His ingenuity took the assembly line method of production to new heights of productivity and efficiency, but he shook the industrial world to its foundations with an amazing gamble: he doubled wages and reduced working hours. ... And, the new Chevys came in a variety of colors. ... Also Henry Ford has changed the perspective of industries around the world. ... Couzens was able to start out the company with $28,000 in cash, and $21,000 in notes. ... It was such a popular car, that over fifteen million were sold all over the world. ...

• Word Count: 4515
• Approx Pages: 18
• Grade Level: High School

1984 Totalitarian World Living in a society with limited freedom of expression is not enjoyable. ... It contrasts with Orwell's society of 1984 because communication, personal beliefs and the people's loyalty to the government are all determined by the individual. 1984 is a modern classic of "Negative Utopia" an original and taunting novel that creates an imaginary world that is completely convincing, from the first sentence to the last. ... The girl who was following him slipped him a note while at work. The note said "I love you"(90). ... The book appears to be a satire at t...

• Word Count: 1647
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Conceptually, it reveals the literal divide between the story's brave new world and the classic, normal (familiar) human society. ... The new world is suddenly brought into focus by the juxtaposition of the silent building with its garish colors that reveal jarring metaphorical images contrasting the new glittering future and the abandoned lyrics of the ugly, tattered past. ... The audio and visual effects present the current world as damaged with the torrent rains while the future world is seen as an opportunity to begin a new life in the new planet. ... At some point, the "outside colon...

• Word Count: 1454
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It was a way to differentiate between classic American Westerns and this new Modern Western (Fridlund, 2006, p.4). ... This may be the most notable difference with modern Westerns is that new directors with no attachments to classic Westerns were starting to toy with history. ... Aging outlaws whose manner of supporting themselves (bank/train robbery) is becoming too difficult; the world they know is dying, and they seem hell bent on dying with it. ... They were the great evil that stood in the way of the white man's progress in creating a habitable world. ... The tone of modern Westerns ...

• Word Count: 2622
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

She was not a classic beauty but she received close to 50,000 letters after photos of her in a reclining position were released to the press. Reard called his bikini 'smaller than the world's smallest bathing suit? ... forming an intense market for the Prosch 7 swimwear all over the world in 1957 (Bikini History 1). In July of 1959 the New York Post searched the beaches of New York City for bikinis, but found only a few. However, sales were rising in the United States and those noting the growing number of private pools mentioned that thousands of shy women were probably purcha...

• Word Count: 2198
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

In the Heart of the Sea brings to new life the incredible story of the wreck of the whaleship Essex--an event as mythic in its own century as the Titanic disaster in ours, and the inspiration for the climax of Moby-Dick. ... It is written with compassion and with attention to detail; the author has done his research, as 50 pages of Notes would indicate. ... After reading the book, I was so enthralled I read the 50 pages of notes to avoid putting it down. ... The tragic story of the whaleship Essex and her crew is the real life event that inspired Herman Melville to write his renowned 19th cent...

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With this philosophy also came a new sense of livelihood and tradition. ... Huck introduces readers to a new vision of freedom which offers the idea of a good life, new and hard to resist because it is so easily attained. ...

• Word Count: 3770
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• Grade Level: High School

We define civilization in many ways: in terms of technological achievement, artistic achievement, shared manners and customs, or anything that carries on your memory. We may take civilization for granted, or even view the question of what is civilized as being a harmful, outdated, or imperialist dog...

• Word Count: 3189
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• Grade Level: High School

We define civilization in many ways: in terms of technological achievement, artistic achievement, shared manners and customs, or anything that carries on your memory. We may take civilization for granted, or even view the question of what is civilized as being a harmful, outdated, or imperialist dog...

• Word Count: 3062
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The father of the new objective school was the great Leopold von Ranke. ... Turner, emphasized social and economic factors in explaining historical development, as did the "new history- of James Harvey Robinson and Charles A. ...

• Word Count: 9269
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