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- 2831: Computer Graphics
- ... this, however, is that the entire digital effects and animation industry is still in its infancy. The future looks bright. How It Was In the beginning, computer graphics were as cumbersome and as hard to control as dinosaurs must have been in their own time. Like dinosaurs, the hardware systems, or muscles, of early computer graphics were huge and ungainly. The machines often filled entire buildings. Also like dinosaurs, the software ... such an expensive effort, and the lab's funding was cut back. The ironic thing is that had the Institute decided to patent many more of its researcher's discoveries than it did, it would control much of the technology in use today. Fortunately for the computer industry as a whole, however, this did not happen. Instead, research was made available to whomever could make good use of it, thus accelerating ...
- 2832: Daniel 2
- ... and leading tens of thousands of Jews into captivity in Babylon. The Jews would then be in exile for the next seventy years. The Babylonians and the Medes, who were eventually let them go, would control them. During their exiles, the Lord gave them two prophets, Daniel and Ezekiel, so the people would not fall from the Lord. Ezekiel was a common man spreading the gospel among the people, while Daniel ... They varied between the gods of the Babylonians and others and the one true God. They were not really in much discomfort while they were enslaved so they did not always remember who was in control. The Israelites only prayed to God when things got bad as they did in the desert. Once things were restored to good conditions, they forgot the Lord who had brought them out of Egypt into ...
- 2833: Macbeth - Character Changes In Macbeth
- ... do it … more the man.", showing Macbeth is morally weak. He is very hesitant about killing the king though, showing he has a conscience. However, Macbeth begins to act alone, and Lady Macbeth loses her control over him. He follows his murder of Duncan with the quick murder of the two sleepy grooms. Macbeth becomes cruel and treacherous; the voice of conscience within him is gone; he no longer hesitates to ... to know if Banquo's descendants will become kings. The witches deliberately mislead Macbeth but he believes them, showing his overconfidence. Later, Macbeth becomes distant and cold towards Lady Macbeth. Lady Macbeth can no longer control Macbeth, and after killing Duncan he begins to act alone. Macbeth even tells the doctor to cure her of her mental illness, and makes no effort himself to help cure her. When Lady Macbeth dies ...
- 2834: Oliver Cromwell
- ... of either house of Parliament should be allowed to hold commands or offices in the armed forces; his proposal was accepted, and it was also agreed that a new army should be made under the control of Sir Thomas Fairfax. The post of second in command was left open, and, when the Civil War reached its climax in the summer of 1645, Fairfax insisted that Cromwell should be given it. He ... been approved both by "God and the people" The four fundamentals were government by a single person and Parliament; the regular summoning of parliaments; the maintenance of "liberty of conscience"; and the division of the control of the armed forces between the protector and Parliament. Oliver said that he would sooner be killed than consent to the "willful throwing away of this Government, . . . so owned by God, so approved by men ...
- 2835: Macbeth - Blood Imagery In Macbeth
- ... witches, murders his King to cause his ascension to the throne of Scotland. After the King’s murder, Macbeth reigns as a cruel and ruthless tyrant, who is forced to kill more people to keep control of the throne. Finally, Scottish rebels combined with English forces attack Macbeth’s castle, and Macbeth is killed by a Scottish Thane named Macduff who has sacrificed everything to see peace return to Scotland. In ... Macbeth has entered so far into hell and the world of evil, it is impossible for him to return to righteousness. He will be forced to kill more and more people in order to retain control of the throne. The sins he has committed have not only perverted his virtuous life, but have condemned him to an eternity in hell. There is no chance of redemption; he has permanently allied himself ...
- 2836: The Merger of Trizec Corporations and Horsham Incorporated
- ... 1994.2 The merge between Trizec Corporations and Horsham Incorporated would benefit both companies and propel these two companies into future European projects. Trizec Corporations was established in 1960 in Calgary, Alberta. Now, under the control of Gregory Wilkins, Trizec is the countries largest publicly traded real estate group.3 Their assets consist of 85 properties world wide, including Place Ville Marie in Montreal and the U.S. based Hahn Company ... benefit their future expansions because by investment from an outside source Trizec would be able to improve their position in the real estate market. The deal would also allow Trizec to keep their management in control. Horsham believes that an investment in the largest real estate market in Canada would initiate an attempt to salvage the real estate market.8 The merge of these two companies would also allow both Horsham ...
- 2837: Corporate Development During the Industrial Revolution
- ... founded by Andrew Carnegie. The Standard Oil Company and U.S. Steel Company were made successful in different ways due to the actions of their different owners. The companies differed in their labor relations, market control, and structural organization. In the steel industry, Carnegie developed a system known as vertical integration. This means that he cut out the middle man. Carnegie bought his own iron and coal mines because using independent ... innovation in movement of American industry was horizontal. This meant he followed one product through all its stages. For example, rockrfeller controlled the oil when it was drilled, through the refining stage, and he maintained control over the refining process turning it into gasoline. Although these two powerful men used two different methods of management their businesses were still very successful (Conlin, 425-426). Tycoons like Andrew Carnegie, "the steel king ...
- 2838: Drug Prohibition
- ... worldwide. Civil war is currently being threatened in Bolivia by a coca-growing union. The group, which feels that the Bolivian government has been too open to challenges in sovereignty, is fighting "Yankee Imperialism" and control by the DEA of a coca-growing region (Epstein 1). In Colombia and Peru, groups like the communist Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) and Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path), both Communist ... Drugs Alcohol 106 million 150 thousand 142 Nicotine 57 million 400 thousand 702 Illicit Drugs 35 million 118 thousand 51 Data on number of users and number of deaths are from the Center for Disease Control (CDC) Another assumption of drug decriminalization is that there will not be a large increase in the number of people who abuse drugs. If many people were likely to become addicts, there would be good ...
- 2839: Rasputin
- ... given to him by the Czarina with those around him. The bottom line is that Rasputin never had as much political influence, as people believed, it was everyone’s paranoia that created Rasputin’s immense control of the Romanovs, in actual fact he was nothing but a man who eased the stress of the parents of a sick child. Rasputin's life in St. Petersburg, though based on the Czarevich's ... the entire nation in danger. Three men, Prince Feliks Yusupov (husband of the Czar's niece), Vladimir Mitrofanovich Purishkevich (a member of the duma) and the Grand Duke Dimitry Pavlovich (the Czar's cousin) took control of the situation. They lured him to the Yusupovsky Palace on the pretext that Prince Felix Yusupovsky would introduce Rasputin to his beautiful wife. Rasputin was led to the cellar and fed poisoned cakes and ...
- 2840: Orson Scottt Card's Ender's Game
- ... There are some very disturbing things here. Eventually Ender graduates battle school (2 years earlier that anybody has ever graduated, he's a genius.) He then goes to command school were he learns how to control fleets of star ships. They put him in a simulator and he is given many missions to fly. Then one day his inspectors say that today is his final mission before they grade him. He ... to be Peter Wiggin. I despise him for a few reasons. First off because he is a jerk. He always beats up Ender and Valentine. He does this because he always needs to be in control. Another reason why I don't like peter is because he is just as smart as Ender but he uses his smarts for evil purposes. He once skinned a squirrel with out killing it so ...
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