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- 501: Henry Ford
- ... do with his life: he wanted to make a difference in the automobile industry. Through out his life, he achieved this in an extraordinary way. That is why he will always be remembered in everyone’s heart. Whenever you drive down the road in your car, you can thank all of it to Henry Ford. Through his life he accomplished extraordinary achievements such as going from a poor farm boy to ... the design of a steamboat engine. His goal was to build a horse-less carriage. He had come up with several designs and in 1896, he produced his first car, the Model A. When Ford’s first car came out, he had been interviewed by a reporter and when asked about the history of the car, he had said "History is more or less bunk." Ford worked in Thomas Edison’s factory for years and the left to become an apprentice for a car-producer in Detroit. While working there, he established how he was going to make the car. He looked through hundreds of ...
- 502: The Life of Henry Ford
- ... several of his friends built a dam to supply water power to the wheel, which turned the broom handle, and the broom handle turned the coffee grinder. However, the dam they built flooded a man's basement who lived nearby and they had to destroy it. Henry's father was one of the first men in his community to own a mowing machine and a reaper. He believed that machines saved time and money, but he wasn't mechanically minded like Henry. Henry studied his father's machines and in no time at all, he knew them from A to Z. Not only did he study his father's machines, but any ...
- 503: Jimi Hendrix
- ... senior year. After working as a laborer for a few months, Jimi decided that he was not destined for that line of work, so in 1959, he enlisted into the 101st Airborne (Murray 36). Jimi s parents were of mixed descent, with Jimi s family tree had whites, blacks, and Cherokee Indians. Jimi never denied his ethnic diversity, but rather accepted his diversity and publicly allowed it to show through in his music. Jimi said it best in If ... young producer named Chas Chandler discovered his act, which by then included Hendrix famous playing with his teeth and behind his back. Chandler brought Jimi to London, where blues-based bands such as John Mayall s Bluesbreakers, The Yardbirds, and Chandler s old group, The Animals were immensely popular and on the cutting edge. Hendrix and Chandler auditioned a number of musicians to be in the new band, The Jimi ...
- 504: Of Mice And Men 2
- Of Mice and Men Of Mice and Men takes place in the late 1930's and the early 1940's. The exact location of the book is in a place south of Soledad on a ranch in the Salinas Valley which is in California. You can imagine that during this time there wasn't much to do. In fact Soledad, the place where the story is located, means a lonely place and loneliness in Spanish. I could imagine very blandly dressed people with probably dirty clothes, probably average ...
- 505: The U.S. Entering World War II
- The U.S. Entering World War II "A date that will live in infamy," (Snyder 33) was what President Franklin Delano Roosevelt called December 7, 1941. It was a calm Sunday morning at Pearl Harbor on the island of Oahu. Then two U.S. soldiers saw an oscilloscope signal on their mobile radars. They immediately called this in to their commanding officer but he told them to ignore it because the base was expecting a squadron of friendly B-17's to be coming from the mainland. Thirty minutes later the first bomb fell and almost killed a courier boy who was trying to deliver a message to Pearl Harbor Naval Base that the Japanese ...
- 506: A Price Above Rubies
- ... doing so, she paid a heavy price. This, I believe, to be the message of the film. The movie starts off with a close up of a ring being crafted, incomplete. Then we see sonia’s brother, Yossi, telling her the story of the woman who broke free of the Jewish community. The woman’s father wanted her to marry a great scholar and lead a good spiritual life. After leaving, she wanders back years later, with child. The community shuns the child, and when she dies, heaven rejects her ... the story, wandering the earth for eternity, like Cain. Yossi then gives her a fake ruby, which she immediately recognizes and rejects. Perhaps the jewel symbolizes her soul, what makes her complete, and she won’t accept a fraud, something in place of the real thing, even at that young age. The film goes forward a number of years, to when Sonia and her husband Mendel have just had their ...
- 507: Moral and Ethical Dilemmas
- ... where my mouth is." Sometimes I'm quick to see ethical faults in others, but slow to see them in myself. Other times I see all to clearly my mistakes and wonder why I don't measure up. I believe one purpose for this life is to learn to act for ourselves. Learn to see a situation correctly and act righteously. In this paper I wish to discuss many of the ... be related to present problems and can confuse and obscure possibilities. Even the opinions or actions of friends faced with similar dilemmas may not be helpful. Often you feel pressured by piers that say, "it's no big deal", or "you'll understand later". It's important that I understand why a particular action or resolution is correct or incorrect. If I can't or don't it's difficult to feel I've been honest with myself. That for ...
- 508: Of Mice And Men
- Of Mice and Men Of Mice and Men takes place in the late 1930's and the early 1940's. The exact location of the book is in a place south of Soledad on a ranch in the Salinas Valley which is in California. You can imagine that during this time there wasn't much to do. In fact Soledad, the place where the story is located, means a lonely place and loneliness in Spanish. I could imagine very blandly dressed people with probably dirty clothes, probably average ...
- 509: Mastery Of Epigram And The Aud
- Critics of the play refer to Wilde's "mastery of epigram and the audacity and polish of his wit". Illustrate this mastery using examples which you have enjoyed from the play. Proposal for opening: According to Collins English Dictionary wit is "the talent ... concisely expressed". The Importance of being Earnest is a play overflowing with both epigrams and wit. The title itself is a play on the words Ernest and earnest. There are so many examples of Wilde's "mastery of epigram and the audacity and polish of his wit" that, unfortunately, only a few can be used to illustrate this essay. They can be grouped into four main types: play on words, opposite to what is expected or accepted (paradox), other epigrams and plain wit. Or: According to Webster's Encyclopedic Dictionary wit is "the ability to relate seemingly unlike things so as to illuminate or amuse", it is more intellectual than straightforward humour which can include slapstick. An epigram is "a brief witty ...
- 510: Mark Twain, The Adventures Of
- ... he had often been misunderstood, Twain always implied a message behind the themes developed around Huck and Jim. The first encounter between Huck Finn and Jim is at the beginning of the book, when Huck’s friend, Tom Sawyer, tries to fool Jim, Miss Watson’s slave. Huck and Jim still don’t know each other, but Huck isn’t biased against the old slave. It’s an important point because, as racism was a widely held mentality in the South, we can learn that that young ...
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