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- 18261: The Invention of the Airplane
- ... attempting powered flight (which Gibbs-Smith refers to as the 'airman' approach), and a table of the lift provided by curved wings. Lilienthal was killed in a gliding accident August 10, 1896. Following in Lilienthal's footsteps, efforts to invent an airplane became commonplace in the 1890's. The majority of the efforts were in Europe, including Captain F. Ferber, Henri Robart, Solirene, Levavasseur, Clement Ader, Percy Pilcher, and Sir Hiram Maxim. In the U.S., prominent attempts were made by Octave Chanute and Samuel Pierpont Langley. The blue points in Figure 1 depict the progress made during the period 1894 to 1905. Although an occasional craft flew farther than ...
- 18262: Mark Twain 5
- ... fiction. Twain was raised in Hannibal, Mo., on the Mississippi River. His writing career began shortly after the death of his father in 1847. Apprenticed first to a printer, he soon joined his brother Orion's Hannibal Journal, supplying copy and becoming familiar with much of the frontier humor of the time, such as George W. Harris's Sut Lovingood yarns and other works of the so-called Southwestern Humorists. From 1853 to 1857, Twain visited and periodically worked as a printer in New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis, and Cincinnati, corresponding with his brother's newspapers under various pseudonyms. After a visit to New Orleans in 1857, he learned the difficult art of steamboat piloting, an occupation that he followed until the Civil War closed the river, and that ...
- 18263: Marilyn Monroe
- ... Pentecostal, and Christian Science. I was forced by Grace, later my guardian, to idolize Jean Harlow, and despite everything I was also unpopular among my peers. I ended up living with Grace Goddard, my mother's boss and best friend, after she was declared unfit to care for me. Grace married a man named Goddard, and they wanted to move away with his daughter. They could not afford to take me ... War II, and I took a job folding parachutes. Photographers came to take pictures of us to send to the soldiers. One, David Conover, took a particular interest in me, and directed me to Snively's Modeling School. From there I met Anaré de Dienes. He and I took many photo trips together, and Jim was rightly jealous, so he filed for divorce. I signed for a year's contract (twenty-six months) with Ben Lyon who worked for Twentieth-century Fox Productions, on August 24, 1946. He was responsible for changing my name. While working at Fox, I met someone who was ...
- 18264: Analysis Of 1984
- ... 1984 In 1949, an Englishman named Eric Blair published the novel 1984. Under the pseudonym, George Orwell, this author became one of the most respected and notable political writers for his time. 1984 was Orwell’s prophetic vision of the world to come. This creation of “Negative Utopia” was thoroughly convincing through Orwell’s use of setting and characterization. The theme conveyed by Orwell is that no matter how strong an individual a communist society would destroy any hope that that soul had of surviving, and that no matter ... directly insubordinate of the policies of the Party. His physical expressions are deceptive, an attempt to cover-up his true attitude towards his situation from the Thought Police. During the course of the novel, Winston’s views change. “Cliffs Notes” states that he was annoyed by the limits placed on his individuality and then was made to conform to the world the Party created. “Cliffs Notes” also suggests that Winston ...
- 18265: Athol Fugards Master Harold...
- ... present state of human relations. He reveals the psychoses inherent within the human condition that make racism and political strife possible. At the same time, Fugard also reveals how simple it is to resolve humankind's problems of hate, prejudice, and oppression. This simplistic revelation optimistically intends to convey how illogical and absurd it is not to seek and maintain interpersonal, political, and interracial peace and goodwill. The principal metaphor that ... manners and different levels. On page 46, Sam illustrates his idealized scenario of this microcosm on a universal level as he explains to Hally that collisions do not take place at the championships: "And it's beautiful because that is what we want life to be." Sam then goes on to illustrate the real-life scenario on a personal level, explaining interpersonal disagreements as collisions on the ballroom floor, such as ... Within this principal metaphor are contained symbols that represent the certain elements which often stand in the way of the idealized scenario of peace among people. One thing that gets in the way of Willie's progress in learning the foxtrot is that Hilda often misses practice. It is revealed that the reason Hilda does not come to practice is because Willie beats her every time she makes a mistake. ...
- 18266: Machiavellis Ideas Of Government
- MACHIAVELLI: THE PRINCE: Themes and Ideas During Machiavelli s time, society was much different than it had been for previous philosophers. Instead of storing up good works, so as to enjoy paradise, as the medieval man did, the Renaissance man was interested in all ... strove for worldly acclaim and wealth, and had a deep interest in classical civilizations. He was born at a time of conflict within Florence, Italy, between the republican leaders and the family of the Medici s, of which the Machiavelli s, especially, had a history of opposition towards. After years of conflict between powers, Machiavelli was exiled from his country. It was during this exile that he wrote his most famous work, The Prince, a ...
- 18267: A Look Into The Human Mind. Sl
- ... the cataract of a thundering moral statement” (back cover). Vonnegut looks into the human mind of a man, traumatized by war experiences and poor relations with his father, and determines insanity is the result. Billy’s father is a source of his instability from the beginning. Mr. Pilgrim treats Billy as if he has no feelings and he is a disgrace to him. Unfortunately for Billy, fathers are very influential in a boy’s growing up. In a terrible encounter with his father when Billy was young, Mr. Pilgrim sets the stage for Billy’s insanity: Little Billy was terrified because his father had said Billy was going to learn to swim by the method of sink-or-swim. His father was going to throw Billy into the deep ...
- 18268: Perception And Plato’s Theaetetus
- ... merely an “experience [which] is just a stage along the causal process leading to belief.” Perception is not truth or belief, but it is an important (however, not necessary) step to reaching them. In Plato’s Theaetetus, the three characters in the conversation have a discussion on perception and how it relates to the world. Plato recounts Socrates telling the young Theaetetus how, contrary to his belief, perception is not knowledge ...
- 18269: Macario Sakay
- ... with an assembly of other Katipuneros the Republika ng Katagalugan in the mountains of Southern Luzon. Sakay held the presidency and was also called "Generalisimo." Francisco Carreon was the vice-president and dealt with Sakay's correlation. Julian Montalan was generally the administrator for military functions. Cornelio Felizardo took charge of the northern part of Cavite (Pasay-Bacoor) whereas Lucio de Vega controlled the rest of the province. Aniceto Oruga operated ... bona fide revolutionaries and had their own constitution and an established government. They also had a flag. There were several other revolutionary manifestos written by the Tagalog Republic that would tend to disprove the U.S. government's claim that they were bandits. The Tagalog Republic's constitution was largely based on the early Katipunan creed of Bonifacio. For Sakay, the new Katipunan was simply a continuation of Bonifacio's revolutionary struggle ...
- 18270: Pirates Of Penzance - Critique
- ... pilot. Ruth mistakes the word pilot for pirate and apprentices him to a band of pirates. She, too, remains with them as a maid-of-all-work. Act I opens with the celebration of Frederic’s coming of age. He is planning to leave the pirates and devote his life to the eradication of piracy. Now that Frederic has come of age, Ruth wishes to become his spouse and he reluctantly agrees, believing that she is as beautiful as she says. Soon after he agrees to marry Ruth, Major-General Stanley’s many daughters stumble upon the island. After Frederic sees their beauty, especially that of Mabel’s, he renounces Ruth and pursues Mabel. The other girls are seized by the pirates and threatened with marriage. When the Major-General shows up he too is captured by the pirates. The Major-General ...
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