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- 641: Dead Poet's Society: Significant Experiences; The Twists Of Life.
- ... s change in attitude. He realized what his dreams were, and to accomplish them, he had to do something he had never dared to do in the past, disregard the will of his father. Having lived under the iron rule of an oppressive father his entire life, Neil's spirit was in danger of smothering to death. The Dead Poet's Society and Mr. Keating reawakened Neil's half-drowned spirit ... was the one to kill himself. This was a decision made by the new Neil, the Neil with a mind and future of his own. The old Neil would have grudgingly accepted his fate, and lived a frustrated and desperate life working towards his father's goals. A direct result of his relationship with Mr. Keating, Neil's suicide showed that he was in control of his life, that it was ...
- 642: Guilt As Reparation For Sin In
- ... in the Salem Gazette. In 1834, some of Hawthorne s stories are published in New England Magazine. From 1836 until 1842 Hawthorne lives in Boston. He is given the job of editor of a short-lived magazine entitled The American Magazine of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge. One of Hawthorne s works that was published in 1837, Endicott and the Red Cross, first displayed the theme that would become The Scarlet Letter ... s last unsettled preserve; therefore, anything or anyone in the woods was thought of as being evil. For example, the settlers of the Eastern Woodland region feared that the Indians were satanic people because they lived in the forest. Many rumors of witchcraft originated because someone was seen in the forest at night. In The Scarlet Letter, many references are made to the forest as a place of evil. Mistress Hibbins ...
- 643: Shaka Zulu
- ... were even more unhappy with the Langeni. They were humiliated and Shaka was bullied by the other boys, helping form Shaka’s personality and ambition. He became isolated, showing affection only to his mother. Shaka lived with the Langeni until about the age of fifteen, when he met his father for the first time since his banishment and they quarreled, causing Nandi to send Shaka to live with her aunt for fear for his safety. Nandi’s aunt lived with the Mthethwa, a very powerful group. Here he learned many of the skills that later made him a successful warrior. That was also where he came under the guidance of Dingiswayo, an important factor ...
- 644: John Steinbeck - The Author An
- ... south of Salinas, the town where John was born in 1902. John passed vast orchards, and endless fields green with lettuce and barley. He observed the workers and the run-down shacks in which they lived. And he saw, even before he was old enough to wear long pants, that the farmhands' lives differed from his own. Although the Steinbecks weren't wealthy (John's father ran a flour mill), they lived in a comfortable Victorian house. John grew up on three square meals a day. He never doubted that he would always have enough of life's necessities. He even got a pony for his 12th ...
- 645: The Manhattan Project
- ... workers and townspeople. Everybody had the same address where all mail was censored. Everybody was restricted to a 200 mile radius, and residents of Los Alamos were prohibited from telling friends and relatives where they lived. There were serious issues of security of documents, due to failure to lock up. The one serious incident was the hiring of Klaus Fuchs. He was later found, and convicted of obtaining secret documents and ... the lab themselves, wives knew nothing of their husbands' research Decisions to drop the atomic bomb went through several personalities, yet ultimately rested upon president Truman. The man whose decisions created the Manhattan Project, never lived to see the results of his labor. FDR died on April 12, three months before the first successful Trinity test. The responsibilities were soon placed upon Truman, the next president. Truman knew nothing about the ...
- 646: Booker T. Washington 3
- Frank Zappa have lived a eventful life. He has been in numerous groups and produced 8 times as many records. Frank was the one of 3 children (Carl, Candy, & Bobby) born in Baltimore, Maryland. Frank was a curious child ... Jets", "Uncle Meat", and "Mothermania". Frank Zappa released approximately 52 more ablums before his untimely death on December 4th, 1993. The cause of his death was of prostate cancer that was acquired earlier. Frank Zappa lived an interesting life and has produced more albums than people can buy. From a family of 3 kids, who barely made it out of high school to a musical genius who is multi-talented instrumental ...
- 647: The American Civil War
- ... distance of 400 miles and was 60 miles wide on the way. For 32 days no news of him reached the North. He had cut himself off from his base of supplies, and his men lived on what ever they could get from the country through which they passed. On their route, the army destroyed anything and everything that they could not use but was presumed usable to the enemy. In ... when they arrived. The fires had been set to cotton bales by Confederate Calvary to prevent the Federal Army from getting them and the high winds quickly spread the fire. The controversy would be short lived as no proof would ever be presented. So with Columbia, Charleston, and Augusta all fallen, Sherman would continue his drive north toward Goldsboro. On the way, his progress would be stalled not by the Confederate ...
- 648: Robber Barons Or Captains Of Industry
- ... is J. D. Rockefeller. Rockefeller acumulated his huge fortune, ranked the largest in American history by Time Magazine, through the oil industy. He stared his capitalistic ventures as a child by lending a farmer who lived by him a sum of money and then having it returned to him at the end of a year with interest. It was this incodent that taught Rockefeller just how powerful capital was. Rockefeller earned ... Of these three great men of American history, Andrew Carnegie was the one who had the most favorable traites when it came to business practices. Carnegie came to America as an imigant from Scotland and lived the American Dream. He came to America from life of poverty in scottland and then worked his way to be, at one point, the richest man in America. Carnegie started in the telegraph bussiness but ...
- 649: Francesco Redi
- ... this Aristotlian support, he conducted his spontaneous generation experiments. Unfortunately, Redi died on March 1st in Pisa, Italy at the age in seventy-two. This was a grand age for the period at which he lived. Spontaneous generation "is the ability of living organisms can originate in nonliving matter independently of other living matter.(Webster's)" This was popular belief before the seventeenth century. People saw dead organisms decay but couldn ... glorified as one of the greatest scientific minds of his day. In my opinion he was one of the greatest thinkers of his time. He used his common sense to solve a big problem. He lived a brilliant rewarding long life. References 1. http://www.island.net/~superior/evolution/spontan.html 2. http://dac.neu.edu/bio1100/Redi_Experiment.html 3. http://galileo.imss.firenze.it/museo/b/eredifr.html 4 ...
- 650: The Women's Rights Movement (1848-1998)
- ... beliefs of how women were treated. Though Elizabeth was busy working towards her goals within the movement she still found time to be a full-time wife and mother of many children. Elizabeth Cady Stanton lived her life to the fullest, working towards her dreams and aspirations that would benefit women everywhere. She worked a long and hard fifty years to help women achieve the vote and other equal benefits. Lucretia ... Amendment for the United States Constitution. Such a federal law it was argued, would ensure that men and women have equal rights throughout the United States. A constitutional amendment would apply, disregarding where a person lived. Birth Control Movement The second half of the post-suffrage movement was something that had not been foreseen in the Seneca Falls “Declaration of Sentiments”; it was the birth control movement. This movement was ...
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