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- 2051: Canada's Ideal Population - What Is It? and How Should It Be Achieved?
- ... extent they are correct. So the question I ask myself is this. How would an increased population affect the amount of natural resources we have? Well, to answer this I had to consider our present world population. With approximately 5.5 billion people in the world, it has been estimated that our natural resources will be used up in a few hundred years. Just think what an increase in our population would do to the level of resources. We would probably have our resources down to nothing in a matter of generations. What people are forgetting is that scientists will always be working on new inventions, and are bound to come up with some alternate manufactured resource that people can use as a substitute to all the gasses, gasoline and other oil products. Other problems that would occur due ...
- 2052: Comparitive Essay Between Perc
- ... any room for them to wander off into their own interests if they should conform. The students of Du Bois s essay characterize one of which fits as a simple tourist . Du Bois said, Nothing new, no time saving devices, -simply old time glorified methods of delving the Truth, and searching the hidden beauties of life, and learning the good of living. The riddle of existence is the college curriculum that ... student to explore because within the educational system, there are always rules which can limit and deny the student their genuine experience of exploring on their own. Percy sees that, ...the citizen of Huxleys s Brave New World who stumbles across a volume of Shakespeare in some vine-grown ruins and squats on a potsherd to read it is in a fairer way of getting at a sonnet than the Harvard ...
- 2053: Abraham Lincoln 3
- ... quotations in his later writings shows how earnestly he must have studied it. Young Lincoln worked for a while as a ferryman on the Ohio River, and at 19 helped take a flatboat cargo to New Orleans. There he encountered a manner of living wholly unknown to him. Soon after he returned, his father decided to move to Illinois, where a relative, John Hanks, had preceded him. On March 1, 1830, the family set out with all their possessions loaded on three wagons. Their new home was located on the north bank of the Sangamon River, west of Decatur. When a cabin had been built and a crop had been planted and fenced, young Lincoln hired out to split fence ... eastward to Coles county, Ill. But this time Abraham did not accompany them, for during the winter he, his stepbrother John D. Johnston, and his cousin John Hanks had agreed to take another cargo to New Orleans for a trader, Denton Offutt. A new life was opening for young Lincoln. Henceforth he could make his own way. Supposedly it was on this second trip to New Orleans that young Lincoln, ...
- 2054: Canadian Confederation
- ... some were pleased, others were annoyed and many were hopeful for a prosperous future.1 It was the initiative of the Maritime Provinces that first created the concept of union. Leaders of Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia had been discussing the possibility of a Maritime union for many years. Lieutenant Governor Arthur Hamilton Gordon and Leonard Tilley of New Brunswick, Premier Charles Tupper of Nova Scotia and Colonel Gray and W.H Pope of Prince Edward Island were all advocates of the concept of maritime union for solutions to the problems which they were ... and grain being imported by the U.S. When the Americans ended the Reciprocity Treaty in 1865, many Maritimers became uneasy about the economic future. It became apparent that in order to develop thriving trade; new economic links would have to be developed. 3 George Coles, a persistent politician, insisted that Prince Edward Island was not being provided with strong leadership, Gray was forced to drop the topic of Confederation. ...
- 2055: Richard Swinburne's "The Problem of Evil": God's Existence
- ... order to maintain the possibility of God's existence is the problem of evil. In his essay, "The Problem of Evil," by Richard Swinburne, the author attempts to explain how evil can exist in a world created by an omniscient, omnipotent, omnibenevolent Being, namely God. Swinburne uses to free-will defense and says that God gave us a choice between doing good and doing evil. If someone chooses to do good ... weak argument and in order to clarify those weaknesses one can look at Steven M. Cahn's essay entitled "Cacodaemony." This essay parallels Swineburne's, but states that an omniscient, omnipotent, omnimalevolent Demon created the world. By looking at how weak the argument for cacodaemony is, one can see how unlikely it is that the Demon exists and then can see that the existence of God is just as unlikely. In "The Problem of Evil", Swinburne says that an omniscient, omnipotent, omnibenevolent Being created the world. If this were true, how can evil exist in this world? If God consciously knew He was creating a world in which there is evil, then He would not be omnibenevolent. If God did ...
