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- 1101: Web Site Promotion
- ... or commonly known as email. This is a very simple process in general. It simply consists of sending out emails at random or premeditated if you have the time. The emails need to contain a short paragraph describing a little about your web site and what it has to offer to those who visit the web site. Remember that with this method it is wise to not be too wordy otherwise ... sender of the email. It is recommended that more than one signature be provided to pertain to different types of people that are emailed. The message should include your web site name, address, and a short catchy little phrase to catch the eye (Kent 324). Another method of promoting a web site is to enter the site in a search engine. A few examples of search engines are Yahoo, Alta Vista ... the site a bad reputation for what is called spamming. Knowing how to post good messages is a way to promote the we site in itself. Show ads that interest people and do not use short flashy ads. Short flashy ads irritate people. It is bast to use long indirect informal ads that make it seem like a sensible conversation and not an ad. It is best to only post ...
- 1102: Marcus Aurelius
- ... Aurelius also believed that the fear of death was useless, and that is was ignorant to fear something that one has never experienced before. He considered death only one step of a cycle. Life was short, only a moment in the history of all that has been and all that will be. A person is born, lives a short while, dies, and becomes ashes. Since life is so short, it is important to appreciate what time a person does have, whether it is ten years, or one hundred. In the end, we all die, so it is of little importance how long we ...
- 1103: Bradbury's "August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains" and Poe's "Masque of the Red Death": Elements and Techniques to Create and Convey the Theme
- Bradbury's "August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains" and Poe's "Masque of the Red Death": Elements and Techniques to Create and Convey the Theme In a short story an author uses elements and techniques in a story to create and convey his theme. In the short story "August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains", written by Ray Bradbury, he uses conflict to convey his theme. In the short story "Masque of the Red Death", by Edgar Allen Poe, he uses setting of the seven rooms to convey his theme. In the short story "August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains" Bradbury uses ...
- 1104: Mantle vs. Mays
- ... most part, a relatively injury free career, Mantle played in the American league, and had an injury plagued career. One must also consider the fact that while they both played center field, Mantle started at Short Stop, and moved to right field before taking over center field from the retiring Joe DiMaggio. Mickey Mantle named after the hall of fame catcher Mickey Cochrane, his fathers favorite player. What made Mantle ... runs. He led the American League in home runs for four years. Mantle hit over fifty home runs in two of those four years. Mantle was moved around a lot early in the career from short stop, where he had a short error filled season in minor league ball, to right field where he became the Yankees regular starter. Then in the fall of 1951 he was moved again to center field after the retirement ...
- 1105: The Other Side
- The Other Side Jean Rhys' short story "I Used to Live Here Once" is the definition of a short story. The story is a mere one and a half pages in length. Jean Rhys, the author, has incorporated many different ideas and concepts into these few pages. The story is about a woman who ... 358)", makes the image appear to be somewhat of a reflection. These sentences make it seem that she is reflecting or reminiscing upon her own childhood. This story is very cleverly written. It is very short in length, and reading it only once is simply not enough. At first read it appears to be simple. It portrays itself as a story about a woman who is simply going back to ...
- 1106: A Bird In The House
- ... Ewen and Aunt Edna all reach personal freedom, however only to a small extent because they are left with the pain of their memories and regrets. Vanessa reaches personal freedom to a small extent. The stories in A Bird in the House show the pains that Vanessa goes through while growing up. Vanessa travels on a journey form ignorance to knowledge. This journey is her comprehension of why things happen, and ... that aunt Edna was living in and her mother was going to have to live in again. Vanessa always tried to free herself of the things that went on around her by writing exaggerated adventure stories. When Vanessa wrote, it was her chance to get away from the things that made her feel trapped. Vanessa is freed of Grandfather Conner's tyranny when he dies, at least one thinks so. However ... the time that she has lived with Grandfather Conner however, when she has the opportunity to be free she doesn't feel that it is needed. Aunt Edna is a character in the compilation of stories that after many chances reaches freedom. Freedom from Grandfather Conner the person that made her feel like there was no where to run, she was finally free of him when she left his house. ...
