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Post by Tys on Nov 30, 2006 15:29:23 GMT -5
just making this 'cause it'll be simple just to post stuff on JK then print it out at school with some things, so this is a good place to post it and all
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Post by Tys on Dec 8, 2006 8:31:09 GMT -5
nLe population est 7,252,000 nSwitzerland est nLe capitale est Berne
Geographie et Temps n L‘ête fait 86 n L’hiver fait –25 n Il pleut en avance pour un cultivateur n les fleuve dans swiss a Rhine, Rhône, Inn, Ticino, n Les lacs dans swiss a Geneva, Zürich, Neuchâtel n Montagnuex a Jura et Alps
Traditions and Culture n Greatly influenced by neighbors n regions that are French speaking, German speaking, Italian speaking, ect, tend to orient themselves to their language’s culture and country more then to Switzerland
History n Conquered in 1798 by the French revolution army n New regime was known as the Hevetic republic n Destroyed century of tradition, such as freedom of religion n Become nothing more then just a territory of France n 17 years later, congress of Vienna in 1815 fully re-established Switzerland's independence Tourist Sites n Lakes Biel, Murten and Neuchâtel, by the Jura mountains. Excellent place for hiking, fishing and camping. Low population, northwest Switzerland. n Northwest of Switzerland has famous foods, wines n Horological Museum at La-Chaux-de-Fonds n Portes du Soleil excellent place to ski for anyone, in Geneva n Sight seeing in Bern, Nydegg church, Jura mountains are seen in northwest, alps are seen south Foods n Breakfast usually includes, bread, butter, margarine, marmalade, honey also some cheese and cereals, milk n Lunch can be a sandwich or birchermüesli or a full meal n Dinner can be full meal or simple like bread, cheese and dried meat n Drinks, water, soft drinks, wine, tea
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Post by Oliver on Dec 10, 2006 15:26:37 GMT -5
( Don't forget name and double space..)
RRJ (center this) The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald Summery F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel , The Great Gatsby, tells the tale of Nick Carraway and his neighbor Jay Gatsby. Carraway gets mixed up into the wild affairs of the people around him, which involve secret relationships, adultery, parties, and riches. He learns that Tom Buchanan, an acquaintance of his, is cheating on his wife. His wife in return cheats on him with Mr. Gatsby, who was her past sweetheart before she was married. Things begin to get hectic and the woman Tom is seeing, other then his wife, is struck by a car and killed. The woman’s husband, who suspects that she has been cheating on him with someone, blames Gatsby for her death and kills Gatsby along with himself.
The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald Setting
The Great Gatsby takes place in the Eastern United States. Most of the story is set in West Egg and East Egg, both just twenty miles from the city in New York. West Egg is where Carraway and Gatsby each live. East Egg is where Tom Buchanan and is wife live. Sometimes the setting moves to different places in New York but mostly the setting is in these two locations.
The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald Plot Development
At first there doesn’t seem to really be any plot in the book what at all. The beginning just slowly drags along with no point. Then the different affairs start to get introduced. The reader soon finds out that Tom is cheating on his wife Daisy with a woman named Myrtle Wilson. Later it is learned that Carraway’s neighbor Gatsby knows Tom’s wife. The two were lovers before Gatsby went off to the war and while he was gone, Daisy got tired of waiting and got married. This boosts the plot because Daisy begins cheating on her husband just as he is doing to her. On pages 128 through 130, both Mr. Buchanan and Mr. Wilson become aware of what their wives are doing. Tom witnesses what is going on between Gatsby and Daisy, and on page 128 holds a conversation with Carraway and Baker that indicates that he has caught on to what is going on. Mr. Wilson, on page 130, boosts the plot by saying, “I just got wised up to something funny the last two days.” This statement insinuates that he knows what his wife has been doing. With these two discoveries, the plot thickens and the discoveries lead to the death of Mrs. Wilson, Mr. Wilson, and Jay Gatsby.
