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- 1081: China In The 20th Century
- ... coupled with an unforeseen drought was 6 disastrous and 20-30 million starved (77). Initially, Mao wanted to raise the output of the industrial sector by 25 percent Annually; however, the gap between the growth rates of heavy industry and light industry was to be closed not by reducing the effort to develop heavy industry but by accelerating the development of light industry, relying on labor-intensive processes wherever possible. The ... of about 9 percent. This is the triple growth rate of that of the United States in that period, and about 70 percent more than that of India or Indonesia (316). As for such growth rates in a huge country like China, there has been nothing like them in the history of the world. (317) In the post-1978 period, Dent established a series of agricultural, industrial, commercial, fiscal and financial ...
- 1082: Sex Education --
- ... in the University of North Carolina, brings a point about the effectiveness of sex education in Europe. In the Education Digest, she claims that in certain parts of Europe where sex education is taught, the rates of pregnancies amongst teenage girls are two to seven times lower than the teenage pregnancy rate in the U.S. (Berne 27). The point she is trying to make is that if sex education is ... She says, "The role of media, particularly television, is pervasive, and the depiction of sex and violence is ubiquitous at virtually all hours of the day" (Rosoff 33). It is impossible to compare teenage pregnancy rates of two different regions of the world when the teenagers in question are living in completely different societies. With the media comes peer pressure. If something is believed by popular culture to be "hip" and ...
- 1083: Development Of The Carol
- ... their main purpose is to retell a popular, often Biblical, story. The people of this time had grown to think vividly of Bible stories, and this narrative style employed in the ballad carols kept their interest. Other important forms of the carol that developed during the 15th century were the carol par excellence and the macaronic carol. The carol par excellence flourished between 1430 and 1460, and was verse written in ... many vain attempts at reviving the carol. William Sandys and Davies Gilbert were avid patrons of the carol and published Christmas Carols Ancient and Modern in 1833 and Collection of Christmas in 1823, yet public interest was not sparked. Sandys and Gilbert themselves expressed bleak outlooks on the future of carols in their publications, although they did not deter their efforts. This period also threatened the loss of the carol’s ...
- 1084: Comparison Of Perugino And Caravaggio
- ... not any repetition of forms. Paul is on his back, a man leans over to look at him, and his horse is in a spooked position. This variety of forms implies movement and adds emotional interest to the painting, rather than classical understanding.Rather than organizing space in simple planes like Perugino, Caravaggio does not apply planes to his work. Instead, he creates a receding effect in which planes gradually recede in to the distance. Again, this adds interest and mystery to the painting.He creates receding space by an implied vanishing point rather than the one that Perugino gives the observer. His perspective comes from a diagonal upwards, bringing the viewer into the ...
- 1085: Cinematography Everything You Need To Know
- ... photographs projected per unit time (frame rate) differs from the number produced per unit time by the camera, an apparent speeding up or slowing down of the normal rate is created. Changes in the frame rates are used occasionally for comic effect or motion analysis. Cinematography becomes an art when the filmmaker attempts to make moving images that relate directly to human perception, provide visual significance and information, and provoke emotional ... 20th-Century-Fox, Warner Brothers, Columbia, and Universal, the industry enjoyed the benefits of total vertical integration: because the studios owned their own theater chains, they could require theater managers to charge fixed minimum admission rates, to purchase groups of pictures rather than single releases ("block booking"), and to accept films without first previewing them ("blind buying"). For more than two decades the major studios completely controlled their contracted stars, managed ...
- 1086: Leonardo Da Vinci
- ... a man ahead of his time in every branch of science then known. He always tried to develop marvelous inventions to give the society technical progress and a more complete control over nature. All his interest in a wide range of scientific and technical problems, the exceptional quality of the sketches he drew to solve the society problems in that time. He achieved all this by constant ignorance about what scientists ... machines we have today we would find out that they are the same because they are design and constructed parting from the same basic structure Leonardo designed 500 years ago. Leonardo had a lot of interest in a lot of science branches in order to give a full explanation of how the human body, animals, botany and engineering works and their properties. He achieved all this by the precise and perfect ...
- 1087: BoB Dylan
- ... this revolution was Robert Allen Zimmerman, known by his popular assumed name, Bob Dylan. Born in 1941 in Minnesota, Dylan grew up the grandchild of Jewish-Russian immigrants and had a surprisingly unexceptional childhood. His interest in music became evident in his high school years when he taught himself basic piano and guitar. From these rudimentary skills Dylan would build his knowledge and experience in music to his present status as ... perfect environment to nurture his interests, in music specifically. At the age of ten he was writing poems and by thirteen was setting them to music with self-taught piano and guitar skills. Dylan’s interest in music continued to climb as he entered Hibbing High School. During his high school years Dylan would become involved in musical productions and attempt forming many bands with such names as the Golden Chords ...
- 1088: Stressed With Stress
- ... a person's ability to fight off disease. Below is a chart that some social scientists have devised. It is a list of life events rating the stressfulness of each. The death of a spouse rates a 100 on the scale, but something like trouble with one's employer rates 23; being fired, 47; going to jail, 63; and a change in sleeping habits, 16. Change, both good and bad, can create stress. Stress, if sufficiently severe, can lead to illness. Drs. Thomas Holmes and ...
- 1089: Cardiovascular Disease
- ... disease, 52.2 percent are male and 47.8 percent are female. Of thirty-five countries surveyed in 1991, the United States cardiovascular death rate ranked 17th for both males and females. The highest death rates were in the Soviet Union, Romania, Poland, Bulgaria, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia. The lowest were in Japan, France, Spain, Switzerland, and Canada. (Goldstein, 1995) Biological theories abound state that women tend to have better chances of ... at an advantage over men due to the estrogen factor. This can be shown multi-culturally, not only in certain countries. A study by Elisa Lee et al (1998) which compared the cardiovascular disease death rates in three American Indian populations showed that men had a higher mortality rate over women in all three societies. In conclusion, cardiovascular disease does indeed affect men more often than women, in the United States ...
- 1090: Leadership In Ancient Civiliza
- ... wanted. Tiberius’ big mistake was blatantly opposing, thus disrespecting the Roman senate. As a result, the senate assassinated Tiberius. The lesson to be learned here is not that Tiberius’ agenda was constructed out of self-interest or greed. Tiberius simply wanted to help the common people. However, Tiberius’ methods were not proper for that time in that place. And it is probable that Tiberius could easily have been persuaded to compromise ... political strategy, so as not to offset social order. He ruled very subtly. He saw to it that he got what he wanted, yet he did so with such caution that it was disguised as interest in providing for the good of the citizens. Therefore, Augustus’ reign supports the theory that a ruler can drive a selfish agenda, yet as long as the style and political strategy of the leader in ...
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