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- 3211: Airships
- ... four 1,050-hp Daimler Benz diesel engines. It could carry loads of 30 tons over transoceanic distances. It was scrapped in May 1940. A total of 119 Zeppelins were built, most of them during World War I, when 103 airships were delivered to the military. The most famous Zeppelin was the original GRAF ZEPPELIN, which during 1928-37 made flights to the United States, the Arctic, the Middle East, and South America; it also made one flight around the world. Another famous Zeppelin was the airliner hindenburg, which was destroyed by fire at Lakehurst, N.J., on May 6, 1937. The British made intermittent efforts to develop the rigid airship; they built eight during World War I and six shortly thereafter. The most noteworthy was the R-34, which in July 1919 made the first transatlantic round-trip flight. An effort to develop two airships of 5,000,000 ...
- 3212: Animal Farm As Animal Satire
- ... to Eton Collage. During his education from the age of eight to eighteen, as he wrote in his essay about his school experiences titled "Such, Such Were the Joys," he experienced many things about the "world where the prime necessities were money, titled relatives, athleticism, tailor-made clothes", inequality, oppression and class distinctions in the schools of England (In Ball,1984). After the education at Eton College in England, Eric joined ... establish a state to be ruled by the working class, the Proletariat. Ideological basis of the revolution was taken from the philosophy of Karl Marx and Frederick Angels who believed that the history of the world was the history of a struggle between classes- between ruling classes and ruled classes (Hançerlioðlu, 1976). Marx was very critical of industrial capitalist society in which there are many cruel injustices and men are exploited ... order to achieve this end the only way was a revolution made by the working class or the Proletariat against the Bourgeoisie. After revolution working classes would own the means of production. Marx called the new order that would be set after revolution "dictatorship of the Proletariat" which eventually replaced with a classless society (Hançerlioðlu, 1976). In October 1917, V.I. Lenin, led the socialist (Bolshevik) revolution in Russia. After ...
- 3213: The Godfather: Did The
- ... which to make cocaine from Bolivia and Peru. Plus their smuggling routes and expertise were solidly established. Hence, the first drug laboratories were established in Medellin, supposedly with Mafia money (Eddy and Hugo, 45). The New York Mafia as well as other American crime families, would buy the drugs from Colombian drug lords. One of the major Colombian syndicates- commonly referred to as the "Medellin Cartel". As opposed to actuality, in ... be harvested from Turkey (not the major supplier of opium in the 40’s and 50’s), then processed into heroin in Sicily. Drugs have been appealing to any crime syndicates since the Chinese crime world that started way back in the 1800’s. Opium was the number one wanted drug as wars started by the Ch’ing Dynasty in 1839 to stop the illegal importation by smugglers form Britain (Britanica ... for example, has been estimated that for approximately four hours each day three hundred sixty five days a year, four hundred dollars worth of heroin is sold every minute on one hundred and fifteenth street New York City resulting in a financial exchange amounting to twenty four thousand dollars an hour, ninety six thousand a day and six hundred seventy two thousand dollars a week. Annual gross sales of heroin ...
- 3214: A Jury Of Her Peers
- ... become individuals and depict their inner pain. The Cajuns do not see nor realize the years of pain and guilt that the black men have carried with them. The story illustrates two worlds, the inner world is the life in Marshall Quarters, the old black men and their family; the outer world being everything outside the Quarters, Fix, the Cajuns, and even the white people. The blacks have an inner family that has experienced similar hardships and treats each other in ways that are considered offensive by those members of the outside world. One of the most prominent examples is his use of the Christian names, given by their ancestors slave owners; and their nicknames. Before each black person narrates they are introduced, "Grant Bello aka Cherry" ( ...
- 3215: Hippie Culture
- The Hippie Culture Life in America has been molded by many factors including those of the hippie movement in the Sixties. With the development of new technology, a war against Communism, and an internal war against racial injustice, a change in America was sure to happen. As the children of the baby boom became young adults, they found far more discontent with the world around them. This lead to a subculture labeled as hippies, that as time went one merged into a mass society all its own. These people were upset about a war in Vietnam, skeptical of the ... Gitlin 200). The freedom they found came with the help of drugs. Marijuana evolved from its "black and Hispanic, jazz-minded enclaves to the outlying zones of the white middle class young" (Gitlin 200). This new drug allowed a person to open their mind to new understandings and philosophies. But it wasn’t just marijuana that opened the minds of the youth; a new drug known as LSD came into ...
