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- 1291: History of Athens, Greece
- ... by the people. The United States started our government democracy from them. The difference is that our type of democracy is "representative" democracy. That means that we take one person to represent all of our interest and thoughts. Athens(Greece) has a "direct" democracy which means that everybody gets to vote for them self(their own thoughts and interest). The Untied States follows Athens ideas on how each individual is important and everybody's idea on freedom and self rule that was brought up by the Greeks. Architecture is another important quality that we ...
- 1292: Philosophy - Plato
- ... life as it should be lived according to nature. (Allen) THE LATER DIALOGUES In the later dialogues Soctates does not always play the leading role. He does not enter into the conversation of Laws. More interest was shown in the possibilities of politics. Law and legal government were stressed and it greatly influenced Aristotle. It is clear that in later years Plato became more aware of the difficulties in attempting to combine science with government. Plato's main interest at the end of his life was to guide human effort as indicated in his last dialogues, the Laws. (Allen) Many students of the Academy were reaching into positions of power in the Greek world ...
- 1293: Hemingway's "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" and His Life
- ... wing. She was first to point him in the direction of the simple declarative sentence, which was another great influence on his style. It seems to me that it wasn't until Hemingway developed an interest in bull fighting that the idea for "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" may have come around. Bull fighting seemed to trigger a whole new interest in Spain. The short story "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" was set in a small cafe in Madrid, Spain. There is an old deaf man who sits alone on a patio, sipping brandy. Together two ...
- 1294: Clinical Depression A Disease Like Any Other.
- ... suffer from depression for different reasons. But in every case of depression, the symptoms are always similar. Some of the more evident symptoms are: Persistent sadness, anxiousness, empty mood Feeling of hopelessness, pessimism Loss of interest of activities Insomnia, oversleeping Loss of appetite and/or weight loss or overeating Fatigue, decreased energy Thoughts of death or suicide Restlessness, irritability Concentration loss, memory loss Without treatment, these symptoms can last for weeks ... A person can slip into dysthmia as easy as catching a cold. The next type of depression is called major depression. Major depression causes despair and hopelessness to an extreme that the sufferer loses complete interest in their life and reaches a point that are incapable of feeling pleasure. Major depression also causes people to stay in bed for days and not eat for days. Like dysthmia, often major depression sufferers ...
- 1295: Malthus
- ... FERTILE SOCIETY While the annual population growth seems to have reached a plateau, the the world has added 85 to 90 million people every year for the last decade. Recent regional decreases in population growth rates coupled with dramatic gains in agricultural production mask the severity of the problem which is just now becoming evident in terms of real numbers. A world population of 250 million at the beginning of Christianity ... has now grown to 5.7 billion in spite of wars, plagues, famine, and epidemics. Unrestrained, this growth could continue until world population approaches 11 billion in the year 2050. (Using currently assumed declining growth rates). An unchecked continuation of the AIDS epidemic would infect 320 million people by the year 2050 but would have a negligible effect on the total food requirements of the 11,000 million. Each month the ...
- 1296: Woodrow Wilson - Foreign Policy
- ... and fit the criteria of a good foreign policy. When making foreign policy decisions a President must way ideas on a cost/benefit scale for the nation and do what is in the nations best interest. Clearly with the neutrality proclamation Wilson was acting in the best interest of the nation. The cost for remaining neutral was minimal while we had the benefit of not losing American lives. Wilson also was looking out for national security during his reign as President. We did ...
- 1297: Extinction Of Dinos
- ... had occurred sixty-five million years ago within 130 light years of Earth, how exactly would it cause the death of the dinosaurs? Some scientists think neutrinos and galactic cosmic rays would cause extremely high rates of deadly cancer among the animals. Others believe neutrinos and radiation caused reaction within the Earth s atmosphere that resulted in destruction of the ozone layer. Without the ozone layer to filter out dangerous radiation, high rates of cancer would occur. Only small animals and plants, whose homes were sheltered from the harmful radiation would survive. An identical result would occur if no ozone layer existed to filter out radiation coming from ...
- 1298: Aristotle
- ... are slaves who were born to be freemen and freemen who were born to be slaves, there could be a relationship in such cases where the two discerning parties would work in a community of interest and in a relationship of friendship. "The part and the whole, like the body and the soul, have an identical interest; and the slave is a part of the master, in the sence if being a living but separate part." Aristotle had many slaves himself within his household, and during the course of his death and ...
- 1299: Hemingway's Soldier's Home: Hemingway's Personal Experiences
- ... his coming home, Hemingways parents began to express some concern about their sons future. They urged him to get a job or go to college. However neither one of these things seemed to interest Hemingway. He used to money that he earned in the war so he would not have to work. He spent most of his time reading and going around to places and talking about the war ... there is nothing for them to do. They do not want to go find jobs and neither one of them goes back to school to get a higher education. Neither one seems to have any interest in anything, all they do is sit back and reflect about how things were while at war. They both come home after the others that were there and they are not regarded as highly as ...
- 1300: Charles Babbage
- ... more than his instructors. Despite this, however, he was on his way to understanding the advanced theories of mathematics and even formed an Analytical Society to present and discuss original papers on mathematics and to interest people in translating the works of several foreign mathematicians into English. His studies also led him to a critical study of logarithmic tables and was constantly reporting errors in them. During this analysis, it occurred ... invented.) In 1814, the age of 23, Charles married 22-year-old Georgina Whitmore. Georgina would have eight children in thirteen years, of which only three sons would survive to maturity. Babbage really took no interest in raising his children. After Georgina died at the age of 35, his mother took over the upbringing. In 1816, Babbage had his first taste of failure when his application for the professorship of mathematics ...
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