Word: encyclopedia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only one software product for your kids this year, make it the Encarta Reference Suite 2000 ($64 with rebate), which includes an encyclopedia, atlas and dictionary. I love the detailed, virtual tours of natural wonders (like volcanoes), ancient ruins (Pompeii) and picturesque cities (Prague). When it's time to get serious, the homework helper suggests essay topics, then shows how to research and organize a report. Kids can cut and paste information onto electronic "note cards" included in the program, then export them to a word processor for editing and arranging. In addition to the basic encyclopedia entries for each...
...helped establish the N.A.A.C.P. and edited its journal, The Crisis, for 24 years. He was an architect of the Harlem Renaissance and the civil rights movement, and throughout his life brilliantly fought against racial discrimination and for the full participation of blacks in American society. He conceived of the Encyclopedia Africana, a comprehensive history of the African diaspora. He was a staunch opponent (with Bertrand Russell) of the use of nuclear weapons. He published dozens of books and thousands of pivotal essays. Who could possibly have done more than he to redefine American democracy over 60 years of the 20th...
...through Fornes' web of sexual anxiety, illness and desire with an unwavering humanity. Though their dialogues are primitive and border on stereotypes, they steer clear of condescension, and the play pushes far past the social limitations of its characters. Mae finds the escape she sought in her children's encyclopedia of sea-life in the play's ability to transcend class and intellect and to relocate tragedy in her simple speech...
...picture of race relations in early America. Combined with new literature and scholarship on the African American experience such as John Hope Franklin's Runaway Slaves, the companion to the four-part, six-hour PBS series Africans in America: America's Journey Through Slavery, and Microsoft's CD-ROM encyclopedia, the Encarta Africana, there is respect and understanding for the lives of African ancestors...
Gates predicted that the Encarta Africana will help fight racism by educating people from an early age. A second edition of the encyclopedia will be released this fall...