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- 451: The Volkswagen Beetle
- ... project did not get far, but a Porsche-designed NSU that reached that prototype stage in 1933 accurately foreshadowed the Volkswagen. The idea of a people s car appealed to Porsche, and it fascinated Adolf Hitler. When the Nazi Party came to power in 1933, one of his pet notions was the concept of motoring for the masses, and a meeting with Porsche was to be a meeting of minds. Once ...
- 452: The Theme Of Genocide In Night
- ... committing genocide to the Ethnic Albanians of Kosovo. The Serbs called it an "ethnic cleansing". Where will the next genocide occur? The holocaust was so terrifying, so horrible, and so destructive, that the crime that Hitler and the Nazis committed deserved a new name. The word genocide was created because word that previously described it, "mass-murder", did not adequately describe what happened to the Jews because it failed to account ...
- 453: The Philosophical Foundations
- ... as a hero? What is it that unites Achilles, Cyrano, Isaac Newton, John Galt and Ayn Rand? What is it that differentiates them from: both the folks next door, and from Iago, Ellsworth Toohey, Adolf Hitler, Hilary Clinton? In short, what is the rational meaning of the concept "heroism"? Webster's Ninth Collegiate Dictionary defines "hero as: a) "a mythological or legendary figure often of divine descent endowed with great strength ...
- 454: The Inherent Need For Governme
- ... the US likewise. The reason for the atom bomb's development was the inherent need for a defense mechanism that was more advanced than that of the enemy. At that time it was believed that Hitler was also in the midst of building an atomic bomb , and the only way to defend against nuclear threat is with nuclear weapons of your own. This is an example of a balance of terror ...
- 455: The American Hero
- ... lose it to his chief rival, Belloq. This begins the story of Indiana Jones and his quest for the long-lost Ark of the Covenant. But during his search Indy is meet by the Nazis. Hitler hopes to find the Ark and use it to make his army invisible. (Planet Indy NP) Indiana Jones finds the Ark, but as he finds it, so do the Nazis. They had followed him the ...
- 456: An Increasing Problem On High
- ... had his own Web Page, and there was an investigaton that looked into whether the boys found out how to make the bombs they used on the internet. Analysts aalso stressed that April 20 was Hitler's birthday, a sign we were told, that the killers were neo-Nazis. Some critics attacked goths; others took on trench coats; still others, the abolition of school prayer. 20/20 called the Goth movement ...
- 457: Social Darwinism
- ... Darwin's theory of evolution, lends itself to various social interpretations known as social Darwinism. From the radical left to the radical right, Darwin's theory has been adopted by such people as Marx and Hitler, each of whom saw in it evidence for their own ideology. Alongside the likes of Copernicus, Galileo, and Newton, Darwin has rightly earned his place in history as one of the giants of the scientific ...
- 458: John Stuart Mill Verses Immanu
- ... gives all his money away to charity because he feels so deeply about it. I also see cons to taking Mill's values on as societal ethics - they could conceivably give rise to the next Hitler. But with Kant, people would be prosecuted for EVERYTHING since there are no extenuating circumstances. Think of the court system - innocent men who had to protect their family and home alongside hardened serial rapists, both ...
- 459: Media Extended Essay Glen Hodd
- ... and when the reader is the general public then this a tool which has a lot of influence. We have seen through history what power the media has, an example would be the propaganda that Hitler used leading up and during the second world war. The media has so many links and there are a lot of institutions in the media. The Hoddle story only became news because the media wanted ...
- 460: Microwaves
- ... the German Luftwaffe invasion and that policemen employ to pinch speeding motorists, is what many of us now have in our kitchens. It's the same as what carries long distance phone calls and cablevision. Hitler's army had its own version of radar, using radio waves. But the trouble with radio waves is that their long wavelength requires a large, cumbersome antenna to focus them into a narrow radar beam ...
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