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- 6531: Admiration Of Anne Bradstreets
- ... faults with people, and that is he trusts people too much. He has too much faith in people and whether that is because of his deist ways, and how he looks at things in the world,and through reason. His trust in people and things often leads him into small troubles. His drunken friend Collins borrowed much money from Franklin promising to pay it back. Of course, it was never payed ... I need no more, Farewell, my pelf, farewell my store. (p. 133) She knows that all the things that she really needs are in heaven and that can t be taken away from her. The world no longer let me love, My hope and treasure lies above. (p.134) Somewhat of a problem with Bradstreet is her attactment with some of her aquaintances. She is really attached to her granddaughter for ... faults with people, and that is he trusts people too much. He has too much faith in people and whether that is because of his deist ways, and how he looks at things in the world,and through reason. His trust in people and things often leads him into small troubles. His drunken friend Collins borrowed much money from Franklin promising to pay it back. Of course, it was never ...
- 6532: William Henry Gates
- ... has continued being successful through the years and will be in the future as long as ! it keeps innovating new and exciting computer software. Bill Gates has his eye on the future. He sees the world in a Apowerful, high-speed network-both within companies and across the so called Information Superhighway@ (Brandt, 57). He hopes to be on top of the Transformation from Personal Computers to nets. Gates predicts that ... of low-cost, high-capacity, networks will radically alter how we use technology in the upcoming decade. Now before Bill Gates came onto the scene in the early seventies, the main focus in the computer world was hardware. Chips, circuit boards, capacitors and controllers these were what computers were all about at this time. Companies like IBM, Compaq and Apple were at the head of the pack in the Aindustry that ... business, a market that was inevitably going to grow as fast of faster than its complimentary hardware market. Bill gates saw this opportunity and took advantage of it. When William Henry Gates came into the world in the year 1955, the fledgling computer industry was still trying to spread its wings and fly. AOn the day he was born in 1955, fewer then 500 electronic computers had existed in the ...
- 6533: A Seize Of Power
- A Seize of Power After WWI, Germany was in a exceedingly unpleasant state. It had been forced, by the Treaty of Versailles, to take full blame for the war. This meant that Germany would have to pay reparations for all of the other countries. Reparations were even harder to pay since Germany was in the midst of one of the worst stagflation epidemics in ... nothing to do with the signing of this treaty, had taken over power. All of the people of this once superpower of a country were in a state of perplexity because they had lost a war that had been fought entirely on enemy soil. Germany was searching for an answer to its insurmountable problems, and found that answer in a Nazi named Adolf Hitler. Hitler was born in Austria, into a ... army. Instead of going to fight for his country, he chose to flee to Germany. Which is a bewildering thought seeing as how he voluntarily joined the German army when he got there. After the war, Hitler joined up with a right wing campaign whose job was to spy on other government groups. Upon spying on one of the parties, the N.S.D.A.P. or Nazi party, he ...
- 6534: Israel
- ... of living, despite having few natural resources and a limited water supply. Service industries plays a big part in thier economy. It accounts for 67% of Israel's net domestic product(Robert E. Clark, The World Book Encyclopedia). It employs about 65% of all it's workers. Tourism is a major service industry in Israel. Many of Israel's service industry workers are employed by the government. Manufactoring accounts for about 23% of Israel's net domestic profit and employs about 22% of it's work force(Bernard Reich, the World Book Encyclopedia). Israeli factories produce such goods as chemical products, electronic equipment, fertilizer, paper, plastic, processed food, scientific and optical instruments and textiles and clothing. Tel aviv and Haifa are Israel's major manufactoring centers. Agriculture accounts for about 4% of Israel's net domestic profit and employs about 5% of it's workers(Bernard Reich, The World Book Encyclopedia). It use to employ a much larger percentage of the workers. Most of the work is now done by machines. Agriculture exports provide income to pay for any necessary food import! s. ...
- 6535: Berkley
- As man progressed through the various stages of evolution, it is assumed that at a certain point he began to ponder the world around him. Of course, these first attempts fell short of being scholarly, probably consisting of a few grunts and snorts at best. As time passed on, though, these ideas persisted and were eventually tackled by the more intellectual, so-called philosophers. Thus, excavation of "the external world" began. As the authoritarinism of the ancients gave way to the more liberal views of the modernists, two main positions concerning epistemology and the nature of the world arose. The first view was exemplified by the empiricists, who stated that all knowledge comes from the senses. In opposition, the rationalists maintained that knowledge comes purely from deduction, and that this knowledge is ...
