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- 4771: Langston Hughes
- ... as Leopold Senghor, saw Hughes as the father of the Negritude Movement(Davis). One of Hughes's works mentioned in the book, The Langston Hughes Reader, is entitled, My Most Humiliating Jim Crow Experience. This short story of his is a true story of his childhood. It shows all the themes he is fighting for and the things he is fighting against. What happens is that Hughes and a white friend ...
- 4772: John Quincy Adams
- ... during his term. He gave the Government stability by continuing practices established under Washington. The crisis he faced was the difficult relations with France.When in the XYZ affair peace commissioners retuned from Paris with stories of bribery and deceit, Adams built up the armed forces and took many national security measures. Jefferson and the Republicans and Hamilton and some Federalists wanted war with France for economic reasons, but Adams kept ...
- 4773: Huckleberry Fin 2
- ... freedom is very limited and they must still go out of their way to avoid others, going down the river only at night and hiding during the day. Huck has to constantly think of new stories to tell nearby boatsmen or anyone else who might intrude on their concord. Another appeal of the river is its peacefulness. Huck does not much seem to enjoy the company of other people, with the ...
- 4774: Why We Should Stick To Qwerty
- ... taken into account - human cost. If the new, more efficient keyboards are to be standardized, there would be enormous spending on reeducation, relearning, repurchasing, and replacement. The cost of doing this would be enormous. In short, the qwerty keyboard is efficient enough for people to use. It's fast enough for regular users, and it's slow enough for typists to avoid further health problems. And, attempt to standardize a new ...
- 4775: Albert Einstein
- ... but with religion. He avidly studied the Bible seeking truth, but this religious fervor soon died down when he discovered the intrigue of science and math. To him, these seemed much more realistic than ancient stories. With this new knowledge he disliked class even more, and was eventually expelled from Luitpold Gymnasium being considered a disruptive influence. Feeling that he could no longer deal with the German mentality, Einstein moved to ...
- 4776: Frederick Douglass
- ... a valuable blessing for the abolitionists. In their struggles so far, there had been many skilled arguers but few who could so convincingly portray the evils of slavery, an act which seemed to demand little short of firsthand experience, but which also required a clear understanding of it. Douglass had both, and proved himself an incredibly powerful weapon for reform. While the identity of his father is uncertain, it is generally ...
- 4777: H.g. Wells The Time Machine
- ... culture and learning. Wells shows the reader the reality of the situation through the Eloi people. The Time Traveler sees that the Eloi have the intellect of five year olds. They lack ambition, have a short attention span, and also lack strength. At first, his surroundings looked splendid, but he finds it to be in ruins. Initially the Time Traveler blames this on " Communism" , but through the experience of meeting of ...
- 4778: Are "Good" Computer Viruses Still a Bad Idea?
- ... when the user is running a compression virus. Sixth, the idea violates the Effectiveness condition. It is perfectly possible to use a stand-alone, non-viral program to compress the executable files and prepend a short decompressor to them. This has the added advantage that the code for the compressor does not have to reside in every compressed file, and thus we don't have to worry about its size or ...
- 4779: Hamlet 4
- Eveline - Character Analysis There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision (James). Originally appearing in Dubliners, a compilation of vignettes by James Joyce, his short story Eveline is the tale of such an unfortunate individual. Anxious, timid, scared, perhaps even terrified -- all these describe Eveline. She is a frightened, indecisive young woman poised between her past and her future. Eveline ...
- 4780: Video Games: The High Tech Threat to Our Younger Generation
- ... meet contrived on-screen challenges (74). Nowadays, technology has become even more advanced and is able to produce CD quality stereo sound and three dimensional images without any jerky movements. It is almost like a short action film than the sticky figures of the computer programs of the mid eighties (Source). For now, the overall sales of 16-bit hardware systems have slowed dramatically as videogame players wait for the next ...
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