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- 5641: The Transcendental Movement of 1830s
- ... highest, and most of them spend their lives seeking money and power only because they see nothing higher."7 Followers also believed in a spiritual hunger, or the need to find themselves one with the world. In addition, they believed in "an ascending hierarchy of spiritual values rising to absolute good, truth, and beauty."8 Transcendentalists also believed in a supreme being, the Oversoul, and felt that "if the Oversoul is ... side of human nature, confident in the divine spark in all men, and it was a clarion call to throw off the shackles of custom and tradition, and go forward to the development of a new and distinct American culture."10 It was believed that human nature was basically good since "God was in every person."11 Therefore, "man, because he isthe creature of God, necessarily partakes of the divine nature ... and revolutionize."16 Transcendentalism's affect on society was tremendous. Because they led many reform movements and rejected the conventional ideas of the eighteenth century thought, a rift began to form between the old and new ideas in society. Transcendentalism represented a battle between the older and the younger generations. It also represented an emergence of a new national culture based on native materials. This began to influence a break ...
- 5642: Jesus Christ's Life
- ... g out by how much we need. God deals with them according to his goodness and ge nerosity. That seems similar to benevolence, but it isn't. Jesus' grace is real ly shown in the New Testament. In Exodus 34:6it says "The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious...". In Ephesians 2:7©9 it says, "For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith©and this ... who fears them. If they did not pity us and have mercy on us we would not be alive. They would have let us die by now. They cannot stand to be in the sinning world that we live in. They wo uld just do away with us if they didn't care about us. Because of all of this c are He has for us I feel that we need ... to sacrifi ce instead of the son. Abraham showed Œa lot of faith in God by believing Him t hat he was right in what he was doing. I think that that was a very brave thing by Abraham to do. He must have had all the faith that you can in God, because in a situation like that I don't know what I would do. If we believe ...
- 5643: Political Morality In Colonial
- ... power to punish one physically, but rather soulfully of one has sinned. The government has the power to sentence punishment, yet should have no power concerning God. Many different religions have evolved all over the world and in the process, have people have been prosecuted in their faith. The first settlers in the new world came here to avoid prosecution from the powerful church/government of that time. Specifically, the Church of England headed by the king. Puritan leaders led their followers to a place where they could express ...
- 5644: Internet History Report
- ... other researchers. In 1984 the National Science Foundation established an office for networking. a number of universities and research groups actually did get access to ARPANET. In 1993, Tim Lee created an interface to the World Wide Web he called Mosaic. The NSF actually funded further development of a Macintosh and Microsoft Windows version of Mosaic through a grant to the University. The first Microsoft Windows version appeared about November of 1993. The Mosaic Web Browser put a pretty face on the Internet. You could navigate the World Wide Web by clicking on links with the mouse. More importantly, it allowed users to add "players" for sound, video clips, or anything else they wanted to add. Today, advanced Mosaic browsers such as Netscape have added other functions quite beyond World Wide Web, including electronic mail. Electronic mail, or E-mail as it is commonly called, was invented by Ray Tomlinson in 1971 as a way of sending messages of the Internet to other users ...
- 5645: Technology In The Home
- ... electrical system. No matter which type you choose, if you don't have one installed, put down this article and go buy one now! And while you're signing that credit card voucher for the new smoke detector, pause for a moment and gaze at that other technological marvel you are probably holding in your hand, the ball-point pen. Ever wonder why it's called a ball-point? Because it ... century, but none of the early pens worked very well until a Swiss inventor named Lazio Josef Biro designed the first modern version in 1939. He called it a birome. Commercial production was delayed by World War II, and then in 1945, an American firm, Reynold's, introduced "the miraculous pen which revolutionizes writing" at Gimbel's in New York City. The new pen didn't work very well and cost a whopping $12.50 U.S., but it was an instant success. The Henry Ford of the ball-point industry, Marcel Bich, ...
