Douglas Adams

Douglas Adams was a great writer, he wrote the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy in 1978 it originated as a radio comedy that was later turned into a five part novel. Douglas also wrote many other books such as Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time Of The Soul, he also Co wrote books because a The Meaning Of Life, The Deeper Meaning Of Life, and Last Chance To See. Although he had made a good name for himself through writing books, Douglas did not stop there, he also made Co wrote three episodes as well as served as the show's script editor on the 17th season of one of UK’s most popular SCI fi shows Doctor Who? Douglas Adams was born on march 11th 1952 in Cambridge England with his mother Janet Donovan and father…

As Douglas Adams so succinctly posited, the meaning of life is 42. However, as the characters in his novel soon realize, the answer to the meaning of life is useless without a properly - and, perhaps, a more specifically - formed question. If we narrow the rather uselessly broad question, we can ask about our individual purpose or place in our world, or what is morally or ethically right and wrong, or what we can do to satisfy our maker (or in the absence of a conscious greater being,…

In The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams began the book with a run-of-the-mill setting, the Earth. Unbeknownst to the reader, the Earth was not the only place visited throughout the novel. Choosing space for the setting of this book was a risky move, since we do not know that much about the universe we live in. Even though there was the limitation of knowledge of our universe, the author used original concepts, such as an alien race called the Vogons, to enhance the interest and…

5 sentences The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is the first book in a six book series by Douglas Adams. This book introduces the main characters and sets the tone of the story. It focuses on the absurd, unlikely, and bizarre. The bulldozing of Dent's home in the first pages of the book sets off the story, with Dent and Ford Prefect escaping planet earth just before it is destroyed by the Vogons, a race of nasty poets. All this is only the start of their highly unlikely and uniquely unusual…

The Lincoln-Douglas debates, also known as the Great Debates of 1858, were a series of seven debates between two politicians running for the senate seat of the state of Illinois. The politicians were the republican nominee, Abraham Lincoln, and the democratic nominee, incumbent Stephen Douglas. The debates covered a series of topics, the most pertinent being the issue of slavery and its expansion into the newer western territories. The idea of the debates came forth after both Lincoln and…

Theory X and Theory Y by Douglas McGregor, summarizes a difference between management styles in that Theory X is an authoritarian style which assumes employees are naturally unmotivated, and Theory Y is a participative style and assumes that employees are self-motivated and enjoy working with greater responsibility (Mindtools, n.d.). In my workplace, I am more partial to Theory Y. I think that unless personally observed, managers should not just assume that otherwise mature, responsible adults…

land operations and securing bases of interest for the US (75). Being the first true proponent of these concepts, it took some time before they caught on with the leaders in Washington. However, there were many men scattered throughout the Corps, such as Earl Ellis, who truly believed in Lejeune’s proposal. Ellis did everything he could to help ensure that Marines became a landing and expeditionary force, such as writing the Advanced Base Operations in Micronesia, which predicted and outlined…

The Battle of Leyte Gulf took place in the Philippines and pitted Japanese and the United States naval forces against one another for command and control of the western Pacific region during World War II. The Philippines, to the United States, was another stepping stone closer to striking at Japan’s home island and also a vital staging point to wage war against Japan’s merchant supply line of valuable resources such as oil and fuel. Japan was required to defend the Philippines in the interest of…

“He had a way of touching your elbow or shoulder, upping his chin with a slight jerk and crowding into his eye such a warmth of blessing… he made you feel you’d contributed a boon to the whole human race” (“Douglas MacArthur” 1). MacArthur came from a background of a strict military upbringing. His father and grandfather were both generals and being raised on a military base MacArthur was destined to be a part of the United States military. His life was shaped and structured, but he had a…

He is quoted as stating that the original reason behind the conceptualisation of this movie was a direct response to his rejection for the title role in the movie Ben Hur, released just one year earlier. It was the decision of William Wyler, the director of this movie that the leading role would go to Charlton Heston, with Douglas offered the secondary part of the eventual villain, Messala. Douglas rejected the lesser role, and went on to admit in later years that his goal with Spartacus was to…