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- 2991: Henry Ford
- ... hundreds (c.1860-c.1895), the United States was still tending its wounds from the aftermath of the civil war. It was a time of rebuilding, reorganizing and a time to accept change. The country’s figureheads were also changing. When the most respected of men were generals, soldiers, presidents, and war painted warriors, combat bravery was a greatly revered trait. However when the dust and smoke of war cleared, the public’s attention naturally shifted back to home life. The transition occurred when the position of bravery in the public eye changed from a warrior’s bravery, to an entrepreneur’s type of bravery. An undeniable part of home life and living is what tools are used to make a home or farm function. This is where the gaze shifted ...
- 2992: Of Mice And Men - Book Report
- ... society, was the book that thrust Steinbeck into the limelight as a national celebrity. He won many awards and honors including being picked as one of the Ten Outstanding Young Men of the Year. Steinbeck's style is what earned this praise, that of a natural flow of words which are simple in form but complex in their meaning. He painstakingly describes each setting as the reader is introduced to it, showing not just the general layout but an "insider's view" detailing the sensory perceptions evoked by the area ("A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green. The water is warm too, for it has slipped twinkling over the yellow sands in the sunlight before reaching the narrow pool.") Feelings evoked by Steinbeck's entrances are unable to be duplicated except by those who know the subject matter personally, a trait that he possesses having grown up in an agricultural valley in Salinas, California. His upbringing on the ...
- 2993: Financial Report of Loewen Group Inc.
- ... Report for the period ending December 31, 1995, and examination of the revenue recognition practices used by L.G.I.. The Funeral Services Industry According to a paper issued in August 1995, by Statistics Canada's Services, Science and technology Division Final Purchase, Growing Demand: The Canadian Funeral Services Industry, the funeral services industry, in comparison to other industries, has historically been considered a low risk industry. The Funeral service industry ... US $175 million and recorded US $135 million, present value of $175 million. Loewen decided to settle because of two reasons: the first is that the appeal would have a financial impact on the company's income and the second reason is that prolonging the lawsuits would create uncertainty and speculation amongst the company's shareholders. S.C.I. Take-over Attempt On September 17, 1996 Service Corporation International (S.C.I.), the largest Funeral Service Company in the world, placed a $ 2.5. billion take-over bid for ...
- 2994: Abraham Lincoln
- ... in a log cabin near Hodgenville, Kentucky. He was the son of Thomas and Nancy Hanks Lincoln, and he was named for his paternal grandfather. Thomas Lincoln was a carpenter and farmer. Both of Abraham's parents were members of a Baptist congregation that had separated from another church due to opposition to slavery. When Abraham was 7, the family moved to southern Indiana. Abraham had gone to school briefly in ... While in Washington he became known for his opposition to the Mexican War and to slavery. He returned home after his term and resumed his law practice more seriously than ever. Early in 1851 Lincoln's father died. Lincoln's declining interest in politics was renewed by the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854.He made an unsuccessful bid for the U.S. Senate but received some support for the Republican Vice- ...
- 2995: Joseph Hyden
- ... to the beginning of the romantic period, and presided over the transition between them. Franz Joseph Haydn was born in Rohrau, Austria, on April 1, 1732, to Mathias and Anna Maria Koller Haydn. Joseph Haydn's parents had twelve children, but, sadly, six of them died during infancy. His surviving siblings included two brothers, Johann Evangelist and Johann Michael, and three sisters, Anna Maria Franziska, Anna Maria, and Anna Katharina. Many references give March 31 as Haydn's birthday, but official records disprove this. It is rumored that his brother, Michael, was the source of this inaccuracy. Supposedly, Michael didn't want it said that his big brother came into this world as an April Fool. At age seven, young Joseph entered the choir school at St. Steven's Cathedral in Vienna, where he was ...
- 2996: Kings Lear
- ... have the privilege of the freedom of choice. There are two broad ranges of factors that affect the decisions a person makes. The first factor that affects decision making is internal and includes a person's character and intellect. The second factor is external such as environment and interaction with other people. Naturally, each decision a person makes results in a repercussion of some degree, usually either helpful or hindering, and ... adheres to the rewarding of good deeds and the punishment of evil. King Lear, a play by William Shakespeare, is a grave tragedy that is a prime example of the Elizabethan conception of justice. Lear's kingdom turns to chaos because of a break in the "Great Chain of Being" and restores to order when justice prevails. Its tragic labelling stems from the prevalence of death the just punishment for many of its characters. The deaths of Lear, Goneril, and Edmund are prime examples of justice prevailing for evil, and in Lear's case unnatural, acts. Lear's ultimate fate is death. His early demise is a direct result of breaching the "Great Chain of Being" which states that no mortal will abandon his position in the ...
- 2997: Life On The Farm
- ... the book. Each character has a different and specific meaning. The characters can represent villains or heroes and even the situations can represent real-life events. Mr. Jones, the farmer of Manor Farm, is Orwell s chief villain in Animal Farm. Of course Napoleon is also a major villain, however much more indirectly. Orwell says that at one time Jones was actually a decent master to his animals. At this time ... administration when he inspires a rebellion of sorts among the animals. Of course the actual time of revolt is unsaid. It could be the next day or several generations down the road. But Old Major s philosophy is only an ideal. After his death, three days after the barnyard speech, the socialism he professes is drastically altered when Napoleon and the other pigs begin to dominate. It s interesting that Orwell does not mention Napoleon or Snowball any time during the great speech of Old Major. This shows how distant and out-of-touch they really were. The ideals Old Major proclaimed ...
- 2998: Summary of Joyce's "A Portrait of An Artists As A Young Man"
- Summary of Joyce's "A Portrait of An Artists As A Young Man" In Joyce's novel, "A portrait of an Artist as a Young Man", he weaves the stories of his youth and his growth as a young man to tell us about who he was as an individual and ... in his growth, symbolizing many different things throughout his life. The first section of the novel sets the stage for the rest of his life. Stephen feels he should be the center of his family's universe, or the "baby tuckoo". His family symbolizes the oppression that Stephen encounters throughout his life. "Apologise, pull out his eyes, pull out his eyes, apologise (Joyce 4)." Later the reader finds that this ...
- 2999: Evolution of Women’s Underwear
- Evolution of Women’s Underwear Body shape and underwear has had a significant part in women’s fashion. People may not think underwear could have such an impact, but it did. Women have gone from corsets to thongs in less than 100 years. During the years 1890 to 1899, underwear was not spoken of much. Women were trying to get the hourglass figure, and an “S” siliouet. These body shapes were made possible by corsets. Corsets were said to “emphasize the fragility of women and to accentuate [their] physique” (Mulvey and Richards, 22). In order to create this painful fragility, ...
- 3000: Teddy Roosevelt's Contribution to Natural Resources
- Teddy Roosevelt's Contribution to Natural Resources Name: Julie Grade: A After William McKinley was assassinated in 1901, Theodore Roosevelt became our 25th President. America¹s natural resources were threatened. Species like the bison and beaver were endangered; others were extinct. Soil fertility was low and about four-fifths of prime forests had been cut down. Roosevelt expressed concern: ³...the time ... inquire seriously what will happen when our forests are gone, when the coal, the iron, the oil and the gas are exhausted, when the soils have been...washed into the streams, polluting our rivers.² Roosevelt¹s leadership changed public perception that America¹s natural resources were inexhaustible. Theodore Roosevelt was born on October 27, 1858, in New York City. Roosevelt grew up with the challenges of asthma and poor eyesight, ...
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