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Special Theory Of Relativity Speed Of Light
1,097 wordsAlbert Einstein, a German-American physicist, gave so much to this country. Einstein was born in Ulm on March 14, 1879, and spent his youth in Munich, where his family owned a small shop that manufactured electric machinery. He died in Princeton, April 18, 1955. When repeated business failure led the family to leave Germany for Milan, Italy, Einstein, who was then 15 years old, withdrew from the schools of Munich. He stayed a year with his parents in Milan, then left to finish secondary school i...
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Great Warrior P 1
427 wordsMenelaus (Born 70 (possibly) died 130) Menelaus although a great warrior was also a great observer and thinker. Menelaus was the son of Atreus. Menelaus brother was the leader of the Trojan army, Agamemnon. Although he was not a major warrior in the war, his brother was the commander in chief of the forces against Troy (Parada, p. 2). Although little is known about Menelauss life in Alexandria, other records show that he recorded astrological records. Menelaus observed the occultation of the sta...
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Quantum Mechanics Main Issue
1,046 words... derivation and decision making. The same applies to the couplets: order / disorder, element / system, evolution / revolution and not alive / alive. The latter is at the heart of the applied ethical issue of abortion: when should a foetus begin to be considered a live thing? Life springs suddenly. It is not more of the same. It is not a matter of quantity of matter. It is a qualitative issue, almost in the eye of the beholder. All these are problems that call for a non-continuum approach, for...
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Internal And External Point Of View
1,124 wordster>Sam Vaknin's Psychology, Philosophy, Economics and Foreign Affairs Web Sites Knives and forks are objects external to us. They have an objective - or at least an intersubjective - existence. Presumably, they will be there even if no one watches or uses them ever again. We can safely call them "Objective Entities." Our emotions and thoughts can be communicated - but they are NOT the communication itself or its contents. They are "Subjective Entities", internal, ...
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Runnin' Down Some Lines Book Review
1,387 wordsDeprived of opportunities for advancement in mainstream society, [black ghetto] teenagers elevate their personal style into a philosophy of life. Their exemplars are pimps and gangsters... Gangs develop to bolster self-identity through psychological control of the streets; hip "threads" and "freaked out" cars also serve as outward signs of inner creativity. Both sexes consider coitus ("doin' the do") a natural and desirable part of adolescence; soft drugs, primarily marijuana ("tea"), also offer...
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Amount Of Money Professor Higgins
1,239 words... er lessons and her teacher. Eliza most likely gains most of her emotional appeal by her unfailing innocence and thirst for knowledge. The other remarkable character presented in the drama is the infamous Henry Higgins. This character is the direct protagonist of Eliza and yet the observer oftentimes can identify with him as well. He is brilliant in the study of phonetics, but awkward and rude in the area of social graces. Even his own mother comments undesirably when she says You offend all ...
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Ways Of Thinking Sherlock Holmes
1,075 wordsKnowledge was one of the most powerful tools of the middle ages. It was highly valued by many kings and members of nobility, but the greatest procurer of knowledge through the middle ages was undoubtedly the church. Their motive for the capturing of wisdom was not for their own enrichment, but predominantly self-preservation. If the general public were to get hold of such a wealth of philosophical and scientific works that were withheld in the monastic libraries then they would almost certainly ...
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Group Dynamics In 12 Angry Men
1,603 wordsIn the 1957 classic 12 Angry Men, group dynamics are portrayed through a jury deliberation. Group dynamics is concerned with the structure and functioning of groups as well as the different types of roles each character plays. In the film, twelve men are brought together in a room to decide whether a boy is guilty of killing his father. The personality conflicts, the joint effort and the functioning of several minds together to search for the truth are just a few characteristics of group dynamic...
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Middle Of The Road Time Passes
1,298 wordsOne day, Dorko walks into a popular fast food joint for no other reason than that is where his feet took him. Taking haphazard bites from other customer's food, he crookedly makes his way to the line at a cash register. Of course, the act of getting in line was a complete accident. He stares at the menu; he stares at the employees; he stares at a man picking his pockets. 'Need help?' start Dorko, 'Here, it makes things a lot easier if I just hand you my wallet. Preferably with you holding a gun ...
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Narrator Third Person
661 wordsCafe with Character Carson Maccullers wrote her novella, The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, in third person. In this dramatic narrative, the narrator is an observer. In the novella, character serves to accent the narrator? s limited point of view. The motivations behind Miss Amelia? s, Cousin Lymon? s, and Marvin Macy? s actions are often a mystery to the narrator. Miss Amelia is the main character of the novella. She was a? ... dark, tall woman with bones and muscles like a man. ? (p. 4) Miss Amelia h...
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Tom And Daisy Gatsby Funeral
1,030 wordsNick versus Gatsby Mainframe computers analyze information and present it so that the observer is able to make accurate observations. In The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the narrator, Nick Carraway, tells a story in which Jay Gatsby tries to attain happiness through wealth. Even though the novel is titled after Gatsby, Nick, just as a mainframe computer, analyzes the actions of others and presents the story so that the reader can comprehend the theme. Throughout the novel, Nick ...
