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- 6781: Internet
- ... know of a tool that will be extremely helpful and is already available to them; the Internet. Up until a few years ago, when a student graduated they were basically thrown out into the real world with just their education and their wits. Most of the time this wasn't good enough because after three or four years of college, the perspective entrepreneur either forgot too much of what they were ... expect the customers to come to them, they have to go out and attract them. This is where the Internet becomes most useful, in advertising. On the Internet, in every major consumer area in the world, there are dozens of ways to advertise. The easiest and cheapest way, is to join groups such as "Entrepreneur Weekly". These groups offer weekly newsletters sent all over the world to major and minor businesses informing them about new companies on the market. It includes everything about your business from what you make/sell and where to find you, to what your worth. These ...
- 6782: Personal Computers
- ... the beginning, once your machine could connect to everyone else's via telephone lines. There is a global computer the size of humanity taking shape. Now that everybody can publish their own interests to a world audience on the Net, we learn irreversibly that the world is far stranger and more interesting that we would ever guess from magazines, books and broadcast media. Our sense of the world is altered and, oddly enough, in an optimistic direction. Two simple-seeming devices -- search engines and links -- have made search-space on the Internet more exciting than outer space. It is more current and ...
- 6783: Kate Chopin's Controversial Views
- ... a direct and simple was, told up what he saw." (Taylor 159). Chopin translated eight of his works and through him developed her style of writing. She shared his concept of a hero : "An isolated world-weary and misanthropic hero who revels in his own sensuality; who trusts in nature and distrusts human relationships, especially love; who experiences a sense of liberation through solitary walks and confidences in his writing... and ... note saying; "Good-bye_because I love you" (Bloom 11). Consumed by a morbid depression and unable to even care for her children, suicide enters Edna's mind. "There was no one thing in the world that she desired. There was no human being whom she wanted near her except Robert, and she even realized that the day would come when he, too, and the thought of him would melt out ... was that "A woman's personal life centers around home, husband, and children." (Nickerson 1). The Awakening challenged this notion and critics were outraged by it. Critics of the time were brutal in telling the world exactly what they thought of Chopin's controversial characters. In 1899 a reviewer for Public Opinion said he was "well satisfied with Edna's suicide because she deserved to die for her immoral behavior" ( ...
- 6784: The Clifford Ball
- ... were asleep!!! Didn't bother me, the more the merry. It was really strange. Once I stepped out of the tent, I think I left something behind. I didn't have a care in the world. I forgot about my job, my house, my life back home. I WAS AT A PHISH SHOW, that's all that mattered. Yeah, in an ordinary situation, the crickets would have bothered me. I liked ... to get that one miracle would have bothered me, not that weekend. Free hug...sure. Do I have any nugs...have a seat and chill a while. The feeling is like nothing else in the world. Youth, energy, love, and fun. 6 PM Phish is coming on soon. We exchanged our tickets for wristband and headed in. Mr. Sanity stepped out and welcomed us to the largest Phish in the world. The cheers rang, and the chills ran through me, I'm going to have the time of my life. Phish busted out with Chalkdust Torture. “I love this song!” I said to Joe. Before ...
- 6785: The Natural
- ... the events occurring around him affected his decisions and, eventually, his career. Symbolism in The Natural takes the form of characters, such as women who strongly influenced Roy; historical events, such as the infamous 1919 World Series scandal; and even Greek and Roman mythology. All forms of symbolism used by Malamud are woven into the life and career of Roy Hobbs. As a first example, women have a tremendous influence on ... to all today. ¡§Pop¡¦s blunder¡¨ mirrors Chuck Hostetler¡¦s fall in the ¡¦45 series that cost his team a game (47). Wile playing for the Detroit Tigers in 1945, Hostetler cost his team a World Series victory when he slipped, tripped, and fell rounding third base on his attempt to score. Pop¡¦s blunder¡¨ is exactly what happened to Hostetler. When Pop Fisher was a player, he made the same ... costing his team the pennant, while Hostetler¡¦s fall did not affect the Tiger¡¦s championship hopes. Roy¡¦s agreement with Judge Banner to throw the final game symbolizes the infamous scandal in the 1919 World Series involving Shoeless Joe Jackson and the Chicago Black Sox. In what is possibly the most famous of all sports scandals, multiple players from the Black Sox took part in ¡§throwing¡¨ or ¡§fixing¡¨ the ...
