...Age of Revolution, we are dealing with a very old book. Own 1962 novel writer (see below) do not have the seal cover, antique proposals lie within striking visual evidence "EJ Hobsbawm higher learning humility, choose". This book is, after all think Don Draper techniques as possible to be lying on the table, and perhaps impossible. When was still married to Betty Draper. At the beginning of 21st century American historian could learn such an artifact? forward to the new political history of illusion, why should anyone bother to renew old? In a book written in old age we can learn important things Draper Revolution? Well, of course, the answer is yes. In contemporary American educational institutions, Hobsbawm is probably the best stability...
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...An Analysis of the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin This analysis will strive to show that, this work by Benjamin Franklin was a unified work even with the disjointed parts of it. The span of time in which it was written was interrupted . Which meant that important aspects of his life was missing. Many feel that this detracts from the effectiveness of the book, just as many feel it adds to the overall theme. This is a work of memories put to paper, for this is Franklin’s life. This analysis aims to show clearly, that this work is effective and relevant today as it was when it was written. Benjamin Franklin wrote his own epitaph when he was but twenty-two years old, he often wondered what his legacy would be. He wrote that after his death his body would be like, “Like The Cover of an Old Book / Its Contents torn Out” the “Contents will Appear once More / In a New and More Elegant Edition, Revised and Corrected By The Author”. (Benjamin and Deborah Franklin; 1790) Franklin was taking measure of his life, by comparing his life to books and his body to the binding, To think that he is talking about his Autobiography and not Heaven would be a logical assumption. He claims to be recollecting his life because he can not relive it. He fully intended to leave the world a work that was unified. Life itself had a say in this work in progress, and this proved to be the disjointing factor to the unity...
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...WRI 101.02 S-13 Academic Writing 101 Assignment: persuasive essay Title: Encourage socializing Submitted to: Neslihan Bilikozen Submitted by: Ahmed Negm 47656 Date of Submission: 20th of March 2013 Spring, 2013 American University of Sharjah Essay Title: __ Encourage socializing I. Introduction Humans are naturally social; they try to expand their connections in many ways. A social network service is an online platform, which introduces the method and the structure of social relations among people who share interests, activities, and backgrounds by interacting over the Internet. Thesis Statement: However, everything was created to be used in a perfect manner. Humans are there to build not to destroy. The good edge of social networking must be the dominant edge. II. Body Paragraph One: Topic Sentence: For instance, we live in a diverse society in which you can hardly find a common ground of interests to share with someone else. Supporting Ideas/Examples: A. Egyptian revolution B. Spending any events with knowledgeable company C. Social networking sites make fitting in easier, as long as you open up a little. III. Body Paragraph Two: Topic Sentence: Your inner circle of friends and family members will be expanded to reach the circumference of earth once you use social networking. Supporting Ideas/Examples: A. Keeping in touch with your family B. Finding old friends. C. Location finding IV. Body...
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...Battle Wounds The Gettysburg address was a turning point in the American Revolution. It was the Gettysburg Battle that lead to many casualties. Also known as the American Civil War between the Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of Potomac; a more common name was Confederate army against the Union. At the end of this great battle there were fifty-one-thousand men dead, wounded, or missing. Keep in mind that back then treatment to wounds were different from now considering the technological advancements we’ve made. A big historical figure that was injured was Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain. Chamberlain jumped on a rock and was knocked down by a shot that landed near his foot. “Chamberlain hopped on a rock, slipped forth and hopped onto another boulder and fell and felt a pain on his right foot” page (298). To heal the wound they put a bandage around his foot and Chamberlain had to apply pressure on the injured foot. Back then they would have the...
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...Internal turmoil was common in the 19th century, in both Europe and the United States. Governments and rulers struggled to keep their countries united as many called to make countries of their own. Some rulers made agreements with the rebels, while others fought wars against them to keep them from seceding. These decisions and compromises resulted in different ways, but a common factor in all the winners was a strong, decisive government, a powerful military, cultural unity, and The United States had the most tumultuous experience with unification by far out of all the countries. Problems arising as early as the Mexican American War did not dissipate, partly because the problems were large ones, but also because the government chose not to...
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...meaning or connection to an issue in today’s society. American novelist and painter, Henry Miller stated, “The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe, he/she recreates it out of his/her own experience and understanding of life.” From this, we can gather that the meaning of art is for an artist to create thought-provoking pieces to show a viewer the way they believe the relationship between the...
