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- 8441: Wallace Stevens
- ... uses complete physical descriptions and displays a "supreme artistic transformation whose creation bestows meaning on an otherwise meaningless universe." His poetry shows the relationship between the reality and imagination. Unfortunately it wasn't until after World War I that Americans and Europeans realized that Stevens was worthy of much more praise than he received when he was alive. Wallace Stevens lived a life full of accomplishments and successes and made an impact ...
- 8442: The 1920s and Its Impact
- ... t benifit were candian soldiers returning from WW1. Around the middle of the twenties, a wheat farmer was the person to be. Business was booming for all the wheat farmers, places like Europe, which was war torn, was hungry for Canada's wheat and contributed tremendous business to the canadian wheat industries. Farmers begain making more money than ever before, and they started buying tractors and other farm machinery to take ... at a all time high, which gave canada's wheat industry an even bigger advantage and a bigger form of maney making in canadas economy. Canadian soldiers on the other hand who had returned from war were ecpecting to be employed, but not even for their bravery and fighting for their country could they get a job. Canadian soldiers were surprised at how difficult it was to get a job. While ... fighting in WW1, people who had business relating to military were striking it rich because of all the military equipment that was needed for the canadian army, for canadian soldiers who had fought in the war, unemployment was a reality for them. During the twenties another discovery led to a rising economy for Canada, the oil industry struck it rich in turner vally Alberta, where a huge oil discovery took ...
- 8443: Lenonard Bernstein
- ... aunt who no longer needed it. She knew of Leonard s love for music, but I doubt she knew what a great impact this gift would have, not only on Leonard, but also on the world of music. After the young boy began to show an interest in the instrument, a neighbor offered to give him lessons, which lasted for about a year. After that year, Bernstein was no longer satisfied ... in performance arts. This is where the finishing touches were put on Bernstein s training. He began to develop very close relationships with many of his instructors, which would later serve as contacts in the world of music. The first time that Bernstein conducted was at the end of his first year at Curtis when he led the Curtis Orchestra in Wagner s Tannauser. His joy was obvious to all that ... boy began to become reality. He had many great success stories over his career, but there are two that he is most known for to all people, not just those involved heavily in the music world. They are his role as director of the New York Philharmonic and the production West Side Story. West Side Story was an idea by Jerome Robbins of a modern, New York style, version of ...
- 8444: Lizzie Borden
- ... needed an hour and a half to find her not guilty before adjourning to a local saloon for beers. It was obvious that Lizzie Borden had jumped very quickly from obscurity to national and even world-wide notoriety because of the murders(Meganet, 1998). A timeline of events is need to fully understand the events that occurred on August 4th, 1892 in Fall River, Massachusetts: The morning of the murder began ... Another theory was that even though Emma had a perfect alibi, she could have possibly been in on it or could have planned it out. After all, Emma was the one who had started the war with their stepmother (Meganet, 1998). One possible theory that could explain what might have drove Lizzie to murder her parents, is that perhaps the paradox of having wealth but the appearance of poverty might have ...
- 8445: Charles Dickens
- ... Gad’s Hill on June 9th. They bury him at Westminster Abbey on June 14th. BIOGRAPHY Charles John Huffham Dickens was born on February 7, 1812, the same year the England and France were at war. His Father, John Dickens, was a clerk in the Navy Pay Office and married Elizabeth Barrow and the couple had five other children. When Charles was two years old, his father was transferred to London ... the poor society of London and dealt with it through his novels such as Oliver Twist, The Christmas Carol, David Copperfield and in The Old Curiosity Shop where it shows the destruction of an illusory world is the key concern and the city itself is an agent in this destruction. HIS BOOKS Mostly all of his novels are based on what The author, Charles Dickens went through during his life in ...
- 8446: Existentialism In The Invisibl
- ... such intensely subjective phenomena as anxiety, suffering, and feelings of guilt in order to show the need for making decisive choices through a utilization of man s freedom in an uncertain, contingent, and apparently purposeless world." 1 This definition, however vague, explains and emphasizes the idea that existentialism is merely an extreme societal interaction resulting from complete freedom in actions and choices, while simultaneously being engulfed in responsibility. Both novels, Invisible ... worth. Their thinking differs greatly as Meursault is naturally independent and invisible man is not. Invisible man was willing to be a conformist in order to fulfill his ambitions of making himself someone in the world, where Meursault s views and ambitions were different. He strove to fulfill the simple pleasures in life to seek happiness. Invisible man, however, soon buckled under the false identities he had created for himself, realizing ... be someone he was not. Giving up, he turns to existentialism, hoping to find a place in society that fits him. This causes him to realize the necessity in crawling out of his hole: My world has become one of infinite possibilities. What a phrase - still it s a good phrase and a good view of life, and a man shouldn't accept any other; that much I've learned ...
- 8447: Louis Pasteur
- Louis Pasteur was an example of a truly gifted person who made many wildly diverse discoveries in many different areas of science. He was a world-renowned French chemist and biologist whose work paved the way for branches of science and medicine such as stereochemistry, microbiology, virology, immunology, and molecular biology. He also proved the germ theory of disease, invented the ... pressure before bottling. This process kills disease-causing bacteria and viruses and became known as pasteurization. After his studies on fermentation and pasteurization, Louis was convinced the microbes were useful for many tasks in the world, but also at the heart of a thousand dangerous things, too. Many scientists at the time believed humans, animals, and insects were not produced by parents of their own kind, but that they were spontaneously ... the treatment of the disease. It became known as the Institute Pasteur, and was directed by Pasteur himself until his death. The institute still flourishes and is one of the most important centers in the world for the study of infectious diseases and other subjects related to microorganisms, including molecular genetics. By the time of his death in Saint-Cloud on September 28, 1895, Pasteur had long since become a ...
- 8448: Othello - Change Of Character
- Othello's character in the duration of "The Tragedy of Othello", by the world's greatest writer, William Shakespeare, is first shown as a hero of war and a man of great pride and courage. The other main characters in the play all form their own opinions of him and, as the play continues, his character begins to deteriorate and become less ...
- 8449: William Lloyd Garrison
- ... Hell"; he chose as his motto "No union with slaveholders" and, still true to his pacifist beliefs, advocated peaceful separation of the free states from the slave states. With the outbreak of the American Civil War, he predicted the victory of the North and the end of slavery, and he ceased to advocate disunion. Promulgation (1863) of the Emancipation Proclamation by Abraham Lincoln removed the last difference between Garrison and Lincoln ... after the de facto abolition of slavery, Garrison discontinued The Liberator and advocated dissolution of the antislavery societies. He then became prominent in campaigns by reformers to promote free trade and abolish customhouses on a world scale; to achieve suffrage for American women and justice for Native Americans; and to establish Prohibition and eliminate the consumption of tobacco in the U.S. He died in New York City on May 24 ...
- 8450: Biography of Ernest Rutherford
- ... the new nuclear science. In 1912 Niels Bohr joined with Rutherford and published his theories on the nature of the atom. These theories eventually gained general acceptance of this model of the atom. In 1914 World War I began and normal university life seized as many scientists left the laboratories until 1918. By this time Rutherford was confident that he could observe the transmutation of nitrogen. In 1919 Rutherford succeeded J.J ...
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