|
Enter your query below to search our database containing over 50,000+ essays and term papers
Search results 6721 - 6730 of 18414 matching essays
- 6721: Howard Hughes-A Flying Life
- ... love of aviation. In 1927 he started his career in acting. Some of his movies were “Hells Angels” in 1930, “Scarface” in 1932, and “The Outlaw” in 1941. Howard’s great achievements broke records. His world speed record of 352 mph, in 1935 ended in a crash. It took him several tries to get that speed. On July 10, 1969 he and his crew took off to fly around the world. Even though he made several stops he was back home 4 days later, he landed at 2:37 on July 14. On July 7, 1946 he took the new XF-11 plane up for a ... and the interior looked like the set of the old “Time Tunnel,” TV series. On November 2, 1945 in San Pedro Harbor the Spruce Goose flew but for only seventy yards. Hughes also built the world’s first communications satellite. His dream was that anyone on or about the earth could communicate with someone else. Arthur C. Clark first had this idea but never told anyone, Hughes did! By the ...
- 6722: Ritalin
- ... effects which become evident. Throughout life every person loses concentration or does not pay attention to the present situation; however, if ADD was based upon the individual occurrences that all humans experience, then the entire world would be diagnosed with ADD and consuming Ritalin. Citing the main criticism of Ritalin, Hancock states the drug is simply a quick fix for children living in an impatient world (52). "It takes more time for parents and teachers to sit down and talk to kids; it takes less time to get a child a pill," states Dr. Sharon Collins, a pediatrician in Cedar Rapids ... effects which become evident. Throughout life every person loses concentration or does not pay attention to the present situation; however, if ADD was based upon the individual occurrences that all humans experience, then the entire world would be diagnosed with ADD and consuming Ritalin. Citing the main criticism of Ritalin, Hancock states the drug is simply a quick fix for children living in an impatient world (52). "It takes more ...
- 6723: The Catcher In The Rye: Holden
- ... sand' mentality, a deliberate ignorance of the emptiness that can characterize human existence? And if so, when Caulfield begins to probe and investigate his own sense of emptiness and isolation, before finally declaring that the world is full of 'phonies' with each one put out for their own phony gain, is Holden actually the one who is going insane, or is it society which has lost it's mind for failing ... strong and a difficult struggle for the weak. 3. Respect for fellowman. The criticism toward 'phony' things in society is expressed in the novel primarily by the word 'phony'. Holden is a representative of the world of childhood whose characteristics are the opposite values to those Holden calls 'phony'. One of the things Holden often calls 'phony' is the world of movies and everything about it. Examples of it are his anger toward his brother D.B. because he moved to Hollywood, aversion of Sunny the prostitute who tells him she spends most of ...
- 6724: Sex Marriage
- ... Does this exclude homosexuals? Many think so simply because they believe that marriage is not a right, but a privilege. This argument means that because gays are not going to bring a child into the world, they do not deserve the privilege of marriage. Those that oppose this argument see marriage in a different way. They believe that if you love someone, you have the right to bond yourself to them ... deny them the benefits which heterosexuals can receive. If the innate sexual preference of any given person cannot be changed, the United States government can no longer keep homosexuals from the rights which they deserve(World Press Review, 1993). Though it may seem beneficial to the struggle for gay rights, if a "gay gene" is ever pinpointed, there could be dire consequences. In recent years, many Catholic churches have had "treatment ... s sexual preference simply by looking at them or taking a small blood sample. Many fear that this will change if studies prove conclusive that there is a specific gene for homosexuality(U.S. News & World Report, 1995). The third and final side of this argument is that a gay gene simply does not exist. Some scientists accuse Hamer of "stacking the deck" and choosing his subjects so selectively that ...
- 6725: Frankenstein: The Forbidden Fruit
- ... him. The Monster then turned bitter and vengeful, and hated his creator for giving him life. In Marry Shelly's Frankenstein, The Creature symbolizes fallen innocence, his childlike naivete stripped away by the cold, uncaring world. The Creature was truly innocent after his creation. At first, he knew nothing but base urges and desires. He was confused buy his senses, unable to distinguish between them. He only took clothes to shelter ... never to return. After that, he read some papers left in the clack he took so long ago, and learned of his creator. He hated himself, and hated Frankenstein more for bringing him into the world, and then abandoning him. His experiences with man turned him bitter and confused. Humanity made the innocent, naive Creature into a vicious, bitter monster. After he learned of is creation, he vowed vengeance against his ... his life experienced with Mankind. Maybe if his maker had taken responsibility, or if he would have remained in the wilderness, the Creature would have retained in virtue. However, once he was brought into the world of man, he slowly became a diabolical demon. He became bitter as he realized what he was, and as humanity shunned and beat him. The Creature was not evil, but he was more like ...
