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- 21761: Jim Henson
- ... strong interest in both art and television. His grandmother was very supportive of his interests and constantly encouraged him to use his imagination. In 1954 Jim started in television performing puppets on a local channel’s Saturday morning program. The next year, while studying at the University of Maryland, he was given a five-minute show called Sam and Friends which aired twice a day. This show introduced the first Muppets ... appearances on these shows, Jim asked for the help of a puppet maker name Don Sahlin and a puppeteer name Frank Oz. "From 1964 to 1969 Henson produced several experimental films." In the mid-60’s Jim was asked to create characters to populate a new children’s show, Sesame Street. It was here where he made some of his most famous characters such as Ernie and Bert, Oscar the Grouch, Cookie Monster, and Big Bird. On this show Jim produced over ...
- 21762: The Flivor King
- The Flivor King Abner Shutt was an average working calss male in the early twentieth century in the story called teh "Fliver King." He's a fictional character displaying many of the truths of teh struggles of urban working-class citzens in his time. shutt worked in the autop industry for the "technological revolutionary" himself, Henry Ford. In effort to ... with all four children, tow infant deaths, and housework on the side. She could not ask Shutt to work any less for the cost of his house payments had surprisingly escalated. In teh early 1900's it was common for women to face these same problems, in addition to the toleration of men's heavy drinking habits, often resulting in early widowhood. The home life of those employed by the auto industry started to lapse as did the working life. About 1.5 million or more immigrants began ...
- 21763: Piranesi Carceri Xi
- Carceri D'Invenzione - print 11, second edition This intaglio print was made by Giovanni Battista Piranesi in the 1760’s. It was the eleventh in a series of fourteen, entitled ‘Carceri D’invenzione’, or ‘Prison of Creation’. Piranesi had much architectural influence, his father being a stonemason and brother an architect. The prison scene was a relatively common subject in surviving designs for eighteenth century stage sets. Examples of this can be found in the drawings of Filippo Juvarra, whose designs for Cardinal Ottoboni’s theatre were a source of particular inspiration for Piranesi. The actual purpose behind this etching, and in fact the series, is not precisely know. The events that occurred in Rome in the 1700’s do not give us much of an insight. However, it has been written in numerous books that the Carceri was a product of opium-induced hallucinations. It has also been suggested that Piranesi’s ...
- 21764: The Grapes of Wrath
- The Grapes of Wrath The Grapes of Wrath is a novel by John Steinbeck that exposes the desperate conditions under which the migratory farm families of America during the 1930's live under. The novel tells of one families migration west to California through the great economic depression of the 1930's. The Joad family had to abandon their home and their livelihoods. They had to uproot and set adrift because tractors were rapidly industrializing their farms. The bank took possession of their land because the owners ... have been drained of life and are exploited: “The last rain fell on the red and gray country of Oklahoma in early May. The weeds became a dark green to protect themselves from the sun's unyielding rays....The wind grew stronger, uprooting the weakened corn, and the air became so filled with dust that the stars were not visible at night.” (Chp 1) As the chapter continues a turtle, ...
- 21765: The Manhattan Project
- ... the war in Europe over. Initiated by Szilard, a petition was made to offer the opinion that the bomb should be used only if Japan refused to surrender, even after being informed of the bomb's destructive capabilities. Nevertheless, the decision was made that the bombs would be used until Japan surrendered. The Hiroshima model is known as a gun-barrel-type atomic bomb. Due to its long and narrow shape ... to the destructive power of 20,000 tons of TNT. Later estimates, however, put the energy equivalent to approximately 15,000 tons of TNT, based on damage done to buildings and research on the bomb's composition. Despite the release of such enormous energy, it is believed that less than one kilogram of the 10 to 30 kilograms of uranium 235 housed in the bomb achieved fission. The fissionable material used ... will still rage on. Nuclear testing, nuclear power, and nuclear waste are still being debated for over 50 years, and the United States, the only country to actually use the bomb, is the leader. Reference's Asimov, Isaac. Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science & Technology. 2nd ed. New York: Double day, 1978. Badash, Lawrence. "Manhattan Project." Dictionary of American History. Vol. 4. New York: Charles Scriber's Sons, 1976. Beyer, ...
