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- 1961: The History Of Religion
- The History Of Religion In the history of religion as we know it today, many new ideas have been expressed. It is easy to cast judgement on "new" religious ideas because they are not what we have become accustomed to. The First Amendment to the Constitution guarantees us the right to any religious belief no matter what it is. The Constitution also grants us all the freedom to start a new religion without being harassed by the authorities, or arrested. Throughout time, some people have decided that there is only one way to look at things. Any idea or belief system that differs from the ...
- 1962: Euthanasia
- ... suicide, or active euthanasia, we eventually confront our socity's fears toward death itself. Above others, our culture breeds fear and dread of aging and dying. It is not easy for most of the western world to see death as an inevitable part of life. However, the issues that surround euthanasia are not only about death, they are about ones liberty, right to privacy and control over his or her own ... permitted "in all cases of hopeless and painful illness" to bring about "a quick and painless death." The word "painless" is important: the idea of euthanasia began gaining ground in modern times not because of new technologies for agonizingly prolonging life but because of the discovery of new drugs, such as morphine and various anesthetics for the relief of pain, that could also painlessly induce death. Over the next three decades Williams's proposal was reprinted in popular magazines and books, discussed ...
- 1963: Making Utilities for MS-DOS
- ... PC-DOS is actually a licensed version of MS-DOS). And this should be so, because these systems are very well written. The people who designed them are perhaps the best software engineers in the world. But making a computer platform that is a de facto standard should imply a good deal of responsibility before the developers who make applications for that platform. In particular, proper documentation is essential for such ... core of undocumented "functionality" in MS-DOS. This operating system also has some undocumented INT 21h API functions, but they serve merely to access the internal structures. These internal structures are extremely version-dependent. Each new major MS-DOS version up to 4.00 introduced a significant change to these structures. Applications using them will always be unportable and suffer compatibility problems. Every computer science textbook would teach you not to ... the-fly data encryption. This development project have made me think about the use of DOS internals in the first place and it has inspired me to write this paper. Utilities like SteelBox, Stacker, DoubleSpace, new versions of SmartDrive, etc. need to do the following trick: register with DOS as device drivers, get request packets from it, handle them in a certain way, and sometimes forward them to the driver ...
- 1964: Career As A Military Officer
- ... mostly on land. They had around 572,000 personnel in 1993. The Navy is seaborne the force of the U.S. Naval officers and enlisted spend long periods at sea and travel all about the world. In 1993 the Navy had about 510,000 personnel. The Air Force is the newest of the five branches and specializes in aviation and mechanical trades. Over 440,000 people were serving in the Air ... established in 1790 to combat smuggling and remains the oldest seaborne force of the U.S. The Militia act of 1792 pooled the state militias into what would become known as the National Guard after World War I. The war of 1812 started after a series of skirmishes with the French and was the last time the U.S. had to protect itself from foreign invaders. The Civil War was by ... S. military. In 1892 a Balloon Corps was established as part of the Army’s Signal Corps and in 1907 a separate Aeronautical Division was created. The U.S. showed its true military prowess in World War I. Air power had proven itself extremely important and brought about great strategic changes. The Army Air Service was established in 1918 as a separate service though it remained under the Army’s ...
- 1965: Atomic Bomb 6
- The world will note that the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a military base. That was because we wished in this first attack to avoid, insofar as possible, the killing of civilians. But that attack ... thousands of civilian lives will be lost. I urge Japanese civilians to leave industrial cities immediately, and save themselves from destruction. Harry S. Truman appears to be perfectly confident in his radio address to the world on August 9th 1945. Confident that he has made the right decision in dropping the first weapon of mass destruction, and thus hurling the world into an atomic age. It is, however, the poise of this strong leader, that makes it unclear to many just how agonizing and belabored his decision was. While at the time, to the public, ...
- 1966: Business Plan
- ... alternative to in house resources offers a very high level of practical experience, know how, contacts, and confidentiality. Clients must know that working with Progrssive Consulting is a more professional, less risky way to develop new areas even than working completely in house with their own people. Progressive Consulting must also be able to maintain financial balance, charging a high value for its services, and delivering an even higher value to ... European and Latin American markets, or for European clients in the United States market. 1. 3 Keys to Success •Excellence in fulfilling the promise completely confidential, reliable, trustworthy expertise and information. •Developing visibility to generate new business leads. •Leveraging from a single pool of expertise into multiple revenue generation opportunities: retainer consulting, project consulting, market research, and market research published reports. 2. 0 Company Summary Progressive Consulting is a new company providing high-level expertise in international high-tech business development, channel development, distribution strategies, and marketing of high tech products. It will focus initially on providing two kinds of international triangles: •Providing United ...
- 1967: Atomic Bomb
- “The world will note that the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a military base. That was because we wished in this first attack to avoid, insofar as possible, the killing of civilians. But that attack ... thousands of civilian lives will be lost. I urge Japanese civilians to leave industrial cities immediately, and save themselves from destruction.” Harry S. Truman appears to be perfectly confident in his radio address to the world on August 9th 1945. Confident that he has made the right decision in dropping the first weapon of mass destruction, and thus hurling the world into an atomic age. It is, however, the poise of this strong leader, that makes it unclear to many just how agonizing and belabored his decision was. While at the time, to the public, ...
- 1968: World Cultures: Comparing China and the United States
- World Cultures: Comparing China and the United States Religions are very different in both countries. In the US most people are Christian, but there is a freedom of religion so you have the right to practice ... given an equal amount of money because of the communist society, so it is much harder to have these sort of things. US people value money, the next thing they are saving up for, a new boat, or something else of value. But in China their values are different, mostly because of their communist government. They want to do everything for the good of the group, or their country, the more they can help out the better. The government of China you probably already know, it's one of the last communist governments left in the world. In a communist government the government runs everything, the businesses and jobs, they pay everyone equally. This does though have problems. People have no incentive to work, no matter how good a job they ...
- 1969: Science Fiction In Human Socie
- ... changes due to scientific advances and technological developments, and expects to undergo more" (Treitel 1). A large part of science fiction appeal lies in its ability to convince the audience of the believability of the world it portrays (Fuller 1). "Science fiction looks backward as much as forward and its usefulness lays not so much in predicting the actual future as in exploring our reaction to possible futures" (Marvel 2). Fantasy ... worlds? For instance, in The Matrix staring Keanu Reeves and Laurence Fishburne, these two individuals lead the fight to free mankind from the all-powerful machines of artificial intelligence that controls everyone in a dream world. Today, many computer systems are using or testing artificial intelligence on a small scale. Many novelists, like H.G. Wells and Wyndham, wrote pieces that try to predict the outcome of events or the future ... Air" and for a long period he acquired a reputation of a future prophet (Nicholson 2). "Some 'post-holocaust' stories such as Wyndham's 'The Chrysalides,' portray cultures that understand and control less of the world than we do; the scientific element consists of our understanding of their world, and of the change led to it from our world" (Treitel 2). Writers also use his or her imagination to create ...
- 1970: How The Great Pyramid Was Real
- How The Great Pyramid Was Really Built To this day, the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt remains one of the seven wonders of the world. In fact, the Great Pyramid is the only surviving wonder of the world ("Wonders of the World"). The gigantic size of this pyramid can amaze almost all people who see this ancient monument. Many curious people stand in wonder at its base and try to imagine how it was constructed. Other ...
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