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- 2501: Nostradamus and a Grim Future
- ... Montpellier C. Tragedies strike Nostradamus 1. Plague comes to town and kills Nostradamus's family 2. Nostradamus's late wife's family sues him 3. Comment to workman results in the alarm of the Church D. Nostradamus moves to Salon E. Nostradamus remarries F. Nostradamus begins work on the "prophecies" G. The queen of France sends for Nostradamus H. Nostradamus flees back to Salon I. Nostradamus becomes ill from Dropsy J ... Trouble B. A crazed world leader's gain of an atomic bomb 1. European and western countries intervene 2. Crazed leader bombs Europe 3. The stage for the Antichrist is set C. The wargame mishap D. Alien crash resulting in plagues V. World War III A. Nuclear confrontation in the Middle East 1. Radioactive fallout and its effect 2. Political boundaries redrawn B. Current president's involvement in War C. New ... not save his own family ravaged the public's view of his career. Nostradamus's late wife's family tried to sue him for money passed down from his wife after her death. Finally, one day, Nostradamus made a comment to a workman casting a bronze statue of the Virgin. Nostradamus told the man he was making devils, which caused alarm, and a trial date was set by the officials ...
- 2502: Nostradamus
- Nostradamus was a physician and astrologer that lived during the fourteenth century. His insights in to modern day occurrences have astounded millions, and it leaves them wondering about the translations of his prophecies that have not occurred yet, particularly his perspicacity about the end of the world. Nostradamus was born in Saint Remi ... that the interpretation is done after the event has already happened. This is an example of a quatrain that predicts the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger . It is taken from Century I, quatrain 81: D'humain troupeau neuf seront mis a` part, De iugement & conseil separez: Leur sort sera diuise' en depart, Kappa, Thita, Lambda mors bannis esgarez. This is the English translation: From the human flock seven will be ... Chaucer wrote for the same reason. There are also a number of USENET discussion groups that come up with their own interpretations of some of the quatrains, and they try to match them to modern day events. Certainly, some writings are so obscure that they could be matched to any event, but some seem so exact, and so right on, that the events that are described that have not taken ...
- 2503: Mysteries of the World
- ... while others simply do not. Both types of people obviously have their own reasonings for believing or disbelieving in it. There are numerous world famous mysteries that are still controversial and remain "unsolved" to this day. Some of these mysteries include the Loch Ness Monster, the Abominable Snowman, and the Bermuda Triangle. The Loch Ness Monster is a legendary animal that supposedly resides in the depths of Loch Ness, a long narrow lake situated in rural Scotland. Stories concerning the monster date back to the 6th century A.D. The region was in complete isolation until a road was built alongside the lake in 1933. Then large numbers of people travelled through the region for the very first time. Over the years thousands have ... to support the legends, are thought by scientists, to be prints of a bear or markings left my drifting snow and falling rocks. The legend of the abominable snowman has been kept alive 'till this day, mostly by the Sherpa, a tribe of people living in the Himalayas. These people have always kept the belief that the abominable snowman is a true fact of life. To them he is seen ...
- 2504: Drug Smuggling
- ... usually check foods and other everyday things. There are now allot more programs trying to help stop drugs from coming into the U.S.A. here are some names of these programs, C.I.A., D.E.A., and the C.E.O.'s and there is also allot of local drug resistance groups. Now you wonder where all of crack and illegal drugs are made. It all starts in places ... populated country. There has been a slight uprise of all drug smuggling arrests., which means there are still allot of drugs out there. But the War Against Drugs is still going on and maybe one day in our future these country really will be DRUG FREE. Now about the legalization of drugs and what Richard Nixon the president in 72 thought when he came into office about the drug problem startin ... 17 year olds has doubled from 1.6 mil. to 2.9 mil. 1 in three high school seniors now smoke marijuana and 48.4% of the class of 1995 has tried it. L.S.D. use has been soaring in the last 25 year it went up 11.7% The rate of cocaine and heroin related hospitalizations reports have went to 65% since 1990 to 1994. The place most ...
- 2505: Antigone - A Contrast Of Two T
- ... can claim to know exactly how the play is intended to be read. This opportunity for individual technique is exemplified and exercised by the two authors whose works are the basis of this essay, H. D. F. Kitto, and Michael Townsend. The first difference I noticed between the two translations was that the one produced by Kitto was substantially more proper than Townsend's. It gives the initial impression of being ... following the same example is present when Creon is speaking to his council members. In describing the deaths of Eteocles and Polyneices, he says, "...Since they have fallen by a double doom upon a single day, two brothers each killing the other with polluted sword
(Kitto, 12)." In Townsend's translation, he says "
Well, now they're dead
" (Townsend, 6). There is really no comparison as to which one sounds better ... read, and I think I would have found myself disappointed by Townsend. After having contrasted to a substantial extent the two translations, my preference definitely lies with Kitto's version. Bibliography Sophocles. Antigone. Trans. H. D. F. Kitto. In British and Western Literature, eds. C. Robert Carlsen and Miriam Gilber, 9-36. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1979. Sophocles. Antigone. Trans. Michael Townsend. New York: Harper & Row, 1962.
