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- 5011: Mythology
- ... what literally happen but suggest that behind the explanation there is a reality that cannot be seen and examined. One of the best-known mythological books is Homer’s ‘Iliad’, which tells of the Trojan War. No one reading the book today believes Homer’s story as a historically factual account. However it is believed that at some time, many centuries before Homer lived-there really was a war between the Greek city-states and the residents of northwestern Asia Minor. Myths try to answer several questions. Where did the world come from? What are the gods like, and where did they come from ...
- 5012: Media Effect
- ... the place most people heard about such historical events as the crash of the Hindenburg zeppelin at Lakehurst, N.J., the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the landing of Allied troops at Normandy during World War II, and, more recently, the Three Mile Island nuclear accident and the space shuttle Challenger disaster. Although Billboard has covered radio since the medium's infancy, it was not until the late '20s that radio ... begun in the 1960's by the U.S. Department of Defense. The DoD wanted to create a computer network that would continue to function in the event of a disaster, such as a nuclear war. If part of the network were damaged or destroyed, the rest of the system still had to work. That network was ARPANET, which linked U.S. scientific and academic researchers. It was the forerunner of ...
- 5013: Money Vs Morality
- ... the homes of Africans, and kidnap children and adults. It did not matter if they were women, men, or children. They were simply just dirty slaves to the English. Another way of getting slaves was war. They would take the prisoners of war from warring tribes in Africa. The third known way to obtain slaves was to pillage. All three ways were efficient, and often used. So the slaves were then loaded on a carrier ship. The slaves ...
- 5014: Mass Media And Public Opinion
- ... instilling a satisfaction in the viewer while subjecting everything to censorship is what occurs. Anything too exposing is usually discovered and denied before it reaches majority of society. An example of this is the Iraqi war. As people watched the goings on in front of their television like a sitcom, the actual reality of the war was a supreme nightmare where the U.S. military were not heroes, nor saviors. Seventy percent of the bombs dropped on Iraq missed their targets and eighty percent killed were civilians. This incident doesn't ...
- 5015: A Separate Peace: Finny - How Things Change
- ... A Separate Peace," by John Knowles, a boy named Gene visits his high school 15 years after graduating in order to find an inner peace. While attending the private boys school during the second World War, Gene's best friend Phineas died and Gene knows he was partially responsible. Phineas, or Finny as he was sometimes called, was the most popular boy in school. He was a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete ... novel by tracing his seeming perfection, his strong beliefs, and his ability to forgive. Finny changed from being the best athlete in the school to being the only one who couldn't go to the war. Finny was a very good person. Finny was a very firm believer in what he thought was right. Finny was a very forgiving person, believing in the forgiveness of friends. Unfortunately, Finny died due to ...
- 5016: Marriage Is A Sacrament
- ... urged Christian marriage to be public. Violence and social anarchy occurring in the ninth and tenth centuries offered the Church political and economical powers over society. During these times priests had to deal with the civil formalities of marriage, which were gradual developed. Certainly by the 11th century, the civil laws and customs regarding marriage had become totally absorbed into the laws and rituals of the church. Giving maximum publicity to the exchange of consents, marriage ceremonies were performed at the door of the Church ...
- 5017: Monetary Devaluation
- ... coin is increased). MONETARY DEVALUATION EXPERIENCE IN DEVALUATIONS: While the devaluation in 1938 was associated with the petroleum expropriation, the one in 1948 was considered as part of the worlds adjust after the Second World War. Until July 1948, the exchange type was at $ 4.65 for dollar and from that date on the peso maintained itself floating until in July 1949 it fixed itself at a new price of $ 8 ... there ever being a point of previous fluctuation. Its adjustment was precipitated by the public expense realized to stop temporarily the economical activity due to the recession that the United States suffered after the Korean War, not leaving out the breakdown on the prices of raw materials that Mexico exported. DEVALUATION PROCESS IN MEXICO: MONETARY DEVALUATION When the government expends more than it receives as income (such as taxes and others ...
- 5018: Berlin Wall Book Review On The
- ... didn't stop people from trying to get through though. People went to all extremes trying to get to the other sides, including crashing through the wall with cars. The book then goes back World War Two to show how this all began. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and United States president Dwight Eisenhower had mixed opinions on what to do about Berlin and the Soviets. They both knew the Soviets couldn't be trusted. When the American army was going to invade Berlin, Eisenhower had them stop. Three days later, the Soviets successfully captured Germans capitol and ended World War Two in Europe. Germany was then divided into four sectors between the Soviet Union, United States, England and Russia. East Germany was controlled by the Soviets. West Germany, also known as The Federal Republic, was ...
- 5019: Microwaves
- You might remember the heroic role that newly-invented radar played in the Second World War. People hailed it then as "Our Miracle Ally". But even in its earliest years, as it was helping win the war, radar proved to be more than an expert enemy locator. Radar technicians, doodling away in their idle moments, found that they could focus a radar beam on a marshmallow and toast it. They also popped ...
- 5020: Of Castles And Kings (chess)
- ... to win. The King was very pleased with this new game. It reduced luck and chance to a small role. He ordered that it be played in every temple as training in the art of war. Chaturanga spread Eastward to China, and on the way over there, it was transformed into Siang K’I, which is Chinese Chess. Chinese Chess is played on the points, rather than the squares. Chinese Chess ... the chessboard in his face. Henry grabbed the board and hit Louis on the head, cutting open his scalp. This incident was the beginning of a chain of events that caused a dozen years of war. J.H. Blackburne, a British Chess Champion, called Chess “a kind of mental alcohol…unless a man has supreme self-control, it is better that he should not learn to play Chess. I have never ...
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