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- 541: GPS: The Future of Navigation and Technology
- ... on-board computer, its position is then combined with a program called Smart Map. "Smart Map is a very detailed survey of every feature of the golf course -- every tee, green, fairway, and sandtrap," says Richard Beckmann of Skylinks. "Our position is then associated into the map and we know where we are relative to everything else around us." As the golfer finishes at one hole, the Smart Map program is ... example, we can dictate which cars we want to take action on. Although this technology sounds infallible there is one little glitch in the system, something called the GPS Rollover Week or the GPS Bug. Richard Langley of the University of New Brunswick points out that the GPS Bug is not unlike the Y2K bug problem in that it is related to date changes. GPS is based on satellites with extremely ...
- 542: Racism and the Ku Klux Klan
- ... John C. Lester, a soldier in the third Confederate Infantry, and later a lawyer, member of Tennessee legislature, and an official in a Methodist Church (Lester and Wilson pg. 16). A second member, Major James Richard Crowe was a native of Pulaski, educated at Watersbury Academy and Giles College. Crowe was studying law in Marion, Alabama when the Civil War began. He enlisted in the Marion Rifle Company “G”, Fourth Alabama ... Third Tennessee infantry during the Civil War. The fourth member Calvin Jones was a lawyer and a member of the Episcopal Church and also served in the Civil War with the 32nd Tennessee Infantry. Also Richard R. Reed was a lawyer and served in the Third Tennessee Infantry, and he was a Presbyterian Church member. The sixth member was Frank O McCord, who was the editor for the Pulaski Citizen, the ...
- 543: African Americans
- ... artistic outpouring was known, produced outstanding figures. Among them were poets Langston HUGHES, Countee CULLEN, and James Weldon JOHNSON; writers Claude MCKAY and Jean TOOMER. The work of the Harlem Renaissance and writers such as Richard WRIGHT reflected the growing race consciousness among blacks and their opposition to the segregation encountered in all forms of life. These themes continue to be important in the work of such writers as James BALDWIN ... ELLISON, Douglas Turner WARD, and John A. WILLIAMS. Religion Religion has traditionally been important to black American life. The first major denomination among blacks, the African Methodist Episcopal Church, grew from the church established by Richard Allen in Philadelphia in 1787. With Emancipation, most former slaves joined Baptist or Methodist churches. These remain today as the church groups with the largest black memberships. Smaller numbers belong to other denominations and to ...
- 544: Egypt-israeli Conflict And The
- ... broke out, where Egypt attacked, through artillery Israeli forced dug along the canal. The result was Israeli air response which virtually destroyed the Egyptian Artillery. During this time, the Israeli Military was supplied by the Nixon Administration, because it supposedly regarded Israel as a bulwark against Soviet expansion in the area. Nassar, seeing that his chances were few, flew to Moscow and asked the Soviet Union to establish an air defense ... Suez Canal. The Syrians carried out an attack on Israel at the same time. For the Arabs, it was the fasting month of Ramadan, and for Israel it was Yom Kippur. The next day, President Nixon formally asked Congress for emergency funds to finance the massive airlift of arms to Israel that was already under way. During this time, the Major Oil producers in the region cut back production to the ...
- 545: Anomalies Are Not Always Wrong
- ... surgery" (Feinbloom 23, 24). Surgery is usually the last step in the "change" of the transsexual. These feelings of not being "right" are found as early as childhood and adolescence. The number of transsexuals that Richard Docter reported, if transsexuals are defined as those having sex-reassignment surgery, "...may be from 6,000 to 10,000...in the United States." He also goes on to state that "There are probably many ... and what they are--a human being. Works Cited Brown, Mildred and Chloe Rounsley. True Selves. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1996. Carlson, Neil. Psychology: The Science of Behavior. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1993. Docter, Richard. Transvestites and Transsexuals: Toward a Theory of Cross-Gender Behavior. New York: Plenum Press, 1988. Feinbloom, Deborah Heller. Transvestites and Transsexuals. New Jersey: Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, 1976. Hirschfeld, Magnus. Sexual Anomalies. New York: Emerson ...
