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- 5061: "Perfectly Imperfect: The Shakespeare Story"
- ... have any sort of romantic relationship. My reasoning is that Shakespeare visited Anne at different times when the theaters in London were closed, and did not just leave her completely, and when he bought a new house, she moved there. Also, in his will, Shakespeare left Anne his second best bed with the furniture. No one knows for sure what is implied by the "second best bed" but another man in ... great talent in writing. Shakespeare probably did not act in any plays after he joined Lord Chamberlain's company. In 1596, while Shakespeare was in London, his son Hamnet died. A year later, Shakespeare bought New Place, an important house in Stratford, and Anne went to live there. A woman called The Dark Lady was referred to in some of Shakespeare's sonnets, which were probably written in the 1590's ... first of all of the play groups in London. In 1609, the company bought a theater called the Blackfriars. This would come to be the company's winter headquarters. The residents who lived around the new theater enjoyed old fashioned romance and historical plays, which influenced the company's plays. During these years, Shakespeare became rather wealthy and invested money in Stratford. He owned a number of businesses there and ...
- 5062: The Theme of Isolation in Various Literature
- ... of living animals in their own habitat. Once assigned to this futile and desolate tundra his task flourishes with great resolution and interest. Because of extreme isolation, with very little room for distraction, Mowat communicates new discoveries of the Canis lupus and through time he reveals that wolves are fellow creatures and have a equal right to live. "The Mad Trapper" by Rudy Weibe is an insightful novel that provides the ... able to catch up with them to get on board so they had to stay out all night in the blizzard. There was other ships nearby but they weren't their responsibility, the newfoundlands captain new what he was doing. There was many decisions that lead to them not being rescued such as not touting your horn because it wasn't worth the time because they were probably on another ship ... many years of flying charter jobs in almost every part of the arctic. The monochromatic wilderness of rock and tundra, snow and ice, existed outside his experience and comprehension, as did the native people whose world it was. Lavery, on one of his expeditions, managed to latch onto a deathly ill woman named Konala. This of course was not out of kindness, instead the walrus tusks that he was given ...
- 5063: Persian Influence On Greco-rom
- ... and are now known as "Western" culture, art, and architecture, actually originated in the Middle East, or more precisely, in ancient Persia. Most people don't know it, but Persia was the center of the world before and during the Greco-Persian Wars (492-449 BC) ("Greco-Persian Wars"). The whole world looked to Persia and everybody tried to model everything after the Persian way. Even Greece copied Persia on some occasions. In fact, Greece, before Alexander the Great, was just a coalition of small kingdoms. Persia, the biggest empire to exist up that time, was the "world power," controlled the way of thinking of the time, and placed a deep mark into not only Greek thinking and culture, but also the "Western" idea and life. Many people do not realize it, ...
- 5064: Genetic Engineering And Its Fu
- ... are often hereditary will also be eliminated. We could also use genetics to enhance our immune system making us less susceptible to other disease strains, but this will be better discussed further on. This powerful new science will allow doctors to cure so much of the worlds sick, to not allow this science to be applied to medicine could be viewed as genocide. In Agriculture genetics can also become extremely useful ... is useful, and highly so, as discussed prior, we can do so in order to restore extinct species or produce animals which we consume in order to provide more food for the people of the world. The big question now is about cloning humans. Cloning a human for the purpose of cloning a human is wasteful, ignorant, and pointless. Lets think a moment. What do we get from cloning a human
An exact copy of the human we cloned. Now if everyone on the world had a clone we would have a slight overpopulation problem on our hands. You simply don't benefit from cloning other then getting a duplicate of the person you copied. Its a waste of ...
- 5065: The Use Of Nuclear Power As A
- The Use of Nuclear Power As a Weapon August 6th,1945 is not a day to be forgotten.It marks the worlds first use of an atomic bomb, which was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima by the US Military. Three days later, the USA dropped a second atomic bomb on the city of Nagasaki ... 000 people were estimated to be killed. Although the most memorable effects of the atomic bomb were the mass amounts of death, the development of the atomic bomb has greatly influenced American society and the world. The scientific development surrounding the atomic bomb has been a pivotal point in the worlds history, launching us into the Atomic Age. The cause of building an atomic bomb in the USA was that, on the August 2nd 1939, some scientists wrote to president Roosevelt about the efforts ...
