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- 4971: The Mississippi River (huckleb
- ... Sawyer, a dreamer/adventurer, than to the polite, civilized manner of Widow Douglas and Miss Watson. Pap was an influential adult in Huck s life. Pap controlled Huck not with security, but with fear. A short time after Huck escapes from Pap s cabin, Huck realizes that the correct action would be to turn Jim into the authorities. Instead, Huck follows his heart, and many pleas by Jim, and concludes that ...
- 4972: Steve Jobs
- ... of a menacing voice. A transcendent blast. Then a calm, cultivated speaker assured the astonished multitudes that 1984 would not be like 1984. Macintosh had entered the arena. That week, countless newspapers and magazines ran stories with titles like "What were you doing when the '1984' commercial ran?" Jobs' invocation of the gladiator image is not incidental here. Throughout the development of the Macintosh, he had fanned the fervor of the ...
- 4973: Lee Iacocca
- ... one month before Lee was fired. In 1979 Lee Iacocca was employed with the Chrsler Corporation. Within his first few month there he had seen Chrysler cancel production of over sixty thousand cars. After a short period of time he found out there were no dealers to sell cars for them. Their inventory was bulging because of cars that were made with no destination. These vehicles were part of Chrysler's ...
- 4974: The Red Badge Of Courage
- ... cope with his negative actions. In the beginning of the novel, Henry acted in a cowardly way. He feared going to battle, and wondered if he would run, when faced with the situation. After the short, first battle occurred, he was very proud of himself for not fleeing. However, in the middle of the second battle, he dropped his rifle and ran as fast as he could. "He ran like a ...
- 4975: The Life of Walt Disney
- ... the Kansas City Film Ad company. Ub also took a position at the company.6 Later Walt Disney left the company and moved to Hollywood. He wanted to make longer animated cartoons in stead of short animated ads. Disney's first character with a personality, was Oswald the Rabbit. But, in a scandal, he lost the character and several animators. Outraged by the loss he vowed," Never again will I work ...
- 4976: Jane Austen: Her Life and Work
- ... It is obvious that Jane Austen had fallen in love sometime in her life with the way she depicts love in her novels. There are "only records of mild flirtations." There are a number of stories which involve Jane and a man. She agreed to marry a "Hampshire man, but changed her mind the very next morning." The Hampshire man wasn't the only man who had asked Jane to marry ...
- 4977: The Rime Of The Christo-marine
- ... revealed again, "The Sun, right up above the mast," [ln 383] just as it had been when their journey began. This is parallel to Jesus' life, death, and resurrection. The Albatross, having a only a short time within the poem, also represents the Christ- figure. As the ship reaches the antarctic region, its journey is endangered by the cold and ice. This serves as the dark time of Humanity, when all ...
- 4978: William Henry Gates III
- ... Myths and legends about this youthful success story abound; he has already published an autobiography which, along with a critical biography of Gates, is being read by people all over the world. He is, in short, a super-famous man. Gates rear-echelon e-mail activities have been reprinted not only in America and Europe, but even, in translation, in Japanese newspapers. Gates has been known for some time as a ...
- 4979: The Life of Harry Houdini
- ... about Appleton, "the greatest escape I ever made was when I left Appleton, Wisconsin." Houdini's early years. Houdini's father was Mayer Samuel Weiss. His father was a Rabbi. Mayer was Rabbi for a short time for the German Zoin Jewish Congregation in Appleton. His mother's name was Cecilia Steiner Weiss. Houdini's original family pictures are on display at the Houdini Museum in Scranton, Pennsylvania in the Pocono ...
- 4980: The Life and Accomplishments of John F Kennedy
- ... the United States. His back was giving him pain and he was suffering from malaria. Kennedy spent the rest of his naval service as an instructor and in various military hospitals. He then had a short career as a newspaper reporter. John's family thought that he would become a writer or a teacher. His brother Joe was going to be the family politician. Joe's death in 1944 changed his ...
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