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- 2651: Kuwait
- ... receives 110 000 tourists yearly of which it earns more than 170 000 000 dinars. Having talked about Kuwait's geographical location and described it's goverment, resources, religion destribution, ethnic groups and points of interest, I will know take you back in time to the year 1931 and tell you a brief plot of how this country was formed. Back in 1930 when Britain was in control of the Arabian ...
- 2652: The Green Revolution in Asia
- ... 15,000 in 1950 and in 1994 the number had grown to 2 million. A plague of rats in 1994 caused the deaths of over 50 people. India has one of the largest population growth rates at 1.9%. The chemical fertilizers have also taken their toll on the environment, more than any other country. Hydropower dams have created a huge problem as well; they have flooded some of the best ...
- 2653: The Artic
- ... time when the land of the Artic Circle was considered useless and only hospitable to those native to it. However once vast quantities of oil and fish had been found there was a rush of interest in the land. Fishing in the Artic has occurred for thousands of years but in recent years man has been fishing the Artic; in greater numbers and taking more fish. Professional fishermen are taking all ...
- 2654: Immortal Beloved
- ... have been written that try to give an answer to who this master of disguise is. Equally being questioned is why the Immortal Beloved never came forth and claimed herself as Beethoven's treasure. The interest in the letter is not merely the fact that Beethoven was so deeply attached to a women but the absence of a name and year on his one and only true love letter that he ...
- 2655: The Gothic Novel
- ... upheaval that has had immense influence on genres today. Literary critics though, have been slow to accept Gothic literature as a valuable genre. The first critics to examine the Gothic, approached it reverently with historical interest. They tried to rescue it, to revive the dead and obscure genre. These critics looked at the presence of the text by examining it within a historical context. The original critical approach of historical interpretation ...
- 2656: The Writings of Joyce Carol Oates
- ... Joyce Carol Oates only writes about gruesome topics such as murder, rape, incest, and assault, but Oates has also written an essay called "On Boxing" inspired by her 1986 interview with Mike Tyson and her interest in the sport. Oates first became interested in boxing as a child. The essay examines boxing from every aspect. She writes about boxing as a metaphor; a spectacle and dance; the history; the question on ...
- 2657: Why Steven Landsburg Is Delusional, On Drugs, Or Should Be Taking Them
- ... I would otherwise so love to have? And I feel that his implication that such a conflict in preferences is or should be morally neutral is a gross attempt at suppressing our humanity in the interest of profit. Isnt morality or in other words virtue, what civilization needs to strive for more so then ever? I fear logic that excludes morality, for its conclusions could seldom be virtuous. It seems ...
- 2658: The Ideas of Government Held by Locke and Hobbes
- ... the pursuit of happiness). Hobbes saw government as a single governing body, made up of power given to it by the masses. He first points out that we always do what is in our best interest, whether it be killing an intruder, lying in order to gain an advantage over another person, or worse, all of which add up to a state of continual war, fear, and chaos. Hobbes believes that ...
- 2659: The Decline of Chivalry and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- ... young, "child-like (86)" and the "fine fellowship [of Camelot] was in its fair prime." The analogy is obvious: Arthur's court embodies chivalry's pure roots, where martial exploits were the primary subject of interest, whereas Bertilak's castle represents the low point of the degeneration the poet perceives chivalry to have undergone. The Lady's association with courtly love also ties this aspect of chivalry with degeneration and sin ...
- 2660: Faust and Victor Frankenstein: Unconcerned With Reality
- ... Faust and Gretchen into a vortex of evil. When Gretchen gives herself to Faust, Mephistopheles unleashes a torrent of harsh consequences. As Mephisto gains the upper hand and manipulates events against Faust, Faust loses all interest in his quest for spiritual wholeness through knowledge, the search to which he had devoted his entire life. In the end Faust is left alone and extremely distraught. When Victor's creation transforms itself from ...
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