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- 26461: What I Would Place In A Time Capsule
- ... in prospective the accomplishments that have changed human lifestyles for better or worse. If I were invited to participate in the planning of a time-capsule, I would include items that depicted the present society's mood and pastimes. One item that suits this category would be music. Music is one of the most influential forms of art, and has brought delight, sadness, love, and despair to individuals worldwide. I would ... power is increasing exponentially, and the obsolete models are taken off shelves and out of business to be replaced. Within the next ten years alone, computers will have evolved to what most of us can't even perceive now. By placing a top of the line computer system into our time capsule, we can provide our future generation with the acknowledgment of success and probably a little humor in the field ...
- 26462: Cross Cultural Psychology
- ... systems, population density, religion, cultural myths, and education. Behavioral differences among people of different cultures result from differences in biological and ecological variables. From an Anthropological standpoint, this would be helpful in tracing a culture's roots through it's behavior. An example to back this up would be the situation of the American Indian and the culture they once had. For an Anthropologist to fully understand the culture and their situation, the field of cross-cultural psychology would be applied. It would be used to show how the Indian's attitudes towards whites have changed throughout the years, as a result of their drastic change in culture and environment. Cross-cultural psychology would associate the general decline in happiness in their culture to the ...
- 26463: Aristotle On Ridicule
- ... company. He establishes categories and kinds of humor or wit, and sets limits for the behavior that a gentleman and a wise man will accept. At one point, however, he makes the admission that it’s hard to define when ridicule is appropriate. Because people react to ridicule in different ways, according to their temperament. This paper will examine the second paragraph of Book Four, Chapter Eight, to determine what it ... is a time and a place for everything. The paragraph begins with indirect definitions of two extremes of humor, the buffoon and the humorless person. A buffoon would rather be a fool and hurt people’s feelings than “fail to raise a laugh”. A man who never cracks a joke is also falling short of the appropriate behavior, which is the gentleman’s ability to give and take gentle humor in a conversation. A “wit” is someone “whose pleasantries do not go too far,” and is always ready with a witty remark or a pleasant joke: ...as ...
- 26464: Cryptographys Importance In Go
- Cryptography s Importance in Government Cryptography is one of the most influential and important assets pertaining to government today. Cryptography is the mathematical science of preparingcommunication incoherent to parties unintended to receive the message. A presidential directive ... States also uses cryptography. Hundreds of messages over the Internet stay secure with the use of high security cryptographic software. Companies like Amazon.com, E-bay, On-sale.com, and others must protect their customer s right to security when making a purchase over the Internet, which is extremely vulnerable to fraud (Beth, 1995). Cryptography, through various means, warrant that communication between command and control centers in the military remain authentic ... act of war. A frantic search was made to inform an Army Chief of staff of the preempting strike in Hawaii. Through extreme miscommunication, an intercept that proved to be important had suddenly become yesterday s news. Although the message never arrived at Pearl Harbor in time to fend off the attack, it proved that cryptography could be used in the future to prevent a repeat action of the Pearl ...
- 26465: Character Sketch of Antigone
- ... what she will do because she is just that unpredictable. This unpredictability also makes her seem very hypocritical because she will say something and then turn on a dime and say the complete opposite. Antigone’s character is very intriguing strictly due to the fact that she keeps you guessing. The following will show the many variations that her character shows throughout the play. There are several points in the play ... but twice and then even more by standing up to Creon. All of these heroics, however, in a very short time make her look very selfish. After Creon tells her the story about her brother’s bodies, she takes the stance that she must bury her brother for herself. That all but erases the thought of her, as a hero because all of her actions that were thought to have been ... do it. I do not think there is a right or wrong answer as to whether she was an innocent victim or not, but the question is posed all throughout the play. Of all Antigone’s characteristics, it seems as though her stubbornness is the most prevalent of all. The fact that she is stubborn is only the beginning of the description of her character. Antigone is by far the ...
