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- 2851: Joesph Mengele
- ... and pictures of Auschwitz tell a gruesome tale of death and torture. Josef Mengele performed horrific experiments on twins, justified by official Nazis party policies to try and create the "perfect human being". To this day, he serves as a warning signal of the evil, man is capable of doing by trying to do good for one's own race with the exclusion of others. Josef Mengele was born March 16 ... The people which were his specimens ha miserable existence - if they lived. Everyday in the life of a twin was a contest. A contest to keep Mengele happy so they could breathe another breath of day. Everyday, every twin had to have blood drawn. Blood, often in large quantities, was taken from their arms and fingers, and sometimes both their arms at the same time. (Auscwitz97) The youngest children often suffered ... number is comparable to one third of Los Angeles being murdered. (flames304) Josef Mengele performed horrific experiments on twins, justified by official Nazis party policies to try and create the "perfect human being". To this day, he serves as a warning signal of the evil man is capable of doing by trying to do good for one's own race with the exclusion of others. In some ways Mengel was ...
- 2852: Grapes Of Wrath
- ... more complex than the average individual. His unpredjudiced, unified, Christ-like existence twists and turns with every mental and extraneous disaccord. Jim Casy is an interesting, complicated man. He can be seen as a modern day Christ figure, except without the tending manifest belief in the Christian faith. The initials of his name, J.C., are the same as Jesus Christ. Just as Jesus was exalted by many for what he ... the entire book, The Grapes of Wrath. The rich people, banks, owners, and institutions have taken control of the country and nature, but as the book says, "And the association of owners knew that some day the praying would stop. And there's an end." This means that these people will always carry on, one day they will take action, there will be a fight, and quite possibly an end to the misfortune and a reign of prevailing prosperity. Christ once said, "When thou makest a dinner or supper, call ...
- 2853: Pragmatics Deixis And Conversational Implicature
- ... is written. One could even say that the deictic centre is the unmarked "anchorage point" from which the utterance is made. To decode the meaning of a sentence we use a "navigation system". In our day-to-day conversational exchanges, the speaker does not consciously use deictic expressions, as well as the adressee usually understands the utterance immediately (meaning that the adressee does not need much time to think about an utterance before ... 2 Introduction: The notion of implicature How is it that we can convey meanings which we do not actually state? To solve this problem - which we are not aware of as a problem in our day-to-day conversational exchanges pragmatics uses the notion of implicature. The concept of implicature is so salient because it explains how it is possible to mean more than what is actually said by the ...
- 2854: Creative Writing: My Summer Off
- ... of what I had done wrong and how to do better. With each debate the lists grew longer, until their growth was halted by the teacher's announcement that the tournament would begin in a day and we were to get some rest. That night I studied and review my lists, reliving the anguish that accompanied each pointer: Don't let your speech blow away in the wind. Look the judge ... the youngest and least experienced, I had made it to the final round of a double elimination tournament without a single loss. I shook his hand and sped home in an elated state. The following day the final match occurred. It was held in outdoors in the amphitheater and a crowd of thirty people had gathered to watch. I was so confidant from the last match that I had not even looked over my sacred list of debate follies. The sun was shinning and it was going to be a hot day but a pleasant breeze kept the weather pleasant. I stepped up to the same ornate podium that was in the photograph and tried to look as convincing and composed as the boy in the ...
- 2855: Freya Goddess Of Love
- ... as jewels, whose joy was in all beautiful things" (Green 84). Freya was very popular for her beauty. She was loved and adored by many people. Men from every where desired and wanted her. One day a strange giant appeared in Asgard and offered to rebuild the wall that has been destroyed in the war between the Aesir and Vanir. In return Loki, the god who always knew when trouble was taking place, would give the giant the sun, the moon and the goddess Freya. Loki gave him from the first day of winter to the first day of summer to finish the wall or else he will not get his reward. The stranger asked if he could use his stallion to rebuild the wall and Loki agreed, not knowing that it ...