- 6536: Albert Einstein 2
- ... and lasting impression on me." Later in his life as a kid, Einstein's uncle, Jacob, introduced him to mathematics and specifically, equations. School was an unpleasant experience for Einstein. He was disgusted by how war strategies were taught at school and he had disgust for the military discipline that then reigned in most German schools. The teachers weren't so happy about how Einstein was doing and once one of ... Citizen: In 1940 Einstein became a citizen of the United States, but chose to retain his Swiss citizenship. He made many contributions to peace during his life. In 1944 he made a contribution to the war effort by hand writing his 1905 paper on special relativity and putting it up for auction. It raised six million dollars, the manuscript today being in the Library of Congress. By 1949 Einstein was unwell ... and lasting impression on me." Later in his life as a kid, Einstein's uncle, Jacob, introduced him to mathematics and specifically, equations. School was an unpleasant experience for Einstein. He was disgusted by how war strategies were taught at school and he had disgust for the military discipline that then reigned in most German schools. The teachers weren't so happy about how Einstein was doing and once one ...
- 6537: India's Economic Policy
- ... former British colonial economic structure. Under India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal NEHRU, the plans stressed heavy industry, often at the expense of agriculture. Today India ranks among the top ten industrial nations of the world and has an increasingly powerful middle class (now numbering nearly 100,000,000), most of whose members live in the largest cities. Despite significant economic growth since independence, however, many of India's gains have ... land is arable, and two crops are normal where water and climate permit. The chief summer monsoon (kharif) crops are rice and millet. The major winter (rabi) crops are wheat and pulses. India is the world's second largest rice producer and ranks fourth in wheat production. In addition to food crops, commercial crops such as cotton, jute, sugarcane, tea, coffee, oilseeds, and tobacco are grown. India is the world's leading producer of tea and sugar. The country also has the world's largest cattle population, reflecting the revered status of the cow in Hinduism. Although Indian cattle are poor producers, they still ...
- 6538: The Cathedral
- ... his misunderstanding of the people and the relationships presented to him in this story which show most clearly his tragic flaw: while Robert is physically blind, it is the narrator that cannot clearly see the world around him. In the eyes of the narrator, Robert’s blindness is his defining characteristic. The opening line of Cathedral reads, "This blind man, an old friend of my wife’s, he was on his ... narrator’s naivete leaves him amazed by Robert, who does things which the narrator would view as atypical of the blind. This reinforces the idea that the narrator is blind to the reality of the world. The narrator’s blindness is certainly not limited to Robert – he no better understands the relationship between his wife and the blind man: They’d become good friends, my wife and the blind man…On ... sweet lips: "And then my dear husband came into my life"—something like that. But I heard nothing of the sort. This only reaffirms that once again, the narrator completely misreads the situations in the world around him. Notwithstanding, the narrator’s emotional blindness can be seen most clearly in his inability to comprehend Robert and Beulah’s relationship. The narrator muses, "They’d married, lived and worked together, slept ...
- 6539: The Truth of Suffering in King Lear
- ... evil ways. With his blindness, comes sight, or moreover insight. Gloucester, similarly to Lear, is not used to suffering. He feels his pain is more unbearable than any other. Gloucester: O you mighty gods! This world I do renoune, and in your sights Shake patiently my great affliction off. If I could bear it longer, and not fall To quarrel with your great opposeless wills, My snuff and loathed part of ... very different from that of Gloucester and Lear. They suffer simply by seeing other's suffer. Edgar's pain comes from seeing his father in the state he is in. Edgar: My father, poorly led? World, world, O world, But that thy strange mutations make us hate thee, Life would not yield to age. (4.1.10-2) Edgar suffers just watching his father. His goodness prevails in his response to ...
- 6540: Zora Neale Hurston
- ... is raised to uphold the standards of her grandmother's generation; she is taught to be passive and subject to whatever life gives her. But as Janie grows older she begins to realize that the world may not like it, but she has got to follow her desires, not suppress them. The story begins in her childhood, with Janie exalting material possessions and money, two things she has never had an ... not belong to the sobbing school of Negrohood who hold that nature somehow has given them a lowdown dirty deal and whose feeling are all hurt about it.... No, I do not weep at the world- I am to busy sharpening my oyster knife (Discovering Hurston showed her true opinions on race relations in her autobiography Dust Tracks on the Road when she declared black artists should celebrate the positive aspects ... of it. In her autobiography she wrote: I had stifled longing. I used to climb to the top of one of the huge chinaberry trees which guarded our front gate, and look out over the world. The most interesting thing that I saw was the horizon... It grew upon me that I ought to walk out to the horizon and see what the end of the world was like. (Dust ...
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