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- 2431: Automobile Racing
- ... on track at the same time. As the popularity of automobile racing continues to rise, the quality of all people involved in racing will follow suit. Developments and competition in recent years have led to revolution in the racing world as competing leagues strive to become the world's racing authority. The technology in racing becomes updated and remodeled each year which will ultimately see its way into the consumer world ...
- 2432: The Olympic Games
- ... ended by the Roman emperor Theodosius, who felt that they had pagan connotations. The revival of the Olympic Games in 1896, unlike the original Games, has a clear, concise history. Pierre de Coubertin, a young French nobleman, felt that he could institute an educational program in France that approximated the ancient Greek notion of a balanced development of mind and body. The Greeks themselves had tried to revive the Olympics by ...
- 2433: Karl Marx and Marxism
- ... workers recognized their interests and became 'class conscious', the overthrow of capitalism would proceed as quickly and democratically as the nature of the capitalist opposition allowed. The socialist society that would emerge out of the revolution would develop the full productive potential inherited from capitalism through democratic planning on behalf of social needs. The final goal, towards which socialist society would constantly build, is the human one of abolishing alienation. Marx ...
- 2434: The Stoics and Socrates
- ... case of the wise man. Yet many others, such as Panaetius and Posidonius, denied even this, arguing that, as "the soul began with the body, so it must end with it". With Socrates came a revolution in all manners of thought. As, perhaps, the most influential of philosophers, and also one of the best known, it is truly unfortunate he left the future so little of his theories. Only through the ...
- 2435: Existentialist Themes of Anxiety and Absurdity
- ... why now? Why here? For no reason, without necessary connection, only continentally, and so my life is an absurd contingent fact. This idea of absurdity was prevalent in the works of Pascal, who is a French mathematician and philosopher who we covered in class. When I consider the short duration of my life, swallowed up in the eternity before and after, and the little space I full, and even can see ...
- 2436: The Cause of the War Between Britain and America
- ... the beginning battle of the Revolutionary War. While the war was being fought leaders of America took their first step toward freedom. A Declaration of Independence was created to proclaim Americas' freedom from Britain. The French and Indian war left the British government in debt. Lord George Grenville came up with a tax program to pay for the war. The Sugar Act, passed in 1764, increased taxes on imported goods. The ...
- 2437: Czar Nicholas II
- ... Russia was forced to abdicate the throne for himself and son Aleksey. The abdication left the throne open for Nicholas's brother, the Grand Duke Michael, but he refused to live under the threat of revolution and assassination. The Czar's family was put under house arrest by Lenin's people in a nice palace, However, they were soon moved to a large, secluded cottage. On July 17, 1918, the family ...
- 2438: The Study of Linguistics
- ... A second generation from that might pronounce things differently, like over here we pronounce 'Levi's' LEE-VIES, while in Europe, they pronounce it LEH-VIS. This shows a change to adapt to their language, french. Language has to expand to take on the new concepts we develop. Historical events, such as wars, have a part in uniting two cultures or destroying two. They can destroy one, leaving them to pick ...
- 2439: The Possible Future of Mankind
- ... life increases and the time frame is growing shorter, history-wise. New forms of technology are developed to aid in crop yield, and this sparks the next stage... Industry. 4. Industrial Welcome to the industrial revolution! The general quality of life is more or less acceptable. The cities are larger, days are shorter, and the streets are filthier. As people become more educated, the level of technology increases exponentially, and now ...
- 2440: The Making Of The Cat
- ... sharks. Some 405 million years ago, two significant events occurred. The obvious event was a sudden proliferation in the number of fish--fish became the dominant lifeform in the sea. A more significant but quieter revolution was also taking place: the plants were invading land, rapidly changing rock and sand into topsoil, and laying the paths the animals would later follow. Ferns evolved shortly thereafter, and were present to greet the ...
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