E. Remington and Sons Essays

  • remington

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    Introduction: Remington is a firearm and ammunition manufacturing company. Remington is one America’s largest firearm seller. They have fulfilled military contracts for foreign countries, and have armed the US military for 150 years. It is primarily stationed in Madison, North Carolina, and provides goods/services for private and public sale. Remington was created in 1816, and since then they have fulfilled many military contracts for the United States as well as for 55 foreign countries. It is currently

  • Christopher Latham Sholes: The Invention Of The Typewriter

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    invention. He didn’t work alone either. He had a lot of help from other people that were fascinated with Sholes new invention. A website tells us that “Sholes added many improvements in the next few years, and in 1873 he signed a contract with E. Remington and Sons, gunsmiths, of Ilion, New York, for manufacture” (“The Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica”).

  • Parents and Autistic Children

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    lifestyle. To be totally honest, I never really thought about it either until my mother befriended someone who has a child with autism. She really wanted to meet me; therefore she once invited me to dinner at her house where I met her husband and her son. During dinner, I was able to have a better insight of their lifestyle and the struggles they encounter when they have an autistic child. One of those problems that most impacted me was the constant debate of whether taking their autistic child to a

  • Straight-shooting Christianity

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    you are in spirit, spurs and Stetsons. It’s bucking bulls and plumbing Bibles in a dusty arena or dropping a hard-won dollar in a boot on the back table after a punchy sermon. (D1) The notion Grossman sculpts in her article is part Frederick Remington, part Sea of Galilee. Indeed, “[f]undamentally, it’s an attitude, whether you ride a bronc or a computer keyboard“ (Grossman 1D). The cowboy church movement seems to cut in on a growing herd of believers in America who seem to think that the values

  • The Impact of Computers On Our Lives

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    The Impact of Computers On Our Lives Only once in a lifetime will a new invention come about to touch every aspect of our lives. Such a device that changes the way we work, live, and play is a special one, indeed. A machine that has done all this and more now exists in nearly every business in the US and one out of every two households (Hall, 156). This incredible invention is the computer. The electronic computer has been around for over a half-century, but its ancestors have been around for

  • The Effect of the U.S. Census on Computing Technology

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