- 5066: New eye tracking techniques improve realism of aircraft simulators
- New eye tracking techniques improve realism of aircraft simulators A simulated flight environment for pilot training may soon be made more realistic through the use of eye-tracking technology developed by researchers at the University of ... improvements make our eye-tracker very effective in monitoring the large G-force environment where the pilot tends to make larger eye movements because of contraints which exist on movements of his head". In a new generation of aircraft simulators, under development by CAE Electronics Ltd. of Montreal, a head tracker which tells the direction of the pilot's head is mounted on top of the helmet. The eye tracker is ... of the helmet, and is ll exactly where the pilot's eye is fixating. Frecker said that "successful integration of our eye tracker into the novel helmet-mounted CAE flight simulator would result in a new generation of simulators that would likely replace the current large domes and cumbersome video display units." Initial tests of the integrated system will be carried out in collaboration with CAE Electronics at Williams Air ...
- 5067: The Great Depression and the "New Deal"
- The Great Depression and the "New Deal" In 1932 almost 1500 banks failed, 32,00 businesses closed their doors and one-fourth of the labor force in the United States was unemployed. In that same year Franklin Delanore Roosevelt was elected ... For the first three years of the Great Depression the government did very little to help the economy to recover. This all changed when FDR and his democratic administration took control. This administration initiated the "New Deal." This program brought together the federal and the state governments. The states received federal grants, which provided funding for such programs as public works projects, housing assistance, aid to families with dependent children, unemployment ... usual and the business sector was not investing at a typical level. Therefore the government needed to step on and stimulate the economy. This stimulation was seen in the actions of the government in the "New Deal." Slowly but surely the steps taken by the government pulled the nation's economy out of the recession it faced for so many years.
- 5068: East-timor-conflict
- ... the morning of September the 4th the UNAMET (United Nations Assistance Mission to East Timor) leader, Ian Martin, announced the results, minutes after the United Nations' Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, had done the same in New York. 21.5% of the voters had chosen to accept the Special Autonomy offered to the territory by Indonesia, while an overwhelming majority of 78.5% reffused it. This is laying the path to independence ... though, or in the rest of the territory; celebrations were held abroad, though, in Australia, Portugal, the United States, Ireland, England, Mozambique, even Indonesia, wherever a Timorese community is to be found. But inside the new Nation, just four hours after the official announcement, the defeated militia gangs started to set East Timor on fire. BBC, CNN, and other international TV stations broadcasted to the world images once seen in other war scenarios - fire of automatic weapons, houses set on fire, innocent civilians seeking shelter in the schools, the churches, the neighbouring mountains. International media reports mentioned 145 deaths in ...
- 5069: E.E. Cummings
- ... 147). Reading this poem, one may realize the lone comma on line 12. The poet writes about the sky and a tree, and then a comma intrudes, which makes the reader pause, and realize the new awareness that the comma indicated - that of a falling leaf (145). Lines 1 through 6 are also very important to the poem. Although "black against white" may be referring to the color of the falling ... and thus retains the poem's idea for a more extended period of time. Cummings' ideogram poems are puzzles waiting to be solved. Works Cited Friedman, Norman. E. E. Cummings: A Collection of Critical Essays. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1972. Kidder, Rushworth M. E. E. Cummings: An Introduction to the Poetry. New York: Columbia University Press, 1979. Marks, Barry A. E. E. Cummings. New York: Twayne Publishers, Inc., 1964. Triem, Eve. E. E. Cummings. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1969. Wegner, Robert E. The Poetry and ...
- 5070: Sex On The Net
- ... and punishments for selling pornography to underage persons are not high enough. So why don't we raise them? The answer to this question can be found on the screen of every computer in the world. The Internet, or as one person put it, "The closest thing to true anarchy that has ever existed." How is one to censor the Internet when it is literally impossible? What is the use of ... the age of the user. How can one even trace the user when there are twenty-five billion members and it is impossible to follow them all. How can we delete the pornography when a new batch arrives every day and it is impossible to stop it. Another point, which makes censorship difficult, is the fact that censorship laws have only recently being required. In England for instance, censorship laws have ... are finding it difficult to "step around," the law. It is obvious that people are putting an effort in to censor the pornography, however when it comes to censoring material which goes all over the world, a balance must be found between the censorship laws of all the countries that are hooked into the net. Here a problem arises, because Denmark has no censorship of pornography, so obviously they are ...
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