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- 8661: The Dust Bowl
- ... the fine-grained soil in place in spite of the long recurrent droughts and occasional torrential rains characteristic of the area. A large number of homesteaders settled in the region in the 30 years before World War I, planting wheat and row crops and raising cattle. Both of these land uses left the soil exposed to the danger of erosion by the winds that constantly sweep over the gently rolling land. Beginning ...
- 8662: Mark Twain
- ... a half years at his new trade. The river swarmed with traffic, and the pilot was the most important man aboard the boat. He wrote of these years in 'Life on the Mississippi'. The Civil War ended his career as a pilot. Clemens went west to Nevada and soon became a reporter on the Virginia City newspaper. Here he began using the pen name Mark Twain. It is an old river ... house, but he spent it on high living and unsuccessful investments. He lost a fortune promoting a typesetting machine. By 1894 his publishing company had failed and he was bankrupt. Twain set out on a world lecture tour to retrieve his fortune, and by 1898 his debts were paid. In his last years he traveled and spoke much but wrote comparatively little. He died on April 21, 1910. Twain was more ...
- 8663: The Pyramids of Egypt
- ... sands like mountains. The sight took my breath away, and that of course was one of their purposes. To a three foot tall, six year old the buildings seemed to be as big as the world. I nearly broke my neck when I tried to glance at the top. When the people of Egypt first looked upon these colossal monuments, they probably trembled just as I did. Now that I am ... as many as 100,000 laborers working under conditions of forced servitude and given rations consisting in large part of onions and garlic. The pyramid of Pharaoh Zoser that Imhotep erected at Sakkara was the world's first large stone structure, a tomb copied in stonework from earlier brickwork piles (Peck). In its most common form, a pyramid is a massive stone or brick structure with a square base and four ... were probably filled with astonishment. These colossal monuments first started rising from the golden Egyptian sands around 2630 BC. At the time they were the biggest and finest masterpieces ever built; indeed they were the world's largest buildings (Brommer 14). The ruins of thirty-five pyramids still stand near the Nile River in Egypt. Each was built to protect the body of an Egyptian king. The Egyptians thought that ...
- 8664: Rome
- ... of Italy by the Meditterranian Sea.(3:289) The city of Rome was founded, according to the legend, by Romulus in 753 BC. Remus and Romulus were two mythological sons of Mars, the god of war. "T hrough military expansion and colonizations, and by granting citizenship to conquered tribes, the city joined all of Italy south of the Po in the 100-year period before 268 BC." First, the Latin and ... exploited local disputes to conquer Greece and Asia Minor in the 2d century BC and Egypt in the first (after the defeat and suicide of Antony and Cleop atra, 30 BC). All the Mediterranean civilized world up to the disputed Parthian border was now Roman, and remained so for 500 years. " Less civilized regions were added to the Empire: Gaul (conquered by Julius Ceaser, 56-49 BC), Britain (43 AD) and ...
- 8665: Kevlar
- ... name by DuPont (Sci. & Inv. Enc., 1352), was invented in 1965 by Stephanie Kwolek. A Kevlar woven millibar (shown on project board) has 18,000 pounds of strength, which is the strongest material in the world! Kevlar can be five through fifteen times stronger than steel, depending on the form of the product. Kevlar is also in body armor, meaning it is saving lives. This is definitely a very important composite ... caliber), land mines, terroristic weapons, and a chainsaw (New Necessities). It does not melt, can stand temperatures up to 7,000 degrees Fahrenheit, absorbing vibration and energy, and will not stretch. Bullriders, military personnel in war, peace officers, racecar drivers, and many other people use this excellent invention (DuPont). DuPont makes flameproof suits out of Kevlar 49 for fire fighters and high-speed drivers (Consumer's Research Mag.). Kevlar 29 is ...