- 2506: Lt. Colonel Jay R. Jensen's "Six Years In Hell"
- ... to what is being described, but as time progresses you can tell the author's moods change as the mode of descriptions differs. The point of this book was obviously to show the reader a day-by-day look at the life of a military citizen while serving, during capture, and at the end of captivity. Through his accurate descriptions the author conquers this point quite well. The descriptions of the people are ... and because of that, I was able to read this book almost straight through and was disappointed when I had to put it down to eat, sleep, or do any of those other things that day to day life brings to us. The thing that really grabbed me about this reading was that when I was not reading, but doing all of those things that life brings for us to ...
- 2507: The Catcher In The Rye Is Hold
- Everyone has to make choices about what is important to them during life, and often, the time when this is hardest is the teen years. In The Catcher In The Rye , author J.D. Salinger epitomizes the growing pains of these teen years. The main character, Holden Caulfield, is a sixteen year old boy who has many ideas and values typical to teens. He also has characteristics that for ... sort of started pretending I had a bullet in my guts... Now I was on my way to the bathroom to get a good shot of bourbon or something to steady my nerves...Then I'd walk downstairs, holding onto my guts, blood leaking all over the place...as soon as old Maurice opened the doors, he'd see me with the automatic in my hand and start screaming at me..but I'd plug him anyway." Now, Holden ends up in an mental institution, and rightly so, in my opinion. The ...
- 2508: Financial Report of Loewen Group Inc.
- ... Ratios 1995 1994 Return on equity (76684)/614682 = (0.125) 38494/411139 = 0.094 Return on equity based on the Scott formula (Please refer to Appendix E: for complete figures) ROE = SR * AT + [ ROA - IN ] * D/E 1995 (0.125) = (0.011) * 0.265 + [(0.003) - 0.043] * 2.682 1994 0.094 = 0.146 * 0.315 + [0.046 - 0.025] * 2.226 In 1995, $50 million of cash and 1 ... second section will develop those relating to the cemetery operations of this company. We have included three Appendixes, Appendix B: Average Funeral Costs, Appendix C: Revenue by Source in the Funeral Service Industry and Appendix D: Total Revenue of the Funeral Service Industry by Sector for additional references . Funeral homes offer services, which include everything from the actual service and registration of the death of an individual to the sale of ... 13 of Final Purchase, Growing Demand The Canadian Funeral Services Industry. APPENDIX C: Revenue by Source in the Funeral Services Industry Source: p.6 of Final Purchase, Growing Demand The Canadian Funeral Services Industry. APPENDIX D: Total Revenue of the Funeral Services Industry by Sector Source: p.4 of Final Purchase, Growing Demand The Canadian Funeral Services Industry. APPENDIX E: The Scott Formula (Expressed in thousands of U.S. Dollars) ...
- 2509: David Burn's Feeling Good: Depression
- ... are mood disorders they have some fundamental differences and similarities. According to DSM-IV people experiencing major depression must have depressed moods and/or diminished interest for at least two weeks, for most of the day, and for most days than not. They must also experience four additional symptoms, such as: weigh loss or gain, insomnia or hypersomnia, psychomotor retardation or agitation, feelings of worthlessness, feelings of hopelessness, low self-esteem ... among many differences between the two disorders. Dysthymic disorder is a chronic disorder lasting, on average, five years. In order to be diagnosed with the disorder one has to feel depressed for most of the day, most days than not for at least two years. The person experiencing this disorder also has to have two of the symptoms mentioned in the section that described major depressive disorder. Due to its chronic ... is assuming responsibility for negative events even though there is no basis for doing so. Once the author identified and explained the cognitive distortions, he then attempts to illustrate how they are used in every day life, which makes the book much more relevant to the reader; this is one of the crucial differences between academic writing and self-help books, such as Feeling Good; the reader automatically understands the ...
- 2510: The Application of Fractal Geometry to Ecology
- ... geometry of nature. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. 25:6:967-981. Shibusawa, S. 1994. Modeling the branching growth fractal pattern of the maize root system. Plant and Soil. 165: 339-347. Simberloff, D., P. Betthet, V. Boy, S. H. Cousins, M.-J. Fortin, R. Goldburg, L. P. Lefkovitch, B. Ripley, B. Scherrer, and D. Tonkyn. 1987. Novel statistical analyses in terrestrial animal ecology: dirty data and clean questions. pp. 559- 572 in Developments in Numerical Ecology. P. Legendre and L. Legendre, eds. NATO ASI Series. Vol. G14. Springer, Berlin ... 1993. Fractal properties of forest spatial structure. Vegetatio. 113: 65-70. Voss, R. F. 1988. Fractals in Nature: From Characterization to Simulation. pp. 21- 70. in The Science of Fractal Images. H.-O. Peitgen and D. Saupe, eds. Springer- Verlag, New York. Wiens, J. A., Crist, T. O., Milne, B. 1993. On quantifying insect movements. Environmental Entomology. 22(4): 709-715. Thomsen, D. E. 1980. Making music--Fractally. Science News. ...
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