The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald Character Development
In the beginning of the book, Carraway is new in town and doesn’t know many people. He is lonely at first but after a chance encounter with someone a bit newer then him in town he feels like he has been given a purpose and is no longer lonely. He is introduced to the golfer Jordan Baker while at the Buchanan’s house in East Egg and later associates with her at Gatsby’s many parties. The parties that are thrown at Jay Gatsby’s house help to introduce Carraway to many people from all over and he becomes more known through them. He begins to hang around with Gatsby a bit which also helps to make him more known to the people of New York. Carraway starts to have feelings for Jordan Baker around pages 62 through 64. Around those pages he also states that he suspects himself of being one of the few honest people that her knows. “Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.” (Pg. 64) He says this because he doesn’t want to lie to the girl he is writing to back home, or cheat on her like Tom is doing to his wife. He wants to be break it off with her before doing anything with Jordan Baker. This makes him different from Tom Buchanan who has affairs with a woman other then his wife. In the end of the book, Carraway is one of the few men to go to Gatsby’s funeral. Even though he didn’t approve of some of the things his neighbor did, he spent the time to make sure his body was burried properly, even though all of Gatsby’s supposedly close “friends” wouldn’t come to pay their respects. Carraway is one of the only decent men in this book.
The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Devices
The Great Gatsby contains a variety of literary devices. Within it’s pages there are similes, personification, imagery, foreshadowing, Irony and Symbolism. Similes are found the most. Phrases such as “...like an angry diamond...” (pg. 56) and “...she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.” (pg.117) are examples of the similes in this book. The first compares a woman at one of Gatsby’s parties to an angry diamond as she hisses at her husband to leave. The second compares Daisy to a blossoming flower as she kisses Gatsby. There is also “Daisy, gleaming like silver...”. This statement compares Daisy’s beauty to gleaming silver. Personification is used a few times in The Great Gatsby, while Imagery is used many times. On page 86, Carraway talks about his taxi groaning as it pulls away. This is personification because it gives the taxi a human characteristic. Imagery is in quite a few places in the book. On page 22 there is an example of Imagery that lets the reader picture how the light reflects off both Tom Buchanan’s boots and the “autumn-leaf yellow of” Jordan Baker’s hair, as they both sit on the couch. Then on page 97 there is a passage that creates a picture of what the seascape look like as Daisy looks out at it. “The rain was falling, but the darkness had parted the west, and there was a pink and golden billow of the foamy clouds above the sea.” (Pg. 97). Using words like pink and golden and “billow of foamy clouds” describe the scene well. Foreshadowing is first detected on page 64 when Carraway states that he believes he is “one of the few honest people that I have ever known”. This hints that there will not be many honest people with in the book. The next bit of foreshadowing occurs on page 69 while Gatsby is talking about how he went to oxford. The manner in which he speaks of his education indicates that something is odd. This hint towards how Gatsby was only at Oxford for a few months which doesn’t really count as a full Oxford education. Then on page 28, Gatsby’s behavior while Tom Buchanan is around suggests that there is something fishy between the two and sure enough, Gatsby turns out to have been the past lover of Buchanan’s wife. The last bit of foreshadowing occurs on page 168, where Mr. Wilson is said to be traveling in West Egg searching for Gatsby. This hints towards how Mr. Wilson plans to kill Gatsby because he blames Gatsby for his wife’s death. It is Ironic in The Great Gatsby, how Tom Buchanan finds it perfectly alright to cheat on his wife, but he becomes angry when he finds his wife is doing the same thing to him. It is also Ironic how on page 151 the reader finds out the Daisy is the one who was driving the car and now Gatsby. Daisy ended up killing the woman her husband was cheating with, although she had no idea who she was. The first sign of symbolism is on page 63. Carraway and baker hold a conversation that symbolizes how Baker views life. Though the conversation seems to revolve around her driving, it can also be taken in a different way. Baker feels that its ok to be reckless sometimes as long as other are careful. She feels that she will be fine as long as the other people on the road (or in life ) watch out and are careful. This is proved later in the book when Baker and Carraway are about to split ways. “You said a bad driver was only safe until she met another bad driver? Well, I met another bad driver, didn’t I? I mean it was careless of me to make such a wrong guess. I thought you were an honest, straightforward person. I thought it was your secret pride.” (Pg 186) Baker and Carraway both symbolize bad drivers on the road of life.
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Post by Shikaru on Dec 10, 2006 17:24:21 GMT -5
Eloquent- pg. 361 No matter how eloquent his pleas, he could extract nothing more from her, for she blocked him from that part of her mind. Definition: (adj) having or exercising the power of fluent, forceful, and appropriate speech The man spoke eloquently to impress her.
Eyrie- pg. 361 Back in their eyrie, Eragon ate a light supper and was just about to open up one of Oromis’s scrolls when a knock on the screen door disturbed his quiet. Definition: (n) A house or stronghold perched on a height. The three kids climbed up into their eyrie, preparing for a game.
