... a walk, he saw the building where his laboratory was located had been destroy by an accidental fire, and with this incident all the that Tesla had spent his life working on, had been lost in a fire that lasted only a hours. The timing could not have been worst, because just a few months later, Guillermo Marconi ... the idea of Radio as we know it today. Guglielmo Marconi eventually was awarded a Nobel Prize for his development of radio. From this point on, the history books began to refer to him as "the father of radio." In fact, radio had many inventors, not the least of which was Nik...

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... a walk, he saw the building where his laboratory was located had been destroy by an accidental fire, and with this incident all the that Tesla had spent his life working on, had been lost in a fire that lasted only a hours. The timing could not have been worst, because just a few months later, Guillermo Marconi ... the idea of Radio as we know it today. Guglielmo Marconi eventually was awarded a Nobel Prize for his development of radio. From this point on, the history books began to refer to him as "the father of radio." In fact, radio had many inventors, not the least of which was Nikola...

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... books The Professor's House (Willa Cather) and Wobegon Boy (Garrison Keillor), the main characters, John and Professor St. Peter, are two middle aged men who puzzle through mid-life crises by relying on their roots. John Tollefson, a man who is devoted to life, when he returns home, he realizes that his hometown is very important to his life ... the inland sea of his childhood- (Cather 20). When he gets married, he moves away to a house by the lake where he grew up. His life by the lake is so important to him that he moves closer to the lakeside. St. Peter lives in a house with his famil...

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... lives with her uncle, mother and father in an apartment across the street from Guy's house. Guy has a wife named Mildred with whom he lives. Mildred lives the kind of life that the government wants all of their citizens to live. She watches lots of TV because the government wanted people to not have to think while getting a form of entertainment ... other firemen. He believes in every rule that the government lays down. He agrees with outlawing the reading of books and supports "mindless entertainment." He hardly reveals his life until the end of the book where he admits that he had a l...

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... In English Leaf Storm, and Other Stories. (La hojarasca. 1955) Transl. by G. Rabassa. London: Cape, 1972; New York: Harper & Row, 1972, 1979; Pan Books, 1979. No One Writes to the Colonel. (El coronel no tiene quien le escriba. 1961.) Transl. by. S. Bernstein. London: Cape, 1971; New York: Harper & ... the Colonel. See above.) One Hundred Years of Solitude. (Cien anos de soledad. 1967.) Transl. by G. Rabassa. New York: Harper & Row, 1970; Pan Books, 1980. Innocent Eréndira, and Other Stories. (La increible y triste historia de la cándida Eréndira... 1972). Transl. by G. Rabassa. New ....

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... visited by its friend including a giant bee named, "Miss Bee." Rowling attended Exeter University, studying French and graduated in 1987. Thereafter Rowling worked for a short time as a research assistant for Amnesty International. While she continued her craze in writing by writing during her lunch and break hours. Rowling also worked on a book ... for a children's book. The title was changed to Sorcerers Stone by America for $4,000 dollars. In 1999, the first 3 Harry potter books (Sorcerer Stone, Chamber of Secrets and Prisoner of Azbakstan) make the 3 top positions in the New York Time...

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... book shop south of Boston, in any of the colonies. The printing companies in New York and Philadelphia only sold almanacs, paper, and a few school books. People, who loved to read, were forced to order books from England. He suggested that himself and the other members of the group, Junto, take advantage and gather all of their ... books together as one collection to make a public library. He drew up a plan and presented it to a Mr. Charles Brockden. Mr. Brockden was to ... than fifty people willing to pay. His vision eventually came to and it was copied by other towns. Reading became m...

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... this it one book that was a #1 bestseller based on a true story of the outbreak of Ebola around Washington D.C. some time ago. His true stills of writing are probably best told through his books about viruses and diseases. He was able to describes the terror of virus outbreaks upon this world like no one else can ... Whitman Basso Award for the best reporting in any medium on environmental issues for "The Hot Zone." He even won an award for one of his less known books called the "first light" Preston was not only a successful book writer, he also worked as a journalist in the beginning of...

