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- 1381: Media Effect
- I. Introduction Media nowadays is considered a window for learning and is also considered to be our main window to the world. Media has evolved from simple text in papers, to voices in radios, to voices with pictures in television and movies, to the very broad and information packed Internet. But as we all know, media has ... Corvette evolved from more mundane automotive ancestors in 1953. Other high points in the Corvette's evolutionary refinement included the 1962 model, in which the original 102-inch was shortened to 98 inches and the new closed-coupe Stingray model was introduced;
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The point is that the Corvette evolved through a selection process on variations that resulted in a series of transitional forms and an ... sets that could also display older B&W programs. It didn't just happen by chance. Now there are 200 to 300 million analog TV sets in America, none of which are compatible with the new digital HDTV signals. The "evolution" from analog TV to digital TV required a federal law making it illegal to broadcast analog TV signals after 2006. (The government seems to be backing away from that ...
- 1382: The Rise of the Manchus
- ... coastal area first. Western traders, missionaries, and soldiers of fortune began to arrive in large numbers even before the Qing, in the sixteenth century. The empire's inability to evaluate correctly the nature of the new challenge or to respond flexibly to it resulted in the demise of the Qing and the collapse of the entire millennia-old framework of dynastic rule. Emergence Of Modern China The success of the Qing ... little change in the attitudes of the ruling elite. The imperial Neo-Confucian scholars accepted as axiomatic the cultural superiority of Chinese civilization and the position of the empire at the hub of their perceived world. To question this assumption, to suggest innovation, or to promote the adoption of foreign ideas was viewed as tantamount to heresy. Imperial purges dealt severely with those who deviated from orthodoxy. By the nineteenth century ... Christian converts. The papal decision quickly weakened the Christian movement, which it proscribed as heterodox and disloyal. The Opium War, 1839-42 During the eighteenth century, the market in Europe and America for tea, a new drink in the West, expanded greatly. Additionally, there was a continuing demand for Chinese silk and porcelain. But China, still in its preindustrial stage, wanted little that the West had to offer, causing the ...
- 1383: Bill Gates
- ... in a class full of girls"(Gates 12). In 1972 Intel released their first microprocessor chip: the 8008. Gates attempted to write a version of BASIC (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) for the new Intel chip, but the chip did not contain enough transistors to handle it. Gates and Allen found a way to use the 8008 and "started Traf-O-Data, a computer traffic analysis company"(Clayton 452) It worked well however, marketing their new machine proved to be impossible. "No one actually wanted to buy the machine, at least not from a couple teenagers"(Gates 14). Gates and Allen had more less successful endeavors in starting a software company. In 1974 Intel announced their new chip: the 8080. The two college students sent off letters "to all the big computer companies, offering to write them a version of BASIC for the new Intel chip. We got no takers"(Gates ...
- 1384: Overpopulation
- In the late 1960s and early 1970s some environmentalists began making a sensational claim. The worlds ever increasing population, they claimed, would soon outstrip the planets limited resources leading to an environmental disaster. In these doom and gloom scenarios, a massive worldwide famine was just around the corner. The ... impending disaster was to adopt strict policies to control population.There will soon be 6 billion human beings on Earth: according to the latest population estimates released by the United Nations. At this rate, the world population is doubling every 40 years. On October 12, 1999 the world's population will reach 6,000,000,000 people. The overpopulation is a very vast subject, but my assignment will only explain the three major points of the overpopulation. The biggest concern of human ...
- 1385: Hemp Around The World
- HEMP AROUND THE WORLD AUSTRALIA While hemp is currently banned, government officials have permitted one farmer to grow the crop on a small-scale research plot. Public support for hemp farming is gathering. An informative one-hour Australian TV ... the USA. The hemp oil is then processed by US entrepeneurs into cosmetics, massage oils and salad oils. CHINA China has been growing hemp (ma) for at least 6,000 years, and is currently the world's largest exporter of hemp paper and textiles. With its vast natural resources and labor pool, it will be a major influence in the future hemp industry. China is also the largest producer of nonwood paper, including hemp paper, in the world. FRANCE In France, more than 10,000 tons of industrial hemp (chanvre) were harvested in 1994. Kimberly-Clark Corporation manufactures specialty hemp papers, including Bible and cigarette papers, there. French companies are also experimenting ...
