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- 10791: Analysis of Advertisements for Two Different Things
- ... Games Strategy Plus - a gaming magazine, as one might infer from the title. The product `Monster Truck Madness' is a computer video game designed, quite obviously, for entertainment purposes. The second ad is from PC World, which is of a much more technical nature than its previous counterpart. The product in this ad is `Microsoft Project for Windows 95', a software used for businesses and project development teams. The `Monster Truck ... that the game is not intended for the faint hearted conservative but rather for the hardcore gamer. Conversely, the pictures in the `Project' ad are very realistic to one's life compared to the `virtual' world of the `Monster Truck' game. The central picture is, of course, the businessman who is denoted by the blue collared shirt, tie and neat appearance. The man has a Windows 95 `Start' button on his ... the software is just a large array of icons and there is nothing amazing to look at. Once more, as stated at the beginning of the paragraph, a business type is more concerned with `real world' pictures rather than one of the `virtual' gaming world. Two very different advertisements from two very different magazines selling two very different products, yet all from the same company. While the reader may not ...
- 10792: Report On Book Titled Black Li
- ... ridicule simply for being born with his parent s heritage. Under no circumstances is it morally right to purposely, repeatedly, bash someone for something, anything, never mind something that they cannot control or change. This world evolved form one-celled organisms to forests with dinosaurs. Nature has changed to accommodate our arrival, is there any reason why we cannot accommodate to live and be happy with what nature is handing to ... that take up this country that is has no specific color. A long time ago, it was mostly English settlements. Then came the French and so on. Now we have people from all over the world that speak many different languages. In 2040 I expect they re to be even more diversity then we already have. On the racial level I do not expect mush of a change. As time goes on the generations that slowly take over are more and more open-minded, making the world a little bit easier to live in for everyone. I do not expect the world to a happy-go-lucky place, but I do expect something better then what we have had in the ...
- 10793: Gold
- ... earth today. Gold has been used by humans for almost six thousand years and has been valued since the earliest of times for its beauty and resistance to corrosion. Without gold the economy of the world be drastically changed. I have chosen gold as my element because of its extensive value. It has always been valued and is worth a great amount of money. I've often wondered why gold was ... lot of impurities. In the seventh century B.C. kings of Lydia, in Western Asia, started to use gold coins that were guaranteed as to weight and purity. By using gold as coins the ancient world gave gold another value. Gold became commonly known as purity and richness. Impurities are added to gold jewelry to harden it. Gold tin purple is used to make red and purple glass. Gold is also ... The average abundance of gold is not known, but it's estimated for the earth’s crust there is 0.001 parts per million. Gold is a major part of society today. It makes the world go round. The most important gold deposits of today are found in South Africa, U.S.S.R. Canada, and the United States. Gold’s major use is as a unit of monetary exchange ...
- 10794: Night
- ... of its truthfulness and genuine historic value, it is a story that we must learn, simply because it is important never to forget. As Robert McAfee Brown states in the preface of the memoir “the world has had to hear a story it would have preferred not to hear- the story of how a cultured people turned to genocide, and how the rest of the world, also composed of cultured people, remained silent in the face of genocide.” Elie Wiesel has paid much attention to an inner desire and need to serve humanity by illuminating the hate-darkened past. Night is ... memoir exquisitely written. Wiesel’s eloquence makes his descriptions seem terrifyingly real and repulsive. It is a book about what the Holocaust did, not just to the Jews, but to humanity. People all over the world found themselves affected by this atrocious act. Even today, there are a number of survivors who are tormented by their experience every day of their lives. The Wiesel’s have, throughout the novel, several ...
- 10795: An Analysis of “Roses, Rhododendron”
- An Analysis of “Roses, Rhododendron” “Roses, Rhododendron” by Alice Adams is a story about the life of a little girl who moves down South, to North Carolina from Boston with her mother to pursue a new life. Jane is being raised in a single parent home in a beautiful small town where she finds some friends and has a fairly descent life. The central idea behind the story that the author ... and loyal friend would help to smooth out the harshness of life. Another words a good friend is for ever. The story begins with John Kilgore leaves his wife and daughter behind and moves to New Orleans. Life becomes tough for Ms. Kilgore and she decides to move to another state to continue her antique business there. Jane loves this new place very much. Some how I sense a dynamic character in Jane, because of a sudden from a pretty young girl, she talked of foul language by saying “ God damn,” which was not very ...
