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- 26551: Technology: Friend or Foe?
- ... monitor the electronic trail of commands and transactions. Perhaps the Luddites could see farther into the future than anyone suspected. With regards to the downfall of technology and the role it would play on people's lives, as they became dependent upon technology for survival. Let's take for example the huge technological dilemma of the fast approaching twenty-first century; the issues surrounding Y2K. It has been feared that people's lives will be totally devastated, as the technology they have grown to depend on will suddenly fail them on January 1, 2000. It is thought by many that all of the technology that we ...
- 26552: Future O Internet
- ... in matters of seconds. Stockbrockers, autodealers, banks tellers, mail men, insurance and real estate agents will find themselves out of a job because the internet will illiminate the need for a midle man. Woman won't recieve anymore junkmail about hair implants and men will no longer get e-mails about feminin higenics products because of a massive collection of your likes and dislikes will allow only relevant content to reach ... car, watch, fridge, video game consol and television. Imagine having accecess to 100,000 diffrent tv channels with no need for a vcr because evrything is at your finger tips an entire catalog of gilligan's island episodes or the I love lucy collection. Entertainment will be brought to you from the internet. You want to play the new quake XII no problem allow 3 seconds to download and your ready ...
- 26553: Improving Education
- ... excuse for nonattendance. Attendance incentives are also given in the form of daily snacks and a pizza party at the completion of the program. Funding is provided by a grant from the Texas Education Agency's Optional Extended Year Program. School districts must meet the following criteria to receive grant funds. - School districts in which at least 35 percent of the children are from economically disadvantaged families in kindergarten through Grade 8. - Ten percent (10%) of the district's at-risk student population in kindergarten through Grade 8 as reported to PEIMS will be used for determining the district's tentative entitlement. - A per capita amount will be determined by dividing the total 10 percent at-risk population kindergarten though Grade 8 of the eligible school districts into the total Optional Extended Year Program ...
- 26554: So, How Does It Work? The Wankel Rotary Engine
- ... and Ports A Rotary Combustion Engine (RCE) as invented by Felix Wankel and developed with Walter Froede of NSU differs from a Piston Engine in four fundamental ways: The RCE Rotor supercedes the piston engine's piston. The RCE Eccentric Shaft [gloss] supercedes the piston engine's crankshaft and connecting rods. The RCE Peripheral Housing [gloss] supercedes the piston engine's cylinder. Intake and Exhaust Ports [gloss] in the housings eliminate valves, camshafts, cams, lifter rods, and timing belts. See also porting. The RCE has considerable advantages over the conventional piston engine. The RCE Rotor ...
- 26555: Francios Rabelias
- ... but it is believed there is more. " Below I have listed a believed chronology of Rabelias, it may have inaccurate due the lack of information on Rabelias. "1494 Now the Generally accepted date of Rabelias’s birth, although at times it has been published back as far as 1483. Born at La Deviniere, a family property near Chinon, where his father, Antoino Rabelias, was a lawyer. " "1511 Possibly date for his ... and then departs for Paris with the Cardinal who is in charge of fortifying the capital against Charles V. " "1537 Receives MD at Montpellier. Dissects the body of a hanged man. " "1538 Death of Rabelais’s son, Theodulus, at the age of two. " "1540 Rabelais goes to Turin with Guillaume du Belay, the Cardinals eldest brother. " "1542 December--returns to France with Guillaume du Bellay who will die before reaching his ... reasons for hiding their opinions, but these are the most likely. In Gargantuan and Pantaguel, Gargantua and his son are giants with enormous appetites. Besides the humor the story has a point. The story Gargantua’s education is a symbol for the educational methods of his time. What is wrong with our society? We have to hide our opinions within stories because we fear persecution. Rabelias and many other writers ...
