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- 4981: Martin Luther King's Life
- Martin Luther King's Life "Without a universal respect for human rights, the world cannot achieve peace" Martin Luther King Jr. led a heroic mission to educate, awaken, and revolutionize the American people. Martin Luther King Jr. was a great man who knew what he believed in. Dr. King revolutionized the black communities, he also brought power and confidence into the heart of men and women all over the world. He wanted to fight for equality and to show people that he could do anything with the power of words and praise. He led many protests, fought for Civil Rights and lobbied of the right ... vital role in establishing non- violence, was Mahatma Gandhi. His philosophy was spiritual strength of political and military beliefs. Martin Luther King that this was the path in which he would take to reach the world. Many people questioned the non-violent approach because they felt that it was to slow to accomplish their goal. Kings non-violent protest strategies and appeals to moral idealism were useless in the face ...
- 4982: Mantle vs. Mays
- ... his offense was enough to keep the papers full. Mantle won the Triple Crown in 1956, and was also the American League MVP in 56, 57, and again in 62. He also played in 12 World Series, and helped to lead the Yankees to 7 World Series championships. Mantle holds World Series records in home runs, with 18; runs batted in, with 40; runs, with 42; and strikeouts, with 54. He also holds the Yankees record for most games played, and was elected to ...
- 4983: Bill Gates
- ... effects on Bill Gate's life. For at Lakeside, Bill Gates was first introduced to computers. In the spring of 1968, the Lakeside prep school decided that it should acquaint the student body with the world of computers. Computers were still too large and costly for the school to purchase its own. Instead, the school had a fundraiser and bought computer time on a DEC PDP-10 owned by General Electric ... time they were using. They were caught and the Computer Center Corporation banned them from the system for several weeks. They were determined to find a way to apply their computer skills in the real world. The first opportunity to do this was a direct result of their mischievous activity with the school's computer time. The Computer Center Corporation's business was beginning to suffer due to the systems weak ... one of Harvard's toughest math courses. He did well but just as in high school, his heart was not in his studies. After locating the school's computer center, he lost himself in the world of computers once again. Gates would spend many long nights in front of the school's computer and the next days asleep in class. Paul Allen and Gates remained in close contact even with ...
- 4984: Slavery in the Eyes of the South
- ... today. But that fact wasnt so clear back in the 19th century. Slavery in American history is usually associated with the 1860s, because that was the decade of southern secession and the Civil War. But the Confederate States of America and the Civil War were really a dramatic climax to all the arguments and disagreements on slavery that had been building up in the preceding decades. The United States Declaration of Independence clearly states that all men are created ... Davis, Robert E. Lee, and Alexander Hamilton Stephens were rebelling radicals just like Washington, Jefferson, and Patrick Henry were 90 years earlier. But it was not the Confederates who were the radicals of the Civil War, instead it was the abolitionist northerners that were. In 1860, slavery was something that was prevalent in and, whether they wanted to admit it or not, very much a part of American culture. Why ...
- 4985: Friendship
- ... friends, but they are friends in some sense of the word. Although they are friends that are here today and gone tomorrow, they are important because they are your connection to the rest of the world. Sometimes there is an inequality, and a way of balance must be found. Just as money differs on various kinds of products, qualifications and contributions differ in most friendships. To Aristotle a true friend is ... extension of himself. They would be two souls dwelling in one body. Having true friends should be the center of what a moral person should have and work for. The way to get to the world is through your friends. Since we are political beings, we do not live in a vacuum. Our friends do have other friends besides us, and we become friends by connection. Gathering a circle of friends leads us to the entire world. In order for someone to be a good friend they would have to like what is within themselves. Only a good person is capable of self-love, since the bad person would loathe what ...