Kirtle- pg. 362 She wore a flowing red kirtle trimmed and decorated with intricate designs wrought in black thread. Definition: (n) a woman's loose gown, worn in the Middle Ages. The gypsy woman wore a beautiful kirtle.
Artifice- pg. 362 The one element that betrayed artifice was the sheer variety of plants; Definition: (n) trickery; craftiness. The man used artifice to con his customers into believing he had good deals.
Succinct- pg. 376 “To be succinct, tactics. Definition: (adj) expressed in few words; concise The man was very succinct in his explanation.
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Post by Oliver on Dec 11, 2006 9:32:23 GMT -5
printed your thing out kai..
Microsoft words being a prick to me though and crashes when i try to print out my thing ><
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Post by Tys on Dec 11, 2006 9:39:30 GMT -5
Kai says thanks and macs are evil
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Post by Tys on Dec 14, 2006 11:17:32 GMT -5
switzerland crap:
Unus pro omnibus, omnes pro uno: One for all, all for one
Express in music, dance, poetry, wood carving and embroidery the Roman Catholic Church44% Protestant 38.5% Islam 4.3% Eastern Orthodoxy 1.8%
Yodeling, despite being stereotypical for Switzerland, is not widely spread and limited to some mountain areas
Swiss-style wrestling (Schwingen)
Tennis, golf, ice hockey, football (soccer), basketball, handball, gliding, paragliding, sailing, swimming, volleyball, floorball, mountain biking and hiking in the forests and mountains are all popular pastimes
Fishing is commonplace in the many lakes and rivers, but often a licence is necessary.
Many mountain lakes freeze over during winter and are used for curling, horse and dog racing, particularly around St. Moritz.
Argent est swiss franc
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Post by Oliver on Jan 2, 2007 6:49:25 GMT -5
RRJ
The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald Lessons Learned
I learned quite a few things from The Great Gatsby. The first would be not to cheat. I already knew that cheating was wrong and I never intended to do it in the first place but after reading this book and seeing how cheating affected the characters, I feel stronger about my decision. By messing around with people other then their spouses, Gatsby, Mr Wilson, and Mrs. Wilson all end up dead and Mrs. Buchanan becomes a murderer even though she didn’t mean it. Cheating isn’t worth the trouble. I also learned that you never know who your real friends are. After Gatsby died, all the people who claimed to they were his “friend” and that they cared about him, simply disappeared or couldn’t find the time for him. Even though Gatsby had thrown huge parties that were famous among New Yorkers and so many people knew him, only Carraway, Gatsby’s father, and one unknown man from one of the parties managed to show up at his funeral. The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald Personal relations/connections to characters, experiences, conflicts
The only character I have connections with would be carraway, mostly in the area of his relationship at first with Baker. On page 63, Carraway says, “...for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires...” This is true for me as well. When it comes to relationships I always hold myself back because of certain things and have small rules in my mind to act as brakes and keep me from doing things.
The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald Feelings about the characters/events/conflicts/situations
The characters in The Great Gatsby were all rather petty, fake, and self centered. They all pretended so they can fool the people around them. Gatsby pretends to be nice and sociable so he can find Mrs. Buchannon and throws parties even though she never goes to them. Then he pretends that he’s not having an affair with her. Mr. Buchannon pretends he’s not having an affair with Mrs. Wilson when it comes to his wife. Mrs. Wilson lies to her husband and pretends the same thing, while Mrs. Buchannon pretends that she’s happy with her husband and things are fine. No one tells the truth and it ends up getting everyone into trouble. The events that occur in this book were all very petty and could have easily been avoided. The deaths of Mrs. Wilson, Gatsby, and Mr. Wilson were all a result of the character’s stupidity. The characters were all very narrow minded and caught up in their own affairs. They were not very sympathetic to other characters and only cared about matters that were not very relevant in life.
The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald Connections between novel and current world
The characters of The Great Gatsby were a lot like many people in the current world. A lot of people in the world today are selfish and go after their desires no matter the effect it may have on others. The world today is full of fake selfish people, many of which cheat on and lie much the Buchannon’s, Mrs. Wilson and Gatsby. The world also had people like Carraway who are caught in the middle, knowing what’s going on but doing nothing to stop what they see happening.