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...post-World War II years, a cultural and literary movement began. A new generation of American writers, artists and thinkers reacted and expressed their ideas in obscene forms. They were called “The Beats” who were formed in the 1950’s by poets Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac. Howl by Allen Ginsberg illustrates America’s post-World War II culture and political issues through his journey and views. The use of metaphors, tone, and descriptive language draw parallels between the ideas of, conformity to institutions, sexual repression, and religion. According to the Dictionary of Literary Biography, Allen’s Ginsberg was a popular poet after World War II. He was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1926. Ginsberg attended college at Columbia...
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...The Cold War, by John Lewis Gaddis, is an extremely researched, and stunningly written historical account of the Cold War. Gaddis is the Professor of Military and Naval History at Yale University. Gaddis is best known for his work on the Cold War. John Lewis Gaddis was born in 1941 in Cotulla, Texas. Gaddis received his PhD at the University of Texas at Austin, and has since taught and at multiple universities and has received numerous awards and distinctions. Gaddis won a Pulitzer Prize in 2012 for his biography of George F. Kennan. John Gaddis was born during World War II and grew up experiencing the Cold War first hand in America. Gaddis’ perspective is that of an American historian that has drawn from other Cold War historians as well....
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...People asked me why I quit; my only answer was that quite frankly I was burnt out! The thought of practice made me sick and all I did in games was stand on the sidelines and cheer. Junior year came and went and I had no regrets of quitting at all. I needed a season off for sure, but I did make the personal choice to come back for my senior year with no expectations. “Basically, this piece is citing Section 706—a statute that is in place now and will be no matter what happens tomorrow,”. I knew that I wasn't going to be handed a starting spot -- I had to work my way back into the coaches' eyes because I started in their blinders. Long story short I was back on the swat teams, and I had always hated offense the most! It wasn't as bad this year though --I was actually starting to enjoy it. I think a huge confidence booster for me was when I realized that no one on the field was older than me; I was just as old if not older than every player on that field so I had nothing to be afraid of. I tie my shoes the same way they do; they are no different than me. It wasn't until the final week of my senior season after a Wednesday night...
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...WW1 Significant events Many battles were fought in World War 1 and many lessons were learnt. Whether it is the advancements of technology or the new war tactics. Three of these kind of events stand out: the Gallipoli campaign in 1915, which is important as its failure influenced many countries who participated in the battles. The battle of Verdun which was the longest battle in WW1. And finally the US entering the war which, although happened towards the end of the war, influenced the battles and the decision making around the war. After the examination of these events, the most influential event of WW1 will be established and further proved to be the significant turning point in WW1. The first turning point in World War 1 is the British Campaign at Gallipoli in 1915. This campaign was important because it improved the morale of the British public, it allowed grain to more easily flow to Russia, and it kept Russia in the war, which was needed in order for the Allies to win. On November 25th 1914, Winston Churchill suggested his plan for a new war front in the Dardanelles to the British government’s War Council. On January 15th 1915, the War Council gave its agreement and British troops in Egypt were put on alert. The Central Powers were fighting primarily on two fronts – the Western and Eastern Fronts. Creating another front would force the Germans to split their army still further as they would need to support the badly rated Turkish army. When the Germans went to assist...
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...governing us. I am not happy with the way things are decided. I am not happy with how long it takes for things to be decided. I am not happy about how diversely misrepresented we have become. I am not happy about all the opinions us 300 million American’s have. I am not happy with the result of where we are today, but I won’t defend the claim that I could have done any better. I have been fueled to write on this topic because I believe that our choices and attitudes after the turn of the century led to complications we face today. Things I enjoyed most about this paper was through all the readings. I learned about a lot of irrelevant things to my topic that were very interesting pieces of history. Introduction In the context of this paper, I am going to be examining the attitudes that shaped our American heritage during the turn of the 19th century. The misconceptions and ultimately terrible things that our nation did during our rise to freedom have been shielded from our youth in childhood education. The American’s came to the new world with the idea that we get to do what ever we want. We ran away from this government because we wanted to govern our selves. This tenacious mindset has been passed down through our lineage and has rendered the consequences that we face today. Those settlers who first came to America fought hard for there freedom, and it eventually was earned. Not once, but twice after we finally got Britain out of our land and out of our legislation. America was...
