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- 3821: Television 2
- ... seen by many people as a cruel invention, a boob-tube mesmerizing and brainwashing its viewers. People have forgotten TV is an educational and entertaining tool used in the everyday lives of people around the world. Without TV and its many advantages where would the world be at this very moment, certainly not in the information age that it is in now. The average person watches on average ten to fifteen hours of television during a week. This seems like an ... equipped with a cable system has a number of educational channels. For example, PBS, The Discovery Channel, The History Channel, The Food Channel, and even MTV are all educational channels. Documentaries, ranging from The Civil War to baseball to home repair are always airing on television. A person can learn things from television that they otherwise never would have even heard about. In other words television can be a great ...
- 3822: Luxembourg
- ... the mountainous region of Luxembourg. Bon Pays: French for "good land", it refers to the fertile farmland in the southern region of Luxembourg. Expressionist Painter: An artist that paints in a style made popular after World War I, in which the painting expresses emotion, instead of just showing a scene. Hereditary: Passed on to the offspring. Monarchy: A government run by a monarch, such as a king, queen or other ruler. BIBLIOGRAPHY Fodor's Belgium and Luxembourg. Ed. Richard Moore. New York: Fodor's Travel Publications, Inc., 1989. Hoffman, Mark S., Ed. World Almanac Book of Facts. New York: Random House, Inc., 1987. Johnson, Otto, et al., eds. Information Please Almanac Atlas and Yearbook. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1992. Lepthien, Emilie V., Luxembourg. Chicago: Children's Press, ...
- 3823: Animal Farm
- ... Orwell." He was a political writer of his time, and usually wrote from his intense feelings and fierce hates. He hated government having complete control, and served in the Loyalist forces in the Spanish Civil War. He contradicted himself in many ways. He was a socialist while hating communism and was a literary critic while distrusting intellectuals. He hated how the world was cruel and how lies were way of life. When he died in 1950 from a neglected lung ailment he left his work and ideas to us and we grow trying to fulfill his demands ... community of their own and different animals represented members of today's society. The pigs were the smartest and most innovative and so they played the part that government take's care of in our world, and along with government comes leaders, followers, crooks, and even the odd good honest politician. As unfortunate as it is these "honest politicians" don't last long and usually don't make it to ...
- 3824: Donald Trump
- ... of Frederick and Mary MacLeod Trump. Donald’s father Fred was a builder and real estate developer who specialized in building middle class homes in Queens, Staten Island, and Brooklyn for GI’s returning from World War II. The Trump family was very wealthy but despite their money, Fred Trump demanded his children’s success in school. Donald’s parents were always teaching them the value of money. Even though they did ... Trump Plaza. Trump’s empire expanded at a great pace. In the 1980's his net worth leaped from the millions to the billions and he was one of the most successful men in the world. Not all of Trumps purchases were successful. He did have ventures that fell apart. In the early 80's Donald purchased Eastern Airline, and renamed it Trump Air Lines. Also in the Latini 3 ...
- 3825: Animism V. Marxism
- ... after the death of Lenin. His opponents who always became his victims underestimated him, and he had one of the most ruthless, regimes in history. In was not till very many years later that the world found out about the many deaths that Stalin created in Russia during the Revolution. For almost 50 years DePalma - 4 the world thought that the Nazis had done the killing in Russia, when in fact it was Stalin. (Imse 2). The last characters that are symbolic of each other are the animal Snowball with the Russian leader ... In Russia the growth of factory and industry was very depressing but depended on the obligatory labor of serfs. "Russia hoped that by keeping the serfs working all the time and promising them a better world that they would not realize how bad their living conditions were. The DePalma - 5 Industrialists were pressing their own constitutional demands." (Clarkson 352). None of the social classes were fighting each other because there ...
- 3826: The Legalization of Marijuana for All Purposes
- ... and trafficking of drugs and various media awareness programs, the problem continues to get worse. The government is exercising many options to control the problem or even solve the problem. It seems as if the "war on drugs" is a futile war or at least next to impossible to win. The government should consider using different options than ones they have used in the past. The legalization of softer drugs like marijuana should be considered as one ... jails, and costs tax payers millions. If the government would legalize marijuana they could go after the more serious drugs like heroin and crack. The U.S. government spends over a billion dollars on its "war on drugs," when it could be making at least that much from legalizing and taxing it.18 The average price of marijuana is about $10 per gram. These prices of marijuana are extremely inflated ...
