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- 2441: Internet Tax
- ... every year. These seven-cent deposits go to the Missouri and Raymore tax funds. Taxes that help pay for public education, Medicaid, and other state and local services (Alster). There is only one problem, a new form of commerce is taking business away from normal "brick and mortar" businesses like Wal-Mart. This form of commerce isn't new, it's actually a few years old and it's growing exponentially now. This new standard of commerce is called "electronic commerce" or "e-commerce." E-commerce comprised of $4 billion dollars in revenues in 1997 ("Let's Not Rush"), which is almost negligible to the trillions of dollars ...
- 2442: Biblical Allusions and Imagery in Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath
- ... load of them sitting on top of the truck. 4" Grampa's character is an allusion to the story of Lot's wife. He is unable to come to grips with the prospect of a new life, and his recollection of the past results in his death. Lot's wife died in the same manner. She turned into a pillar of salt when she looked back into her past. The parallel ... and as Hunter notes, the lack of detailed parallel seems to be deliberate, for Steinbeck is reflecting a broader background of which the exodus story is only a part.9 Several Biblical allusions come from New Testament stories. Most prevalent among these allusions is the role of Jim Casy as a Christ figure. Hunter provides a plentiful supply of parallels between the life of Jim Casy and the messiah whose initials ... completed throughout the novel. The annunciation of Casy's message and mission sets the ideological direction of the novel before the journey begins just as the messiah concept influences Jewish thought for centuries before the New Testament times.11 Only gradually does he make an impression on the Joads who similarly to the Jews were used to living under the old dispensation. Steinbeck finally completes the parallel when Casy tells ...
- 2443: William Carlos Williams: A Poet On A Mission
- ... unique and unusually plain style. Living a life that was rather conventional, using a writing style that was essentially breaking the mold, and having a style that most critics were unsure about, Williams established a new genre to the poetic world. THE SIMPLE THINGS IN LIFE William Carlos Williams; born on September seventeenth, 1883, in Rutherford, New Jersey; was the first of two sons born to the middle class status of George and Raquel (Helene) Williams. Having an English father and a Puerto Rican mother, with ancestry from the French, Dutch, ...
- 2444: The Battle For Your Mind: Persuasion & Brainwashing Techniques Being Used On The Public
- ... 1735. The Pavlovian explanation of the three brain phases. Born-again preachers: Step-by-Step, how they conduct a revival and the expected physiological results. The "voice roll" technique used by preachers, lawyers and hypnotists. New trance-inducing churches. The 6 steps to conversion. The decognition process. Thought-stopping techniques. The "sell it by zealot" technique. True believers and mass movements. Persuasion techniques: "Yes set," "Imbedded Commands," "Shock and Confusion," and ... be converted. Non-detectable Neurophone programming through the skin. The medium for mass take-over. I'm Dick Sutphen and this tape is a studio-recorded, expanded version of a talk I delivered at the World Congress of Professional Hypnotists Convention in Las Vegas, Nevada. Although the tape carries a copyright to protect it from unlawful duplication for sale by other companies, in this case, I invite individuals to make copies ... by increasing the tension, the "sinners" attending his revival meetings would break down and completely submit. Technically, what Edwards was doing was creating conditions that wipe the brain slate clean so that the mind accepts new programming. The problem was that the new input was negative. He would tell them, "You're a sinner! You're destined for hell!" As a result, one person committed suicide and another attempted suicide. ...
- 2445: The Country of Italy
- The Country of Italy INTRODUCTION Italy is one of the most beautiful and culturally rich countries in the world. Ask any person on the street to name an old and artistic country and they will answer Italy. It got its name from the ancient Romans. They called the southern peninsula Italia that meant land ... if a boot kicking a rock. That rock is Sicily. The most southern tip of Sicily is less then 100 miles or 160 kilometers from Tunisia, which is a northern African nation. Many of the world's most famous artists, sculptors, writers, musicians, and scientists came from Italy. Probably the best known was Leonard Da Vinci. He is famous for his art, sculptures, inventions, and scientific discoveries. He drew the Mona Lisa, which is the most famous painting in the world. The real life Mona Lisa was the wife of an officer in Renaissance Italy. He also made prerequisites to the helicopter, tank, and sub marine among other things. He also invented the crane and ...
