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- 7321: Lyndon B. Johnson
- ... oath of office as the 36th president of the United States. John F. Kennedy had been shot while riding in a parade through downtown Dallas. Johnson was riding two cars behind Kennedy. Johnson was Kennedy s vice president so he immediately became president. He was the fourth to be promoted to presidency by the assassination of the a president. Johnson s first message to the nation was the same day as the assassination. One of the most memorable lines from his speech was, "I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help, and God's." His Beginnings Johnson's father was. Samuel Ealy Johnson, Jr. He was a farmer and schoolteacher. Both his father and his grandfather were in the Texas house of Representatives. Johnson's mother was Rebekah ...
- 7322: Reebok International
- ... Mr. Foster had a victorious clientele of distinguished athletes through his company J.W. Foster & Sons. With the ability of being an aspiring entrepreneur, Mr. Foster handcrafted shoes for affluent runners during his time. Foster's grandson's later expanded their grandfather's visions of igniting a passion for winning, to do the extraordinary, and to capture the consumer's heart and mind. They later transformed J.W. Foster & Sons into Reebok International Ltd., named after an ...
- 7323: Jimmy
- ... of the first shot echoed through his head. The scream as his mother fell. The futile, retaliatory shots from his father . . . That evening had resulted in the death of both of his parents. He couldn't help but think that, in some way, it was his fault. If only he hadn't left his parents alone. If only he hadn't gone to explore the woods. If only he'd thought to bring a gun with him. If only he hadn't just stood there watching from the protection of the trees as those lethal ...
- 7324: Hamlets Impractical Thinking A
- Shakespeare s Hamlet revolves around the title character s undeniable obligation to immediately avenge his father s death by killing Claudius. Yet much time elapses before Hamlet finally does slay his evil uncle, leading to a fundamental question: what causes the hero to delay before eventually managing to salvage some retribution? ...
- 7325: Kafka: The Reality of Change
- ... way they perceive and react to a situation they are forever trading one set of problems for another. As readers of literature we too seek to escape our “reality” and experience life through an author’s imagination while gaining valuable knowledge about ourselves. In Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis, the nature of Gregor Samsa’s reality changes insignificantly in spite of his drastic physical changes. Gregor’s life before the metamorphosis was limited to working and caring for his family. As a travelling salesman, Gregor worked long, hard hours ...
- 7326: English Only
- ENGLISH ONLY? Language has always been an important part of a country s culture and way of life. When the U.S. was founded, it was common to hear as many as 20 languages spoken along with many documents that were printed in different languages. There have been many debates over establishing a national language, and a movement arose that strives to establish English as the nation s official language. This movement is known as the English Only movement, and it promotes the enactment of legislation that restricts or prohibits the use of languages other than English by government agencies and, in ...
- 7327: Bill Gates
- ... Gates, cofounder of the Microsoft corporation, holds 30.7 percent of its stock making him one of the richest people in the United States. He was the marketing and sales strategist behind many of Microsoft's software deals. Their software became the industry standard in the early 1980s and has just increased in distribution as the company has grown, so much that the Federal government is suggesting that Microsoft has violated ... instructions and found myself nearly the only guy in a class full of girls"(Gates 12). In 1972 Intel released their first microprocessor chip: the 8008. Gates attempted to write a version of BASIC (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) for the new Intel chip, but the chip did not contain enough transistors to handle it. Gates and Allen found a way to use the 8008 and "started Traf-O ... 2010. The professor allowed you to bet your whole grade on the final if you choose"(Gates 40). They did that, did not do anything for the class all semester, and studied and got A's. During one of these slack off periods, Gates and Allen found a very small computer: the Altair 8800 "('Altair' was a destination in a Star Trek episode)"(Gates 16). It had a few switches ...
- 7328: Dazed And Confused
- ... classics to a pair of statues painted to look like members of KISS. The drug and alcohol use is matter-of-fact. The production design had to be perfect, and it is. Anyone who can't quite recall a time when sex was safe and far fewer kids "just said no" should take a look just for the sake of historical accuracy. It is directed by Richard Linklater and stars a cast of complete unknowns. This 1993 sleeper leads us through a day in the life of a loosely-aligned group of seniors and freshmen at a high school in suburban Texas. What happens? It's 1976, school's out for the summer, and kids in pickup trucks and convertibles are cruising the neon-lit streets, swigging beer, philosophizing, looking for a place to party. They pull up at a roadhouse, pig out ...
- 7329: Orwell's "Such, Such Were the Joys....": Alienation and Other Such Joys
- Orwell's "Such, Such Were the Joys....": Alienation and Other Such Joys George Orwell expresses a feeling of alienation throughout "Such, Such Were the Joys...." He casts himself as a misfit, unable to understand his peers, the ... his ability to enumerate what is “good,” he resigns himself to a predestined state; uncertain of where exactly he fits in society, his attitude is irreconcilable with what he knows society expects of him. Orwell's childhood understanding of society forces him into only one possible direction, failure. This essay is the maturing Orwell's response to childhood subjugation, a subtle exposure to the evolution of Orwell's thought. Orwell's life as a boarding school student at Crossgates occupies his memory of childhood and serves as the platform ...
- 7330: Robert Frost
- ... than, "What road should we take". What he is really asking is what road should he take in life. The two roads symbolize the two different paths in life he could take. As in everyone’s life, Frost had to make decisions like the one listed above. I would say all in all, he did a pretty damn good job of it. But in order to understand his poetry, you need to know about the man. Robert Lee Frost, born in San Francisco, Mar. 26, 1874, was one of America's leading 20th-century poets and a four-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize. An essentially pastoral poet often associated with rural New England, Frost wrote poems whose philosophical dimensions transcend any region. Although his verse ... pioneer in the interplay of rhythm and meter and in the poetic use of the vocabulary and inflections of everyday speech. His poetry is thus both traditional and experimental, regional and universal. After his father's death in 1885, when young Frost was 11, the family left California and settled in Massachusetts. Frost attended high school in that state, entered Dartmouth College, but remained less than one semester. Returning to ...
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