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- 13941: The History of Computers
- ... key (General Motors is the largest buyers of computer components in the world). You pick up the phone it uses computers. No mater how hard you try you can get away from them you can't. It is inevitable. Many people think of computers as a new invention, and in reality it is very old. It is about 2000 years old .1 The first computer was the abacus. This invention was ... sliding inside the other, and marked with many number scales. This slide ruler could do such calculations as division, multiplication, roots, and logarithms. Soon after came some more advanced computers. In 1642 came Blaise Pascal's computer, the Pascaline. It was considered to be the first automatic calculator. It consisted of gears and interlocking cogs. It was so that you entered the numbers with dials. It was originally made for his father, a tax collector.2 Then he went on to build 50 more of these Pascaline's, but clerks would not uses them.3 They did this in fear that they would loose their jobs.4 Soon after there were many similar inventions. There was the Leibniz wheel that was invented ...
- 13942: Pornography
- ... radio station after 8 P.M. to hear strings of advertisements for local pornographic outlets. Television advertisements are shown also, but not as often as on the radio. Pornography is so socially acceptable in today's society, that it is protected by the same amendment to the constitution that allows Pro-Life groups to protest abortion, the first amendment to the constitution. For years, the first amendment has been quoted to ... has dropped all legal barriers against pornography for adults. Explicit magazines cannot be sold to anyone under the age of eighteen, showing some morality is still intact in America today, if not entirely. The Church's stand on pornography is clear and obvious. The Catholic Church is adamantly against all pornography. Pornography "...offends against chastity because it perverts the conjugal act, the intimate giving of spouses to each other. It does grave injury to the dignity of its participants (actors, vendors, the public), since each one becomes an object of base pleasure and illicit profit for others." The church's view is that "...civil authorities should prevent the production and distribution of pornographic materials. God has willed that the expression of sexual ideas be within the confines of marriage. No man has the right ...
- 13943: Giants In The Earth
- O.E. Rölvaag s thesis in the novel Giants in the Earthis well hidden throughout the text of the novel, but his purpose is very clear. The purpose of the book is to give the reader a full experience ... for survival and the mental state of each character after living in the total desolation of the wilderness. All throughout the book, each of the characters does their own share of work. From Per Hansa s building of a barn-house combo, white washing the sod walls with lime, and growing and selling potatoes to Ole s chopping wood up on the copping block; everyone did their part in order to survive or at least to live somewhat comfortably. The second topic deals with the mental state of the pioneer when ...
- 13944: Gender in Sports
- ... prove their loyalty to the team and to the school itself. This football team is always comprised of men who use the sport to demonstrate their masculinity through the smashing and bashing of each other's skulls. Occasionally, one may find a select number of women who had to fight their way onto the team only to sit on the sidelines and watch. It is quite probable that such girls are ... team dedicated solely to the women football athletes. This lack of recognition for female athletes only becomes more frequent as one progresses through the levels of competition in virtually any sport. The games of women's teams, where they do exist, tend to draw only limited crowds at most levels of competition, scholastic or otherwise. In the realm of athletic activities, the American society has chosen not to offer the same ... and teams within which they may play professionally. What makes a man playing a sport more interesting to watch than a woman playing the same game? Perhaps it is due to the fact that women's sports aren't as popular at the high school and collegiate levels as the men's sports tend to be. For this reason, the owners and developers of professional sports leagues may not feel ...
- 13945: Greek Gods
- ... a certain aspect of the world in a way that usually reflected their own humanlike personalities. These unique personalities also contained many human flaws such as envy and greed, and were where the Greek God s importance lay. Greek religion was more concentrated on the way an individual dealt with situations that popped up in the world around him than on understanding the world itself. In other words the Greeks were ... their personalities, to the Greeks if some natural phenomenon occurred it occurred because one of their gods had decided to make it occur, it was just as simple as that. The existence of the God s to the Greeks was something just as simple as that the fact that the sky is blue is simple to us. The strength of these preconceived ideas can be seen in Strepsiades s words while he argues with Socrates in Aristophanes s The Clouds: STREPSIADES: What on earth - ! You mean you don t believe in Zeus? SOCRATES: Zeus? Who s Zeus? STREPSIADES: Zeus who lives on Olympus, ...