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...The Darkness in Nostromo “The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.” – John 1:5. Light and darkness are always inverses to one another; both cannot occupy the same place at the same time, and yet neither can be defined without the other. To know the light is to have known the darkness, if one is missing, the other is lost. Darkness is unable to comprehend light, it is unable to understand, it lacks to knowledge. Light in most religions and cultures stemming back thousands of years ago is seen as something that breeds knowledge while darkness destroys all understandings we hold. Nostromo is a modernist novel that enacts the establishment of modern capitalism in a fictional South American territory. Throughout Nostromo, the author Joseph Conrad continuously brings up the theme of darkness in many variations within the text, from the physical darkness cast over all of Costaguana, which is created by the setting sun and lack of light, to the psychological aspect of darkness within character’s hearts and minds, as we see within Nostromo himself when he chooses to forsake his ideology and steal the silver. Conrad was able to use an intangible element of darkness, which has the ability to conceal and destroy knowledge, as a tool to portray human consciousness when you believe that no one is able to discern your actions. A brief history of Joseph Conrad and his writing will help give way to understanding his intent behind Nostromo. Conrad was a British...
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...SEARS Targeting College Students Prepared For: MKT 360 – Marketing Analytics April 25, 2012 Table of Contents Section title Page Executive Summary 3 Introduction 5 Purpose of the Study 5 Sears: Trends in Sales 5 Competitors 7 Sears Consumer Segments 8 Purchasing Trends 11 Legal Issues 11 Social & Cultural Issues 12 Economic Trends 14 Technological Innovations 15 Research Objectives 17 Methodology 18 Data Analysis & Results 21 Profile of the Sample 21 Descriptive Results 23 Difference & Associative Analysis 33 Limitations 37 Conclusions & Recommendations 40 References 46 Appendix 49 List of Illustrations Figures Page Figure 1.0: Sears Brands 5 Figure 2.0: Respondent’s Gender 21 Figure 3.0: Past Six Months Mall Visits 22 Figure 4.0: Clothing Stores 23 Figure 5.0: Percent of Respondents that Purchased Fitness Equipment in the Past Two Years 24 Figure 6.0: Fitness Equipment Purchase Location 24 Figure 7.0: Most Popular Sears Brands 28 Figure 8.0: Incentives to Increase the Probability of Entering a Store 30 Figure 9.0: Social Media 31 Figure 10.0: Facebook Presence 32 Figure 11.0: Gender vs. Mall Visits 35 Tables Page Table 1.0: Respondent’s Age 22 Table 2.0: The Appeal of the Kardashian Kollection to Females 23 Table 3.0: Perception of Sears 25 Table 4.0: Cause Marketing Practices 29 Table...
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...One of the greatest scientist of our time, Nikola Telsa, he is rank as one of the top three greatest mind of our time. He gave us many of the electrical items that are used in our everyday life’s. Yet for the most part many individuals are unaware of who he is and his inventions. The misconception is that Thomas Edison was responsible for all the electrical devices that we know today, when the individuals who deserve the credit is Nikola Telsa. Some of his most fashion works includes the polyp hate motors, wireless energy transmission and the universally employed alternating current, most commonly known as AC Current. Nikola Telsa was born on July 10th 1856, in Smiljan,lIka part of Austro-Hungarian Croatia. He was the fourth of seven children. In Crotia when Telsa was a young boy the choices or career were more or less limited to farming, the Army or the Church. Telsa’s Dad Miltutin Telsa as a boy was send to Army Officer’s school. He decided that this wasn’t the path for him and joined the ministry. This was the same profession he hoped for his two sons, Nikola and Dane. His mother Duka Mandic was a hard working woman of many talents who created appliances to help with home and farm responsibilities. One of these was a mechanical eggbeater. Tesla attributed all of his inventive instincts to his mother. Nikola started his inventory ways at the name of five. His very first invention was of a small waterwheel which he had seen in his local town. Some of his other...
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...Ageism in America: The Elderly Tommy Brooks SOCW 230 Social Welfare History October 5, 2012 Ageism in America: The Elderly In this paper I will look at the concept of old age. I will take a brief look back through history at how society viewed the elderly. Starting in the 1500’s in England, here I will look at the life expectances and the way it fluctuated. I will take a brief look at the life expectancy of women in France in the 1700’s. This will show how age accounted for a significant minority of the populations across the world. The elderly have been categorized throughout history. By the early modern periods the concept of old age was accompanied by a long list of expectations. These included: experience, social, and cultural signals, within which consisted socially constructed markers: gender, social class, and individual life experiences. Other signs were physical: hunched back, lameness, deafness, toothlessness, balding or graying hair, and just plan grumpy and frail. I will give a brief look at how the elderly were perceived at times negative and even vicious. Back to where the elderly women were viewed as wise and nurturing elderly mothers. Here we will see where the age of sixty was widely associated with the onset of old age. Then we will move into the time of the first settlers in America. It’s true at this time as it was in Europe, the elderly men and women constituted a miniscule proportion of the white population. Then I will begin a journey into...
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