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- 18471: Electronic Money
- ... There are many concerns with this new technology. Several companies have developed software systems that allow shopping on the net. They each claim benefits unique to their own systems. I have chosen to discuss CyberCash's service that allows Internet shopping. The Internet has become so much more than a place to go for information. It is now possible to actually shop through your computer. How convenient this, no more long ... people. That is a definite plus for me. I had a lot of questions prior to my research, but luckily I found many answers and decided to discuss them in my paper. CYBERCASH AND IT'S CYBERCOIN SERVICE CyberCash created the CyberCoin service which allows a consumer to use an existing bank account to transfer money to an electronic wallet. The wallet is a graphical software program installed on a personal ... I could put a small amount in my Wallet and not fear incurring a huge loss. The CyberCoin system is covered by FDIC insurance so if the issuing bank goes out of business, the consumer's money is insured by the Federal government. Another concern many may have is that the money is actually stored on their computer. People might fear this because they could have failure like their hard ...
- 18472: Biography: Jefferson, Thomas
- ... less for the offices he held than for what he stood for: his belief in the natural rights of man as he expressed them in the Declaration of Independence and his faith in the people's ability to govern themselves. He left an impact on his times equaled by few others in American history. Introduced to the ideas of the Enlightenment as a student at the College of William and Mary ... the Continental Congress charged with drafting the Declaration of Independence. As its principal author, Jefferson gave eloquent expression to the principles of the natural rights of man, among which, he affirmed, was self-government. Jefferson's intellectual prowess led some political opponents to dismiss him as a visionary, but he was remarkably successful in politics. As leader of the opposition to the Federalist policies of Alexander Hamilton and John Adams, Jefferson ... on a republican course based on faith in majority rule, simplicity and frugality in government, limited central authority, and protection of civil liberties and minority rights. Alexis de Tocqueville, visiting America five years after Jefferson's death, declared Jefferson to be "the greatest democrat whom the democracy of America has as yet produced." On the eve of his inauguration as vice president in 1797, Jefferson had been elected president of ...
- 18473: Catastrophes that Plagued Characters in Romeo and Juliet
- Catastrophes that Plagued Characters in Romeo and Juliet Many characters in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet invite the catastrophes they experience. These characters are Mercutio, Romeo, and Friar Laurence. Mercutio because he never thinks before he acts. He has a very big mouth and will say anything to ... in harmony. Friar Lawrence because I do not think he thought about the plan to unite Romeo and Juliet long enough. He should have gotten a reliable messenger to inform Romeo of the situation. Romeo's friend Mercutio was a very witty energetic man. If he held his tongue and thought about what he said before acting on them he would not have gotten into so many fights. His jokes were probably taken lightly be his friends Romeo and Benvolio because they were accustomed to hearing Mercutio's voice constantly. Mercutio should not have tried to tease Tybalt because of the rivalry between Tybalt's family and Romeo's family. While avenging Mercutio, Romeo should have thought about the consequences of slaying ...
- 18474: A Comparison of Romeo and Juliet and West Side Story.
- ... place in the 1950s'', while Romeo happens in Elizabethan times (the late 1500s). The two main female characters also have many things in common. Juliet and Maria both come from families that hate each other's boyfriend's families. Something that makes Juliet different from Maria is that Juliet dies and Maria lives. In both of these plays the main male character kills a relative of their lover. In Romeo And Juliet, Romeo kills Tybalta, Juliet's cousin. In West Side Story, Toni kills Bernardo, Maria's brother. There was a person in both play's that tried to make peace. These people were the Prince and the Lieutenant. The Prince, ...
- 18475: Nevil Shute
- ... his early years during the early parts of the Sinn Fein Rebellion, where he helped served with the Red Cross. He later served as a soldier in France during World War I. After the war's end in 1918, he returned home and went to Oxford to finish his studies (Kunitz 1034). He had gained an interest in engineering and aeronautics after being influenced through the many years of war. He ... realistic adventures and detailed descriptions of modern society and their lifestyles. His settings combined with his imagination creates a truly unique type of literature that relates to many readers and survivors of his generation. Shute's adventures and the life of his characters are also from a mind of creativity. Shute's adventures consist of small town and small English family life. He uses his experience and his personal past in creating such scenarios. In Ordeal, a small English family is thrown out of their home ...