- 546: Orwell And Marx
- ... New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company. 1949. Rai, Alok. Orwell and the Politics of Despair. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1988. Schaff, Adam. Marxism and the Human Individual. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company. 1970. Smyer, Richard I. Animal Farm: Pastoralism and Politics. Boston: Twayne Publishers. 1988. Symons, Julian. Introduction. Animal Farm. By George Orwell. New York: Everyman's Press. 1993. Trotsky, Leon. Stalin School of Falsification. Russia. 1931. Varlamov, K. Socialist Management: The Leninist Concept. Moscow: Progress Publishers. 1977. Voorhees, Richard J. The Paradox of George Orwell. Iowa: Purdue University Research Foundation. 1961. Williams, Raymond. George Orwell. New York: The Viking Press. 1971. Zwerdling, Alex. Orwell and the Left. New Haven: Yale University Press. 1974.
- 547: Animal Farm: Communism Through The Eyes of George Orwell
- ... the writings of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engles, who together wrote the Manifesto of the Communist Party 4-Miriam Gross, The World of George Orwell (New York, NY:Simon and Schuster, 1971) pg.120 5-Richard J. Voorhees, The Paradox of George Orwell (New York, NY:Purdue Research Foundation, 1961) pg.22 6-Miriam Gross, The World of George Orwell (New York, NY:Simon and Schuster, 1971) pg.119 7-Frank ... California: W.H. Freeman and Company, 1983 Wadsworth, Frank W. "Orwell, George" World Book Encyclopedia. 1988 ed. Woodcock, George. The Crystal Spirit a study of George Orwell. Boston, Massachusetts: Little, Brown and Company,1966 Voorhees, Richard J. The Paradox of George Orwell. New York, NY: Purdue Research Foundation,1961 "Stalin, Joseph." World Book Encyclopedia. 1988 ed. "Lenin, V.I." World Book Encyclopedia. 1988 ed.
- 548: Victims Of Divorce
- ... who their parents are or for what they do. On the contrary, it is the parents and the community who are responsible for who their children are and for what they become. Works Cited Behrman, Richard E. and Linda Sandham Quinn. "Children and Divorce: Overview and Analysis." The Future of Children. 4 (Spring 1994): 1. 4-14. . Everett, Craig A. Divorce And The Next Generation: Effects On Young Adults' Patterns Of Intimacy And Expectations For Marriage. New York: Haworth, 1992. Furstenberg, Frank F. and Andrew J. Cherlin. Divided Families. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1991. Gardner, Richard A. The Parents Book About Divorce. New York: Doubleday, 1997. Hughes, Robert Jr. "The Effects Of Divorce On Children." Prevention Programs. Session#2. . Johnston, Janet R. , et. al. Through The Eyes of Children. New York ...
- 549: Artificial Intelligence
- ... or weakening connections in the network. This system, in which the system learns to adapt to the changing conditions, is called back- propagation. The value of Sejnowski's network is illustrated by an experiment by Richard Andersen at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Andersen's team spent years researching the neurons monkeys use to locate an object in space (Dreyfus and Dreyfus 42-61). Anderson decided to use a neural network ... 50+. Hinton, Geoffrey. "How Neural Networks Learn from Experience." Scientific American September 1992: 145-151. Dreyfus, Hubert., and Stuart E. Dreyfus. "Why Computers May Never Think Like People." Technology Review January 1986: 42-61. Shaffer, Richard. "Computers with Ears." FORBES September 1994: 238-239.
- 550: Mark Schaller's Study About Fame
- ... greater than the average person. A famous person will most likely resort to drastic measures in order to try and manipulate their own fears of such interaction. In a study by Monroe Bruch, Kathy Rivet, Richard Heimberg, and Meryl Levin(1997) shyness and alcohol use showed a significant relationship. Bruch, Rivet, Heimberg, and Levin described shyness as, "anxious self- preoccupation and behavioral in social interactions due to the prospect of interpersonal ... lives of some of the most talented people in history. REFERENCES Ackerman, Phillip L.(1997). Personality, Self-Concept, Interests, and Intelligence: Which Construct Doesn't Fit?. Journal of Personality, 45, #2. Bruch, Monroe A., & Heimberg, Richard G., & Levin, Meryl A., & Rivet, Kathy M.(1997). Shyness, Alcohol Expectancies, and Drinking Behavior: Replication and Extension of a Suppressor Effect. Personality and Individual Differences, 22, #2. Cox, Brian J., & Hewitt, Paul L., & McLeod, Lindsay ...
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