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- 1171: Cuba- A Bright Future
- ... developed his own personal political schedule. Finally Batista was overthrown after several years of struggling with the likes of Fidel Castro and His many guerrilla supporters. Once in a position of power, Castro immediately seized control of the island and began to instate the basics of communism. It seamed with this that at last Cuba had a future. Indeed, Castro was more than a Communist puppet, he was a figurehead of ... back to it’s former role as a protectorate of the States once Castro is gone. Maybe even a state. Thus far the political future is once again uncertain. Foreign Policy: When Batista was in control of the government, the foreign policy, to a point seemed to be "Go with whatever the Americans think is best." This position changed as the governments agenda changed, and it wasn’t long before Batista annoyed the Americans to such a point that the realized that he wasn’t worth the fuss. They supported Castro in his efforts to take control of Cuba, believing that any change would be for the better, and that Castro would be so grateful, that they would essentially have him in their pocket. Things couldn’t have gone more off ...
- 1172: 1984 10
- ... believe that everything they are taught really happened. When this is done people are lead to believe what they are told is the truth when in reality it is not. Another way the party takes control of existence is by bringing life and death to non-existent people. One such instance is the creation of Comrade Ogilvy. Winston creates this man with the intention of pure fantasy. He makes Comrade Olgilvy ... called vaporization. Vaporization is the process by which every record of everything you have ever accomplished is wiped out and your one-time existence is forever forgotten. The Invasion of Privacy is also used to control people. Devices called Telescreens are setup everywhere for the use of your entertainment and the party s. They are objects that not only allow you to watch them and hear them like a television but ... she is implying that the party is listening to everything they say and do. The final way the party invades privacy is by The Thought Police. The Thought Police are members of the party that control life through the telescreens and bugs. When you are caught by them for a crime you must then go to prison for as long as it takes to purify or make you sane enough ...
- 1173: Gene Therapy 2
- ... metastasis, and response to therapy. Universal agreement has not been reached as to the best treatment for prostate cancer at any stage. Radical prostatectomy, external-beam radiation therapy, brachytherapy, and cryotherapy can affect local tumor control and are potentially curative in patients with clinically localized disease. In spite of the widespread use of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) in early detection and screening, many cases are not diagnosed until the disease has ... present time. Unfortunately, progressive disease develops in many patients who undergo these treatments, thus proving them to be noncurative. Gene therapy has emerged as an exciting new treatment that may affect both local and systemic control of prostate cancer. With respect to cancer, the goal of gene therapy is to prevent or treat disease by using the therapeutic information encoded in the DNA sequences. Evidence suggests that tumor formation is caused ... further development of vector systems at the basic science level as well as a better understanding of the genes involved in tumor induction and proliferation. Parkinson's disease is a chronic degenerative neurologic condition affecting control of voluntary movement. The disease is most commonly treated with pharmaceutical products containing L-dopa and then in more advanced cases, with neurosurgical procedures. Cell Genesys, Inc. announced that company scientists have demonstrated long ...
- 1174: Speech Recognition Technology
- ... that costs have significantly decreased. Most early attempts to introduce speech recognition to consumers failed. Consumer expectations were too high and many products did not realistically meet usability. For example, a voice-activated VCR remote control turned out to be more trouble to operate than pushing a few buttons. Voice-activated telephones also flopped when it proved to be more of a hassle than simply using the telephone buttons. The greatest ... words, every three sentences. Users can take the time to correct the errors by repeating the words, rather than typing the correct words, and the system will learn from its mistakes. NaturalSpeaking also provides voice control over its menu functions. It is the most sophisticated and efficient speech recognition program available. In Comdex Las Vegas, Dragon Systems provided the "Dragon Challenge", which placed the fastest typists in the audience against the ... the computer to perform virtually any task. Kurzweil Applied Intelligence has developed Kurzweil VoiceCommands and Kurzweil VoicePlus 2.5. Kurzweil VoiceCommands for Microsoft Word is a continuous speech program that provides the user with voice control over formatting functions only. The program is specifically tailored to automating editing and formatting functions in Word. The computer recognizes normal, natural phrases that tell it what text changes the user desires. Kurzweil VoicePlus ...
- 1175: Was The Wife Of Bath A Feminis
- ... rage when being presented with the very things she practices daily, unable to look at herself truthfully, is not feminism. The Wife of Bath's actions also stem from her strong greed and need for control. That particular husband, her fifth one, was the only one she could not control. The desperate guilt he feels after hitting her puts her in an excellent bargaining position. While lying on the floor she puts on a dramatic act of self-pity to make him feel even worse, and later describes "He gave the bridle completely into my hand". The Wife of Bath's greedy need for complete control over men reflects in most of her actions. She seems proud of this, and constantly describes women as cruel creatures that bring great sorrow to men. When talking about her first three husbands, she ...
