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- 6761: James Earl Ray
- James Earl Ray In the recent pass-on of the twentieth century, the world (the U.S. especially) has seen some great leaders live and fall in front of the eyes of millions. Arguably, some of the greatest and most beloved presidents have been in office during the twentieth ... none may have their birthdays celebrated or their faces carved into a mountain, presidents such as JFK and Richard Nixon are certainly presidents whose impacts will not be forgotten soon. Presidents may have the power world leaders usually do and it is a guarantee that a new one will be elected in eight years time. Therefore it is the social leaders, not the political ones, that are ever more rare and make the greatest impact towards our lives. One such leader ...
- 6762: Television
- ... become the screen of most television sets. In 1925 C. Francis Jankins had used some ideas from a Scottish engineer, A. A. Campbell, to create images on the screens. The United States navy used this new technology to transfer images back and forth to its ships. In 1929 David Sarnoff invested $50 million dollars into the development of television sets. In 1935 Sarnoff committed RCA to the development of television sets ... Corporation which provided the first television service. Programs were only shown for 3 hours per day. During the next year the united states set up eleven television stations. RCA demonstrated a television set at the New York World's Fair were Franklin D. Roosevelt spoke before a camera becoming the first president to appear on television. In 1940 the Colombian Broadcast company demonstrated its example of color television. World War II brought ...
- 6763: Dante Alighieri
- Dante Alighieri was one of the most renowned writers in world literature. His great masterpieces have influenced the world immensely. He was not only a great writer and poet but he also was a man that overcame great odds to write awe inspiring works of art. Dante Alighieri was born in Florence, Italy either ... in 1274 but she also died not long afterwards. He once said that the most significant occurrence of his childhood was his meeting with his love, Beatrice. She was glorified in La vita nuova ( The New Life ) and again later in La divina commedia ( The Divine Comedy ). Although his great literary works prove that he had a great education, little is known about where he studied. It is known that ...
- 6764: Frankenstein: What Makes it a Gothic Novel?
- ... The pitiful creature lives in places where man cannot go for reason that the temperatures and dangers of these settings are too extreme. But near the end, Frankenstein's rage takes him all over the world in an obsessed search for his doppelganger enduring terrible hardships, which the monster, too, has endured. Frankenstein pursues his creation to the Artic wastes, revenge being the only thing keeping him alive. This “serves only ... to thicken the strange darkness that surrounds and engulfs them” (Nitchie 274). Here it seems as if Frankenstein may finally capture his adversary, but nature thinks otherwise. The monster tempts his enraged creator through a world of ice and the setting becomes a hindrance as the “wind arose; the sea roared; and, as with the mighty shock of an earthquake; it split and cracked with a tremendous and overwhelming sound. the ... Likewise, Frankenstein's monster dies on his own terms, springing to his ice raft, “borne away by the waves and lost in darkness and distance” (Shelly 206). Works Cited 2. Shelly, Mary. Frankenstein. Bantam Books. New York, New York. c1991
- 6765: Georg Cantor
- ... transfinite numbers. By considering the infinite sets with a transfinite number of members, Cantor was able to come up his amazing discoveries. For his work, he was promoted to full professorship in 1879. However, his new ideas also gained him numerous enemies. Many mathematicians just would not accept his groundbreaking ideas that shattered their safe world of mathematics. One of these critics was Leopold Kronecker. Kronecker was a firm believer that the only numbers were integers and that negatives, fractions, imaginaries and especially irrational numbers had no business in mathematics. He ... number. Is infinity a number? Is there anything bigger than infinity? How about infinity plus one? What's infinity plus infinity? What about infinity times infinity? Children to whom the concept of infinity is brand new, pose questions like this and don't usually get very satisfactory answers. For adults, these questions don't seem to have very much bearing on daily life, so their unsatisfactory answers don't seem ...
