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- 4711: The Once And Future King - Mig
- ... King. The Once and Future King by T.H. White is certainly the most popular representation of the immortal legend of King Arthur. It is similar to the tales woven before it but White gives new meanings and modernization to the traditional story through his unique perspectives and writing. White takes the reader on a journey in the past enriched by the knowledge of the future. Most importantly, White s notion that society cannot be governed by might alone is a prevalent theme throughout the work. He expresses the ideals of might vs. right as it relates to a world much like our world today. He clearly understands that might rules the actions of individuals, but right is the ideal that we seek to obtain. As we often find, the former prevails. The novel is divided into four ...
- 4712: Cropping Boxers
- Throw around words such as boxer and ear cropping and people will probably figure you’re referring to the sport know as boxing. Specifically to a notorious world championship bout in which one boxer did indeed crop the ear of another. Our discussion is here, though, it focuses on an entirely different species of boxers, and an entirely different style of ear cropping ... a bit different from the portrait we would see if the pup were allowed to grow up without surgical intervention. These procedures lie at the heart of a rather heated debate, especially in the Boxer world. Unlike many other cropped and docked breeds, the Boxer’s breed standard offers no choice regarding whether the tail or, most significantly, the ears may be left natural and still satisfy the standard’s guide ... pounds.(Abraham 52) With the puppy under general anesthesia, the skin around the rims of the ears are then trained to stand up on their own with tape, frames, braces, or any of the many new and improved advanced systems, each claiming to be more comfortable, more effective, and more sanitary that the others products. Pain, itching, bleeding, and infection are all side effects the make the post-surgical period ...
- 4713: Miles Davis
- ... Randall and the blue Devils. Miles Davis has said that the greatest musical experience of his life was hearing the Billy Eckstine orchestra when it passed through St. Louis. In September 1944 Davis went to New York to study at Juilliard but spend much more time hanging out on 52nd Street and eventually dropped out of school. He moved from his home in East St. Louis to New York primarily to enter school but also to locate his musical idol, Charlie Parker. He played with Parker live and in recordings from the period of 1945 to 1948. Davis began leading his own group ... Jones, and John Coletrain. In 1957 Davis made the first of many solo recordings with the unusual jazz orchestrations of Gil Evans, and he wrote music for film by Louis Malle. In 1963Davis formed a new quintet including the talents of Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, Tony Williams, and Wayne Shorter. The late 1960s sound Davis playing with a variety of talented musicians. Davis retired during the mid-‘70s due to ...
- 4714: Peter The Great
- ... at 24 the one and only Czar of Russia. He had one strong mission to accomplish in his rule: “to break the bonds of inflexible customs of Muscovy and to lead his country into a new day which shall be better than this“(4:90). He was determined to Westernize his country to close the gaps and heal the scars of the Mongol invasions. So, the very next year after the ... got back from his Grand Embassy, he immediately began changing things, starting with the cutting off of his beard. He also built a modern navy, as well as a modern army, and he also started new schools of navigation, mathematics, geography, politics, medicine, philosophy, and finally astronomy (2:2). He introduced the potato, and also encouraged the breeding of native Russian horses. He began the first Russian newspaper, and ordered the ... named Peter, and 3 named Paul. All of their children died in childbirth except 2 daughters, Anna and Elizabeth.In competition with Louis XIV¹s building his single grandiose palace, Peter decided to build a new capital. He decided to build the new city at the mouth of the Gulf of Finland, where it divides into 4 arms to form an extensive marshy delta. On a archipelago of islands, a ...
- 4715: Goethe in Faust and Shelley in Frankenstein: Still the Wretched Fools They Were Before
- ... Before Goethe in Faust and Shelley in Frankenstein, wrap their stories around two men whose mental and physical actions parallel one another. Both stories deal with characters, who strive to be the übermensch in their world. In Faust, the striving fellow, Faust, seeks physical and mental wholeness in knowledge and disaster in lust. In Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein struggles for control over one aspect of nature and disastrously, through the monster, nature ... seeks spiritual wholeness in knowledge. Through years of hard study, Faust becomes knowledgeable in math, sciences and religion and yet he becomes inept and incapable of having any romantic or physical relationships with the outside world. As Faust strives to become the "over man" through knowledge, he realizes that books will not satisfy his curiosity and that maybe sensual pleasures will. Therefore, in the process of creating his new life, Faust, becomes distant and unconcerned with all reality and humanity around him. Do not fancy anything right, do not fancy that I could teach or assert what would better mankind or what might ...