- 2446: UFOs Exist
- UFOs Exist Mr. Lowery English 12, Section 2542-06 Does life outside earth exist? Are UFO's really from outer space? Many people in the world today do believe in UFO's. "About half of the adult population do believe that UFOs are out there in space"(Ritchie 22). There are basically two sides to the matter. The first is that ... introduced to replace the term flying saucer. UFO sightings first started in the late 1800s, but there weren't that many until the 1940s. In the 1940s UFO sightings were being told all over the world. Since the 1940s UFOs are seen every day by people all over the world. Ufologists have come up with a system to divide UFO incidents into three major types of close encounters. First, close encounter of the first kind (CEI) are classified as UFO sightings. Second, close encounters ...
- 2447: American Indians Between 1609
- ... raw materials such as gems, cooper. seashells and soapstone.To this day, movies and television continue the stereotype of Indians wearing feathered headdresses killing innocent white settlers. As they encountered the Europeans, automatically their material world was changed. The American Indians were amazed by the physical looks of the white settlers, their way of dressing and also by their language. The first Indian-White encounter was very peaceful and trade was ... animals. We should apprehend that the encounter with the settlers really amazed the natives, they were only used to interact with people from their own race and surroundings and all of this was like a new discovery for them as well as for the white immigrants. The relations between the English and the Virginian Indians was somewhat strong in a few ways. They were having marriages among them. For example, when ... for a tribe and signed a treaty with them. The tribes were not supposed to go beyond the borders of its lands and whoever did, was captured and brought back. However, on each occasion when new settlers moved into the territory, the government broke its promise and the tribes were moved further Westward again. This process encouraged the Trails of Tears where one-quater of the Cherokees perished on the ...
- 2448: Stealth Technology
- ... Material (RAM) and in this way the aircraft can be virtually undetectable to radar. The Development of Stealth Technology This Technology was cloaked in a veil of secrecy for almost two decades, but this entirely new family of aircraft has recently been announced to the public but the United States Department of Defence. These aircraft are virtually undetectable to radar, these new aircraft are the first examples of '' law observable, or stealth technology. Because radar in the primary means by wich aircraft are detected and tracked, it has become very important to the military service to make ... or tracking '' stealth'' aircraft and from using weapons like anti-aircraft missiles to destroy them. There were attempts to build an aircraft that was ''stealthy ''with a low observables '' pair to the revelation of the new ''stealth'' aircraft family. Among these aircraft was a special lockhead U-2 reconnaissance aircraft painted with a coat of radar-absorbent material. Lockhead's famous SR-71 , wich was the first aircraft to build ...
- 2449: Their Eyes Were Watching God: Everybody Has To Find Out About Living For Themselves
- ... by Janie had to reconsider her marriage with Logon. "Janie waited a bloom time, and a green time and an orange time. Nevertheless, when the pollen again gilded the sun and sifted down on the world she began to stand around the gate and expect things." She did not know exactly what to expect. "Janie knew that God tore down the old world every evening and built a new one by sun-up." Janie knew now that marriage did not make love. Her Grandmother dies and leave Janie to explore life for herself. Janie's first dream was dead, so she became a ...
- 2450: Plant Evolution
- ... the energy from sunlight to converts carbon dioxide and water into sugar or starch. This process was called photosynthesis. The next stage in the development in plants was 'The Age of Primitive Vascular Plants. This new period (the second stage) in plant history occurred within the next 50 million years (400-500 million years ago). Some of these developed root systems stems and leaves. They also formed woody tissue, which created stiffer stems, which eventually developed into tree trunks. They became tree-like and up to 40 meters tall, forming the world's first forest. 'The Age of Seed Bearing Plants' was the next stage of plant history where plants were taken to their next step up in the evolution. This occurred around 280 million years ago ... was also the dinosaur era. Earth began to become a lot drier, and these plants began to adapt to the ever so changing climate. These plants developed the ability to produce seeds to reproduce their new generations. The advantages of this was that these seeds were able to survive dry periods, even long droughts and then germinate and grow when moisture became available. Last but not least we have 'The ...
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