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- 3331: Does Microsoft Have Too Much Power?
- ... Have Too Much Power? Initially, there is nothing. Then, there is Bill Gates the founder of Microsoft. Once a young, eager teenager running a small business of other teenagers, now the richest man in the world controlling an operating system practically every IBM compatible computer in the world uses. Computers are not the only thing that Microsoft desires. Now, they wish to influence the Internet. With all the opportunities that it offers, many companies race to develop software to get people and businesses ... on the Internet. Many dislike the power Microsoft has come to possess and might gain more of, but is there anything anybody can do? IBM has taken on the leader of software with an innovative new operating system known as OS/2, but will they have a chance? Microsoft may be unstoppable with its foundation, influence and power but is that enough to practically own the computerized world as we ...
- 3332: Sir Robert Laird Borden
- ... his outstanding achievements throughout his school years, in 1869, when Robert was only 14 years old, he became a teacher at the Acacia Villa Seminary. Then, in 1873, Robert accepted a teaching position in Matawan, New Jersey, where he taught for one year. Robert returned to Canada in 1974 to become a lawyer and, due to the fact that Nova Scotia had no law school, h estudied law as a clerk ... left the party in 1886 to become a Conservative after the Liberal leader in Nova Scotia wanted he province to retire from he Canadian federation. In 1896, the Conservative party was in extreme need for new people and the Halifax Conservatives thought Robert to be a good candidate. In the beginning, Robert was hesitant to enter into the world of politics, but finally agreed to run for parliament. He ended up winning the election even though Prime Minister Charles Tupper of the Conservative government, was overthrown. In 1900, Robert Borden was reelected to ...
- 3333: Homeopathy And Women
- ... Deveaux 1994). Responding to these criticisms in later works, such as his History of Sexuality, Foucault succeeded in shifting the focus of analysis away from the formal domain of the state apparatus, towards the everyday world, where power as a constitutive element in social interaction occasions resistance as a matter of course. These two complementary stages2 in Foucault's intellectual career can serve as a model for research concerned with the ... their continued illness (Smith-Rosenberg 1972: 674). In a joint paper with her husband, Smith- Rosenberg went on to analyze the conservative medical discourse regarding contraception and abortion, which opened up "access for women to new roles and a new autonomy." Responding with increasing harshness, many male doctors decried such practices as "unnatural, their hostility, rancour and moral outrage being a reliable measure of the fundamental cultural tension" which they were experiencing (Smith-Rosenberg ...
- 3334: Hemp...A Help For Today
- ... for two reasons. First, it costs less and requires less effort. Second, many agricultural chemicals are dangerous and contaminate the environment therefore, the less we have to use, the better. Is hemp competitive as a world source of protein? Hemp does not produce quite as much protein as soy, but hemp seed protein is of a higher quality than soy. The proteins in hemp are also easier to digest than those ... produce cocaine and heroin for the local Drug Lord. This is truly a sad state of affairs. Hopefully someday the Peace Corps will be able to teach modern hemp seed farming techniques and end the world's protein shortage. The stalk of the hemp plant has two parts, called the bast and the hurd. The fiber (bast) of the hemp plant can be woven into almost any kind of cloth. It ... the land where it is grown because it leaves these minerals behind. A simpler answer to the above question is: Because we are running out! It was once said that a squirrel could climb from New England to the banks of the Mississippi River without touching the ground once. The European settler's appetite for firewood and farmland put an end to this. When the first wood paper became a ...
- 3335: How Literature was Affected in the Victorian Age
- How Literature was Affected in the Victorian Age The Year 1837 was very significant. It was not only the year that Queen Victoria acceded the throne, but also the year that a new literary age was coined. The Victorian Age, more formally known, was a time of great prosperity in Great Britain's literature(Keach 608). The Victorian Age produced a variety of changes. Political and social reform ... Wilde, the scientific discoveries of the Darwins, and the religious revolt of Newman all helped to enhance learning and literacy in the Victorian society. Of all of the Literary eras, the Victorian age gave a new meaning to the word controversy. Writers of that time challenged the ideas of religion, crime, sexuality, chauvinism and over all social controversies(Brown 16). Queen Victoria influenced the literary age herself. She loved to read ... of evolution. In "Opposition of Matter" Thomas Caryle spoke out against materialism. Historian Thomas Babington Macaulay wrote History of England and Critical Historical Essays. Maculay expressed the complacency of the English middle class over the new prosperity and growing political power(29). The Oxford Movement caused corruption during the Victorian age. The Tractarians insisted that the Anglican Church was Catholic, not Protestant and they wanted to establish independence from the ...
