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- 3011: The Civil War
- ... Another source of southern confidence was cotton. Secession leaders expected to exchange that staple for the foreign manufactured goods they needed. The Souths most important advantage was that it had only to defend relatively short interior lines against invaders who had to deal with long lines of communication and to attack a broad front. The Confederacy also had no need to divert fighting men to tasks such as garrisoning captured cities and holding conquered territory. In a short war, numerical superiority would not have made much of a difference. As the war continued, however, numerical strength became a psychological as well as a physical weapon. During the closing years of the conflict, Union ...
- 3012: The Industrial Revolution
- ... were deserted. The cities grew by leaps and bounds. Now that waterpower was no longer necessary, towns grew up far from rivers (Derry 42). Under the new industrial ownership men grew enormously rich in a short time. When labor was paid almost starvation wages, there was an immense gap between the rich and the poor. The nation was no longer self-supporting in food as agriculture became less important. More and ... Nonconformists, who were to form the backbone of the new middle class, encouraged industry and thrift, plus new knowledge, especially in science, was freely disseminated, breeding an inventiveness and a willingness to accept change. In short, 18th-century British society provided the framework within, which could interact the effects of five fundamental sorts of change in agriculture, population technology, commerce, and transportation (Light 4). The last part of the 18th century ...
- 3013: Romanticism
- ... truth and finding knowledge. Many objects of the physical world became symbols of spiritual or intellectual truth. For example, Edgar Allen Poe pursued with great intensity the Gothic mood. He made material data of his stories symbolic representations of intense and anguished states of mind. This was a method that he carried to its ultimate expression in his poems. Here the outlook of reality versus illusion took its course! Romanticism is the belief in religion, beauty, pursuit in individualism and striving for personal freedom. It is also, considered to be a particular kind of fiction that demonstrates allegory(more than one meaning in stories or poems that ends with ambiguous notions). Overall, Romanticism states imagination above all else. A period with good perspective for the future and roots based on religion.
- 3014: The JFK Assassination: Conspiracy or Single-gunman?
- ... couldn't tell where the second shot went." Thus, it would have been impossible for one gunman to fire a shot with the Mannlicher Carcano rifle, reload, fire again, and fire again in a very short amount of time in order to make the shots sound close together. Also, when the fatal shot hit Kennedy, his head went back and to the left, implying that the bullet came from the front ... the President. As you can see, the killing of John F. Kennedy was a conspiracy. There is no way a single gunman could have fired all the bullets that hit Kennedy and Connnally in that short period of time. Also, since Kennedy's head went back and to the left, the bullet must have been fired from the front and right of Kennedy. This shows that there was another gunman, which ...
- 3015: The Civil War
- ... Another source of southern confidence was cotton. Secession leaders expected to exchange that staple for the foreign manufactured goods they needed. The South's most important advantage was that it had only to defend relatively short interior lines against invaders who had to deal with long lines of communication and to attack a broad front. The Confederacy also had no need to divert fighting men to tasks such as garrisoning captured cities and holding conquered territory. In a short war, numerical superiority would not have made much of a difference. As the war continued, however, numerical strength became a psychological as well as a physical weapon. During the closing years of the conflict, Union ...
- 3016: The Power of the Situation
- ... the humanistic approach. Humanistic psychologists study behavior but unlike behaviorists, they "focus on the subjective world experienced by the individual, rather than on the objective world seen by external observers and researchers." (Zimbardo 18). In short, they believe that social and cultural forces are critical to true understanding of a person's inner self. With the Los Angeles riots, it would truly be a mistake to attempt to interpret the actions ... that prejudice had little or no role in the riots is simply wrong. Yet a thorough examination of racism and it's socio-economic implications in America cannot be explained within the context of this short paper. Instead, for the purpose of this study, it is important to realize that once formed, prejudices exert a powerful force on the way relevant experiences are processed. African and Hispanic Americans living in the ...
- 3017: The JFK Assassination: Conspiracy or Single-Gunman?
- ... couldn't tell where the second shot went." Thus, it would have been impossible for one gunman to fire a shot with the Mannlicher Carcano rifle, reload, fire again, and fire again in a very short amount of time in order to make the shots sound close together. Also, when the fatal shot hit Kennedy, his head went back and to the left, implying that the bullet came from the front ... the President. As you can see, the killing of John F. Kennedy was a conspiracy. There is no way a single gunman could have fired all the bullets that hit Kennedy and Connnally in that short period of time. Also, since Kennedy's head went back and to the left, the bullet must have been fired from the front and right of Kennedy. This shows that there was another gunman, which ...
- 3018: Military Technology
- ... countries with mandatory national service are now discussing how to deal with the future of warfare. Computers have invaded all branches within the military. There are computers in missiles both offensive and defensive, and both short-, middle- and long range. The computers in the long- and middle range missiles are programmed with exact destination or being manually directed towards their goal. Short-range rockets are programmed not to explode on impact with tanks and other armored vehicles and helicopters because the armor nowadays is so good it can stand a rocket exploding on impact. Instead they are ...
- 3019: Nature
- ... the thin air. However, many waves never survive long enough to reach the shores. Arriving from all directions at a pier or causeway, they flow together in intricate patterns greeting each other and sharing the stories of their journeys. At times, these waves seem to dance as they flow north to south, and then change directions, drifting to the east and then back to the west as if they were gliding ...
- 3020: NASCAR Speech
- ... or they just mess around and have a happy ol time. Sunday is race day. This is what all the training and days of practice are for. Depending on the track, whether it be a short tack, speedway, or superspeedway, the drivers adjust and prepare for the 3 hour drive of 500 miles at 150-200 mph. Superspeedways are driver favorites. Superspeedways are oval tracks that are 2 miles long or ...
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