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- 23771: Cults
- ... types of people who participate in cults. The first type of people are normal people who come from intact families and turn to cults at a moment of difficulty in there life. These people haven't had any other problems previously. The second group of people are people who had problems in there past in development and emotion. The third and smallest group of cult members are psychotic individuals. The fourth group of people feel as if they don't fit into society. Different cults Charles Manson was never close to his parents, for he never met his father and his mother was an alcoholic. This lead Manson through a confusing age. He was always ... with knives and guns obeyed there master and murdered five innocent people. The next night Manson lead six of his followers to the LaBianca house a rich couple lived together in. Manson tied the LaBianca's up and ordered three cult members to execute them. Now the Manson family fled to a remote part of Death Valley in Southern California. There the family stole cars and continued to take drugs. ...
- 23772: LADY MACBETH IS WORSE THAN MACBETH
- ... the prophecies, and when the first 2/3 of it comes true, he does think of killing the king, but also, towards the end of Act 1, Scene 3, he thinks that perhaps he doesn't need to do anything to become the king : "If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me without my stir." On the other hand, Lady Macbeth, on receiving the letter telling her about ... Duncan will visit their castle that night, she immediately appeals to the evil spirits, to (ironically) give her the strength to kill the king. In Act 1, Scene 7, Macbeth is doubtfull of Lady Macbeth's plot to kill the king. He doesn't think that he will be able to live with the guilt of killing his king while he is staying under his very roof, and then decides that he will not kill the king. This ...
- 23773: Capital Punishment
- ... racist punishment, and only given to African Americans. In the May 11, 1998 issue of JET magazine it stated that over 50% of all blacks favor the death penalty. (JET Magazine). According to an U.S. Dept. Of Justice press release on December 13, 1998,of those executed,they were all males: 45 whites, 27 blacks, 1 Asian, and 1 American Indian. Five Were Hispanics...At the end of last year ... murders, an almost 20% drop in the murder rate. The sanctity of human life is at the heart of a huge philosophical and spiritual debate over the death penalty. Many Catholics believe that all people’s lives are sacred and killing them only adds to the fire. They say that two wrongs don’t make a right, and that God and the bible states that thou shall not kill. (Survey done of 50 Catholics). Professor Ernest van den Haag said that All religions that I’m aware of ...
- 23774: Communism
- ... their basic rights and freedom. The people cannot even own their own private property. The methods of Communism have been varied slightly by each different government. Stalin and Lenin were the driving forces behind Russia's Socialist Workers party. Fidel Castro ran the party in Cuba. Mao Tung ran the Chinese Workers party. Democratic governments support basic rights and freedoms. People in the United States can participate in government activities by ... in ruling the state. Besides the United States, the Parliament of Great Britain represents similar viewpoints as our government. They gained power over the crown for a short time, but lost it when they couldn't decide on a constitution Democratic and Communist governments do have a few basic similarities. The both hold a vote to voice the opinion of the people. However, most modern communist dictatorship does not even use ... freedoms (Speech, Religion, and Economic) they are free to choose what they say or do to a point. Communist governments do not approve of this, by controlling their freedom. The government can rule the people's daily lives. America is formed as a political state in which we as people give up our personal right to interpret the law (anarchy) for a guarantee that the community will protect their natural ...
- 23775: Godlike Odysseus
- ... Ithica from the land of the Lotus-eaters, and also when he is home. Either something upsets him like a human would get upset, or he does something a human would do and normally wouldn't see from a god. First, I noticed when he was escaping for the Cyclops' cave, he had to get the last word in: " 'If, O Cyclops,/A mortal man shall ever ask you/ How it ... story of "Scylla and Charybdis" when Scylla ate some of his men. Odysseus at that time, lost what he thought, were his best men, he said that it was one of the saddest things he's seen: "As he, if then he takes a fish,/ Flings it aloft out of the sea/ All quivering, even so she swung them/ All quivering up to her high crag./ There she devoured them, one ... her doorway, while they shrieked/ And still stretched out their hands to me/ In dying agony. that sight/ Was the saddest sight my eyes/ have ever seen, while through sore trials/ I wandered the sea's ways." I interpreted this like it was one of those things a person would tell and cry about, and yet another characteristic of a human. The last of the few examples I saw Odysseus ...