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Post by Tys on Jan 11, 2007 13:21:55 GMT -5
As illegitimate and unplanned births have increased, so have the alarmingly high rates of violent crimes, teen suicide, children with single mothers, and children on welfares. This can be traced back to the mothers not having an option and being nearly force to give birth while she wasn’t ready. To help everyone, abortion should be an option to all because it is the woman’s right as it is the mother’s life and health, it will bring down child abuse, while pro-life is taking away the right, making the mother’s who have abortions seem like monsters calming that the fetus feels pain, giving the impression that birth control always work and forcing some mothers into desperate situations and giving false information about woman’s health after abortions. The right to choose abortion or not to have an abortion isn’t just a right to woman but to all of mankind. That the right is the same right to makes up many of our constitution’s amendments. It is the same as the right to bare arms, which the government cannot and should not take away. To take it away means to take away our humanity, to take away our civil rights. We are, as stated in the Declaration of Independence ‘endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness’. To take away the right for woman to choose to have an abortion or not will take away all of these rights. Not only could she die in child birth, that being 7 times more likely to happen then dieing in an abortion, but her liberty will be taken away and the happiness of others as well as herself. This does not only negate the rights to the women but to others as well that will miss her if she dies in childbirth. Child abuse is not only more likely to occur but it will occur more if abortions, the freedom of choice is negated and outlawed. Doing such things as forcing an unwanted to child to be born in an act to punish the mother is the ultimate in child abuse. The unwanted child could be neglected, battered or even worse yet, killed. Any mental health issues that could occur in abortions are not unlike those that occur with single mothers with an unwanted child. Though there is a difference. The mother in mental need could very well take out such things as anger on the unwanted child, making it into something to relieve her anger, making it’s life miserable or killing it. Many will say that there is always the choice of adoptions. Though to some, having a child grow up in the adoption system is a horrible destiny to give to the child. It should be up to the parents to choice whether not to have an abortion or to go through with it and give birth and have the child be adopted. We are not, and will not say that abortions are the right way to go. We are saying that it should be up to the mom, the parents, and not the government.
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Post by Oliver on Jan 12, 2007 6:17:31 GMT -5
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Post by Oliver on Jan 19, 2007 6:08:31 GMT -5
RRJ
Raisin In The Sun Lorraine Hansberry Brief Summery
Raisin in the sun is about a family of African Americans struggling to live in poverty. Lena, Ruth, Walter, Travis, and Beneatha Younger all try to keep their hopes up as they wait for the check with the insurance money from Lena’s husband’s death. Meanwhile, Ruth becomes pregnant, Beneatha is going to college to be a doctor, and Walter want to invest in a liquor store to become rich. When the money arrives, there is some controversy over what should be done with it. Most of it goes towards buying a house in a white neighborhood where the family is told they are not welcome and they need to decide whether moving is the right thing to do.
Raisin in the Sun Lorraine Hansberry Setting
The play is set sometime between World War II and the present day. The younger family lives in an old run down tenement-like building in south side Chicago. There are only two bedrooms for the five people who live in the house, which causes Travis to sleep on the couch in the living room. Roaches crawl on the floor and there are cracks in the walls that need to be sprayed with insecticide to keep bugs out though it doesn’t help much.
Raisin in the Sun Lorraine Hansberry Plot Development
A Raisin in the Sun starts with a poor family trying to make their way through life. Each member is doing what they can to help the family or make life better. Lena and Ruth work in kitchens for money, Walter works as a chauffeur, and Beneatha is going to college to become a doctor. They live in a small tenement like apartment that doesn’t really fit them all well but they get by.
Things begin to stir up when the family gets excited about the insurance money they will receive from Lena’s husband passing away. The money offers them a chance to make things better. Walter wants to invest in a liquor store to get rich and support his family, but Lena won’t have it and neither will his wife Ruth.
Once the money comes the plot develops further by Lena buying a house in a white neighborhood for her family because Lena and Walter are having problems. Walter becomes angry because of the decision and he and Lena get into a fight which results in Lena giving him the rest of the money. She tells him to put some of the money in the bank for Beneatha’s education and then use the rest for what he wants. Walter uses it all which twists the plot later when the money is taken by the person who is supposed to be Walter’s partner. After this, Walter seems to have decided to sell the house his mother bought to the white folks who don’t want them there. Once again the plot is twisted by Walter who ends up doing the exact opposite.
