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- 22441: Eugene Gladstone O'Neill
- ... on Oct, 16 1888. His father James O'Neill was one of Americas most popular 19th Century actors, who was imprisoned by the material success of his role as the Count of Monte Cristo. Eugene's mother Ellen Quinlan O'Neill was a romantic and idealistic women who was affected most of her life by an addiction to morphine. During his childhood Eugene attended the Mount Vincent Catholic Boarding School between the years 1895 and 1900. After leaving Mount Vincent Eugene attended Bett's Academy in Stanford Connecticut from 1900 to 1906. In 1906 Eugene was accepted to Princeton University but before completing one year he got expelled. After getting expelled from Princeton he spent 5 or 6 years ... in his life. While he was in the hospital he read a lot of modern drama and was inspired to become a playwright. After he recovered from Tuberculosis he studied playwriting at George Pierce Baker's Workshop 47 at Harvard University. (Strecker,“Eugene O'Neill”,p.1535.) In 1916 O'Neill became associated with the province town players, they produced several of his plays in the following years. Eugene was ...
- 22442: Cryogenics and the Future
- ... that the "temperature of a fluid is reduced in a process involving expansion below a certain temperature and pressure"(McClintock 4). After Cailletet and Pictet, a third method, known as cascading, was developed by Karol S. Olszewski and Zygmut von Wroblewski in Poland. At this point in history Oxygen was now able to be liquefied at 90 K, then soon after liquid Nitrogen was obtained at 77 K, and because of ... discovered when Onnes and one of his graduate students realized that Mercury loses all of its electrical resistance when it reaches a temperature of 4.15 K. However, almost all elements and compounds have Tc's between 1 K and 15 K (or -457.68 (F and -432.67 (F) so they would not be very useful to us on a day to day basis[McClintock 208- 226]. Then in 1986 ... extraordinary advances. Some applications are demonstrated by magnetically levitated trains, energy storage, motors, and Zero-Loss Transmission Lines. Also, superconducting electromagnets are used in Particle Accelerators, Fusion Energy Plants, and Magnetic Resonance Imaging devices (MRI's) in Hospitals. Furthermore high-speed cryogenic computer memories and communication devices are in various stages of research. This field has grown immensely since 1986 as you can see and will probably keep growing. The ...
- 22443: The Adventures Of Huckelberry
- ... River (nature) as an escape from society, as does Jim for an escape from his slavery. Huck Finn also shows evidence of romanticism with its instances with the supernatural. 2.Style One of Mark Twain¹s most effective uses of style in this novel is his first person point of view. In a first person point of view one of the characters tells the story, using first-person pronouns such as I and we. With this point of view the reader knows only what the narrator knows. The Adventure¹s of Huckleberry Finn is told by the novel¹s main character, Huck Finn. This point of view allows us to hear Huck¹s distinct voice and dialect, further familiarizing the reader with Huck¹s culture and surroundings. The skill with witch Twain elevates ...
- 22444: Florence Nightingale
- ... parents were appalled at this decision because the idea of nursing was associate with working class women and it was not considered a suitable profession for well-educated women. While the family conflicts over Florence s future remained unsolved it was decided that Florence would tour Europe. In her travels, Florence undertook months of nursing training, unbeknownst to her family. Florence returned home, still with the dream to become a working ... surprised that war wounds accounted for one out of every six deaths in the war. Diseases such at typhus, chorea, and dysentery ran rampant among the wounded soldiers. Military officers and doctors objected to Nightingale s view of reforming military hospitals. They interpreted her comments as an attack and she was made to feel unwelcome. Nightingale received very little help from the military until she used a contact from the London ... her patients. Florence gained respect, and was well known amongst the soldiers. The lady in Chief , as Nightingale was called, wrote home on behalf of the solders. She acted as a banker, sending the men s wages home to their families, and introduced reading rooms to the hospital. Nightengale was also known as the land with the lamp because she roamed the halls of the hospital, late at night, when ...
- 22445: America The Great
- ... we had to do .... He counted on America to be passive, he counted wrong," It helped to earn him the nickname, Superman. Then, vice-president Bush, would soon have to face terrorists also. When Iraq's dictator, Saddam Hussein, decided to invade his neighboring country of Kuwait. President Bush was called upon by Kuwait to help and the president answeredtheir call firmly. He told Saddam to pull out of Kuwait, when ... could, including children. He would move busloads of children to areas in danger of being bombed. President Bush, not wanting to take innocent lives had to resort to ground attacks and the stealth bombers. Saddam's cowardice saved his life at one point, he had a child by him to prevent his assassination. Saddam and Iraq were soon beaten into submission. America, though, has not always been so brave and powerful ... was a single battle, when JFK pulled out of the war. It is believed that if we had continued with the war, Fidel Castro would have submitted to our demands. Yet, because of one man's fear, America started a fight and ran away. This is believed to be another reason that JFK was assassinated. Another Democrat accused of sleeping around in the White House, has also had problems with ...
