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- 2281: What Leads to Intervention?: A Case Study of Intervention During the Bush Administration
- What Leads to Intervention?: A Case Study of Intervention During the Bush Administration As Commander-in-Chief of the most powerful armed force in a world plagued by small military crises, the question ultimately becomes: when does a crisis call for intervention? From 1988 to 1992, this was President George Bush's dilemma. The days of the United States fearing embroilment ... the USSR and global destruction ended at about the same time as Bush ascended the Presidency. However, with the threat of the USSR gone, the importance of small scale conflicts had taken priority in maintaining world peace. Further, the fall of communism had left the United States with a leading role in world politics. In that position, with a powerful armed force behind it, the United States carried the heavy responsibility of how and why to use it's new found eminence. That responsibility fell onto the ...
- 2282: Morality and Ethics and Computers
- ... By using a credit card or check cashing card, entering a raffle, or subscribing to a magazine, people provide information about themselves that can be sold to marketers and distributed to data bases throughout the world. When people use the world-wide web, the sites they visit and download things from, make a record that can be traced back to the person.6 This is not protected, as it is when books are checked out of ... decade but they became infamous when the Michelangelo virus caused a scare on March 6, 1992. According to the National Computer Security Association in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, there are 6000 known viruses worldwide and about 200 new ones show up every month.8 These viruses are spread quickly and easily and can destroy all information on a computer's hard drive. Now, people must buy additional software just to detect viruses ...
- 2283: Poore Brothers 3
- ... to manage in the hands-on way Don and Jay liked to manage it, so in 1994, they decided to sell Poore Brothers. Since then the owners have taken the company public and opened a new state of the art manufacturing facility in Goodyear, Arizona. Jay still works at the Goodyear plant and takes great pride in making sure the manufacturing equipment runs smooth and that the new owners make the best products possible. Poore Brothers has since stopped the manufacture of its product in Minnesota and Tennessee. The facility in Goodyear, Arizona, is currently the only Poore Brothers facility in the world. They do all manufacturing and shipping from there. Poore Brothers currently distributes to California, Colorado, Hawaii, Ohio, Illinois, and New Mexico, with the goal of eventually reaching every state. The company that started out ...
- 2284: Edgar Allen Poe
- ... theories are studied with more passion. Although he lived a rather melancholy existence, Poe did experience moments of joy, and desired to capture beauty through poetical form. Indeed, what he left behind for the literary world was his gifted genius, revealed through his poetry, fiction, and criticism. The darkness that seemed to surround Poe's life began as an infant. Poe was born January 19,1809 in Boston Massachusetts, the second ... 24. His writing became more insistent, as he found himself rejected by several newspapers. He eventually married his cousin, Virginia, who became a symbol to him as the ideal woman. In 1837, he moved to New York, where he engaged in literary wars with his contemporaries. Highly opinionated, Poe was not timid about criticizing the great poets and writers of his time. Poe continued to pursue his writing, and in 1947 ... is too long to be read at one sitting, we must be content to dispense with the immensely important effect derivable from unity of impression - for, if two sittings be required, the affairs of the world interfere, and every thing like totality is at once destroyed" (May 129). Thus, length was the very key to the enjoyment of a poem or a short story. Unity was a very important element ...
- 2285: Renaisance
- ... history, such as Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, lived during this time period. Renaissance scientists made many great discoveries and played a large part in a fair portion of our current knowledge about the natural world. As well, Renaissance thinkers changed the way people saw themselves and the world around them. Renaissance society was very different from feudal society of the middle ages. The Medieval world was built around the nearest manor and most everyday activities had to do with a manor or castle. By the time of the Renaissance, towns in southern Europe had grown greatly in size. The ...
- 2286: Comparitive Essay Between Gene
- A Boomer's Expense Through out history the world has seen some generations that have made an impact more than all of its predecessors. The decade of the 60's and the 80's were definitely one of those eras. During the era two ... in their lives. The Hippies "we're going to change politics in this country." 245 Michener Concerned chiefly protesting the Vietnam War and with Civil Rights they made a huge impact on America and the world. Even today the effects of the Hippie movement is still felt. They made huge advantages and set examples for the youth of today and years to come. The Sixties was a decade of social and political upheaval. In spite of all the turmoil, there were some positive results: John F. Kennedy's bold vision of a new frontier, and the breathtaking advances in space, helped bring about progress and prosperity. however, much was negative: student and anti-war protest movements, political assassinations, "They've shot Kennedy," 254 Michener and ghetto riots ...