- 10796: The Advancement of Weaponry
- ... handgun. It was improved on in later centuries to become even more effective than early handguns. Defensive armor of the 10th century offered much greater protection to the warriors. The warriors were now wearing a new type of casque or helmet. The helmet, steeply conical in shape, deflected blows from above. They also carried a long kite-shaped shield, which protected the horsemen from shoulder to stirrup on his exposed vulnerable ... as strong holds. These castles, sometimes built up to 200 feet high, served as both the place to do battle and as a defense against enemies. As the 12th century progressed, the catapult became the new offensive weapon. It became the first machine to make use of the principle of gravity drive. This marked a vast improvement in the torsion-driven catapults used in Roman times (Hindley, 34). Knights were now wearing ring-mail suits, which replaced the mail suits of the previous era. These new suits were made by sewing individually forged metal rings onto a suit. These were preferred because it provided the warrior greater flexibility and movement. The most significant weapon developed in the 13th century was ...
- 10797: Essay About Odysseus, Adonis, and Thor
- Essay About Odysseus, Adonis, and Thor Section I: "Odysseus Is The Most Cunning Man in the World" Odysseus, son of Procris and Cephalus of the Royal House of Athens, played a major role in the Trojan War. However, the legends of Odysseus do not begin until after the great war. At the ... Fleece. Also, in the course of Odysseus' adventures, he proved himself to be not only a great hero but also a cunning and resourceful man, worthy of the title the most cunning man in the world. There are many similarities between the adventures of Jason and those of Odysseus'. Both heroes proved themselves to be mighty warriors; Jason, when forced to battle against the soldiers of the dragon teeth and Odysseus ... suitors. So we see that Odysseus could rely on both his wit and his strength to save him from dangerous situations. This is why he was given the title " the most cunning man in the world." Section II: Adonis Sonnet, XVII. Cherry-lipt Adonis in his snowie shape, Might not compare with his pure Iuorie white, On whose faire front a Poets pen may write, Whose rosiate red excels the ...
- 10798: The Good Life(comparison Of Ka
- ... What's the purpose to life?" I ask this because I see that most people live without purpose, without caring about others or about any cause. For me, that life is not worth living. A world that is composed of people who care nothing for others or for any moral cause is not a world worth living in. I cannot understand why people are willing to go through life without some higher purpose. Therefore I believe that living a good life does require you to serve the interest of others ... nihilism and looked for ways around its monstrous conclusions. Nietzsche does not, however, succumb to the temptations of the Void but attempts to reconstruct human endeavor in the face of it. He had an ideal world in mind, with an ideal government and an ideal God, the "Superman." These Gods were a product of natural selection, or social Darwinism. He felt, very strongly, that any kind of moral limitations upon ...
- 10799: The Course Of The Great Depres
- ... values appears fully appropriate. Between October 1929 and February 1930, the discount rate was reduced from 6 to 4 percent. The money supply jumped in the immediate aftermath of the Crash, as commercial banks in New York made loans to securities brokers and dealers in volume. Such funding satisfied the heightened liquidity demands of nonfinancial corporations and others that had been financing broker-dealers prior to the Crash and, of course ... which necessarily accompanied the bulge in the money supply resulting from the surge in bank lending to securities firms, was met in part by sizable open market purchases of U.S. government securities by the New York Federal Reserve Bank and by discount window borrowing by New York commercial banks. According to a senior official of the New York Fed at the time, that bank kept its "discount window wide open and let it be known that member banks might borrow ...
- 10800: Gather Together in Maya Angelou's Name
- ... Guy is suffering from her extended leave. She learns that her son has developed a severe and seemingly untreatable rash in her absence. After returning to San Francisco, Guy recovers, and together they reach a new level of trust and interdependence. Simultaneously the two realize that their separation is now over for good (Neubauer 25). With a promise that recalls the last lines of Gather Together, Angelou vows to Guy: "I ... V. Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas A. Role in Porgy and Bess B. Absence from Guy while on tour C. Relationship closure VI. Conclusion Bibliography Angelou, Maya. Gather Together In My Name. New York: Random House, 1972. Angelou, Maya. I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings. New York: Random House, 1969. Angelou, Maya. Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas. New York: Random House, 1976. Lupton, Mary Jane. "Singing the Black Mother: Maya Angelou and Autobiographical Continuity." Contemporary Literary Criticism, ...
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