- 8666: Kuwait
- ... s past and ancestors. To understand this unique fertile land is to get to know the pople and countries of this land, to trace their footsteps over the centuries and to try and see the world through their eyes both in the past and future. In the following pages I will talk about one of these countries, Kuwait, and show it potential capability, what it has to offer to it's ... in this region and securiness still was not good enough. Although the country of Kuwait continued to grow and develop the chance og an attack on it was very likley. During the Iraq vs. Iran war, Kuwait kept taking oil out of a transitional zone that yet had to be divided up between Iraq and Kuwait. In the Islamic conferense of 1988, Iraq warned Kuwait that it will pay the price ...
- 8667: Dimitri Shostakovich
- ... his best music, especially the Eighth Symphony (1943), the Piano Trio (1944), and the Violin Concerto No. 1 (1947-48). Their dominating seriousness contributed to Shostakovich's second fall from official grace. When the Cold War began, the Soviet authorities sought to increase cultural control, demanding a "more accessible musical language" (Olkhovsky) than some composers were using. In Moscow in 1948, at what is a now notorious conference presided over by ... created by defector Solomon Volkov. While it has been long discredited, it continues to poison the legitimacy of Shostakovich study. My first experience with Shostakovich was last summer at Interlochen Arts Camp in Michigan. The World Youth Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Timothy Russell, was playing his 11th Symphony "The Year 1905." As I sat and listened to the concert, I saw myself in Russia, with all the pain and ...
- 8668: Kuwait
- ... virtual extinction of wildlife. Kuwait is importing from many countries animals such as cows, chickens and sheep. In view of Kuwait's extremely unpromising natural environment which was made even worse after the Persian Gulf War, the key to all its hopes for self-sufficiency lies in research and experiments. Their experimental farm research farm:Omariya, the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research and the Kuwait Fund for the Advancement of Sciences ... Kuwait:Prospect and Reality. London, McGraw-Hill Inc., 1990) pg. 198 Kuwait only has 100 acres or so under cultivation in the whole country. This makes Kuwait one of the least agriculturalized countries in the world. The dependence on imports of foodstuffs is almost complete. This state of affairs has had economic as well as sociological effects on the population since the oil exports pay for the food imports. The urbanistic ...
- 8669: Donald Barthelme
- ... seem to be a very serious writer. Thomas Leitch says about Barthelme: "Perhaps the most striking feature of Donald Barthelmes fiction is the number of things it get along without. In Barthelmes fictive world, there appear to be no governing or shaping beliefs, no transcendent ideals or intimations, no very significant physical experience, no sense of place or community, no awareness on the part of his characters of any ... a room together, whose mission is to insert keys and launch nuclear missiles when they see certain events happen on the televisions that they have. They are completely cut off from the rest of the world and seem to have lost sight of reality. Chablis the second story I read is about a guy whose wife wants a dog. His wife has a baby so she forgets about wanting a dog ... is entitled On the Deck. The whole thing is describing items that are on the deck of a ship that is out in the water. Genius is a story about a genius that the whole world seems to spin around. Everyone around him inflates his ego because the give him awards and give him special treatment that regular people do not get. At the end of the story he receives ...
- 8670: The Importance Of Accounting
- ... problems of population, education, transportation, national security, welfare and others. Accountants, auditors, system analysts, and budget administrators are helping to maintain the stability in modern governmental operations. United Stated is teh largest enterprise in the world today, we can imagine how complexity of the business got to be, so accountants take important parts in the operation of these business. They work for department of Agriculture, department of Commerce, department of Defense ... and financial responsibilities of federal departments and agencies. It even checks government contracts. Since women s position has been improved in the U.S, accounting also opened its door to women. It can be the world of achievement for the women who is looking for a higher ststus than what is offered by ledgers and journals. Accountants in today s society is expected to know a great deal about management, business ... on the development of mass-production systems, any way, it s a very important term in our modern soceity. Bibliography 1. Backer, M., Handbook of Modern Accounting Therory. 2. Abbott, Lawrence, Economics and The Modern World. 3. J.K. Lasser Tax Institute, How to start and Build a successful business. 4. Don E. Garner The Nature and purpose of accounting.
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