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- 7431: The Health of President Boris Yeltsin
- ... that drug treatment has stopped the bleeding and surgery will not be required. It will, however, keep Yeltsin in the hospital for at least two to three weeks. The impact Russia has had on the world is astounding. They took the idea of Communism and turned it into a type of government that is still used today. President Boris Yeltsin has played a major role freeing Russia from Communism and still does today. His health could interfere with how the country is run and the whole world would be effected in some way. If Yeltsin was forced to leave office, who knows what kind of person would take his place. With the amount of nuclear weapons Russia has, a bad leader could ... Russia is an important country for us to watch. With some many weapons of mass destruction and a president who has had numerous health problems, Russia could present countless problems for the rest of the world. I also believe that the condition of Yeltsin is worse than it's being made out to be. In the past his doctors claimed he has just not feeling well when in reality he ...
- 7432: The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
- ... himself. The river is freedom, the land is oppression, and that oppression is most evident to Jim. In Hucks dealings with society he sees people for who they truly are, "He sees the real world; and he does not judge it-he allows it to judge itself" (Eliot 329). Huck is rejuvenated by the river, when he goes ashore he faces society and all the injustices that it carries. When ... the one thing that both Huck and Jim are searching for they only find on the river. Twain is showing us in this story that sometime we must break away from society and what the world views as correct and just. He is showing us that we have the strength inside to stand on our own and make decisions for ourselves. Twain, through Huck, gives us the chance to see all the things in the world as they really are. Not so that we judge the world but so we can stand up for what is right.
- 7433: The Encroaching Darkness
- ... s right to know. You destroyed these crusaders. it was a dark age. These truth revolutionaries embarked upon guests, through means both immaculate and shady, to liberate the truth from the evils of the corporate world. The governments and their corporate buddies led a grand inquisition against the insurgents, labeling them "hackers." The corporations' bedfellows, the media, made these "hackers" appear evil to the public; they joined in the persecution of the rebels. Shed a bit of their indifferance to the world to hunt down and destroy the "malicious intruders" who endangered the secrecy of secrets too dirty to be shown to the public. "These people could probably see how much time you spend last year on ... violation and burned at the technological stake. The pople helped in being keeping themselves, ignorant; they destroyed their would-be saviors, the men and women who were willing to play neo-monks and deliver the world from a modern dark age. After the hackers, the simple fell upon the educated, the same pople who stood by and watched the selfrighteous inquisitors consume their contemporaries in a swell of uneducated humanity. ...
- 7434: Christopher Columbus
- ... as a Discoverer: The "presence" of the North American Continent had been known to the persons living there for centuries before arrival. But Columbus, and those who followed him, recognized the significance of the New World; in this sense they certainly deserve credit for having "discovered" America. Over five hundred years ago he landed in the Americas and now we are starting to question weather or not he should be given ... deserves respect. Irvine and Goulden feel bad for Columbus, too. "Poor Christopher Columbus. Five hundred years after the fact, the explorer is beng stripped of recognition as the man who discovered America and the New World." There are many people who believe that Columbus should not be credited for discovering America because the Native Americans were there first. They owned and operated the land, therefore they had right to be on ... realize that he was doing anything wrong. He lived ina time of slavery and that was all he knew. It was a way of his life, therefore he brought it with him to the new world. Despite all of the negative conotations people have made in reguard to Columbus there are many good things that have evolved from him landing in the Americas. Kirkpatrick Sale, a professional writer, mentions in ...
- 7435: Berkley
- As man progressed through the various stages of evolution, it is assumed that at a certain point he began to ponder the world around him. Of course, these first attempts fell short of being scholarly, probably consisting of a few grunts and snorts at best. As time passed on, though, these ideas persisted and were eventually tackled by the more intellectual, so-called philosophers. Thus, excavation of "the external world" began. As the authoritarinism of the ancients gave way to the more liberal views of the modernists, two main positions concerning epistemology and the nature of the world arose. The first view was exemplified by the empiricists, who stated that all knowledge comes from the senses. In opposition, the rationalists maintained that knowledge comes purely from deduction, and that this knowledge is ...