- 5646: The Poetry of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and John Greenleaf Whittier
- ... a list of successful business ventures, in which, he was able to hand down from generation to generation. Venture Smith was brought to Long Island and made a slave. He was forced to accept his new way of life while having to cope with the memories of seeing his father brutally tortured at a very young age. He was separated from his land, his family and all that he knew. He ... he was sent to live with Mrs. Auld and her husband. Mrs. Auld instilled in Frederick the will to learn to read and write. This deed proved to be Frederick’s rude awakening to a world of knowledge that is purposely kept from slaves. Learning to read and write gave Douglass the burning need for freedom. After trying to escape, he was sent to a slave breaker who worked and whipped ... ceremonies and other features of a timeless African culture were taken right from Venture Smith. He watched his father brutally murdered and had his mother separated from him forever. Even worse, his voyage to the “New World” on the “Middle Passage”, where millions of slaves were transported to America chained, malnourished and inflicted with disease, was also a voyage that Lucy Terry experienced at a similar age. It is simply ...
- 5647: Sappho And St. Teresa De Avila
- ... because of gender. In the plays we have read women are faced with obstacles but overcome them. Women in the past were expected to be submissive and not object to the men s decisions. The world today has changed its face. No longer are women quiet. Sappho and her work is a good example in our readings to represent today s day and time. Her poems seem contemporary, very modern. The ... the other hand, is a prime example of works we ve read that represent the past much more. I strongly believe that each generation is a product of the previous generation, and during the Ancient World, women were not expected to write. They were submissive and their religious superior had the final say. Sappho broke these rules and went against the odds. She wrote and produced wonderful work that everyone can ... its heat and the cricket which till today sets up a high-pitched singing in his wings. If you will come is another example. At noontime is simple to say it relates to today s world, the sun will always be hot the cricket will always live, but the customs and traditions of people do and Sappho still describes customs from her time that live today. If you will come ...
- 5648: Speech Recognition Technology
- ... trained and had a limited vocabulary of 5,000 words. The equipment used for this system was enough to fill an entire medium sized room. Since then, thanks to "Moore's law: the notion that new technology is doubling computer power and speed every 18 months which has meant that PCs have finally become powerful enough to handle the complex algorithms on which continuous speech recognition is based" (Garfinkel, 4). There ... has up to 18 letters and numbers. Trying to enter such a code from a telephone keypad would be frustrating and asking a human agent would be slower. Recently, the company received $15 million in new financing from Motorola Inc., Intel Corp., and Goldman & Sachs. Applied Language Technologies Inc., based in Boston, Massachusetts, specializes in linking speech recognition to existing databases that store customer lists, product information, and World Wide Web sites. E*Trade Group Inc. of Palo Alto uses their technology in the financial industries' first system to let customers place stock orders, check account balances and other services, just by talking ...
- 5649: Birth Order
- ... children (Leman, Birth Order 46). There are at least two good reasons first borns usually come in such down-right upright (and sometimes a little uptight) packages. Those two reasons are Mom and Dad. Brand-new parents tend to be a paradox when it comes to their first born child. One side of them is overprotective, anxious, tentative, and inconsistent. The other side can be strict in discipline, demanding, always pushing ... others. What they say they will do, they usually do. Only children are very reliable (Leman, Birth Order 51). Only children have their downsides too. Too often these downsides come from their parents. For instance, new parents tend to jump in too early to help with everything he tries. They can't sit back and let the child struggle (Leman, Birth Order 50). What they don't realize is that frustration ... case that psychologists have coined as the "quasi-only" child. This case appears when the last child in the family comes along a good five or more years after the others. He starts a whole new birth order level (Leman, Birth Order 15). Later borns are more inclined to take risks when compared with first borns. Later borns are more likely to rate themselves as "physically daring." They are more ...
- 5650: Teenage Rights
- ... the foundation of the country with gods blessing all patrons of the great USA are created equal. Right? Well that s what I thought until my eyes were opened this summer to the cruel REAL world. Is there any reasoning that befalls the United States Police Force to undermine the future of the USA? Are we so evil that we must be Plagued by the constant harassment of the police to follow us wherever we go no matter what we do? Are we so naive as to let this continue in the world that is supposed to be our Peaceful and Humble abode? No. We are the ones that will soon run this country and change starts with us. So here is our voice. Listen if you will ... Lakeville. Warnings about loitering in the lots of businesses and parks of these cities. We have nowhere to go. Nowhere to play. Nowhere to park our cars and hang out with friends and to meet new people. What are we to do? Where are we to go? The question, after time, rose up within our crowd. We were not allowed in parks after the time of 9 and would often ...
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