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... elements into his own bold designs for business and industry. Although he extensively studied the topic, Beall found he learnt much of his design-related knowledge simply through reading books and periodicals. Beall set styles and standards in many fields from creative and comprehensive packaging to corporate identities. He demonstrated creative design solutions for problems but could also deal with ... the 1930s and 40s Beall produced work for clients such as the Chicago Tribune, The Art Directors Club of New York, Hiram Walker, Abbot Laboratories, Sterling Engraving (refer plate 7) an...

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... his bicycle. When he was growing up he was shy. He was often teased for his large ears. He most often resorted to reading books rather than retaliating and getting into fights with other children. In 1915 John enrolled in Salinas high school. While in high school he often wrote ... John was awarded the California Commonwealth Club's Gold Medal for best novel by a California author that year. He followed it with one of the most widely known books ever, "Of Mice and Men-, which was published in 1937. This book became an instant success and was immediately a best seller. Steinbeck had final...

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... Hatfield, Massachusetts. Both of her parents were writers, so she always felt that writing was a way of life. She attended Smith College and received her master's degree in education from the University of Massachusetts in 1976. She is a distinguished author of more than 200 books, and when she is not writing, she composes songs, is a professional storyteller on the stage, and is ... father, who was an international kite-flying champion. Owl Moon, winner of the 1988 Caldecott Medal for John Schoenherr's exquisite watercolors, was inspired by her husband's interest in birds. Her books an...

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... his bicycle. When he was growing up he was shy. He was often teased for his large ears. He most often resorted to reading books rather than retaliating and getting into fights with other children. In 1915 John enrolled in Salinas high school. While in high school he often wrote ... John was awarded the California Commonwealth Club's Gold Medal for best novel by a California author that year. He followed it with one of the most widely known books ever, "Of Mice and Men-, which was published in 1937. This book became an instant success and was immediately a best seller. Steinbeck had final...

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Martin, Nora. ( 2002). A Perfect Snow. New York: Bloomsbury USA Children's Books. 144pp. Summary: This is a story of a young man trying to fit into a new town and high school in all the wrong ways. He unwittingly becomes involved ... in a dangerous hate group, dragging his brother along with him. At first the danger and violence appeals to his hunger for power, and his general unhappiness with life transforms into a dangerous thirst for blood. Then Ben meets Eden, and gradually he begins to realize the hateful injustice of his actions. But the fear of how ... up for what he is learning is r...

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... is very arrogant and hypocritical. When Tom discovers that Daisy and Gatsby may be having an affair, he wants to kill Gatsby. This is very hypocritical because at the same time Tom is having an affair with a woman, Myrtle, from the valley of ashes, an industrial wasteland situated between West Egg and New York. There are many symbols that F. Scott Fitzgerald ... by Nick in Gatsby's library at one of the extravagant parties. Owl Eyes is standing in front of a wall of books just staring at them in amazement that they are real (50). The fact that Owl Eyes first thinks that the books aren't...

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... it in the fire, beside the fact that Abraham Lincoln loved it. In fact, so much he thought it was one of the best books he had read in a long time. Though Whitman did not show his pain and disappointment in himself, he felt it inside. He showed this in his writings only a little. ... nationalities, sexuality, and experiences including his own. Whitman had many visitors in his home other writers trying to learn from him or even old friends. Every time another person came he would always learn from them he told one of the authors that came to do a documentary on him before he died. He ... ...

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... in 1913, predeceased him in 1961, as did his third wife, in 1967. Sinclair died on November 25, 1968. Among Sinclair's most famous books is The Jungle (1906), which launched a public uproar and catapulted the government amidst a frenzy in an investigation of the meatpacking plants of Chicago, ... meat packing industry in which he is involved. Gradually Jurgis' worldly visions fade in the hopelessness of "wage-slavery" and in the chaos of urban life. He loses his wife, who has been raped by a foreman, and their second child. Jurgis then becomes a criminal and then a Socialist. The ... ...

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... the first African American author to support himself through his writing. He wrote in several literary genres. By the end of his literary career, he had produced more than sixty books. James Langston Hughes was born February 1, 1902, in Joplin, Missouri. His parents divorced when he was a small child, and his father moved to Mexico. He was raised by his grandmother ... was one of the most important writers and thinkers of the Harlem Renaissance, which was the African American artistic movement in the 1920s that celebrated black life and culture. Hughes's creative genius was influenced b...

