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- 19741: The Adventures Of Huckleberry
- ... when he declares that he would rather betray his country than betray his friend. Forster takes a very moral stand on the issue and states that a friendship is often more important than a government's actions or society's beliefs. His opinion regarding the value of friendship is a common theme shared by many authors throughout history, including Mark Twain, and Alexandre Dumas. Mark Twain's classic novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, describes a young boy torn between what he feels his country and society expect of him and what his heart tells him is right. Society believes that ...
- 19742: Offensive And Defensive Strategies
- ... well, perhaps even better than other organizations. Used mostly by small organizations, it reduces the amount of resources required and as such is a low risk strategy. However, it ties up all of the firm's resources on a single product, service, or product line. The firm's success and growth is dependent entirely on that particular product with nothing to fall back on were that product to fail. Also, coupled with the facts that this strategy limits an organization's growth and opportunities, it can be considered a high-risk strategy as well. E.g. a company deciding to specialize only in the production and distribution of a particular brand of chocolate will find ...
- 19743: The Bicycle: From Wood to Metal.
- ... the transition from an intermittent (walking) to a continuous (rolling) movement, which greatly reduces energy consumption, since the body weight does not have to be raised with every step, as it is in walking. Macmillan’s 1839 Copies of Von Drais machine were made in Britain by Denis Johnson and in America. Not until Kirkpatrick Macmillan, a blacksmith of Dumfriesshire, Scotland, completed four years of experiments using wood and metal in 1839 he did a self- propelled bicycle appear. (fig 2) Macmillan’s machine had wheels rimmed with iron and though lighter in appearance than the (draisienne), it was still heavy. With a steerable front wheel about 30 inches (750 mm) in diameter and a driven rear wheel ... diameter, it could move at a brisk pace. In 1842 Macmillan successfully challenged a post carriage. photocopy 1939 hobby horse little pc of hobby horse Instead of pedals attached directly to the rear wheel, Macmillan’s vehicle had two swinging cranks mounted at the front. The rider rested his feet on the cranks and swung them back and forth, moving a pair of rods that were linked to two levers, ...
- 19744: Aristotles The Poetics
- In Aristotle's The Poetics, tragedy is stated as being "an imitation not only of a complete action but, also of incidents arousing pity and fear (137)." As Agamemnon, one of the works of Aeschylus, begins, pity is ... it, Agamemnon makes a difficult decision. He is a great leader and must make a sacrifice to please the Gods in order for them to produce the wind he needs to continue his voyage. Agamemnon's dilemma is that he must sacrifice his daughter Iphigeneia. He would be doing so for the good of the state. It is his duty to save and protect his people. He puts the state above ... Aeschylus makes the audience feel pity for Agamemnon who lost his daughter (although he was the person that made the choice to sacrifice her) by making it know that he was thinking of his people's welfare. By making that choice, Agamemnon becomes a tragic hero. Page 2 Aeschylus makes the audience feel for the tragic hero because Agamemnon had to endure the pain and suffering of sacrificing his daughter ...
- 19745: The Advantage of Commercials
- The Advantage of Commercials It began in the early 1940's and to this day still is in many of our lives, even more so then before. It's the TV that I'm referring to. The TV started only as only musicals on it,. But eventually proceeded up to today's oriented world, with movies, sports, and violence. Today more than 98% of all households have a TV. Over 75,000,000 of TV sets are color. To how haw our lives depend on TV; ...
