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- 7991: Racial Formation Essay
- ... a foundation for their own racial identity. This in turn forces us into a racialized social structure where race becomes “common sense” (59), where we can comprehend and explain the relationships and workings of the world. This attempt to explain their definition of race, this racial project, leads to the claim that racism is complex and difficult to understand, starting first with the argument that racism is neither “biological” nor an ... this, too, is a false belief because the concept of race is something that is central to people’s identity. They state that because of its long-standing presence, it helps us understand the social world and that it is a basis of our social structure. They mention that race is a dimension of human representation - of how we see and think about the world (55). Thus this idea that race is not biological but is not illusion gives the first grounds of the claim that race is “messy” because of the lack of a real definition. The warrant ...
- 7992: Michelangeo - Renaissance Man
- ... of Pope Leo's cousin, Cardinal de' Medici, who would become Pope Clement VII. The cardinal took an active interest in Michelangelo's works. He was moving into architectural design with such work as a new chapel at the parish church for the tombs of the Medici family. He undertook this commission between 1519 and 1534. The occasion for the chapel was the deaths of the two young family heirs named ... all Florentine tombs. His design called for two large tombs. Windows, and cornices, have strange proportions and thickness, suggesting an irrational, willful revision of traditional classical forms in building. The tombs were of a completely new form. He wanted no accessory forms, and only the statues were to express the thoughts of the soul. Previously, artists had always designed Christian symbols on tombs, but Michelangelo renounced Christian traditions in order to ... was less involved with sculpture, and along with painting and poetry, more with architecture, an area which he did not have to do physical labor. He was sought after to design imposing monuments for the new and modern Rome. Tow of these monuments, the Capitoline Square and the dome of St. Peter's Basilica, are among the city's most notable images. His dome for St. Peter's became the ...
- 7993: Compressed Gas: Helium
- Compressed Gas: Helium Helium was discovered by a French astronomer named Pierre-Julius-Cesar Janssen. The French astronomer got evidence for the element during solar eclipse in 1868. He detected new lines in the solar spectrum. Later in 1895 Sir William Ramsay discovered it in clevite, a uranium mineral. Although it was discovered by Sir William Ramsay, the identification of the element was left up to ... Hydrogen isotopes - the way the sun does it - but it will be many, many years (if ever) before anyone can do that continuously and reliably here on earth. "Air Liquide" France claims to be the world's largest industrial gases company. "BOC Gases" (UK) lay claim to supplying more helium worldwide than any other industrial gases company. Helium is extracted from natural gas deposits. Only a few sources in the world contain significant proportion of helium and justify it's separation. These are in the US, Poland, Algeria and Russia. Because of it's high value, helium is the ONLY major industrial gas to be ...
- 7994: Martin Luther
- ... to introduce mercantilism in America was Spain. The spanish american colonies were not allowed to trade directly with Europe. Instead they had to funnel all of the sugar and tobacco, two common commdities of the new land, through Spain. When this was done, heavy custom duties were imposed and the central government gained. Spanish American colonies were forced into providing precious metals and raw materials to the mother country. These colonies ... central economy of Spain to grow at the expense of the colonies. During the duration of this period, the 1500's through the 1700's, mercantilism had a major effect on the economies in the new world. English speaking colonies were effected by England's policies and acts. These policies and acts were means of controling the economy of the colonies in America and strengthen the central government of England. Dutch ...
- 7995: African and Native American Slavery
- African and Native American Slavery 11-12-96 period 2 The 1500's, a time of discovery, was when the Europeans came to dominate most of the New World. The Europeans traveled to Africa and captured Africans to help develop their land and satisfy their need for power. I feel that the treatment of the Indians and Africans by the Europeans was completely unjustifiable. While the Indians and Africans were less technologically advanced and the Europeans were uneducated, in this particular field, nothing can compensate for the actions of the Europeans. As Europeans began to settle new lands they began their exploration of the foreign worlds. What they found was the opposite of what they expected. They found what they thought was a new breed of humans. In reality they were ...
