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- 11861: Ghandi's Influence on India
- Ghandi's Influence on India Swami Vivekananda was obviously opposed to India becoming a westernized nation. In his speech he draws a distinct line between India and the western world. He states on one side is modern ... Indian people to not forget There heritage, and more importantly not to think of there lifestyle as primitive they should automatically put people and there ideas on a pedestal, it is new and different doesnt mean its good for the Indian people. Ghandi was a man who took advantage of his home countries colonization and took the opportunity to go to England and study law, were he met many Indian ...
- 11862: Vegetarianism
- ... obesity, and many others" (Akers, 1983 p. 23). There is an emerging consensus that a vegetarian diet is actually better than a meat-oriented diet. (Akers, 1983). The American Dietetic Association has often voiced it's support of the "well planned" vegetarian diet (Hulsey, 1997). Good health, however, is not automatically guaranteed just because someone becomes a vegetarian. Understanding the body's dietary needs, being organized and having a good plan are the keys to a healthy vegetarian diet. The body requires a certain amount of protein, carbohydrates, fat, vitamins, and minerals, to sustain a long, healthy ... development of all body tissues (Dunne, 1990). Our society has embedded in us the belief that the only way of getting enough protein is to eat large quantities of meat and that people who don't eat meat will suffer from a protein deficiency. Ironically, protein is the easiest of all the nutrients to get. An entirely random selection of food plants, containing enough calories to sustain life, will almost ...
- 11863: Netspeak: An Analysis Of Internet Jargon
- ... text," produces the definition "a method of storing data through a computer program that allows a user to create and link fields of information at will and to retrieve the data nonsequentially," according to Webster's College Dictionary. Proper names also make a large impact on the vocabulary of Net users. Archie, Jughead, and Veronica are all different protocols for searching different areas of the Internet for specific information. Another new use of proper names is for descriptive purposes. For example, the proper-name turned descriptive noun/verb/adjective "Gabriel" has come to be understood as a stalling tactic, or a form of filibustering; "He's pulling a Gabriel," or "He's in Gabriel mode." Most frequently, this type of name-borrowing happens due to highly and widely visible actions by an individual on the Internet. Onomatopoeias are also widely found in net jargon, as it' ...
- 11864: Macbeth Thematic Essay
- ... a thoroughly representative human being. One word that can be easily associated with Macbeth is ambition. It is necessary for one person to have ambition in order to succeed. Ambition is first planted in Macbeth's head by King Duncan appointing him Thane of Cawdor. Macbeth's valiant effort in the war and the news of the Thane of Cawdor assisting the enemy cause Duncan to sentence death upon the Thane of Cawdor. When the witches approach Macbeth and Banquo, they call Macbeth Thane of Glamis, Thane of Cawdor, and king hereafter. That statement would stick out in Macbeth's mind throughout the rest of the play. Macbeth's hopping back and forth between fully believing the prophecy and thinking about its distance from a real possibility. After hearing this from the witches, Macbeth ...
- 11865: George Bernard Shaw and His Short Story About the Cremation of The Narrator's Mother
- George Bernard Shaw and His Short Story About the Cremation of The Narrator's Mother In a written exerpt from a letter about the cremation of his mother, George Bernard Shaw recalls her passage with humor and understanding. The dark humor associated with the horrid details of disposing of his mother's physical body are eventually reconciled with an understanding that her spirit lives on. He imagines how she would find humor in the bizarre event of her own cremation. The quality of humor unites Shaw and ... bond that transcends the event of death and helps Shaw understand that her spirit will never die. The reader is also released from the horror of facing the mechanics of the cremation process when Mama's own comments lead us to understand that her personality and spirit will live on. Shaw's diction is effective in conveying his mood and dramatizing the process of cremation. The traditional words of a ...
- 11866: James Clerk Maxwell
- ... that light consists of electromagnetic waves (see Electromagnetic Radiation) and established the kinetic theory of gases. The kinetic theory of gases explains the relationship between the movement of molecules in a gas and the gas's temperature and other properties. He also showed that the rings of the planet Saturn are made up of many small particles and demonstrated the principles governing color vision. Maxwell was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He was educated at Edinburgh Academy from 1841 to 1847, when he entered the University of Edinburgh. He then went on to study at the University of Cambridge in 1850, graduating with a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1854. He became a professor of natural philosophy at Marischal College in Aberdeen in 1856. Then in 1860 he moved to London to become a professor of natural philosophy and astronomy at King's College. On the death of his father in 1865, Maxwell returned to his family home in Scotland and devoted himself to research. In 1871 he moved to Cambridge, where he became the first professor ...
- 11867: The Barn Burning
- ... him and his family. The economic status of the main characters is poor, without hope of improving their condition, and at the mercy of a quasi-feudal system in North America during the late 1800 s. Being sharecroppers, the Snope s family, had to share half or two-thirds of the harvest with the landowner. Out of their share pay for the necessities of life. Because of this status, Ab and his family know from the ... and soul for the next eight months (495). Like nomads, they had to move constantly. Due to seasons and crop rotation, in order to secure work they had to reserve land with different landowners. Ab s emotional instability is a predominant factor contributing to his erratic behavior throughout the story. The family has moved a dozen times from farm to farm, and at times forced to forfeit their agreement with ...
- 11868: Ethical Values and The Classroom
- ... and The Classroom Metal detectors used to be confined to high security areas like airports to guard against terrorists. Now they are installed in our schools to guard against terrorists; the students. Many of California's schools have become institutions of violence, intimidation, and fear instead of institutions of higher learning. Have our schools lost control of their purpose of educating young people to become knowledgeable, productive, conscientious adults? The classrooms ... and memorize these facts and figures routine has failed to capture the interest of our Generation X students. The below average high school student is a direct result of poor educational procedures in the student's formative years. For example, every student leaving the third grade should know how to read. Throughout a student's career certain standards should be met before promotion is allowed. Instead students are routinely promoted without the necessary skills needed for the next level. Assigning blame singly on the system, the teachers, the parents, ...
- 11869: Wherefore The Maintenance Of L
- ... they had to forge rifle barrels in their own backyard furnaces. The Afghani ultimately kicked the Soviet invaders out of their homeland. This was just like the Warsaw ghetto Jews, who kept the murderous Nazi's at bay for almost a month with only a handful of small arms before the Jew's valiant final defeat. History repeats with the citizen patriots of Lexington and Concord, who demonstrated with their blood the power and the purpose behind the Second Amendment to the Constitution of the then new United ... been graded, and by the criteria of their forefathers, they have failed miserably. Who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people, except a few public officers... -George Mason "The Second Amendment isn't about duck hunting!" announces a bumper sticker. It is about Mason's the "whole people," meaning all Americans, armed and trained to, if needed, make war against government gone bad. This is rather bold ...
- 11870: Active Intellect In Aristotle,
- ... universals intelligible. Various theories have been postulated concerning this but we shall concentrate on Aristotle and leave the other philosophies for now. What is at work in man is a divine reason immanent in mans soul. Somehow man is connected to and shares in divine reason. A distinction must be made here. We are not saying that the human souls capacity to grasp universals is in some way a maker or shares in the pure act of God, but that without this divine reason at work in the souls of men no understanding of universals could take place at all. The mind works on the material given to it, that is its potential, and from this material it moves to actuality. An example of this is the man who is without music becoming musical. His potential to be musical always existed in him but it wasn ...
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