- 2856: Confucianism
- ... In Mencius view and how can a man can become righteous in Hsun Tzu s view? Mencius discussed the story of Ox Mountain, at one point the mountain was full of trees and alive, but day in and day out animals from the area came and grazed and ate all the life that was there, eventually the Mountain was bare again. This Mencius connects to man s good nature. He says that man, while born good, is constantly picked at by humanity. Every day he is confronted with the easy path, the wrong path and will every day be effected by it. Mencius believes man must observe the ritual s and work at keeping his humanity sharp. Therefore ...
- 2857: Click Vs. Brick: An Exploration Of Mp3 File Sharing And Mp3
- ... other hand it may be a useful marketing tool for these acts to build upon their fan base. Many other musicians from diverse backgrounds share this view. Speaking to the New York Times, rapper Chuck D made a comparable statement. We should think of (Napster) as a new kind of radio a promotional tool that can help artists who dont have the opportunity to get their music played on mainstream ... just about consuming products. Life is full of decisions which have an ethical dimension to them, and whether people acknowledge it or not that is always the case. Reference Section No. Source 1 Intellectual Property, D. Kearns, www.ITworld.com 04/09/01 Napster & Ethics Network World 2 How The Internet Will Make The S. McDougall http://world.std.com 06/08/00 Record Labels Evaporate 3 U.S. Constitution, Article ... 2001 World Sales IFPI IFPI 2001 9 Digital Hollywood online Courtney Love Unpublished 16/05/00 entertainment conference 10 www.Inside.com Dexter Holland www.Inside.com 15/09/00 11 New York Times Chuck D New York Times 30/04/00 12 U.S. State Senate speech Lars Ulrich (Metallica) www.Metallica.com 11/07/00 13 U.S. State Senate speech Lars Ulrich (Metallica) www.Metallica.com 11/ ...
- 2858: Road Less Traveled
- ... or world view that is realistic...we must constantly revise and extend our understanding to include new knowledge of the larger world."(p. 191) What he means by this is that our religion can change day to day because the world changes day to day. So we must always review the way we think about the world. One of the main themes of the book is expansion of knowledge. Religion and love are both expansions of knowledge ...
- 2859: Robinson Crusoe
- ... his personal growth and contributed to why he survived for so long. On the island he made a lot of smart decisions of what to do in order to stay a live. On his second day he made a choice to go back to the ship to explore what was there. He spent a lot of time building his home when he could have done something more important. He also took ... home so that another storm wouldnt knock it down" (29). Robinson also had a choice to add more things to his house to make it better and to protect him. "
It took me all day to put up my fence,
so that no wild animals could attack me
" (31). After all the effort and hard work he put into making his home it paid off because when a storm came ... Friday into his life. Instead of leaving him on the island and being killed by hunger or wild animals, he cared for him and raised him and taught him the things he knew. "The next day I took Friday around the island and showed him how to hunt" (90). Also now it would take Robinson less time to complete a task and it would be faster to begin one. Robinson ...
- 2860: Overview of Video On Demand Systems
- ... some buffering as necessary). There are several forms of buffering: a) Media stream storage on hard disk. b) cached at the transmit buffer c) network transit latency and buffers may be viewed as another buffer. d) the receive end may buffer a sufficient amount of the media stream to maintain a continuous stream for display and suitable synchronization with the transmit end. 3) Concurrent users--The video server should be limited ... 1) The Network Connection, M2V Video Server: a) 120 simultaneous 1.2 Mbps MPEG-1 video streams b) 112GB, RAID 5 storage. c) In excess of 200 Hours MPEG-1, and 60 Hours MPEG-2. d) Supports JPEG, M-JPEG, DVI, AVS, AVI, Wavelte, Indeo and other video formats. e) Supports Ethernet, Token Ring, FDDI and ATM. 2) Micropolic Corp, AV Server: a) 16 Mpeg-2 Video Decoder Boards with 4 Channels per card is 64 channels at 6Mbps per channel. b) 252GB, Raid storage. c) In excess of 120 hours MPEG-2 d) Supports only MPEG-2 3) Sun Microsystems, Media Center 1000E Video Server: a) 63GB, RAID4 storage. b) In excess of 32 Hours MPEG-2, and 81 Hours MPEG-1 c) Supports MPEG-1 and ...
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