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- 2341: Around the World In Eighty Days: Summary
- Around the World In Eighty Days: Summary The title of the novel, Around the World in Eighty Days, is pretty much self explanatory. An Englishman, Phileas Fogg, places a wager that he can circumnavigate the world in 80 days. The events that occur throughout the novel describe his journey around the world. Phileas Fogg, the protagonist, was a lonesome person who lived with his paid servant. Mr.Fogg was thought ...
- 2342: St. Augustin
- ... analysis of St. Augustine Confessions and Beowulf, it is clear that the two authors, St. Augustine and the poet respectively, differ on their views of death, which helps to paint a better picture of the world that each writer lived in. In Augustine s writings, death plays a major role in life; it serves as the stepping stone to a greater existence in heaven. In Augustine s world, Christianity and God both play an important role in how death is viewed. In the poets writings we see a different perspective, one in which the time you spend on earth is of great importance ... to heaven; contingent of course on the fact that you were a Christian. Yet in a moment, before we had reached the end of the first year of a friendship .you took him from this world (Confessions, 75). When all hope of saving him was lost, he was baptized as he lay unconscious (Confessions, 75). This passage about St. Augustine s friend helps to illustrate that as death drew near ...
- 2343: An Insight Into Virtual Reality
- An Insight Into Virtual Reality Virtual Reality is a creation of a highly interactive computer based multimedia environment in which the user becomes a participant with the computer in a "virtually real" world We are living in an era characterized by 3D virtual systems created by computer graphics. In the concept called Virtual Reality (VR), the virtual reality engineer is combining computer, video, image-processing, and sensor technologies ... while experiencing the "feel" of the object. The virtual reality line includes the Datasuit and the Eyephone. The Datasuit is an instrumented full-body garment that enables full-body interaction with a computer constructed virtual world. In one use, this product is worn by film actors to give realistic movement to animated characters in computer generated special effects. The Eyephone is a head mounted stereo display that shows a computer made virtual world in full color and 3D. The Eyephone technology is based on an experimental Virtual Interface Environment Workstation (VIEW) design. VIEW is a head-mounted stereoscopic display system with two 3.9 inch television screens, ...
- 2344: Global Stratification- A Socio
- By: James Cory E-mail: captainobvious@rocketmail.com The industrialization and technology of the worlds higher income nations has a negative effect on the plight of the worlds poorer nations. The high-income nations industrialization encourages child labor, poor living conditions in exchange for material things, and higher world pollution. When the higher income nations became industrialized in the 1800s, the lower income nations were slow to catch up. Now, the low and middle-income countries are trying to catch up to ...
- 2345: The Civil War
- For minorities, as for other Americans, the Civil War was an opportunity to prove their valor and loyalty. Among the first mustered into the Union Army were a De Kalb regiment of German American clerks, the Garibakdi Guards made up of Italian Americans, a ... and hundreds of Irish American youths form Boston and New York. But in Ohio and Washington, D.C., African American volunteers were turned away from recruiting stations and told, "This is a white man's war." Some citizens questioned the loyalty of immigrants who lived in crowded city tenements until an Italian American from Brooklyn turned that around. In the New York Senate, Democrat Francis Spinola had been a vigorous foe ... Newburn, North Carolina. With bullets whizzing past him, he saved wounded men and rescued the U.S. flag. As 1865 came on, the feel of victory was in the Northern air. And so the Civil War was over. Yet even the ending of the war did not bring real peace. On Good Friday, April 14, 11 days after Union troops had entered Richmond, an actor named John Wilkes Booth assassinated ...
- 2346: Computers And Marketing
- ... formula for success becomes more difficult. Two particular things have greatly aided companies in their quests to accomplish these goals. They are the innovative software products of CAD/CAM and, last but not least, the World Wide Web. An important program has aided companies all over the world. Computer- aided design and computer-aided manufacturing (CAD/CAM) is the integration of two technologies. It has often been called the new industrial revolution. In CAD, engineers and designers use specialized computer software to create ... than making connections with other people. What if you could passout your business card to thousands, maybe millions of potential clients and partners? You can, twenty four hours a day, inexpensively and simply on the World Wide Web. Firms communicate with their customers through various types of media. This media usually follows passive one-to-many communication where a firm reaches many current and potential customers through marketing efforts that ...