- 22446: Aristotle Defination Of Friend
- Friendship is undoubtedly one of the most important elements in the books of Aristotle’s ethical principles. Aristotle takes the idea of friendship to a serious degree. He categorizes them into three groups or types of friendships. This report will attempt to define each type of friendship as well as ... do not spend much time together, possibly because they do not like each other, and therefore feel no need to associate with one another unless they are mutually useful. They take pleasure from each other’s company just for their own sake. Aristotle uses the elderly and foreigners as examples of friendships based on utility. The second type of friendship is a friendship based on pleasure. This friendship is made between ... what is considered the by Aristotle as the perfect friendship. This is called the friendship based on goodness. This kind of friendship is between those that desire the good of their friends for their friend’s sake not their own. Each friend loves the other for what he is, not for a particular quality. This type of friendship can last as long as the friends remain good. The friendship just ...
- 22447: Eli Whitney
- ... He intended to create a sel -sufficient village, producing goods, and populated by well educated, happy workers,Whitneyville. He also affected the industrial development of the United States , in manufacturing muskets but most of whitney's own guns parts do not in fact interchange. Nevertheless, Eli Whitney is a figure whose history is fascinating, and whose impact in New Haven can not be overstated. He translated the concept of interchangeable parts ... and rapidly from the cotton fibers, making cotton production economical and leading to dramatic growth in the United States cotton industry. This expansion contributed to an increase of slave labor in the United States. Whitney's cotton gin, also called a saw gin, consisted of a cylinder to which a number of sawlike teeth were attached. As the cylinder revolved, the teeth passed through the closely spaced ribs of a fixed ... seeds, which were too large to pass between the ribs, were left behind,( This principle, with virtually no modifications, is still employed in modern automatic saw gins used to process the bulk of the U.S. cotton crop).After perfecting his machine he filed an application for a patent on June 20, 1793; in February 1794 he deposited a model at the Patent Office, and on March 14 he received ...
- 22448: Frank Lloyd Wright 2
- ... eventually develop into an improved society. Modern architecture - let us now say organic architecture-is a natural architecture-the architecture of nature, for nature. (Frank Lloyd Wright, The future of architecture, 1953 p.245) Wright s concept of designing the building is that it grows from an idea like a plant growing from a seed. (Details of Frank Lloyd Wright: the California work 1909-74, 1994 p.9) The quotation taken ... storms, the terrain, and animal life, but refers to their nature of materials or the nature of a plan, a sentiment, or a tool (Frank Lloyd Wright, The future of architecture, 1953 p.347) Wright s objective was to link art with nature for residential and pedagogical purposes. Long parallel lines of horizontal roof and trim, a spacious open interior, and native materials. (Frank Lloyd Wright, His life and his architecture ... it does not confuse the aesthetics of the architecture. There is no beginning nor an ending of the organic architecture. He believes there will always be enough space for future expansion. Arguably, most of Wright s architecture looks like a sculptured element. The engagement between the art and nature makes the architecture to appear extraordinary. The discoveries of European art influenced Wright, to design bizarre architecture. The organic architecture has ...
- 22449: Latex Products In The Work Pla
- ... which although it cannot be blamed alone for the development of latex allergies, does contribute to the problem. The repeated use of latex in the work place can lead to allergies that affect the worker s ability to function both at work and at home. The allergies developed can result in degree from a minor irritation to an anaphylactic shock. Out of the many types of allergic reactions only two types ... Employers need to make sure that employees use alternatives to latex as much as possible, and must ensure that employees know about the potential allergies and the best ways to avoid them. From the employee s point of view, their knowledge of these issues is the key to the protection of their health. Employees lives will be changed forever once they develop latex allergies. Those employees such as nurses and doctors ... in their work environment can have many psychological effects. When it is at all possible, an alternate job is found for the employee, but even this option is costly. It costs the employer the employee s work and the cost or retraining. It costs the employee time and often a pay cut. This seems unjust to the employee, as he is not responsible for the situation in which he finds ...
- 22450: Endangered Species
- ... it is endangered today it might be extinct tomorrow or extinct in the future. Or it might not happen like that. If you leave it alone and do not harm it, it might have baby s and have more of its kind. A species is named endangered when of its kind occurs in a low number. About 1000 species in the world are named endangered, or are in threat to be ... later in Mexico. This law was made so that people can not kill animals that are endangered. This law did not work that well because the animals that were endangered were not put in zoo s. People still killed theses animals not caring that they were in danger of becoming extinct. In 1973 a another law came down where a 100 nations came together and were working together to save endangered ... presumed to be the major habitat destruction that resulted from logging of large Southern forests. Ivory-bills required large tracts of land with old trees and were unable to cope with timbering activities. The world's last dusky seaside sparrow died in Florida in June 1987 because its habitat, Florida's coastal salt marsh, was severely depleted. In the early 1990s the spotted owl of the United States Pacific Northwest ...
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