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- 6651: Life Outside Our Biosphere
- Life Outside Our Biosphere The fragile balance of the Earth's ecosystem is constantly being disrupted. Overpopulation is placing heavy strain on the world's resources. We are burning all our fossil fuels to create the energy we need, and clearing our rainforests to make enough farmland to feed everyone. The ozone layer is slowly eroding, exposing us to ... more crowded, with no room left to expand. Solution: Transfer part of the population off the Earth, to colonies established either on other planets or on orbiting space stations. This will lessen strain on the world's land resources by providing more agricultural area, and will help solve problems associated with overcrowding. In our solar system, a few planetic possibilities exist for colonization. Mars, one of our closest neighbors, was previously ... ice from Saturn's rings for this valuable resource. Establishing settlements outside the biosphere we have lived in for so long will be very difficult. It will take cooperation from all the nations in the world, at huge expense to the technologically advanced countries. We will always be dependent on the Earth, and some primitive cultures may never leave it. Colonization of outer space, however, is a good solution to ...
- 6652: Andy Warhol
- ... fad which Warhol had found himself in the forefront of. His artwork transcended the present day and went ahead, his ideas and machine like processes were something that had not been seen in the art world yet. Some would say that Andy Warhol was an innovator, fixing a machine that needed some new parts. Others would say that Warhol was merely egocentric and thrived on his fame and publicity. As an ... avenue to fame. During the mid-twentieth century when Warhol had begun his rise into the public limelight, he was leading the pop culture movement. He was setting the trends with fashion, manipulating the commercial world for art, and making a lot of money. As his career began to take off Andy Warhol quickly realized that he was at the center of this new genre, and realized that he had achieved ... a blow. Smith sounds like a jealous enemy trying to harm his rival rather than trying to praise the king with the rest of the public. Even though Warhol did use much of the commercial world as his subjects, it is not fair to scorn and berate him for manipulating what surrounded him. Warhol was an artist of the times and realized he was at the head of this new ...
- 6653: Aircraft Law: Liability
- ... growth and development in the range of air transport services and technology earned the sector a distinctive international character. The latter is the most outstanding feature of the industry which allowed "every part of the world [to be reached] within a few hours of every other and, in doing so … brought about a revolution in world trade, in business contacts, and in methods of diplomacy." (1) The principles of air law have been evolving at a rapid pace since the beginning of the Twenty-first Century, however, they also remain inadequate ... to meet the needs of contemporary society. Concern for this immense growth and the accompanying implications produced the impetus to devise a means to ensure orderly and appropriate development. Thus, "The general policy of the world community in regard to emerging issues of air law demands the maintenance and promotion of a balance between technological advance in aviation and the preservation of a wholesome environment by providing adequate policies and ...
- 6654: Mama Lola: An Analysis
- ... healing based on African roots, but has drastically changed in contemporary times and cultures. Alourdes reveals her life and most precious secrets and ceremonies with Karen and brings her in and welcomes her to the world of vodou and her family circle. The stories of Alourdes and her family are told through the eyes of Karen and the ones that were not seen or talked about were partly made up to ... is dear to her for one reason or another. Karen does a great job clearly defining each of these spirits and the roles that they play in the life of Alourdes and in the vodou world. The ceremonies that are revealed to the reader are somewhat out of the ordinary. They consist of chanting and singing songs, food preparation and many hours of trying to invoke the spirit into the body ... complicated as vodou could only be comprehensible if one were to participate in its rituals to feel the meaning of all that it is about. Karen did just that. She was introduced to this spiritual world with many prejudged notions and eventually opened up and welcomed the roles that she must take on as a vodou participant. This book was written in a great descriptive way to take the reader ...
- 6655: Julius Caesar: Addaddination
- ... was Caesar s overwhelming ambition and arrogant personality that resulted from his success, that made his assassination inevitable. Caesar was a fortunate man; he had lived in a great city, seen much of the western world, loved a foreign queen and accumulated enormous wealth. In a world where most rarely left their villages and were always under the shadow of debt, famine, and conquest, Gaius Julius Caesar was privileged. Throughout Caesar s life, he effectively displayed great political and military skill and ... in recent wars(Bernard, Caesar and Rome, p35). He even gave senatorial status and citizenship to non Romans from Italian cities- thus taking a momentous step towards changing Rome from a city state into a world empire(Nardon, The Importance of Caesar, p25). But Caesar had long lost the support of his people. By this time, the people had allowed Caesar become dictator strictly out of fear and idolatry. All ...
