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"Herman Hollerith
In examining the life and contributions of Herman Hollerith, two things become immediately apparent, he was both incredibly petulant and incredibly intelligent. While Hollerith may be considered an imaginative inventor, he would likely not be seen as an astute business man. Both his business and personal relationships were marked by acrid disagreements. Yet the strength of his most famous invention, the Hollerith Electric Tabulating System, his own commitment to excellence, and the abilities of those with whom he joined forces, brought him the financial success he likely deserved.

Born in Buffalo New York in 1860, Hollerith advanced rapidly through school. He graduated from Columbia University School of Mines at the age of 19 as an Engineer in Mines. It is interesting ..."

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A biographical essay on Herman Melville.

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"Herman Melville was truly a rugged individual. Desiring financial independence at a young age, he found a job as cabin boy on a transatlantic passenger ship bound for Liverpool. (Wikipedia) In Liverpool, he witnessed a terrible plight which had yet to make its way to New York and America's other large port cities. His strongest feelings were about the dirt and degradation he saw there. Melville remarked on the huge numbers of beggars, mostly people turned off the land and driven into the cities, looking..."

Tags:Herman melville, Moby Dick, Typee, biography

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This paper explains that Herman Melville?s short stories, written during the mid-19th century in America, are examples of non-conformity, which would soon reflect the apex of society in 1861 when the country was drawn into the quintessential revolt of man against himself in the Civil War. The author points out that Melville's "Bartleby the Scrivener," first published in 1853 , contains one of the prime examples of the Melvillian rebel, being Bartleby himself. The paper reviews other tales written by Herman Melville, that also contain rebellious and nonconformist characters: "Benito Cereno", "The Lightning-Rod Man", "The Encantadas", and "The Bell Tower".

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"Bartleby, the alienated man who lends his name to the story's title, states several times that "I would prefer not to" in regard to doing his job as a scrivener at a law office on Wall Street in New York City. This indicates that his rebellion is passive rather than aggressive, much like the non-violent resistance found in the likes of Henry David Thoreau, one of Melville's contemporaries. The mystery surrounding Bartleby's strange behavior--why he chooses to rebel so completely yet so politely--is never revealed in the story, even though the unnamed, prosperous lawyer/narrator suggests that Bartleby may be the victim of extreme isolation from working in the government's Dead Letter office. Thus, the ambiguity of Bartleby's rebellion makes this tale more complex and leaves it open to many interpretations."

Tags:bartleby, civil, cereno, oberlus, ambiguity

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This paper iscusses the theme of Herman Melville's story, "Bartleby the Scrivener." The author points out that, as a story of self-destruction, the tale is about a man Bartleby who succumbs to the strain of attempting to conform to the rules of a society, which he no longer believes in. The paper relates that the story is written from the point of view of the narrator and his attempt to save Bartleby.

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"Herman Melville's creation Bartleby, who appears in his story "Bartleby, the Scrivener", is a man who lives in a highly straightened world. His story is that of a man who at first appears as if he should be able to meet the expectations of his society. Bartleby ..."

Tags:Bartleby, Melville, Narrator, Story

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This paper discusses Herman Hesse's book, "Siddhartha", and explains that, in it, Hesse touches on the life and teachings of the Buddha Gotama while going beyond those teachings. Hesse tells us that the knowledge found in religious texts and stories, whether they be Hindu, Buddhist or whatever, is different than wisdom which can only be gained through direct experience. The paper also explains that the book goes beyond religion as it incorporates some of the ideas of Freud and Jung about the psychological development of the individual and the collective unconscious. Furthermore, the paper tells us that, being the creation of one man, rather than the accumulation of lore of the millennia, the book has a simplicity and coherent structure which the Buddhist legends lack.

Tags:buddha, siddhartha, hesse

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In this paper the author looks at the life and works of Herman Melville. The paper focuses on Melville's personal experiences in life combined with his unique literary style and vision, making him, in the author's opinion, the creator of novels that are considered to be some of the greatest in American history. The paper starts with a look at Melville's early life from childhood through to adolescent and how the experiences he had, shaped him for the future. The paper then explores the writing techniques that Melville used in his story telling and the attitudes to his books at the time they were written. The paper concludes that Melville was one of the greatest authors in American history even though at the time of his writing he may not have been truly appreciated.

