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- 4311: Lord Of The Flies
- ... do not realize the long term consequences involved with not having necessities like shelter and a signal fire, and before long, fun rebels against common sense, turning the island into chaos. Eventually there is a war, the hunters against the worker/dreamers. III How About the Themes.... The author, William Golding, helped describe the theme of Lord of the Flies when he said, “The attempt to trace the defects of society ... the end rescue where adult life appears, dignified and capable, but in reality doing the same thing the children were, fighting, the cruiser on which the children were taken from the island in is a war machine, designed to kill other sea going ships, but who is there to rescue the adults? The other theme is about the way people treat others. In the book there are two murders, both in ...
- 4312: Plan and Purpose (Creation) or Time and Chance (Evolution)?
- ... what the evolutionists wanted them to resemble. Tools were also found near the sight, so the evolutionists suspected that they had found advanced “tool-using” apes. The bones of Peking Man were lost during World War II which allows us to think that they weren’t too valuable. Java Man (Pithecanthropus erectus, which means “upright ape-man”) was also a fake. Java Man was a skeleton found over a distance of ... are assumed to store food in their large tails, allowing them to go through long intervals without eating. The ark was 450-500 feet in width (as long as an escort aircraft carrier in World War II), and 900 feet in length. The ark could have held 600 railway cars or six Olympic-sized swimming pools.
- 4313: George Washington
- ... the regular British army. In 1753, Virginia was alarmed when a French expedition from Canada established posts on the headwaters of the Ohio River. Conflict over this area eventually erupted into the French and Indian War, in which Washington played a major military role that established his reputation as a commander. In the fall of 1758 the French were defeated. In 1759 he married Martha Dandridge Custis, a wealthy young widow ... helped shape this country to its Democratic perfection today. During his double termed presidency, he ran the country with poise and dignity. It is no wonder that Henry Lee uttered that famous epitaph: "first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen."
- 4314: Nuclear Power and Its Uses
- Nuclear Power and Its Uses At first nuclear power was only seen as a means of destruction but after World War II a major effort was made to apply nuclear energy to peacetime uses. Nuclear power if made when a nucleus of an atom is split to release a powerful burst of energy. Though technological advancements ... it does not live nor have a mind of it's own. It is the human race that decided that the best way to use this power was to use it as an instrument of war. Nuclear Power should be seen as a positive and humanity can blame no one for its destructive manner but themselves. It was our decision to use it for death, it is now our responsibility to ...
- 4315: Late Anglo-saxon Period Kings
- ... the Good. Sweyn died in 1014 and Aethelred reclaimed the English crown for another 2 years before his death at the age of 48 in 1016. Following the death of Aethelred, there was a bloody war of succession expected to take place between Sweyn’s son, Cnut, and Edmund II, Aethelred’s son. This war, didn’t take place, however, simply because Cnut figured he could made do with Denmark and Norway. As a reminder to the English, though, he showed a typical Viking lack of mercy by having the ...
- 4316: Smuggling of Nuclear Material
- ... Union and the worsening of economic conditions. No longer does the Soviet KGB, the Soviet military and the Soviet border guards have the control to stop the smuggling of nuclear material's. With the Cold War being over, there is a huge stockpile of over 100 nuclear sites (See Appendix A). Russia, alone has an inventory of 1,300 tons of highly enriched uranium (HEU), and 165 tons of weapon usable ... also becoming involved for the safety of preventing a nuclear disaster. The U.S. has just begun their large task and with Russia's worsening economy, smuggling of nuclear material will continue. During the Cold War the security of Soviet nuclear weapons and missile materials was based on a highly centralized military system and operating within a strong political authority. The workers back then where well disciplined and each individual new ...
- 4317: Nuclear Weapons
- ... China. China and Britain are reluctant to accept restrictions on their programs unless India joins in. Many people believe the political developments of the late 1980Õs and of 1990 marked the end of the Cold War. Military analysts expect that nuclear military arsenals will be reduced in size. At the same time, most weapon specialists expect that nuclear weapons will continue to help prevent political tensions-in Europe or elsewhere. They ... for any country no matter their stability amongst others. Testing Nuclear weapons destroys the well being of our Earth. So many treaties have been passed but it still seems that the likes of a Nuclear war is still stagable. The United States has the most known nuclear tests having a record of 1,030 tests. The closest country next to us is Russia with 715 tests. As you can clearly see ...
- 4318: Chimpanzee
- ... wounds."(Goodall, 1979:599) In 1972 the chimpanzees of Gombe divided into two groups: the southern group(Kahama)and the northern group(Kasakela). This was the start of what Jane Goodall called the "four year war." In 1974, a gang of five chimpanzees from the Kasakela community caught a single male of the Kahama group. They hit, kicked, and bit him for twenty minutes and left him bleeding from many serious ... Mirinda chasing after him screaming. Kalunde then hid in some vegetation until two other males Shike and Lukaja found him and wanted to take the infant away from him. Lukaja finally won a tug of war for the infant between the two other males and handed it over to Ntologi the alpha male. Ntologi, who then dragged, tossed, and slapped it against the ground climbed a tree with the infant in ...
- 4319: Nuclear Weapons
- ... that we are at the hands of the Non-proliferation Treaty and the Test Ban Treaty, we no longer can make and/or test nuclear weapons. (Ref 5) This should help end ideas about nuclear war and other disadvantageous to having plutonium in other country's supplies. Now that we have recognized three important uses for plutonium and that the threat of nuclear war is no longer feasible as before, we should recognize the disadvantages of this energy source. Most of the disadvantages have to do with the excess waste and health effects from the use of nuclear energy ...
- 4320: The Roswell Incident
- ... were facing an alien threat from outside this world. And yet, I ask you, is not an alien force already among us? What could be more alien to the universal aspirations of our peoples than war and the threat of war?" When the President of the United States of America addresses the issue of aliens, it makes everybody think. When Reagan made his statement, one of a few concerning aliens, he could have been speaking with ...
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