- 2287: David Hume 2
- ... and there is clearly no argument against it. Hume boldly states that "impressions" and "ideas" make up the total content of the mind. His definition of 'impressions" is what each person perceives from the physical world through their senses. And according to this theory "ideas" are merely copies of these impressions within the mind. He justifies this by saying that when we imagine something that we have never actually seen before our minds are actually transposing impressions that we have formerly perceived and rearranging them in a new way. For example, we can clearly imaging things that don't exist like a unicorn. This could lead us to believe our minds have created a new image which is contrary to what Hume says is possible. But actually this unicorn is made up if images that we have already seen before and our mind is just combining the image of ...
- 2288: The Tatyana Caste
- The Tatyana caste Gregorik Andras AN212 '...Just as the storm clouds often slay The scarcely breathing new born day.' 1 One of the most popular of Tennyson's poems, The Lady of Shalott relates the tragic story of an extremely lonely young lady longing for a soulmate. A poem of "technical virtuosity ... deep-feeling, they find it exceptionally hard, even actually impossible, to become accepted and understood within their immediate environment made up of generally cruder and simpler sorts. Thus, these girls feel obliged to create a world of their own as a progressive act of counterbalance and self-condolence, rich with remnants of childhood fantasy, romantic works they've read and an air of bittersweet wistfulness. Pushkin's memorable portrayal of Tatyana ... a long time now. "His [Tennyson's] words project colorful, living reality constantly like the mirror of the Lady in the tower"6. We may draw a parallel between the shadow of the real, material world reflected in the Lady's magic mirror, and Tatyana's vivid fantasizing about being the heroines of all the romantic pieces she reads. Both of them view life through their own peculiar, distanced way ...
- 2289: Social, Ethical And Biological
- ... complex and devastating diseases that claim the life of many humans. Today there are one in three people worldwide who are affected by cancer, and almost 60% of these people will almost certainly die. 7000 New Zealanders die every year from this disease. It is the second largest killer next to heart disease. Cancer does not just affect certain groups of people, it can affect anybody and it is not just ... about cancer and how it may be avoided than 10 years ago. It has now been found that as many as 80% of all cancers may be avoidable. The most common types of cancer in New Zealand are female breast (14%), male prostate (14%), trachea, bronchus, and lung (12%) and colon (11%) Given that such a large proportion of cancers may be avoidable, why isn t there a reduction in cancer ... male prostate cancer has not been addressed enough (more?). 80% of lung cancers have been found to be caused by smoking. If smoking is such a huge cause of lung cancer that kills almost 150 New Zealanders every year, why can t it be banned? This is because large multimillion-dollar tobacco companies such as Wills and Benson and Hedges have very successful advertising campaigns mainly sponsoring sports teams. Even ...
- 2290: Revelation
- ... which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew. The revealing is done by the commentators, who know nothing."1 The book of Revelation, the only apocalypse among the twenty-seven books of the New Testament, has always occupied a marginal role within the field of Biblical interpretation. Its bizarre visions of beasts, dragons, plagues, and cataclysms have inspired poets and artists while confounding more traditionally minded scholars for centuries. England in the early seventeenth century proved an exception to this rule. The flowering of apocalyptic exegesis in this period among academic circles bestowed a new respectability on the book of Revelation as a literal roadmap of church history from the time of Christ to the present, and on into the eschaton. The principal writers in this field, including Arthur Dent ... of England as the consummation of the Reformation, as an elect nation with the potential to recreate the true church of the early Christians. Their intense belief in the imminence of the end of the world, however, along with the mode of interpretation which they applied to the Revelation, reflected trends in Christian thought redirected by Martin Luther, and largely ignored by John Calvin. In this paper I will examine ...
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