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- 1481: HDTV: The Emergence of a New Generation in Television.
- HDTV: The Emergence of a New Generation in Television. Abstract High definition television is proving itself to be a leader as a new innovation of television. The impact HDTV will have on consumers, the laws surrounding this new medium, and it's attributes and in differences to analog television will be looked at first in this paper. Also, my research question, "How will HDTV influence consumerism in the 21st century," will be ...
- 1482: Autism: False Words and False Hope
- Autism: False Words and False Hope Autism is a childhood disease where the child is in a private world of their own. A description of an autistic child by her mother is: We start with an image---a tiny, golden child on hands and knees, circling round and round a spot on the floor ... in autistic therapy that are important factors in helping with the child are "observations, establishing relationships, and changing behaviors" (Simons 27). Once autistic children have made a relationship, they are brought closer to the outside world. That is why facilitation therapy is so popular. This kind of therapy helps the outside world to communicate with the lost child. The autistic child is supported by a facilitator who holds the arm, the wrist, or the hand. This support helps the child to control his/her movements in ...
- 1483: The Influence Of Writers On Charles Darwin
- The Influence Of Writers On Charles Darwin The theory of Evolution as presented by Charles Darwin has had a great impact on the world today. It has caused many debates between religious authorities and those from the scientific community. This theory had prompted individuals to think about themselves, their origins and it has changed the way in which they ... his theories on population growth. One of these intellectuals was Charles Darwin. Thomas Malthus (1766-1834) was an English clergyman and political economist in the times of Darwin and his primary contribution to the economic world was the his theory of population which was published in Essay on the Principles of Population in 1798. According to Malthus, population tends to increase faster than the supply of goods available for its needs ... over population growth, it stimulates a higher rate of population increase; on the other hand, if population grows too much faster than production, the growth is checked by famine, disease, and war. (Funk & Wagnall's New Encylopedia, 1979, p.438) Malthus' theory was seen as being a dismal expression of the human struggle for survival. This philosopy of survival of the fittest was used by many to prevent society from ...
- 1484: NAFTA
- NAFTA In January 1994 the United States, Mexico and Canada entered into the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and created the largest free trade sector and the richest market in the world. Over 410 million consumers are able to take advantage of the benefits of this treaty. In 1995 Chile was added to the treaty and will become a full-fledged member early in the next century. The North American Free Trade Agreement is unique because the treaty not only created the largest free trade zone in the world but also outlined economic policies, which set the standard for many other treaties and addressed other issues such as environment and working conditions. In order to better understand NAFTA, the most important goals of the ... members were established and have 'standardized' the quality of all trade items as well as provided the environmental support to clean-up any environmental problems. The last major goal of the treaty was to foster world trade and set the example for trade cooperation in the world and encourage other countries to establish more free trade areas. There are many economic incentives for all the treaty members to include access ...
- 1485: Environmental Forces And International Business
- ... the environmental forces of the markets in which they operate. Decision making in the international environment is more complex and having an understanding of the external environmental forces enables international managers to be alerted to new opportunities. External forces are commonly called uncontrollable forces. Although managers have no direct control over external forces, knowledge of these forces will better prepare them for greater success in the international business environment. Five of ... which are also major seaports and in the southeastern fifth of the nation where more than one half of the population lives. This gives Australia one of the highest percentages of urban population in the world. The distances between these cities and the fact that they are seaports make coastal shipping preferred over road and rail transportation. These long distances between major markets result in transportation accounting for as much as ... per cent of the final cost of the product as compared with the more usual 10 per cent in Italy. Cargo can be transferred quickly to truck or rail anywhere in Australia thanks to the new standard gauge rail connection road network. Long distances also present major challenges to the development of efficient communications networks. Italy is situated in the South of continental Europe bounded by the Mediterranean sea with ...
- 1486: Computers
- Computers Nothing attracts a crowd like a crowd. Today, with home computers and modems becoming faster and cheaper, the home front is on the break of a new frontier of on line information and data processing. The Internet, the ARPANET (Advanced Research Programs Agency Network) spinoff is a channel of uninterrupted information interchange. It allows people to connect to large computer databases that can store valuable information on goods and services. The Internet is quickly becoming a tool for vast data interchange for more than twenty million Americans. New tools are allowing Internet presence an easier task. As did the gold miners set out to California on carriages to stake their claim in the gold rush, business and entrepreneurs are rushing to stake their claim on the information superhighway through Gopher sites, World-Wide Web sites, and electronic mailing lists. This article explains how businesses and entrepreneurs are setting up information services on the Internet that allows users to browse through picture catalogues, specification lists, and up ...
- 1487: Cults
- There are many types of cults in the world, cults are everywhere but you just do not see them. Every person in the world has been in contact with them in one way or another in many cases you cannot see them. The closest cult we know of is on Rice Lake called the Moonies led by Reverend Myung ... and leave church when you want to. Although sects are against church attempts to accommodate to secular society. Sects believe that they are protecting a true faith or belief. Sects tend to stay away from world events , and also they believe in a strong strict behavioral code and demand a commitment out of their people. The differences between cults and sects are sometimes the same. Many scholars do not make ...
- 1488: Computer Crime in the 90's
- ... s the weekend, you have nothing to do so you decide to play around on your computer. You turn it on and then start up, you start calling people with your modem, connecting to another world, with people just like you at a button press away. This is all fine but what happens when you start getting into other peoples computer files. Then it becomes a crime, but what is a ... pursuit of knowledge. Of course this is still against the law. But where did all of this start, MIT is where hacking started the people there would learn and explore computer systems all around the world. In the views of professional hacking is like drugs or any other addictive substance, it's an addiction for the mind and once started it's difficult to stop. This could be true, as hackers ... who have ragged on him or do anything termed to be dishonourable to phreaks. [fr'eek] n. 3. A certain code or dialup useful in the action of being a phreak. (Example: "I hacked a new metro phreak last night.") The latter 2 ideas of what a phreak is, is rather weird. A Phreak like the hacker likes to explore and experiment, however his choice of exploring is not other ...
- 1489: Who Loves Lucy? I do, I do!
- ... I have not seen. For those not as familiar with the show, “I Love Lucy” is a black and white show that was most popular during the 1950’s. It takes place in a small New York City apartment in which the two main characters, Ricky and Lucy Ricardo, live. What is interesting about the show is the fact that all of the gender roles are extremely well defined and strictly ... success.” (Hunt, internet) Although her tactics were often outlandish and foolish at times, her desire to become a liberated woman was very serious. Watching “I Love Lucy” takes the viewer back in time to a world where women had their place and did not work. Their “jobs” were to maintain a clean house and cook a hot meal. Women had few opportunities to work, and the jobs they could find often ... a secretary, waitress and showgirl. These jobs offered little or no chance for growth or promotion. Lucy fought hard to fight this stereotype as well. A woman who worked was often the exception in a world dominated by the men who were responsible for bringing home the money for his wife and his children. An example that comes to mind is the classic episode where Lucy and her best friend ...
- 1490: The Lost World: Summary
- The Lost World: Summary The Lost World by Michael Crichton is a great science fiction novel about a group of scientists of different fields that go on an expedition to an island to bring back a rich and stubborn scientist from a test expedition that he cared about more than his life. The "lost world" is an island off the coast of Costa Rica called Isla Sorna on which a company named InGen (Short for International Genetics Corps.), genetically engineered and contrived dinosaurs which were extinct since 65 million ...
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