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- 911: Kurt Vonnegut
- ... to certain aspects of his life. These correlations are best examined in terms of each influence. One of the most significant influences from Vonnegut's life on his personal philosophy has been his participation in World War II. During the war, Vonnegut served in the American army in Europe and was captured by German soldiers. As a prisoner of war, he witnessed the Allied bombing of the city of Dresden, in ... to a material called ice-nine, which has the ability to freeze water at room temperature. This technological breakthrough, by a scientist who worked on developing the atomic bomb, has the ability to destroy the world by freezing all its water. Even though the people with ice-nine are very careful all through the plot, they lose control of it in the end and the world becomes frozen. With ice-nine, Vonnegut thematically demonstrates how relatively simple technology can lay waste to the world, as the Allies did to Dresden (Draper, 3785). Cat's Cradle is an excellent example of ...
- 912: Computer Crime
- ... have been much, much higher, in order to prevent computers from being used in crimes in the future. This is true for not just the United States and Canada, but for every country in the world. Another computer heist, one of the largest ever, involved several highly placed employees of the Volkswagen car company of West Germany. In 1987 the company discovered that these "loyal" workers had managed to steal $260 ... This sets an example that computer crimes are easy to execute, and are punished very lightly. This will evoke a downward spiral; leading to more and more computer crimes. For career criminals, computers represent a new medium for their illegal actions. Computers only enhance the speed and quality of the crimes. Now the professional criminals can steal or commit almost any other crime they want, simply by the means of typing ... be punished. Other hackers think that it is a challenge to read other's files and see how far they can penetrate into a system. It is pure enjoyment for these hackers to explore a new computer network. It becomes a challenge to gain access to strange, new networks. They often argue that they are only curious and cause no harm by merely exploring, but that is not always the ...
- 913: Flying Towards Fate
- ... s imaginative reach of his own destiny transcends his actual capabilities of himself. The goal he attains is never quite the same as the one he projects. By his acts he inscribes himself in a world which he cannot comprehend anymore than he can understand himself. Each person is a self-creation, but chance furnishes most of the material out of which he must make himself. The nature of man’s ... must make important decisions in his confrontation with his own fate and his discovery of himself. The idea of tragic conflict or agon, plays a major role in his life. Milkman is trapped in the world his parents and the people around him have fashioned for him. He is never truly satisfied with his life until his end. Throughout the entire novel, Milkman is burdened with the troubles of his forgotten ... better.’ But now you’re doing what the worst of them do” ( Morrison 157). Guitar intensifies the tragic character of Milkman because he is forcing his friend to look beyond his original perception of the world and the people who he believed he knew and understood. Milkman’s conflict with the environment that he had been born into was intensified by the character of Hagar; his ex lover. Milkman was ...
- 914: A Detail Look Into The Internet And Where It Is Headed!
- ... They soon replaced the radio as the media form of choice. The newest and currently most controversial form of mass media and communication is the Internet. ‘The Internet has linked sources of information around the world and with the progress made in telecommunications and personal computing, these information sites have become accessible to the common man’(Bergreen 10). We live in a world bursting with new and often brilliantly conceived technology. As soon as we master one technology, we move on to the next, expecting it to make are current obligations easier and less time consuming. We move so quickly ...
- 915: "Woe be to thee, O Constantinople, seated on seven hills, thou shall not continue a thousand years"
- ... years before its conquest by the Ottomans. During the period of a century and a half before the fall of Constantinople, the Roman Empire in the East confronted a mighty enemy with inexhaustible power. The new host1s deficiencies were immediately supplied by newcomers.1 The conquered territory in Asia Minor were the main areas for the recruitment of soldiers for the Empire. More and more it had to depend on mercenaries ... to acceptt a union with the West. First the luring mystical feature of the orthodox church was attacked by the scholasticism of the West and the traditional theory of the church was continuously threatened by new influences. This phenomenon inevitably lead to bitter controversies and divisions in the eastern church itself. When the question of whether a union with the Roman Church should be pursued, the church was divided and did ... antagonistic and too proud of their faith and tradition to accept the union. They were telling the people that the union will lead to eternal damnation. To the ordinary people their fate in the following world was more crucial than the present and they feared that the union will not lead them to salvation. Having in mind the fresh memory of the devastating conquest of the Latins and the importance ...
- 916: GPS: The Future of Navigation and Technology
- GPS: The Future of Navigation and Technology Professor Carmen Foundations of a Technological Society As we enter the 21st century, we are constantly being bombarded with new technologies. From the wireless community to operations that once took weeks to recover and now only take a day or so, our world will never be the same. Another technology that is revolutionizing the world we live in is the Global Positioning System or GPS. The first GPS satellite was called GPS Block I. Launched in 1978, it was a develop- mental satellite. Another nine Block I satellites were ...