- 3827: Girls Of Slender Means
- ... There are many characters involved, but the one s who caught my attention the most are Jane Wright and Joanna Childe. They represent different aspects of ideas, lifestyles and, also, have different perspectives on the World of Books. Joanna Childe was the daughter of a country rector. She was very intelligent, had ...strong obscure emotions (8), and ...religious strength (165). She was very well build. Joanna Childe was large... (9), ... fair ... than most people s (35-36). Unlike Joanna, Jane ...was on the look-out for a husband,... (32) since she was only twenty two years old. Joanna s and Jane s occupations evolved around the world of books. However, they had different perspectives about it. Jane worked for a publisher and Joanna attended a school of drama to be a teacher of elocution. Jane thought of the publishing business as ...essentially ... changes. Jane, however, wanted to live, to survive. Despite her fatness, she wanted to be like everyone else. She wasn t afraid of her future. She knew that she can survive in the harsh, modern world no matter what. And, in fact, she did survived and became a women columnist later. In my opinion, Jane Wright and Joanna Childe were the most interesting characters in the book. Although they lived ...
- 3828: Adolf Hitler 2
- ... torn clothes which people gave to him out of pity. In 1913 Hitler moved from Vienna to Munich. Hitler's experience in Munich was as uncertain and miserable as it was in Vienna. When the war broke out in 1914 he volunteered for a Bavarian regiment, He was a good solider and for the first time he found some recognition and felt himself to be part of community. Over the years ... was due in part to his admired military leaders. In the eyes of Hitler the collapse of Germany was due to those dark forces that he had scene in Vienna - Marxists and Jews. After the war in 1918 Hitler returned to Munich and was employed by the army as a propaganda speaker to keep the military spirit alive in the disheartened and defeated German nation. In the course of new found ... personal bodyguard force, the Strumabteilung, also known as the SA or Storm troopers. In November 1923, a time of economic chaos, he lead an uprising, also known as a putsch, in Munich against the post war Weimar Republic, proclaiming himself chancellor of a new authoritarian regime. But do to the lack of military support the putsch collapsed. As the leader of the scheme, Hitler was sentenced to five years in ...
- 3829: The 411 On Copyright For Net P
- Introduction Wow - who owns all these pretty pictures? Net Photog's See me, feel me, touch me, pay me. Net Agencies Service with a click of a mouse. Net Publishers All is fair in love, war and publishing. Net Users Free ride! INTRODUCTION If Francesca were alive today she could track her lover's photos from his homepage instead of schlepping to the Piggly Wiggly to purchase the latest National Geographic. Even if you are stuck in Peoria,[1] the family can gather around the key board, open up your Happy Meals and view some of the Best Photography in the world. You want pictures? Boy do we have pictures, click onto the Photo Net Index for a inventory of photographers portfolios, galleries, and museums. Who owns the copyrights to all these cool Net photos? This paper ... provides a minimum of 25 years protection for photographic works and member states may provide additional protection.[21] Mr. Cinque presents the case for and against increasing global enforcement of copyright protections in the digital world and concludes that international enforcement is necessary to continue to encourage artists to share work on-line.[22] ECONOMIC INCENTIVES Mr. Cinque's view supports the widely held assumption that artists require broad copyrights ...
- 3830: Colin Powell
- ... military office, the Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff. While the Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff he "Played a role in planning and executing the invasion of Panama in 1989 and the Persian Gulf War (1991)."(Source 4, page 1) When Powell joined the United States Army in 1958 he was commissioned a second lieutenant [source 2 (biography page 1)]. He went to Infantry Officer Basic Course at Fort Benning ... of things but I will only list a few; they learned stuff like how to call artillery fire, how to fill out government forms, use a radio, maintain motor vehicles, and handle a prisoner of war. They did not learn any of this stuff in ROTC (source 1 pages 45, 46). Powell asked and received orders to go to both Airborne and Ranger schools. Airborne school was a bunch of punishing ... a speech and Dick Cheny made a speech about Powell's Chairmanship. Powell spoke about a painting in the pentagon. It showed a family praying in a church because the father had to go to war. It had an inscription from the prophet Isaiah that said ‘And the good Lord God asked: "Whom shall I send? Who will go for us?" And the reply came back: "Here I am send ...
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