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- 4201: Capitalism In America
- ... what is the reality behind this capitalist thinking? In the past, working people in America have had more opportunity to go into business or to get land for farming than anywhere else in the developed world. At the time the U.S. Constitution was written, it was generally assumed that only property owners should have the right to vote and participate in government. The "Free Labor" thinking of the Republican Party before the Civil War was basically a form of the capitalist work ethic. It meant that if 1) you were free yourself; 2) your country was "free"; and, 3) there was no slave labor to take your livelihood, you ... them to believe) that the poverty and economic decline of the South were probably due to laziness and that this indicated that the North should be able to easily defeat the South. But the Civil War proved that Southerners were not "lazy;" it was the slave system (lacking science and industry) that caused many of the economic problems there. The capitalist "work-ethic" also caused Northerners to overlook the only ...
- 4202: The Character of Macbeth
- ... Macbeth is tempted by two sources of external evil - the witches and his wife, but he was already ambitious, and they only increased this by making his ambitions seem like they could be reality. The war hero becomes a murderer and then dies a shameful and violent death. Shakespeare creates an atmosphere of evil and darkness mainly through his language, although scenes containing violent actions or the witches are often played ... so evil is brought to mind. Macbeth is connected with the supernatural in the audience's mind from the onset. This is the first thing that is not consistent with Macbeth's image of a war hero. In an aside later on in Act 1:3, Macbeth reveals that he is thinking of killing Duncan. Asides are very important because they give the audience an insight into the character's mind ... blooded murderer, who would have no such scruples. However, his language becomes more and more to do with evil as is shown by a large part of his soliloquy - ‘Now o'er the one half-world Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse the curtained sleep. Witchcraft celebrates pale Hecate's off'rings, and withered murderer alarumed by his sentinel, the wolf, whose howl's his watch, thus with his ...
- 4203: Landmines
- ... recognize no cease-fire and long after the fighting has stopped they continue to maim or kill. Mines also render large tracts of agricultural land unusable, wreaking environmental and economic devastation. Refugees returning to their war-ravaged countries face this life-threatening obstacle to rebuilding their lives. Leading producers and exporters of antipersonnel mines in the past 25 years include China, Italy, the former Soviet Union, and the United States. More ... delivered mines. These are mines that are usually disseminated from an aircraft, making an accurate mapping, recording, and marking of these mines impossible. There are indeed efforts to demine the landmines, which are scattered around war torn regions. But the means to demine them have remained primitive at best. Demining technology has not caught up with the advances in mine manufacturing technology but a number of processes are now being developed ... to survive. If these two superpowers have signed the treaty, then the treaty would gain more leverage in influencing other belligerent states to do so. The goal of totally obliterating all the landmines in the world is certainly far. But, if the world states stop producing and distributing their landmines and start destroying whatever they have instead, then the poor people who have nowhere to go to other than their ...
- 4204: Allama Muhammad Iqbal
- ... mind for whose expression I use the medium of poetry considering the condition and the customs of this country." (translated from the original in Urdu; Maktoobat, Volume I, page195) Iqbal's contribution to the Muslim world as one of the greatest thinkers of Islam remains unparalleled. In his writings, he addressed and exhorted people, particularly the youth, to stand up and boldly face life's challenges. The central theme and main ... require a universal approach to the solution. Iqbal's universal message is an attempt to address this challenge faced by humanity. Through his travels and personal communications, Allama Iqbal found that the Muslims throughout the world had detached themselves from the Qur'an as a guiding principle and a living force. After the disaster following the Balkan War of 1912, the fall of the caliphate in Turkey, and many anti-Muslim incessant provocations and actions against Muslims in India (1924-27) and elsewhere by the intellectuals and so called secular minded leaders, ...
- 4205: Gandhi
- Mohunduras Ghandi: His Vital Role in India's Independence Mohunduras Ghandi was a man that the world thought could never exist. He believed strongly in all things that were good, and to him, there were no two ways about it. Leading the Indian people spiritually and morally, he inspired them to fight ... the Indian Congress Leaders that Britain actually wanted to give over control to the Indians. A lot of questions remained such as why the change now? Also, since Britain was just starting to recover from World War II, would this issue just be pushed aside until their own affairs are looked after? Ghandi was hopeful yet a bit sceptical.(Attenborough) "Those of us who had been hammering on the doors of ...