- 19746: Cuban And Chinese Revolution C
- ... of a full revolution. Of course, while revolutions often originally have the best interests of the people in mind, corruption and power madness quickly leave the hosts of the former rulers to infect the "people's" revolutionary. China had a Nationalist government. The government was a one party dictatorship. Opposed to the Nationalists was the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). This was because the CCP was given no say in the governing ... as the Long March, Mao Zedong became leader of the CCP. The Japanese continued to take over parts of China, but Chiang ignored them and focused on the communists. Many students and intellectuals protested Chiang's cowardice. Dissatisfaction spread, and the army turned on Chiang. They kidnapped him and released him only when he promised to end the civil war to form a united front against the Japanese. War broke out ... ended, the Nationalists were weakened, and the CCP was quite powerful. Their now superior military turned the tide, and the CCP easily took over. On October 1, 1949, Mao Zedong proclaimed establishment of the People's Republic of China. Chiang turned tail and fled to Taiwan. The CCP promised many social reforms, and delivered on these promises. The Chinese people were happy, for a time. In the early 1960s, the ...
- 19747: Has Hamlet Gone Mad?
- ... that time. Hamlet was bombarded by many situations at the start of the play which his psyche had to deal with. He was very up-set (as any other person would be) with his father's murder and, at the same time, his mother's hurried remarriage. HAMLET: "Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears had left the flushing in her galled eyes, she married. O, most wicked speed, to post with suck dexterity to incestuous sheets!" He then heard from his good friend Horatio that they had seen a ghost during the night watch. Hamlet was shocked at the description of the ghost and he said to him-self "My father's spirit-in arms? All is not well. I doubt some foul play. Would the night were come!" Hamlet's per-sonality underwent severe stresses due to the situations en-countered and consequently, he had ...
- 19748: The Philosopher, Aristotle
- ... school of Rhetoric in all Greece was at this period held in Athens by the renowned Isocrates, who was at the zenith of his reputation."(Collins p. 11) A competitor with this school was Plato's Academy of philosophy which is where Aristotle arrived at in the year 367 B.C.. Plato became Aristotle's teacher and soon realized the massive potential and sheer intellect that Aristotle possessed. Aristotle was born in 384 B.C. in a town just outside the borders of the Macedonian Empire, called Stageira. He was ... father, Nicomachus died and he was put under the care of Proxenus of Atarneus, who sent him to Athens to further his education under the tutorship of the great philosopher, Plato. It was at Plato's Academy that Aristotle was realized for his potential and was able to grow in knowledge and understanding of philosophy. It was not long before Aristotle became known as "the Mind of the School" and ...
- 19749: Macbeth: A Mature Man of Established Character
- ... is presented as a mature man of definitely established character, successful in certain fields of activity and enjoying an enviable reputation. We must not conclude, there, that all his volitions and actions are predictable; Macbeth's character, like any other man's at a given moment, is what is being made out of potentialities plus environment, and no one, not even Macbeth himself, can know all his inordinate self-love whose actions are discovered to be-and ... for worldly honors; his delight lies primarily in buying golden opinions from all sorts of people. But we must not, therefore, deny him an entirely human complexity of motives. For example, his fighting in Duncan's service is magnificent and courageous, and his evident joy in it is traceable in art to the natural pleasure which accompanies the explosive expenditure of prodigious physical energy and the euphoria which follows. He ...
- 19750: The Problem With Desertification
- ... that sustained our transition from a hunting/gathering to pastoralism and agriculture (Kaya and Yokobiri, 1997). Drylands still provide much of our grain and livestock. These areas cover more than 40 percent of the world’s land surface. As these areas decrease in size, so does the reliability of the land to support the human population. In some areas, desertification is occurring to such a degree that some lands can no ... are being used on the land. The most common consequence of heaving grazing is the decrease of vegetation cover. This decrease in cover leads to increased water and wind erosion. Over 90 percent of Australia's soil degradation is due to overgrazing. As overgrazing continues to reduce vegetation cover, the landscape becomes barren. During long droughts, the land becomes greatly affected by wind and water erosion. A big problem with agricultural ... the focus necessary to bring about the implementation of the programs it recommended. The mechanisms created by UNCOD also failed to produce a increase in desertification control. Another reason UNED failed to achieve the PACD’s goals was due to the terminology of the document itself. The emphasis on desertification was never properly defined. The term desertification only created an image of the expanding Sahara in the minds of most ...
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