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- 1221: William James: The Later Years
- ... unconsciously as soon as the conscious mind issues a general order. He also recognized that when we do not attend to experiences, we may remain mostly unconscious of them even though they have their normal effect on our sense organs. Emotion: One minor theory advanced by James became more famous and led to more research than any of the present theories. This was his theory of emotion. That emotion we feel ... to achieve a desired end. After twelve years of research, introspection, psychologizing, and writing, James completed Principles, which had been an almost intolerable burden to him. Principles was a big success, and had a lasting effect on the development of American psychology. By 1892, when James completed Jimmy, he had been teaching and writing about psychology for seventeen years, and grown tired of it. From then on he turned his creative ...
- 1222: Clausewitz And The Nature Of W
- ... analysis as it is applied in such varied fields as physics, biology, and economics.*17 In demonstrating why long-range weather prediction is bound to fail, for instance, nonlinear theorists cite the so-called "Butterfly Effect": "a butterfly stirring the air today in Peking can transform storm systems next month in New York." Tiny differences in input may quickly become overwhelming differences in output. (A more dignified term for this effect is "sensitive dependence on initial conditions.")*18 Complexity theorists have demonstrated how even a few variables imperfectly known can reduce a complex system to a chaotic state. In war, there is an inherently unknowable number ...
- 1223: China Foreign Investment
- ... Major improvements were made to the Patent Law as a result of the Memorandum of Understanding on intellectual property protection China signed with the US in 1992. Several amendments to the Patent Law came into effect in January 1993 as a result. China amended its Patent law to extend the duration of patent protection from fifteen to twenty years. The "Patent Law" amendments also defined infringement in a broader sense to ... advances since the late 1970's. The China Trademark Law was promulgated in 1983 and followed by the China Trademark Implementing Regulations in 1988. Significant revisions were made to the Trademark Law and came into effect in July 1993. Trademark registration in China is an integral part of the initial entry of any company into the China market. Often a foreign designed jointly manufactured product becomes so popular in the Chinese ...
- 1224: Euthanasia
- ... had the responsibility for deciding what should or should not be done for dying patients. Now, patients, their families, and patient representatives have a say in such decisions. Other factors such as religion come into effect as well. Jewish custom sanctions and perhaps even demands the withdrawal of artificial machines to prolong life, whether implanted or not.(Kubler-Ross 42) The Catholic Church is opposed to any form of euthanasia, but ... sudden illness or injury the preferred treatment would be known to the victims family and physician. The terms and conditions of the will could outline consent for withholding or withdrawing life-sustaining treatment. This in effect protects the tending physician from malpractice. Unfortunately, Living Will documents in some states have certain restrictions. For example, in the U.S., North Carolina gives the family a dominant say in whether or not treatment ...
- 1225: BUILDING A RADIO EMPIRE-CHANCE
- ... the new law was to let anyone enter any communications businessoto let any communications business compete in any market against any other.Ԭ However, this new law did not decrease the barriers to entry. In effect, it allowed mega-mergers and acquisitions, which led to mega-corporations, and effectively raised the barriers to entry in such a way that it is almost impossible for new companies to compete. ԤThe Telecommunications Act ... market. Increased ad dollars leads to increased revenues. Assuming all else equal, increased revenues generate increased profits. This can then be used to increase the overall business through acquisition opportunities, thereby creating a large cyclical effect. ԤChancellor Media is also subject to competition from new media technologies such as, the delivery of audio programming by cable television systems, direct broadcast satellite (DBS) systems, the Internet, personal communications services and other digital ...
- 1226: Computers 2
- ... could perform various tasks such as: figure out equations, store data, and draw graphics (Chaney 53). From there the computer industry exploded. Now computers have changed many aspects of life. Computers have had a major effect upon business. One area deals with the advertising industry. It has completely re-arranged the advertising business. Before computers companies used to advertise only on magazines, billboards, and T.V. The internet has spawned a ... a homework help site. Here kids can e-mail problems to the site. Then they will respond with hints to it and eventually the answer. One site is www.homeworkhelp.com (Stross 66). A final effect is how it is somewhat necessary for people to become user friendly with the computer. People can argue that they might not ever need to use a computer or learn how. Yes, there are those ...
- 1227: The Southern Lady From Pedesta
- Anne Firor Scott's The Southern Lady: From Pedestal to Politics 1830-1930 takes a social yet intellectual approach to the cultural image of the ideal southern woman. Scott analyzes the effect of this predominate image on women's behavior. Southern women are given a voice through Scott's writings. They clearly and vividly speak out about their feelings. These female southern heroes vividly and profoundly proclaim ... by soldiers. They were also responsible for overseeing the plantation, running the husband's business, and taking care of their children. Anne Firor Scott does a terrific job describing the ideal southern woman, tracing the effect of the definition on how women behaved, describing the realities of southern women's lives, and describing the internal struggle of women who desired to free themselves from cultural expectations. She uses the diaries and ...
- 1228: Lyrical Analysis Of The End
- ... achievement in music, there's nothing that can even come close to what was done with "The End", in terms of the rhythmic and melodic variation backing a complex story line. It builds to an effect of mood rather than a sequence of events. Morrison's masterpiece was almost pure poetry, which probably remains the single most astounding track the doors ever recorded. Jim Morrison uses words as much for their emotive effect as their meaning. The song suggests rather than states a mind filled with fears of sex, violence and death. Its the imagery more than the meaning of the words themselves that gets the message across ...
- 1229: Computer Simulations
- ... provide a level of resolution of terrain such that tactical considerations of terrain analysis and the dynamic effects of man-made or natural occurrences (e.g. bomb craters, minefields, battle damage on roads, the obstacle effect of rivers, hydrography, and weather) as considered during Intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield (IPB) will affect the battle. The minimum acceptable tactical considerations include the following areas: the impact of line-of-sight (to include ... specific mistakes during the exercise. The senior trainer must be able to easily adjust the severity and frequency of simulated mistakes during an exercise to include being able to set the level to zero, in effect turning off the mistakes. The senior trainer and the After Action Review systems must have access to both ground truth and mistakes data. (vii) Surrounding Units. Training units, to include combat, combat support, and combat ...
- 1230: Ernest Hemingway 4
- ... style to that of his style having short and simple sentences. Sheldon Norman described these characteristics of Hemingway s writing style: first, short and simple sentence structure, with heavy use of parallelism, which convey the effect of control, terseness, and blunt honesty; second, purged diction which above all eschews the use of bookish, latinate, or abstract words and thus achieves the effect of being heard or spoken or transcribed from reality rather then appearing as a contract of the imagination; and third, skillful use of repetition and a kind of verbal counterpoint, which operate either by pairing ...
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