- 7436: E-commerce
- ... equal footing with more established brand names, it enables consumers to shop around and thus encourage greater price competition. Moreover, the Internet allows companies to introduce entirely new services not generally available in the physical world: easy comparison shopping based on quality and price, quick searches of data archives for specific information, compilations of visitor-generated information (such as book or product reviews), hyperlinks to other Web sites with useful information ... advantage. Now there is an issue of how long you can sustain that, and what you have to do to keep moving." The analysis becomes more complicated, however, when the interaction of online and real-world commerce is considered. After all, people do not only buy and sell; they also shop. And while some aspects of shopping are easier online, other aspects-touching and feeling a product, trying clothing on, looking ... Europeans and other foreign consumers who find it distasteful on both aesthetic and social grounds. But the bifurcation of shopping from actual buying creates the novelty of people who may go shopping in inefficient, real-world markets (where they can touch products and interact with sales clerks),but then make their final purchases in the more efficient electronic markets(where prices may be cheaper). And what model will arise as ...
- 7437: Christoper Marlow
- ... limits are for human power and knowledge and ponder what would happen if one man tried to exceed those limits. The play opens up with Faustus, who is supposedly the most learned man in the world, talking about how he has mastered every field of knowledge known to man. He is bored with theology, finding that man is doomed no matter what happens, and he has become a master physician, curing ... irony in his downfall. He refu Secondly, Faustus originally asks Mephistophilis and Satan for the power to do anything, "be it to make the moon drop from her sphere / Or the ocean to overwhelm the world" (1.3.38-39). He is even promised this power for twenty-four years if he sells his soul to Satan. However, when he is given his extraordinary power, he resorts to using it for ... a tragic hero because of his methods of using his new power. Instead of using it to attain the secrets of the universe, he plays petty tricks and tomfoolery on various important people around the world, including the pope and the German emperor. Finally, he proved his tragic nature by trying to move above and beyond the limitations set by God himself. Faustus knew that he had to abide by ...
- 7438: French Revolution 3
- ... advocated a federal republic, and Montagnards, consisting of Jacobins and Cordeliers, who favored establishment of a highly centralized republic. The Girondins soon emerged as the most powerful party. In April 1792 the Legislative Assembly declared war on the Austrian part of the Holy Roman Empire. Austrian armies then invaded France. When Sardinia and Prussia joined the war in July, the assembly declared a national emergency. In August insurgents stormed the royal residence at the Tuileries. Louis and his family took refuge with the assembly, which promptly placed him in confinement. Simultaneously, Montagnards ... brought to trial for treason. The convention found the monarch guilty and sent Louis to the guillotine in January 1793. After the king's execution, the Girondins began to lose influence. Military reverses occurred after war was declared against Great Britain, the United Netherlands, and Spain. In March the convention voted to conscript 300,000 men, and peasants in the Vendιe region rebelled. Civil war spread to neighboring areas, and ...
- 7439: Death Perspectives From Dylan
- ... of the poem. He uses terms that refer to creation as he describes a darkness as "mankind-making," "bird-" "beast-" and "flower-fathering," and "all-humbling." This darkness is represents the nothingness from which the world evolved, and we also know it is a great power by the descriptor "all-humbling." According to this first stanza the same darkness will also mark the end of the world when the end of the world when the "last light" breaks and the seas are silenced. This stanza establishes a cycle of darkness before creation and a darkness after destruction that lays a symbolic foundation for the rest of the ...
- 7440: Brazil
- ... Brazil also runs between five degrees north latitude and thirty five degrees south latitude. Brazil is located in mainly the eastern part of South America. This country sits in mostly the southern hemisphere of the world. Being completely on the west side of the world, Brazil is not all in the south side of the world. With the equator running through north Brazil, a small portion of Brazil, a small portion of Brazil is in the northern hemisphere. Brazil is bordered by a number of South American countries. Brazil borders ...
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