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- 18611: Satellites
- ... Satellites orbit the earth doing our bidding in ways that enrich the lives of almost all of us. Through electronic eyes from hundreds of miles overhead, they lead prospectors to mineral deposits invisble on earth's surface. Relaying communications at the speed of light, they shrink the planet until its most distant people are only a split second apart. They beam world weather to our living room TV and guide ships through storms. Swooping low over areas of possible hostility, spies in the sky maintain a surveillance that helps keep peace in a volatile world. How many objects, exaclty, are orbiting out there? Today's count is 4,914. The satellites begin with a launch, which in the U.S. takes place at Cape Canaveral in Florida, NASA's Wallops Flight Center in Virginia, or, for polar orbiters, Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. One satellite in 20 is crippled by the jolt of ...
- 18612: The Odyssey - A Creton Lie
- ... as Odysseus has finally reached his native homeland. Rumors of the great turmoil that has rocked Odysseus home land and house has reached him abroad. After hearing the news, he decides to don a beggar s disguise and so forth begins the great test. When the disguised Odysseus in Homer s great epic poem, The Odyssey, converses with her wife Penelope in Book nineteen, he tests her loyalty to her husband s honor and her love of her missing husband. Odysseus disguised as a beggar is the basis for the lies that are going to be told to Penelope in this passage by him. In my ...
- 18613: Baseball's New Rules
- Baseball's New Rules I started to watch baseball again since the World Series is starting but I have noticed that there are a couple of new rules in the game that were not there last year ...
- 18614: The Red Badge Of Courage Essay
- ... but for the attainment of glory and prestige. Henry wants to be a hero. This represents the natural human characteristic of selfishness. Humans have a want and a need to satisfy themselves. This was Henry s main motive throughout the first part of the novel. On more than one occasion Henry is resolved to that natural selfishness of human beings. After Henry realizes that the attainment of glory and heroism has ... squirrel took flight when a rock was thrown at it, it was alright that he ran when his life was on the line. This was a selfish reason for fleeing, in the broad sense. Henry s fear of death was a natural human fear that would not work in a war. This is where Henry s character change took place. In everyday life, humans often go about their natural business not thinking at about what they are doing. Henry, in a sense, represented this in his war efforts. Henry was ...
- 18615: Biblical Analysis On Genesis A
- ... 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 ...
- 18616: Pain Has An Element Of Blank
- ... is very possible that it is the "Pain" that is being enlightened or perceiving. These conscious acts of giving "Pain" some sort of capacity of awareness personify "Pain" to some extent. In continuation of "Pain's" inability to remember, She proceeds, "It cannot recollect When it begun - or if there were A time when it was not." "Pain's" inability to recollect further personifies it by also making it subject to the human ability to forget. Dickinson thus not only personifies "Pain," but makes it subject to the advance of time. This temporal placement ... context of the progression of time by giving it a Past, a Future, and presumably, a Present. Although she places "Pain" within the context of time, she indicates it is not limited by time. "Pain's" inability to remember its own origins strongly suggests an extreme span of time since its inception. This coupled with Dickinson's claim that "It has no Future - but itself," and that "Its Infinite contain ...
- 18617: Finland
- Finland official name is Republic of Finland, Finnish Suomi or Suomen Tasa Valta, Swedish Finland, or Republiken Finland, European country. It is one of the world's most northern and geographically remote countries and is subject to a severe climate. It is bordered on the north by Norway, on the northwest by Sweden, on the southwest by the Gulf of Bothnia, on ... third of the territory of Finland--most of the lääni of Lappi--lies north of the Arctic Circle. The capital is Helsinki. Finland has a population of 5, 137, 269 according to 1997 census. Finland's inland waters occupy almost 10 percent of the country's total area; there are 10 lakes of more than 100 square miles in area and tens of thousands of smaller ones. The largest lake, Saimaa, in the southeast, covers about 1,700 square miles. ...
- 18618: Personal Identity: Philosophical Views
- ... same body Y. However there are two problems with this definition. The first is qualitative. It is necessary to have the same body, but if that body is changed, is one the same person? Someone's body is surely different at age 40 than at age 4. Also a problem arrives in alterations to a body. If John goes to war, becomes injured by a mine, and then has his legs ... account alterations to the same body. Yet another problem is numerical. If someone were to get a finger chopped off, would that finger be considered another person? What if a scientist was to use someone's DNA and replicate another person with the same body? Surely just because there are two identical bodies, these bodies cannot be the same person. They would live two different lives. Therefore, the body theory alone ... a soul , it would not be wise to base the definition upon it. For instance, some religions believe in reincarnation after death. This is when a soul enters another body. With this in mind, someone's soul such as Elvis could become reincarnated in someone else named John. However, we would not say that this Elvis and John are the same person . Therefore, the definition of the soul theory fails ...
- 18619: Huckleberry Finn: Prejudice and Intolerance
- ... Finn great. The author of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is Samuel Langhorn Clemens, who is more commonly known by his pen name, Mark Twain. He was born in 1835 with the passing of Haley's comet, and died in 1910 with the passing of Haley's comet. Clemens often used prejudice as a building block for the plots of his stories. Clemens even said," The very ink in which history is written is merely fluid prejudice." There are many other instances ... broken down into five main sets of antithetic parties: people with high levels of melanin and people with low levels of melanin, rednecks and scholarly, children and adults, men and women, and finally, the Sheperdson's and the Grangerford's. Whites and African Americans are the two main groups contrasted in the novel. Throughout the novel Clemens portrays Caucasians as a more educated group that is higher in society compared ...
- 18620: Two Brands of Nihilism
- Two Brands of Nihilism As philosopher and poet Nietzsche's work is not easily conformable to the traditional schools of thought within philosophy. However, an unmistakable concern with the role of religion and values penetrates much of his work. Contrary to the tradition before him, Nietzsche launches vicious diatribes against Christianity and the dualistic philosophies he finds essentially life denying. Despite his early tutelage under the influence of Schopenhauer's philosophy, Nietzsche later philosophy indicates a refusal to cast existence as embroiled in pessimism but, instead, as that which should be affirmed, even in the face of bad fortune. This essay will study in further ... conventional, without any justification by rational argument. Furthermore, without a divine authority prohibiting any immoral conduct, all appeals to morality by authority become hollow. By the atheists reckoning then, all acts are permissible. With Nietzsche's appearance on the scene, however, arrives the most potent arguments denying the necessary link between atheism and nihilism. It will be demonstrated that Nietzsche, in fact, will argue it is in the appeal to ...
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