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- 3111: The Way A Man Breaks The Bonds
- ... BOOM! The house is gone, the knowledge, contained within the walls, gone, all gone. Montag changed throughout this novel. Evil, futuristic technologies, as well as other events caused him to change. Montag wants a different world, and he sets out to get it. At first Montag was an average fireman. He was an average guy, in an average city, with an average wife. Montag thought: "It [is] a pleasure to burn, to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed. With the brass nozzle in [my] fists, with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene upon the world, the blood pounded in [my] head" (3) He thought all there is to life, is TV and burning books. He liked to speed around at upwards of 300 mph, just like everyone else, hoping to ... realized that TV isn't very interesting. He saw that the TV just feeds a bunch of mindless garbage to people. The TV drove him to change, but he didn't realize this about his world until he met a strange teenage girl. Clarisse McClellan is an "anti-social" teenager who loved to think. She thought about the world; she thought about people. She stopped to smell the flowers. One ...
- 3112: Oral Roberts
- ... that sermon he received invitations from eight states to come and evangelize. Oral resigned as pastor to face an uncertain future as an evangelist. Oral was one of the most influential religious leaders in the world. He is known for his leadership and publicity given to the Pentecostal and charismatic movements (Pentecostalism’s glamorous offspring) since WWII. Thanks to Oral the Pentecostal religion surged around the world in the decades after the war. In the 1980’s a Pentecostal spokesman claimed that fifty million people throughout the world had received the baptism of the Holy Spirit. It was predicted that by the end of the century half ...
- 3113: Decriminalization vs. Prohibition
- ... trying them, because once a person starts, they can't stop. It was a few years later that I heard the other side of the story. I learned that not only were we losing the war on drugs, but that the war had been corrupted. The government was wasting money on something without a cause, or hope. It wasn't long after that when I tried marijuana for the first time. I remember it well. I was ... only person that I couldn't say no to. I took a hit. Within fifteen minutes, I felt the most exquisite feeling I had ever experienced. I felt as though I was in a different world. It was at this moment that I knew things would be different for me, but I was still unsure about it, because I had heard of the dangers of drug use. I decided to ...
- 3114: The Great Gatsby
- ... easily be found among both the established rich people of East Egg and the newly rich residents of West Egg. The people of East Egg, such as Tom and Daisy Buchanan, have developed in a world of money and hold an empty future of purposelessness encompassed by assets. On the other hand, the inhabitants of West Egg have worked their way up into the world of fortune, many dishonestly, but still hold the vulgarity they garner from their origin. The events that take place in East Egg promote conservatism and power; they are moderately low-key and quiet. Parties and ... Fitzgerald splendidly incorporates the truth behind the 1920s into his writing. Looking back upon the decade, a spirited vision of dancing and merriment emerges. The high-class American society was in a state of celebration; World War I had finally came to closure. When asked about the purpose of life, Daisy replied, “I don’t know, but it has to do with money and lots of it (p.96).” The ...
- 3115: The Evolution of the world
- The Evolution of the world The Greek geographers of the later Roman period developed systematic calculations for the mapping and shaping of the earth. However, what would come to replace these systematic calculations? Why were the ideologies of a flat ... was categorized by a complete silence where people in general, forgot about the issue of whether the earth was flat or whether it was a globe. Another reason that brought the theories of a globular world to rest was because the priests told the general public that the earth was flat. Priests such as St. Augustine and others invented the Antipode theory, which stated that a world shaped like a globe is impossible because objects would be hanging downwards and growing backwards. Once again, religion played a major part in this argument that would rage on for many years to come. ...
- 3116: The War Between The Classes
- By: Eric Downs E-mail: icepunk182@aol.com The War Between the Classes By (Your Name Here) The War Between the Classes is an excellent book written by Gloria D. Miklowitz. It is about a high-school class that plays the “Color Game”. In the game, there are four social classes which are represented ... almost at the bottom of the social classes, and is the same age as we will be in a few years. It shows what life when you’re older can really be like. Bibliography The War Between the Classes, Gloria D. Miklowitz Word Count: 490
- 3117: History of Computers
- ... Harvard Mark I to present day time. Although I have not gone over all of the models in my report, I have chosen those which I feel have had the greatest effect on the computer world. I will show how in just forty years, computers have come from complex, slow, room-sized machines, to the small and fast computers of today. These powerful machines are the art of many great men ... utilized the binary numbering system, regenerative memory, and digital arithmetic circuitry. These features are still found in modern day computers. In 1951 a machine called the Electronic Discrete Variable Computer, or EDVAC, entered the computer world. This machine was the creation of Von Neumann, Eckert, and Von Neumann then decided to go to Princeton’s Institute of Advanced Study (IAS) and help work on their project. The IAS group’s attention ... use cathode ray tubes to store memory, which made memory I/O faster. The first computer that allowed real-time control was the Whirlwind. The Whirlwind was designed to trail fighter pilots for the cold war in Russia. The Whirlwind was originally designed to be an analog computer, but it was decided that it would be digital, due to the large amounts of memory that would be required to be ...
- 3118: The Chosen 2
- Plot Summary of The Chosen The action of The Chosen unfolds in the immigrant community of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, against the backdrop of World War II. It is seen through the eyes of Reuven Malter, a boy who would appear to have much in common with Danny, for they are both brilliant, Jewish, closely tied to their fathers, and near ... are churning within him, Danny finds Reuven as an empathetic listener who is highly intelligent yet safe not a Hasid, but a Jew who follows orthodox religious traditions without rejecting the secular possibilities in the world around them. As the boys become friends, Reuven begins to learn about Hasidism. He learns that there are tzaddiks who were believed to be superhuman links between the people and God. In some sects ...
- 3119: The History Of Coca-Cola
- The Coca-Cola company started out as an insignificant one man business and over the last one hundred and ten years it has grown into one of the largest companies in the world. The first operator of the company was Dr. John Pemberton and the current operator is Roberto Goizueta. Without societies help, Coca-Cola could not have become over a 50 billion dollar business. Coca-Cola was ... Coca-Cola bell glass was made available. He started advertising on the radio in the 1930s and on the television in 1950. Currently Coca-Cola is advertised on over five hundred TV channels around the world. In 1931, he introduced the Coke Santa as a Christmas promotion and it caught on. Candler also introduced the twelve ounce Coke can in 1960. The Coca-Cola contour bottle was patented in 1977. The ... history of Coca-Cola, and many other elements(Oliver 131). The debut was accompanied by an advertising campaign that revived the Coca-Cola theme song of the early 1970s, "I'd Like to Buy the World a Coke"(Say it ain't so, Coke 24). The Jingle read like this: I'd like to teach the world to sing In perfect harmony. I'd like to buy the world a ...
- 3120: Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will: A Work of Art
- ... about the greatness of their time, emphasizing the role of young Germans who must lead to a strong and deadly nation. The film is effective is showing a strong German nation, on the brink of world domination by Hitler. Hitler is shown as descending into Nuremberg from the clouds, like a heavenly angel flying in with a message and a miracle. The German people were dejected and economically depressed from their defeat in World War I, thus Triumph of the Will’s impact as a Nazi propaganda film was furthered by Riefenstahl’s artistic ability. Riefenstahl’s personal film-making ambition and creativity not only lent credibility to the ...
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