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- 8191: The Advancement of War
- ... element of conflict. This came with the French Revolution and the wars it generated. The history of war then marked time for most of the 19th century. Despite the wartime propaganda that colored postwar studies, World War I was probably not a war over basic ideological issues. Nevertheless, it was fought as if the most basic values were hanging in the balance. The hideous reality of what "machine guns did to ... war joined the last two basic elements of modern total war, a real clash of fundamental values and the capacity to wreak massive destruction on an enemy society. Unlike the war of 1914 to 1918, World War II took the form of a true battle to the end between entirely different, agnostic politico-social systems. Loss of war threatened loss of everything, even freedom of individual conscience. World War II, which produced the cynical aggression and inhuman behavior of the aggressors, also left the legacy of the acts of the victims' aggressions. The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were not revolutionary ...
- 8192: King of Babylonia: Hammurabi
- King of Babylonia: Hammurabi In his position as King of Babylonia, Hammurabi managed to organize the world's first code of laws and establish Babylon as the dominant and successful Amorite city of its time. "Records written on clay tablets show that Hammurabi was a very capable administrator and a successful warrior ... in traditional activities, such as repairing buildings, digging canals, and fighting wars. Yet later in his rule, Hammurabi organized a unique code of laws, the first of its kind, therefore making himself one of the world's most influential leaders. Hammurabi was primarily influential to the world because of his code of laws. This code consisted of 282 provisions, systematically arranged under a variety of subjects. He sorted his laws into groups such as family, labor, personal property, real estate, trade, ...
- 8193: Huck Finn Notes
- ... watches and money." Tom also wants to kidnap people and then hold them for ransom, but nobody knows what a ransom is. It is almost daylight before Huck creeps back through his window with his new clothes "all greased up and clayey. . . ." After receiving a scolding from Miss Watson, Huck is also instructed in religion by the old maid, but he can't make any sense out of her type of ... into giving him the rest of Huck's money, but the judge refuses. He then goes to court to get custody of Huck, and even though the Widow Douglas and the judge oppose it, a new judge gives the custody of the boy to his father. Pap promises to reform with the aid of the new judge, but the improvement is short lived. Soon Pap trades his new coat for a jug of whiskey, gets drunk, rolls off the porch, and breaks his left arm in two places. The new ...
- 8194: Famine
- ... population growth and economic inequalities. Reliable food supplies in developing countries are in jeopardy due to deliberate crop destruction and inefficient food distribution; resulting in widespread chronic hunger. Each year millions of acres of the world's farmland are lost to the spread of cities and suburbs, highway and airport construction and shopping centers. In Canada, most of the land taken over by urban sprawl came from the best cropland. Even in the Third World or developing countries, land conversion is a serious problem; this is because the population increases in such countries are comparatively great and the growing number of people need more land to live on. Increases in food supply cannot keep up with rapid increases in population. In other words, the world population could outstrip its ability to feed itself. More than half the world's population lives with hunger and malnutrition everyday in spite of the fact, that most countries are self sufficient in food ...
- 8195: Catcher In The Rye 2
- ... vacation is about to start for all the students. It s pretty a traditional school, its advertisements in the papers say: "Since 1888 we have been molding young boys into splendid, clear-thinking young men." New York City, New York, USA. Christmas 1949. The book doesn t make you feel New York City was as busy then as it is nowadays. In the beginning it does, but, when reaching the end of the book, it seems a quiet city of 100,000 in stead of ...
- 8196: Wedding Traditions
- ... men at the reception. Men being men, they would often get drunk and not wait for the bride to take off her garter; they d assault her. To protect the bride it quickly became the new husband s responsibility to remove the garter. It then became customary for the bride to toss her bouquet to unmarried women. However, it was not until recently that people started believing that the woman who ... next to be married. Regardless of who removed the garter, the bride of old most likely would not have been dressed in white. If her family was well off she would certainly have had a new dress made for her wedding day, but it did not necessarily have to be white. In ancient times, color was not considered in a bridal gown. It became customary for the bride to wear red ... What is known is that the wedding dress is traditionally only worn once. This showed a person s affluence. Nearly everyone has heard the old rhyme about what a bride should wear: something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue, and a silver sixpence in her shoe. Many brides abide by it today but most likely, few know what it means. Something old signifies that the bride will stay close ...
- 8197: Accounts Of The Holocaust
- Accounts of the Holocaust The Holocaust was the systematic annihilation of six million Jews by the Nazi regime during the Second World War. I will tell the story of the Holocaust through many different personal accounts of people involved in many different sides of this incredible story. I will do this by using the personal accounts of ... for thousands of years by the Jews. This uncompromising anti-Semitic attitude must prevail among our own people despite all objectors. (www.virtual.co.il,1) Nazis felt that in order to build a perfect world all the impure Cordova 3 people, such as the Jews, must be exterminated. The Nazi party also expressed why all Jews, including women and children, were targeted. Heinrich Himmler, of the Nazi party explains: We ... the face of the earth. (www.virtual.co.il,2) This statement shows that the plan of the Nazi party went much farther than the time of the war, They wanted to build a perfect world. Some living in Europe, not directly involved in the Holocaust, were affected by the event. This is shown in a letter to the Reich Minister of Justice from the Roman Catholic Bishop of Limberg. ...
- 8198: Cardiac Pacemakers
- ... battery operated pacemakers developed by William M. Chardack, chief of thoracic surgery at the Veterans Administration hospital and his colleague Wilson Greatbatch. Physicians who implanted pacemakers in these patients reported numerous serious failures that required new operation: broken or dislodged leads, premature battery depletion, leakage of body fluids into the pulse generator. Yet despite the problems, pacemakers proved effective at giving people months or years of life that they would not ... advances in the health/sciences and engineering industries, patients are now able to resume their daily activities without having to worry about moderate physical exertion. BIBLIOGRAPGHY Glenn W. L., William. Cardiac Pacemakers. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences v. 111 art. 2-3, 1964. Furman, Seymour. Advances in Cardiac Pacemakers. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences v. 167, art. 2, 1969. Spielman R. Scott. Pacemakers in the elderly: New knowledge, new choices. Geriatrics v. 41, no. 2, Feb. 1986. Tordjman, Therese. Recent Developments in Cardiac Pacemakers. ...
- 8199: Susan B Anthony
- ... which were seen as distractions from the Inner Light. Instead he enforced self-discipline. Susan learned to read and write at the age of three. In 1826, the Anthony’s moved from Massachusetts to Battensville, New York. Where Susan attended a district school, when the teacher refused to teach Susan long division, she was taken out of school and taught in home school set up by her father. A woman teacher, Mary Perkins, ran the school. Perkins offered a new image of womanhood to Susan and her sisters. She was independent, educated, and held a position that had been traditionally been reserved to young men. Susan was sent to a boarding school in Philadelphia. She taught at a female academy boarding school, in up state New York when she was fifteen years old intill she was thirty. After she settled in her family home in Rochester, New York. It was here that she began her first public crusade on behalf ...
- 8200: Caribbean
- ... people will think of Caribbean Islands as a nice place for a getaway vacation. But historical background of Caribbean is somewhat different. Caribbean has a long history of colonization and slavery for many generations. As new colonization was established, new cultures and languages were introduced. People tends to only focus on the bright side of the Columbus¡¯s great discover of the new land and colonization of the European countries and can easily forget about the destruction and the damages of the lives of native countries. who were the first Caribbean long before the Columbus¡¯s discovery, ...
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