- 7996: Reductive Psychology
- ... the Kingdom of Heaven: Page 20 ) History When psychology first begun, the growing of the so-called natural sciences was a fact of the moment. Disciplines like biology or physics were developing a body of new knowledge, and some others like economics or sociology were growing or to be born. With the advent of Copernicus s discovery about the sun as the center of the solar system, the Earth became the ... the creation, but just another provisional link in the chain of life. Men were another step down. But we had full dominion over ourselves, at least. Well, not exactly. We happen to have a whole world unexplored, virgin, feared, but necessary to be conquered. Our subconscience. Freud appeared to colonize those vast prairies that lied inside our skulls. Humanity as a whole didn't lose the taste of adventure that developed ... The space of knowledge formerly occupied by myths, faith, and obscurantism was now finally illuminated by the almighty power of the final weapon, reason, which was meant to destroy our boundaries of ignorance. In this new light, there was not room for beliefs, which were false by definition of science s way of knowledge. Men were looking for a rational explanation to phenomena, feeling somehow free of the fear of ...
- 7997: Louis Pasteur 3
- ... Ecole Namale Supervieure, Paris, to work for his doctorate degree. He chose for his studies the then obscure science of crystallography, which was to have a great influence on his career. Pasteur entered the scientific world as a professor of physics at the Lycee of Tournon and started his research on the optical properties of crystals of tartaric acid salts. He found the two forms of this acid which could rotate ... 1873, Pasteur was elected to the French Academy of Medicine, a spectacular achievement for a person without a medical degree. Pasteur was now ready to move from the simpler forms of life in the microbial world to the diseases of the higher animals. The opportunity came through a devastating outbreak of anthrax, a killer plague of sheep in 1876. Pasteur tried to produce pure cultures, his objective was to fight the ... to debate and discussion rather than based on fixed notions. All along his career, Pasteur maintained a meticulous record of his laboratory work, in which he noted every day all his observations: description of experiments, new projects, notes on techniques of brewers, wine growers, sericulturists, drafts of letters, papers to scientific societies. Due to the extreme rigor and care with which Pasteur used to write his notes, they became an ...
- 7998: The Catcher In The Rye Analysi
- ... like a careless teenager. Holden has been to several prep-schools, all of which he got kicked out of for failing classes. After being kicked out of the latest, Pency Prep, he went off to New York on his own. Holden seems to have a motivation problem which apparently affects his reasoning. The basis of his reasoning comes from his thoughts. Holden thinks the world is full of a bunch of phonies. All his toughs about people he meets are negative. The only good thoughts he has are about his sister Phoebe and his dead brother Alley. Holden, perhaps, wishes ... himself, should be like his brother and sister. That is to be intelligent, real and loving. Holden’s problem is with his heart. It was broken when his brother died. Now Holden goes around the world as his fake self, wearing his mask. Holden is looking for love, peace and understanding. He is scared to love because he is afraid he might lose it like he did with his brother. ...
- 7999: Cloning And Its Implications
- Cloning And Its Implications Imagine having two of every person in the world running around. Every two people have the same DNA, therefore, the same blood type, same appearance, same fingerprints, the same person. This has the capability to create several problems. Scientists have been experimenting with the ... such questions. A few people believe cloning can be helpful for those unexpected events resulting the death of a love one. If a brother or sister dies, should a person be allowed to create a new one that will be exactly the same? If this allowed, will the clone be exactly the same in sense of the personality and morals? Even clones must start out as babies. Every person is raised ... person himself has. Are clones actual people, or just a version of the existing person? Is cloning just? Should society be allowed the power to create life in such a way? Technology has improved this world and furthered the movement in education, medicine, and science. Is cloning taking this gift people have to invent and learn to an advantage? Are people destroying what morals still exist? People have different beliefs ...
- 8000: “The Slippery Slope of Pizza Money": The Money Scheme
- ... The Money Scheme “The Slippery Slope of Pizza Money,” written by Douglas S. Looney, deals with the controversial issue of athletic scholarships given out by the NCAA at the collegiate level. This article states the new idea that college athletes on scholarship can now have jobs as well as attending school during their competitive seasons and earn up to $2,000 a school year. Douglas S. Looney does an excellent job in persuading me, the reader, in why this is an unfair and illegal thing to do. According to Looney, this new rule set up by the NCAA is an extravagant scheme set up by the NCAA. “Why this is happening is clear: The NCAA has been unable to figure out how to stop wrongdoing when it ... NCAA can’t find a way to figure out how the athletes are getting money while attending school. Instead of trying further to figure out how the athletes are earning money they have made a new rule so that it appears as though the athletes are making money by having jobs outside of school even though everybody all knows this is untrue. Looney continues to say how desperately sad this ...
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