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- 27491: China
- ... Within these 11 categories, there are 3 main parts that contain the most significant inventions. Robert Temple concentrates the bulk of his examples in these three categories, agriculture, domestic and industrial technology , and engineering. Temples examples were not limited to these fields of innovation. The Chinese excelled in many other areas, including mathematics, warfare and transportation, to name a few. Although Temple wrote about eleven fields of invention, I feel ... was also used for military body armor. The Chinese found out that pleated sheets of paper could stop the penetration of arrows. The paper armor was standard issue with Chinese land and sea units. Papers writing property was not discovered till about one century after its discovery. The earliest example of writing on paper was found an abandon military post. The paper found dates back to 110 AD and contained ...
- 27492: The Boston Massacre
- ... the Revolutionary War. Many important events led up to the massacre. It was called a massacre by the use of propaganda. It mainly started by the British trying to enforce laws. The Boston Massacre wasn't really a massacre, but more like a riot. In fact only five people died. British Soldiers were sent to America to enforce the Proclamation and to maintain order but their presence just made matter worse ... turn something small into something big. The British soldiers were accused of Murder and manslaughter. To represent them was John Adams, a relative of Samuel Adams. Adams wanted the trial to get over and didn't want the truth to come out. The Boston Massacre and misleading visual representation by Paul Revere could have been one cause of a later war. The Boston Massacre increased the hatred between the Americans and ...
- 27493: The Modified Market Economy
- ... may limit the number of choices available to the consumer. Competitive prices that come from businesses are also good for the economy in general, for example if an Australian owned company, such as Uncle Toby's, can provide the same food as an American owned company at a competitive price, then consumers will tend to buy from the Australian company which keeps more our money in our country. Basically, the government ... to benefit our economy as a whole, to help even the distribution of income, to provide resource to help satisfy our unending collective wants. It is all done in an effort to make our country's economy as efficient and all round satisfying, as possible. To make our country a prosperous and enjoyable place to live.
- 27494: Madame Bovary 6
- ... because she thought that it would come along with new and exciting experiences. Once she had the child, it was not a boy, she quickly lost all interest in the child. An example of Emma s fluctuation of moods is after Leon left (part II, chapter 6). Once he left to deem herself form the lack of love toward her husband, she became the model wife. Emma went from constantly thinking ... cries and yells frantically for the servant girl. As if she actually cares for the child and pretends that the child did it herself. This instance and the one before, both show how unstable Emma s emotions are and contribute to her suicide. Flaubert, the author, exposes Emma romantic nature at Charles and Emma wedding when she tells Charles that she would have rather had the wedding by torchlight. That statement ...
- 27495: Code of Professional Ethics by American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
- ... it is imperative to associate the notion of independence with the objectivity and integrity. As part of the requirements by the Code of ethics, CPA should avoid any relationships that may result in the CPA's becoming dependent on the particular client. Such relationships include financial interests and client management. It is very important that the opinion of the CPA reflects the results of operating decisions taken by the client and ... and objectivity. The standards of independence require that the CPA does not subordinate his judgement on to that of the client keeping in mind that there are other CPAs who are knocking at his client's door. One of the other principles mentioned in the Code is the renunciation of promotional methods of the commercial world which increase the pressure on CPAs and will lead to conformity with the letter of ...
- 27496: Victims In Progress of Technology
- Victims In Progress of Technology Technologies' place in society has increased dramatically since the industrial revolution era. The public's view of technology has been one of positivism, meaning that science(technology) leads to progress and that progress, in return, is positive. Those countries which enjoy such technologies have formed ethnocentric ideals about themselves, which ... must be conserved properly. Tribal societies are a shining example of how to manage these resources, because they only use and eat what they need without wasting valuable resources. To demonstrate let us examine Bodley's study of the Maori tribe. The Maori tribe, settled in New Zealand during the age of expansion, allowed and even aided settlers in colonizing on the island. As the number of white settlers grew, they ...
- 27497: Summary of Wuthering Heights
- ... adopted as a child, was loved by his father and scorned by his siblings. He plots a way to get them back in the most personal way. Not the hip flask, drunkard, the pocketbook...that's right Mr. Forbes, the wallet. He loved one person, only to see her taken. He married someone he did not love to get revenge. But in the end he lost out, winning nothing he had ... Isabella, whom he did not love, for reasons unbeknownst to me, other than to tick Edgar off. He plotted revenge on his brothers, and friends in order to get both Thrushcross Grange and the story's namesake Wuthering Heights. When Heathcliff died, I imagine that he was very sad that his plan did not work out. I'm sure he would have changed his ways if he knew the outcome. Or ...
- 27498: Does Plato Believe There Can Ever Be A Just Society?
- ... such thing as a truly unjust society a totally just society will never happen until people are willing to work for it. Another reason there can never be a perfectly just society is because everyone's perception of just is different. We know that the idea of justice is there, but to explain it to where everyone agrees to the idea would be hard to achieve. However, in trying to find ... no longer have greed, drive for a better life, it would not have poverty or wealth. The society would just stop. There would be no more invention, growth, or change. The only change from Plato's time to ours is technology. We are still searching for the perfect government, the question of who is better than who is still asked, and education is still a major principle to whether or not ...
- 27499: Aristotle On Art
- ... examples of that genre, eg, tragedy. The aim is to see what, eg, tragedies, have in common. Aristotle agrees with Plato that epic poetry, tragedy and comedy are essentially mimetic. But he decisively rejects Plato's view that mimesis in art consists in copying from life. According to Aristotle, mimetic poetry seeks to offer a convincing semblance of life. It seeks to be true to life without copying from it. Moreover ... the pleasure that is appropriate to tragedy, the plot itself must awaken fear and pity in the audience. In this way tragedy effects a healthy catharsis (purgation) of these emotions. Thus, Aristotle implicitly rejects Plato's view that the performance of a tragedy has a bad effect on the character of the audience.
- 27500: Charles Dickens
- ... came from what he observed around him. He was a keen observer of life and had a great understanding of human nature, particularly of young people. Dickens became a newspaper reporter in the late 1820 s. He covered debates in Parliament and wrote feature articles of the ever changing London scene. Dickens first publication was done under the pseudonym Boz in 1836. It consisted of articles he wrote for the Monthly ... his audiences and many friends with his public readings. Dickens collapsed during a reading tour. He died from a stroke in 1870 at the age of 58. Dickens was considered by many to be England s greatest novelist and a comic genius. He was a passionate humanitarian and radical. Throughout his life he attacked snobbery, privilege, injustice, and cruelty. Dickens won his first literary fame with The Posthumous Papers of the ...
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