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- 761: Computers And The Military
- ... computer technology in numerous different areas. Examples are the navigation of a submarine and intelligent long-range missiles. What most people associates with computers and war may be various simulation and action games. This is big business for software developers and merchandisers all over the world. As in all businesses money is the most important criteria for the big companies so they have no morale problems with making warfare into entertainment as long as it's selling. The same goes for the film industry, but at least some war films also describe the pain ... on people's behavior. Though some games are getting quite realistic in simulating certain situations, none of them include any everyday (peacetime) military life in their simulations. Then computers are mostly office tools for normal big business tasks such as personnel management, filing and correspondence. But some of the world's sharpest brains are constantly trying to make new, more sophisticated and more deadly weapons. New technology often uses computers ...
- 762: Act Of Courage (jim Abbott)
- ... instinct they decided to downplay the importance of Jim s physical defect and let him lead a normal life. From that point on they viewed it as an obstacle, a challenge to overcome, but no big deal (Gutman 7). In addition, Jim credits his father for shaping his outgoing nature. For as long as Jim could remember, his father always told him not to be shy. His father urged him not ... he did not feel inspirational. He was just himself, doing what he could with what he had. He quickly rose to the challenge and demands of college baseball (Hinkins). He led his team to the Big Ten championship. Abbott s success as a freshman brought increased attention from scouts and fans (White 14-16. He received letters calling him inspirational, a hero, and courageous. In 1986, he was given the amateur ... Olympics, and the Major League (Macht 107). Many people are born each year with some kind of physical shortcomings. But most of them do not grow up with the talent, heart, and courage to become big league ballplayers. More than 13,000 men had played major league baseball in the preceding 120 years. Only one, Hugh Daily, had been a one-handed pitcher. Jim Abbot s climb to this height ...
- 763: The Problem With The Amount Of Trash In The United States
- The Problem With The Amount Of Trash In The United States Dear Local newspaper, I am aware that trash has been a big problem in the United States and in our community, and we must find a way to help this problem. Our community is adding to the problem and we need to reduce the amount of trash ... as it should be. In New York city we have one of the world’s most largest and most crowded landfills which is proven in the article. Fresh Kills landfill, on Staten Island is extremely big but will be closed in a few years. I New York State there were 1600 landfills in the 1960’s and today the figure is in the hundreds. Trash is a big problem in our community and is still increasing. The problem of trash needs to be fixed and there are some things that we can do. One of the things we can do to help ...
- 764: Grapes Of Wrath And Jim Casy
- ... and everybody is holy, we are therefor equal. As Tom said, "one time he went out in the wilderness to find his soul, an' he foun' he jus' got a little piece of a great big soul." Once and for all stating equality, and universal holiness. Casy is also a harmonious man. He believes in unity and that because people are all part of something greater than themselves, we should help ... all on God or Jesus? Maybe,' I figgered, 'maybe it's all men an' all women we love: maybe that's the Holy Sperit- the human sperit- the whole shebang. Maybe all men got one big soul ever'body's a part of." He thinks that people working in cooperation is holy: "When they're all workin' together, not one fella for another fell, but one fella kind of harnessed to ... shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken". Tom Joad also said, "maybe like Casy says, a fellaain't got a soul of his own, but on'y a piece of a big one. ... I'll be ever'where-wherever you look." Casy was a Christ-like, unprovincial, and harmonious man albeit he still had personal conflicts. Although Jim Casy has always seemingly been a man of ...
- 765: Why Do Couples Break Up!!
- ... However, everything comes to a point where each person should take a look at their own flaws and also consider the problems in their own sex, that unfortunately cause their marriage to dissolve in the big pot of misunderstanding and confusion. From women s point of view we can see that men are not the perfect human beings, which they think they are. Women come up with countless causes that build ... breaks ups. One might hear a lot of complains from wives that are angry at their husband s money spending. A form of spending that many women are unhappy with is the gambling problem. A big portion of men do not care about their future at a given moment, and lose their money to a last penny. Anthony was also a big gambler. He could not resist not going to a casino on his payday. For two months he did not bring home any money, because he was spending it all. After coming home one day ...
- 766: Old Man And The Sea
- ... this illusion allows him to continue fishing, continue failing. These illusions, however, do not allow for progress. Santiago is caught in a situation he does not know how to escape from, always looking for his big catch: "‘My big fish must be somewhere’" (32). Santiago must be convinced that he still has it in him to make the catch that he is waiting for, as Young clarifies: "[Manolin tells Santiago], ‘There are many good ... you.’...[Santiago] musters his confidence: ‘I may not be as strong as I think... But I know many tricks and I have resolution’. Santiago needs these things, for he is still out for the really big fish." Santiago’s confidence in himself lies so much in his luck or lack thereof. It is these illusions of himself that create in him a unwillingness to move on and discover new life. ...
- 767: Galileo Galilei
- ... this book, Galileo: Heretic, it asks the question, “Was Galileo a heretic?” (5:323) This source says that it was an interweaving of Galileo's physics and the ideas of those times that caused the big uproar. Galileo's approach to science may not have been the best decision. To go up against the Church in those times was a bad idea. Still, was he a heretic? (5:321-346) Conclusion ... heretic? No! Galileo-physicist? Yes! Bibliography 1. http://144.26.13.41/phyhist/galileo.htm 2. http://www.knight.org/advent/cathen/06342b.htm 3. http://www.cuny.edu/multimedia/arsnew/mathofmotion1.html 4. http://bang.lanl.gov/video/stv/arshtml/arstoc.html 5. Redondi, Pietro; Galileo: Heretic; Princeton University Press; Princeton, New Jersey; 1987
- 768: The Fear of Science
- ... evolution of humans. Many people in the nineteenth century detested Darwin's theory of the evolution of man because it went against their religion, which believed that God created the world. Science, soon, developed the big bang theory, which states that earth was created by the attraction of atoms. The nineteenth century society was afraid of science because it contradicted their beliefs, and was afraid that the results of science would lead ...
- 769: The Reasons Why the South Went to War
- ... s aggression to control the South had led to the point where it was intolerable. The issue on slavery was one of the cause of the Civil War. Slavery and slave trades had become a big part of the South's economy. The slaves were needed to work on plantations which helped the South prospered. During the 19th Century, the North worked hard on abolishing slavery which they thought was an ... of the people of the South and their industry" In politics, the North had an advantage over the South. The North was more populated than the South and the South only counted slaves which was big part of their populations as ¾ of a person. Since the House of Representative was based on population representation, the increasing population in the North gave them a big majority over the South. In the North, they strongly believe that majority rules and that they should make and execute the laws. This can be seen in the Lincoln-Douglas election when they were ...
- 770: The Pencil Box
- ... an old school pencil box, yellow cardboard with silly pictures of chalkboards and kids on swings, laughing and being dumb (Jane colored horns and tails on most of them, blackened in their teeth). And in big blue letters, it read My School Box (well, at least, it used to read that, Jane colored over that with a big smelly black marker too). Whenever she got a gold star or a smiley face on a paper, Jane peeled it off the worksheet of notebook paper and put it in the box. Whenever she read ... should carry their backpacks over two shoulders in order to avoid back trouble) and instead of Mrs. Terada welcoming her from behind a pair of tiny glasses, perched on the end of her nose, a big bald man whose legs and tummy seemed to be spilling out of Mrs. Terada s tiny chair gave Jane a bored stare. He didn t even say good morning. Imagine that. Who are you? ...
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