- 23776: Types of Clouds
- ... can form near the ground or high in the atmosphere. Clouds are groups of tiny water droplets or ice crystals in the sky. They are associated with different kinds of precipitation depending on the atmosphere's temperature. Cloud types are classified by height and appearance. The shape depends on the way the air moves around it. If air moves horizontally, clouds form in layers. However, clouds grow upward if air movement ... 8000m in the polar regions. Cirrus clouds are the most common of the High Cloud group. They are composed entirely of ice and consist of long, thin, wispy streamers. They are commonly known as "mare's tails" because of their appearance. Cirrus clouds are usually white and predict fair weather. Cirrostratus clouds, belonging to the high cloud group, are sheet like thin clouds that usually cover the entire sky. The sun ... low cloud is from the surface to 2000m. Stratus belong to the Low Cloud group. They are uniform gray in color and almost cover the entire sky. Stratus usually looks like a fog that doesn't reach the ground. Light mist or drizzle is sometimes associated with Stratus clouds. Stratocumulus clouds belong to the Low Cloud group as well. These clouds are low, lumpy, and gray. Most form in rows ...
- 23777: Is Our Society Becoming Post-l
- ... a process Ong calls 'homeostasis' (Ong 1982). This homeostasis comes about because of the nature of the way cultural knowledge is communicated. When a storyteller stands in front of a group of people he doesn't stand and give a lecture, he tells a story using different words each time it is retold. There is a large degree of interaction between the storyteller and the people listening to what is being ... created to allow authors to be protected in law. In the Miller vs. Taylor decision of 1767 Mr Justice Aston commented, 'I do not know, nor can I comprehend any property more emphatically a man's own, nay, more incapable of being mistaken, than his literary works' (Patterson 1968, 170). Typography has made the word a commodity. The old communal oral world has been split up into privately claimed freeholdings, 'the ... the way we live and work. We are constantly being told how 'the information revolution' will extend its reach into every corner of our lives. Mcluhan is not the only writer who has compared today's society with our oral past. Walter Ong describes a 'secondary orality' with a greater emphasis on a 'participatory mystique, communal sense and the present moment' (Ong 1982, 136). He does, however, concede that it ...
- 23778: Types Of Microphones
- ... the dynamic microphones and the condenser microphones. Dynamic mics are very good, but are less sensitive they are used in noisy places. Two problems with the microphone is that when someone talks the "p" and "s" sounds come out. Condenser microphones are becoming more and more intricate. First of all many microphones contain little batteries about the size of a hearing aid. The batteries last a very long time. The television ... majority of problems are usually broken or damaged connectors. Dirt is also a problem. If dirt gets in the connector will not work. If you need a specific cord, and the ones you have don't work, you can usually make a cord, but do it before you go to the site. The last final warning is that power cables and microphone cords do not work well together. A microphone cord ... vertical interval is a part where the viewer does not see. Time Base Correction was also discussed it is usually called TBC. The TBC corrects its timing and stores it then sends it on it's way at a uniform interval. Next discussed was the microwave which is a wireless transmission system. This is High-Frequency radio signals carrying the video and audio information transmitted from one point to another ...
- 23779: The Mars Alive Documentary
- ... should be placed on the planet of Mars. The Americans have greatly contributed to the findings on Mars; they have helped figure out that the temperature is cool and that the atmosphere is thin. America’s NASA deeply desires for Mars to be a useful planet. Many take-offs have been launched in recent years to carry out this goal. Mar’s Direct is one plan where a rocket to Mars was to exploit the local resources on the planet. Usually, rockets such as this one, need fuel and oxidizer in order to power-rocket. Once the ... whether or not life on Mars is possible. Just because the area is not warm enough now, and does not have the necessary amount of carbon dioxide and sunlight, does not mean that Mars won’t have enough in years to come. “Mars Alive” shows that although Mars is not alive right now, with a little help from the greenhouse effect, it can be in the very near future.
- 23780: Stephen Bantu Biko
- ... separation between black and whites, called apartheid (the Afrikaans term for separateness). His childhood experiences and character, lead him to became a powerful leader. Steve Biko was born on December 18, 1946, in King William's Town, South Africa. He father was a clerk and his mother was a housemaid. Following the Sharpeville massacre in 1960, Biko was just 17 years old when he became a political activist. He started to ... 30. An autopsy showed that he died of untreated head injuries, but the police denied all of this. The death was not blamed on anyone. The movie Trading Places, with Eddie Murphy, demonstrates Stephen Biko's theory that a black man can do just as good as a white man, he just needs to be given the chance, and the correct environment. There is a movie made on the book Biko ... was a turning point for South Africa. None of the rest of the world would buy goods or trade with South Africa. The new prime minister was quick to change laws, because if he didn't act fast there could have been lots of riots, and South Africa might be shut off from the rest of the world forever.
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