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Otto Frank Carol Ann
1,502 wordsObserver Review: The Hidden Life Of Otto Observer Review: The Hidden Life Of Otto Frank By Carol Ann Lee Answers from the attic The Hidden Life of Otto Frank Carol Ann Lee Viking? 17. 99, pp 384 Until the start of the Second World War, Otto Franks life was as soothing and wrinkle-free as freshly laundered linen. Born into an upper-middle-class German family his were the kind of people who called on their neighbours only at the correct hour of the afternoon he worried about the same things as any...
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Review Up The Down Escalator Chronic Pessimism Society
1,049 wordsObserver Review: Up The Down Escalator By Observer Review: Up The Down Escalator By Charles Leadbetter An old case for a new order Up the Down Escalator Why the Global Pessimists are Wrong Charles Leadbeater Viking? 17. 99, pp 384 A book which proclaims that its purpose is the defeat of chronic pessimism needs to begin with a convincing demonstration that the enemy exists. The failure of Up the Down Escalator to perform that essential task is largely attributable to Charles Leadbeater's apparent...
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Hong Kong Observer Review
1,061 wordsObserver Review: Fragrant Harbour By John Lanchester Observer Review: Fragrant Harbour By John Lanchester With a little help from his friends Fragrant Harbour John Lanchester Faber &# 163; 16. 99, pp 310 What does John Lanchester sound like? What is his true voice, his tone, his signature style? To read his fiction is to be left wondering about such things, because there is no one characteristic Lanchester style: you do not open one of his books at random as you do something by, say, Martin Amis...
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Observer Review Reflections Shadows By Saul Steinberg
844 wordsObserver Review: Reflections And Shadows By Saul Observer Review: Reflections And Shadows By Saul Steinberg And Aldo Buzzi Fragments from the cartoon philosopher Reflections and Shadows Saul Steinberg and Aldo Buzzi Allen Lane? 9. 99, pp 101 This strange and tiny book derives from conversations between Saul Steinberg (1914 - 99) best known as the least obviously comic of the New Yorkers cartoonists and his friend the Italian writer Aldo Buzzi. The venue was Steinberg's country house in the Hampt...
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Upper Middle Class L Carter
541 wordsObserver Review: The Emperor Of Ocean Park Observer Review: The Emperor Of Ocean Park By Stephen L Carter Supreme Emperor The Emperor of Ocean Park Stephen L Carter Jonathan Cape? 18, pp 657 After Jonathan Franzens T he Corrections and Jonathan Safran Foers Everything Is Illuminated, The Emperor of Ocean Park is the third recent American novel to arrive here with the hyperbole that comes with a massive advance and ecstatic US critical reaction. But The Emperor of Ocean Park lives up to the hype....
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P 233 Rez Reverte Arturo P 233 Rez Reverte Coy
977 wordsObserver Review: The Nautical Chart By Arturo Observer Review: The Nautical Chart By Arturo P? rez-Reverte In search of lost treasure The Nautical Chart Arturo P&execute; rez-Reverte Picador? 16. 99, pp 465 Towards the end of The Nautical Chart, the central character, Coy, finds a turtle caught in a net. He dives into the sea to free her, slashing away at a thousand feet of fishing mesh that trap her until, finally, she swims off, exhausted, trailing blood that turns the water pink, and without ...
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Human Dignity Observer Review
980 wordsObserver Review: Our Posthuman Future By Francis Observer Review: Our Posthuman Future By Francis Fukuyama A penny for his thoughts Our Posthuman Future Francis Fukuyama Profile? 17. 99, pp 400 A little, for Francis Fukuyama, has gone a long way. In 1989 he made himself famous by opining that, with the breaching of the Berlin Wall, history had ended. His pronouncement hardly qualified as an idea; it was a slogan, crassly bolstering American triumphalism. At the time he was a middling policy wonk...
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O Acute Observer Review
984 wordsObserver Review: Gaud&impute; By Gijs Van Hensbergen Observer Review: Gaud&impute; By Gijs Van Hensbergen Catalan who got the cream Gaud&impute; Gijs van Hensbergen HarperCollins? 24. 99, pp 322 A sensational building by an eccentric architect transforms a provincial Spanish capital. No, not Frank Gehrys Guggenheim in Bilbao. It happened long before in Barcelona when Antoni Gaud&impute; built the astonishing church of La Sagrada Fam&impute; lia. Yet built is the wrong tense. La Sagrada Fam&imput...
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Oxford Reference Online Oxford Reference Book
798 wordsOnline reference Book publishing is like farming: a lot happens in the spring, summer is pastoral, autumn is hectic and everyone gets drunk in winter. Just now, as Observer readers will know, the Anglo-American book trade is going through one of its seasonal spasms. Charles Frazier, bestselling author of Cold Mountain, has sold his new (unwritten) book to Random House for $ 5 million and all over Manhattan people who should know better are crying Foul! As Mark Twain memorably put it, when people...
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