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- 9651: Death Be Not Proud
- Death Be Not Proud The novel, Death Be Not Proud, by John Gunther, is the story of the struggle of a child to stay alive. Johnny Gunther Jr.'s constant hope got him out of bed every morning with a positive attitude. His outright opposition to the fact that he was going to die and his determination not to, kept a fiery spirit in him so that he didn't give up. Johnny's stubborn determination to not accept defeat at so early an age, along with the tremendous courage he showed when realizing that he must accept his defeat, is a strong point portrayed in this novel. ...
- 9652: Needham
- It did not take me too long to pick up the tone Needham was using throughout his article. Needham's tone was one of great annoyance and frustration. Needham wanted the entire nation to know what was going on in college athletics. Most importantly he wanted his message to reach those who could make a difference, like important political officials and wealthy, “honest” alumni. Needham’s message was, enough special treatment to athletes and eliminate the sneaky recruitment tactics used on the young men attending prepratory schools. Needham gets his point across by using actual examples of young men receiving special ... to are unfamiliar to me and therefore have less of an impact on me as I read. I can only imagine the impact an article of this magnitude would have using the names of today’s college athletes. Needham’s real life examples are his most convincing source by far. The readers of the time could put a face to the name. People knew of William Matthews and James Hogan ...
- 9653: Madonna
- ... state of Michigan. Her real birth name is Madonna Louise Ciccone. However, most people know her as simply Madonna. She is known as a controversial singer, actress, dancer, songwriter, and has become one of America's biggest and well-known stars in the late 1980s. Madonna's assertive behavior, outspoken personality, and aggressive acts of sexuality, along with her great efforts to push back the borders of the acceptable, have brought her tremendous commercial success in America and abroad. She has achieved ... music career. However, she still wanted to pursue her dance career. She always had two career objectives in mind and believed she would definitely achieve one or both of them. She joined Alvin Alley Theater's third company group. She danced with them for a short time period, however, she felt she could do better by focusing her main efforts and ideas in the popular music and film industry. Her ...
- 9654: Computer Viruses
- ... computer will pass on the virus every chance it gets. Computer viruses are spread by two methods Floppy disks and modems. A modem is a phone link connected to a bulletin board service (B.B.S.). A B.B.S. is a lot like what it sounds, a bulletin board. If a person calls you and you're not home he leaves a message so that the next time you use the B.B.S. you can see the message. However sometimes a person can leave a virus in a B.B.S. or an unsuspecting computer user whose computer is infected the next time you hook up to ...
- 9655: Lord Of The Flies Reflection
- ... would save them and war was never really mentioned. Also a different change from the novel to the movie was the time setting between the two. In the novel the estimated time was the 1940's, and the boys reflected this by starting off on the island as good school children that had respect for their elders, etc. In the movie the time frame was anywhere from the late 80's to the early 90's, it was somewhat hard to define an exact date. The time setting showed in the technology that was present at the time such as helicopters. Also in the movie the boys started off on ...
- 9656: Surface Area to Volume Ratios in Plants (Arid vs. Moist Environments)
- ... factors such as the amount of water or light available. It is important to look at how these factors affect the growth and survival of plants in order to determine their future success. In today’s day and age, with the environment under constant pressures such as pollution and global warming it is crucial to investigate aspects such as how much water loss or water intake a plant can withstand. A ... amounts of precipitation for example, is expected to have a high surface area to volume ratio. If weather patterns were to suddenly change due to a global warming trend, how would this affect the plant’s growth and ability to photosynthesize? These are the questions that lie at the basis of the following experiment. Objective: To determine how the presence or absence of water in the environment affects the surface area ... sample sizes lower than six or eight are not useful for statistical purposes. Then the sample mean was calculated for the data in each category. The variances were then calculated in order to determine which t-test would be used to analyze the data. It was found that the Fs value was greater than the Fcritical value and therefore the null hypothesis was rejected. After performing the Ftest and determining ...
- 9657: Song Of Solomon 2
- ... jump a woman in a contralto voice begins to sing the words "O Sugarman done fly away/ Sugarman done gone/ Sugarman cut across the sky/ Sugarman gone home "(6) This lady simply describes Robert Smith s flight "home" which we later learn is really him committing suicide. Much later on in the book Milkman is listening to a group of children singing "O Solomon done fly away/ Solomon done gone/ Solomon ... a prominent black doctor had once lived there, and the people living there always referred to it as Doctor Street. When the local council discovered this, they preoccupied themselves with the enforcement of the street s proper name. A sign was created which said "had always been and would always be known as Mains Avenue and not Doctor Street.(4)" And so it was called Not Doctor Street. The whole scenario was due to a small misunderstanding between the back and white populations of the community. A similar event occurred to Macon Dead s father, also known as Macon. While registering at the Freedmen s Bureau, he was helped by a "drunken Yankee," and we are told of his inaccurate recording of Macon s information. "A literal slip ...
- 9658: The Millennium Bug
- ... and running water. Fixing the problem is difficult because there are [less than] two years left to correct 40 years of behavior" (de Jager 1). Alan Greenspan has warned that being 99 percent ready isn't enough (Widder 2). Chief Economist Edward Yardeni has said that the chances for a worldwide recession to occur because of Y2K are at 40% (Widder 3). Senator Bob Benett (Republican, Utah) made a good analogy about the potential of the problem. "In the 1970's, oil was the energy that ran our world economy. Today it runs on the energy of information." He later said, "To cripple the technological flow of information throughout the world is to bring it to a virtual standstill" (Widder 3). The potential of the problem in everyday life is alarming. Imagine making a loan payment in 1999 for a bill that is due in 2000. The company’s computers could interpret the '00' as 1900 and you would then be charged with 99 years of late fees (Moffitt & Sandler 48). If the year 2000 problem isn't solved, there could be "no ...
- 9659: Malcolm X
- ... born. His birth name was Malcolm Little, however there were big things in store for this child. Born in Omaha, Nebraska. The seventh of eleven children born to Earl Little, an organizer for Marcus Garvey’s "back-to-Africa" movement (Compton’s encyclopedia online). At age six Malcolm’s father was murdered. As a result his mother later suffered a nervous breakdown, and the family was separated by welfare agencies (Compton’s encyclopedia online). Later in life he would blame these same agencies ...
- 9660: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Russian Dissident
- *Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was becoming a dissident against the U.S.S.R. and the restricting communist government after he was arrested for the first time. He, through his entire life, was willing to sacrifice everything he had in order to point out that censorship was wrong ... he died in a hunting accident before Aleksandr was born. After his father died, the Soviet government only allowed menial employment to his mother, so his family lived in relative poverty. Other than that, Aleksandr's childhood was relatively normal. He was a member of the Pioneers, the Soviet equivalent to Boy Scouts, and later joined the Communist Youth League. At the age of nine he decided he wanted to ...
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