- 1107: George Orwell
- ... I was eight. For this and other reasons I was somewhat lonely and I soon developed disagreeable mannerisms which made me unpopular throughout my schooldays. I had the lonely childs habit of making up stories and holding conversation with imaginary persons, and I think from the very start of my literary ambitions were mixed up with the feeling of being isolated and undervalued. I knew that I had facility with ... failures. All of his early work was signed by his christened name of Eric Blair. Orwell stated that he was a very lonely child and he would hold conversations with imaginary people and make up stories in his head. For fifteen years or so Orwell made up a continuous story about himself, a sort of diary existing only in his head: As a very small child I used to imagine that ... I admired at different ages, but so far as I remember it always had the same meticulous descriptive quality. (Orwell 1) Orwell said that for the longest time he would make up all kinds of stories in his head but every day the stories got more and more descriptive, as if his great descriptive sense came almost against his will. In 1911 at the age of eight Orwell entered a ...
- 1108: Confusion in the Japanese Economy: Four Problem Areas
- ... of the Japanese economy, Japanese banks and the yen were major causes of the troubles in Asia. Japan, however, forgets this and talks only of the adverse impact of the Asian problems on Japan. In short, Japan is seen as a victim. This is true not just of politicians and bureaucrats, but also of businessmen who just complain that exports are not increasing or that the banks' loan assets have deteriorated ... are a powerful market force. One reason for the failures of Yamaichi Securities, Hokkaido Takushoku Bank, and Tokyo Shokuhin was that their ratings had been downgraded. A further source of the market forces is the short-term capital market. A trend of avoiding risky borrowers has emerged, but there is the danger that even stronger companies sometimes may become short of short-term funds.
- 1109: Death Marches
- ... a handful of people who were able to actually substantiate claims of mass extermination that took place at camps like Auschwitz, and even fewer who could fan the flames of resistance by retelling the horrific stories of what occurred to those who followed. Some theorists argue that if the Jews had not been exposed to the kind of Nazi propaganda that was utilized as a control measure through out the early ... The views of some of the survivors of Auschwitz help to underscore the history of the ghettoization process and the quelling of opposition to Nazi control. The process of ghettoization has been related in the stories of many of the survivors of the death marches, many of whom lived through ghettoization in Hungary and Poland under the directives of Adolph Eichmann (Smith 22). Under the plan for the Judenfrei-Europe (Jew ... is at the heart of issues around expression of these events (Yudkin 485). It has readily been recognized that the narratives of the Holocaust, including the narratives of the death marches and even the few stories that actually recount experiences in camps like Auschwitz and Dachau, are defined by a correlation between fictional elements and biographical information (Yudkin 485). Some theorists have asserted that this perspective is defined by the ...
- 1110: Lytton Strachey
- ... an iconoclastic set of satirical biographical essays which would make his name; and his friends considered him the most brilliant of them all. He was also homosexual. The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature Collection of short biographical sketches by Lytton Strachey, published in 1918. Strachey's portraits of Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Thomas Arnold, and General Charles "Chinese" Gordon revolutionized English biography. Until Strachey, biographers had kept awestruck distance from their subjects; anything short of adulation was regarded as disrespect Strachey, however, announced that he would write lives with "a brevity which excludes everything that is redundant and nothing that is significant," whether flattering to the subject or not ... British biographer and literary critic who introduced a witty and impressionistic style of biography that was widely imitated. Strachey was born in London. He was associated with the intellectual Bloomsbury Group. His Eminent Victorians (1918)-short biographies of Florence Nightingale and others-won him widespread recognition. In this work, he carefully selected his facts to present highly personal portraits of his subjects. Strachey employed the same approach in his biographies ...
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