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- 2241: Benjamin Franklin
- ... The next year, he signed the Treaty of Alliance with France, and the following year, he was chosen Minister to France. At age 76, Franklin negotiated a preliminary peace treaty with Great Britain along with John Adams and John Jay. He went back to France, and the next year he signed the Treaty of Paris, ending the American Revolutionary War. When he was in Paris, he was able to watch the world's first ...
- 2242: Creative Writing: Manifest Function
- ... sell to near by restaurants for profit. Time passed and many became rich but the once abundant forests were now some how empty and game-less. Something had to be done! That's when mayor, John Enviro Mental the II of New Brunswick decided he would ban the listing of game animals on the menus at near by restaurants to stop the pilfering of the land. He chose the menu ban ... proposal before the city council where it met resistance, but being the accomplish politician he was, he knew a bribe would get them into a passing the law kinda mood. Some of the Manifest functions John saw was the preservation of game that would be brought about if he could stop hunting for profit by taking the game off the menus at the near by restaurants. However latent functions occurred with ...
- 2243: The Onslaught Of Love - The Br
- THE ONSLAUGHT OF LOVE During the eighteenth century, many poets explored the concepts of love. Many of these poems discussed lost loves, or unreturned love. John Donne discussed his feelings towards love in his poem "The Broken Heart." Donne personifies love in this poem by saying how once grasped by love, it is impossible to recover from it. In the first ... never be able to love again. He says that no one will ever compare to a first love, and it is hard to put back a broken heart to love again. In "The Broken Heart" John Donne feels that once love takes hold of the heart, it is detrimental to a person once that love is vanquished. Once a heart is broken it can never be fixed if it can be ...
- 2244: Creative Story: Bathtub
- ... room had a stuffy smell to it. Somehow, Johnny felt in no hurry to do anything. It was clear that this had gone on so long that a few more minutes wouldn't hurt anything. John gazed up at the bathroom window, a skylight he had built himself years ago.There it stood, miles above his head. Johnny suspected it was about noon. He could feel how pruned his hands were ... the outside of the glass. He must not have closed the door to the bathroom all the way because now his cat was sitting on the toilet, apparently trying to get into the flooded tub. John had a vague thought about how cats weren't supposed to like water as he watched the blurry shape of the cat through the fogged up shower curtain, then he closed his eyes again. Now ...
- 2245: Free Music: Why Not?
- ... to help repair the record companies’ credibility (Fallout). This would spread good old music around as well as give the music industry an idea of what the market is like for such a venture (Fallout). John Dvorak, opinion writer for PC Magazine, thinks that the answer lies in music CDs that are not overpriced. “Too many people are asking why they should buy a CD for $16 when they can copy ... in the Information Age." Copy Fights. Ed. Clyde W. Crews Jr., and Adam Thierer. Washington, D.C.: Cato Institute, 2002. 95-105. Clay, Steve. Napster attack was misguided. 6 June 2000. 25 Nov. 2002 . Dvorak, John C. One Buck Forty or Die. 24 Sept. 2002. PC Magazine. 24 Nov. 2002 . Ian, Janis. Fallout - a Follow up to the Internet Debacle. 1 Aug. 2002. 24 Nov. 2002 . Ian, Janis. The Internet Debacle ...
- 2246: Christ: VICTORY!!
- Christ: VICTORY!! "It is finished!" John 19:30. What Christ is referring to here is the accomplished salvation of the people. What that means is that when we are saved, we do not have to put out burnt saccrifices up to Him. It is no longer needed because Christ died for us, which took away the iniquities of our sin. He did this out of great love for us. This is exemplified in John 3:16 "For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotton son that who so ever belief in him shall have eternall life!". That verse is very important to us, or should ...
- 2247: The Politics of Homelessness
- ... just adds one more addiction to the list. On September 30, 1980, activists Mitch Snyder and Mary Ellen Hombs testified before Congress. In their testimony, they displayed what they said were the cremated remains of "John Doe"; the first homeless person to freeze to death during the previous winter (Hombs 129-31). Their theatrics used Congressional as if it were a stage, and their performance was so skillfully choreographed that the ... Substance Abuse Disorders, ed. Deborah L. Dennis (Proceedings of a two-day conference sponsored by the Alcohol, Drug Abuse Mental Health Administration, U.S. Department of health and human Services, Washington, DC, December 1987. Scanlon, John, Homelessness: Describing the Symptoms, Prescribing a Cure. The Heritage Foundation Backgrounder, no.729 (October 2, 1989). Wheeler, Linda, Parents of 14 Accused of Misusing Public Funds. Washington Post, March 12, 1990.
- 2248: Shermans March
- ... fire and brimstone, or in Sherman’s case, fire and cannonballs. Sherman also threatened the civilians during his occupation of Savannah, right before he began his march. In a letter he wrote to Brigadier General John E. Smith in Cartersville Georgia, he showed his total disdain for people of the South who challenged him. Arrested some six or eight citizens know or supposed to be hostiles. Let one or two go ... Sherman felt no regret of his destruction, and his troops felt the same way. Bibliography Miles, Jim. To the Sea: A History and Tour Guide of Sherman’s March. Nashville: Rutledge Hill Press, 1989. Gibson, John M. Those 163 Days. New York: Bramhall House, 1961. Key, William. The Battle of Atlanta and the Georgia Campaign. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1958. Nevin, David Sherman’s March. Alexandria, Virginaia: Time-Life Books, 1986 ...
- 2249: Individiual Understanding
- Individual Understanding I agree with functionalists, specifically the strong Artificial Intelligence (AI) camp, concerning the concept of understanding. While John Searle poses a strong non-functionalist case in his AChinese Room@ argument, I find that his definition of Ato understand@ falls short and hampers his point. I criticize his defense that understanding rests on a ... In fact, functionalists who support strong AI go so far as to say that an appropriately programmed computer actually has all the same mental states and capabilities as a human. In AMinds, Brains, and Programs,@ John Searle outlines this argument: AIt is a characteristic of human beings= story understanding capacity that they can answer questions about [a] story even though the information they give was never explicitly stated in the story ...
- 2250: Desertification
- ... 1981. 2. George, Uwe. In The Deserts Of This Earth. New York: Harcourt Brace J ovanovich Inc.,1977. 3. McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia Of Science And Technology. Desertification.New York: McGraw-Hill Inc., 1982. 4. Molyneux, John, and Marilyn Mackenzie. World Prospects. Ontario: Prentice-Hall Canada Inc., 1987. 5. Myers, Dr. Norman. GAIA An Atlas Of Planet Management. New York: Anchor Press, 1984. 6. Seager, Joni. The State Of The Earth Atlas ... Hill Encyclopedia Of Science And Technology, Desertification (New York: McGraw-Hill Inc., 1982) 126. Dr. Norman Myers, GAIA An Atlas Of Planet Management (New York: Anchor Press, 1984) 46. Myers 47. Myers 59. Myers 59. John Molyneux, and Marilyn Mackenzie, World Prospects (Ontario: Prentice-Hall Canada Inc., 1987) 94. Myers 59. Myers 59. Joni Seager, The State Of The Earth Atlas (Toronto: Simon And Schuster Inc., 1990) 36, 37.
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