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Jacques Cousteau Perpetual Dreamer Edgerton
377 wordsEdgerton enrolled at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a graduate student, but he remained there for approximately 60 years. At MIT, Doc Edgerton was a professor of electrical engineering. As a graduate student at MIT, Edgerton developed an electric strobe light with which he produced flashes of 1 / 500, 000 second. When the flash is used in a series, the progressive stages of an object in motion can be recorded on the same piece of film. An example of this would be Tennis by Edgerton...
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Salem Witch Trials Ergot Poisoning
2,111 words... quite promising. He compared their behaviors from that of ventriloquists, to highly accomplished actresses (Upham, 1978, p. 345). All three of the first women accused of witchcraft made prime candidates for the girls to place such blame upon. Tituba, Sarah Good, and Sarah Osbourne were all of questionable character in town, which made it easier for the girls to escape blame for themselves. Sarah Osbourne was an elderly, widowed woman who had not gone to church in about one year, which was co...
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Edgar Allan Poe City New York
3,467 wordsEdgar Allan Poe is perhaps the best-known American Romantic who worked in the Gothic mode. His stories explore the darker side of the Romantic imagination, dealing with the grotesque, the supernatural, and the horrifying. He defined the form of the American short story. As one might expect, Poe himself eschewed conventional morality, which he believed stems from mans attempts to dictate the purposes of God. Poe saw God more as process than purpose. He believed that moralists derive their beliefs...
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Edgar Allan Poe City New York
3,390 wordsShort Story Perversity Edgar Allan Poe is perhaps the best-known American Romantic who worked in the Gothic mode. His stories explore the darker side of the Romantic imagination, dealing with the grotesque, the supernatural, and the horrifying. He defined the form of the American short story. As one might expect, Poe himself eschewed conventional morality, which he believed stems from mans attempts to dictate the purposes of God. Poe saw God more as process than purpose. He believed that moralis...
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Mountain Lion Graduate Student
1,140 wordsWe, the people of America, are facing a moral dilemma right now, this very minute, this day, and every other day. We are faced with the dilemma of whether the people of this free country will be able to continue hunting. As with anything debatable, their are two sides. In this case, we have the Hunters, andthe Antis. Over the past decade or so, they have been at war with one another with people forming organizations and plotting to destroy the others point of view. Even the Government has gotten...
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World War Ii Massachusetts Institute Of Technology
1,602 wordsOne of the pioneers of the digital computer industry, Jay W. Forrester invented the Multicoordinate Digital Information Storage Device (Patent No. 2, 736, 880). His invention became known as magnetic-core memory storage, a precursor to todays RAM technology, and was first used in Project Whirlwind, a monster computer developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the early 1950 s as part of the United States strategic defense against the Soviet Union. During World War II, the U. S. Na...
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