- 2347: Privateers
- ... force behind almost all of their expeditions, and a successful privateer could easily become quite wealthy. In times of peace, these men would be common pirates, pariahs of the maritime community. Commissioned in times of war, they were respected entrepreneurs, serving their purses and their country, if only incidentally the latter. However vulgar their motivation, the system of privateering arose because it provided a valuable service to the country, and indeed the Ame rican Revolution might not have been won without their involvement. Many scholars agree that all war begins for economic reasons, and the privateers of the war for independence contributed by attacking the commercial livelihood of Great Britain's merchants. It is ironic that the entire notion of privateering began in Great Britain. In 1649 a frigate named Constant-Warwick was ...
- 2348: Descartes 2
- ... that he does, it is helpful to gain an understanding of the intellectual background of the 17th century that provided the motivation for his work. We can discern three distinct influences on Descartes, three conflicting world-views that fought for prominence in his day. The first was what remained of the mediaeval scholastic philosophy, largely based on Aristotelian science and Christian theology. Descartes had been taught according to this outlook during ... time at the Jesuit college La Flech_ and it had an important influence on his work, as we shall see later. The second was the scepticism that had made a sudden impact on the intellectual world, mainly as a reaction to the scholastic outlook. This scepticism was strongly influenced by the work of the Pyrrhonians as handed down from antiquity by Sextus Empiricus, which claimed that, as there is never a ... was the best way to discover what is certain: by applying sceptical doubt to all our beliefs, we can discover which of them are indubitable, and thus form an adequate foundation for knowledge. The third world-view resulted largely from the work of the new scientists; Galileo, Copernicus, Bacon et al. Science had finally begun to assert itself and shake off its dated Aristotelian prejudices. Coherent theories about the world ...
- 2349: The Catcher in the Rye: Holden's Fall From Innocence
- ... Rye, Holden Caulfield goes through a fall from his innocence throughout his journey to his safe haven, home. The book, The Catcher in the Rye, tells of Holden Caulfield's insight about life and the world around him. Holden shares many of his opinions about people and leads the reader on a 5 day visit into his mind. Holden, throughout the book, made other people feel inferior to his own. I ... you." (p.37). He is also always placing labels upon people as being "phonies" which gives the reader the idea that Holden thinks that others are materialistic. Holdens attempts to protect the innocence in the world is another early sign of his deteriorating state. When Holden goes to Pheobe's school to deliver his note he sees some swearing of the wall which he says "drove me damn near crazy" (p ... sand' mentality, a deliberate ignorance of the emptiness that can characterize human existence? And if so, when Caulfield begins to probe and investigate his own sense of emptiness and isolation, before finally declaring that he world is full of 'phonies' with each one out for their own phony gain, is Holden actually the one who is going insane, or is it society which has lost it's mind for failing ...
- 2350: Appalacian Regional Commission & Poverty In Appalachia
- ... nation moved from an industrial based economy with low education and low skill jobs, to communication and information based industries. Technology changes in the coal industry and the loss of manufacturing jobs to the Third World caused a restructuring of the nature of employment and income within Appalachia, and left many rural communities with neither the physical infrastructure or human capital to make the transition. For example the coal industry reduced ... improve education in Appalachia. They will also provide training to cover Internet skills. The goal is to prepare Americans students for the twenty-first century. The Internet can help link Appalachian schools to the world beyond the region. This was possible thanks to the donation of 1,500 Internet boxes by Zilog, and each school receives a 27 inch television. Since 1965, the ARC has funded nearly $600 million in ... level; heightened awareness of the health risks associated with the use of tobacco; declining levels of domestic tobacco content in United States manufactured cigarettes; and the increasing abundance of high quality burley tobacco on the world market.(Smith-Mello,p.47) And based on these trends tobacco experts expect that the states basic burley quota could decline by as much as 40 percent over the next 10 years. The impact ...
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