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- 1151: Computer Graphics
- ... could make good use of it, thus accelerating the technologies development. Industry's First Attempts As NYIT's influence started to wane, the first wave of commercial computer graphics studios began to appear. Film visionary George Lucas (creator of Star Wars and Indiana Jones trilogies) hired Catmull from NYIT in 1978 to start the Lucasfilm Computer Development Division, and a group of over half-dozen computer graphics studios around the country ... it was building back and waiting for the next big break. The break materialized in the form of a watery creation for the James Cameron 1989 film, The Abyss. For this film, the group at George Lucas' Industrial Light and Magic (ILM) created the first completely computer-generated entirely organic looking and thoroughly believable creature to be realistically integrated with live action footage and characters. This was the watery pseudopod that ...
- 1152: The Civil War
- ... were a De Kalb regiment of German American clerks, the Garibakdi Guards made up of Italian Americans, a "Polish Legion," and hundreds of Irish American youths form Boston and New York. But in Ohio and Washington, D.C., African American volunteers were turned away from recruiting stations and told, "This is a white man's war." Some citizens questioned the loyalty of immigrants who lived in crowded city tenements until an ... peace. On Good Friday, April 14, 11 days after Union troops had entered Richmond, an actor named John Wilkes Booth assassinated Lincoln as the President watched a play from his box in Ford's Theater, Washington, D.C. The one man who might have brought about a just peace was dead. The Civil War had solved some old problems for the United States. But it created some new problems as well ...
- 1153: Social Darwinsim History
- ... Chicago, 1984. Current, Richard N. et al. American History: a Survey. New York: Knopf, 1983. Darwin, Charles. The Origin of Species. New York: Random House, 1993. Hofstadter, Richard. Social Darwinism in American Thought. New York: George Braziller, Inc., 1969. Krucoff, Larry S. and Sol Tax. "Social Darwinism." International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. 1968 ed. Wyllie, Irvin g. "Social Darwinism and the Businessman." Pivotal Interpretations of American History. Vol. II. ed ... Chicago, 1984. Current, Richard N. et al. American History: a Survey. New York: Knopf, 1983. Darwin, Charles. The Origin of Species. New York: Random House, 1993. Hofstadter, Richard. Social Darwinism in American Thought. New York: George Braziller, Inc., 1969. Krucoff, Larry S. and Sol Tax. "Social Darwinism." International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. 1968 ed. Wyllie, Irvin g. "Social Darwinism and the Businessman." Pivotal Interpretations of American History. Vol. II. ed ...
- 1154: Sex Marriage
- ... in question matched. In their second study, which was used to confirm the first, sixty-seven percent matched. In the second study, heterosexual brothers of gays were also included in the study(The Economist, 1995). George Ebers, who is questioning and investigating some of Hamer's research, says that he also thinks that homosexuality is genetic, but does not think that the work should be only focused on the X-chromosome ... few different reasons. The federal Office of Research Integrity accuse him of skewing the data of his first study. (U.S. News & World Report, 1995) This research is also being questioned and investigated publicly by George Ebers, a neurogenetics researcher at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario. Ebers is attempting to duplicate Hamer's findings by conducting a similar study. Ebers claims that he has not drawn a similar ...
