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- 5881: Italy
- Italy Italy is most likely known for its rich cultural heritage and its unique natural beauty. Its cities have spectacular churches and beautiful central plazas. Their museums contain some of the world's best-known art. Italy got its name from the ancient Romans. Romans called the southernmost part of the peninsula Italia, which means land of oxen or grazing land. Italy's landscape is dominated by ... and Sardinia. Two independent countries lie within Italy's borders: the tiny Republic of San Marino, in north-central Italy, and Vatican City, which is located completely within the city of Rome. Italy boasts several world-famous cities. Rome, the capital and largest city in Italy, was the center of the Roman Empire 2,000 years ago. Florence was the home of many artist of the Renaissance, a period of great achievements in the arts. Venice, with its intricate canal system, attracts tourists from all over the world. Italians take great pride in the quality of their cooking. They traditionally eat their meals at midday. Large meals usually consist of a pasta course, followed by a main course of meat or fish. ...
- 5882: Modern Philosophy
- ... be more correct than another's, because each is the sole judge of his or her own experience. Plato, following his illustrious teacher Socrates, tried to answer the Sophists by postulating the existence of a world of unchanging and invisible forms, or ideas, about which it is possible to have exact and certain knowledge. The things one sees and touches, they maintained, are imperfect copies of the pure forms studied in mathematics and philosophy. Accordingly, only the abstract reasoning of these disciplines yields genuine knowledge, whereas reliance on sense perception produces vague and inconsistent opinions. They concluded that philosophical contemplation of the unseen world of forms is the highest goal of human life. Epistemology in the 20th Century In the early 20th century, epistemological problems were discussed thoroughly, and subtle shades of difference grew into rival schools of thought ... are common to all possible universes, metaphysics may be conducted at the highest level of abstraction. Ontology, by contrast, because it investigates the ultimate divisions within this universe, is more closely related to the physical world of human experience. The subjects treated in Aristotle's Metaphysics fixed the content of metaphysical speculation for centuries. Among the medieval Scholastic philosophers, metaphysics was known as the “transphysical science” on the assumption that, ...
- 5883: Difference Between Sephardic A
- ... Judaism to another. Just as the worldwide language of the Ashekenazim, Yiddish, is a mixture of Hebrew with German, the common language used by the Sephardim Ladino, still in use in some parts of the world, is a dialect formed by combining Hebrew with Spanish. The Sephardim who have historically been more involved into the lives of the gentile societies where they settled don't have as strict a set of ... intregrated into their societies. For this reason, the traditional laws of the Sephardim are less demanding, but more enduring. Unlike the Ashkenazi population that has over a century of immigration spread itself all over the world, The Sephardic communities tend to concentrate mostly around a few areas. Today most of the Sephardic Jews reside within Israel, amost other Middle-Eastern communities having been reduced to virtual nonexistance by the migration of ... to be tolerated. The people who settled in the Netherlands, by this time a country of religious tolerance, had enjoyed for a period of time the equality unparalleled at this point anywhere in the Western world. The main flux of Sephardi immigrants took almost a century incoming to the Netherlands, finally reaching that country around 1590. When half a century later Netherlands began active trade with the South America, Jews ...
- 5884: MICKY MANTLE
- ... player. He was great at playing baseball because he practiced a lot. His whole baseball career, is the career that I dream of having. He played in 12 of his 18 career years in the World Serieswith the Yankee's. When Mickey Mantle was growing up, he was small, and spindly. His nickname was "little Mick" when he was a child. Mantle went to Commerce grade school. When Mickey was little ... Mantle ranks among the leaders in homerun hitters in baseball history. He hit 536 homeruns in his career. He played for the Yankees for 18 years ( his whole career). He also brought them to 12 World Series. For his career in the World Series he hit 18 homeruns ( World Book 168-169) Here are his Milestones of baseball: 1) AMERICAN LEAGUE MVP (MOST VALUABLE PLAYER) 1956,57,62., 2) LED AL IN HOMERUNS 1955,56,58,60., ...
- 5885: Genetic Engineering And Its Fu
- ... is useful, and highly so, as discussed prior, we can do so in order to restore extinct species or produce animals which we consume in order to provide more food for the people of the world. The big question now is about cloning humans. Cloning a human for the purpose of cloning a human is wasteful, ignorant, and pointless. Lets think a moment. What do we get from cloning a human… An exact copy of the human we cloned. Now if everyone on the world had a clone we would have a slight overpopulation problem on our hands. You simply don't benefit from cloning other then getting a duplicate of the person you copied. Its a waste of resources which could be better allocated to the already over-populated world and shouldn't be condoned. Last, and provably the most controversial issue in genetics is using its great power to enhance or better the human genome. This technology is most feared because of this ...
