6 What happened in the fall of 2007? (a) Hemlines anticipated a global crisis. (Yes, this is what happened, which was unusual according to the previous correlation that hemlines followed the economic situation rather than proceeding or anticipating it.) (b) Women’s skirts got shorter. (c)...
She was known around the world for using poetry to increase understanding of black culture in America. During the 1940’s and the 1950’s Gwendolyn Brooks used her poems to describe conditions among the poor racial (种族的) inequality and drug use in the black community. She also wrote ...
A first-person narrator’s point of view will normally berestricted to his or her partial knowledge and experience, and therefore willnot give us access to other characters’ hidden thoughts. Many modern authorshave also used ‘multiple points of view’, in which we are shown the events from...
In a direct challenge to the Keynesian establishment, Friedman and his fellow monetarists held that governments could foster economic stability by controlling the supply of money that flows into the economy and allowing the rest of the market to fix itself. He argued for a return to the free m...
It was all up to me in the end, to take advantage of what was available. “Onward and upward” was the saying I heard, and what happened. There’s much more to thank, such as the friends and colleagues, the helpers I never may have fully been aware of, the medical care I got ...
the South in the Civil War, practiced law after returning from the battlefields, bought a large plantation, built the first railroad in his hometown, and wrote a novel, which became a national best-seller. This “widely and well-known” Col. W. C. Falkner was William Faulkner’s great-...
Hard drives have been in a state of constant evolution since the 1950s, yet they've always been vulnerable to damage and data loss. That was until the solid-state drive (or SSD) was invented. So, what is an SSD? An SSD storage device uses semiconductor chips, not magnetic media, to ...
What's leaving HBO Max in March 2023? March 1: Space Jam: A New Legacy, 2021 (HBO) March 7: Just a Boy from Tupelo: Bringing Elvis to the Big Screen, 2023 March 8: Cries From Syria, 2017 (HBO) March 14: Arthur Miller: Writer, 2018 (HBO) Ron's Gone Wrong, 2021 Marc...
It’s the second of these stories that gives the manuscript the name it is commonly known by. For while its official name is theCodex Gigas(in English: the Big Book; codex just means it’s a hand-written book), many more people know it asThe Devil’s Bible. Partly because of the ...
innovation.Walmartintroduced the first modern-day “supercenter” in 1988, combining a supermarket with general merchandise to provide a one-stop shopping experience that was unheard of at the time. This concept not only changed the face of retail, but also solidifiedWalmart‘s reputation as an ...