- 26466: A View Of Young Goodman Brown
- ... a journey into the local forest refuse the temptations of the devil and return to the village before sunrise. The time era is approximately a generation after the time of the witch trials. Goodman Brown's struggle between the evil temptations, the devil, and the proper church abiding life, is a struggle he does not think he can face. He reiterates his false confidence to himself repeatedly. This characteristic of Goodman ... a devil worshiper. Just as before with the witch trials, he is judging them as the so-called witches were judged by his ancestors. A reference to Martha Carrier is made is the story, Goodman's predicament is similar to hers. She was isolated from the community because of her beliefs just like Goodman. The difference is that Martha's community isolated her, and Goodman felt isolated or isolated himself. The views and beliefs of the people of that era were if anything to an extreme. Whatever they believed they worshipped with a vengeance. ...
- 26467: What is a Gospel?
- ... The Gospels are books that tell the story of Jesus. It tells what he did, what he said, and how he acted in relation to the people. "Gospel" is a divine word that proves God's ultimate purpose. This purpose was to serve the church in its worship, life, and teachings of Jesus and bring people to have faith and obedience in him. The Gospels tell the ways of existing proclamations, sacraments, prayer, exorcism, eschatological expectation, incipient polity, and end at Jesus' death and resurrection. The gospels speak the truth and is in fact the final stage of God's plan of salvation to all of mankind. The mission that Christ entrusted to his followers would not be completed until they had carried the "good news" (or gospel) he had taught them to the ends of the world. The Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible says, "It is the word of God for those only who "listen" to it." The Gospels are really testimonials of faith, not of biographies. They are divided into two parts -- ...
- 26468: Norman Schwarzkopf
- ... differences. His family has a popular military background and my family does not. He lived his whole life through the military and I am not going to do that. Norman also followed in his father s footsteps that I am also not going to do. Now you see how many ways Norman and I are alike and different. Norman has accomplished many tasks in his lifetime, which I have not gotten ... an education at West Point Military School and at Valley Forge Military Academy in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. Valley Forge is a historic place known for its forces in the American Revolution. Almost all of Norman's family joined the military. His dad was in the military all of his life just as Norman was. The Schwarzkopfs are very well known in the military. Norman Schwarzkopf made many life choices in his military career. First, he chose to join the military following his father s footsteps. Second, he chose to go to Valley Forge because the school he was attending, West Point, only taught students up to the tenth grade. One of his most important choices was in Vietnam. ...
- 26469: 1984 Irony
- ... the first example of this irony is discovered when the main character, Winston Smith, uses the "Memory hole" to deposit things -- one would think that this would be where things are remembered ("Memory"), but it's actually an incinerator. The next example of irony comes when you learn about the departments of Government in Oceania. The Ministry of Truth is actually the maker of lies for the history books, the Ministry ... seen in the name of the leader of Oceania, "Big Brother." The concept of a big brother is one whom is older and wiser and helps the "littler siblings" -- this not the case with 1984's Big Brother. The Big Brother in this novel completely watches over every move a person makes keeping them controlled with fear. The next type of irony is Situation irony, which is when a character or a sequence of events appears to be headed one way, but it ends up as the opposite of what was thought. One example of this is Winston's general health. From the beginning of the book, it is shown how horrible his health is and is continually getting worse and more difficult, but as Winston gets involved with Julia then he begins ...
- 26470: Transfers Of Technology From The Developing World
- ... North America, it has never been easier to start a business or company. Using modern technology such and the Internet and a computer, an individual or group of individuals can become major players in today's ever increasing electronic economy. As the overall cost of doing business drops, it will make "the technology more rapidly available, at a decreased cost"(Freund, pg.2) and therefore level the economic playing field. As ... take advantage of technology used by the Western world to give their economy a much needed advantage, without all the problems the West has experienced. They will be able to learn from the developed world's mistakes. "When the steam engine was invented in England at the beginning of the eighteenth century, it took fifty years for it to spread to western Europe and America. In contrast, innovations in transistor and ... standard of living. It is human nature to think that bigger is better. Only in the past twenty years have we started to learn that efficiency is the key to solving many of the world's problems. For example, it has been long thought that the world would not be able to produce enough food to feed itself. With increased technological advances, we have learned how to increase food production ...
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