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- 8371: Psychology Comparison
- Psychology comparison The world, today, is exposed to a plethora of information, substantiated or not. Since newspapers and other secondary source material is responsible for relaying information to much of the population it is important to understand and realize ... as an example for other such circumstances. The secondary-source article comes from the August 30, 1998 edition of the New York Times. Written by Amy Harmon, the report is titled ÒResearchers Find Sad Lonely World in Cyberspace.Ó The article goes on to explain that researchers at Carnegie Mellon University completed a study (later identified as the ÒHomenetÓ study) that examines the social and psychological effects of Internet use in ... They carefully monitored for other control variables that could influence these things. Internet usage was automatically monitored watching specifically for the major applications the Internet was used for and finding that e-mail and the World Wide Web consumed most of the participants time. What they found was that greater use of the Internet was associated with declines in family communication as well as declines in the local and distant ...
- 8372: Fray Junipero Serra
- ... and a clear precise writer. He did not remain long in the academic venue. His dream was to become as missionary and in 1749 he responded to the call for Franciscan missionaries to the New World. His dream became a reality. He left his family and friends and sailed off to a "New World." Nearly 200 years earlier, Spain had established a colony called New Spain, the region known today as Mexico. Successful colonization was the result of collaboration by Spanish imperial staff and the Catholic Church. Acting as ... to propose what some would call a "bill of rights." He called for a complete missionary charge of the Indians and the removal of Fages. The Viceroy (the representative of the king in the New World) granted both requests that lead the way for the Indians to be treated fairly and justly along with enabling the missionaries to evangelize more effectively. The only conclusive historical evidence that can be proven ...
- 8373: Epics
- ... the production of The Old Testament, the Greeks employed the works of Homer. Homer's Iliad and Odyssey are the most famous of the Greek epics. These epic poems tell the story of the Trojan War and the events and famous people surrounding the war. Throughout the Iliad, the universality of the poem is evident as concepts of war and man vs. man conflicts are expressed through the lives of Achilles, Hector, and Patroclus. Another epic quality in the Iliad is the invocation of the muse in the beginning of the story. This ...
- 8374: Psychology Of Television
- ... are often concerned with what the television portrays and why it portrays the way it does. Even though they know that their shows are representative to their viewers tastes and not that of the real world. Although this information is not acknowledged as fiction or non-fiction it is still portrayed and processed information by the viewer. One must be able to realize, How this information is different from everyday life ... or she were in the same situation. This is the reason why people are starting to question and be afraid of the pushed boundaries of television. With the dramatic increase of violence in today s world the programmers are filling ones mind of not wisdom, but the dark escape of violence which makes up the viewers mind for them. The definition of physical violence is stated as these two presented: Any ... television, and like it, as early as 6 months of age (Hollenbeck & Slaby, 1979). The longer children grow up with TV the more accustom they become to the violence and false realities of a fiction world not like their own. The most obvious areas of deceiving behavior from television characters are violence, sexual behaviors and health portrayals. In health related issues parents are skeptical because there is a soft line ...
- 8375: Teddy Roosevelt's Contribution to Natural Resources
- ... Service was established to carry on with the Act. The Reclamation Service irrigated more than three million acres and provided water for more than thirty thousand farms. The dams built were the largest in the world. The Act helped prove to the American nation that it could handle its own resources. The Bureau of Forestry, changed to the United States Forest Service in 1905, was to provide more monumentous changes for ... and lasted five days. With the help of Pinchot, Roosevelt attempted to hold a larger conference with forty-five other nations to discuss ³a general plan for an inventory of the natural resources of the world...to the end that there may be a general understanding and appreciation of the world¹s supply of the material elements which underlie the development of civilization and the welfare of the peoples of the earth.² Much to Roosevelt¹s distress, the plan lapsed after he left the presidency. ...
- 8376: Hurricane Georges
- ... 200 and 47 people. The current hurricane protection system was approved by Congress in 1965 after Hurricane Betsy killed 81 people in southern Louisiana. Hundreds of millions of dollars has produced what may be the world's most elaborate flood protection system, said Jim Addison, chief of public affairs for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' New Orleans District, which builds and monitors the levees. The levees along the south ... especially heavy in the Dominican Republic. In addition to personnel and supplies from the United States, aid came in from France, Spain, Italy, Canada, Chile and other nations. The government also sought help from the World Bank and other international agencies. Only 5% of the country's tourism centers were damaged by the storm,Montas said. But some of the natural beauty that draws tourists will need time to recover."Our ... ready for harvest. Haiti is the hemisphere's poorest country and could ill afford a setback like this. Many people are undernourished, per capita income is $250 a year and life expectancy is among the world's lowest 57 years. At least 167 people were killed in Haiti by Georges. Forty years ago, Fonds Verrettes flourished at the foot of wooded mountains, but farm incomes fell and impoverished peasants cut ...
- 8377: Frank Sinatra
- ... 1930 s. He then scored his first number one song a little more than a year later, I ll Never Smile Again . Sinatra s popularity began to rise through airtime as a radio singer during World War II. He soon left Dorsey s band for a solo career that lead him to several hits and great success in the 50s and 60s. Young At Heart, All the Way, Witchcraft, Strangers in the ...
- 8378: Relationship Between Odysseus
- ... also presume that Homer had not intended for the Telemachus to be as great a hero as his father had. This may be due to the fact that, for example, he never had a Trojan War to fight, his setting is in a time of peace unlike his father's, and more notably- although matured, Telemachus never really learned true leadership or chivalry as did his father. Homer has presented the world with poetry so unique and classic, so outstanding and awesome, that generations to come will challenge themselves interpreting them until the end of time.
- 8379: Francisco Jose De Goya Y Lucientes
- ... realism unprecedented in religious art. Goya served as director of painting at the Royal Academy from 1795 to 1797 and was appointed first Spanish court painter in 1799. During the Napoleonic invasion and the Spanish war of independence from 1808 to 1814, Goya served as court painter to the French. He expressed his horror of armed conflict in The Disasters of War, a series of starkly realistic etchings on the atrocities of war. They were not published until 1863, long after Goya's death. Upon the restoration of the Spanish monarchy, Goya was pardoned for serving the French, but his work was not favored by the new ...
- 8380: G. Carter Bentley
- ... to look at experiences people go through we have to distinguish between the different domains of experience and social practice. Analysis of different domains will tell us how they influence people s perception of the world, of their place in society as members of a group. Because this process involves interrelationships, it is important to focus on the experience of interaction. Secondly, there must be an analysis of discourses by the ... between social structure and ethnic consciousness" (Bentley 1987: 40). Hence the need to focus on the objective context and subjective conscious of identity. Bentley also focuses on how ethnic identity and ethnicity in the modern world have become important as a medium for collective action. These forms, according to Bentley, cannot be accounted for by shared sentiment (as described by the instrumentalist approach). Rather, ethnic groups are "products of complex social ... Bentley 1987: 43) A breakdown in such regimes (as a result of leadership, for example), will necessarily lead to a crisis in ethnic identity. Symbolic domination, then, requires " sufficient integration of preconscious assumptions about the world to maintain a functional complementarity of perception and motivation among leaders and followers" (Bentley 1987: 44). If such functional complementarity breaks down (i.e. as a response to political or economic changes) leading to ...
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