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- 2791: Howard Hughes
- ... Hughes passed away, and a little over a year later in January of 1924, Big Howard passed as well. At the age of 17, it would seem that Hughes was not prepared to enter the world of adulthood, but he would quickly prove otherwise. Sonny was the inheritor of 75% of Hughes Tool, of which he would be granted control at the age of 21. Eager to take responsibility of his ... terrible reviews, the public went wild for Hell’s Angels. The film set box office records in every theater that it played, and went on to appear on screens for over 20 years throughout the world. In the end, it brought in just over eight million dollars, roughly twice Hughes’s investment. Bored with the movies and having proven himself, it was time for Hughes to move on to something more ... shop just outside L. A. in a secret hangar where the three would work days and nights on end. The project was called H-1 (Hughes-1) and was the most progressive airplane in the world. The plane introduced the retractable landing gear, and pioneered other aeronautic advances such as countersunk screws and flat rivets to reduce wind resistance. The H-1 made its first appearance in September 1935 as ...
- 2792: A Rose for Remembrance
- ... death, as had her way of life and traditions. By the time the members of the new, progressive Board of Aldermen came to her concerning her long overdue taxes, she had completely retreated to her world of the past. Emily declared that she had no taxes in Jefferson, based on her belief of a verbal agreement made with Colonel Sartoris, who had been dead for ten years. Emily was refusing to ... different social era than the young man, dealing with the situation was not so simple. “Dammit, sir...will you accuse a lady to her face of smelling bad?” (qtd. in Kirzner & Mandell 82). Emily's world, however, was almost completely in the past. When she was threatened with desertion and disgrace, she not only took refuge in that world but also took Homer (her romantic interest) with her in the only way possible--death. Emily's room above the stairs was her timeless bubble. In it, the living Emily and the dead Homer ...
- 2793: J.D. Salinger
- ... was inappropriate because of the topics he wrote about. The main characters were considered misfits of society. The characters generally did not fit in with traditional American culture. They could not adjust to the real world. However, Salinger’s most successful stories are the ones about people who could not adjust. The super-intelligent humans who had to choose between the American culture at that time and the moral world, or choose between the "phony" real world and the morally "pure" world. Salinger creates these misfits, as heroes who do not fit into society. They struggle between the two worlds – shallow and moral. The leading characters are on a mission of ...
- 2794: Economy Of New Zealand
- The United States and New Zealand established close ties in 1942, when the U.S. provided security for New Zealand during World War II, and have remained close ever since. However, in 1984, the Labour party came into power in New Zealand, with intentions to bar nuclear-armed and nuclear-powered warships from New Zealand ports. Implementation of ... in New Zealand that same year totaled $4.8 billion, and was largely concentrated in manufacturing, forestry, telecommunications services, and finance. The two countries have also worked closely together to promote free trade in the World Trade Organization and the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum. The Labour party had not only changed nuclear policies in 1984, but also introduced a monetarist economic policy in a major effort to reduce the ...
- 2795: Compare and Contrast: "Dead Man's Dump" by Rosenberg and "dulce et Decorum est" by Owen
- ... out that he seemed to be drowning in the sea. Unlike Jesus and in a sense his fellow troops who walked on water he was drowning. He has been chosen by death to leave this world only to be whisked to his next. These poems are similar to each other in the since that they both happen in a time of war and they are soldiers. The difference of the two poems is the main focus. When you read "Dead Man's Dump" and you visualize it, not just read it you see a battle field that is destroyed by war. Bodies lay everywhere. The way the author describes the gruesome detail of the dead troops, "A man's brains splattered on a stretcher-bearers face;" one can literally see the guts. Rosenberg uses spectacular ...
- 2796: Charlotte Temple Essay
- ... army who was about twenty three years old, and Charlotte was only fifteen. He was much older than Charlotte. Montraville influenced her in evil ways; he impressed her with his knowledge of love and the world by writing her a letter and giving it to her personally . Montraville knew this was forbidden but gave it to her anyway. Tis a romantic attempt, said he, and should I even succeed in seeing ... a deserving women into scenes of poverty and distress. a soldier has no business to think of a wife till his rank is such as to place him above the fear of bringing into the world a train of helpless innocents, heirs only to penury and affliction. ... But mark me boy, if on the contrary, you rush into a precipitate union with a girl of little or no fortune, take the ... Rowson 103 ) Charlotte knew what she had done was wrong. She trusted Montraville, but he spoke of empty promises of marriage when they arrived in New York. She withdrew herself only after realizing that the world was a horrible, wretched place where evil prevailed over the good in people. She now saw that not every man was good , kind, and loving like her father. The inexperienced Charlotte was astonished at ...
- 2797: With And Without The State In
- In the world we live in today, countries and nations have formed a class system. The superpowers remain at the tip of the pyramid, the middle class of the developed, and the developing or less advanced at the base. These primitive cultures or the lower class cannot mobilize upward in society because the world cannot help them. Those who do only aid those with potential and countries whose resources would be beneficial to their own policies. There is no hope for these people as they see the world expanding and competition for power and superiority remains. Struggle embodies the individual and the casted civilization they live in as the outside world continues to prosper, reigning above them. Christ Stopped at Eboli, by ...
- 2798: Brave New World
- Brave New World As man has progressed through the ages, there has been, essentially, one purpose. That purpose is to arrive at a utopian society, where everyone is happy, disease is nonexistent, and strife, anger, or sadness are unheard of. Only happiness exists. But when confronted with Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, we come to realize that this is not, in fact, what the human soul really craves. In fact, Utopian societies are much worse than those of today. In a utopian society, the individual, who among others composes the society, is lost in the melting pot of semblance and world of uninterest. In the science fiction book Brave New World, we are confronted with a man, Bernard Marx. Bernard is inadequate to his collegues. So he resorts to entertaining himself most evenings, without the ...
- 2799: The Benefits Of Satellites
- It has been helping scientists find answers to the unknown, aiding companies like VISA incorporation to spread around the globe, and assisting tourists finding their way when they become lost. The world has profited from artificial satellites since 1951, when Russia launched the first man made satellite called “Sputnik I” in outer-space to sail where nothing had sailed before. Today, satellites have become so widely used ... the Global Positioning system (GPS), Reconnaissance Satellites, and finally Telecommunications Satellites. The Global Positioning System provides users with accurate information about their latitude, longitude, velocity and altitude, as well as the time, anywhere in the world and works in all weather conditions. The GPS was initiated in 1973 by Navstar in the United States and then followed by the Soviet Union with their own GPS. Both GPS systems are free to use by anyone around the world and offers great benefits to the military, commercial companies and civilian residents. On the military side, the U.S. Air Force uses the GPS to test unmanned prototype aircraft’s like the X-22, ...
- 2800: So Far From God
- Eisenhower, John S. D. So Far From God: The U. S. War with Mexico 1846 – 1848. New York: Random House, 1989, xxvi, 436. Mr. John Eisenhower is a retired Army General from Westchester, Pennsylvania. He is also the son of retired General and later President, Dwight D ... Times Book Review describe his accounts as “Exceptionally interesting” and “Written with enthusiasm that is hard to resist.” Using his military background, Mr. Eisenhower was able to bring an unbiased opinion to the U. S. war with Mexico by pointing out strengths and weaknesses on both sides of the conflict. The author’s purpose is to provide a more accurate account of the war with Mexico from 1846 – 1848. Mr. Eisenhower also attempts to give the reader a better understanding of the conflict between these two countries, which has been overshadowed by the Civil War, thirteen years later. ...
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