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- 4101: Is The Internet Bring A New Era Of American Cultural Imperia
- ... of cookies, a technology developed by two American companies, Microsoft and Sun Microsystems, to commercial companies (Swisher, C01). Cookies are packets of information both sent and received by ones computer that can include such personal information as what sites you have been to and how long were you there, your name, your address, and other personal information. Bill Gates says that this technology will allow producers to market their products in a more effective way. Barber and Tomlinson would contend that this is another example of the globalization of American capitalistic ...
- 4102: Hegel And The National Heritag
- ... a conception similar to the General Will, he finds Rousseau's institutional arrangement inadequate. Our era is the era of the large nation-state, and it is best to make the most of this situation. Personal identity, Hegel says, can be found by accepting the nation as a fact. Once this is done, then national citizenship can impart to men the feeling of identification they continually seek: The State, its laws ... the traditional sense: Plato and Rousseau knew this and they purposely imposed conditions having to do with size. A modern nation-state is simply too large for its members to know one another on a personal basis. And, what is more important, it is impossible for citizens to participate in-- or even understand-- the making of laws and the administration of justice. The larger a society is, the more individuals must ...
- 4103: Down Goes Hurston
- ... she is not white; she still gets respect by everyone in the town. For the duration of the book Hurston does not write to protest racial oppression. This breaks yet another theme of Harlem Renaissance writing. She discusses black life as if it were the same as white life. She neglects to mention any information to protest racial oppression. Hurston does this by writing a melodious novel; it is very appealing to the reader. "What she doin coming back here in dem overhalls? Cant she find no dress to put on? -Wheres dat blue satin dress she ...
- 4104: Marie Curie: A Pioneering Physicist
- ... a special institute for the study of radium, newly-built on a road renamed in honor of her husband, "Rue Pierre Curie." Marie was thrilled with this new project and gave it, as her own personal gift, the precious radium she and Pierre had prepared with their own hands. This radium was precious in every sense. It was vital for further scientific research. It was essential for it's use in ... war, Marie made a special trip to Bordeaux, in western France and put the precious gram of radium away in a bank vault. Marie donated all her money toward the war efforts including her own personal savings in gold to be melted down. She even offered her medals, but the bank refused them. Marie quickly saw that there was one service that she could do for France that no one else ...
- 4105: Bilbo The Hobbit
- ... like. Its entertainment value is that of an A.Tolkien's dry humor and relations of imaginary characters to emotions in real life give the reader a good sense of clarity. In the area of writing style I give this book an A, due to the smooth writing of the story, which ties all the smaller adventures together. The theme of this book expressed the age old moral of greediness, and how it gets you nothing in the end. Though this theme is ...
- 4106: William Shakespeare 2
- ... this shows how Brutus loves Caesar but cares for the life of Rome and its people more. This is the only reason Brutus would conspire against Caesar. For Brutus says to himself, "I know no personal cause to spurn at him How that might change his nature "(II, i, 1,13) Caesar's relationship with Brutus is also strong. Just allowing Brutus to speak to Caesar shows his respect for Brutus. Caesar feels that Brutus is noble to him and does the right thing regardless of personal danger. On the Ides of March, as Caesar is assassinated, Caesar's last line is: "Et tu, Brute? Then fall Caesar."(III, i, 85). This shows that Caesar would not die without Brutus's stab ...
- 4107: Dyslexia
- ... a neurological-based, often familial, disorder which interferes with the acquisition and processing of language. Varying in degrees of severity, it is manifested by difficulties in receptive and expressive language, including phonological processing, in reading, writing, spelling, handwriting, and sometimes in arithmetic. Dyslexia is not a result of lack of motivation, sensory impairment, inadequate instructional or environmental opportunities, or other limiting conditions, but may occur together with these conditions. Although dyslexia ... dyslexia that means that there is a chance that your own child could have it. Unlike what most people think, dyslexia is not to be blamed on the parent for negligence in teaching reading and writing. Dyslexia is not any ones fault it simply occurs when the barrier in the language center of you brain cracks. In some experiments done by the University of Montreal, they are comparing good adult readers ...
- 4108: Comentary For English
- ... them .The poem describes how this person made a mistake of trusting people and getting a blood transfusion made the person get an incurable disease. The aspect of the issue in the material is alienation, personal choice and the society . Alienation because it describes how the person in the poem had been alienated from their society, for example, the person mentioned in the poem that "they keep their distance in case ... came from a foreign country and he was alienated by the new culture that surrounded him. The similarities of the novel to the poem is that in both cases it deals with the aspect of Personal Choice and Alienation as well as the aspect of Society.
- 4109: Genocide
- ... decades, genocide has taken place in more than one occasion, causing wars, slaughters and mass destruction of cities and towns. I think that genocide is by far the worst crime in humanity. Hatred, superiority and personal memories are all behind genocide. Everyday, I get more surprised on how some very powerful leaders can act so cruelly and kill thousands of innocent people just because of their ethnicity, race or religion. The ... the life of national groups whose objectives would be the disintegration of the political and social institutions of culture, language, national feelings, religion, and the economic existence of national groups, and the destruction of the personal security, liberty, health, dignity, and even the lives of the individuals belonging to such groups (Charny 2). The crime of genocide dates from a very long time ago. The first time a genocide crime happened ...
- 4110: Biography of Robert Frost
- ... by teaching at Derry's Pinkerton Academy. In 1912, at the age of 38, he sold the farm and used the proceeds to take his family to England, where he could devote himself entirely to writing. His efforts to establish himself and his work were almost immediately successful. A Boy's Will was accepted by a London publisher and brought out in 1913, followed a year later by North of Boston ... s Will enabled Frost to buy a farm in Franconia, N.H.; to place new poems in literary periodicals and publish a third book, Mountain Interval (1916); and to embark on a long career of writing, teaching, and lecturing. In 1924 he received a Pulitzer Prize in poetry for New Hampshire (1923). He was lauded again for Collected Poems (1930), A Further Range (1936), and A Witness Tree (1942). Over the ...
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