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- 6181: Timothy Leary
- ... these were not his greatest lifetime achievements. Throughout his publicized life, he became the spokesperson of the psychedelic age. His devotion to the belief that LSD and marijuana were gateways to enlightenment resulted in a new church, numerous prison sentences, and a following of both celebrities and the general public. When people think of Timothy Leary their immediate response is "Turn on, tune in, drop out," his trademark line, although the ... the phrase he responded, " Turn on means to contact the ancient energies and wisdoms that are built into your nervous system. They provide unspeakable pleasure and revelation. Tune in means to harness and communicate these new perspectives in a harmonious dance with the external world. Drop out means to detach yourself from the tribal game." (Marwick 312). This was not the first time his methods were questioned. Leary was first publicly noticed, and criticized by then fellow Harvard professors, ...
- 6182: Maglev Consequences
- ... so that even with the longer trips where the maglev vehicles don't have the time advantage they will have the cost advantage. Because land is costly and scarce, adding more highway lanes and building new airports in or near our larger cities is becoming increasingly difficult. For example, adding new highway capacity in urban areas typically costs more than $15 million per land mile, and a new Denver airport is estimated to cost $3 to 4 billion. Current transportation technologies are petroleum dependent, accounting for 64 percent of total petroleum use. Without transportation alternatives that reduce petroleum dependency, transportation related petroleum ...
- 6183: "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings"
- ... s use of both the earthly and the divine are quite interesting, because he uses the angel to convey both a spiritual presence as well as an earthly desire to live well in the real world, which in turn ultimately enriches the main characters in the story, Pelayo and Elisenda. The author does not portray the divine as one might think. When a person thinks of an angel they think of ... None of these disabilities where cured by the angel, but some were. The old man did perform miracles of a different type, like the blind man who didn't recover his sight but grew three new teeth, or the paralytic who didn't walk again, but almost won the lottery, and the leper whose sores sprouted sunflowers. These miracles were a sign that the presence of the old man was not to heal the world, but to heal the hidden wounds of Pelayo and Elisenda. And that he did. Garcia Marquez uses both the ideas of the earthly and the divine in this short story. What makes the angel ...
- 6184: Sony's Expansion
- ... but Sony is not in such a market. Consumer electronics is becoming increasingly competitive and cost driven. Companies must have a balance of creating products for an existing market as well as creating markets for new product. Morita once said, We dont market products that have already been developed; rather, we develop markets for the products we make. This mindset may be why Morita is no longer CEO of Sony ... Mexico. Sony has an abundance of consumer products that have reached life cycle maturity and would be relatively easy and cost effective to manufacture in other countries. Sony is concerned that products manufactured in Third-World countries might damage the reputation of the ones originating in Japan and other industrialized nations. Sony was also concerned about the effects of currency fluctuations, especially at times when the yen was strengthening. Up until ... top ranks. (Bamboo curve) - Less true decision making made them feel more like figure heads than executives. - The reluctance of Sony to allow for market assessments before committing large sums to developing and production of new products. - Feeling second guessed by the Japanese. - Culture barriers were impossible to overcome even though American executives made every effort to learn the language and customs of their parent company. In 1988 through 1991, ...
- 6185: Biotechnology In Food
- ... GM products, and this is causing horrendous marketing problems for North American farmers. It is becoming obvious we cannot force Europeans to take such products, even though Canada and the U.S. are using the World Trade Organization (WTO) in an effort to do so. Most large European and British supermarket chains have removed GE products from their shelves, and the largest European food processors (Nestle and Unilever) will no longer ... non-GM crops or weedy relatives is turning out to be much more prevalent and its implications more serious than biotech researchers predicted. Mitchell says genetic engineering can be expected to help feed a hungry world. This routine claim of the biotechnology industry is deeply resented in developing nations, where it's well-known the real causes of hunger are poverty and inequitable food distribution. In any case, most GE crops produce less food than do normal seeds -- about seven per cent lower in the case of the 1998 U.S. soybean crop. In a particularly noble contribution to the relief of world hunger, the biotech industry plans to offer farmers seeds that die after producing one crop, forcing them to return to the company for new, expensive seed each year. ``To satisfy government regulation, such crops ...