- 6766: The Year 2000 Bug
- ... bug, you ask? How does it affect my life? The Y2K bug is a possible glitch inside of older computers in which the prefix 19 is inputted into the computer to save time when writing new computer programs that deal with the date and time in any way. With the change from 1900’s to 2000’s, programmers are afraid that computers will think it is 1900 all over again and ... and many people think that we may need lots of canned and dry goods. As in any crisis situation, some believe that the worst will happen: We will all die, go to war, or the world will explode, etc. Then again, others think that maybe we should be prepared just in case all of our electricity goes out and we have no way to store our goods. Personally, I believe that ... be assumed that in the future for the year 3000 we will be foresighted enough to not repeat history and let our computer systems slip from one’s control. However, I think that if the world exists in the year 3000 our computers will be so advanced that nothing will affect it. Media on Y2K The media had virtually ignored the Y2K problem. To the major networks and cable news ...
- 6767: The Introduction of Computers in Education
- ... the early 1980's, by allowing them to obtain vital information for their studies. In addition, computers has also provided four crucial ways in which students can increase their learning abilities with the aide of new and improved software that are available in schools, libraries and even in their homes. First of all, students learn how to procure information through the use of computers. It has made the way students access ... and the students can obtain all the information he/she needs for an assignment. The time that was spent running to the library has been cut by about ninety percent. This is due to the new and ever improving software that is produced for personal computers. Secondly, the computer has become a strong teaching tool in many schools across the nation and maybe the world. Since the introduction of computers in the classrooms, students have shown a progression of their skills in reading and mathematics. There are many tutorial software programs that are readily available for the students who ...
- 6768: Death Of A Salesman: Willy Loman is A Tragic Hero
- ... However, in those moments that he begins to realize the truth, his wife Linda while understanding his situa tion, supports his delusion. She say to him that "you're the best looking man in the world". Bu t the truth is that being popular and good looking is not how you would succeed in the world now. It would be through hard work and perseverance. The American Dream has long turned sour for him. At the begin ning of his life, he remembers travelling in a wagon going westward. His parents conque red the new frontier and succeeded. His brother Ben went "into the jungle at 17 and cam e out rich at age 21". For a while, the American Dream was alive in Willy too. He helped stake ...
- 6769: Fixing Belief
- ... that people have stepped outside of using this method. Even though the Jews are worshipping the same God, the Christians still believe those people shall go to hell, for they don’t believe in the New Testament, or the coming of Jesus. The third method of Peirce’s, the a priori method, is very tough to associate with religious matters, in that the method involves the fickle people of the world. In this method, a person will change his opinion of something immediately, should you alert him page 3 to something that would make his opinion seem wrong. They also believe that what is right for ... politics, the a priori method seems to fit in nicely when trying to fix beliefs. Many people will not agree with that, but I think it might just prove the point a little. In the world of politics, there has been and always will be numerous different page 4 opinions. People are aware of this, but still many constituents feel that all of their answers are the right ones. For ...
- 6770: The Odyssey: Theme of Homecoming and Reunion
- ... earth-shaker, Poseidon, embodies supreme horror. He is hubris personified and his actions are indisputably grotesque, blasphemous, and extreme. He is described as a caveman, primitive and barbarous, unaccustomed to the polite ways of the world of men. According to Zeus' laws of hospitality, it is an egregious error to turn strangers from your feast, and worse still is it to murder a guest, but to eat a guest– or six ... with his true (and well earned) epithet, ‘son of Laertes and the gods of old, master mariner and soldier.' She commands Odysseus to seek out the blind prophet, Teiresias, so that he might discover his new purpose. Thus begins his transformation, but in order to fulfill his destiny as the true king of Ithaka he must go down into that gentle night, realm of bitter Persephone. Teiresias warns Odysseus of the ... himself, in order to survive the wrath of Poseidon. “Great captain, a fair wind and the honey lights of home are all you seek. But anguish lies ahead.” In this way, Teiresias prepares Odysseus for new trials and the sufferings of his household. He tells him that he will survive alone, bereft of his companions, to find his home filled with insolent men, courting his wife, slaughtering his cattle, and ...
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