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- 2711: Karl Marx
- ... a view [he] detested." The Hegelian doctrines exerted considerable pressure in the "revolutionary student culture" that Marx was immersed in, however, and Marx eventually joined a society called the Doctor Club, involved mainly in the "new literary and philosophical movement" who's chief figure was Bruno Bauer, a lecturer in theology who thought that the Gospels were not a record of History but that they came from "human fantasies arising from ... her coffin. Frederich Engels was the one who gave Marx and his family money to survive on during these years. His only other source of money was his job as the European correspondent for The New York Tribune, writing editorials and columns analyzing everything in the "political universe." Marx published his first book on economic theory in 1859, called A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy. Marx's "political isolation ... t have the support of a right wing and feared that he would lose control to Bakunin. However, he was successful at expelling the Bakuninists from the International and shortly, the International died out in New York. During the next decade of his life, his last few years, Marx was beset by what he called "chronic mental depression" and "his life turned inward toward his family." He never completed any ...
- 2712: The Lost World 2
- The lost world was written to entice the minds of nonbelievers. Michael Crichton the author shows what could happen if science was to progress to such a high height. A few scientists go looking for an island where ... again receives a serious injury. While trying to escape, "Malcolm hits his head and falls to the floor seeing stars " (287). One may notice that or Ian Malcolm is almost constantly injuring himself. Although a brave and heroic figure he gets beat up a lot. Dr. Levine is a wealthy scientist who goes around the world looking at bones and having adventures. Furthermore, Levine who was speaking to Malcolm says, "Would you be interested in helping me"(13). When he says this he is referring to helping with the trip ...
- 2713: Einstein
- By: David Lindesmith E-mail: Watchdav@aol.com Albert Einstein Of all the scientists to emerge from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries there is one whose name is known by almost every person in the world. While most of these people do not understand his work, everyone knows that his impact on the world of science is amazing. Many people have heard of Albert Einstein’s General Theory of relativity, but not many people know of his life that led him to discover what scientists have called, “The greatest ... quickly learned that while physicists had generally agreed on major principals in the past, there were modern scientists who were attempting to disprove outdated theories every day. Since most of Einstein’s teachers ignored these new ideas, he was again forced to learn on his own. In 1900 he graduated from the Institute and got citizenship to Switzerland. He became a clerk at the Swiss Patent Office in 1902. The ...
- 2714: Computer Viruses
- In 1949 the Hungarian-American mathematician John von Neumann, at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey suggested that it was theoretically possible for a computer program to replicate. This theory was later tested in the 1950s at Bell Laboratories when a game called Core Wars was developed. In the game ... with its hardware and operating system. Viruses are designed to replicate and to avoid detection. In recent years computer viruses have caused a great deal of damage to personal computers and computer systems around the world. The damage can be extensive; mostly due to the loss of time spent recovering the infected data. A computer virus in a system is one of the worst things that can happen to a computer ... that a computer virus could infect a program without modifying it. Examples of this are the companion virus and the boot sector virus. A companion virus does not modify a file. Instead, it creates a new program with the same name as a legitimate program and tricks the operating system into running it, thus feeding the system a vicious file. A boot sector virus resides on the first portion of ...
- 2715: Light: A Fundamental Force In Our World
- Light: A Fundamental Force In Our World If asked what light is, one could say that it's one of the most basic elements of our world and our universe as we perceive it. It is through sight that we receive 90% of our information. It is through the use of telescopes aiding the naked eye that we are aware of the ... that we consume daily. Since light is such a basic part of our existence, we should have a basic understanding of what it is. What we call light, the intangible, powerful force that powers our world, is somewhat hard to define in real terms. It shares properties with both particles and waves. It follows the same rules as a wave does--it moves in a regular fashion, in a perfect ...
- 2716: SKA!
- ... by the guitar as it played on the off beats. This music served as the basis for the slower rocksteady music style which later spawned the ever-popular reggae genre. Ska music finally made its world debut in New York at the 1964 world's fair at the Jamaican exhibition. By this time ska was an established musical genre. Ska later emigrated to England where the English began to develop their own style ska, which is seen in ...
- 2717: Music And Censorship
- ... Censorship In our society today, some musicians and their music drain and plague the moral and spiritual well-being of the people; therefore, censorship offers a necessary action that we must take to keep the world from becoming a land of decadence. The musicians lives are not examples for the children or the adults. The lyrics of many songs are not suitable for anyone. All types of music need some kind ... vision. In addition many of the musicians use drugs and stimulants to satisfy their hunger for themselves and for pure fun. The musicians tend to use drugs massively, to get out of the very real world that they consist so much a part of. Popularity seems pleasing but when one has the affections and total devotion of a mass of people, that person can not handle it because that person does ... talks about an affair in " Third Rate Rendezvous." He doesn't care that he's cheating on his wife and is actually excited when he knows what he's doing to his marriage and life. New Age music offers innner-self as a substitute to God. This means that the meditation of the biblical times cannot be achieved today and we tend to lose our respect for God by trying ...
- 2718: Psychology Comparison
- Psychology comparison The world, today, is exposed to a plethora of information, substantiated or not. Since newspapers and other secondary source material is responsible for relaying information to much of the population it is important to understand and realize ... By comparing these two the limitations of the secondary source can be exposed and used as an example for other such circumstances. The secondary-source article comes from the August 30, 1998 edition of the New York Times. Written by Amy Harmon, the report is titled ŇResearchers Find Sad Lonely World in Cyberspace.Ó The article goes on to explain that researchers at Carnegie Mellon University completed a study (later identified as the ŇHomenetÓ study) that examines the social and psychological effects of Internet use ...
- 2719: Mafia
- ... soldiers, the lowest official Mafia member. The Italian Mafia is not the only organized crime group around, there are many other ethnic groups the Mafia has to coexist with. Not only is the mob facing new competition from Chinese gangs and Russian immigrants, but it must also contend with the hungrier drug syndicates from Latin America and the Caribbean, whose staggering wealth and firepower make the mob look quaint. Although these ... bosses but still followed the code of omerta when it says "no killing of women or children." Since Castellano was not well liked, there is a strong possibility his death was sanctioned by bosses of New York’s four other Mafia families. After Castellano’s death John Gotti took over as boss of the Gambino family. Gotti did not follow any of the rules, he would order hits on people for ... ask his boss what "La Cosa Nostra" meant, exactly("This Thing of Ours"). Gotti was probably the most visible Mafia boss ever, although he listed his occupation as a plumbing salesmen, he strutted through the New York tabloids in $2000 suits. Gotti was the most powerful mob boss of the five New York crime families until the FBI took him to court and used hours of tape they had collected ...
- 2720: Basketball and Its History
- ... most such throws, through field goals or foul shots, wins the game. Because of its continuous action and frequent scoring, basketball is one of the most popular spectator as well as participant sports in the world. The measurements of American and international basketball courts differ slightly. The basketball court is a rectangular area ranging in size from about 29 m by 15 m (about 94 ft by 50 ft) to about ... had nine players, and the goals were wooden peach baskets affixed to the walls. By 1897-1898, teams of five became standard. The game rapidly spread nationwide and to Canada and other parts of the world, played by both women and men; it also became a popular informal outdoor game. U.S. servicemen in World War II (1939-1945) popularized the sport in many other countries. A number of U.S. colleges adopted the game between about 1893 and 1895. In 1934 the first college games were staged in ...
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