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- 3181: 2001 A Space Odyssey - Jupiter And Beyond The Infinite - Set
- ... middle of a bright white room with geometric space-aged glowing floor tiling and furniture, artwork and wall decorations that appear to be centuries old. This immediately communicates a mix of ideas including artistic creativity, high technology, cleanliness and calculated precision spanning centuries and continents. In all, these are elements which can be attributed to major triumphs and accomplishments of mankind over the physical domain; factors which distinguish the human race ... s yearn for innovation. The combination of geometric lines, the definition of the x, y and z planes and bright white light give an impression of calculation, purity and precision: elements that are synonymous with high technology. It is known that bright cross lighting, used throughout this scene, can be incredibly revealing and in most cases can expose blemishes and imperfections in the set. In combination with the white walls, ceiling and floor, it can be seen that this set achieves nothing short of perfection, another reason to suspect a shift of reality. The glowing tiles also serve as a source of high contrast to the artworks and old furniture situated throughout the room. Here the viewer is introduced to the featured colour: green. Green universally represents harmony with nature and the environment. The choice of green ...
- 3182: Breast Cancer
- ... for breast cancer. Fats have been thought to increase the rate of breast cancer occurrence. Conversely, many studies have drawn out a link between fats and cancers. In the 1940's, Albert Tannenbaum gave rats high fat diets and found that it increased their rates of breast cancer by 27%. The fat threshold for rats is reiterated by many in the health field today one needs a maximum of only 20 ... is based on the idea that cancer gives off more heat than regular cells. Transillumination is founded in the concept that light shines through breast tissue, but us blocked by lumps. An ultrasound is when high frequency sound waves are sent off in a radar fashion, and reflect off objects that they hit. A CAT scan is the process of visually cutting the body into cross-sections. But, another controversy runs deep in the issue of using CAT scans to find cancer tissue. The radiation required to examine a five milliliter lump is often considered simply too high for safety, and has a possibility of just simply spreading the cancer to other body parts. A MRI takes advantage of the electromagnetic qualities of the hydrogen nucleus to produce an electric chart or ...
- 3183: Cable Modems and ADSL
- ... Modems and ADSL Cable Modems and ADSL Two modem technologies have emerged over the past year for switched data communications services. Cable Modems operate over two-way hybrid fiber/coax and provide user rates as high as 10 Mbps. ADSL Modems (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Lines) operate over existing copper telephone lines and provide rates as high as 9 Mbps. Both technologies address the large markets for Internet access, remote LAN access for work at home and telecommuting, and network access for the hundreds of millions of personal computers in place today ... the longer lines found today may support speeds no greater than 1.5 Mbps. The average line, however, will support speeds up to 6 Mbps. Variable rate ADSL modems will adapt to line length, offering high-speed service to almost all telephone subscribers Cable Modems and ADSL have comparable capabilities and both can be built into broadband IP-based infrastructures. However, other issues remain, for example security, reliability, stability, and ...
- 3184: PEPSI VS COKE
- ... now find themselves asking, "Where will sales of the next 10 billion cases come from?" The answer lies in the developing world, where income levels and appetites for Western products are at an all time high. Often, the company that gets into a foreign market first usually dominates that country's market. Coke patriarch Robert Woodruff realized this 50 years ago and unleashed a brilliant ploy to make Coke the early ... they do not perceive Coca-Cola as a premium brand in the Russian market. Moreover, they see it as a "foreign" brand in Russia. Lastly, while Coca-Cola's bottle and label give it a high-class image, it is unable to capture market share. Coke and Pepsi in Romania: Romania is the second largest central European market after Poland, and this makes it a hot battleground for Coca-Cola and ... network to make sure its products are widely available. This distribution network, which Coca-Cola has spent a lot of money organizing, is extremely important to challenge Pepsi's market share and to maintain a high level of customer service. Also, Coca-Cola, like Pepsi, signed counter trade agreements with Poland. Both trade their concentrate for Polish beer. All of this has helped Coca-Cola to close in on Pepsi' ...
- 3185: William Shakespeare
- ... was born in Stratford in 1564. He was one of eight children. The Shakespeare's were well respected prominent people. When William Shakespeare was about seven years old, he probably began attending the Stratford Grammar School with other boys of his social class. Students went to school year round attending school for nine hours a day. The teachers were strict disciplinarians. Though Shakespeare spent long hours at school, his boyhood was probably fascinating. Stratford was a lively town and during holidays, it was known to ...
