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- 16301: John Quincy Adams
- ... without exerting any force on them at all. On a different occasion, when I was appointed minister to Russia, I was the leading negotiator for the Treaty of Ghent with the British, which ended the War of 1812. These negotiations gained respect for the United States and me as a diplomat. I am a likable person wherever I go. When I was a kid, our family was very closely knit, as ...
- 16302: Thomas Jefferson
- ... the responsibility of redrafting the document, but the new version included much of Jefferson's original text and ideas. In 1779, Jefferson became governor of Virginia, guiding Virginians through the final years of the Revolutionary War. As a member of the Second Continental Congress, he drafted a plan for decimal coinage and composed an ordinance for the Northwest Territory that formed the foundation for the Ordinance of 1787. In 1785, he ...
- 16303: Aristotle On Tragedy
- ... are not tragic by anyone's definition, including Aristotles'.) Aristotle's Poetics: Basic Concepts You should be aware of the following concepts and opinions of Aristotle's which have tremendously influenced drama in the Western World. a. Tragedies should not be episodic. That is, the episodes in the plot must have a clearly probable or inevitable connection with each other. This connection is best when it is believable but unexpected. b ...
- 16304: Crabs For the Crabber
- ... handy if your boat is stuck in mud, or if the boat breaks down in the small creeks near your dock. I also recommend that you have crabbing gloves and rubber overalls from Boater's World. The gloves have special rubber tips that help reduce the pain if a crab pinches you. The overalls will protect your clothes from getting drenched and muddy. The last thing that you should never leave ...
- 16305: Individual Organization Behavior
- ... calls in time of disasters, due to nature or mischief. (ex: Floods snowstorms, Riots, Plane crashes, Drug enforcement, Border patrols, etc.) - The Federal Mission : These takes effect in time when the President or Congress declares War, Police Ac-tion or Rescue and or Protection to a foreign country. We also train by going overseas and helping countries. Now lets talk about the individual Behaviors of my organization shall we? [Flip to ...
- 16306: Bartleby
- ... reader exactly what he did to Bartleby, very vividly, as shown below. In the novella, the author tells the reader, down to the smallest detail, what he did to Bartleby to isolate him from the world. He tells us in this passage, "I placed his desk close up to a small side window in that part of the room, a window which originally had afforded a lateral view of certain grimy ...
- 16307: Standardization of the English Language
- ... of legal documents in place of Latin. The formal rules intended to keep the use of French in official capacities were not enough to combat the effects of the Black Death and the Hundred Years War between France and England, which both contributed greatly to the rise of English and fall of French. By the fourteenth century, English was again known by most people, although French was not forgotten, and the ...
- 16308: Famous Explorers Of Africa
- ... backing of the British Government. He was on his journey and he become sick and was in a African hut for 6 months. Livingstone had been in Central Africa for 8 years and the outside world had little information of his health and his whereabouts. In 1871 Henry Stanley a 28 year-old foriegn correspondent had heard rumors that a white man was living at the Vilage of Ujiji near lake ...
- 16309: Christmas Gifts You Love (to Hate)
- ... of tasteless Christmas cookies, ribbon candy, five-gallon tins of assorted flavored popcorn and, last and certainly not least, fruitcake. Now some fruitcakes wouldn't qualify for this category. There are actually people in the world who spend months concocting 12-pound, liquor-filled, green-red-yellow speckled wonders (you wonder what's in them) as special gifts for their favorite relatives. This doesn't make them taste any better, but ...
- 16310: Storytelling
- Storytelling Storytelling has helped humankind evolve into a wiser species by allowing those with enough attentiveness and intelligence to learn from the mistakes of their predecessors. The Chinese culture, like many others world wide, base their beliefs largely on stories passed down from generation to generation. Because stories are told and retold, alterations and even new versions appear. Such is the case in " Fa Mu Lan," for more ...
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