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- 3181: Alexander The Great: A Life With A Meaning Like No Other
- ... A Meaning Like No Other Alexander the Great was a man with no equal along the history of mans existence. His military genius and master strategy, which allowed him to conquer most of the known world, were incomparable in the Ancient World. Alexander began to give meaning to his name "the Great", at the age of 20 and died at the age of 33. At the time of his death, he was the emperor of Greece, the ... a kingdom north of Greece called Macedon. In our days, no such country exists; however, at the time Macedon was a place of extreme importance, ruled by one of most powerful men in the Ancient World. This man was known as Philip of Macedon, and was no other than Alexander's father. Philip of Macedon had a great influence on his son's way of life, and one cannot begin ...
- 3182: Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev
- By: XTCgoddess Dmitri Mendeleev was one of the most famous modern-day scientists of all time who contributed greatly to the world’s fields of science, technology, and politics. He helped modernize the world and set it farther ahead into the future. Mendeleev also made studying chemistry easier, by creating a table with the elements and the atomic weights of them put in order by their properties. Dmitri Ivanovich ... who led a revolution in Russia in 1825.), so he spent most of his time teaching Dmitri the science of the day. From these people, Dmitri grew up with three key thoughts: “Everything in the world is science,” from Bessargin. “Everything in the world is art,” from Timofei the glass blower. “Everything in the world is love,” from Maria his mother. (Dictionary of Scientific Biography. p. 291.) As Dmitri grew ...
- 3183: Interpretation of Rushdie and Kazantzakis' Stories
- ... religious beliefs. The Satanic Verses featured the modern day society compressing the main characters with their positronic rules and restrictions. The Last Temptation of Christ focused on the feudalism exhibited by the oppressors of the world at the current time (Roman militia). Upon the climatic ending of each novel, I would effortlessly integrate the author's deluge of spiritual dynamism with my own. This produced an ethical conflict in my mind ... religion versus oppresive regime Therefore, in analyzing and interpreting each piece of fiction, I was able to understand what similarities they held and why such novels can procreate an undersirable amount of calamity in the world. The supernatural portrayed a dominant role in both texts. Each author seemed to enjoy casting these uncanny forces against their main characters in order to induce their thoughts across much more clearly. In the Satanic ... of what is noble without recourse to that old crutch" (Saladin remarking about his physical appearance). Having their physical status altered, they were unable to communicate on a humane level with other people in the world. It seemed as though their lack of faith and nobility to God had created an ethereal war between them and the supernatural spectrum. The angelic Gibreel was now only capable of exhibiting feelings of ...
- 3184: Fahrenheit 451 & Brave New Wor
- Fahrenheit 451 & Brave New World For more than half a century science fiction writers have thrilled and challenged readers with visions of the future and future worlds. These authors offered an insight into what they expected man, society, and life ... the dog, against man, changes the role of public servants and changes the value of a person. Aldous Huxley also uses the concept of society out of control in his science fiction novel Brave New World. Written late in his career, Brave New World also deals with man in a changed society. Huxley asks his readers to look at the role of science and literature in the future world, scared that it may be rendered useless and discarded. ...
- 3185: Civil War 9
- ... developments in social life and the constitution amounted to a revolution between 1860 and 1877. Some of the major events that took place during this time period were the secession of the southern states, Civil War, Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth amendment, and reconstruction. In 1860, South Carolina declared their causes of secession. South Carolina was the first state to secede, and their main reason was that their powers were restrained by ... which our government is sought to be overthrown." The blacks at this time were persistently struggling for their civil rights. They declared that they should have the privilege of voting because they fought in the war to preserve the union. In a petition, American citizens of African descent stated that " It (the government) can afford to trust him with a vote as safely as it trusted him with a bayonet." At ... to them by the government. They struggled for the right to purchase land. It seemed unfair to them that a person that was a former rebel could regain the land they owned before the civil war, yet the African Americans, who were good, loyal citizens of the United States still could not purchase a homestead. In 1863, Abraham Lincoln finalized the Emancipation Proclamation. The Proclamation was a very important document ...