- 3186: All Quiet On The Western Front
- ... day, they suffered a heavy attack. The surviving men receive a double ration of food and tobacco. Paul, Leer, Muller, and Kropp are all nineteen years old. They are all from the same class in school, and they all enlisted voluntarily. Tjaden is the same age, but he is a locksmith. He eats voraciously, but remains thin as a rail. Haie Westhus, also the same age, is an enormously built peat ... there are only twelve men left out of the twenty from their class who joined the army. Seven are dead, and four are wounded. One went insane. They recite questions Kantorek shot at them in school. All of their schooling seems pointless now. They wonder how they will get used to civilian jobs since they never had any before they went to war. Paul cannot even imagine anything. Albert concludes that ... it took no small amount of skill and practice to avoid burning themselves. Muller's persistent questioning about his friends' post- war plans reveals why the young generation of men who enlisted right out of school is termed "the lost generation." Older men who had pre-war jobs and families regard the war as an interruption in their lives that will eventually end. They had concrete identities and functions within ...
- 3187: Portland Cement
- ... order by C3S, C4AF, and C2S. Types of Portland cement. Five types of portland cement are standardized in the United States by the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM): I. Ordinary, II. Modified. III. High early strength, IV. Low heat, and V. sulfate-resistant. In other countries Type II is omitted, and Type III is called rapid-hardening. Type V is known in some European countries as Ferrari cement. ASTM type and name Characteristics Applications I. Ordinary No special requirements General construction (e.g. sidewalks) II. Modified Moderate sulfate resistance, moderate heat hydration Draining systems, sea walls, floor slabs, foundations III. High early strength Higher strength soon after pouring Cold weather constructions IV. Low Heat Low heat hydration Massive structures (e.g. dam) V. Sulfate resistant High sulfate resistance Foundations in high sulfate soils Manufacture of Cement There are four stages in the manufacture of portland cement: (1) crushing and grinding the raw materials, (2) blending the materials in the correct ...
- 3188: Buddhist Art--two Periods Of B
- ... developed from local Indian artistic traditions, Gandharan sculptures were heavily influenced by the artistic traditions of the Hellenistic world, most probably as a result of Alexander the Great's colony in Bactria (western Afghanistan). Mathura school sculptures often share iconographic features with their Kusana-period counterparts in the northwest. But for the most part, they reveal a purely Indic stylistic heritage that must have evolved independently (Huntington 151). The Gandharan style of sculpture, on the other hand, combines an intriguing blend of Western classical and Indian influences. Gandhara was a region in the northwest of ancient India, known for its Greco-Buddhist school of sculpture. Gandhara corresponded to the modern Peshawar valley, but its more popular meaning today encompasses large portions of northern Pakistan and adjoining northeastern Afghanistan. Gandhara s regional location was vital to this Hellenistic development ... from the material schist. According to the book The Materials of Sculpture, Schist is a metamorphic rock of foliate character and dark silvery gray color, sometimes tending to blue or green. Used for the great school of Buddhist sculpture in Gandhara (Penny 310). The hard schist material allowed the sculptors of Gandhara to carve the folds of the garments and details of features and jewelry much more crisply and with ...
- 3189: Castles: Seen by the Light of a Thousand Candles
- ... hedged a little with structures of stone and timber together, but many had their castles built completely of stone. Castles could consist of a tower set atop a hill or mote (15 to 30 feet high) surrounded by a wall at the edge of the top of the mote and a wet or dry ditch at the bottom. Natural hills were favored for this as artificial mounds tended not to support ... walls up to 20 feet thick and the entrance on the first floor, the keep was the most secure part of the castle. The enemy would have to breach many obstacles (barbicans, moats, ditches, motes, high walls with archers perched atop them, machicolations, drawbridges, more walls, portcullises, more walls) in order to reach the inner sanctum. It was a castle within a castle for the ultimate in safety and privacy. The ... important chamber in the castle was the hall. Sometimes the hall would be within the keep tower itself, and sometimes it would be a separate building within the inner curtain. Often with very elaborate and high wooden ceilings, the hall was usually an enormous room that could fit hundreds. This very often served as a courtroom, where the lord would perform his administrative and judicial duties, and was where all ...
- 3190: Education System After The Revolution
- ... proper balance between freedom and order by supplying all citizens with the knowledge to decide their own happiness and morality.(Spring p.59) The second side of the debate was the idea of the common school. Led by Horace Mann who was born in 1796 in Massachusetts. Received a college degree from Brown University which he used to serve in the slate legislature and helped him create the Massachusetts State Board ... not allow for much variation. Newt Gingrich says, "If society is responsible for everything, then no one is personally responsible for anything.".(Gingrich p.26) This shows that the plan set forth by the common school in teaching conformity for society gives an individual someone to blame for their problems and the nations problems and it is not themselves. In other words it allows for a lack of personal responsibility for political, social and economic problems. "Without personal responsibility there cannot be freedom. It is just that simple.".(Gingrich p.27) The common school system never became a system for students of all walks of life. The system did not allow for the destruction of the current economic, political and social systems, but it did not allow the ...
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