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- 8671: E. M. Forster
- ... novel, Where Angels Fear to Trend, in 1905. He wrote many other novels including Longest Journey, Howard's End, and A Room with a View. As a pacifist Forster wouldn't fight in the First World War, instead he worked for the International Red Cross. Two years later Forster moved to India where he worked as a personal secretary for Mahaharajah of Dewas. This resulted in his novel, A Passage to India ...
- 8672: Witches, Werewolves, and Vampires
- Witches, Werewolves, and Vampires Throughout the world numerous stories are told about fictional characters that in one way or another represent evil or inflict evil upon others. Evil has traveled around the world to various different cultures and in many different languages. When I think of evil the three characters that first come to mind are witches, werewolves and vampires. Witches originated in the 14th century. People never ... on others, but in return they gain nothing but blood, so evil provides you with nothing, but turning you into a harmful person. In conclusion evil has come about from many mythological stories in the world. As children read and comprehend such wicked stories they acquire that in the long run good will always win over evil. This shows that when you are good, good thing will happen to you, ...
- 8673: Edna St. Vincent Millay
- ... home in Casco Bay, Maine. Her health was precarious in 1939, and she became partly paralyzed in her right arm as an aftermath of a motor accident in 1936, undergoing prolonged medical treatment. The Second World War brought new strains. Anxiety for the safety of Boissevains family in German-occupied Holland and the loss of Boissevains holdings in the Dutch East Indies brought severe financial hardship. Boissevain died on August ...
- 8674: The Internet Beneficial Or Fat
- The Internet: Beneficial or Lethal Almost everybody today owns a computer, or someone close to them does. Everyone has access to a computer. Of all these personal computers in the world right now, the majority of them are connected to the Internet. There are many different types of sites on the Internet: stores, chat rooms, personal home pages, personal pet pages, news pages, entertainment pages, sports ... limited to basic features). Computers can be programmed to scan the net and automatically update software if newer versions become available. It would seem that the Internet is a marvelous resource, which has taken the world one step closer to the "Star Trek ideal". There is a second opinion. One that believes the Internet is one of the world's biggest errors. If one can buy things online, one can use fake credit cards. On the same note, one can pretend to sell something, just to get credit card numbers. When one orders ...
- 8675: Odysseus' Journey
- ... no hurt, but gave them to of the lotus, which was so delicious that those who ate of it left and did not care of going home, but just wanted to stay and sleep. Trojan War The Trojan War was the nine-year war between Troy and Greece, in which Greece finally won thanks to Odysseus and his wooden horse. The Greek army left while a select few men hid in the horse, which the Trojans drug into ...
- 8676: Martin Luther King Junior
- ... of forms violence could take. It also had become clear that scores of northern cities that had sent protest marchers to the South were themselves lazy in correcting racial discrimination. Finally, King believed that the war then raging in Vietnam poisoned the whole atmosphere and made the solution of local problems of human relations unrealistic. On the last two issues, Kings strategies were severely challenged. In Chicago, where his first ... publicly opposed by local black Baptists. There, too, his marchers were met by mobs of whites, armed with clubs and led by uniformed neo-Nazis and members of the Ku Klux Klan. As for the war in Vietnam, most African-Americans felt that their own problems deserved priority and that the black leadership should concentrate on fighting racial injustice at home. By early 1967, never-the-less, King had become associated with the anti-war movement and its national white leadership. Certain Death King knew that there were people who wanted him dead; he knew that these people had the means to do so. But he never showed signs ...
- 8677: Eleanor Roosevelt
- ... she did not surrender any of her other activities. She earned her own income and gave most of her money to various charities. She traveled throughout the country, visiting coalmines and impoverished Appalachian farms. During World War II she continued to do inspections for her husband and made goodwill tours to England, the South Pacific and the Caribbean. She also visited American troops abroad to boost their morale. She also visited military ...
- 8678: Eli Whitney
- ... hundred guineas a year. He sailed on a small coasting packet with only a few passengers, among whom was the widow of the Revolutionary general, Nathanael Greene. The Greenes had settled in Savannah after the war. When Whitney arrived in South Carolina, he found that the promised salary was going to be halved. He not only refused to take the position, but decided to give up teaching all together. Coming to ... on January 8, 1825. Unfortunately, Whitney has been all but forgotten. He is mostly remembered as "the cotton man," and nothing else. However, without the ingenuity and dedication of this individual, who knows where the world might be today.
- 8679: Elizabeth Blackwell
- ... students mocked her, insulted her, and even threaten her. But she was determined to complete her studies and graduate with high honors, and she did. She was at last the first woman doctor in the world. Elizabeth Blackwell gave her whole life on fighting ignorance and illnesses. She opened a hospital and clinic called the New York Infirmary for Women and children. She also helps to train nurse for duty in the Civil War. She wrote many books on health and the prevention of diseases. She died in 1910, at the age of 89. Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell showed many people why some things were so important like medicine and ...
- 8680: Kazimir Malevich
- ... of Suprematism enabled him to construct images that had no reference at all to reality. Great solid diagonals of color in Suprematism are floating free, their uncompromising sides denying them any connection with the real world. This is a pure abstract painting, the artist's main theme being the internal movements of the personality. The theme has no precise form, and Malevich had to search it out from within the visible ... squares, the smaller black one set within the larger white square. The black square stands for the total absence of color, for darkness, while the white concentrates' light within which every color existing in the world is contained. The contrast of the black square on the white represents composition at its most economical. The construction itself is elementary. Yet it does provide a focused, perception of space. The sharp counterpoint of ... dynamic forces is achieved entirely by means of the interlocking contrasts between the shapes, their dimensions, their colors and the direction of their movement. By association, there arises on the plane of the picture a world of multi-dimensional, multi-layered space and motion, as might exist in an everlasting continuum of time. In some Suprematist compositions' cases of intersection also occur, when the lower or upper horizons in the ...
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