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The education division of the National Endowment for the Humanities has prepared a lesson plan for schools asking whether "robber baron" or "captain of industry" is the better terminology. The lesson states that it attempts to help students "establish a distinction between robber barons and captains of industry.
The metaphor of the ship of state: [2] Imagine then a fleet or a ship in which there is a captain who is taller and stronger than any of the crew, but he is a little deaf and has a similar infirmity in sight, and his knowledge of navigation is not much better.
A Soldier's Play is a play by American playwright Charles Fuller.Set on a US Army installation in the segregation-era South, the play is a loose adaptation of Herman Melville's novella Billy Budd, and follows the murder investigation of the Sergeant in an all-black unit.
Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook is a 2017 dark fantasy parallel novel by Christina Henry [1] inspired by the work of J.M. Barrie. [ 2 ] Set in the world of Neverland , Lost Boy is about Jamie, one of Peter Pan's Lost Boys , who begins to grow increasingly disenchanted with Peter as he slowly grows up.
Robert April is a fictional character in the Star Trek media franchise. April was the USS Enterprise's first commanding officer, preceding Captain Christopher Pike.. The character first appeared in the Star Trek: The Animated Series episode "The Counter-Clock Incident" (1974), in which he is voiced by James Doohan.
A Tiger for Malgudi is a 1983 novel by R. K. Narayan told by a tiger in the first person.Deeply moving is the attachment of the tiger to the monk and the monk's care for the tiger.
Captain Underpants and the Perilous Plot of Professor Poopypants is the fourth book in the Captain Underpants series written by Dav Pilkey. The book is about a mad scientist named Professor Pippy P. Poopypants becoming a new science teacher at Jerome Horwitz Elementary. However, all the students laugh at his name.
I-19 was a Japanese Type B1 submarine which damaged and destroyed several enemy ships during World War II while serving in the Imperial Japanese Navy.During the Guadalcanal Campaign, with a single torpedo salvo, the submarine sank the aircraft carrier USS Wasp and the destroyer USS O'Brien and damaged the battleship USS North Carolina.