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- 2101: An Analysis Based on the Responsibility of the Rich to the Poor
- ... Despite this single agreement, their propositions for solving this problem are far altered. Hardin conservatively approaches this topic by stressing the ancient Chinese proverb: "Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach him how to fish and he will eat for the rest of his days" (486). He also mentions the "Green Revolution" and how it brought out products like "miracle rice" and "minute wheat" (486 ... impossible question - Is it the duty of the rich to advocate the poor - or is it not? Works Cited Hardin, Garrett. "Lifeboat Ethics: the Case Against Aid that Harms." Writing Arguments. 4th. ed. Ed. John D. Ramage and John C. Bean. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1998. 481-9. Singer, Peter. "Rich and Poor." Writing Arguments. 4th. ed. Ed. John D. Ramage and John C. Bean. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1998. 489-96.
- 2102: The Toltecs, Aztecs, and Mayans
- The Toltecs, Aztecs, and Mayans TOLTECS> The Toltecs were an Indian tribe who existed from 900 A.D. to 1200. They had a capital city of Tollan, and their influences reached south to the Yucatan and Guatemala. They were a composite tribe of Nahua, Otomi, and Nonoalca. The Tolt ecs made huge stone ... and the eastern part of Chiapas in Mexico, most of Guatemala, the western region of the Republic of Honduras. In the Spanish conquest only a few Mayans resisted the conversion to Christianity. The Mayans believe d that 13 heavens were arranged in layers above the earth, and under the earth were nine underworlds also arranged in layers. The concepts are closely related to those of the Aztecs. The religion has partly survived to this day among the Christianized M ayans. Mayan mathematics included the discovery of zero, the duration of the solar year, and a method of predicting solar eclipses. Mayan cities were primarily ceremonial, government, and market centers. ...
- 2103: China Cities' Great Progress' In Manned Space Program By Daniel Southerland
- China Cities' Great Progress' In Manned Space Program By Daniel Southerland (c) 1986, The Washington Post PEKING - China has made "great progress" in developing a manned space program and the day it launches a man in space for the first time is "not far off," an official newspaper said Sunday. The overseas edition of the People's Daily, the leading Communist Party newspaper, said China has ... humidity," the report said. The report, published Sunday, said the Chinese have developed the largest centrifuge of its kind in Asia and Europe to simulate cabin conditions created by the launching of a spaceship. "The day when a Chinese goes roaming through space is not far off," the report said. On June 5 of this year, Sun Jiadong, vice minister of astronautics, told reporters that China would put a man into ... China's national defense, science and technology commission confirmed last May that there had been debate over the feasibility of deploying a space shuttle. According to the China Business Review, a magazine published in Washington, D.C., China has been experimenting for more than 10 years with the thermal problems associated with spacecraft re-entry. The Chinese also have been developing space food and space suits for at least seven ...
- 2104: The Island of Doctor Moreau: Could It Be?
- ... that dreaded island. Although I don’t think of it as much anymore there are still times that the thoughts and images of my days on that island and those creatures cross my mind. One day while sitting by the sea as I so often do, I found myself wondering about the creatures and what had become of them after I left. I started to think of what had happened on ... an uninhabited island somewhere near Nobles Isle. We told him that the possibility of that being the place we were looking for was probably unlikely. He said that he could take us there if we’d like and although we were skeptical we told him that we would go. The following week we went to meet Mr. Martins at the dock. We slowly sailed to the island in a matter of ... the four beast folk that were there had all died. Some in battle with each other and others from causes unknown. He told me no man had come to this tiny deserted island since that day that I sailed away in the boat that drifted to shore. He said he was surprised to see me and asked why I would want to come back after all that had happened. I ...
- 2105: Hereditary Colon Cancer
- ... eight servings of fruit and vegetables daily. A diet high in fat primarily contains red meat, whole milk products, oils, nuts, and egg yolks. Eating a diet high in fiber, at least 25 grams per day will help to reduce the chance of colon cancer. A high fiber diet consists of whole grain products and fresh fruits and vegetables, which prevents constipation, a known risk factor. Water is also a key ... the early stages. Today, more and more people are living longer with colon cancer. Many times the treatment put the cancer in remission, allowing the person to live a long and happy life. Maybe one day, a cure for colon cancer will be discovered. Until that time, people who are at risk of getting cancer will need to follow the recommended methods of prevention and get regular check-ups from their ... bio/LINK1_SY.HTM Memorial Sloan - Kettering Cancer Center Home Page. http://www.mskcc.org/document/wiccrher.htm. National Cancer Institute. Medicine Online. http://www.med.com/pdq/colon_pro.html University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. Heredity Colon Cancer Newsletter. http://www.mdacc.tmc.edu/~hcc/What.html
- 2106: Essay on Impulsiveness in Romeo & Juliet
- ... Tybalt wanted to do the impulsive thing and kill Romeo, but Capulet thought for a second about the consequences. Tybalt said “I'll not endure him” and Capulet told him emphatically “he shall be endur'd”(pg. 57, Lines 77 & 78). In this scene Capulet prevented a huge Montegue and Capulet confrontation by thinking first and not doing the impulsive suggested by Tybalt. Through thinking these actions through, problems were prevented ... play. Hours after Romeo killed Tybalt, Capulet acted on haste in Act III, Scene 4 and told Paris “I will make a desperate tender/Of my child's love: I think she will be rul'd/In all respects by me; nay more, I doubt it not....And bid her, mark you on me, on Wednesday next-” and then continued to sound delirious saying “Wednesday is too soon;/ O' Thursday let ... told him their marriage would be on Thursday, Friar said “On Thursday sir? The time is very short”(Pg. 181, Line 1) and this is after he married Romeo and Juliet on less than a day's notice. Furthermore, Friar made one tragic act of impulsiveness that lead to even more disastrous results. After Juliet awoke he told her”Thy husband in thy bosom there lies dead;/ And Paris too” ...