- 1176: Yellow Wallpaper 5
- ... woman s life and although they may mean no harm, they eventually push her over the edge. The main character s husband, John, and her brother are well-known physicians. They use their power to control the main character, whose name we never learn, to feel what they think a woman should feel. For example, the woman tells the men she is sick, but they believe differently. John is a physician ... not get well faster. You see he does not believe I am sick! The men under the impression that what they say goes and therefore the woman has no illustrates that the men are in control. If they strongly believe nothing is wrong, then nothing must be wrong. It is a feeling of self-satisfaction the men feel when they are superior to the woman. The main character knows John loves ... expressing her emotions, the anger, sadness, fear, and what little happiness she felt. She cannot express these emotions physically in public so she writes them down or else she will suffocate din her incapability to control this factor of her life. He says that with my imaginative power and habit of story-making, a nervous weakness like mine is sure to lead to all manner of excited fancies, and that ...
- 1177: The Yellow Wallpaper An Inside
- ... men are nothing more than the wardens in the lives of women. Gilman does well throughout the story to show with descriptive phrases just how easily and effectively, the man 'seemingly' wields his 'maleness' to control the woman. But, with further interpretation and insight I believe Gilman succeeds in nothing more than showing the weakness of women. From the beginning of the story forward the narrator speaks of how her husband ... herself so that she may successfully win the battle of person vs. society. I believe that in the end the woman discovers that she is not being dominated as much as allowing herself to loose control. Much as the narrator comes to the understanding that control over her life is ultimately her responsibility. It is this realization of control or the reader's interpretation that is the final block that gives the structure that is known as a story, depth ...
- 1178: Jurassic Park
- ... because convinces other people that Jurassic Park is a bad idea. Dennis Nedry is the computer expert at Jurassic Park. He deals with all the problems in the parks computer system. Nedry works in the control room with Arnold. Arnold didn’t care much for Nedry when he said "That idiot Nedry turned off the security systems"(Crichton 177). Arnold said this after Dennis Nedry had put a bug in the computer system that shut almost every thing down in Jurassic Park. Nedry is a problem because he has full control of the park from his desk. He being a computer expert can cause any computer system problem he wants. Nature is the biggest problem Jurassic Park has at becoming successful. As stated by Dr. Malcom ... This is something that scientists didn’t think about when they brought dinosaurs back to life. The scientists didn’t think about the way that nature would want to live and decided that they could control it. All these problems add up and there is not anything that will stop it. Dr. Malcom, Dennis Nedry and the way of nature all caused things to go wrong. There is not any ...
- 1179: Fate 2
- FATE (Explain the line, Fate will unwind as it must. )in Beowulf The line, Fate will unwind as it must, (284) not only shows that the people believed they had no control of their destiny, but it is also relevant that Paganism was a significant part of their every day life. There are many illustrations throughout the poem Beowulf, that portray the importance of fate to the ... word fate was used as a way of showing the outcome of what has already come about. Fate was a way of saying that the people s destiny was already chosen, that they had no control, but everything would turn out as it should. For example, But fate, that night, intended Grendel to gnaw the broken bones of his last human supper, (309-310). This is a way of foreshadowing the ... was the religion that was most often used during the time of Beowulf. It is referred to every time fate is mentioned, because they didn t believe in one God and thought that fate had control over them. Fate was also used as saying the outcome of something that had already come about. For example, on line 46, Hrothgar mourns over the fate of his companions, Hrothgar, their lord, sat ...
- 1180: Arab-Israeli Conflicts
- ... until June 11, when a 4-week truce was declared. When the Arab states refused to renew the truce, ten more days of fighting erupted. In that time Israel greatly extended the area under its control and broke the siege of Jerusalem. Fighting on a smaller scale continued during the second UN truce beginning in mid-July, and Israel acquired more territory, especially in Galilee and the Negev. By January 1949 ... the Suez Canal in about 100 hours, seizing the Gaza Strip and nearly all the Sinai Peninsula. The Sinai operations were supplemented by an Anglo-French invasion of Egypt on November 5, giving the allies control of the northern sector of the Suez Canal. The war was halted by a UN General Assembly resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire and withdrawal of all occupying forces from Egyptian territory. The General Assembly ... shelled Jewish settlements across the border. The Six-Day War ended on June 10 when the UN negotiated cease-fire agreements on all fronts. The Six-Day War increased severalfold the area under Israel's control. Through the occupation of Sinai, Gaza, Arab Jerusalem, the West Bank, and Golan Heights, Israel shortened its land frontiers with Egypt and Jordan, removed the most heavily populated Jewish areas from direct Arab artillery ...
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