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- 2701: Acid Rain: Scourge From The Skies
- ... during industrial coal combustion, perhaps the most effective is ‘scrubbing,’ in which gases are washed in a desulphurizing bath before going into the atmosphere.” This is informative because it shows that there is a way control acid rain. Similarly, the essay stated many different ways in which everyday people could help control the amount of pollution that is discharged into the air. A solution like carpooling so that the amount of pollutants that are emitted into the air are lowered is just one of the many ways ...
- 2702: Chemical and Biological Weapons
- ... However, a number of nations, including the ex-Soviet Union and it’s allies, have actually favored concentrated international agreements on biological and chemical weapons. These agreements would be focused upon biological and chemical weapons control as a whole. Unfortunately, worldwide control of these weapons are impossible and impractical, such an agreement would allow for many loopholes. All through history, both chemical and biological weapons have been used. Biological weapons were used in 1346 when the Tartars ...
- 2703: Comparing Henry David Thoreau and Herman Melville's Writings
- ... to attain the supreme power of God through the monomaniacal Captain Ahab. Captain Ahab is obsessed with the desire to destroy Moby Dick, his nemesis, which is truly symbolic of man's overwhelming quest to control and conquer nature. Melville depicts Ahab as an evil, egotistical human whose willingness to combat the forces of nature represents man's failure to understand his place in the universe. Melville uses Ishmael to voice ... and truth is all about. Thoreau on the other hand sees everything worth living for in his Quest and results at walden pond. Both authors realize that nature is a powerful and its forces definitely control man's existence on earth. However, Melville appears to show man as the loser in this conflict with nature and Thoreau finds man a winner not because man can become one with nature and rise ...
- 2704: Things Fall Apart: Roles, Responsibilities, and Treatment of Women
- ... novel, during the funeral for Ezeudu many man, including Okonkwo, take part in the rituals, such as aiming your guns in the air and shooting while everyone is singing and dancing. When Okonkwo shot, his gun exploded and a piece of the iron, from the gun pierced a sixteen-year-old boy's heart, the son of the man whom the funeral was for. The Ibo did not take the killing of people within one's clan very lightly. If one ...
- 2705: Nostradamus and a Grim Future
- ... WWIII?). Near the end of a war, after multiple failures coincide with the use of this time device, the research complex is destroyed, because the scientists are once again dealing with powers they cannot possibly control. The vortexes of energy were not fine-tuned enough, and so the project got out of control. The government again covers up the accident, and news of it never leaks (Rodus 43). Nostradamus predicts the manufacturing of several mind-shocking weapons that will be unleashed in the coming times. These weapons, combined ...
- 2706: 1984: The Plot
- ... work Animal Farm and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, is an example of anti-utopian fiction, that kind of fiction which shows man at the mercy of some force over which he has no control. Anti-utopian novels are usually intended as a criticism of the time in which the author lives. Nineteen Eighty Four, a satire of totalitarian barbarism told through the eyes of Winston Smith, is no exception ... for it might detract from his message. By keeping the time frame of 1984 to a short period and involving relatively few main characters, Orwell focuses on the important issues of totalitarianism and total government control through brainwashing. In connection with the plot of this novel, Orwell’s setting is of supreme importance, for it creates the ambience of the story. Orwell’s setting is well done, and helps formulate the ...
- 2707: Edmund In King Lear
- ... cut amongst the remaining daughters to be ruled by them and their husbands. The Earl of Gloucester has a similar problem to that of Lear, since his two sons were internally battling for right to control his lands at the hands of his death. Edmund, who is the younger of the two sons, is considered to be an illegitimate offspring, taking away any right to become the heir to the estate he is so close to ruling. However, his older brother Edgar is not of this status and is capable of taking control of his father's territory. Legitimate Edgar, I must have your land. Our father's love is to the bastard Edmund As to the legitimate, if this letter speed, And my invention thrive, Edmund the ...
- 2708: Afluenza
- ... and finding the best quality product that fits ones budget, and lifestyle. Although, marketers are in the business of promoting materialism and in turn perpetuating affluenza it all comes down to personal choice and self-control. Another market segment that is being infected with the disease we call affluenza is the youth of America specifically young children. I would contend that marketers are trying to infect young children with affluenza so ... ones means. In the end one has to remember that the Joneses aren't the competition. The only competition one has is his or her plight against affluenza is impulses and urges, and they must control them and do what is in the best interest for his or her family as well as themselves. In concluding, because affluenza is so dangerous it is important to track and gather information about it ...
- 2709: The Congress of Vienna
- ... of Netherlands was established, adding Belgium and Genoa. Prussia received land along the Rhine river(a protection against a future French threat). Austria was given much of Northern Italy. The only conflict came when the control of Eastern Europe came to the table. Alexander I of Russia was firm in that he wanted all of Poland under his rule, Austria was not willing to give up it's share of Poland either, and Prussia was interested in the land of Saxony. This conflict came to it's height and there was even the fear that a new war might erupt over the control of these lands. This was changed by the clever Talleyrand, who represented France, he suggested that Austria and England might ally themselves to take the land that was up for debate. Under fear, Prussia and ...
- 2710: The History of the Soviet Union
- ... assumed controlled and subsequently ordered the exile of all apposing cabinet ministers, including Trotsky. Anyone in the Union who objected to his decisions was sent to Siberian prison camps or murdered. He now had full control without any intervention from other liberal or moderate parties. He decided to concentrate on improving military strength and building on improving the Soviet economy, rather than follow Lenin's revolutionary goal of dominating the world ... to improve the Soviet economy. In 1964, he became the first leader ever to lose power when the Political Bureau (Politburo) ousted him due to his extreme radical policies. 1964-1982 Brezhnev had now assumed control of the Union. A rigid Stalinist with hard-line ethics, Brezhnev's goal was to make the USSR into one of the strongest political superpowers in the world. The military was richly funded and the ...
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