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- 1371: Russian Reform and Economics: The Last Quarter of the 20th Century
- ... styles needed to be changed along with the way that most businesses in Russia operated. I. Reformation of USSR A. The change from communism to democracy. B. The change in government has had a great effect on the Russian people and workers. C. The reformation left the Russian economy upside down. II. Post-Reform economy versus Pre-Reform economy. A. There were many steps in the reformation of the economy. B ... reform. Most of the opposition has come from the political, bureaucratic, managerial, and intellectual sides of the government and industrial producers. There has been strong resistance to farm reform from several government leaders. One side effect of the reformation has been an unstable rouble, which has fluctuated from 70 roubles to $1.00 all the way to 230 roubles to $1.00 causing much chaos (Colton & Legvold, 57). There has been ...
- 1372: William Shakespeares Sonnet,
- ... importance of love. By using metaphors he relates death to nature. Using symbolism of autumn leaves, twilight and glowing fire evolving to one conclusion awaiting death. By using Iambic meter he is showing a rising effect to get to the climax of the sonnet. Shakespeare shows how his character is weighed down by torment that his life is coming to an end. He is in search of sympathy saying if you ... are what help define the emphasis on the sonnet. In quatrain one line #2 shows a pause after leaves, none, few stating an emotional awareness of slow the process of ageing can be and the effect it can have on a persons being. The meter of line #2 is Iambic meter emphasizing the stress of importance on the last word in each foot, - ` / - ` / - ` / - ` / - `. In the second quatrain line #7 shows the ...
- 1373: Atomic Bomb
- ... a turning point in modern warfare, civilian population centers are also considered fair game to the military. The moral issue of dropping an atomic bomb is very controversial. Especially since radiation is a major side effect of such a weapon. On the other hand though, fire-bombings of other Japanese cities had left other civilians equally scarred. If one wanted to argue the issue of radiation as a side effect of atomic bombing, they would have to find a way to argue the side effects of bombing altogether. Is it immoral to use a bomb? No; it's not very nice, but it's not ...
- 1374: Albert Einstein
- ... his contribution to statistical physics, and for his role as a philosopher of science and as a humanitarian. Indeed, his 1921 Nobel Prize was awarded not for Relativity, but for his theory of the Photoelectric Effect. Albert Einstein was born on March 14, 1879, to middle-class Jewish parents in Ulm, Germany. He disliked school because of the mindless drilling. He much preferred to study at home, especially geometry and books ... great flowering of Einstein's creativity, and with it a turning point in the history of physics. Space and time would never again be the same, Theory Relativity. The quantum was made respectable, the Photoelectric effect. The atom likewise, the Brownian motion. And mass was recognized as a form of energy , and comes his famous equation, E = mc². He supposed that mass is a form of energy. Yet these revoluntary theories ...
- 1375: The Vote to Breakup Quebec and Canada
- ... to show strong opposition to separation. On October 13th Christine brought the other nine provincial premiers to Montreal to discuss what he called Team Canada in building prosperity through trade. Chretien did so to some effect, quoting Parizeau on the remarkable advances Quebec has made, and pointed out that Quebec did it all as part of Canada. He also demolished the idea of a political partnership by asking who wants another ... events should have happened. A person shouldn't rule out the fact that maybe things would have been better if Quebec had won the election. How would that have affected Canada? Also, how would it effect the United States? If Quebec had been allowed to declare its independence it would have affected the culture, the economy, and the stability of both nations. First we need to look at how it would ...
- 1376: Computer Graphics
- ... much later in 1982 with the release of Star-Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn. That movie contained a monumental sixty seconds of the most exciting full-color computer graphics yet seen. Called the "Genesis Effect," the sequence starts out with a view of a dead planet hanging lifeless in space. The camera follows a missiles trail into the planet that is hit with the Genesis Torpedo. Flames arc outwards and ... be realistically integrated with live action footage and characters. This was the watery pseudopod that snaked its way into the underwater research lab to get a closer look at its human inhabitants. In this stunning effect, ILM overcame two very difficult problems: producing a soft-edged, bulgy, and irregular shaped object, and convincingly anchoring that object in a live-action sequence. Just as the 1982 Genesis sequence served as a wake ...
- 1377: The Red Scare
- ... knowledge of the Soviet Union. The preceding is an example of the extent to which the national hysteria of the nineteen- fifties reached. The results of the Cold War against communism had quite an opposite effect compared to its original intentions of preserving freedom during the red scare. The early 1950's was a time of emotional stress for much of the United States. With the USSR and the USA emerging ... of communism. The result of these harsh actions towards communism were the near downfall of American society. False propaganda exploded the fears of the citizens whom intern reacted harshly to any notion of communism. The effect this "Red Scare" had on America was quite opposite to its original intentions, rather than preserve the rights of its citizens, it raped them of their ideals, and liberties.
- 1378: The Use of The Second Amendment In The Home
- ... needed by ordinary people and can easily be concealed be street criminals. "One in every nine Americans has already been threatened or shot by someone wielding a hand gun"(Isaacson, 162). This statistic shows the effect of the availability of handguns on America. The handgun is not needed except when a person wants to hide a weapon. For home defense, the shotgun is more effective with its wide blasting stopping power ... be seriously hurt by an exploding bullet which can be set off by being hit by a rock, a nail, or being thrown into the fireplace. Children are unpredictable and they do not know the effect of a gun on themselves or their friends. Having a gun in the house can also be dangerous because of temperament, rage, and impulse because murder is usually a crime of passion. "If you or ...
- 1379: A Good Man Is Hard To Find
- ... and her eyes dilated and her feet jumped up...." (144). The grandmother's pride and self-centered wish to see the house causes the Misfit to discover and murder the family. Both houses are, in effect, ruins of the spirit. It is a comic view of the family that the reader receives in the first half of the story. The comedy is in the way O'Connor has very matter of ... of the landscape, therefore romanticizing a picture that is far from deserving of that title. O'Connor, on the other hand, includes the dirty and wretched shack and the pant-less child. Of course, the effect is satirical. The grandmother's pretty picture is ruined when the little boy shows his bum to her. The old women's attempt to look beyond a blatant reality and make it pretty is being ...
- 1380: Advertising 3
- ... product" (Wood 270). The slogans are aimed at being "catchy" so that you will remember them, and keep repeating, so you can remember it, and buy it. Advertising can then be a type of telephone effect, you say it in front of someone else they hear it remember it and start saying it themselves, then they say it to someone else and they remember it, and so on. So word of ... the product "personality").(Kenneth, Roman & Mass 3) With number one the agency that represents a product will see what kind of an angle with which to come forward to the public. What they decide will effect how their ad will go with the public. They do not want to offend anyone, but they want to get people s attention. With number two the agency will see who the product will be ...
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