- 2056: Impact Of New Deal On The
- New Deal is a program created by Franklin Delano Roosevelt during the Great Depression to counteract various effects of it. New Deal created many agencies and legislation to help the United States pull itself out of the Great Depression. Some of these agencies have tremendous effect even today. When Roosevelt was elected as the president, he ... Conservation Corps which hired many uniformed young men to do public works such as fire fighting and reforestation. Agriculture Adjustment Act also helped to solve overproduction of crops. Tennessee Valley Contrast to what people believe, New Deal did not end the Great Depression. However, through New Deal, Roosevelt sought to solve the immediate problems that threatened the United States. Many economists believed that its greatest failure was its inability to ...
- 2057: Shoeless Joe and the Black Sox Scandal
- Shoeless Joe and the Black Sox Scandal After winning the 1906 World Series, the Chicago White Sox were not able to maintain their position of number one. They remained in the middle of the American League until 1915 when a new manager, Clarence Rowland and a new star, Joe Jackson, joined the team. Joe Jackson was a star from South Carolina who was known as "Shoeless" Joe because of his poverty- stricken childhood. Joe Jackson was dubbed "The finest natural hitter ...
- 2058: New Technology
- ... for you if you're busy, route calls when you're out of town, and even prioritize and read your email messages to you. Portico is so responsive, you can interrupt mid-sentence with a new request, eliminating the need to wait through menus. You won't get bogged down with messages you don't want. And you shouldn't miss the ones you do want. The brains behind Portico are ... Network Operations Center embodies the General Magic business model: minimum maintenance with maximum functionality. The Network Operations Center was built from the ground up to be a technology showcase. Today, it's one of the world's largest voice recognition-based networks(). The sophisticated voice recognition technology can identify thousands of phrases spoken in plain English(). The service architecture is based on recognized industry standards. So it's configured with all ... and all of the latest technologies that emerge in the future. The network is designed to be a cutting-edge system, utilizing the best-of-breed equipment and software technologies. It's a 24/7 world, and the Network Operations Center is designed to keep pace. Dedicated operators work around the clock to ensure maximum uptime. The network even helps them diagnose problems. If a part of the system ever ...
- 2059: A Changed Man
- ... of the great city where boys are killed crossing the street, the fear of Gertrudes sickness. Deep down the fear for his son. Deep down the fear of a man who lives in a world not made for him, whose own world is slipping away, dying, being destroyed, beyond any recall (14). Initially, Stephen has never seen the city, and knows only what he has heard of it, therefore harboring many preconceived notions about the dangers and evils that await him in Johannesburg. With comfort from his Bible, Kumalo ventures into this unknown world. In other words, Kumalo clings to his old values as a lifeline when traveling towards this haven for deceit and despair. A small, timid fish, he swims into a much larger pond, and is ...
- 2060: Their Eyes Are Watching God
- ... s second marriage to Albert Price III was also short lived. They were married in 1939 and divorced in 1943. By the mid-1940s Hurstons writing career had began to falter. While living in New York, Hurston was arrested and charged with committing an immoral act with a ten-year-old boy. The charges were later dropped when Hurston proved that she was in another country at the time the ... was deeply interested in the subtle nuances that voo doo had left scattered throughout Afro-American culture. She also adopted this religion, which contrasted completely with her Baptist up-bringing, because it gave her a new artistic sense. Voo doo freed her from the institutional restraints that she experienced as a black woman in a white oligarchy. Her belief in voo doo appeared in almost all of her works, including Their ... is raised to uphold the standards of her grandmothers generation; she is taught to be passive and subject to whatever life gives her. But as Janie grows older she begins to realize that the world may not like it, but she has got to follow her desires, not suppress them. The story begins in her childhood, with Janie exalting material possessions and money, two things she has never had ...
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