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- 27791: Future Of Radio And The Internet
- ... was two ways. With the Internet, there is no broadcaster or receiver and you can easily talk back to the content providers, or become one. The only downside to the Internet is availability; in today's world, Internet content is about as accessible as radio content was in its early days. The Internet and its content are largely available through a large, ungainly box, usually in the corner of the living ... benefit both the listener and the broadcaster; the listener would always be listening to the kind of programming they enjoy, and the broadcaster would be able to customize the advertising message to each user. Today's broadcasters need to become collectors of information about the listeners and act as a source for the listener to tap into whenever they wish. The consumer is then no longer confined to the content that ...
- 27792: Parental Pressure within High School Students
- ... could be by the fault of the parent or the child. This means that either the child provokes the parent by doing badly in school, or the parents do not become satisfied with the child's achievement and takes over their lives. When the parents concentrate on grades alone, they become like a dictator and not a friend. They do not care about anything else such as social problems and sports ... feels lonely and ends up having to practice growing up and being an adult by herself because his/her parents do not care (Webb pg.26). Sometimes parents get so caught up with their child's grades that they always check over their homework when all they are doing is doing it for them. The teachers notice this and punish the student and not the parent (Gaillard). Klagsbrun(1976) states, Suicidal ...
- 27793: The Egyptian and Mesopotamian Empires
- ... study of the Dynastic period of Egyptian history, between the first dynasty and the Ptolemaic period, relies on the Aegyptiaca of Manetho, a Ptolemaic priest of the 3rd centry b.c., who organized the country's into 30 dynasties, roughly corresponding to families. General agreement exists on the division of Egyptian history, up to the conquest of Alexander the Great, into Old, Middle, and New kingdoms with intermediate periods , followed by ... the Shatt al Arab. The river valleys and plains of Mesopotamia are open to attack from the rivers, the northern and eastern hills, and the Arabian Desert and the Syrian steppe to the west. Mesopotamia's richness always attracted its poorer neighbors, and its history is a pattern of infiltration and invasion. Rain fall is scarce in most of the region, but when irrigated by canals the fertile soil yield heavy ...
- 27794: Confucianism
- ... a society. Although, at first glance most people do not realize the drastic effects religion has on a culture. It can have a major impact on the stability and growth of the economy, the people's family, and social lives. In the following essay, I will illustrate how Confucianism, Buddhism, Islamic, Judaism, and Christianity influenced different societies. Confucianism is a moral and religious system in China. It was a system of ... lot of dedication. It is not like Christianity, where a person goes once a week to church and does not have to worry about it till next Sunday. Islam is the center of a Muslim's life. The family revolves around this religion. Women in this society are in a second class and have no power. Men dominate like in most strict religious cultures. The husband can divorce his wife only ...
- 27795: A Comparison Of Three Abolitio
- ... different because he is the only caucasian one out of the three. Equiano was sold for slavery out of Nigeria at the age of twelve. His sister was also taken at the same time. Equiano's name was changed as he went through American masters. One name that he was given was Gustavus Vassa. He later used this name in the title of his book: "Equiano's Travels: The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavas Vassa the African." In this book he tells of the terrible ordeals that he endures while he is on the slave ship. In ...
- 27796: Bruce Lee
- ... things that I've read and seen about Lee, I think that he was the type of person that would never give up. He could get beat and come back for revenge, but there weren't many times that he was defeated. He was also a very inspiring person to many people. He taught that mental actions overcome physical ones, that people should only result to fighting when it was the last option, and that a person shouldn't determine the outcome of a fight before it starts because underestimation could lead to defeat. Bruce also had clever methods of thinking and different ways to put his thoughts into action. He was nicknamed "Dragon ...
- 27797: Barbituates
- ... Saint Barbara. So he took the name Barbara and combined it with the chemical that mostly made up this new acid and came out with barbituric acid. In 1912, two German scientists used von Baeyers acid to synthesize a new drug, barbitol. What they were looking for was a drug that would combat the effects of anxiety and nervousness. They were successful but the side effects were too great. Barbiturates are drugs that cause depression of the central nervous system and are generally used to induce europhia. D.C. Heaths Perspectives on HEALTH defines europhia as a feeling of intense happiness and well being. Most users take the pills orally, often with alcohol. The most common way to get the barbiturates is in tablet form ...
- 27798: Geology Fo Mars
- ... Tharsis, the immense pressure produced by the volcano cause radial garbens. Tharsis causes faulting along the entire area affected by it but also the entire planet. The faults produced by Tharsis travel along the planet's surface producing canyons. These canyons eventually meet up with each other and make the massive canyon mentioned earlier. This canyon also has its own type of faulting. There are sheer cliffs that drop down several ... ice in deep canyons but it is assumed that there is deposits of ice at the extreme lows. Mars is still geologically a mystery to us. It has features that are very similar to Earth s, but there are some that are unique to Mars. We cannot start to understand the complexity of mars geology until we can actually land there. Then the red planet will start to revel it secrets ...
- 27799: The Baroque Era
- ... find a better climate, they met their deaths. Most historians think the first telescope was made in 1608 by a Dutch optitrcian named Hans Lippershey. Before this time, even as far back as the 1200s, scientists experimented with magnifying lenses. Lippershey was refused a patent for his instrument. After hearing of Lippersheys invention, Galileo, the Italian astronomer, in 1609 built his first telescope. His most powerful instrument magnified objects on thirty-three times. In 1619 the southern colonies divided their land into several plantations. Slaves were needed ...
- 27800: Forest People
- Forest People Reaction Paper Turnbull's entrance into the Ituri forest was shunned by the villagers but not by the BaMbuti. When Turnbull first visited the BaMbuti, they accepted him because they knew that he would bring plenty of tobacco, palm ... adhering to their customs. Some of the BaMbuti also tried to domesticate by creating plantations in the forest, like the "animals" of the village. This completely went against the economic production element of the BaMbuti's ecological base. They were strictly a hunter-gatherer society with the occasional trading for other goods, not pastoralists or horticulturists. Because the BaMbuti strayed from the path of their ancestors, the forest grew angry and ...
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