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- 5491: Quantum Computing
- ... professional physicists and engineers regarded as a means to make new devices and handsome profits. In fact, quantum mechanics has always been a very practical subject. Even in the early years before the Second World War, its principles were applied to the electrical and thermal properties of metals and semiconductors. In the postwar years, the development of the transistor and the laser--two of the best-known quantum devices--heralded the ...
- 5492: 1984 2
- ... the past, the past in which there was a better world and a world in which the Party never wanted anybody to think about again. Ignorance is Stregenth , one of the terms coined along with War is Peace and Freedom is Slavery , is used by the Party as a way of brainwashing the people of Oceania. One of the main terms used as a way of describing the Party s position ...
- 5493: Immigration To Canada
- ... 1896, 16,835 immigrants entered Canada. When Sifton left in 1905, the population was 141,464. It rocketed to 400,970 by 1913. Some three million newcomers arrived between 1896 and the outbreak of World War 1. But Sifton’s policies triggered criticism, despite success in attracting farmers. Immigration from central and southeastern Europe raised a ground swell of hostility on the prairies because residents didn’t believe theses newcomers could ...
- 5494: Moby Dick
- ... authored many profound novels in his time other than just Moby-Dick. Some of his other notable publications include Fragments from a Writing Desk, Israel Potter, The Piazza Tales, Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War, Clarel, John Marr and Other Sailors, and Billy Budd. Though most of these were published during Melville’s lifetime, a few were not published publicly until after his death, and Billy Budd was not published ...
- 5495: Tiberius
- ... unopposed, succeeded to the throne. His reign was marked by revolts and rebellions in Pannonia, Germany, Gaul, and other parts of the empire. Domestically, the reign of Tiberius was at first beneficent. He improved the civil service, kept the army in strict discipline, and managed the finances with great ability and generosity; the provinces were better governed during his rule than ever before. Gradually, however, a change took place, and the ...
- 5496: Candide The Satire Of An Age.
- ... Candide is consistently being brainwashed by reason (Pangloss) saying that we live in “the best of Yet it quite obviously that he does not. For how can there be, in the best of all worlds, war, slavery and many more abominations. Half-way through the book it would appear that Candide has given up his optimism when he looked at the Negro slave. “Oh Pangloss... I’ll have to give up ...
- 5497: Comparative Essay On The Lord
- ... in torment knowing their days power were over and good was triumphant once again. “ ‘ Though Isengard be strong and hard, as cold as stone and bare as bone, We go, we go we go to war, to hew the stone and break the door!’ ” (210) Also, in The Lord of The Rings, retribution is paid not only to the forces of the Dark Lord but also to the sinister Gollum. This ...
- 5498: Compare And Contrast Dystopian
- ... Although Brave New World was set 600 years in the future Huxley is commenting on contemporary social conditions and behaviour. In the 1920's there was widespread pessimism set by WW1, a futile savage senseless war fought essentially for money. The hedonistic and cynical elements of futuristic London can be seen as commentaries on the decade that Huxley had just lived through. The cynicism diploid by Mond, who contends that 'civilisation ...
- 5499: Vikings In Control
- ... least slaves were Scandinavians whose ancestors had been enslaved. Each community had a governing council known as a “Folkmood” or “Thing.” This association had higher rulings than the king and or chief. Here decisions of war were made, trials were held and they decided who was in what social class. Parents usually arranged the marriages of Northmen. Even though the husband was in charge, Viking women had more rights than European ...
- 5500: Julius Caesar
- ... the situation in Gaul became alarming (May 35). When Caesar went back to Gaul, he discovered the Gallic tribes had revolted and slaughtered many roman troops and taken others hostage. Romans did not usually wage war in the winter, but Caesar made an exception. At first he had crushed and Gallic tribes, But a young chief named Vercingetorix believed the Romans could be stopped. He organized a huge army of tribes ...
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