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- 6381: Fossil Fuels: Our Society's Dependency
- ... attention until the demand is needed, it's the old supply and demand scenario. Although my opinion may seem pessimistic if you look at past events it points to the supply and demand scenario. During World War II rubber supplies were cut off to the western world and we began to work on a compound that was a synthetic rubber. We succeeded in supplying the demand and now that same synthetic compound is used today. My theory is that the same ...
- 6382: The Atmospheric Ozone Layer
- ... between 1957-73. This decrease had only occurred for about six weeks in the Southern Hemisphere spring and had begun in the spring of 1979. This discovery placed the British scientists into the limelight of world publicity, for it revived a somewhat sagging public interest in the potential destruction of the stratospheric ozone layer by anthropogenic trace gases, particularly nitrogen species and chlorofluorocarbons. Ozone concentrations peak around an altitude of 30km ... term threat is the damage to cell DNA and the genetic structure in not only human beings but in other animals, plants and organisms. With the discovery of the Antarctic ozone hole and the resultant world-wide interest, publicity and concern, a historic meeting occurred in Montreal, Canada in September 1987. For the first time ever, 57 countries and organisations met to make a specific decision to limit the emissions of ... 1. Jonathan Weiner, "Plant Earth", New York, Bantam Books, 1986 2. "Atmospheric Ozone, Global Ozone Research and Monitoring Project" (Vol. 16, Geneva 1985 International Organisation of Meteorology) 3. Lydia Dotto and Harold Sciff, "The Ozone War", Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1978 4. John Gribbin, "The Hole in the Sky", N.Y., Bantam Books, 1988 5. James G. Titus, "Effect of Changes in Stratospheric Ozone and Global Climate" Vol. 2, ...
- 6383: Wired Hands - A Brief Look at Robotics
- ... in 1920 by the Czech playwright, Karel Capek. The play tells of an engineer who designs man-like machines that have no human weakness and become immensely popular. However, when the robots are used for war they rebel against their human masters. Though industrial robots do dull, dehumanizing work, they are nevertheless a delight to watch as they crane their long necks, swivel their heads and poke about the area where ... ailments and locate valuable ore deposits. Still other computer programs play and win at chess, checkers and go. As a results, robots are undoubtedly getting "smarter". The Diffracto company in Windsor is one of the world's leading designers and makers of machine vision. A robot outfitted with Diffracto "eyes" can find a part, distinguish it from another part and even examine it for flaws. Diffracto is now working on a ... satellite is in the right position to be snatched up by the space arm. The biggest challenge in robotics today is making software that can help robots find their way around a complex and chaotic world. Seemingly sophisticated tasks such as robots do in the factories can often be relatively easy to program, while the ordinary, everyday things people do - walking, reading a letter, planning a trip to the grocery ...
- 6384: Microwaves
- 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 ...
- 6385: Islam
- ... to Muhammad from God by way of the angel Gabriel. The message Muhammad received told him that there was but one God, not many gods, as most Arabs believed. This God was creator of the world, and He would one day judge mankind. The word Islam means "surrender" or "submission," submission to the will of Allah, the one God. Muslims are those who have submitted themselves. The basic creed of Islam ... with he mission to "enjoin good and forbid evil." Within the community, Muslims are expected to establish social and economic justice. They are also expected to carry their message out to the rest of the world. In the early Islamic community, this meant the use of force in the form of jihad, or holy war. The object of jihad was to gain political control over societies and run them in accordance with the principles of Islam. During the decades following the death of Muhammad certain essential principles were singled ...
- 6386: Popes
- ... VII. Overall, Leo distributed five cardinalships among his cousins and nephews. Problems broke out when Leo decided to obtain the duchy of Urbino for his nephew Lorenzo. He poured thousands of ducats into an empty war on Urbino, leaving the Papacy in financial wreck. The Papacy was too entrenched in its own lack of morality to provide any sort of spiritual guide for the commoners. The biggest crime of the Renaissance ... the Anabaptists believed that to be truly holy one must be a pacifist. The The majority of the Anabaptists were non-violent and made no attempt at revising the social or political order of the world around them. Other Protestant reformers favored peace but could not attain it. Ulrich Zwingli, the Swiss reformer, originally adopted a pacifist attitude towards the world. Unfortunately he had to abandon this view in order to combat the efforts of the Swiss Confederation to resist the spread of Zwinglism. Zwingli later died on the battlefield, fighting to defend his views. ...
