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- 6061: Microwaves
- You might remember the heroic role that newly-invented radar played in the Second World War. People hailed it then as "Our Miracle Ally". But even in its earliest years, as it was helping win the war, radar proved to be more than an expert enemy locator. Radar technicians, doodling away in their idle moments, found that they could focus a radar beam on a marshmallow and toast it. They also ...
- 6062: Internet Censorship
- ... agree that the censorship is okay, it is still censorship. Although the Internet was created in the 1960s as a communications tool of the U.S. military that would withstand even the most severe nuclear war and still be operable, it was not until after the government opened it up to public use in the late 1980s that the Internet became a unique communications phenomenon. Nobody could predict the speed by which people all over the world latched on to this new form of technological communication. A wealth of information is readily available to those who possess the technological means to access and to contribute to it. However, this availability has some ... cable from a network can transmit data that is then interpreted by us, the user, as communication, interaction. By using the internet we are not only looking up information, we are also communicating to the world via electronic impulses. B. Commercial 1. The internet is a way of providing businesses with a new way to commercialize their items and after all, it's our first amendment right. 2. The new ...
- 6063: Controlling Computers With Neu
- ... connecting themselves to glowing head probes. By doing this the space traveler’s thoughts and feelings are directly conveyed to the alien computer over a neural link. In the science-fiction movie The Matrix, the world is run by machines that use humans as batteries so sustain themselves. A group of humans brake the grip of the machines and begin to wage a war on their metallic oppressors. These people are able to fight the machines with the help of computers. Each one of these people has a jack in the back of his or her head that is ... Imagine that terrorists would be able to detinate bombs from thousands of miles away with only a mere thought. Governments could use the technology to control humans, thus forming a sub-species of mindless slaves. World leaders would be able to launch a nuclear holocaust with a thought, while they were performing a simple task like grocery shopping. Work Cited An EEG-Based Brain-Computer Interface for Cursor Control. J. ...
- 6064: Heros Essay
- ... the time it took you to consider it. Did you think of some virtuous individual who rescues people, putting life and limb on the line to do others help and fight the evils of the world? Did Hercules of ancient Greek mythology and Superman and Spiderman of modern times come into your mind's eye? Did a police officer, a fire fighter, or some hero of war enter your brain? If they did and they make up your answer, then, from a certain perspective, you are correct. However, if such characters were all that you thought of, then you are also indisputably ... enjoy or dislike has to be linked to them. It is an inevitable and unavoidable connection. The way they have brought me up has had a far greater influence on me than anything else this world has to offer. Some things about me I can link directly to my parents and not to anyone else. For instance, would I play any musical instruments or have had the inclination to do ...
- 6065: Hot Springs National Park
- ... to the luxurious. The government even operated a U.S. Free Bathhouse and a Public Health facility. Gradually Hot Springs came to be called "The National Spa," and such slogans as "Uncle Sam Bathes the World"’ and "The Nation’s Health Sanitarium" were used to promote the city. By 1921, the Hot Springs Reservation was such a popular destination for vacationers and seekers of health remedies that the new National Park ... in their efforts to feel and look better. The Army/Navy Hospital (now the Hot Springs Rehabilitation Center) just above the south end of Bathhouse Row contributed to a continued high level of activity during World War II and immediately afterward. Shortly thereafter, however, changes in medical technology and in the use of leisure time resulted in a rapid decline in water therapies. People also started to prefer taking to the ...
- 6066: Free Enterprise
- ... 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 ...
- 6067: Family A Tough Bond To Break
- Family: A tough Bond to Break Many wise pholosophers say that only 7 stories exist in the world as we know it. The struggle of good versus evil, finding true love, and the rise and fall of important people have been written about since the discovery of pen and paper. One theme that ... together. Odysseus, Telemacus, and Penelope all suffer hardships trying to keep the tight bond their family has, as close as possible. Odysseus is determined he will return to his wife and newborn son after the war of Troy was won. Many trials and tribulations are presented to Odysseus on his journey home. Polyphemus, the Cyclops, tries to detain the hero from returning to his home of Ithaca. Poseidon’s son failed ... his father and once again unite his family. Like Telemacus, Penelope feels that the suitors need to let her alone. She does not want to believe that her hero-husband had been killed fighting a war in Troy. She believes that he is on his way home to her and her princely son. This is the reason she never remarries. Penelope uses her cunning to prevent a marriage that she ...
- 6068: Drugs In Football Making An Ap
- ... also estimated that around 20% were addicted to cocaine. That is around 274 players. He concluded that 10 players in each team were hooked on cocaine "(Harris 11). Another controversy in all of the sports world is that of whether steroid use should be accepted or not. There are many pro's to taking steroids, but too many con's. Steroids are physically enhancing drugs. They are derived from the male ... achieve a quicker recovery. Of course, if the muscle mass in increased, then the body weight will increase. If the athlete is using steroids secretively, then they will have a high prestige among the sports world for being strong, good looking, and vigorous. There are very few pros's compared to all the con's of using steroids. Just a few con's are: increase in acne, mood swings and violence ... gulp down thirty pills at one time. The result is a... five-hour temper tantrum that produces the late hits, the fights, the assaults on quarter backs that are ruining pro football. They're at war out there " (Harris 83). The anger that goes through one's mind when taken out from behind (by an abuser) is indescribable. Not only are the users ruining football, they are setting a terrible ...
- 6069: Angel Island
- ... did not have the desire to grant the Chinese what they wanted without reaping any profits, so they created laws to make the Chinese either leave their occupation or pay the tolls. "Wherever in the world there is an oriental working population, there is no room for a white one."4 was a statement from Chester Rowell, describing the current economic situation. Racial prejudice kept the Asians and Europeans segregated. Children ... adults. White men would not work under or with Chinese because of a current paradigm the two could not exist together in harmony. Even churches and YMCA's did not accept them. During the Civil War, when there was a shortage of labor, Dennis Kearney coined the phrase "The Chinese must go." Chinese became the scapegoats for lower class workers and the Knights of Labor. Anti-Coolie Clubs formed to promote ... still vulnerable to racial violence. The white man had different motives for bringing the Chinese over for the white man's benefit instead of thinking of the Chinese as equals. The year after the Civil War, blacks were thought to have too much freedom among the whites. Southern planters saw Chinese as models for black workers and so the Chinese were brought to the South and pitted against the black ...
- 6070: AIR AND WATER
- ... Energy is the most dangerous one, as we can see what happened in Chernobyl in 1986, and it is dangerous if the nations use Nuclear Energy to kill people like at the end of the world war. It is not a dream to think of solar power that is cheap enough for universal use a world full of zero-polluting electric cars. Wide-scale use of fuel cells for powering buses and other forms of public transport. “Chicago and Vancouver are two cities which have pilot programs using fuel cells ...
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