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- 4351: The Efffects Of Louis 16th On
- ... and the lavish spending of the court contributed to the huge national debt. The government’s financial problems were made worse after 1740 by the renewal of costly wars (the French revolution, pg. 9). The war of the Austrian Succession (1740-1748) and the Seven Year’s War (1756-1763) were European wars over the domination of central Europe and colonial and commercial wars between France and Great Britain (*Aspects of the French Revolution pg. ). At their end, in 1763 France had lost ... the French launched an attack against Britain in the American Revolution. They were hoping to weaken old rivalries and regain lost colonies. The hopes of the French were not realized and their participation in the war increased an already heavy national debt. After Louis XVI granted financial aid (1778-81) to the American colonies revolting against Great Britain, Necker proposed drastic taxes on the nobility. Necker was forced to resign ...
- 4352: Seeing Through Salvador Dalí's Kaleidoscopic Eyes
- ... journal entries. He wrote two novels, Summer Evenings and The Tower of Babel, both of which remained unpublished. At the age of fifteen, he foreshadowed his life, stating, "I'll be a genius, and the world will admire me." This comment referred more to ambition than to conceit, which was a popular comment among Dalí's critics. His artistic purpose was furthermore empowered when Dalí was accepted as a student at ... Bread was a meticulously and accurately painted still life. Above all, Dalí was known as a Surrealist. In simple terms, Surrealism was created by unshackling thought, bringing into focus both the phenomena of the real world and the fantasies of the individual psyche. Most Surrealists, such as Salvador Dalí, were greatly influenced by the works of Sigmund Freud and his radical views of life. In 1929, Dalí met his future wife ... Gala in 1934, Dalí visited America for the first time. He held two solo art exhibitions and as a result was featured in the Hall of Fame section of the American magazine Vanity Fair. As World War II broke out, Dalí and other artist refugees were forced to move to Paris. Most of Dalí's recent work was destroyed by fascists. At about this time, a dark, gothic side of ...
- 4353: Biography Of Eugene Victor Deb
- ... Colmar, Alsace and emigrated with his wife Marguerite Marie Debs to Terre Haute, Indiana. Eugene Victor was named for two writers Eugene Sue and Victor Hugo. Eugene Debs was five years old when the Civil war has started. Gene had extraordinary memory and desire to learn, he became bored with the infinite repetition of studies in reading, writing, and ciphering, therefore Eugene has decided to leave the school in 1870 and ... he becomes a presidential candidate of the Socialist party. Debs was had been president of the Socialist party five different times: in 1900,1904, 1908, 1912, and 1920. In 1918, at the beginning of the World War I, Eugene Debs gave speech to Ohio Socialists in which he exposed the war. The federal government accused Debs under the Espionage Act. He was sent to jail for ten years. On December , 1921, ...
- 4354: Managing Information Systems
- ... ideas and concepts and in turn make them into reality. For years businesses have had to distribute written memos and other paperwork to their fellow employees in order to spread their ideas. In the changing world that we live in today this concept of spreading ideas is slowly fading. Communication is spread throughout the globe in a matter of minutes through the use of computers and modern technology. We can communicate ... the confusion of what to do with all this information, how best to utilize it, and how to regulate it. This paper will look into those questions and what actually makes up this new virtual world that we are creating for ourselves called cyberspace. In the 1950 s and 60 s the fear of nuclear attack was constantly on the minds of the American people and the government. The government therefore ... telephone companies to help advance the technology. It wasn t until the early nineties when the Internet started to look the way it does now, with the first Internet society and the founding of the World Wide Web in 1991. Since then the Internet has been growing, getting faster, and finding its way into more and more peoples lives every day. Over 2.7 trillion e-mail messages alone were ...
- 4355: Dickinson vs. Whitman
- ... them or people they were interested in. Emily Dickinson started writing poetry in 1850, but most of her poems are dated after 1858. Whitman wrote for many newspapers before he actually began writing poetry. The world found out he wrote poetry when he published the first edition of Leaves of Grass. The major turning point for Whitman was in the 1860's, when his work started to gain more recognition from ... off-rhyme. The subjects that Whitman and Dickinson used in their poetry are very different. There is a big difference because the things that each poet was interested in. Whitman often wrote about the Civil War. Dickinson often wrote about death and nature. The punctuation is drastically different as well. Whitman used mostly traditional punctuation in his poetry, but in the poem "Beat! Beat! Drums!" he used a big amount of ... ruthless force." Dickinson used a form of punctuation unique to her poetry as well as capitalization. She used irregular capitalization to emphasize certain words for example, in the poem "This is My Letter to the World," she capitalized the words, World, Me, News, Nature, Majesty, Message, Hands, Her, and Sweet. She did this because those things were important to her. Walt Whitman's and Emily Dickinson's lives were very ...
