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- 14771: Emily Dickinson
- ... 1847 to 1848 she studied at the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in South Hadley, a few miles from Amherst. During her lifetime, she published only about 10 of her nearly 2000 poems, in newspapers, Civil War journals, and a poetry anthology. The notion that Dickinson was extremely reclusive is a popular one, but it is at best a partial truth. Emily never married and certainly became more selective over the years ...
- 14772: William Shakespeare
- William Shakespeare English playwright and poet, William Shakespeare is recognized in much of the world as the greatest of all dramatists. A complete, authoritative account of Shakespeare's life does not exist, but it is commonly accepted that he was born in 1564, and it is known that he was ...
- 14773: The Effects Of The Lowell Syst
- ... and domestic. The movement of girls to work in the Lowell factories challenged both these ideals as the girls were no longer living at home, which was considered their proper place to be as the world would strip them of their innate morality and piety; it also challenged the "domestic ideal" (p.141) for women as the factory girls were not dressing themselves as ladies. Thus, the fact that girls were ...
- 14774: The First Cause
- ... of the laws of causality. A singularity could be a modern version of Aquinas' original necessary cause. Despite his success, Aquinas' arguments can be said to rely too heavily on our sensory perception of the world. Hume developed arguments against unconditionally trusting our perception of causality. These arguments state that because event 'A' is always observed directly before event 'B' it is assumed that this is a cause and effect series ...
- 14775: The Fun Filled Fractal Phenome
- ... car in a certain way, causing a breeze, the breeze could blow a leave off a tree, which starts a series of additional events that could alter the weather in some other part of the world. Chaos can be related to fractals. In a fractal if one tiny change occurs in a repeated pattern, the entire fractal will change. The above picture is an example of a strange attractor that charts ...
- 14776: The Geographic Power Of Countr
- ... may depend on more than its resources, but also on its attitude. However, resources are definitely the most important factor and therefore the situation in the United Kingdom looks pretty promising. Each country in the world has some geographic power, but the ranking of these countries depends greatly on its availability of resources. Brazil and Mexico are not as geographically powerful as China, India and the United Kingdom because they have ...
- 14777: Marquise de Pompadour
- ... exaggerated, though she did make major decisions at times. She urged the appointment of certain ministers, and was blamed for the alliance between France and Austria and France's disastrous involvement in the Seven Years' War (1756-1763). She was also a generous supporter of the arts. She built a private theatre at Versailles where she often performed. Her greatest passion was for building and decorating houses, and in that capacity ...
- 14778: The Global Logic Of Strategic
- ... same industry (competitors) is becoming an increasingly popular way of conducting business in the global environment. Many different reasons of why such alliances are occurring have been recognised. These include: the increasing globalisation of the world's economy resulting in intensified global competition, the proliferation and dispersment of technology, and the shortening of product life-cycles. This critique will use Kenichi Ohmae's viewpoint on strategic alliances as a benchmark for ...
- 14779: Johannes Brahms
- ... lived the life of a simple middle classed citizen, and enjoyed fairly good health until the last years of his life. He died from cancer of the liver. The appreciation of Brahms in the music world grew much after his death. In 1906, Berlin founded the Deutsche Brahmsgesellschaft, with the aim of publishing books about Brahms. Many Brahms societies were also formed in other German and Austrian cities. In the United ...
- 14780: The Gospel Of Luke
- ... The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever; his kingdom will never end." When Jesus made his virginal entrance into the world, the shepherds were visited by an angel telling them the Savior had been born and they could find him wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger in the town of David. The shepherds hurried ...
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