- 3216: The Hippie Culture
- The Hippie Culture The Hippie Culture Life in America has been molded by many factors including those of the hippie movement in the Sixties. With the development of new technology, a war against Communism, and an internal war against racial injustice, a change in America was sure to happen. As the children of the baby boom became young adults, they found far more discontent with the world around them. This lead to a subculture labeled as hippies, that as time went one merged into a mass society all its own. These people were upset about a war in Vietnam, skeptical of the ... Gitlin 200). The freedom they found came with the help of drugs. Marijuana evolved from its “black and Hispanic, jazz-minded enclaves to the outlying zones of the white middle class young” (Gitlin 200). This new drug allowed a person to open their mind to new understandings and philosophies. But it wasn’t just marijuana that opened the minds of the youth; a new drug known as LSD came into ...
- 3217: Imagination
- The human imagination is a very powerful thing. It sets humanity apart from the rest of the creatures that roam the planet by giving them the ability to make creative choices. The imaginary world is unavoidably intertwined with the real world and there are many ways by which to illustrate this through literature, either realistically or exaggerated. Almost everything people surround themselves with is based on the unreal. Everything from the food we eat to the ... s dream invade reality, leaving the reader to think about the possibilities of how the blood got there and why. Like Tolken with “Lord of the Rings”, Findley wondered what would happen if the imaginary world invaded the real world, in this case, what if a nightmare became reality. In Edgar Allan Poe’s short story The Telltale Heart, a man’s own overactive imagination, combined with a little obsessive/ ...
- 3218: Socrates
- ... the craftsmen, and Lycon on behalf of the rhetoricians. Meletus starts off by saying that Socrates corrupts the minds of his fellow friends and is "the poet or maker of gods, and that he makes new gods and denies the existence of old ones." Socrates had a habit of pouring himself out to everybody and would even pay for a listener; this is why everyone knew of him and became tired ... was called to the stand for his own defense or Apology. Socrates first asked to talk philosophically (the way he talked on the Agora to the passerby’s). He said that he had ancient and new enemies. One of the ancient’s being Aristophanes, who he called a liar for creating a character named Socrates in his play and making him say false things. As for his new enemies, he denies in a sophisticated way their charges by talking about his ancient ones by saying: "I mean when they told you to be upon your guard, and not let yourselves be deceived ...
- 3219: The Effects of Over-Population on the Earth's Water Supply
- ... population"(2). A reasonable person would assume that this is rather good news. However, they also mention later in this article that "Recent attempts at "full cost accounting" estimate that the demands of the current world population exceed global carrying capacity by approximately a third"(4). This means that we have already reached a population that is straining the Earth's fresh water resources. Sandra Postel has written many articles and books for the World Watch Institute (WWI). The WWI is a group devoted to researching environment and population issues. Her latest book, Pillar of Sand: Can the Irrigation Miracle Last? is about irrigation and the world's food supply. In this book she reveals, "that 40 percent of the world's food comes from irrigated cropland"(10), and "historically, most irrigation-based civilizations have failed"(12). These two ideas by ...
- 3220: Civil War
- ... had lost an enormous amount of lives, but had more than enough to lose in comparison to the South. General Grant became known as the "Butcher" (Grant, Ulysses S., Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, New York: Charles L. Webster & Co.,1894) and many wanted to see him removed. But Lincoln stood firm with his General, and the war continued. This paper will follow the happenings and events between the winter ... common country. I want no one punished, treat them liberally all around. We want those people to return to their allegiance to the Union and submit to the laws." (Porter, David D., Campaigning with Grant. New York: The Century Co., 1897) Well with all of the formalities outlined, the Generals and Admiral knew what needed to be done. Sherman returned to Goldsboro by steamer; Grant and Porter left by train back ... back to his troops who were in the process of besieging Petersburg and Richmond. These battles had been going on for months. On March 24, before the meeting with President Lincoln, Grant drew up a new plan for a flanking movement against the Confederates right below Petersburg. It would be the first large scale operation to take place this year and would begin five days later. Two days after Grant ...
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