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- 5191: Emily Dickinson
- By: Courtney "Emily Dickinson" Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was an American poet of the nineteenth century. She was one of the greatest masters of the short lyric poem. Not much is known about her life, but what is known is unusual and interesting. Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts on December tenth, eighteen hundred thirty, to a prominent family. [ 9 ...
- 5192: Farai Chideya
- ... politics, from an article titled "Skewering Congressional Pork," to following President Clinton as a pool reporter on Air Force One. Soon afterward, Chideya made her transition to newswriting at MTV from 1994-1996. During this short period of time, Chideya also completed a fellowship at the Freedom Forum Media Studies Center, examining why young Americans are tuning out the news. She published a book in 1995 called Don't Believe the ...
- 5193: The Battle of Midway in the Pacific
- ... they seemed to stretch endlessly from horizon to horizon." Each three-plane B-17 element attacked on its own. Lieutenant Colonel Brooke Allen's element unloaded its bombs on the carrier Soryu, but all fell short. Sweeney targeted Kaga, bracketing her stern with, he believed, "one bomb hit
causing heavy smoke" (Robertson 22). Three Zeros ganged up on Captain Cecil Faulkener's bomber, riddling its fuselage and wounding the tail gunner ...
- 5194: Life And Legend Of Howard Hugh
- ... combined with his enormous wealth, intellect, and achievement. The media thrived on Howards unusual and sometimes scandalous life, especially in his later years when newspapers would frequently front large amounts of money to get stories on Hughes. Howard was also associated with what has been called one of the greatest publishing hoaxes in history. Howard Hughes Sr., commonly known as Big Howard, was a graduate of the Harvard School of ...
- 5195: The Five Institutions of the Middle Ages
- ... restricted many peoples' actions. Also, people believed that their actions all had consequences both here and in the here-after. They wanted nothing more than to please God and be accepted into heaven as the stories told to them of hell were frightening and gruesome. The people believed that priests were God's messengers chosen by Him. This gave priests tremendous amounts of power which was often abused. The feudal system ...
- 5196: The vast cyber-frontier is being threatend with censorship from the government
- ... which the trading of sexually explicit pictures is one of the largest recreational past times of Internet users.39 At one unnamed university, 13 of 40 most frequently visited newsgroups had names like "alt.sex.stories", "rec.arts.erotica," and "alt.sex.bondage."40 71% of sexual images on the Internet originally can from the thousands of privately owned BBS's whose operators sell their contents at a mere $10 to ...
- 5197: World War I
- ... came into use for the first time on a large scale during World War I. The Germans speeded up production of submarines in an effort to control the bottom of the sea. These U-boats (short for unterseebooten or undersea boats) were valuable weapons for Germans (McGowen 52). The German submarine fleet threatened British naval supremacy. The U-boats had little trouble getting from German ports to the waters of the ...
- 5198: Tennyson as a Victorian
- ... and for guidance. Lord Alfred Tennyson was a man who changed the way people thought about literature and poets. He has also influenced many writers of books, TV shows, and movies in the plots of stories.
- 5199: Environmental Apocalypse
- ... anyone must have whatever is cool at the time. This usually means the biggest, meanest, least efficient car or the fanciest toys, generally leading to wasteful packaging and harmful chemicals or other bad stuff. In short, Impact = Population * Affluence * Technology. (Ehrlich, 1990) The problem is that everyone cares too much about societies image of them that they don t think about the results of their actions. We also have a problem ...
- 5200: Netspeak: An Analysis Of Internet Jargon
- ... a specific networking and communications protocol. At that time, the word Ethernet was pronounced with a long [E]. As the concept of Ethernet networking spread, however, the word gradually changed to ethernet, pronounced with a short [e], a description of that specific type of network. In spoken communication, the two different pronunciations created a great argument among computer users, as to which pronunciation was correct; an argument that will continue for ...
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