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- 8071: DR Daniel J Boorstin
- ... The National Experience, which won the Parkman Prize, and The Americans: The Democratic Experience, which won the Pulitzer Prize. His 1983 work, The Discoverers, a best selling history of man's search to know the world and himself, was awarded the Watson Davis Prize of the History of Science Society. His other works include The Mysterious Science of Law, The Genius of American Politics, and The Republic of Technology. In addition ... and to Americans. The book's anecdotal style makes it a great reading experience. However, Boorstin omits many happenings that had a great impact on American culture, such as the labor movement and the Vietnam War. Boorstin may "dislike important events"(Mohs,1973). However, those two events are too important for any historian to ignore.
- 8072: Cicero
- ... which Cicero contradicted the stoic lifestyle, is religion. Roman tradition conflicted greatly with stoic doctrine, and the two philosophies could never truly harmonize with one another. This point brought the distinction between the Greek learned world of intellect, and the traditional religious roman patronage. This observation literally draws a line between the two worlds, that of knowledge and reason opposing that of tradition and sentiment. This illustrated that roman was truly ... being full of divine reason. Thus, the stoics adhered to the universe and divine plan as god. Most ancient Greek philosophies denied the existence of traditional gods and pathos. A conflict arose between the Greek world of the intellect and the Roman world of traditional sentiment. On the subject of divinity Cicero had a dual nature to his beliefs. On one hand he spoke dispassionately on the inability of the gods to exist, on the other hand ...
- 8073: Woodrow Wilson
- ... wasn't; a lawyer, a historian, a novelist, and peruse what he was destined to do. Wilson felt his obligation was to humanize "every process of our human life." This dream however was shattered by war. The greatest achievement Wilson ever made was his cooperation with other nations to form the League of Nations and ultimately form the United Nations. For Wilson's efforts, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1919. Wilson was greatly responsible for increasing US participation in world affairs. Wilson was a great president and a great public servant. He was a brilliant speaker and a fun loving, energetic man who pursued his ideas to lead the nation through hard times. A true ...
- 8074: Viking Sailing Ships
- Viking Sailing Ships The Vikings were ranked among the best the best ship builders in the world. They built the ships out of wood from the Scandinavian forests, mostly oak. All the stakes are made of oak and the grain of wood runs with the curved planks. The ribs and planking under ... on the wind and the ship's large woolen sail for power. On rivers, rowers powered the ship. A Viking warship had between fifteen to over thirty pair of rowers. Not all Viking ships were war ships. Some were used to carry livestock or large cargoes of other merchandise to trade. They carried a crew of fifteen to twenty men. These ships were deep and wide and fifty- four feet long ...
- 8075: Abigail Adams
- ... the Congress called at Philadelphia to try and unite the colonies against Great Britain's plan to punish Boston and Massachusetts. Though her sons would not be of military age for another decade, Abigail dreaded war, in which only God knew what would happen. When the shots at Lexington and Concorde were fired, John was again off to the Congress and cautioned Abigail that she should 'fly to the woods' with the children if the British attacked Boston. Abigail prayed for the war and on June 17 John Quincy and Abigail went to Bunker Hill and watched the roar of the cannons and saw the flames of burning Charleston atop of Penn's Hill near where they lived ... what's happening at the immediate point in time. Abigail sometimes called herself 'Mrs. Delegate' because she was the wife of a Revolutionary leader. Abigail continued to keep in tact with her husband throughout the war. She also was very political. Then later she led a very productive life.
- 8076: Book Review of "The Burning Man" by Phillip Margolin
- ... to ask a girl at the bar whether he could buy her a drink. They knew that she didn't want him to, but with just a little persuasion, Gary was led into a delusional world, believing that the girl wanted him to buy her a drink and perhaps take her home after that. When he was so abruptly brought out of his delusional world, he became violent. After that, when Gary was brought into the questioning room of the police station the next day, two police officers desperately searcing for some answers also began to think for Gary Harmon ... people in delusional worlds and try to convince them to face reality that save them from disaster. This creates a great universal appeal in this story, because everyone knows someone who lives in a delusional world and can relate to the efforts of Peter Hale.
- 8077: Lord of the Flies: The Beast Within Us
- ... Flies. In this story, the lord of the flies is right in saying that man is inherently evil. This presence of evil, is shown through character evolution, my personal views and experiences in the real world and the source of evil itself. During the coarse of the story the characters do and say many things that reveal their inner devil. One of the characters that we see the most change in ... greatest amount of evil is present. Although we see the contrast between inherent and non-inherent evil in Lord of the Flies and even in Frankenstein, we also see the same contrast in the real world. When a serial killer takes one life after another, they are each acts of evil. But then when this person receives the death penalty, it is also an act of evil. So the point is ... up at the wrong moments. In conclusion, the evil that we think of is not something on the outside, but something on the inside. Through character evolution, my personal views on evil in the real world, and the source of evil, we learned that everyone is inherently evil. These boys spent one of the most important times of their lives on an island. They took a journey and they learned ...
- 8078: The National Tobacco Agreement
- ... the agreement and those made by the general public. But before we investigate these highlights, it is interesting to know just what began this compromise that has enveloped the nation in suspense and skepticism. Post World War I, smoking became popular with most individuals as there was a steep increase in tobacco sales. This can be accredited to various reasons with in the society of that time. A survey in 1950 revealed ...
- 8079: Global Warming
- GLOBAL WARMING In 1992 the United States and nations from around the world met at the United Nations Earth Summit in Rio and agreed to voluntarily reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by the year 2000. The Rio Treaty was not legally binding and, because reducing emissions would likely cause great economic damage, many nations will not meet the goal. Representatives from around the world met again in December of 1997 at a conference in Kyoto to sign a revised agreement. The Clinton Administration negotiators agreed to legally binding, internationally enforceable limits on the emission of greenhouse gases as a ... economy by severely restricting energy use. Finally, his position assumes that the agreement will significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions worldwide and will prevent global warming. Science Is global warming occurring? - According to Accu-Weather, the world's leading commercial forecaster, "Global air temperatures as measured by land-based weather stations show an increase of about 0.45 degrees Celsius over the past century. This may be no more than normal ...
- 8080: King Lear - Blindness
- ... of Dover, Lear questions Gloucester's state: "No eyes in your head, nor no money in your purse? Your eyes are in a heavy case, your purse in a light, yet you see how this world goes. Gloucester. I see it feelingly." (Act IV, sc.VI, ln 147-151) Here, Lear cannot relate to Gloucester because his vision is not clear, and he wonders how Gloucester can see without eyes. Although ... by the main characters of the two parallel plots. While Lear portrays a lack of vision, Gloucester learns that clear vision does not emanate from the eye. Throughout this play, Shakespeare is saying that the world cannot truly be seen with the eye, but with the heart. The physical world that the eye can detect can accordingly hide its evils with physical attributes, and thus clear vision cannot result from the eye alone. Lear's downfall was a result of his failure to understand ...
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