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- 11911: The Holocaust: Tragedy in the 20th Century
- ... started killing the black people, then the brown, and then the yellow people. People with blonde hair and blue eyes were the “perfect race.” When one survivor was asked about the holocaust and how the world learned from it, he responded with, “What the world learned from the holocaust is that you can kill six million Jews and no one will care.” The Holocaust destroyed families, friends, and even cities. People were tortured and killed all because of whom they ...
- 11912: Diaghilev
- ... Russian painters Léon Bakst and Alexandre Benois. During this time, Diaghilev did succeed and indeed felt he had finnaly found his place in life. He founded AND edited a progressive art journal "Mir Iskusstva" ( The World of Art) from 1899 1904. In 1899, as a project, Diaghilev became the artistic adviser to the Imperial Theatres in Moscow, where he produced and co-produced several operas and ballets. It was then that ... Serge Diaghilev s enlightened many in his day, and still do now. He created his own form of dance, that was pleasing to the audience in many more ways that one, and expanded the dance world and brought it to new hights, which some say it has still not exceeded. The History of The Ballets Russes de Serge Diaghilev The Ballets Russes de Serge Diaghilev quickly turned into a Russian émigré ...
- 11913: Teenage Years
- ... These are the best years of your life", or "What responsibility? You've got it easy". These lines are heard much too often. Hopefully, it can only get easier for teenagers to cope with the world and to live to their full potential. Where a teenager can wade through the jaws of advertisers, the popularity contest, their parents, and most of all, depressionÕs cold claws. For, up until now, it never occurred to anyone anywhere that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.
- 11914: Henry Adams, Virgin And The Dy
- ... Adams was an old man who had Puritan beliefs about sex and religion. In this autobiography, Adams voices his skepticism about man’s newfound power to control the direction of history, in particular, the exploding world of science and technology, where all certainties of the future have vanished (anb.org, 1). Adams grew up in the United Stated where he was a Puritan. Puritans believed that sex (women especially) was just ... and the future). “In opposition to the medieval Virgin, Adams saw a new godhead—the dynamo—symbol of the modern history’s anarchic energies” (anova.org, 1). Adams desperately wanted to learn about the new world of technology, the “dynamos”, yet he felt helpless to find this new knowledge and to comprehend it. Adams was overwhelmed by the technology of the dynamos. When Adams saw the dynamo, it became a symbol ...
- 11915: The Telephone System
- The Telephone System The telephone is one of the most creative and prized inventions in the world. It has advanced from its humble beginnings to its wireless communication technology today and for the future. The inhabitants of the earth have long communicated over a distance, which has been done by shouting from ... satellites, which made it possible to link points halfway around the earth sounding as if from next door. Finally, by adding three digit area codes, all phone calls, either to next door or around the world, could be done by the caller. The first telephone company to establish a telephone industry was the Bell Telephone Company, in 1877, by Alexander Graham Bell. This did last for sometime, however, independent telephone companies ...
- 11916: The Origins of the Computer
- ... And you are not to hand in this report claiming credit for it heheh. The Roman Empire, founded by Augustus Caesar in 27 B.C. and lasting in Western Europe for 500 years, reorganized for world politics and economics. Almost the entirety of the civilized world became a single centralized state. In place of Greek democracy, piety, and independence came Roman authoritarianism and practicality. Vast prosperity resulted. Europe and the Mediterranean bloomed with trading cities ten times the size of their ...
- 11917: Woodstock
- ... not hippies in the commonly accepted sense: a good half of them, at least, were high school or college students from middle class homes ("The Big Woodstock, 33"). But at Woodstock they exhibited to the world many of the hippie values and life styles, from psychedelic clothing to spontaneous, unashamed nudity to open and casual sex, and also illicit drugs. Youthful imaginations were captured, most obviously, by the hippie sound: driving ... and chaos. The generous assistance of the Hog Farm help bring everything together. A New Mexico hippie commune took care of kids who were on bad trips from LSD. It was demonstrated to the adult world that young people could create a kind of peace in a situation where none should have existed ("The Big Woodstock, 33). The youth of America got together well beyond the festival itself. Overall the Woodstock ...
- 11918: Human Nature
- ... inquiry and similarly every action and pursuit is thought to aim at some good." This idealism is strongly disagreed with. Since of all the wars, murders, robbers and other evil things that occur in our world every day. Plato believes that when a baby is born, he is born with all of his traits. This paper would disagree with this because you are not going to see a newborn baby doing ... born, they are born morally neutral, however when Hobbes says that they will develop evil and become selfish, it is contended that he is wrong, because historical evidence would suggest that not everyone in the world is evil and selfish. We do not know for sure whether there is a god or not, or if everyone's lives are predestined. Therefore, we can not absolutely know how evil was introduced into ...
- 11919: A Review of The Jungle
- ... America. Sinclair consistently throws problems at the man who runs from one scenario to the next. The title of the book comes from an old saying, "it's a jungle out there." meaning that the world is so complex and busy, it is hard to comprehend all that is taking place. That is exactly how the book is portrayed, as a jungle. So many things are going on like crime, politics ... I believe illustrates Sinclair's sense of style, "The whole long agony came back to him. Their sacrifices in the beginning, their three hundred dollars that they had scraped together, all they owned in the world, all that stood between them and starvation! And then their toil, month by month, to get the twelve dollars, and the interest as well, and now and then the taxes, and the other charges, and ...
- 11920: Vegetarianism
- ... and process knowledge faster and more efficiently than ever before. From our new period has come technological advancements which have both caused and been an effect of the growing pool of information available to the world. Communities more fully understand and are changing the way they affect the environment of their areas and the rest of the planet. The science of the human body has expanded and become increasingly important to ... follow. I encourage you to at least cut down your consumption of meat in order to help your personal health, the environment, and also take part in the growth and spread of knowledge across the world.
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