- 18476: Aristotle- Thoughts And Philosophies
- ... public. The Lyceum did not in any way resemble a modern university. There was not a set course of learning; rather there was a great obtaining of knowledge that sprang from the depths of Aristotle s thought and studies. Examinations were not taken, degrees were not awarded, and the education came very cheap it was free. I believe that Aristotle s strong belief in knowledge as a right of man contributed to all of this. The Lyceum was not a moneymaking, competition oriented learning facility; it was a sanctuary of thought, learning, and exploring the mind and soul. Aristotle would never except payment for his teachings. (Aristotle Barnes Pg 5) Aristotle s view on the source of knowledge was perception. (Aristotle Barnes Pg 58) He felt that everything we do to grasp reality begins with perception. Perceptual observations are the grounds by which our concept of ...
- 18477: Biblical Analysis On Genesis And Exodus
- ... the New Testament, and in the process offers information for guidance and faith. What ultimately leads countless people to believe and religiously care for the works in this book solely is determined upon the reader's perception and dogmatic beliefs. Of course none of this translates into why the Bible remains the most widely read book of all time. Morality, creation of time, and the purpose of life associate and form the backbone. These themes incorporated, through poems, hymns, proverbs, and dictation's, enrapture the reader, even atheists, for the styles utilized gives the moral book a place on the shelf of every individual who can read and write. Genesis, Exodus, Job, and Matthew are a few selections that begin to explain the creation of time into the lineage of Jesus Christ. Now what prompts a sensible individual to believe that Eve was created by Adam's rib or the devil took form into a snake, which lost it's upright standing, in more ways than one? The use of allegories, aphorisms, parables, and proverbs place a broader meaning left for ...
- 18478: Macbeth: Independence and Failure
- ... Shakespeare. Using these two metaphors, the breakdown in the relationship between Lady Macbeth and Macbeth and between the king and the thanes and how they perfectly parallel each other because each is caused by Macbeth's will to be independent. According to Webster's dictionary, the archaic definition of independence is competence (1148). To be independent is not to be subject to control by others (Gove 1148). This means that independence is to be in control of ones decisions ... if the universe that strikes is more impressive than the man who is stricken, as great as his size and gaunt as his soul may be he will fall. (Van Doren 217) According to Macbeth's ideas of independence and of strength, he is neither independent nor strong. He feels the need for both and thus allows nothing, including murder, to get into his way. Shakespeare opens Macbeth with the ...
- 18479: Hamlet and Gertrude: Love or Hate
- ... short while ago has died leaving your mother and yourself. This situation would be enough to bring great depression to even the strongest of souls but for Hamlet, the fictional prince of Denmark in Shakespeare's play of the same name, this is not his imagination but cruel reality. Not only has his father passed but, as if to mock the very memory of the former king, Gertrude, Hamlet's mother and queen, has married again within two months. This shock is further compounded by the fact the her new husband is none other than her former brother-in-law, Claudius. Unable to return to ... taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive against thy mother aught . . . leave her to heaven". This statement by the ghost was left open enough for Hamlet to develop many questions about his mother's actual involvement in his father's death. At first, Hamlet's rage is confined to his uncle Claudius but quickly and violently shifts towards his mother, dwelling upon the horrible thought that she might ...
- 18480: The Life of Martin Luther King, Jr.
- ... of Martin Luther King, Jr. King, Martin Luther, Jr. (1929-1968), American clergyman, one of the principal leaders of the civil rights movement in the United States and a prominent advocate of nonviolent protest. King's challenges to segregation and racial discrimination helped convince many white Americans to support the cause of civil rights in the United States. King was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and was ordained as a Baptist minister ... in systematic theology from Boston University. While in Boston, King met Coretta Scott, whom he married in 1953. In 1954 King accepted his first pastorate at the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. Montgomery's black community had long-standing grievances about the mistreatment of blacks on city buses. The city's segregation laws forced black riders to sit in the back of buses and give up their seats to white passengers on crowded buses. In late 1955 Rosa Parks, a leading member of the local ...
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