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- 2401: Human Nature
- ... He said humans have no purpose. Darwin believed that humans were developed by natural selection. According to this naturalistic view, "humans are but a strand in the vast, continuous, complex web of nature". Twentieth century French philosopher Jean-Paul Satre first came up with the term existentialism. The Existentialist view is a theory of human nature that I can best understand and relate to. This view stresses on individual existence, on ...
- 2402: The Olympics
- ... earthquake left Altis bare and a river finally buried the whole site in mud (Girardeau 1972). The revival of the Olympics didnt come about until over 1,000 years later. Baron de Coubertin, a French scholar, is the man credited for the revival of the Olympics. In 1829 he organized a crew who excavated the Temple of Zeus. Then between 1875 and 1881, Olympia was dug up and revived. After ...
- 2403: Native American Women
- ... pottery making, were shared fairly evenly. In the Southwest, the men did most of the field work, house building, weaving, cloth manufacturing, and animal skin processing. Female prestige among the Iroquois grew greater after the Revolution-ary War, and male prestige ebbed due to continual losses and defeats and the inability to do much hunting due to scarcity of game. By the nineteenth century, mothers played a greater role in approving ...
- 2404: The Dangerous Opportunity: Community Based, Crisis Intervention
- ... of untreated crisis may be suicide or a psychotic episode, or at the least disruption in the persons self esteem, personal functioning and usual patterns of coping. Historical Development: Prior to urbanization and the industrial revolution most people lived in small villages or on farms. Family members tended to stay in close proximity depending on one another for support and survival. Contemporary urban life is much more isolating. Families usually consist ...
- 2405: Skydiving
- ... is the point that the formation centers around. Cessna. An aircraft manufacturer. Single engined Cessnas such as 180s, 182s and 206s are the workhorse of smaller drop zones, carrying four to six jumpers. Chute assis. French for sit flying, or freefalling with one's seat presented to the relative wind. Closing loop. The small loop that holds the flaps of the container closed once the pin has been guided through the ...
- 2406: The Changing Office
- ... personnel to produce quality information in less time. Works Cited Reiss, Levi, and Edwin G. Dolan. Using Computers: Managing Change. Cincinnati: South-Western Publishing Co., 1989. Winsor, William M. Electronic Publishing: The Next Great Office Revolution. The Secretary, June/July 1987, 29-30.
- 2407: Nuclear Energy
- ... nations have also discovered the environmental benefits of nuclear energy. France, for example concerned about imported oil more than tripled its nuclear energy production during the 1980s. During that same period, total pollution from the French electric power system dropped by 80-90 percent. More Imported Oil? No Thanks! Next time you fill up your gas tank, here's a fact to think about: We Americans now import almost 50 percent ...
- 2408: Utility Deregulation
- ... by forcing duplication of costly transmission and distribution networks. Regulation is designed to serve as a substitute for competition so that the economies resulting from using a single supplier are passed onto the customers. A revolution is also occurring in the regulation of what was once viewed as natural monopolies. Public utilities used to receive a franchise to be the sole local supplier. In return, they had to provide virtually universal ...
- 2409: Andrew Jackson
- ... wasn't his fault the private state-chartered banks issued the paper money when they didn't have the specie to back it up. Jackson's foreign policy showed a strong interest in making the French to pay long-overdue spoliation claims and reopening the British West Indian Trade. Even thought he personally agreed with the rebellion of Texas against Mexico. He didn't recognize the Lone Star republic until the ...
- 2410: Andy Worhal
- ... Disaster." the power and suffering shown in the images stunning viewers. Like the contaminated canned food shown in "Tunafish Disaster," these images appear to represent a breach of faith in the products of the Industrial Revolution by showing consumes products embraced by the population that backfire and cause death. Warhol retained the images from clippings of newspapers, magazines, and photographs, altering them only slightly, as was his norm, to show the ...
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