- 6726: Media Control
- ... time our values and ideals. To complete it's mission, modern media must get and evaluate the information and provide the general people with a clear, full, and unbiased view of the changes in the world, upon which citizens can act. Unfortunately, all too often current-day media fall short. Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky have defined the reasons that media fall short in their mission to inform. The model they ... bleeds it leads". Violence has been on the decline in the United States in the last three years, yet coverage of violent crime has not declined. This type of journalism does not accurately portray the world around us, and has the potential to cause paranoia. These are problems caused by filter one. When a large company owns a paper or television station it creates a conflict of interest. Bill Kovatch, who ... virtually every sector of the communications industry. Not long after the bill passed mergers that before were not legal began to happen. Disney and ABC merged to form one of the large conglomerates in the world. Together they now control over $16 billion in annual revenue. CBS was soon to follow suit when it merged with Westinghouse. And NBC is owned by General Electric. These mergers are monopolies, and they ...
- 6727: The Beatles and the Sex Pistols: A Study
- ... in the history of rock 'n' roll. They began as a group who would play in pubs and try their best to entertain the crowd. They made it to America in 1964 and swept the world off its feet with Beatlemania. Their musical style changed throughout the years as much as their physical appearance did. A whole generation looked up to them and their cultural impact can still be felt today ... which not incidentally is when the song came out. This is a message that all the hippies would surely champion. John Lennon is trying to express through the practice of love; maybe some of the world's ills will get solved. "No Feelings" reads, "I kick you in the brain when you get down to kneel and pray to your god." This is a very threatening thing for someone to say ... hadn't been seen. This opened the groundwork for a lot of freedoms we take for granted today, such as censorship. People truly listened to both groups and that's perhaps how they changed the world. The Sex Pistols fought for individual politics and a change in the music industry. They got what they wanted by provoking a lot of emotion into the young people, and thus when the young ...
- 6728: Over Population
- ... support life on Earth. Population control must be enforced to avoid such a catastrophic occurrence. Many economic, social and environmental problems are either affiliated with or are increased due to overpopulation. With an exponentially increasing world population, the problems created by overpopulation grow correspondingly. In order to stabilize the massive population, the world must work together to maintain population stability. One of the main reasons is due to the fact that Man treats his surroundings, for example like his land, his environment, his atmosphere, his waters and other ... yet, now. The earth does not have enough resources to supply the current enormous population growth. In many areas, there is simply not enough food to feed the growing populations. 150 million children in the world suffer from poor health due to food shortages. Alongside with food, there is another resource that cannot keep up with the increasing population, that is water. Our supply of fresh water is very essential ...
- 6729: Dizzy Gillespie
- ... take and sample with in a new song. Jazz and its historical figures have mistreated and forgotten by today's society. One of the figure most forgotten is John Birks Gillespie, known to the jazz world as "Dizzy" Gillespie. "Dizzy" Gillespie was a trumpet player, composer, bandleader and politician of mostly the early 40's to mid 50's. This was a time period in Jazz called Bebop, Bop or sometimes ... amazement and thrill to audiences for years. In Bebop and later another one of Gillespie's discoveries Afro-Cuban Jazz, he was a genius and a giant. Once Gillespie became a giant of the music world he began to influence every musician that preceded him. All jazz musicians that followed the Bebop era dreamed of being like @Diz@ and "Bird". They respected the ones of earlier era's like Louis Armstrong ... Gillespie's most valuable work has been with his trumpet on stage making music instead of "apologizing for the state department" as he called it. Dizzy Gillespie is a historic legend that introduced an entire world of music to people. "Dizzy" should be recognized by everyone as one of music's "Gods" instead of humorous figure with huge distorted cheeks and a bent trumpet (Span, 1). To further understand this ...
- 6730: Canterbury Tales - Courtly Love In Chaucer
- ... becomes secondary to the appearance of practicing the virtues of truth, honor, and generosity. After establishing the inverted hierarchy of values, Chaucer paints a bleak picture of the potential for love and relationships in a world in which a distinction needs to be made between secular and private roles. Dorigen differentiates between "hir housbonde" and "hir love" (250) and Arveragus distinguishes between "his lady" and "his wyf" (125). Immediately, Chaucer signals ... mandates that a husband is the lord of his wife, and Arveragus grants her sovereignty only within the scope of their private life because he must uphold the tradition of male domination in the outside world. Arveragus' promise to becomes a way to demonstrate that " [p]acience is a heigh vertu" (101). Always aware of the connection between his actions and his rank he states, "Save that the name of soveraynetee ... self-interests that no one commits acts of good will without ulterior motives of personal gain, framing this irony is the Franklin's question "Which was the moste free, as thnketh yowe?" (950). If a world places a higher position on truth in external interaction than it grants to private relationships, true love in the courtly tradition of behavior targeted to further self interest can never survive. In the tale' ...
Search results 6721 - 6730 of 18414 matching essays
|