- 2107: The Rise of the Manchus
- ... then called, and by 1864 established a protectorate over Cambodia. Following a victorious war against China in 1884-85, France also took Annam. Britain gained control over Burma. Russia penetrated into Chinese Turkestan (the modern-day Xinjiang-Uyghur Autonomous Region). Japan, having emerged from its century-and-a-half-long seclusion and having gone through its own modernization movement, defeated China in the war of 1894-95. The Treaty of Shimonoseki ... too radical, proposed instead a more moderate and gradualist course of change. Supported by ultraconservatives and with the tacit support of the political opportunist Yuan Shikai ( 1859-1916), Empress Dowager Ci Xi () engineered a coup d'tat on September 21, 1898, forcing the young reform-minded Guangxu into seclusion. Ci Xi took over the government as regent. The Hundred Days' Reform () ended with the rescindment of the new edicts and the ... the high point of the New Culture Movement, and the terms are often used synonymously. Students returned from abroad advocating social and political theories ranging from complete Westernization of China to the socialism that one day would be adopted by China's communist rulers. Opposing the Warlords The May Fourth Movement helped to rekindle the then-fading cause of republican revolution. In 1917 Sun Yat-sen had become commander-in- ...
- 2108: Saint Sernin of Toulouse and Notre Dame of Paris
- ... and the Gothic style of Notre Dame. Some characteristics that these two buildings share include quest for height, basic floor plan, and artistic flair. The period of Romanesque architecture, which lasted roughly from 1050 A.D. to 1150 A.D., concentrated mainly on achieving massive proportions, rounded vaulted bays, the round arch, the wall buttress, cylindrical apse and chapels, and towers. Early Gothic architecture, which began in 1144 with the dedication of Saint Denis, concentrated ... The cathedrals were designed to draw vast numbers of people them, therefore they were built so that one might not only come to worship, but to see the beauty of the structure. Even to this day people are in awe of these building, and come more to stare at their beauty than to worship God. Regardless of how many likeness' we are able to find between the Romanesque style of ...
- 2109: Oliver Cromwell
- ... of Yorkshire Royalists into the eastern counties and decided to counterattack. By re-forming his men in a moment of crisis, he won the Battle of Gainsborough in Lincolnshire on July 28. On the same day he was appointed governor of the Isle of Ely, a province that was thought of as a possible bastion against advancing Royalists. In fact, however, Cromwell, fighting with General Sir Thomas Fairfax, succeeded in halting ... attempted to find a peaceful resolution for the kingdom's problems, but his task seemed impossible, and soon his faith was called into question. The army was growing more and more restive, and on the day Cromwell left London, a party of soldiers captured Charles I. Cromwell and his son-in-law, Henry Ireton, interviewed the King twice, trying to persuade him to agree to a settlement that they intended to ... Saints to govern as an example of his own weakness. He sought moderate courses and also wanted to end the naval war begun against the Dutch in 1652. When in December 1653, after a coup d'etat planned by Major General John Lambert and other officers, the majority of the Assembly of Saints surrendered power into Cromwell's hands, he decided reluctantly that Providence had chosen him to rule. As ...
- 2110: Steven Speilberg
- ... the most popular, and highest grossing, movies of all time. He has directed six of the top 25 highest grossing movies of all time, and is clearly one of the most notable directors of our day. Stephen Spielberg was born on December 18th, 1947 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Stephen's family moved around a lot, and Stephen had troubles fitting in at school. His peers constantly picked him on for his physical ... a local movie theatre. As a young high school graduate, Spielberg would often take tours to Universal Studios, and then sneak off for hours to tour the lot by himself. He did this almost every day after graduating from high school. (Contemporary Spielberg soon established himself once again as a box office draw with Jaws. The movie was made with an 8 million dollar budget, which for 1975 was pretty expensive ... of the highest paid directors in Hollywood today, but also one of the most respected. Bibliography 1. Ebert, Roger. "The Moviemaker: Stephen Spielberg." Time June 8, vol. 151, p. 128-133, 1998. 2. Reed, J D, Tom Cunneff "Stephen Spielberg." People Weekly March 15, vol. 51, p. 138-140, 1999. 3. "Stephen Spielberg." Contemporary
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