- 6656: The Catcher in The Rye: Unreachable Dreams
- ... and smokes, showing even more misdirection. However, when Holden returns home and talks to his sister, Phoebe, his direction becomes clear. Holden wants to be the Catcher in the Rye to protect children from the world in which he is forced to live. While talking with Phoebe, she asks Holden what he would like to be. He responds saying: "Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in ... s all I'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all.'" (173) Holden wants to protect the innocence of his sister and every other innocent child in the world. Before Holden meets Sally for their date, he stops in front of the Museum of Natural History and begins to reminisce. He thinks about the way he visited the museum when he was younger. He ... sometimes children must learn things the hard way. As he sees Phoebe riding the carousel he begins to cry. He sees perfection in that moment, and he knows that she will soon change as the world influences her. Holden finally realizes that he will not be able to protect his sister or anyone from falling into the adult world. Holden transforms from a dreamy idealist into a down-to-earth ...
- 6657: D-Day
- ... of the Seine River. This is believed by some as his most fatal mistake. Today we know this colossal invasion as D-Day. Midsummer 1943, Nazi Germany was at its zenith. Their Blitzkrieg or “lightning war” tactics had given the control of all of the mainland Europe except for neutral Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, and Sweden. At this time Soviet leader Joseph Stalin pushed US President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston ... Germans. Plans though always fell through due to lack of numbers and insufficient military craft. Britain however, began to conjure theoretical plans to return to the main land. Then on December 11, 1941 Hitler declared war against the United States. This caused military officials to begin planning their own timetable. The two then sternly pressed for an early invasion. Initially, wishful thinking set an attack in 1943. George Marshall, chief of ... these air attacks were to deceive the Nazi into thinking landings would be made more north-east than what the actual plan called for. In what might have been the most catalystic event in the war, Allies were able to decode encrypted transmissions of where the counterattack forces would be stationed. The Allies then created a “phantom” army to be purposely found out about. Superior technology allowed the Allies to ...
- 6658: Serial Killers
- ... himself why this was happening, what could cause someone to do something so atrocious? This paper examines issues related to the definition and study of serial murder. It probes the minds of some of the world s most infamous killers all the while asking the question WHY. It examines methodological issues such as problems with the FBI s so called serial murder profiling system: the fact that the serial killer stereotypes ... adult years through his terrible crimes. John Wayne Gacy Bibliographical Info Childhood Trauma It was St. Patrick s Day and Marion Elaine Robinson Gacy and John Wayne Gacy, Sr. welcomed their first son into the world at Edgewater Hospital in 1942. John Wayne Gacy, Jr. was the second of three children. John grew up in a middle class neighborhood where he had a paper route, participated in boy scouts, and seemed ... the U.S. serial killer rate has risen 940% and it is estimated that in the next millennium it will claim an average of 11 lives a day. The U.S. has 6% of the world s population, yet it has three-quarters the world s serial killers (Hepburn p. 2). To go along with these startling statistics, the average serial murderer is described as Caucasian male in his late ...
- 6659: Human Evolution In Africa
- ... nothing more than a shrew in the shadow of the dinosaurs. However, with the event that killed the dinosaurs, they where finally allowed to reproduce and spread. At this time, according to isotope dating, the world was averaging 4 times warmer than it now is. As time went on, the small mammal had spread throughout Eurasia. All of Eurasia then was covered in tropical forests. Primates evolved in what is now the Indian Subcontinent. From their placement in India, then still lowland, primates spread throughout the world once more. Some returned to North America, only to be wiped out by rodents already living there. Others spread to Europe and the Middle East. By this time, Africa had just split from marsupial overrun Gondwanaland. About a million years later it reached the Middle East, and primates moved in. By now the world had cooled enough that the primates in Europe had been decimated to near extinction. They also migrated south, for the Mediterranean Sea was at that time dry lowland. Now almost all of the primates ...
- 6660: The True Sinners
- ... she says to Dimmesdale, “What we did had a consecration of its own. We felt it so! We said so to each other!” Hester fully acknowledged her guilt and displayed it with pride to the world. This was obvious by the way she displayed the scarlet letter. It was elaborately designed as if to show Hester was proud of what she had done. Hester is indeed a sinner; adultery is not ... continue to do God’s work as a minister. Throughout the seven years of the novel, Dimmesdale’s sermons get more and more tantalizing the weaker he grows. He must wear one face for the world, another for himself. Dimmesdale is trying to excuse his behavior, when his soaring career may be a justification for concealing a sin. He is struggling to confess, and in each sermon, he comes closer and ... It is on the very scaffold that he first pleaded with Hester to reveal his identity, now he releases his secret. Chillingworth’s remarks show the importance of Dimmesdale’s confession: “Hadst thou sought the world earth over, there was no place so secret no high place not lowly place where thou couldst have escaped me save on this very scaffold!” I think Dimmesdale has not created the worst sin ...
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