- 5886: Saudi Arabia
- Saudi Arabia For thousands of years, people of the Arabian Peninsula have been at the geographic, commercial and cultural crossroads of the world. As early as 3,000 B.C., the people of the western region of the peninsula were part of a far-reaching commercial network extending to south Asia, the Mediterranean and Egypt. The discovery some ... D. further strengthened the region's cultural heritage. Within a century, Islam spread west to the Atlantic Ocean and as far east as the Indian subcontinent and China. With Makkah as its core, the Islamic world witnessed a flowering of culture, the sciences and the arts unparalleled in human history. Every year for the past fourteen centuries, Muslim pilgrims from around the world have traveled to Islam's holiest sites in Makkah and Madinah, helping further enrich the culture of the people of the peninsula. With the formation of the modern Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 1932, ...
- 5887: Edgar Allen Poe
- ... label Edgar Allen Poe a horror writer, plain and simple others refer to Poe as the father of the detective story, but over all he´s one Americas greatest writers. His ability of expressing the world in gothic ways, really captures the reader´s attention. Even though he lead a tough life and was known as a sadistic drug addict and alcoholic, he still managed to produce great pieces of literature. Three of his greatest works were "The Tell Tale heart", "The Fall of the House Usher", and "The Raven." All of these are very known troughout the world and are considered three of Poe´s greatest pieces. He was born in Boston on January 19, 1809, his parents, regular members of Federal street theater, named him Edgar Poe. Shortly before his mother's ... he makes the reader paranoid about their surroundings, and makes them wonder everything around. Most all of Poe´s characters, are lonely and mentally distressed people. Most of his characters try to escape the real world and try to enter the insane world they create. By the end of the poems, the characters are considered completely insane or death comes to them. In most cases the main character or the ...
- 5888: Selfish Genes And Selfish Meme
- ... laws of natural selection and survival of the fittest in its most primitive form. At some point in time, these molecules that formed stable configurations were able to replicate and in so doing created a world of similar molecules within which there were surely misprints which gave rise to different molecules. This is not unlike today where there is distinct evidence that animal and plant life does mutate in the replication ... of where did this conscious thought arise from, this thing that was perhaps the creation of the meme pool itself? Dawkins, (1976:141), believes that, Perhaps consciousness arises when then brain s simulation of the world becomes so complete that it must include a model of itself. However, this really isn t a very valid explanation as Dawkins, (1976:141), continues, if there is a model of a model, why not ... really could only be a creation of the meme pool itself. If one adopts the point of view that Dawkins is putting forward, then the whole idea that we are spiritual beings living in a world consisting of rights and wrongs, goods and evils is a meme created to assist humankind in continuing survival for all. If any other view were embraced, then wouldn t humankind be today living in ...
- 5889: North America
- ... United States, Mexico, Canada, Greenland, and Saint-Pierre and Miquelon(British dependency of Bermuda). (Encarta Encyclopedia 98). One the many things that make North America unique is that it has almost every climate in the world. Most of the people live in or around the major cities where manufacturing is a very important resource. The climate in North America is Extremely diversified. It can be broken down into 5 principle climate ... space equipment, cars, chemicals, textile, clothing , paper, and printed materials. (Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia 96) In Canada factories are situated in the major cites or on the Great Lakes so it is easy to ship things.(World Regional Geography p153) They produce many of the same things there but one of the major export is lumber. (Grolier Enc.) In Mexico manufacturing has been a important to the economy since the 1940s. They ... are not as technologically developed they produce notably chemicals, car parts, cars and contruction materials. (Microsoft Encarta) North America is very diversified both in its climate and manufacturing. It has almost every climate in the world that we broke into 5 major zones. It includes a couple counties the entire world depends of because of the manufacturing of products. North America is a great place . Resources Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia 98 , ...
- 5890: RedScare
- ... label Edgar Allen Poe a horror writer, plain and simple others refer to Poe as the father of the detective story, but over all he´s one Americas greatest writers. His ability of expressing the world in gothic ways, really captures the reader´s attention. Even though he lead a tough life and was known as a sadistic drug addict and alcoholic, he still managed to produce great pieces of literature. Three of his greatest works were "The Tell Tale heart", "The Fall of the House Usher", and "The Raven." All of these are very known troughout the world and are considered three of Poe´s greatest pieces. He was born in Boston on January 19, 1809, his parents, regular members of Federal street theater, named him Edgar Poe. Shortly before his mother's ... he makes the reader paranoid about their surroundings, and makes them wonder everything around. Most all of Poe´s characters, are lonely and mentally distressed people. Most of his characters try to escape the real world and try to enter the insane world they create. By the end of the poems, the characters are considered completely insane or death comes to them. In most cases the main character or the ...
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