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- 881: Robert E. Lee
- Robert E. Lee Introduction Few episodes in history are more painful to Americans than the Civil War, fought between the North and the South. This biography, Great American Generals - Robert E. Lee, by Ian Hogg, takes the reader through the life of one of the greatest heroes of that war, Robert E. Lee. It is a thorough, in depth record of the life of Lee and begins with a detailed account of his family history and his birth, through his college years, military experience and ... army career and political life. After Lee's early years, the reader will learn of his schooling at the Military Academy, West Point, followed by his life in the Army before and after the Civil War. The biography ends in the latter pages with an account of his work after his military career came to an end, and finally, with his death after a prolonged period of ill-health, thought ...
- 882: Robert E. Lee
- Robert E. Lee Introduction Few episodes in history are more painful to Americans than the Civil War, fought between the North and the South. This biography, Great American Generals - Robert E. Lee, by Ian Hogg, takes the reader through the life of one of the greatest heroes of that war, Robert E. Lee. It is a thorough, in depth record of the life of Lee and begins with a detailed account of his family history and his birth, through his college years, military experience and ... army career and political life. After Lee's early years, the reader will learn of his schooling at the Military Academy, West Point, followed by his life in the Army before and after the Civil War. The biography ends in the latter pages with an account of his work after his military career came to an end, and finally, with his death after a prolonged period of ill-health, thought ...
- 883: Gulf War Illness
- During the Gulf War, Americans were entranced by the overwhelming military superiority exercised by the United States during Desert Storm. After long weeks of waiting to find out how high the casualty figures would climb during the opening round of the New World Order, relatives and friends breathed a sigh of relief when the Iraqi armies were stomped by a margin of about a thousand to one. The troops would come back alive. They wouldn't come back healthy. In the years following, veterans have died or are dying from illnesses known commonly as Gulf War Illness (GWI). Researchers are still trying to pin down the exact causes of Mycoplasma Incognita (GWI), but they aren't getting very far, thanks to military and government denials that there is such a ...
- 884: Technological Literacy
- ... the section on `Hybrid Textualities' we examine how language and literacy are changing as a consequence of electronically mediated reading and writing practices. The rapid and global move to `cyberspace' -- whether via email or the world wide web on the internet -- means an increasing shift away from face-to-face communication (and teaching-learning relations) to virtual interactions. In the section `Body and Identity', we discuss the social and cultural implications ... hour. She arrives in her classroom, sits at the keyboard, and logs on to the school's home-page. At the home page she clicks on a `bookmarked' address button which connects her to a world wide web site where women from around the world are posting information about local services for refugee women. It takes her 20 seconds to connect to the server in Switzerland, and immediately she is sitting at a virtual round-table reading and writing ...
- 885: Herbert George Wells
- Herbert George Wells Herbert George Wells was one of the world's most talented writers. He was able to write in many styles, whether it be science-fiction or nonfiction. Although talented in many areas and genres of the literary world, it is for his contribution to the realm of science-fiction that he will always be remembered. H. G. Wells is known as "The Shakespeare of Science-Fiction." He is one of the writers that ... credibility to a rising new genre of science-fiction, or Scientific Romance as it was first called in the late 19th century (the genre was not called science-fiction until 1929, (Wells, H. G. The War of the Worlds: viii)). Herbert George Wells was born on September 21, 1866, in a "shabby home," as Wells himself once called it, in Bromley, Kent, England to Joseph Wells and Sarah Neal Wells ( ...
- 886: Creative Writing: Conquest
- ... communist rule again; they were willing to die for their freedom. The U.S.S.R was unable to persuade the remaining components to rejoin them in their conquest and they were hasty to declare war on their counterparts. With war waging in Eastern Europe the United Nations took action. The leader of Russia's communist party and president rejected the UN's cease-fire treaty. Russia was expelled from the United Nations early the next ... defense minister's secretary, his name was Josef Koslov. Koslov was rumored to be a man obsessed with genocide, he was brutal and restless. * * * "A very sloppy job, know who did it?" The Secretary of War asked one of his friends employed by the Central Intelligence Agency. "Not a clue," he replied, "we suspect corrupted KGB. We know the IRA wouldn't get their nose in this." "Are you positive ...
- 887: Gorbachev: Analysis of Three Books About Gorbachev
- ... books that concentrate on the "Gorbachev phenomenon" were all unfortunately written before perestroika was finished, so they do not analyze the consequences that it had for the Soviet Union as well as for the whole world . On the other hand, all three of these books do a good job in explaining the changes that took place in the course of the first three years after Gorbachev came to power and why ... of the implementation of the new policies. The Gorbachev succession marks the appearance of a new political generation which differs from the old guard in style, knowledge and historical vision....Gorbachev represents a younger post-war political generation, a generation which started its professional Party or state career during the more liberal Krushchev era" (p. 165). Medvedev quotes some of the very enthusiastic Western newspaper comments which called Gorbachev a "bright ... resemble a person who was waiting for the opportunity to drop a nuclear bomb on the West" (p. 228). For Gorbachev two main issues were the problem of the arms race and Afghanistan, where the war had gone for two long and there was no end in sight. Gorbachev wanted to accelerate economic development and the main task of his diplomacy was the reduction of the cost of the foreign ...
- 888: The Old Ball Game
- ... through baseball that many can relive their childhood. It has been the one daily and constant event that the American society depends on to be there during every summer night. The annual fall classic, the World Series, catches the attention of the entire country. Like the New York Yankees, baseball has become a part of America. After World War II, many countries were completely demolished physically and mentally. Among these countries was Japan. Countless numbers of Japanese people were dead, and land, buildings, and entire cities were destroyed. For the first time in ...
- 889: Brave New World
- ... inspired rock singer Jim Morrison to name his group "The Doors." Then in 1963 Huxley with his wife by his side ingested a dose of mescaline while on his deathbed. Aldous Huxleys, Brave New World shows humanity, that an obsession with a utopia, as they world they live in, will come with great cost and is near impossible as he shows that the problem is knowledge destroys value of life. As man has progressed through the ages, there has been, essentially ... 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 ...
- 890: Life During the Civil War
- Life During the Civil War Life during the Civil War was not a pleasant time. There was basically utter chaos going on the South. Soldiers had to deal with the harsh conditions and the thought of death. Plantation owners had to worry about who was ... worry about who was going to buy their products. Citizens had to worry about soldiers destroying their property. And the government had to worry about how to pay the soldiers and how to end the war. This was a very rough time to be alive. Soldier Life During The Civil War The camp life for a soldier was hardly one to be desired. The weather was hot and the water ...
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