- 4206: Gullivers Travels and Robinson Crusoe: Characters Resemble Trained Soldiers
- ... Throughout this period the Catholic Church was fighting back against the effects of the Renaissance. The people of the Renaissance society started to question their beliefs in the church and tried to rationally explain the world around them. Several crusades were fought throughout this period and in the end England and France became "Christianized." Robinson Crusoe was published during the Baroque Era and it contained a great amount of Catholicism. Crusoe ... would give the owner of the foot print an idea that he lives on the island. Crusoe becomes totally enraged with the thought of another human on the island that he prepares his house for war by surrounding it by an impenetrable fence, arming all his weapons and is ready to kill anyone that comes near his sacred home, grain, and animals. His condition is now evident: the strengths of his ... small country holder poses the drive for adventure and the quality of a mentally sound individual. In Lilliput, he shows himself to be good-natured and gentle with the tiny people. Gulliver assists in the war against Blefuscu by not injuring his "enemies." But deprives them of their weapons which inflict damage. By doing so he immediately shows his noble generosity and respect for the liberty of others by refusing ...
- 4207: Robert Penn Warren
- ... as a poet were probably his Kentucky boyhood, and his relationships with his father and his maternal grandfather. As a boy, Warren spent many hours on his grandfather's farm, absorbing stories of the Civil War and the local tobacco wars between growers and wholesalers, the subject of his first novel, Night Riders. His grandfather, Thomas Gabriel Penn, had been a calvary officer in the Civil War and was well-read in both military history and poetry, which he sometimes recited for Robert. Robert's father was a banker who had once had aspirations to become a lawyer and a poet. Because ... received many honors including a Pulitzer Prize for the fiction All the King's Men, 1946: This novel illustrating a powerful Southern governor resembling the Louisiana politician Huey P. Long. . He also produced his complex World Enough and Time, based on the Kentucky hanging of Jeremiah Beauchamp for murder in 1826. The research he done for this book was done at the Library of Congress during the time he was ...
- 4208: Stealth Technology
- ... addition to it's flatplate surfaces, the F-117 also incorporates an external covering of radar absorbent material, making it even more difficult to spot on radar. The F-117 proved itself during the Gulf War in the Middle East. During combat over Iraq, not one F-117 was lost or even hit to the intense anti-aircraft defences. Equally important, the F-117 was found to have an extraordinary accurate ... With its parallel edge shaping, it buried exhaust, its use of radar absorbent materials, and it's use of internal bulk radar absorbers, the B-2 is currently the most advanced stealth aircraft in the world. The Northrop B-2 Spirit Northrop's B-2 bomber illustrates the latest in "stealth" technology and has a very low radar cross section, making it all but invisible to radar energy. With a small front area, advanced construction techniques and materials, and the latest in electric countermeasures, the B-2 is almost induitably the world's most difficult radar target. It can carry thermonuclear weapons over long distances and was built to attack intercontinental strategic targets. The high cost of the bomber and the brake up of its former ...
- 4209: Freedom In America
- No other democratic society in the world permits personal freedoms to the degree of the United States of America. Within the last sixty years, American courts, especially the Supreme Court, have developed a set of legal doctrines that thoroughly protect all forms ... for the first time. He depicts how people of all backgrounds worked together for one cause: freedom. I selected Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 as a fictitious example of the evils of censorship in a world that is becoming illiterate. In this book, the government convinces the public that book reading is evil because it spreads harmful opinions and agitates people against the government. The vast majority of people accept this ... was the strongest objection to the ratification of the Constitution. Less than a decade after the Bill of Rights had been adopted it met its first serious challenge. In 1798, there was a threat of war with France and thousands of French refugees were living in the United States. Many radicals supported the French cause and were considered "incompatible with social order." This hysteria led Congress to enact several alien ...
- 4210: History Of Islam
- ... qualifying successor, Ali fitted the bill exactly. His supporters and himself wanted to establish a bloodline Caliphate, leading directly from Mohammed himself. However, Ali's succession did not heal the diversity entrenched in the Moslem world. The Arabs regarded Ali as someone who profited from murder of one of their own. He had much difficulties in exerting control over the Moslems due to primarily their resentment towards him as a leader.Not only did Ali failed to bring the Moslems into unity, he diversified them even further by inciting a Civil War between himself and Muawiya. In 656, Muawiya (Governor of Syria) diverted his soldiers away from the front with the Byzantines and marched towards Medina. This thus resulted in Ali leading his troops out of Medina causing Medina to lose it place of being the capital of Islam to Kufa which is a more central position than Medina. This civil war also marked the first open case of warfare by Moslem on Moslem. Muawiya was not the only enemies of Ali, Aisha and two other rebels were too against Ali's rule. Muawiya opposed to ...
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