- 21766: Young Goodman Brown and The Birthmark: The Benefit of Dreams
- ... cannot determine whether the events in his life actually occurred, or if they simply were created in his neurotic mind as he slept. Dreams, therefore, play an important developmental role in the explanation of Hawthorne's characters. In The Birthmark, Aylmer has a dream in which he commits an act of horrendous cruelty to his wife, Georgiana. This dream delves into Aylmer's personality, as the realization that he will stop at nothing in order to destroy the slight imperfection on the cheek of Georgiana. Dreams are often viewed as a perception of a person's unconscious mind. Aylmer is not a selfish man in his wishes for his wife to have her birthmark removed. He is just unable to control himself, much like children do. As a result of ...
- 21767: Jane Adams
- ... which were all traits of his Quaker faith. He encouraged her to pursue higher education but not at the cost of losing her femininity and the prospect of marriage and motherhood. John Addams was Cedarville's most respected citizen. A prosperous miller, Jane would sometimes hangout at her father's flourmill where she would romp in the empty bins. The piles of bran and shorts were as good as sand to play in. He was also a local political leader who served for sixteen years ... In 1877 Jane attended the Rockford Female Seminary. Despite her own interests, Jane followed the wishes of her father by attending Rockford. One disappointing aspect of Rockford was that they offered certificates to its graduate's rather then conventional degrees. Religion and the study of classic literature dominated the curriculum at this educational institution. The following years for Jane Addams became the most difficult in her life. In 1881, John ...
- 21768: James Fenimore Cooper
- ... join the navy as a midshipman, but he soon found that more discipline was present in the Navy than at Yale. In 1810 Cooper took a furlough, and never returned to active duty. After Cooper's father passed in 1809, he received a nice inheritance. Cooper quickly squandered his inheritance, and at thirty was on the verge of bankruptcy. He decided to try his hand at writing as a career. Carefully modeling his work after Sir Walter Scott's successful Waverly Novels, he wrote his first novel in 1820 called Precaution. A domestic comedy set in England, lost money, but Cooper had discovered his vocation. Cooper established his reputation after his second novel, The ... uniquely American personification of rugged individualism and the pioneer spirit. A second book featuring Bumppo, The Last of the Mohicans written in 1826, quickly became the most widely read work of the day, solidifying Cooper's popularity in the U.S. and in Europe. Set during the French and Indian War, The Last of the Mohicans chronicles the massacre of the colonial garrison at Fort William Henry and a fictional ...
- 21769: The History of the Internet
- The History of the Internet Many years ago a network was born having several computers connected and now, that same network has millions of computers connected at all times, it's called the Internet. This paper will explain the evolution and growth of the Internet. I will offer a guided tour though the evolution of the Internet and explain what this effect has on its growth and popularity. It's like a plague growing across the world, signs of its growth are seen everywhere. The Internet was started as an experiment to test networks to try and develop a network that could survive a nuclear ... The network has always recovered and bypassed the problem. The Internet began as the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) during the cold war in 1969. It was developed by the US Department of Defense's (DOD) research people in conjunction with a number of military contractors and universities to explore the possibility of a communication network that could survive a nuclear attack. It continued simply because the DOD, DOD' ...
- 21770: The Role of Entertainers as Educators
- ... the most essential works began in Ionia with the epics of Homer in the eighth century B.C. (Henderson 7). This oral poetry is the foundation of Greek literature, and epic poetry such as Boetian¹s Hesiod explored the poet¹s role as a social and religious teacher (Henderson 8). These written works clearly informed those who read them, but were not as successful in educating the masses as the Greek dramas. Any spoken works that ... arithmetic in his works which customarily valued philosophy over prayer (Lindsay 45). The religious songs of Martin Luther forced poets and scholars to take sides during the Religious conflict of the Reformation (Hering 2). Luther¹s chorale ³Ein¹ feste Burge² became a national hymn during the reformation of the Catholic church, encouraging followers to fight to worship in their own languages, not the universally used Latin texts (Young 66). While ...
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