- 4716: Mysteries Of The World
- Mysteries of the World Mystery and the study of the unknown has always fascinated people. The search for truth in the "uncomprehensible" has led to many controversies. Some believe in the "supernatural", while others simply do not. Both types of people obviously have their own reasonings for believing or disbelieving in it. There are numerous world famous mysteries that are still controversial and remain "unsolved" to this day. Some of these mysteries include the Loch Ness Monster, the Abominable Snowman, and the Bermuda Triangle. The Loch Ness Monster is a legendary ... unknown animal in the depths of the Loch Ness. Evidence however, is inconclusive, and the controversy continues. Along with the Loch Ness monster, the abominable snowman shares fame as one the great mysteries of the world. The abominable snowman is a legendary creature of the Himalaya mountain region. It is reported to live in forested regions near the snow line. This creature is also known to some by the name ...
- 4717: Morality and the Human Genome Project
- ... sequencing large portions or entire genomes are called genome projects" (Congress,4). Genome projects are not a single organizations efforts, but instead a group of organizations working in government and private industry through out the world. Furthermore, the controversies surrounding the Human Genome Project can be better explained by the past events leading to the project, the structure of the project, and the moral discussion of the project. The major events ... creation of human chromosome maps for DNA markers that would allow the location of genes to be found. A repository of research materials including ordered sets of DNA fragments representing the complete DNA in chromosomes. New instruments for analysis of DNA. New methods of analysis of DNA through chemical, physical, and computational methods. Develop similar research technologies for other organisms. Finally, to determine the DNA sequence of a large fraction of the human genome and other ...
- 4718: Atomic Bomb In World War 2
- Atomic Bomb in World War 2 During World War II the United States government launched a $2 billion project. This project, known as the Manhattan Project, was an effort to produce an atomic bomb. This project was taken on by a group atomic scientists from all over the world. The first atomic bomb was not tested at all. It was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945 killing over 80,000 people and almost completely leveling the entire city. It destroyed more ...
- 4719: Synthetic Drugs of Abuse
- ... financial gains. The really clever chemists avoided doing anything illegal by creating pharmacologically-active compunds, which where derived from known illegal drugs. Not only where they able to produce similar compounds, but many of the new compunds where much more potent than the original drug. This created the so- called designer drug phenomenon. A very common abused drug is a resulat of this development : MDMA ; or as the ravers prefer to call it, "ecstacy". It is an amphetamine that produces euphoria, CNS stimulation and mild hallucinations. Many of the new drugs were also highly addictive. A couple of years ago cocaine freebase, better know as "crack", gained popularity. The drug gave the user a ten minutes long "high". The drug is physically addictive the first ... only 10-20 mg. Although the user does not get physically addictet right away, the rush is so pleasant, that only very few people has reported using it only once. The largest problem with this new drug is that it can, unlike cocaine freebase, be prepared from OTC products and with very little, or even none, knowledge in chemistry. It has not been seen in Denmark yet, but will indoubtly ...
- 4720: Frederick Douglass' Dream for Equality
- ... thoughts, Douglass realized that abolition was truly a war between whites. Garrison, and many others, had failed to see the slaves as human beings. Were blacks then supposed to be irretrievably black in a white world ? Where is the freedom and hope if all great things are privilege only to the whites? Douglass resolved never again to risk himself to betrayal. Troubled, Douglass did not lose faith in his beliefs of ... way with what amounted to the applied ideas of Alexis de Tocqueville and Fancis Grund, both of which were writing at the time when Douglass realized the truth about abolition. Grund and Tocqueville celebrated the “new man,” the “self-made” men who were breaking through old restraints. These restraints included monopolized privileges, restricted franchises, and the basic refusal of the main chance of equal opportunity. The blacks were confronted by the most vicious and deadly restraints any “new man” had been compelled to face in the United States. This was horrendous, but it was not insurmountable. Douglass decided that the separation between whites was an advantage to his cause. He could then ...
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