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Dealers Of Lighting, Michael H
Number of Words: 1094 / Number of Pages: 4
... Robert W. Taylor, who assembled the PARC team, with changing that. A psychologist, rather than an engineer, Taylor’s vision of the computer as a communications device proved to be a revolutionary idea. He found his chance to realize it when Xerox’s chief scientist Jacob Goldman persuaded his superiors to launch a basic research facility along the line of AT&T’s famed Bell Labs. Xerox management, more interested in marketable products than in pure science, nearly killed the center before it opened. But Taylor gradually built his team of young computer hotshots, and the innovations flo ...
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Edward II - To What Extent Is Edward Responsible For His Own
Number of Words: 2096 / Number of Pages: 8
... ‘My father is deceased; come, Gaveston,
And share the kingdom with thy dearest friend.’
His father spent his life expanding and defending his young son’s future kingdom and in trying to educate his son in the art of war. The young prince however was totally uninterested in the art of war or in expanding or defending his kingdom, as is proved by the comments made to him when he is king,
‘Look for rebellion, look to be deposed:
Thy garrisons are beaten out of France,
And, lame and poor, lie groaning at the gates;
The wild O’Neill with swarms of Irish kerns,
Live uncontrolled within the Engli ...
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The Great Gatsby - Jay Gatsby
Number of Words: 307 / Number of Pages: 2
... with Daisy so he moved close to her and did what ever he had to just to be alone with her. Gatsby spent a good portion of his life pursuing what he considered the ideal life, which consisted of Daisy, money, and happiness.
Jay Gatsby was one of the best all around people in the novel. Even though he was a bootlegger and all his money was illegally made he still had more personality and class than any other socialite did in the book. Gatsby wanted people happy, and if they were happy he was happy. ...
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The Change If The Immagery Of
Number of Words: 970 / Number of Pages: 4
... connected with battle bravery and honor.
Later on, after Macbeth kills Duncan, the meaning of blood begins to change. In Act II Scene ii, after Macbeth kills Duncan, Macbeth’s hands are covered in blood, and later on, Lady Macbeth’s. Macbeth reacts to the blood very differently then Lady Macbeth. Macbeth sees the blood as the symbol of his action and as the symbol of his guilt; Macbeth cannot believe what he has done and is in shock. “What hands are here! Ha! – they pluck out mine eyes! Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hands? No, this my ...
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Barn Burning
Number of Words: 1129 / Number of Pages: 5
... is right, but being roughly 10 years old, I don’t think he quite has that figured out yet. His sense of right and wrong has been biased under the tyranny of his father. We also get a good idea of the personality of the father, Abner, by the way Sarty describes his physical appearance. Abner is not a man of a lot of words, demonstrated in many instances. We see this in the way he addresses his family, in the way he communicates with other characters, and most importantly in his outrageous stunts in his attempts to prove that know one will ever run over Abner Snopes and his family. He more or less uses ...
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Huck Fin 2
Number of Words: 3280 / Number of Pages: 12
... year he began signing his work ³Mark Twain,² a riverboat term meaning two fathoms deep.
Mark Twain went to Hawaii in 1866. This trip was the beginning of his career as a travel correspondent. The next year he went to Europe and wrote a successful book there titled, The Innocent Abroad. In 1876, he published The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. This book was such a success that he decided immediately to write a sequel. The sequel, which became much more complex than the original was published seven years later in 1883 and titled, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. After Huckleberry Finn, Twain wrote ne ...
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Sons And Lovers Eaxamine The R
Number of Words: 1795 / Number of Pages: 7
... is described; their bond is very strong
and very deep. As Paul grew older she never suffered alone for her
husband’s faults and what she lacked in life because ‘her children
suffered with her’. ‘It hurt the boy keenly, this feeling about her, that she
had never had her life’s fulfilment’ so much so that it became his
‘childish aim’ to provide it. When he began to work ‘it was almost as if it
were her own life’. ‘Paul almost hated his mother’ for this suffering when
his father did not come home from work. He felt she shou ...
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Forest People
Number of Words: 1334 / Number of Pages: 5
... functioning relationship. Also, the BaMbuti accepted him as one of the because he was not an animal like the negroe villagers. Simply put, he was able to keep up and run with the BaMbuti through the forest which meant a great deal to the tribe. This meant that he was part of the forest and not an "outsider".
Based on the fact that he could move through the forest with ease and quietness, proved to the BaMbuti that Turnbull could function in their sociocultural system. For a society such as the BaMbuti, living completely dependent upon the forest meant being at one with their environment. The BaMbuti, ...
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Medieval Morality Plays
Number of Words: 1437 / Number of Pages: 6
... more similar in the aim of the messages and such to the miracle plays rather than the mystery plays. (1). The main difference between the morality and the miracle plays is that the morality plays were allegorical, not historical like the miracle plays. (1). The morality plays were also known to be more on the entertainment side than the miracle and mystery plays. (1).
The content of the morality plays is what played a hand in the persuasion of its audience. They taught their audiences because their main object was both religious and ethical and easy to grasp for the uneducated population whom largel ...
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Jamestown
Number of Words: 2641 / Number of Pages: 10
... 118 were finally able to set sail. The voyage was an unhappy one because White and his chief pilot, Simon Fernandes, spent a majority of the time quarreling. Fernandes was a suspected of wanting to steal the Spanish ships, but White interfered with his plans and the ship arrived safely at Hatarask Inlet on July 22, 1587. Fernandes was not finished yet, he left the settlers on the island and did not go on the Chesapeake Bay as the arrangements stated. This distraction was only a minor disaster compared to the ones to come.
Summer was ending and it was getting late in the year to establ ...
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