- 4986: King of Babylonia: Hammurabi
- King of Babylonia: Hammurabi In his position as King of Babylonia, Hammurabi managed to organize the world's first code of laws and establish Babylon as the dominant and successful Amorite city of its time. "Records written on clay tablets show that Hammurabi was a very capable administrator and a successful warrior ... in traditional activities, such as repairing buildings, digging canals, and fighting wars. Yet later in his rule, Hammurabi organized a unique code of laws, the first of its kind, therefore making himself one of the world's most influential leaders. Hammurabi was primarily influential to the world because of his code of laws. This code consisted of 282 provisions, systematically arranged under a variety of subjects. He sorted his laws into groups such as family, labor, personal property, real estate, trade, ...
- 4987: Famine
- ... population growth and economic inequalities. Reliable food supplies in developing countries are in jeopardy due to deliberate crop destruction and inefficient food distribution; resulting in widespread chronic hunger. Each year millions of acres of the world's farmland are lost to the spread of cities and suburbs, highway and airport construction and shopping centers. In Canada, most of the land taken over by urban sprawl came from the best cropland. Even in the Third World or developing countries, land conversion is a serious problem; this is because the population increases in such countries are comparatively great and the growing number of people need more land to live on. Increases in food supply cannot keep up with rapid increases in population. In other words, the world population could outstrip its ability to feed itself. More than half the world's population lives with hunger and malnutrition everyday in spite of the fact, that most countries are self sufficient in food ...
- 4988: Wuthering Heights - Setting
- Like the world of Transylvania, the Gothic setting in Wuthering Heights suggests a wild and primitive landscape unconstrained by Orthodox norms. The reader is first introduced to Wuthering Heights, the house and its surroundings, as it appears to the middle class, Mr. Lockwood, on a stormy night. Thus, Lockwood serves the same role and Jonathan Harker as he is the bridge between the world of 19th century normal realities and the primeval world of Wuthering Heights. Just as Mr. Harker characterizes his trip to Transylvania as a journey between two atmospheres, entering the "thunderous one", Mr. Lockwood too is introduced to Wuthering Heights on a stormy night, ...
- 4989: The Queer Use Of Women In Borg
- ... of erotic activities is limited to only a very few stories. Similarly scarce,[1] too, are female characters who figure prominently in the narration and who seem to possess a independent personhood.[2] The fictional world created by Borges is a place where women, if they appear at all, seem to exist mainly as debased objects[3] for the purpose of providing men with an opportunity for sex and where such ... reveals the clear but playfully veiled presence of homoerotic desire. My purpose here is to analyze two stories, "El muerto" and "La intrusa," to expose the way in which the homosocial element of Borges' fictional world slides across the continuum[5] towards the homosexual side when men in each story make use of a communal woman for the purpose of connecting physically and emotionally with another man. In these two stories ... and the maker of his fate and a text or divine plan in which his fortune has already been written" and that this contrast "parallels the problem of man with respect to the universe: The world is impenetrable, but the human mind never ceases to propose schemes" (19). George R. McMurray makes the case that the story symbolizes "the absurd condition of all men who strive for success without suspecting ...
- 4990: Diamonds Are My Best Friend
- ... the chance I should have taken it. YOU, were my worst mistake." "LEAVE! Nobody here wants you nobody here cares for you and there is no place for you. Hide yourself somewhere and do the world a favor." His mother screamed constantly, shaming him to that of nothing but guilt of being alive. It was a common ritual in his OLD household. Then tonight, with the quick flick of a wrist ... was his own. The man smiled. "Now we must leave this place. Come with me and we will start your training. You will now learn the ways of the wonderful, you will understand a new world." The boy looked at him and wiped off his face. "Thank you," he said wiping away his tears. "Take me father, teach me." The two left hand in hand like father and son. From that ... the child grew from boy to man. He watched as people received their due punishments. Abusers were abused. Murderers were murdered. Those who owed paid. It was a matter of sweet revenge in a world that was as unjust as it is was corrupt. Soon the boy reached the age of 18. He was taught how to handle his new business and how to corrupt the corrupted. It was ...
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