- 26556: Development Of The West Beyond The Mississippi
- ... get its people to settle these lands so they would actually be worth having. Realistically, it is great to have a lot of land, but if the land is unpopulated and undeveloped, it really isn't worth much. And the government of the United States knew this. One of the reasons that many did not choose to settle there immediately was that the lands were quite simply in the middle of ... The Homestead Act actually went as far as offering tracks of land as large as 160 acres for as little as ten dollars. The Wyoming Territory actually went as far as passing laws allowing women's suffrage and property rights to encourage settlers. This would seem like a step forward in human rights. In actuality, this was a terrible periods for civil rights for a certain ethnic group: the Indians. President ...
- 26557: Frank Liszt
- ... in Rome, writing religious works taking minor orders in 1865; from 1870 he traveled regularly between Rome, Weimar and Budapest. He remained active as a teacher and performer to the end of his life. Liszt's personality appears contradictory in its combination of romantic abstraction and otherworldliness with a cynical diabolism and elegant, worldly manners. But though he had a restless intellect, he also was ceaselessly creative, seeking the new in ... works especially contain tonal dashes arising from independent contrapuntal strands, chords built from 4ths or 5ths, and a strikingly advanced chromatics, in non harmonic tones. Piano works naturally make up the greater part of Liszt's output: they range from the brilliant early studies and lyric nature pieces of the first set of Annees de pèlerinage to the dramatic and logical b Minor Sonata, a masterpiece of 19th-century piano literature ... three-movement Faust Symphonie too, with its vivid character studies of Faust, Gretchen and Mephistopheles, relies on technical artifice (especially thematic transformation) more than musical narrative to convey its message; it is often considered Liszt's supreme masterpiece. Although he failed in his aim to revolutionize liturgical music, Liszt did create in his psalm settings, Missa solemnis and the oratorio Christus some intensely dramatic and moving choral music, successful in ...
- 26558: Copernicus
- ... everything is related to math, and Copernicus used his knowledge of mathematics to provide the human kind with an important discovery. Only a small amount of people are interested in Copernicus' work. If it wasn't for Copernicus' love of scientific truth, the people would not know that the Earth spins around the Sun, and not the other way around. That's way we should live with the knowledge that someone spent 30 years researching and finding the truth, and that man was Nicolaus Copernicus.
- 26559: Genetic Engineering
- ... the future. They also feel somatic therapy should be used on individuals who are certain to die or become paralyzed from their genetic default. It should not be allowed to perfect or alter an individual’s makeup or offspring. The biggest type of genetic engineering used today is gene engineering is the manufacturing of pharmaceuticals. Insulin, a pancreatic substance that is responsible for the breakdown of glucose, is a hormone which ... several proteins are being studied and tested nation wide. Another advancement in medicine, which is, nothing less than astounding is vitro fertilization or the fusion of the sperm cell and the ovum outside the woman’s body. “In vitro fertilization is a useful tool for morphological and biochemical studies of sperm penetration of ova, of polspermy, and other abnormalities of fertilization” (Lipken and Rowley 18). These are just a few of many miracles that gene engineering has made possible to save a person’s life. Whether you use gene engineering for agricultural use or medical application, you must always realize that you are still altering and changing human nature. Sometimes the change is for the betterment of society ...
- 26560: Abraham Lincoln 2
- ... and married her November 4, 1842. Their first son Robert Todd was born. Mary and Abraham bought a home in Springfield. A second son Edward Baker was born 1846. Lincoln was nominated for the U.S. Congress and elected to the house of Representatives. He moves the family to Washington D.C. into a boarding house. Lincoln left politics to practice law moving back to Springfield in 1849. He resumes his ... He gains a reputation as an outstanding lawyer. He does not re-enter politics until 1854 opposing the Kansas-Nebraska Act. He is elected to the legislature but declines the seat to try for U.S. Senator. After his defeat for Senator, he helps organize the new Republican Party he gained national attention at the convention receiving enough votes to gain him the vice-presidential nomination for the presidential candidate John ... and his wife Mary along with guest Major Rathbone and Miss Harris are at Fords Theater to see the comedy "Our American Cousin". A muffled shot is heard. John Wilks Booth hurtled from the President's box and landed on the stage, breaking his leg. Booth shot the President in the back of the head. The bullet entered the left side and lodged near the right eye. Lincoln slumped toward ...
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