- 1155: No Title
- ... not just black subculture (544). Raspberry finishes by explaining, “we have to make our children understand that they are intelligent, competent people, capable of doing whatever…”(544). Work Cited Raspberry, William. “The Handicap of Definition.” Washington Post 1982. RPT. In The Macmillian Reader 5th ed. Judith Nadell, John Langan, and Linda McMeniman. Boston: Allen and Bacon, 1999. 542-544. Bibliography A Summary of William Raspberry’s “The Handicap of Definition” Paris ... not just black subculture (544). Raspberry finishes by explaining, “we have to make our children understand that they are intelligent, competent people, capable of doing whatever…”(544). Work Cited Raspberry, William. “The Handicap of Definition.” Washington Post 1982. RPT. In The Macmillian Reader 5th ed. Judith Nadell, John Langan, and Linda McMeniman. Boston: Allen and Bacon, 1999. 542-544. Word Count: 377
- 1156: Abort
- ... They embrace contradictory opinions and consider abortion a form of murder and yet still feel it should be legal for the truly desperate. However, most Americans think abortions are morally troubling. A recent study by George Hunt shows that neither age nor gender appears to have any effect on people's current views on abortions. Today, teenagers are getting mixed messages from parents, peers, and media. This is the reason for ... Wolf p54) WORKS CITED Alvare, Helen, Wilson, Marle, Wolf, Naomi. "Abortion: Whose Values? Whose Rights?" Tikkun January-February 1997: pp54-60 Clark, Thomas. "Thou Shalt Not Play God" The Humanist July-August 1995: p3 Hunt, George W.. "Of Many Things" America 31 January 1998: p2 Lavelle, Marianne. "When Abortion Comes Late In Pregnancy, Though Rare, Most Aren't For Medical Reasons" U.S. News and World Reports 19 January 1998: p31 ...
- 1157: Watergate Scandal
- By: Leigh Overstreet THE WATERGATE SCANDAL Watergate is a hotel in Washington D.C. where the Democratic National Committee held their campaign headquarters. The current president at the time was Richard M. Nixon, who was involved in the scandal himself and which lead to the cause of ... abuses of power. Watergate unquestionably showed that in a nation of laws no one is above the law, not even the President of the United States of America. Bibliography Aitken, Jonathan. (1993). Nixon A Life. Washington D.C: Regnery Publishing, Inc. Emery, Fred. (1994). Watergate. United States: Times Books. Infopedia (1995). [Computer Software] U.S.A: Future Vision Holding Inc. Word Count: 1034
- 1158: Smokey Restaurants
- ... Number of ‘Smoke-Free' Restaurants Soars", and published March 9, 1999, cigarette smoke contains over 4,000 chemicals and exposure to environmental smoke or secondhand smoke is responsible for 1,000 non-smoker deaths in Washington state each year. Listed below are some ideas that will help eliminate the problem of cigarette smoke ruining many meals in restaurants. In the past few years some public places have established their facilities as ... all restaurants become non-smoking, create enclosed smoking areas and/or install air cleaning systems this would create a cleaner, safer and healthier environment for all. In a survey conducted by the Tobacco & Health in Washington State Organization done in 1996 the outcome of adults favoring some sort of smoking restriction was 45% and 24% thought smoking should be strictly prohibited. I have a right to eat in a restaurant and ...
- 1159: Should The Internet Be Censore
- ... where both parents work. Most people aren’t even looking for obscene web sites. The sites are hidden and are targeted towards people who aren’t even looking for it. In an interview with the Washington Times, Donna Rice Hughes says, “Children do need to be online. They have benefits there...for their future...But we can’t have a system where if you type in ‘dog’ you get a picture ... adults should be more concerned with gearing children towards positive material, than trying to cover up the negative. Bibliography Works Cited “Born-again Rice answers call to clean up the Net.” Insight on the News; Washington; December 21; 1998; Stephen Goode. “Policing the Wild Net.” Time Magazine. South Pacific; June 21, 1999; Nathan Tripp. “Board Blocks Student Access To Web Sites.” The New York Times. New York; November 10, 1999; Anemona ...
- 1160: Same-sex Marriage
- ... in question matched. In their second study, which was used to confirm the first, sixty-seven percent matched. In the second study, heterosexual brothers of gays were also included in the study(The Economist, 1995). George Ebers, who is questioning and investigating some of Hamer's research, says that he also thinks that homosexuality is genetic, but does not think that the work should be only focused on the X-chromosome ... few different reasons. The federal Office of Research Integrity accuse him of skewing the data of his first study. (U.S. News & World Report, 1995) This research is also being questioned and investigated publicly by George Ebers, a neurogenetics researcher at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario. Ebers is attempting to duplicate Hamer's findings by conducting a similar study. Ebers claims that he has not drawn a similar ...
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