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- 7301: One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest
- ... have entire control over the patients. They are locked into their beds every night, get up at the same time, they eat at the same time, and they watch tv at the same time every day. The patients follow Nurse Ratched's rule without ever questioning them. Basically, they have no minds of their own. McMurphy comes from a society almost opposite of the mental ward. He has lived his whole ... knew as true. McMurphy's presence gave them a will for freedom that they did not have before. Under McMurphy's supervision the patients had the nerve to escape from the mental ward for one day and go sailing. Something they would have never of thought of doing before they knew McMurphy. After encountering McMurphy, the patients were brave enough to oppose Nurse Ratched's rules openly. Such as the time ...
- 7302: Alternative Energy
- ... However this method only supplies enough energy for activities such as washing and bathing. The solar panels generate "low grade" heat, that is, they generate low temperatures for the amount of heat needed in a day. In order to generate "high grade" heat, intense enough to convert water into high-pressure steam which can then be used to turn electric generators there must be another method. The concentrated beams of sunlight ... large area and by the use of lenses and mirrors can focus the light into a very small area. Very elaborate solar furnaces have machines that angle the mirrors and lenses to the sun all day. This system can provide sizeable amounts of electricity and create extremely high temperatures of over 6000 degrees Fahrenheit. Solar energy generators are very clean, little waste is emitted from the generators into the environment. The ...
- 7303: Showing The Connection Between
- ... to live together forever in happiness. The decisions that Gatsby made were not rational and were driven by longing and obsession. The consequences that were derived from these choices, ultimately led to his demise. The day on which James Gatz disappeared and Mr. Jay Gatsby was born, was the beginning of the end. When Gatsby trod his first step upon Dan Cody's boat, it was as though he was proclaiming ... what he thought to be his heart. After Daisy's marriage to Tom Buchanan, Gatsby decided to devote hislife solely to the attainment of her. His life was the driven by the hope of one day having her for himself, calling her his own. Due to this Gatsby's life became grim, and very isolated. He lived everyday with the hope of possessing her, constantly thinking and dreaming of a future ...
- 7304: Isabella I
- ... queen procured for him he fitted out the three famous caravels which placed America in communication with the Old World. Sailing, 3 August, 1492, from the port of Palos, he discovered on 12 October-the day on which the feast of Our Lady of the Pillar is observed in Spain- the first of the Bahama Islands. Not only did Isabella the Catholic always show herself the sponser of Columbus, but she ... queen that had great influence and power, but surprisingly was not vain. Just think, if Queen Isabella didn't sponser Columbus, he wouldn't have found America, and therefore there would not be a Columbus day. It is odd to think that she had a big an effect on American history. It is also odd to think that she possessed so much power as a women in that time period. Queen ...
- 7305: Robert Frost And His Life
- ... profit, please simply cite us when utilizing our articles as: The Acedameic American Encyclopedia, copyright 1995 Grolier Electronic Publishing"...well there you have it. "Frost, Robert Robert Lee Frost, b. San Francisco, Mar. 26, 1874, d. Boston, Jan. 29, 1963, was one of America's leading 20th-century poets and a four-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize. An essentially pastoral poet often associated with rural New England, Frost wrote poems ... who wrote the first American review of Frost's verse for Harriet Munroe's Poetry magazine. (Though he disliked Pound, Frost was later instrumental in obtaining Pound's release from long confinement in a Washington, D.C., mental hospital.) Frost was more favorably impressed and more lastingly influenced by the so-called Georgian poets Lascelles Abercrombie, Rupert BROOKE, and T. E. Hulme, whose rural subjects and style were more in keeping ...
- 7306: Philosophy - Davide Hume
- ... residing in Edinburgh. During this time his reputation slowly grew until he became acknowledged as one of Britain's principal men of letters. In 1763 he was appointed Secretary to the Embassy and later chargθ d'affaires in Paris, and during this period enjoyed unprecedented fame and adulation as one of the principal architects of the Enlightment. In 1766 Hume accompanied Rousseau to England, but the trip ended with paranoid complaints ... the leading candidates were Hume and William Cleghorn. The Edinburgh Town Council was responsible for electing a replacement. Critics opposed Hume by condemning his anti-religious writings. Chief among the critics was clergyman William Wishart (d. 1752), the Principal of the University of Edinburgh. Lists of allegedly dangerous propositions from Hume's Treatise circulated, presumably penned by Wishart. In the face of such strong opposition, the Edinburgh Town Council consulted the ...
- 7307: Philosophy - Plato
- ... front of a fire that is behind them that reflects on the cave walls in front of them. That is all they had ever seen so that is what they believe to be real. One day a man escaped the cave and went outside. With the sun he saw what was real in the world and realized all he ever saw were just shadows. He went back to the men in ... individuals and always desire their own happiness. They always desire to do that which is moral. (Dolan p.76) ANAYA--4 TRUTH Plato illustrates truth by telling the well-known story of Gyges. Gyges one day stumbled upon a chasm in the opening of the earth after a heavy rainfall. He came upon a horse made of bronze which had a door on the side of it. He opened it up ...
- 7308: Philosophy - Socrates
- ... was wise for he was always in the pursuit of knowledge. Unfortunately, Socrates was put to death late in his life. One of his best students, Plato, however, recorded what had occurred on that last day of Socrates' life. On that last day of his life, Socrates made a quite powerful claim. He claimed that philosophy was merely practice for getting used to death and dying. At first, the connection between philosophy and death is not clear. However ...
- 7309: Watergate
- ... returned to Washington on that Monday, delayed because of a storm. This may have hurt him a lot considering so much happened between Sunday and Monday. They began to have a few presidential meetings a day to come up with a good way to cover it up. Nixon became even more nervous when the Supreme Court said that it was not in the President's power to use bugging without the ... I believe that Nixon would have definitely felt responsible for letting this happen. He knows that he got all of these people into this and felt bad for putting them into this situation. The same day that he said this, Nixon had a meeting with the Attorney General telling him that Mitchell must have known about the bugging etc. even though he said he had not. This may have been a ...
- 7310: The Physics Of Scuba Diving: Swimming with the Fish
- ... sport to enjoy. Conclusion Several months after my vacation, I decided to give scuba diving a second chance. However, this time I decided to do it right. I signed up to take a P.A.D.I. certification, which is one of the many internationally recognized scuba associations. It was here, in a properly structured course, consisting of both theoretical and practical (in water) sessions where I was properly re-introduced ... coupled with the marvelous almost-weightlessness of floating with neutral buoyancy is an indescribable experience. Bibliography/Further Reading Ascher, Scott M. Scuba Handbook for Humans. Iowa : Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company. 1975. Cramer, John L. Ph.D. Skin and Scuba Diving: Scientific Principles and Techniques. N.Y.: Bergwall Productions, Inc. 1975. Ketels, Henry & McDowell, Jack. Safe Skin and Scuba Diving, adventure in the underwater world. Canada : Little, Brown and Company (Canada) Ltd ...
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