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Soviet Union Joseph Stalin
1,249 wordsJoseph Stalin lived from 1879 till 1953. Stalin was one of the most ruthless communist dictators of all time. After Lenin's death, Stalin pushed his way to the top and was set out to make the Soviet Union into an industrial power. In 1928, Stalin proposed the Five Year Plans, which were to build heavy industry, transportation, and an increase in farm production. This initial attempt to industrialize the country was generally successful, but collectivization was extremely unpopular and was resist...
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Rhythm And Blues White And Black
1,818 wordsRap Music is not music but it is a cleverly marketed euphemism disguised to give the obnoxious noise societal legitimacy. Describing the (disenchanting) chanting of Rap Music as singing or as music is indeed (in either case) a capital misnomer. Real Music is the careful arrangement of organized sounds in the form of notes that then result in a smooth blend of rhythm, tone, and pitch that when united, is quite pleasing to the ear. Rap is not music. The unpleasant-sounding horror is chaotic disson...
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Bernard Malamud Roy Hobbs
1,078 wordsOnce upon a time, a hero would be seen courageously riding on his magnificent steed into the cave of a fearsome dragon, clad with his shinning helmet, his enormous gauntlets, his breastplate displaying his coat of arms, and in his hands, a magnificent broad sword, prepared to strike at an instant. Today, that hero is seen confidently walking to home plate, his shinning helmet replaced by a dusty cap, his gauntlets replaced by batting gloves, his breastplate replaced by a simple jersey bearing th...
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Pleasure And Pain Primary And Secondary
2,151 words... f the operations of bodies on us (sensation) or the observation of the workings of our own minds (reflection). In a famous passage (II, XI, 17), Locke compares the mind to a "dark room" (in the Latin, "camera obscura") with only a narrow inlet. Ideas are analogous to the images projected onto the back of the room. Locke classified the various simple ideas according to the following scheme. Those that come to the mind by one sense only, such as color or odor. Those that come in to the mind by...
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American Values Traditional Values
1,717 words... TV, but we don't think that appearances may be deceptive, and mostly they are. We hunter for appearance often forgetting, that it would not change our character and attitudes towards our family members. This is also the indirect influence of the emotion-based principle of television, as well as the other media. Let's now look at the values, which have changed through the media and especially Internet. With the availability of Internet for the young Americans, the total shift in the general A...
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Brave New World Believed That Man
2,754 wordsOn a superficial level Brave New World is the portrait of a perfect society. The citizens of this Utopia live in a society that is free of depression and most of the social-economic problems that trouble the world today. All aspects of life are controlled for the people of this society: population numbers, social class, and intellectual ability. History is controlled and rewritten to suit the needs of the state. All this is done in the name of social stability. When one looks beneath the surface...
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Large Scale Integration Central Processing Unit
3,632 wordsOverview Nothing epitomizes modern life better than the computer. For better or worse, computers have infiltrated every aspect of our society. Today computers do much more than simply compute: supermarket scanners calculate our grocery bill while keeping store inventory; computerized telephone switching centers play traffic cop to millions of calls and keep lines of communication untangled; and automatic teller machines (ATM) let us conduct banking transactions from virtually anywhere in the wor...
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Match My Car Red To Match My Car Engine
767 wordsI am Car Observation Observation I am choosing to observe my car. I drive a 1993 Honda Civic Ex. I have made many modifications to my car to make it look as different from any other red Honda Civic out there. I m what you might call an import enthusiast. Import cars like mine are a new dimension of automobiles now. Before it was the original V 8 engine mustangs and muscle cars but now cause of gas prices and other changes in the world we have evolved to more domestic 4 cylinders and our own way ...
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Degrees Celsius Mothers Womb
2,134 wordsAs we enter a new millennium we are also making vast technological improvements. In the field of medicine in particular, there is cause for great optimism. There has never been more power to restore, maintain and extend health. However there is something even bigger approaching, cryonics. Many people think of cryonics as some futuristic, science fiction process that would only be possible in the movies. However the idea of cryonics isn t really that unreal. There are many groups and scientists w...
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High Speed Electronic Coming Years
580 wordsSociety is on the precipice of a digital revolution; Pentium and PalmPilot will replace pen and paper in the coming decades. In 1981 Bill Gates said, 640 K of memory should be plenty for anyone. What he didn t know then was, number one, he would be the wealthiest man in the world ten years from then, and number two, the technology he was using would double in speed and power every month for the next two decades resulting in a technological revolution which is unmatched by any. The effects of thi...
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Good Idea V 8
1,656 wordsSome Tips on Car Restoration Whenever someone decides to take the initiative to restore a car, it requires a serious commitment. I have seen too many people begin work and never finish. The successful car restorer chooses a car that fits his / her personality and budget, and follows the job through to the end. One must have a love for the process as well as the product, or the project will be rushed and end up to be worthless. I learned this tedious process when I was just fourteen years old, ba...
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House Judiciary Committee Richard M Nixon
3,715 wordsPolitical Career of Richard Nixon 1. Nixon's Beginning in Politics 2. Emergence in National Politics A. The Hiss Case B. Nixon's Political Obituary C. Resurgence as a presidential candidate 3. The 37 th President A. Nixon's Appointments B. Foreign Policy 1. Nixon's plans for Europe 2. Vietnam C. Domestic Policy 4. Nixon's Second Administration A. Reelection B. Watergate A few weeks after the United States entered World War II a young man named Richard Nixon went to Washington, D. C. In January 1...
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3,601 wordsFiction, Fantasy, and Fact: " The Mad Scramble for the Elusive Silver Bullet... and the Clock Ticks Away. " Wayne Anderson November 7, 1996 The year 2000 is practically around the corner, promising a new era of greatness and wonder... as long as you dont own a computer or work with one. The year 2000 is bringing a Pandora's Box of gifts to the computer world, and the latch is slowly coming undone. The year 2000 bug is not really a " bug" or " virus, " but is more a ...
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