- 13946: Iliad By Homer
- ... populace of his timewere highly emotional creatures, and higher brain activity seems to be in short, and in Odysseus' case, valuable, order. In the Iliad, there seems to be relatively little storyline from the Trojan's side. We are regaled with story uponstory of the Greeks, their heroes, and their exploits, while the Trojan's are conspicuously quiet, sans Hector of course. It could almost be assumed that throughout time most of the knowledge of the battle from the Trojan side had been lost. Considering the ability to affect feelings ... is cut down by a wain wright with his gleaming axe." The image of a well grown tree with great nourishment from the stream and the pastoral setting acquainted with Simoeisius is consistent with Homer's beautifying the Trojan tradition. Ajax is consistently portrayed as a giant, and with his great spear it is no stretch to align him with the strength of the lumberjack with his axe, giving him ...
- 13947: Socrates
- ... the abstract concepts. Then, he understood that he had to ask himself the question "why" instead of how, which developed his philosophical view and style. At the time when Socrates was reaching his late thirty’s he became more prudent about life. Chaerephon, one of his friends, went to the Oracle at Delphi to ask it if Socrates was the wisest. The Oracle said he was. When this news reached Athens ... asked why he had done that. Upon return to Athens he gave up stonecutting completely and invested his money and regularly, as if by set hours, he went to the gymnasium to talk to passerby’s about many different reflective concepts. Crito once said "Socrates is the only one of all Athenians who knows where he is going and is all packed up, ready to go." Socrates asked himself why he ... prosecution told more lies and false charges, he was called to the stand for his own defense or Apology. Socrates first asked to talk philosophically (the way he talked on the Agora to the passerby’s). He said that he had ancient and new enemies. One of the ancient’s being Aristophanes, who he called a liar for creating a character named Socrates in his play and making him say ...
- 13948: The Tragic Love Triangle of Yonville
- The Tragic Love Triangle of Yonville Gustave Flubert's masterpiece, Madame Bovary, was first published in 1857. The novel shocked many of its readers and caused a chain reaction that spread through all of France and ultimately called for the prosecution of the author ... then married a women who was quite older then himself. He was unhappily married to her saying that "Her dresses barely hung on her bony frame", This coming right before her death. Upon his wife's death, Charles married an attractive young women named Emma Roualt, the daughter of one of his patients. Emma married Charles with overwhelming expectations. She thought marriage would be filled with three things, "bliss, passion, and ... was excited and pleased by her marriage, but overwhelmed by her new life, she quickly became dissatisfied. As a result of her dissatisfaction she became mentally ill. For the sake of her health the Bovary's moved to a new town, Yonville, where their daughter was born. Emma's unhappiness continued, and she began to have romantic feelings toward Leon, a young law clerk. After Leon left the town in ...
- 13949: The Many Conflicts In The Adve
- The Many Conflicts in "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." The conflict between society and the individual is a theme portrayed throughout Twain's Huckleberry Finn. Huck was not raised in accord with the accepted ways of civilization. He practically raises himself, relying on instinct to guide him through life. As portrayed several times in the novel, Huck chooses to follow his innate sense of right, yet he does not realize that his own instincts are more moral than those of society. From the very beginning of Huck's story, Huck clearly states that he did not want to conform to society; "The Widow Douglas she took me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me... I got into my old rags and ... obviously evil and unfit man. One who drinks profusely and beats his son. Later, when Huck makes it look as though he has been killed, we see how civilization is more concerned over finding Huck's dead body than rescuing his live one from Pap. This is a society that is more concerned about a dead body than it is in the welfare of living people. The theme becomes even ...
- 13950: Sir Thomas More
- Thomas More In life, belief can be a very powerful thing, powerful enough to affect major choices. Believing is having faith in an idea, person, thing or religion. In Robert Bolt's A Man for All Seasons, Sir Thomas More made many important choices the were affected by a belief in the religious theory that the Pope is the "Vicar of God" (the descendant of St. Peter, and our only link to Christ.) Throughout Mores entire life he chose to be loyal this belief, even thought it cost him his life in 1535. More chose to go against the King's divorce of Catherine, and marry of Anne. He chose to not sign to oath for the act of Succession, and towards the end of the play More was put to the ultimate test in faith ... marriage is what the Cardinal wanted to talk to More about, When Woolsey says "...that thing out there is at least fertile, Thomas". More shows that he is against the divorce by saying "But she's not his wife". More again shows his beliefs that a dispensation was given so that Henry could marry Catherine and Thomas knows that the Pope will not give a dispensation on a dispensation. More ...
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