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- 1091: Robert Frost And His Life
- ... Sandburg, that he would as soon play tennis without a net as write free verse--he was a pioneer in the interplay of rhythm and meter and in the poetic use of the vocabulary and inflections of everyday speech. His poetry is thus both traditional and experimental, regional and universal. After his father's death in 1885, when young Frost was 11, the family left California and settled ...
- 1092: The Wright Brothers
- ... Carolina, in 1903 (Pursell 455-456),” not until after World War I did air transportation achieve prominence in all countries.” (“Transportation”) Our lives have not only become simpler through the use of efficient transportation but by the ability to transport messages across a country in a matter of days through Airmail. Airmail is used for any first-class mail going more ... between cities less than the 200 miles. By 1918 the Post Office Department had already made contracts with pilots to fly mail and by 1927 airmail had become a normal, everyday comfort. In 1977 the postal service established an overnight express mail service. “By the mid-1980s all categories of domestic air-eligible mail transported exceeded 76 billion pieces, which equaled ...
- 1093: Sigmund Freud: 1856 - 1939
- ... symptoms were relieved -- thus it was called "the talking cure." Freud went to Paris for further study under , a neurologist known all over Europe for his studies of hysterics and use of hypnosis. In 1886, Freud returned to Vienna, opened a private practice specializing in nervous and brain disorders, and married. He tried hypnotism with his hysteric and neurotic patients, but ... in their past had caused their current suffering. In 1900, Freud , and introduced the wider public to the notion of the unconscious mind. In 1901, he published The Psychopathology of Everyday Life, in which he theorized that forgetfulness or slips of the tongue (now called "Freudian slips") were not accidental at all, but it was the "dynamic unconscious" revealing something meaningful ...
- 1094: Albert Einstein
- ... and became a lecturer there. In 1914 Einstein returned to Germany but did not reapply for citizenship. He was one of only handful of German professors who was opposed the use of force and did not support Germany's war aims. After the war, the allies wanted the removal of German scientist from international meetings, but Einstein was a Jew and ... relative motion. Consequently replacing Isaac Newton's 200-year-old theory of mechanics. "Einstein showed that we do not reside in the flat, Euclidean space and uniform, absolute time of everyday life, but in another environment; curved-space time." The theory played a part in advances in physics. It led to the nuclear era, with potential for benefit as well as ...
- 1095: Biography of Robert Frost
- ... Sandburg, that he would as soon play tennis without a net as write free verse--he was a pioneer in the interplay of rhythm and meter and in the poetic use of the vocabulary and inflections of everyday speech. His poetry is thus both traditional and experimental, regional and universal. After his father's death in 1885, when young Frost was 11, the family left California and settled ...
- 1096: Eudora Welty: Her Life and Her Works
- ... belief my family gave me, I could not have become a writer to begin with" (Welty, IX). Eudora Welty's writings are light-hearted and realistic. Her stories explore common everyday life. Eudora Welty was born in Jackson, Mississippi, on April 13, 1909. She was an observant child. She was fascinated by sounds and sights, human voices and the changing of ... of Welty's works end in the same way, she leaves the final thought up to the reader. The stories do not end in fact but allow the reader to use his or her imagination. In the story "The Wide Net," once again Welty uses the theme love. William Wallace loves his wife greatly but he decides to go drinking with ...
- 1097: The Life of Mao Zedong
- ... was born on December 26, 1893 in Shao Shan, a village in Hunan Province. 3 His family lived in a rural village where for hundreds of years the pattern of everyday life had remained largely unbroken. 4 Mao's father, the son of a "poor peasant," during Mao's childhood however, prospered and become a wealthy land owner and rice dealer ... had become an emperor. According to Mao's personal doctor, Dr. Li Zhisui, "At the end, the most loved man in China was friendless." 44 Mao also knew how to use Chinese culture to consolidate his place as the head of China. 45 The three great rivers of China, the Pearl, the Xiang, and the Yangtze were historically signs of the ...
- 1098: Jonathan Swift: Misguided and Incorrect Criticisms
- ... the spraying of Gulliver, and they fail to see the true significance of the excrement. Swift set out to inspire their anger to prove that man often becomes upset over everyday actions which are trivial compared to the bigger picture, which is sin such as pride (Knowles 38). William Hazlett defends Swift on this matter, claiming that those who attack Swift ... expected to have this (Dennis 49). Swift hates man's stupidity, folly and excessive pride, but he has never given up on his brethren (Brady 79). Swift is forced to use extreme pessimism to crack the smug self-confidence of the sinning optimist (Ward 13). He believes that humans, just as animals, are capable of evolving (Tuveson 11). Swift is not ...
- 1099: Greek and Roman Influences on Modern Society
- ... two sides. That theory, and many others, are still used today. Another man, Euclid, was very important in today's mathematics. He compiled the Elements of Geometry, which remained in use in many classrooms until very recently (including Montgomery). Sadly, Pythagoras, and other mathematicians, hit a roadblock which stopped mathematics almost completely until modern times. Irrational numbers scared them, and they ... which was probably a bit boring. Aeschylus added a second actor, and did away with the chrous, and Sophocles and Euripedes refined the style, writing about not only gods but everyday human beings. Today, there are many different forms of entertainment. Apart from the plays on stage, we have television and movies. The Greeks wrote tragedies with gods, and today we ...
- 1100: The Atrocities of the Vietnam War
- ... seen as a dead Vietcong. The pressure to send optimistic numbers to Washington led to a great number of brutalized Vietnamese civilians. This was a result of the decision to use the body count to judge whether or not the war was being won. The My Lai Massacre of 1968 was the most well-known regrettable action of this policy of ... the basis for U.S. military operations in Vietnam. Along with the few massacres of large groups of civilians, the pursuit of a high body count also manifested itself in everyday battles, simply called firefights. As American soldiers marched through the jungles of Vietnam, they were no longer looking for VC, they were looking for Vietnamese, who always seemed indifferent, that ...
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