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... Cats" and who would remain her lifelong friends. It was at Barnard that she established what was perhaps the most important relationship of her life. Ruth Benedict, fifteen years older, was an instructor in the Anthropology Department under Franz Boas, whose new ideas on anthropology would influence and ... to do field work together in Melanesia. This time she studied infants and children and together she and Fortune developed new methodologies for field studies in anthropology. Returning to New York the following year, they each published three major books and spent the summer of 1930 do...

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... . In 1891, when he was five years old, she died. In less than a year, his father Edwin, a country doctor, married a second time - this time to Isabel Warner. Unfortunately, "Harry Lewis' boyhood was curiously loveless, vexatious- (Schorer, 5). Growing up, Lewis suffered a life of ridicule by not only his fellow peers, but also by his elders: He was homely, ill-coordinated, astigmatic, redheaded, a stumbling, noisy ... finally in the bank, he set off with his wife on another wandering throughout America. During this time, he published three more books "The Innocents (which is considered o...

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... it in the fire, beside the fact that Abraham Lincoln loved it. In fact, so much he thought it was one of the best books he had read in a long time. Though Whitman did not show his pain and disappointment in himself, he felt it inside. He showed this in his writings only a little. ... nationalities, sexuality, and experiences including his own. Whitman had many visitors in his home other writers trying to learn from him or even old friends. Every time another person came he would always learn from them he told one of the authors that came to do a documentary on him before he died. He ... ...

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... power", "eternal energy", "boundless being" and "perfect unity". There is a loss of ego boundaries, a sudden identification with all life, a felling of liberation and a loss of fear, a blending of the senses, bringing sharp awareness of pattern, and a sense of passing beyond space and time." (Watson 1988, p.110) Psychology may be able to inform us of the cognitive processes which led to Picasso's idea ... Web. (Web Document), available URL: http://members.ozemail.com.au/Creative/index.2html. [23/07/2002] Jung, Carl. "Psychology and Literature", in Ghiselin, Brewster (ed.) 1952, The Creati...

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... so you are tough enough to survive anywhere. Keep learning to go far." The second magical thing there, even better than airplanes, are books. Uncle Fang had a one square meter large bookshelf tucked away in the corner of his house. It was covered by a thin cloth, ... protect it from dirt and dust. It never quenched my thirst. I perused through the collections again and again, and jumped up and down every time new books arrived. Greek mythology, Aesop's Fables, and Arabian Nights entered my dreams at night. Stories of the cities of New York, Shanghai, and Paris, ... all turned into vivid...

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... and film people's reactions to the "Issue of the Day." While at a society dinner with the Washington Times-Herald, she met John F. Kennedy. At the time, she was engaged to a New York stockbroker, John Huston. However, she broke off the engagement when she began dating John Kennedy. He proposed to her on ... 1960 she gave birth to John F. Kennedy Jr. One of Jacqueline's most famous quotes, "If you bungle raising your children, nothing else much matters in life." In 1961, at age 31, she became the nation's third youngest First Lady in History. Her first major project was the restoration o...

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... , Dali had his first public exhibition in the style of Cubism (duke). In the early 1920's, his sister was his only female model. At this time he was attending the Madrid Fine Arts school as his father wanted him to gain skill to become a teacher. It was here that he met Luis ... L"age"d"or (1930). These films were considered the surrealist style and L"age"d"or caused riots in the streets of Paris (BBC). It was around this time that he met and eloped with Gala Eluard, it is rumored that they never consummated their marriage, as Dali could not stand to be touched. Never the ... the control...

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... citizen of both countries. She married an American in 1963 while completing her MFA and Ph.D. at the University of Iowa. She has written numerous critically acclaimed books, of which Jasmine is one of the most recent. Most of her novels reflect her personal experiences traveling between two worlds; her native India and North America ... (represented by the USA and Canada). All of her books deal with young women trying to cross cultural boundaries, reconcile old and new identities, and somehow create a stable life. Mukherjee actually returned to India with her husband in 1973, but she no ...

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