- 6387: Enochian Scripture
- ... terrible powers waiting to return to re-claim the Earth - he interpreted this belief in the light of the Apocalypse of St. John, but reversed the ending so that the Beast triumphs after a great war in which the earth is laid waste. What are the "Old Ones"? It is clear that Alhazred elaborated upon existing traditions of the "Old Ones", and he did not invent these traditions. According to Alhazred ... turned against nature and began to "sin against birds and beasts and reptiles and fish, and to devour one another's flesh, and drink the blood". The fallen angels taught how to make weapons of war, and jewellery, and cosmetics, and enchantments, and astrology, and other secrets. These separate legends are elaborated in later Jewish sources such as the Talmud, which make it clear that Enoch and Genesis refer to the ... to the Necronomicon and the Enochian Scripture and religion, it can be easily stated that this is a "true" religion and not just another cult. It has factual basis on other major religions of the world, Judaism, Islam are just two examples. The Necronomicon was at one time a bible of sorts for the Enoch and should be once again.
- 6388: The Second Coming: Analysis
- ... society has lost sight of God and has lost the values and morals once held in place by the strong obedience to God. In another interpretation, Yeats may be saying that the falcon represents a war and the falconer represents the military power that has unleashed it to the point where all control is lost and faith in God has been abandoned. The next line of the poem explains this process; things fall apart indicates that the runaway war has sparked disorder in the public. The centre cannot hold, signifies that the obedience to God has lost its value. Even though there may be more than one interpretation, the metaphor points up one socio ... anarchy and devastation is so grave it is crying out for the Second Coming of Christ. He uses the Sphinx, a soulless, lifeless, empty creature to represent the Spirutus Mundi or the spirit of the world. The Rocking Cradle waking up the sphinx refers to Jesus calling attention to the condition of the Spirutus Mundi. He ends the metaphor with a question mark, posing the question of whether the Second ...
- 6389: "Babi Yar" by Yevgeny Yevtushenko: An Analysis
- ... acting in patriotism. The poet transports us to Anne Frank's attic in the fourth stanza. He describes to the reader the innocent love that has blossomed between Anne and Paul. Her love of the world and life and spring has been denied her (line 30). Yet, she manages to find comfort for her loss in the embrace of her beloved. In line 33, Yevtushenko shows the reader Anne's denial of what is going on around her. She tries to drown out the noise of the Nazis coming to get her. When her precious spring comes, so do the war and the Nazis to take her to her death. Stanza V brings us back to the ravine of Babi Yar. In line 40, the poet chooses to personify the trees. They "stare down" on him ... referring to these people as "anti-Semites" (line 57) because the Jews are Russians, too. The Nazis in effect have turned Russian against Russian - hardly a "union." In the last stanza, the poet calls for world unity which will only occur when anti-Semitism has ended. He is not a Jew, yet he equates himself to one. If all Russians are people, then the Jews are no less Russian or ...
- 6390: "Babi Yar" by Yevgeny Yevtushenko: An Analysis
- ... acting in patriotism. The poet transports us to Anne Frank's attic in the fourth stanza. He describes to the reader the innocent love that has blossomed between Anne and Paul. Her love of the world and life and spring has been denied her (line 30). Yet, she manages to find comfort for her loss in the embrace of her beloved. In line 33, Yevtushenko shows the reader Anne's denial of what is going on around her. She tries to drown out the noise of the Nazis coming to get her. When her precious spring comes, so do the war and the Nazis to take her to her death. Stanza V brings us back to the ravine of Babi Yar. In line 40, the poet chooses to personify the trees. They "stare down" on him ... referring to these people as "anti- Semites" (line 57) because the Jews are Russians, too. The Nazis in effect have turned Russian against Russian - hardly a "union." In the last stanza, the poet calls for world unity which will only occur when anti-Semitism has ended. He is not a Jew, yet he equates himself to one. If all Russians are people, then the Jews are no less Russian or ...
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