- 3186: The Ideal American: Malcolm Little
- The Ideal American: Malcolm Little America is interesting. It captures the imagination and attention of the world but almost all of the attention it receives is negative. A gas guzzling, beer drinking, loud, and highly violent culture are some of the more common attributes dumped on America. It's the mass murders, militia standoffs, and government scandals that make the foreign press headlines. Asia feels were lazy and bloated with sucess. France thinks were un- cultured, and most of the third world views us as intrusionary bullies. Even the United Nations is beginning to despise our power. But not much changes in the way America is involved with the affairs of the rest of the world. We are despised but accepted. The rest of the world has no choice, they can't deny us because we are key to their survival and they know it. This dichotomy plays havoc with ...
- 3187: Israeli Arab Conflict
- ... They both have different reasons for wanting Palestine and there have been many conflicts and wars between the two groups. Arabs The Arabs have had the area of Palestine for about two thousand years. After World War One the League of Nations said that the Jews should have there own state. But after WWII the United Nations gave the Jews an area of Palestine known as Israel. Now the Arabs are thinking ... Arab nation launched an attack hoping to overthrow Israel. The next year Israel beat the Arab nations and got some of Arab Palestine, some of those places include West Jerusalem and 'Akko. The Six Day War in 1967 proved to be a good win for Israel after that war Israel controlled The Gaza Strip, Sinai Peninsula, All of Jerusalem, The West Bank, and the Golan Heights. "Following the war the ...
- 3188: Napoleon
- ... terms of social class. Prior to the French Revolution, France was bankrupt. Napoleon undertook vast financial reforms upon coming to power. The French currency was stabilized and was the most stable in Europe until after World War 1. In 1802, Napoleon was successful in achieving the balancing of the budget in France. Taxes came from reasonable sources taxes were raised on alcohol and tobacco. The major financial reform was Napoleon s establishment ... many achievements for Europe as well as for France. Napoleon replaced the old order with a contemporary, modern regime. In 1810, France s boundaries were extended beyond her modern boundaries. France was almost constantly at war between 1792 and 1814. These Napoleonic wars were supposed to free oppressed individuals throughout Europe. This was true of the wars with Austria and Prussia. France s boundaries extended when Napoleon went to war ...
- 3189: Canadian Manufacturing
- ... and diversified dramatically during WWII. There was swift growth in heavy industries (vehicles, aircraft, armaments, shipbuilding and steel) and spectacular development in aluminum, electrical apparatus, communications equipment, toolmaking and chemicals. By the end of the war, manufacturing directly employed over 1 million workers, more than 25% of the labour force. Postwar Developments Between 1945 and the 1980s, manufacturing has accounted for 22-24% of Canada's total real output of goods ... industry, which reached worldwide stature by the 1980s. Canadian manufacturers participated in the AEROSPACE INDUSTRY by designing and producing communication satellites and components for spacecraft and aircraft (see SPACE TECHNOLOGY). Energy The rapid rise in world oil prices in the 1970s had a stimulating effect on the development of Canada's rich energy resources, ie, oil, bitumen, gas, coal, hydro and uranium. Demand increased for machinery and equipment for exploring and ... in a usable form and distributing it. The increase permitted Canadian manufacturers to achieve internationally competitive scales of operation, and Canadian-manufactured machinery and equipment have been used in energy development and production throughout the world. Trade Four developments in trade policies and practices in this period affected Canadian manufacturers substantially: the Canada-US Autopact; the GENERAL AGREEMENT ON TARIFFS AND TRADE (GATT); the world competitive environment, particularly the emergence ...
- 3190: Human Cloning
- ... will fall into the wrong hands and be misused to create a catastrophe. These fears are based on the visions that one man will develop the “master race” of people in order to rule the world, as Hitler did with the Germans during WWII, cloning people those considered to be “perfect” to make our society better (Shapiro, p 196). This can be confirmed in a recent interview with an unnamed but ... and controversial issues facing our society today is the idea of cloning. On February 23, 1997, Ian Wilmut, a Scottish scientist, along with his colleagues at the Roslin Institute and PPL Therapeutics, announced to the world that they had cloned a lamb, which they had named Dolly, after Dolly Parton, from an adult sheep (Harris, p754). The two share the same nucleic DNA, but differ in terms of their mitochondrial DNA ... important for the regulation of the cell. The media and the press ignored this fact, and thus claimed that Dolly and her “mother” were genetically identical, which sparked a fury of outcry all around the world. The technique of transferring a nucleus from a somatic cell into an egg cell of which the nucleus had been removed, called nuclear transplantation, is an extension of research that had been ongoing for ...
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