- 3336: Living the Dream
- Living the Dream I have lived around the world and on my way I have many people who have been living the American dream. Whether it was soccer stars, actors, or even my own friends. Many people who are living this dream don't even realize it because they want even more than they already have. We see them as greedy. Even I feel that I am living this dream. New Canaan is a town full of spoiled children who have been living the dream since they were born, and only know, at this age, they are starting to realize it. The people that the kids ... is has been. Anothe person that is living the American dream is Mark Mguire. Even though I know little about Baseball I have heard on the news and in magazines that he just set a new world record in Baseball. He hit 62 home runs in one straight season. This record was held by Bbae Ruth, and most recently, Roger Marres' record. Do you think that Mark Mguire dreamed about ...
- 3337: The Evolution of Jet Engines
- ... turns a turbine to produce thrust, resulting in a force sufficient enough to propell the aircraft in the opposite direction (Morgan 67). When the jet engine was thought of back in the 1920's the world never thought it would become a reality, but by 1941 the first successful jet flight was flown in England. Since then the types of engines have changed, but the basic principals have remained the same ... into the jet age with the first successful flight. At the same time, the Germans were designing there own jet engine and aircraft which would be one of the factors that kept Germany alive in World War II. With technological advances by the allies a prototype turbojet known as the "Heinkel He 178" came into a few operational squadrons in the German, British, and the American air forces towards the end of World War II. These jets finally helped the allies to win the war against the axis powers(Smith 23-27). A later development in the jet industry was the overcoming of the sound barrier and ...
- 3338: Regulating The Internet: Who's In Charge
- ... which is capable of transmitting vast amounts of information from one network to another. The internet knows no boundaries and is not located in any single country. The potential the internet has of shaping our world in the future is inconceivable. But with all its potential the internet is surrounded by questions of its usage. The intemet was named the global village by McLuhan and Fiore in 1968, but recently the ... questions, answers and anything else that the committee can imagine people wishing to talk about.'' (Senate Committee). This is an example of one server, the information that passes through it originates from all over the world. The point is that this one provider can not possibly be able to review everything that passes through its server. Should the internet be regulated? We know that it can't and never will be ... just that, national in orientation and application. '' (Harissam p.923) If we are proposing regulating the internet to make it illegal to distribute and receive obscene material we need to find a law that the world could agree on. If the world accepted Miller's test of how to determine obscene material, what would be the standard needed in order to answer the first question? These are the questions that ...
- 3339: The Death Penalty: Why We Should Have Capital Punishment?
- ... no matter how small, that he will strike again. And there are people who run the criminal justice system who are naive enough to allow him to repeat his crime. Take the Moore case in New York for an example. In 1962, James Moore raped and strangled 14-year-old Pamela Moss. Her parents decided to spare Moore the death penalty on the condition that he be sentenced to life in ... the same time Keith also became the prime suspect in a grocery store robbery at Uniontown, Ohio, in which two people were shot to death. When Ohio became too dangerous for him, Keith headed to New York City. He arrived in the Bronx and survived by robbing liquor stores and gas stations. On December 19, 1956, he joined three other men for the purpose of robbing a taxi. The foursome hailed ... western, industrialized nations to treat public safety as though it were a trivial privilege that they can ignore, neglect, and deny their decent, law-abiding citizens. Indeed, no other time in the history of the world has public safety ever been more trivialized than it is today. But there are indications that this will change. As the flagship of democracy, it is the United States responsibility to demonstrate that public ...
- 3340: The Dark Romantics: Poe, Hawthorne, and Melville
- ... came a sense of romantic melancholy, and a feeling that change was indefinite and a way of life was being threatened. This melancholic feeling developed as its own separate theme and gave way to a new type of writer known as a dark romantic. Three key dark romantics that have had a lasting effect upon American literature are Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville. Edgar Allan Poe has had ... simply as a way to express his emotions and innermost feelings. His life was full of pain and agony. From the beginning when he lost his mother to the end when reality and the dream-world became intertwined. The loss of many so-called loves and jobs placed him in a world where only him and his writing existed. It is no wonder that his death still be so feared. The way he wrote of it will allow him to haunt the earth forever. Ironically enough ...
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