Often considered Mark Twain's masterpiece "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" was conceived as a sequel to "The adventures of Tom Sawyer". The author makes use of some of the characters of the other book but soon departs from it in feeling. Tom Sawyer remains favorite among children's...
Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist and short story writer. Was born in 1804 in the city of Salem, Massachusetts to Nathaniel Hathorne and the former Elizabeth Clarke Manning. His ancestors include John Hathorne, a judge during the Salem Witch Trials. Nathaniel later added a...
The Tower of London has been the setting for many great events during its 900-year history as a royal palace and fortress, prison and place of execution, arsenal, mint, menagerie and jewel house. This timeline shows some of the most significant events that took place here. The Tower of...
This business case is the culmination of the efforts of a project team charged by the IT Commons to create a visionary architecture and plan for a future Enterprise Directory Services. Although the current directory environment provides valuable functionality such as white pages, email...
Most important scientific discovery in chemistry In my opinion the most important scientific discovery in chemistry is discovering oxygen. Everyone needs oxygen to survive, oxygen is the third most abundant element in the universe and makes up nearly 21% of the earth's atmosphere....
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616), English poet and playwright, recognized in much of the world as the greatest of all dramatists. Life A complete, authoritative account of Shakespeare's life is lacking; much supposition surrounds relatively few facts. His day of birth is...
The conflict between Britain and her American colonists was triggered by the financial costs of the Anglo-French wars of the previous thirty years, in particular the Seven Years War (1756-63). A principal theatre of conflict had been in North America, where it was felt that the...
The 2007-2012 global financial crisis, also known as the Global Financial Crisis (GFC), is considered by many economists to be the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. It resulted in the collapse of large financial institutions, the bailout of banks by...
To The Lighthouse is a so-called stream-of-consciousness novel, one of the particularities of this modern genre is that they have no real plot. Plot always refers to action, it indicates the special arrangement of its elements. In the stream-of-consciousness novels, however, there very...
Your Car's Effect on the Environment CONTENTS: - The Greenhouse Effect - The Enhanced Greenhouse Effect, why it has occurred and the implications- contributing factors- eg. burning fossil fuels - Potential solutions - technology & fuels - How long do we have to wait, and why? -...
Adeline Virginia Woolf , was an English writer, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century. During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Her most famous works include...
Elizabeth I, queen of England and Ireland (1558-1603), daughter of Henry VIII and his second wife, Anne Boleyn. Elizabeth was the longest-reigning English monarch in nearly two centuries and the first woman to successfully occupy the English throne. Called Glorianna and Good Queen Bess,...
Beijing is a metropolis in northern China and the capital of the People's Republic of China.Beijing is second largest city,after Shanghai.It is a major transportation hub, with dozens of railways, roads and motorways passing through the city. It is also the focal point of many...
Legends like that of Count Dracula or the real history of Romania are testimonies of such an exciting past. Such a heritage is to be found in the high-roofed wooden churches of Transylvania. Admire the 16th century artistic treasures of the Bucovina monasteries, or listen spellbound to...
Existenta societatii in secolul XXI este determinata in permanenta de posibila prezenta a riscului. Pornind de la celebra afirmatie a lui Socrate, "Stiu ca nu stiu nimic", Ulrich Beck, profesor al London School of Economics si una dintre cele mai importante voci privind sociologia...