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- 7541: Biography Of Adam Smith
- ... took up the subject of "the progress of opulence." Then in his late twenties, he first explained the economic philosophy of "the obvious and simple system of natural liberty," which he later declared to the world in his Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. This excerpt from one of the lectures Smith gave shows that Smith was already "developing his analysis of the institution of the ... 1790, after a painful illness. He devoted a considerable part of his income to numerous secret acts of charity. BIBLIOGRAPHY Muller, Jerry Z. Adam Smith. In His Time and Ours. Designing the Decent Society. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1993. Ross, Ian Simpson. The Life of Adam Smith. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995. West, E.G. Adam Smith. New Rochelle, New York: Arlington House, 1969.
- 7542: Bill Gates 2
- ... these is now the Chief Executive Officer of the Microsoft Corporation and goes by the name of Bill Gates. He currently worth more than 100 billion dollars and is the most wealthy man in the world. There are many people who admire and respect him, and then there are many that hate and despise him. Either way he has managed to develop and successfully operate one of the worlds largest software ... computer industry. He and his computer buddy Allen decided to adapt a computer language for the Altair. When it worked 21 year old Gates dropped out of Harvard University to focus more attention on his new dream, computer software. Realizing he couldn t take on such a task by himself, he and Allen formed a partnership and called it Microsoft, not knowing that in 20 sum years they would be billionaires. They started out by selling computer software to many of the new computer manufacturers starting in the computer industry themselves. Microsoft started growing but wasn t that popular until computer giant IBM asked the two to develop an operating system for its new personal computer, otherwise ...
- 7543: Amazing Grace A Book Report
- ... assignment this year, I read the book Amazing Grace by Jonathan Kozol. In this documentary-style book, he told about the horrible yet completely realistic conditions of the most poor, rundown neighborhoods and districts in New York City. Kozol wrote the book for the purpose of telling the stories of the children who lived in these parts of the city. He dedicated his work to those children and it was his ... not a clear cut solution presented in the book, nor is there just one way to solve these problems. It seemed like things were still working against pulling the ghetto out of its poverty. The new mayor of New York City, Rudolph Giuliani, had just cut more funding for AIDS programs, an epidemic which ran rampart in the ghetto, and for welfare, which so many people living there counted on for their mere ...
- 7544: Decartes vs. Russell on Whether The Self Is An Object And The Mind Stability
- ... not always the same thing. One moment you could say that you are perceiving green, and the next second you could be perceiving blue. Russell says that it could be a different self for every new sequence of data. Sense data to Russell are things like greenness or smoothness or cold. Descartes says that it's not the self that changing. It's only the perceptions in the conscience. I sway towards Descartes on this issue. I don't see the logic in the self changing for every new sense of data. If this was true , wouldn't every other object we looked at be new to us? Descartes argument for existing is much more believable, for the simple fact that if we think anything we must exist. I think are minds do have stability. Memory is a proof of ...
- 7545: Berlin Wall 2
- After World War II, the Yalta Conference confirmed that Germany was to be divided into four sectors:the American, British, and French in the west, and the Soviet Union in the east. From June 24, 1948 to ... and the rest to the Britain sector. Many escape tunnles were dug under the wall. Police found many of these tunnles and closed many of them off. After alot of controversy, and discussion of a new travel law, Leader of Berlin's Communist Party announed in unclear words that the border would be opened for "private trips abroad". Little later, celebrations took place at the Brandenburg Gate and at the Kurfurstendamm in West Berlin.On November 10th, demolition began with the intention of creating new border crossings. By December 22nd, 2 new border crossings had opened to the public for free travel of private parties only. So-called "wall-woodpeckers" hammered pieces of the wall out, that were sold ...
- 7546: Is There Such A Thing As The American Dream?
- ... there are ultimately American, like fast food stands and Reganomics. Like I said, fascinating. "I hold the future to you and all that pass through."() This is engraved on the entrance of Ellis Island in New York Harbor. It has been a welcoming to millions of hopeful immigrants coming to America. They search for a dream. The American dream. What is this dream that so many came looking for? The American ... for example written during the Depression shows that if a person were to grow up in a poverty-stricken area for all of their life, the only experience that person would have with the adult world would be low income and most likely low education. Due to inductive thinking, this person may draw the conclusion that all places in the world are like that one area, and they're goals or standards will be lowered to the level of life that they know. But only in America is everyone given the chance to succeed. In ...
- 7547: God Guided Evolution
- ... a steady source of food, medicine, and entertainment. Finally, animals make their appearance onto the planet. These creatures also provide food, medicine, as well as companionship, and most importantly, an entrance for man into the world. Eventually, the believed ancestor of man, Australopithecus arrived. This would be the final evolution of species before God would intervene in his creation since the time that he started it all. God said, “Let us ... over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” God created man. God used similar traits from different species that had evolved on the planet, and used new traits. God then placed a soul into this man, and thus he was in God’s own image. This is how the bible tells it, and it is the opinion of this essay that most ... is true. The first man was named Adam. This essay’s opinion is that Adam is a symbol for an entire species of the genus Homo known as Habilis. H. Habilis spread out into the world, and eventually was separated into another species. Just as God took Adam’s rib to make Eve, God spawned changes in H. Habilis to form H. Erectus. Simply put, Adam symbolizes H. Habilis and ...
- 7548: A Perfect Day For Bananafish
- ... probably extremely important to consider why the main character, Seymour Glass, decided to commit suicide. What I believe to be the reason for Seymour s suicide has two basic components: the spiritual depravity of the world around him, and his struggle with his own spiritual shortcomings. The spiritual problem of the outside world is mostly a matter of material greed, especially in the west, and materialism. On the other hand, his own spiritual problem is more a matter of intellectual greed and true spiritualism. In addressing the suicide, the difference should be distinguished between the "See More Glass" that we see through little Sybil s eyes, and the Seymour Glass that we see through the eyes of the adult world. Even though these two characters are in theory the same man, they are slightly different in some ways. You could also say that they are the same character in different stages of development. Whatever ...
- 7549: Ezra Pound, Imagism, and the Influence of the Orient
- ... course of events’, the exalted moment, the vision unsought or at least the vision gained without machination” (Spirit of Romance p.97). The two images retain their separate impact, but when combined take on a new significance. Pound believed that there was no true distinction between the objective and the subjective, and that one is wrong to try and separate the two (Hakatuni p.67). Perhaps this can be clarified by ... viewing of reality on two levels to the point that it became automatic, second nature. The Cantos are full of such examples, such as the overlapping of Mt. Taishan in Japan with Mt. Chocorua in New Hampshire. Imagism was an attempt at a new mode of perception, an “absolute way of looking at the world” (Barbarese et al p.301). To evaluate the success of Pound’s Imagism in terms of its permanent contribution to traditional poetic form ...
- 7550: Baptism
- ... Baptism we share in Christ s death and resurrection. The water symbolizes not the removal of dirt from the body but the pledge of a good conscience towards God. Baptism is a declaration to the world that says, I have died to the old way of life. Sin will no longer rule over me for my old self has been buried. I have been resurrected by the power of God to live a new life in Christ Jesus . Through Baptism we are given our Christian name by our parents, which is blessed by the priest, or deacon, using the Trinitarian Formula. ( In the name of the Father, the Son ... the soul as it is cleansed. This tradition, however, is more common in persons of Irish and Italian descent. Water is poured on the head three times. The pouring of water symbolizes the gift of new life given to us through Jesus. Just as there is no life without water, which makes things grow as well as cleansing them and making them bright and new. The baptized person emerges in ...
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