- 6786: Internet Censorship
- ... was sentenced to death for these crimes. Many modern governments are attempting to control access to the Internet. They are passing regulations that restrict the freedom people once took for granted. The Internet is a world wide network that should not be regulated or censored by any on country. It is a complex and limitless network which allows boundless possibilities and would be effected negatively by the regulations and censorship that ... is elusive, since it is not so much a physical entity as a description of an intangible." The complexity of the Internet is demonstrated through its many components. The most readily identifiable part is the World Wide Web (WWW). This consists of web pages that can be accessed through the use of a web browser. Web pages are created using a basic programming language. Another easily identified section of the Internet ... a redress of grievances" Therefore it would be unconstitutional for any sort of censorship to occur on the Internet and affiliated services. Despite the of being illegal restrictions on Internet access and content are increasing world-wide under all forms of government. In France, a country where the press generally have a large amount of freedom, the Internet has recently been in the spotlight. "To enforce censorship of the Internet, ...
- 6787: Abortion
- ... is not here today. Having a baby at that time in her life was just really bad timing. At 15 she was just starting her life. Personal space to herself, study, travel, and experiencing the world was what she wanted to do. Which is what every teenager in the world would like to do, but with a baby by her side. It was just not possible. All her hopes and dreams had been shattered into a million pieces because of one mistake. If only there ... mother told you, you were an accident? Not a pleasant thought now is it. Sadly this path would’ve ended a life. A life that had not even begun to live and experience what the world had to offer. But it was all for the best. For if the child were to have been born. It’s future would’ve been a grim one. One not of blue skies and ...
- 6788: Kovic's "Born On The Fourth Of July"
- ... describes to you the other wounded soldiers around him, and while you feel for him, by taking a look around the room through his eyes you get a fuller picture of just how terrible this war was. He then skip[s around through his childhood, his birthday on the fourth of July, playing with his friends. You can see just how good his life was. It was perfect, what most kids ... way the marine recruiters had come to his school a few years before to tell them how wonderful life in the marines could be. He become one of the most active speakers in the anti-war demonstrations. He was even at Nixon's acceptance speech in 1972 to yell at him from the center aisle to stop the war several times and being interviewed during a life broadcast, before he was pulled out of the tent backwards by security with republicans booing and hissing al around him. Towards the end of the book ...
- 6789: Christopher Columbus - American Hero Or Portuguese Idiot ?
- ... conclusion. A stately man walks out of the cabin and surveys the situation. He is Christopher Columbus, Portuguese explorer. Some say he was one of the greatest men that ever lived. He discovered the "New World" and brought riches back to his lieges in Spain. These people are wrong. He was an idiot. Chris Columbus was an idiot for many reasons. Most of them include his sheer stupidity. How could one ... hot, and arid. The lands are parched. The climate in the Americas, on the other hand, is mild, breezy, moist, and very moderate. Quite different from the climate found in the Indian region of the world. The weather patterns were also immensely different. India usually suffers from drought conditions for most of the year. When it does rain, it is during monsoon season. The storms are harsh and brutal. Flooding is ... at least once every two weeks, and they are usually just a light, easy rain. Upon review, it is easily determinable that Columbus was not a bright man. Give him credit for discovering the New World. Give him credit for proving the world was not flat, and that circumnavigation was quite possible. He was a great man. But the fact remains. Only an idiot would ignore all the identifying factors, ...
- 6790: Fort Henry And Donelson
- Fort Donelson, Tennessee, guarding the Cumberland River, became the site of the first major Confederate defeat in the Civil War. Victory at Donelson started Brigadier General Ulysses S. Grant on his road to Appomattox and the White House. His cool judgment under pressure saved the day after the Confederates threatened to break his troop lines ... him a victory that he did not fully earn on his own. Possession of the better part of two states vital to the South depended on the outcome of the battle at Fort Donelson. When war began in April 1861, Kentucky declared its neutrality, in response to deep conflicts of opinion among its citizens. Considering neutrality impossible to maintain, North and South maneuvered for position once Kentucky was opened to military ... time Grant arrived, with approximately 15, 000 men. Donelson held nearly 21,000, including at least two generals too many. Brigadier General John B. Floyd, who was commanding Donelson, had been a former secretary of war in the cabinet of President James Buchanan and was widely suspected by northerners of transferring arms and munitions southward before the rebellion broke out. Pillow, the second-in-command, had little respect from his ...
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