903 of a pleural hemorrhage, and his mother died in 1907 of breast cancer. Hitler spent six years in Vienna, Austria, the ...
- 5627: Historical Analysis Of Jerzy K
- ... protagonist changes environments and subsequently alters his religious beliefs. He realizes (during the intervals when he is not being ravaged by a savage dog unleashed upon him by the man he is staying with) that prayer--Catholicism--is the answer to all his troubles. If he can only say enough Hail MaryΉs, all his misfortunes will disappear. Surely the Lord will hear him as he stores up indulgences in heaven ...
- 5628: In Our Time
- ... read The Sun Also Rises about ten times and gotten waylaid by Batman, Robert B. Parker, and the like each time. I think I read The Old Man and the Sea ages ago in high school, but it was so long ago that it has slipped completely from my memory. He is one of those authors that I always connect with my father and his college years for some reason, although ...
- 5629: Lord Of The Flies - Book Revie
- ... mundane tasks of modern society. It is a struggle between Ralph and Jack, the boys and the Beast, good and evil. The story takes a look at what would happen if a group of British school boys were to become stranded on an island. At first the boys have good intentions, keep a fire going so that a passing ship can see the smoke and rescue them, however because of the ...
- 5630: Los Vendidos
- ... a while.) The Mexican- American sold out his Mexican Heritage when he said, "The problems of the Mexicans stem from one thing alone he's stupid, he is under-educated, he needs to stay in school. He needs to be ambitious and be forward looking, most important he needs to think American" (Page 382). In his statement he is only finding the bad of his people and stating it for the ...
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