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- 11111: Causes Of The Cold War
- ... international relations and dominated the foreign policies of Europe. It affected all of Europe and determined lasting alliances. The Cold War was caused by the social climate and tension in Europe at the end of World War II and by the increasing power struggles between the Soviet Union. Economic separation between the Soviets and the west also heightened tensions, along with the threat of nuclear war. One main conflict between the ... the gap between the Soviet Union and the west. Another cause of the Cold War was the Soviet Unions control over Eastern Europe and the forming of economic alliances in reaction. At the end of World War II, the Soviet Union began transforming the newly freed countries and engulfed them one by one until all of Eastern Europe was part of the Soviet Union. The United States became alarmed with the ... during the Cuban Missle Crisis where the Soviet Union planted nuclear missiles at the United States from Cuba for a time. The Cold War was brought about by many factors caused at the end of World War II. The idealogical differences, economic barriers,political and military alliances, and nuclear weapons all contributed to creating the Cold War. These differences caused the mounting tension between the Soviet Union and the west ...
- 11112: Metamorphosis2000
- ... hours looking out the window, studying, and reading; however, he now finds nothing more than a skewed perception of reality when doing these things. The whole worlds now looks and tastes different for Gregor. The world's perception of him drives him away, and now his perception of the world drives him away even further. Alienation feeds upon itself. With the taste of moldy cheese in his mouth and the sight of nothing but a desolate gray expanse in front of him, Gregor's leisurely ... same thing. Unlike a normal person who lies upon a couch or bed and fears what may lie under it, Gregor resides underneath the couch and hides from those who would normally rest atop. His world has been turned upside-down. He no longer roots himself to the floor, but clings to the ceiling. Gregor has metamorphosed and is now truly the unguers ungerzeifer. Sadly, Gregor's family treats him ...
- 11113: Capital Punishment: Against
- ... believe that the argument that the death penalty is discriminatory and arbitrary does not give support to the abolition of capital punishment, but rather to the extension of it. Edward Koch, the former mayor of New York from 1978 to 1989 and death penalty supporter, states that the discriminatory manner of the death penalty "no longer seems to be the problem it once was," yet in 1987, the Supreme Court case ... we are willing to accept the avoidable death of an innocent man and allow the "death penalty to continue to create and perpetuate injustice." Works Cited Berger, Vivian, "Rolling the Dice to Decide Who Dies," New York State Bar Journal, October 1988. Bruck, David, "The Death Penalty," The New Republic, May 20, 1985. Death Penalty Focus (DPF), "Myths and Facts about California's Death Penalty," pamphlet Koch, Edward, "Death and Justice: How Capital Punishment Affirms Life," The New Republic, April 15, 1985. Nathanson, ...
- 11114: What Is A Monopoly
- ... in this paper, but rather explain what components make up a monopoly and how they interact together. I will try and answer the questions on why monopolies exist and their traits that control the business world. Microsoft is probably one of the first companies that comes to mind when one thinks of a monopoly. I will discuss Microsoft in fairly well detail because I believe that they are a prime example ... pose is that Bill Gates created an empire that completely controls the market. However, this is not the whole story. Microsoft has created a standard for the computer software industry. Because of these standards, the world has been brought together. People can use their software and have it transferable without having to worry if it will run on a certain computer. When someone says that they have windows it is widely ... consumer, praises Microsoft and its success. He says, "Microsoft's biggest impact has been the advocation of a broad standard for personal computing that has been massively accepted and dominates the PC industry around the world. As part of that, they have facilitated applications, which is a self-reinforcing concept. This is a company that has spent a tremendous amount of time assuring that its platform is widely utilized and ...
- 11115: Michael Jordan
- Michael Jordan With nothing left to prove on the court, Michael Jordan, the world's most famous basketball star, retired from the game to concentrate on the challenges of raising his three kids. Jordan retired from the Chicago Bulls after 13 seasons and six NBA Championships, including the one ... of theirs.Basketball's greatest player ends his amazing reign at the top-the very top-of his game. The 6-foot-6 king of basketball led the Chicago Bulls to a record six NBA World Championships. He led the Bulls to three straight NBA Championships, 1991,1992 and 1993. He led the Bulls again to win the NBA world championships three times in a row, in 1996, 1997 and 1998. And along the way Jordan picked up five regular season Most Valuable Player(MVP)awards, six Finals MVPs, 10 scoring titles, and made ...