- 6186: Yom Kippur
- Yom Kippur Yom Kippur is the most important holidays for the Jewish. It is a time for people to seek forgiveness from others. Yom Kippur is important because it comes just before the Jewish new year so that people can have a fresh start for the new year. Yom Kippur also gives people a chance to look back on the past year and plan for the upcoming year. Yom Kippur dates back to biblical times when animals were used to transfer sins ... way in the past year. People must seek forgiveness because the Jewish feel that forgiveness is not something that may be given, it is something that must be sought after. Not wanting to start the new year with any grudges, the entire congregation gets up and begins seeking forgiveness. At sundown the fast is over. The congregation leaves the synagouge and goes home. When they get home the break the ...
- 6187: Animation
- ... tremendous hours of agony to produce only seconds of animated film. Before an animator goes about creating an animation he or she must have the knowledge of several rules of animation, which animators around the world follow. The first rule of animation is that an animator must hold the understanding of the techniques used to produce single cells of animation. Second rule, and one of the most important ones is that ... animator is "it takes commitment and effort to make the basis of animation come alive with fresh ideas."2 The following is not a rule of animation, but is often taught to animators around the world. "Animators were often taught that animation is only limited by the imagination and skills of its creators."3 Using these rules animation companies hire artists who are familiar with the rules previously discussed, but to ... of computers that calculate intricate movements with amazing precision."8 Today computer animation has achieved the ability to create moving images and backgrounds of great complexity. This advanced innovation in animation, has prompted the multimedia world to manipulate this technology to adapt to their needs. Such as using computerized animation widely in their television commercials, titles, and in producing more convincing music videos for the consumers. Computer animation has just ...
- 6188: William Shakespeare 2
- ... These performances possibly ignited a spark that continues to burn. (Wright 20) William Shakespeare was an Englishman who wrote poems and plays. According to many he was labeled as one of the greatest dramatists the world has ever known and the finest poets who wrote in the English language. Shakespeare s work relied mostly on his instincts of nature. His understanding of other people allowed him to fully grasp the quality ... was at least 8 years her husband s senior. The marriage record dates November 27, 1582 in an Episcopal register found in Worchester. The custom in Stratford after the eldest son married, was for the new couple to live in the house of the groom s father. In all likelihood, Shakespeare obeyed the customary procedure. (Wright 24) Shakespeare and his wife probably had a good and happy marriage. She gave birth ... some people thought young William stole a dear from a wealthy man in order to poach. A crime not tolerated during that period. (Wright 6) Eight years before the death of Shakespeare he wrote 4 new plays. Some scholar s debate, which plays, was his last. Very little was known about him before the age of 28. (Wilson 38) He continued to visit Stratford on occasion. (Wadsworth 347) He bought ...
- 6189: The Titanic - History of a Disaster
- ... right to the end. Where or what they played remains a great mystery, as eyewitness accounts vary greatly (Lord, Lives On 135). Five days after the Titanic sank, the Bremen was on its way to New York. The passengers saw victims of the Titanic in the ocean." We saw the body of one woman dressed only in her night dress, and clasping a baby to her breast," one the passengers recalled ... disaster, every ship has enough lifeboats for everyone on board and also performs mandatory lifeboat drills. Walter Lord, the author of A Night to Remember, remarked that: The Titanic has come to stand for a world of tranquillity and civility that we have somehow lost... In 1912, people had confidence. Now nobody is sure of anything and the more uncertain we become , the more we long for a happier era when ... iceberg season. Hopefully, in some small, way this will make a difference if such an accident at sea should ever occur again. --- Work Cited Eaton, John P., and Charles A. Haas. Titanic: Triumph and Tragedy. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1986. PP 152-184. Pellegrino, Charles. Her Name Titanic. New York: McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, 1988. PP 20-21. Marcus, Geoffrey. The Maiden Voyage. New York: The Viking Press, ...
- 6190: Cats Cradle 2
- ... death, labored over the meaning of life, and created religion to explain all that he can not understand. Death at some point will catch up with all of society and at some point the entire world as human beings have come to know it will come to an end. No one can hide from death or attempt to out run its ever-expanding claw; death is absolute. It is possibly the ... come to tragic anti-climatic ends. The Romans slowly poisoned themselves through their use of an amazingly complex lead piping system, and Athens feel eventually to an equally dismal fate. In our modern society the world has watched as many threats of global destruction have come and gone. The fact that currently the nuclear arsenal of the United States alone could easily destroy all of earth leaves many fearing that the end is near. The contemplation of ones eventual demise leads one to think that life is no longer worth the effort to live. In Cats Cradle the destruction of the world is realized by the invention of a substance capable of freezing all water on earth. Its inventor was a peaceful man, a man who invented for the sake of discovery, for the sake of ...
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