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- 15681: What Time Is It
- What Time Is It The methodical swishing radiating from the pendulum’s, inside the variousclocks can momentarily hypnotize the visitor. “What Time Is It,” is anengaging exhibit located in the non-profit, B & O Railroad Museum, locatedin Baltimore, Maryland. It’s primary objective is to preserve and interpretthe railroads historic resources, focusing on the machines that made therailroad. “What time Is It” addresses the period in which time was localand was determined by calculating the position ... for several of the clocks. Contained within the descriptions there are obvious discrepancies. This may be the result of the imcompletion or misplacement of historical documents or the result of the inexperience of the researcher(s). There are a sufficient number of clocks which have beenconsulted for the topic under consideration, for there clocks are representative of the time between 1880 through 1945. Though, a more efficient way of organization ...
- 15682: Forever
- Forever Mother always said that I could have anything I wanted. But I never wanted anything material, no that’s not my style. I want to become famous, but I don’t want to work for it, I don’t want to wait, I want it now. I want to be famous not only now, but forever… They always said you get fifteen minutes of fame, but I’m selfish, I don’t just ...
- 15683: Definition of War
- Definition of War The term “war” is a term that most people are familiar with, and it's a term that most of these same people could attempt to define. The only problem lies in the definition that one would receive. War is so complex and multifaceted that it is truly understood by ... it, yet they do it for freedom. Most people are asked to make all of the ships, helicopters, airplanes, and supplies. As a result, jobs are created and the economy in stimulated, but the U.S. government could never tell that to the public. It is very possible that these were ulterior reasons for the Vietnam war, but the government simply turned it into an issue of freedom. As a result the public was told that after trying to make peace with North Vietnam, the U.S. Navy was continually being assaulted and that there was no option but to go to war. At that point Americans had the option to believe that they were involved for noble and acceptable reasons. ...
- 15684: Knowledge VS Intelligence
- ... recognize that knowledge is simply knowing facts while intelligence involves much more and is quite possibly more important. Intelligence contains the ability to apply knowledge, learn, understand, and deal with new situations. In William Golding’s article “Thinking as a Hobby”, he speaks of three different levels of thought. Grade three thinkers are those who simply repeat what they have been taught. Repeating is not thinking for themselves; they are simply ... new solution. This type of thought is left to the grade one thinkers. According to Golding grade one thinking is the highest thought process, “but these grade on thinkers are few and far between.” Golding’s article can be easily linked to Plato’s writing, The Allegory of the Cave, in which Plato declares, ‘let me show in a figure how far our nature is enlightened or unenlightened.” He goes on to discuss men in a world of ...
- 15685: David Hume's Views on Human Freedom and Free Will
- David Hume's Views on Human Freedom and Free Will In David Hume's An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding; Hume gives the name of liberty to the idea of human free will. "By liberty, then, we can only mean a power of acting or not acting, according to the ... a person. Actions are the entire external existence of humankind. In most cases our actions reflect our intentions. Although actions are only temporary and do not reflect the entire nature of a person, if people's actions are concluded to be predetermined than it must also be accepted that so is the will of all human beings. In Hume's view, the limits of the mind are equal in every ...
- 15686: Beowulf: An Anglo-Saxon Epic Hero
- ... in the eyes of his fellow men through his amazing physical strength. Through out the epic he fought in numerous battles and returned victorious from all but his last. For example, in one of Beowulf’s battles, he fights an unbelievably ferocious dragon. Any other man of the time will be defeated by the deathly dragon, but Beowulf’s unique strength and his warrior like mentality overcome the dragon and he is once again victorious. Another example of Beowulf’s strength is his defeat of Grendel, a beastly monster. Beowulf not only kills Grendel but rips the beasts arm off and brings it to his mother. His men admire Beowulf’s skills and courage. ...
- 15687: Eudora Welty: Her Life and Her Works
- Eudora Welty: Her Life and Her Works Eudora Welty's writing style and us of theme and setting aided her in becoming one of the greatest writers of all time. Welty credits her family for her success. "Without the love and belief my family gave me, I could not have become a writer to begin with" (Welty, IX). Eudora Welty's writings are light- hearted and realistic. Her stories explore common everyday life. Eudora Welty was born in Jackson, Mississippi, on April 13, 1909. She was an observant child. She was fascinated by sounds and sights, human voices and the changing of seasons. Welty's happy childhood and serene life is reflected in her fiction. Eudora Welty's ability to observe created her talent to precisely tell situations as they would be seen. This talent brings her stories to ...
- 15688: Beowulf: First Literary Superhero
- Beowulf: First Literary Superhero Beowulf was the first literary super hero. Like the common day superman, Beowulf has ordinary human characteristics, as well as superhuman powers. Like the Anglo-Saxons of Beowulf's time, he is boastful, manly, and willing to outdo his fellow neighbor. The only difference between him and the rest of the Anglo- Saxons is that he possesses extreme amounts of physical power. Grendel, the ... Many men had attempted to kill Grendel, but until Beowulf, no man had ever succeeded. “...so Grendel ruled, fought with the righteous, One against many and won...”(line 81,82). Despite the probability of Beowulf's death against Grendel, he still insists on attacking him and defeating him. Beowulf kills Grendel in an unusual way. Rather than attacking him with a sword like every other Geat, he grabs onto Grendel's arm and squeezes until the torture is unbearable. Grendel loses his strength, his body parts, and his blood in this violent scene. He later bleeds to death. “Saw that his strength was deserting him, ...
- 15689: Novelty Never Lasts
- ... the pizzeria when I savored the opportunity to eat pizza as often as I could. Now, thanks to the fact that I ate pizza almost every time I worked during that year, pizza just doesn't taste that good anymore. Whenever my family orders a pizza for dinner, I really don't look forward to it as much as I used to. Instead, I just shrug it off, "Pizza, big deal, what else do we have to eat?" This same loss of appreciation has happened with my second job as well. I have been working at Sony Theater's Palace Nine for about four months now, and I can easily say that I don't really enjoy an outing to the movies as much as I used to enjoy them. Probably because I ...
- 15690: A Critical Appraisal of: Beowulf and Gilgamesh
- ... Gilgamesh. When he rejects her, she sends the Bull of Heaven to destroy the city. Gilgamesh and Enkidu kill the bull, and, as punishment for his participation, the gods doom Enkidu to die. After Enkidu's death, Gilgamesh seeks out the wise man Utnapishtim to learn the secret of immortality. The sage recounts to Gilgamesh a story of a great flood (the details of which are so remarkably similar to later ... version of the epic begins with a prologue in praise of Gilgamesh, part divine and part human, the great builder and warrior, knower of all things on land and sea. In order to curb Gilgamesh's seemingly harsh rule, the god Anu caused the creation of a Enkidu, a wild man who at first lived among animals. Soon, however, Enkidu was initiated into the ways of city life and traveled to ... the rest of the engagement is not recorded in the surviving fragments. In Tablet VI Gilgamesh, who had returned to Uruk, rejected the marriage proposal of Ishtar, the goddess of love, and then, with Enkidu's aid, killed the divine bull that she had sent to destroy him. Tablet VII begins with Enkidu's account of a dream in which the gods Anu, Ea, and Shamash decided that he must ...
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