- 11116: Bushed
- ... He refers to lake-lap as the calm life he was leading, always monotone and continuous that was disturbed by the incident that may have ruined his life. Yet this man faced this as a new beginning, as a survivor. Birney uses the roasting of the porcupine bellies as a symbol of his facing the difficult situations that faced him in stride. He uses those situations to his advantage and takes ... thought he was living and the people around him start changing showing their true colors. Everything is, "Shaping it’s peak to an arrowhead poised." The mountain which seemed like a dream is becoming the new tool to destroy his new rainbow, his new life. Earle Birney leaves us in the last stanza on the note, " And now he could only bar himself in and wait." All our character can do is see his dreams ...
- 11117: Wilson’s “War Message”; Bush’s “War With Iraq”
- ... to have a voice in their own (unreadable)… for the rights and liberties of small nations, for such a universal domination of right as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free.” Bush: “‘There are things worth fighting for. A world in which brutality and lawlessness are allowed to go unchecked isn’t the kind of world we’re going to want to live in.’” These statements each appeal to Americans’ sense of duty to rid the world of injustice.
- 11118: Jazz 3
- ... periodical The Masses, which was associated with the Ash-can School, and exhibited watercolors in the Armory Show, which made an overwhelming impact on him. After a visit to Paris in 1928 he introduced a new note into U.S. cubism, basing himself on its synthetic rather than its analytical phase. Using natural forms, particularly forms suggesting the characteristic environment of American life, he rearranged them into flat poster-like patterns ... of French, Spanish, and English texts. In his teenage years Basquiat ran away from home often. He did not like obedience. By 1978 he was in with the "in crowd." The filmmakers and artists of New York. He enjoyed doing graffiti work using the name SAMO ( same old shit ). Basquiat’s career was divided into three broad phases. From 1980 to 1982 he used painterly gestures, mostly skeletal figures that signal ... a strong interest in his black and hispanic identity and his identification with historical and contemporary black figures and events. The last phase was from 1986 until his death in 1988. His work displays a new type of figurative depiction, using different symbols, sources, and content. He was seeking a new territory in his work. When Basquiat’s Horn Players and Davis?Swing Landscape are displayed side by side it ...
- 11119: 19th Century Romanticism in Europe
- ... doctrines and ideology, but was also a sharp contrast from ideas and harmony featured during the Enlightenment. The Romantic era grew alongside the Enlightenment, but concentrated on human diversity and looking at life in a new way. It was the combination of modern Science and Classicism that gave birth to Romanticism and introduced a new outlook on life that embraced emotion before rationality. Romanticism was a reactionary period of history when its seeds became planted in poetry, artwork and literature. The Romantics turned to the poet before the scientist to ... was men such as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in Germany who wrote "The Sorrows of Young Werther" which epitomized what Romanticism stood for. His character expressed feelings from the heart and gave way to a new trend of expressing emotions through individuality as opposed to collectivism. In England, there was a resurgence into Shakespearean drama since many Romantics believed that Shakespeare had not been fully appreciated during the 18th century. ...
- 11120: The Failure of NAFTA
- ... president of the Mattel Corporation assured a Congressional subcommittee that NAFTA would have a very positive effect on the company’s 2,000 U.S. employees. Two years later 520 workers in Mattel’s Medina, New York plant were laid off. The reason for the lay offs? Increased company imports from Mexico that resulted from NAFTA (Mcintosh 6). Also in ’93 NAFTA supporters used sophisticated statistical models to prove that the ... benefits. I think we are likely to see future policy action in the area of trade between the North American countries. NAFTA hasn’t worked well, so I’m sure there will soon be a new proposal on the table soon. I think the new policy will greatly be affected by the next presidential election also. Which party gains or retains the presidency will have a major impact on economics and trade. Also, with the Republicans apparently going to ...
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