Raisin in the Sun Lorraine Hansberry Character Development
You can see the characters in the play changing a lot throughout it. Walter for example shows a large change in the end of the book compared to the beginning. Through most of the play he is seen driven by his want for money and to get the money to help his family. His craze for money often causes him to forget what is more important. However, on pages 148 and 149, Walter finally sees that his family is more important then money and tells of Linder.
Beneatha also changes drastically from the beginning of the book. She is a stubborn, willful, somewhat defiant girl who has goals in life. She knows she wants to be a doctor and has known this for quite some time. After the events in the book, she suddenly turns extremely pessimistic and speaks of how pointless things are, ranting to Asagai. Her attitude towards the world becomes rather bitter for a time.
Raisin in the Sun Lorraine Hansberry Quotes/New Words
The only new words I found in the play were mismated on page 25, and unobtrusively on page 39. The word mismated means not easily combined harmoniously. Unobtrusively mean inconspicuous, unassertive, or reticent.
I found the quote on page 49 humorous, where Beneatha calls her brother an elaborate neurotic. “Not crazy. Brother isn’t crazy yet - he - he’s an elaborate neurotic.” I find it ironic since she’s basically calling him crazy in a more sophisticate way that sounds nice.
My absolute favorite quote from the whole play, comes from Lena as she is talking to Beneatha towards the end of the book. “Child when do you think is the time to love somebody the most? When they done good and made things easy for everybody? Well then you ain’t through learning because that ain’t the time at all. It’s when he’s at his lowest and can’t believe in hisself ‘cause the world done whipped him so! When you starts measuring somebody, measure him right, child, measure him right. Make sure you done taken in account what hills and valleys he come through before he got to where-ever he is.” (Page 154) I adore this quote. It is really amazing and so true. I love the ending the most about taking in account what “hills and valleys” a man has been through to get where he is today, because the highs and lows in life help to shape you into the person you are.
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Post by Tys on Jan 24, 2007 13:05:54 GMT -5
He was born in Westchester County, New York, the son of a potter, Elijah Cornell. He was a first cousin, five times removed of Benjamin Franklin on his maternal grandmother's side After settling in at Ithaca, Ezra quickly went to work proving himself as a carpenter. Colonel Beebe took notice of the industrious young man and made him the manager of his mill at Fall Creek. Ezra Cornell was a birthright Quaker, but was later disowned by the Society of Friends for marrying outside of the faith to a "world's woman," a Methodist by the name of Mary Ann Wood. Ezra and Mary Ann were married March 19, 1831, in Dryden, New York. Smith had purchased a share of the telegraph patent held by Samuel F.B. Morse, and was attempting to devise a way of burying the telegraph lines in the ground in lead pipe. Ezra's knowledge of plows was put to the test and Ezra devised a special kind of plow that would dig a 2 1/2 foot ditch, lay the pipe and telegraph wire in the ditch and cover it back up as it went. Later it was found that condensation in the pipes and poor insulation of the wires impeded the electrical current on the wires and so hanging the wire from telegraph poles became the accepted method. Ezra made his fortune in the telegraph business as an associate of Samuel Morse, having gained his trust by constructing and stringing the telegraph poles between Washington, D.C. and Baltimore, Maryland, as the first ever telegraph line of substance in the U.S. After joining with Morse, Cornell supervised the erection of many telegraph lines, earning a substantial fortune as a founder of the Western Union company. Hiram Sibley (February 6, 1807 - July 12, 1888), was an industrialist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist originally from Massachusetts, and later Rochester, New York. He became interested in the work of Samuel Morse involving the telegraph. In 1840, he joined with Morse and Ezra Cornell to create a Washington to Baltimore telegraph service. Sibley later served as first president of Western Union Telegraph Company In 1861, Jeptha Wade, founder of Western Union, joined forces with Benjamin Franklin Ficklin and Hiram Sibley to form the Pacific Telegraph Company. With it, the final link between the east and west coast of the United States of America was made by telegraph. After a series of acquisitions of competing companies by Hiram Sibley & Don Alonzo Watson the company changed its name to Western Union Telegraph Company in 1856 at the insistence of Ezra Cornell, one of the founders of Cornell University [1], to signify the joining of telegraph lines from coast to coast. Western Union completed the first transcontinental telegraph line in 1861. In 1865 it formed the Russian American Telegraph in an attempt to link America to Europe, via Alaska, into Siberia, to Moscow It introduced the first stock ticker in 1866, and a standardized time service in 1870. The next year, 1871, the company introduced its money transfer service, based on its extensive telegraph network. In 1879, Western Union left the telephone business, having lost a patent lawsuit. As the telephone replaced the telegraph, money transfer would become its primary business. As of July 2006, The Western Union website showed this notice: "Effective January 27, 2006, Western Union will discontinue all Telegram and Commercial Messaging services. We regret any inconvenience this may cause you, and we thank you for your loyal patronage. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact a customer service representative. "Western Union reported that telegrams sent had fallen to a total of 20,000 a year, due to competition from other communication services such as email The first successful transatlantic telegraph cable was completed on July 27, 1866, allowing transatlantic telegraph communications for the first time Another advancement in telegraph technology occurred on August 9, 1892, when Thomas Edison received a patent for a two-way telegraph (U.S. Patent 0480,567 , "Duplex Telegraph") en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Porthcurno_cables.jpg picture eh.net/encyclopedia/article/nonnenmacher.industry.telegraphic.us site Table 1: Messages Handled by the Telegraph Network: 1870-1970 Date Messages Handled Date Messages Handled 1870 9,158,000 1930 211,971,000 1880 29,216,000 1940 191,645,000 1890 55,879,000 1945 236,169,000 1900 63,168,000 1950 178,904,000 1910 75,135,000 1960 124,319,000 1920 155,884,000 1970 69,679,000 The teletypewriter and the Telex allowed customers to install a machine on their premises that would send and receive messages directly. In 1938, AT&T had 18%, Postal 15% and Western Union 64% of telegraph traffic. In 1945, 236 million domestic messages were sent, generating $182 million in revenues. This was the most messages sent in a year over the telegraph network in the United States. By that time, Western Union had incorporated over 540 telegraph and cable companies into its system. The last important merger was between Western Union and Postal, which occurred in 1945. This final merger was not enough to stop the continuing rise of the telephone or the telegraph's decline. www.vintageviews.org/vv-tl/Photos/pages/sibley_h.htmlHiram Sibley, whose name will be forever associated with the commencement and progress of some of the great enterprises that have distinguished this age, was born at North Adams, Massachusetts, February 6, 1807, and was the second son of Benjamin and Zilpha Davis Sibley, of old New England stock. Previous to that he had been interested in the experiments of Stephen Vail and Professor Morse in telegraphy and in 1840 had gone to Washington with Morse and Ezra Cornell to promote the appropriation of forty thousand dollars by Congress to build a telegraph line from Washington to Baltimore. They secured the appropriation, and the subsequent history of the telegraph is known. Quickly following on the success of the pioneer line several telegraph companies were organized, but they were not financially successful, and Mr. Sibley bought a majority of the depreciated stock and consolidated them under one management as the Western Union Telegraph company, of which he was the first president. The initial propose of this network is to get New York City flour prices to Rochester. During the first sixteen years in which he was president of the company the number of offices was increased from one hundred and thirty-two to four thousand, and the property arose in value from two hundred and twenty thousand to forty-eight million dollars. www.vintageviews.org/vv-tl/Photos/pix/HiramSibley.JPG picture www.150.si.edu/150trav/remember/r818a.jpg picture Bell's original consent agreement limited it to international dial telephony. Western Union Telegraph Company had given up its international telegraphic operation in a 1939 bid to monopolize U.S. telegraphy by taking over ITT's PTT business. The result was deemphasis on telex in the U.S. and a cat's cradle of small U.S. international telex and telegraphy companies. These were known by regulatory agencies as "International Record Carriers". Almost in parallel with Germany's telex system, AT&T in the 1930s decided to go telex one better, and began developing a similar service (with pulse dialing among other features) called "Teletype Wide-area eXchange" (TWX). AT&T, also known as the Bell system, acquired the Teletype Corporation in 1930 and used its teleprinters for TWX.
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Post by eternalflame on Jan 25, 2007 20:22:57 GMT -5
Right...I went to the top of the main page where it said...introductions to new people...but it wasnt running..I guess you don't get new members too often. XD heh...err...ok...right..
Hi my name is Bonnie....err...I'm friends with stephanie!! Ooo OOO!! and jesse! so if that counts for anything....err...Hello. XD
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Post by Tys on Jan 25, 2007 20:24:28 GMT -5
uh...there's other places to post intros>.>''' this is just for stuff that you need for school as in notes or being printed out. Post in talkshow or something
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Post by Shikaru on Jan 27, 2007 18:14:55 GMT -5
Actually, the introductions is working. o.o' You just have to make a new thread....
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