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- 1651: The History Of Corvettes
- ... draw a layout for a sports car for General Motors. 1952 arrives and the first plaster model two-seater convertible goes on display in General Motors' private viewing auditorium. At the end of April, Harley's crew completed a full-size plaster model of his sports car project. It was designed from the back to the front. In the middle of June, the Chevrolet's director of research and development, Maurice Olley, created a sketch for the new sports car frame, showing the locations of the radiator, wheels, and the body mount points. All it really was was a shortened Chevy Sedan frame. In July, Chevrolet's chief engineer Ed Cole, and Harry Barr started to work on a all new Chevrolet V-8 engine. During a test run, the prototype fiberglass-bodied Chevrolet full sized convertible accidentally rolled. Since the ...
- 1652: Eleanor Roosevelt
- Eleanor Roosevelt Eleanor Roosevelt was one of the nations most respected First Lady's this nation has ever known. She was born into the high society life in New York City on October 11, 1884. She was named after her mother Anna. Her father, Elliot, was a struggling alcoholic ... the alcohol, and completely lost his mind. At the time the family was visiting Europe, and they left as he was entered into a French sanitarium. Never again would things be the same in Eleanor's life. Around Eleanor's eighth birthday, her mother was put into the hospital to be treated for an unknown illness. Shortly after an operation, she contracted diphtheria and died. Anna Roosevelt had left in her will that she ...
- 1653: Young Goodman Brown
- ... stand, my children,' said the figure, in a deep and solemn tone, almost sad, with its despairing awfulness, as if his once angelis nature could yet mourn for our miserable race. "Depending on one another's hearts, ye had still hoped, that virtue were not all a dream. Now ye are undeceived! Evil is the nature of mankind. Evil must be your only happiness. Welcome, again, my children, to the communion of your race!'" The above quotation from Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown is of central importance in analyzing the attitudes and ideas present throughout the story, though in a curious way. The quotation (and the story itself), on first reading, seem superficially to portray a central character's loss of faith and the spiritual tragedy contained therein. Rereading, however, reveals a more complex set of ideas, ones which neither fully condemn nor condone the strictly constructed dichotomy of good and evil that ...
- 1654: Bouldering
- The autobiography of Booker T. Washing titled Up From Slavery is a rich narrative of the man's life from slavery to one of the founders of the Tuskegee Institute. The book takes us through one of the most dynamic periods in this country's history, especially African Americans. I am very interested in the period following the Civil War and especially in the transformation of African Americans from slaves to freemen. Up From Slavery provides a great deal ...
- 1655: The Cuban Missile Crisis
- ... of a third world war. This was the result of a variety of things: the Cuban Revolution, the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion, US anti-communism, insecurity of the Soviet Union, and Cubas fear of invasion all made causes for war. However, war was not the result due to great cooperation from both President Kennedy and President Khrushchev and each of the decisions made by the leaders was crucial in the outcome of The Crisis. Kennedys choice to take action by means of quarantine instead of air-strike and Khrushchevs decision to abide by the quarantines were perhaps the two most significant decisions made by the leaders in order to prevent war. The Cuban Missile Crisis showed the world that compromising and discussion can ...
- 1656: Click Vs. Brick: An Exploration Of Mp3 File Sharing And Mp3
- ... file sharing and the Internet will have for the record industry. The Napster software allowed its millions of users to share and download music mp3 files, which are of near CD quality, from each others hard drives. This infringed copyright laws and provided a very real threat to both musicians and record companies alike. In response Napster was sued by the American heavy metal band Metallica, and then taken to ... below: Copying is fair use Copying is theft Music wants to be free Napster users buy more CDs Music companies make too much money Music companies will make more money with Internet distribution Musicians cant make money with Internet distribution Musicians will make more money with Internet distribution Within the context of a report, the following discussion will evaluate these key points from the perspective of the consumers, musicians, and ... have their own laws and regulations. The bulk of the legal disputes, however, have taken place in the United States, where Napster and the RIAA were based. The following is an extract from the U.S. constitution regarding American copyright laws: The Congress shall have power
to promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective ...
- 1657: Click Vs Brick: An Exploration Of Mp3 File Sharing And Onlin
- ... file sharing and the Internet will have for the record industry. The Napster software allowed its millions of users to share and download music mp3 files, which are of near CD quality, from each others hard drives. This infringed copyright laws and provided a very real threat to both musicians and record companies alike. In response Napster was sued by the American heavy metal band Metallica, and then taken to ... below: Copying is fair use Copying is theft Music wants to be free Napster users buy more CDs Music companies make too much money Music companies will make more money with Internet distribution Musicians cant make money with Internet distribution Musicians will make more money with Internet distribution Within the context of a report, the following discussion will evaluate these key points from the perspective of the consumers, musicians, and ... have their own laws and regulations. The bulk of the legal disputes, however, have taken place in the United States, where Napster and the RIAA were based. The following is an extract from the U.S. constitution regarding American copyright laws: The Congress shall have power
to promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective ...
- 1658: Character Analysis Of Characte
- Character Analysis Many characters in the novel Lord of the Flies, changed as the story went on. The novel's author, William Golding, made the changes obvious with the things that the characters did. Ralph, Jack, Piggy and Samneric were all pretty close at the beginning of the novel. Throughout the children's experiences they started to alter the things that they did. In the following paragraphs, descriptions will be given to show what transformations took place with the children in the story. Ralph, one of the main characters in the story, didn't have many drastic changes in the way he did things. At the beginning of the novel, Ralph was voted the leader. He took the position and he proved to everyone that they made a ...
- 1659: Hamlet - Cultural Identity
- In William Shakespeare's play Hamlet, the concept of cultural identity is explored through Hamlet's isolation which is created by the conflict between his duty to his father, and his duties to the monarchy and society. Hamlet is isolated from his society due to his turbulent emotions which result from his indecision on how to respond to his father's murder. Hamlet's duty as a son is to avenge his father's death and he would be supported in his actions by society if the murderer was believed to be guilty. Hamlet's ...
- 1660: Boeing 700
- Boeing 700 The Boeing 700s are very capable of handling duties in the commercial and military world. The Boeing 700s are capable of handling many tasks in the commercial and military world. With the introduction of the 707 in the late fifties to the most recent 777 in the early nineties the, 700s have dominated the commercial world for five decades. They are a line of aircraft that are capable of handling many roles from basic civilian transport to various military needs. They are the people movers ...
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