- 4356: Atlantis: We Will Never Know
- Fantasy is a tough sell in the twentieth century. The world has been fully discovered and fully mapped. Popular media has effectively minimized the legend and the fantastic rumor, though to make up for this it has generated falsities not as lavish but just as interesting. Satellites have mapped and studied the earth, leaving only a space frontier that is as yet unreachable. But standing out is a charming fantasy the modern world has yet to verify or condemn: the lost continent of Atlantis. The father of the modern world's perception of Atlantis is Plato (circa 428-circa 347 b.c.). The Greek philosopher spoke in his works Timaeus and Critias of a continent in the Atlantic ocean larger than Africa and Asia ...
- 4357: Abbey, and His Fear of Progress
- ... of progress. He knew that hordes of people and their "machines" would come (Abbey 50-51). Most people see progress as a good thing. Abbey proclaims. "I would rather take my chances in a thermonuclear war than live in such a world (Abbey 60)." "Prog-ress n. forward motion or advance to a higher goal; an advance; steady improvement (Webster's)." Is progress really all of that? How can you improve on mother nature? Progress actually detracts ... the parks. They will only find the stress and chaos that they sought to leave at home (Abbey 59). There is a minority though, that prefers to be able to get away from the modern world completely, and travel throughout the parks on foot, bicycle, or horse. With these vehicles they can travel on quiet trails that are impassable by automobiles. These trails will lead them to places where progress ...
- 4358: The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
- ... but that doesn't count because the author doesn't have freedom either so why should his characters). "The chief argument of fight fixing is to show one's readers what one thinks of the world around one". The author must fix the fight in favor of one side to make the writing a novel, to create the story with one's views on the world implanted into it. Fowles however did not live in the world he is fixing the fight in and can only know about it from other readings or indirect information. Fowles describes a story that has supposedly taken place over a century ago, and shows several ...
- 4359: Beauty
- ... the beholder because beauty comes from within your soul. People have different ideas and tastes, so ideas on what is beautiful vary from person to person. This is proven when you look around in the world which we all share. There are countless ways in which beauty is shown to us all. It could be in nature, like the waterfalls or the sunset or even a hurricane; some people may think ... hands entwined with each other but they are both looking in different directions. The girl is staring straight ahead watching the sunset. In her eyes it’s one of the most beautiful moments in the world. The guy, however, is looking at the girls’ face while she is in awe by the sight before her eyes. Her skin is as soft as silk, her lips full and tender and her vibrant red hair is dancing gently with the wind. In his eyes she is the most beautiful sight in the world. Beauty could also be found in everyday objects. It could be the car one owns, or the pool in ones backyard, or even the quilts in a bedroom. For example imagine a husband and ...
- 4360: The Computer Underground.
- ... true" meaning of the word. Bob Bickford, a professional programmer who has organized several programmer conferences, explains: At a conference called "Hackers 4.0" we had 200 of the most brilliant computer professionals in the world together for one weekend; this crowd included several PhD's, several presidents of companies (including large companies, such as Pixar), and various artists, writers, engineers, and programmers. These people all consider themselves Hackers: all derive ... interaction with the universe. (Bickford, 1988). The more widely accepted definition of "hacker" refers to one who obtains unauthorized, if not illegal, access to computer systems and networks. This definition was popularized by the movie War Games and, generally speaking, is the one used by the media. It is also the definition favored by the computer underground. Both the members of the computer underground and professional computer programmers claim ownership of ... exactly call these numbers direct. A lot of people are in the same boat. In my case, phreaking is a tool, an often used one, but nonetheless a tool (TU, message log, 1988). In the world of the computer underground, the ability to "phreak a call" is taken for granted. The phone companies allowance the use of the credit cards for billing has opened the door to wide-scale phreaking. ...
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