- 917: Japanese Capital Structure And
- ... Daiichi Kangyo, and Sanwa (the latter three are centered around Japan s largest commercial banks. Together, these six corporate groups account for a quarter of total Japanese business assets. History/Background Prior to the Second World War, several large monopolistic companies dominated Japanese industry. They were known as zaibatsu the dominant four were Mitsubishi, Mitsui, Sumitomo and Yasuda. During the post-war Occupation the holding companies of the zaibatsu that controlled ... is less stringent on disclosure requirements as compared to the NYSE, for example, which causes sharp asymmetric information differences between corporate insiders and the market. The result of this asymmetry is a severe underpricing of new share offerings and a reluctance to issue on management s part. Firms, therefore, had a preference for bank debt which was less likely to suffer from such pricing effects. Secondly, equity has been an expensive ... similar to their American counterparts. Another factor contributing to this trend was the stockpile of cash that Japanese firms had accumulated during the high growth era with which they were increasingly depending on to finance new projects. Deregulation of Japanese capital markets was also increasing the accessibility of direct financing for many firms. Equity issues at market price, with the increasingly high P/E ratios, made issuing stock very attractive ...
- 918: The Aztec Nation
- ... is one of the largest and most advanced Indian nations to ever exist on earth. Just about every part of the Aztec life was advance to such a state that at that time of the world the people were living better than many European nations. The Aztec nation is unique in its history, economy, environment, and way of life then any other nation at that time. Perhaps three to four thousand ... the tenth century A.D. is one of tribal conflict and superiority. About the time of the fall of this agricultural civilization, which flourished from approximately the second to the tenth centuries A.D., a new tribe, who we know as the Toltecs, settled at Tula, Hidalgo. They belonged to a larger group known as the Nahua, or Nahuatl- speaking, and seem to have entered the Central Valley from the north ... The tale continues with the discovery of the omen and the subsequent founding of Mexico-Tenochtitlán on the sacred site. (León-Portilla 1992) By the fifteenth century Tenochtitlán had become the center of the Aztec world-- the center of Aztec growth, conquest, and expansion. As early as the sixteenth century Tenochtitlán dominated all other cities in the Central Valley and had reached the height of its power and magnificence (Caso ...
- 919: A Discussion on the Myth and Failure of Reconstruction Following the Civil War, and How This Failure Impacted and Changed America
- ... emerged triumphant . . . but peace had come only on the battlefields. 'Cannon conquer,' recognized a northern editor, 'but they do not necessarily convert.'"(Tindall 451) Now the difficult questions of Reconstruction began to appear. "How were new governments to be formed? How and at whose expense was the South's economy to be rebuilt? What was to be done with the freed slaves?"(Tindall 451) "Reconstruction was intended as a device by ... 10 percent plan: required a majority of the voting citizens to declare their allegiance and that only those who swore that they had always been loyal to the Union could vote or serve in the new state constitutional conventions and the conventions in turn would have to abolish slavery, deny political rights to civil and military leaders of the Confederacy, and repudiate war debts.(Tindall 452) Lincoln never signed the bill ... it gave the president too much patronage, and the states that were affected were not represented in Congress.(Carter 59) Congress then overrode his veto.(Tindall 460) From within the Freedmen's Bureau sprang a new kind of organization, the Union Leagues.(Carter 60) These groups were sponsored by Northerners seeking political support from the Negro or revenge on the South.(Carter 60) They were designed to remind Negroes of ...
- 920: Castro’s Screw Up And Cuba's Economic Crisis
- ... allies (including military aid.) In 1972, Cuba became a member of the former Soviet bloc's Council on Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA) and underwent major structural changes to adapt its trade and industry to the new relationship. By 1987 CMEA countries accounted for over 85% of Cuban trade despite new bilateral accords signed with many countries including Colombia, Mexico, Spain and Venezuela. Although Cuba's revolutionary leaders had intended to pursue a policy of economic diversification, they quickly had to abandon this approach. Instead, the ... by 1986. Some 78% of Cuba's sugar production went to the former Soviet Union in barter trade with one percent kept for the domestic market and the remainder sold for hard currency on the world market. Bad idea! Today Cuba is an anachronism, a small island of socialism in a hemisphere that has largely abandoned state-dominated economics, adopting market-based democracy as its path to prosperity, and is ...
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