- 1386: Biological Warfare and Terrorism
- ... that the chemical agent used was an impure or dilute solution of sarin, a nerve agent developed by Nazi Germany during the '30's. This was the beginning of a frightening future for the modern world. "Organized and indiscriminat e murder" (Tokyo, A1) on a large scale is clearly possible and chemical weapons are likely to be a terrorist's vehicle for mass destruction. The threat of terrorist use of chemical weapons is now quickly forcing its way into the thoughts of people all around the world. The attack in Japan, "says Israeli terrorism expert Yonah Alexander, 'has global implications. It's a quantum leap to terro rism by mass destruction" (Strasser, 36). There is such broad selection of chemical weapons exhibiting ... ones, and the disadvantages that do exist seem quite small. In general it seems that the chemical weapons may become a key component in the terrorist arsenal. If this threat is left unchecked th e world's population may soon live under a dark cloud of constant fear. This would be the fear that any crazy person, terrorist, or activist group has the potential to commit random acts of brutal ...
- 1387: Physical Artifacts in Adrienne Rich's "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers" and Seamus Heaney's "The Harvest Bow"
- ... Aunt Jennifer's Tigers" and Seamus Heaney's "The Harvest Bow" In the poems "The Harvest Bow" and "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers" , the physical artifacts represented in each poem is symbolic of each characters ideal world. The poets do not confine themselves with the restrictions imposed by poetry where ideas are conveyed solely through the utilization of words. The poems utilize a poetic technique, where the use of physical artifacts such ... through her wool" (Rich 5), again implying a contrast with the tigers. Aunt Jennifer's reality lacks the control the tigers have over their environment . The illustration is an image of Aunt Jennifer's ideal world where the limitations found in her reality vanish. Instead of feeling inferior towards the opposite sex, she would in turn dominate. The visual images represented by Aunt Jennifer's screen allows further interpretation through the comparison of Aunt Jennifer's reality and her vision of equality. Aunt Jennifer displays weakness by merely referring to the tigers. She does not blame anyone for the lack of an equal world. Through the creation of the tigers she conveys that for such a world to materialize persons that have strength as exemplified by the tigers have the ability to make it possible. In this sense ...
- 1388: The History and Deline of the Roman Empire
- ... Roman Empire "If," writes Roman historian Edward Gibbon in his A History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire," a man were called upon to fix the period in the history of the world when the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus;" the period from 98 to ... Oriental religions tried to fill the spiritual vacuum. A sense of futility seemed to permeate society. There were many outstanding administrators and good governors but, on the whole, the Roman spirit which had conquered the world seemed to have dissolved into an indolence which preferred ease and comfort to a facing up to the dangers which threatened civilization. Some authors suggest that the change in racial stock was responsible for this ... any estimate of the reasons for the decline of Rome, the moral and physical effects of this plague and the later one (252-267 A.D., ought not to be omitted. Thus, the seemingly happy world of Gibbon's day was sleepwalking its way to a catastrophe. The plague contributed to the decline. But, even before the plague, the Roman world was rotting from within. One might simply call it ...
- 1389: Causes of the Great Depression
- Causes of the Great Depression The Great Depression was the worst economic slump ever in U.S. history, and one that spread to virtually the entire industrialized world. The depression began in late 1929 and lasted for about a decade. Many factors played a role in bringing about the depression; however, the main cause for the Great Depression was the combination of the ... prosper were those that made materials for cars. The booming steel industry sold roughly 15% of its products to the automobile industry(end note 23). The nickel, lead, and other metal industries capitalized similarly. The new closed cars of the 1920's benefited the glass, leather, and textile industries greatly. And manufacturers of the rubber tires that these cars used grew even faster than the automobile industry itself, for each car would probably need more than one set of tires over the course of its life. The fuel industry also profited and expanded. Companies such as Ethyl Corporation made millions with items such as new "knock-free" fuel additives for cars(end note 24). In addition, "tourist homes" (hotels and motels) opened up everywhere. With such a wealthy upper-class many luxury hotels were needed. In 1924 alone, hotels ...
- 1390: William Lloyd Garrison
- ... people of the town thought he was very nervy. (Faber 32) However, William was just getting started. He had found his voice and intended to use it. William wanted to make his mark on the world and being a printer in a small town like Newburyport-even a printer who also wrote-wouldn't make him famous. Even before his term of service as an apprentice had ended, William was trying ... was no wonder the Free Press failed. What's more, Garrison refused to tone his opinions for any reason. When Thomas Jefferson died on July 4, 1826-exactly fifty years after the adoption of his world-famous Declaration of Independence-Garrison was critical of the author of the historic document. (Faber 36) William wrote that he would not be a hypocrite and praise a man who had held dangerously wrong religious ... and talked him into joining him as co-editor of the Genius of Universal Emancipation. (Archer 25) In his last issue of the Journal on March 29, 1829, Garrison announced that he had taken a new post to devote his entire effort to fighting slavery. "I trust in God," he declared, "that I may be the humble instrument of breaking at least one chain and restoring on captive to liberty: ...
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