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"Melville's writing reflects a tremendous number of influences. He incorporates character types, allusions, philosophy, and much more from the great thinkers of his day and from those who came before them. Some of his contemporaries were Nathaniel Hawthorne, who was a good friend, and transcendental thinkers such as Thoreau and Emerson. Whitman was another contemporary influence. Melville also read Shakespeare, Dante Alighieri, and Edmund Spenser. The evidence of these writers is found in Biblical, philosophical and literary allusions throughout his novels (DelFattore 1913)."

Tags:novels, literary, readers, allusion, books

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This paper explains that the story "Benito Cereno" by Herman Melville is a true story, reported in a book by the real Amasa Delano. The paper author feels that the story is interesting for the way Melville shapes it so that the reader is led to see the story in one way until a single moment causes a reversal and everything is seen to be the opposite of what was before. This paper comments that Melville made careful use of language and style, but the critics were not always accepting of his work.

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"Captain Amasa Delano is the intelligence serving as the focus of the story in "Benito Cereno." The reader learns as the captain learns, and sometimes the reader learns faster than does the captain. The reader can see early that something is wrong on the San Dominick, but Captain Delano accepts what Benito Cereno tells him until the evidence begins to mount that something is wrong. It is not that Delano is foolish but that he is trusting, and he does not understand the nature of evil until after his experience on the San Dominick."

Tags:critic, reversal, language, evidence, evil

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This paper looks at Hermann Wilhelm Goering, a decorated field marshal who flew under squadron leader Baron Manfred von Richtofen in World War I, who served as commande-in-chief of the German Air Force in World War II, and who is most known for his role as one of the most powerful leaders of Nazi Germany, being second in command only to Adolph Hitler. It examines Herman Goering's role in the Nazi movement, including his election to the Reichstag, his role in the Nazi Party's "Final Solution" and the Holocaust, and his prosecution in front of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg.

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Pre-Nazi Days
Goering and the Rise of the Nazi Party
Nazi Conquest
Role in the Final Solution
Judgment at Nuremberg

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"The Nazi victory was an electoral triumph for Goering as well. In 1932, the former pilot was made the President of the Reichstag. When Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany in 1933, Goering assumed several other important posts, including Commissioner for Aviation, Minister of Interior in Prussia and Commander in Chief of the Prussian Police. More significantly, Goering also colluded with Heinrich Himmler and Reinhardt Heydrich to form the Schutzstaffel, more popularly known as the SS or the German secret police (Fest)."

Tags:final, solution, nuremberg, nazi, party, adolf, hitler

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This paper describes Herman Melville's literary style, his political beliefs that were reflected in his writings, and the circumstances of his life that contributed to his political beliefs. Particular emphasis is placed on Melville's novelette, "Benito Cereno", and how he conveys his feelings about the evils of slavery, as well as the need to correct those evils, in a a way that brings about change in the South at an acceptable pace.

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"The year Herman Melville's novelette "Benito Cereno" takes place may be 1799, but it represents the conflicting beliefs and actions that were occurring in the United States when the author actually wrote the piece in 1856. Although Melville's stories and novels mostly revolved around the sea, including his masterpiece Moby Dick, one of his sub-themes was the treatment or mistreatment of one person or persons against another. He was continually intrigued by the ambiguities that he perceived in all human experiences, and sought answers as to what caused human behavior specifically good versus evil, violence against women, racism, and the alienation of the worker."

Tags:merchant, ships, sailor, yarns, typee, antebellum, civil, war, reconstruction, free, africans

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This paper briefly looks at the development of computers, focusing on the first types of computers. It describes how the computer started out as a simple counting tool with beads on a wire and traces its development to the present day machine with wire circuitry and color plasma-screen monitors.

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"The first computer, the abacus, was thought to have been invented by the Babylonians sometime between 1,000 B.C. and 500 B.C. Some pundits have the opinion that it was actually invented by the Chinese. This device called "the abacus is a simple arithmetic calculator with ten wires with 10 beads on each wire. Each bead represented a number one through ten. Each wire had consistent numbering" (Pullan). With this device you could simply add and subtract."

Tags:alto, computers, eniac, first, herman, hollerith, mark, babath