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- 8591: Teaching Kids
- ... being taught to our children is one of the most pressing problems in our society today. The responsibility of raising children with a strong moral base has been lost in the chaos of the modern world. With an increase in single parenting and more homes where both parents are employed full-time, the role of parents in their children's lives has drastically changed. Many parents are no longer involved in ... can successfully accomplish these tasks. The likelihood of this idea actually taking place is doubtful at best. Most parents have neither the time nor the resources to raise their children in preparation for the real world. So when parents aren't there to stop their children from watching excessive violence on television or to point out the evils and consequences of drug and alcohol abuse, this is when problems arise. If ... diseases are spread, this is much more effective in preventing teen pregnancy and the spread of sexual diseases than simply preaching abstinence. It addresses another important contemporary issue which children will face in the modern world. These innovations in the education of students are strong support that a more complex education about life is not just a theory, but a definite possibility. If parents continue to be the sole moral ...
- 8592: Leonardo Da Vinci
- ... a dome-like frame and it had holes around the perimeter for a man to extend a weapon through and shoot or stab at his enemy. This tank, however crude, was well adapted to the war conditions that were present at the time Da Vinci lived. Leonardo also invented the world's first automatic assault weapon. His version was a rack of three rows of iron barrels mounted on a rotating surface. The machine operates so that while one row is being systematically fired the other ...
- 8593: Teaching Practice
- ... and Rousseau because both theories seem to give the people the power and right to reform the structure of society and government. 7. "History consists for the greater part of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the strains of disorderly appetites which shake the public." Government and Society: Burke as Democrat 8. As to who is eligible to rule ... in the 18th century had taken loans, which returned two and three times the principal to the borrowers. The government was also unwilling to control its expenses at Versailles, the upkeep of a large aristocracy, war efforts, and perhaps the straw that broke the camels back, the expenses of trying to aid the American colonies achieve independence. French bureaucracy was also a nightmare with laws and rules that made effective administration ...
- 8594: Freud's Oz: Freudian Views in The Wizard of Oz
- ... Oz was produced. One reason was that due to the depression, many people were forced away from their homes and into cities. Another reason was that America was on the verge of entering into another war, WWII, and the threat of having to send troops away from home was very real. And, as stated by Paul Nathanson in Over the Rainbow (156), "going home is fundamentally linked, for many Americans, with ... is evidenced by her dismissal of Dorothy's pleas for help with Toto. Since in Kansas any negative feelings towards Aunt Em are not allowed, Dorothy represses them. Now that Dorothy is in her dream world she can express those hostile feelings. Dorothy does this through splitting Aunt Em into two separate people. One representing all of the good qualities in Aunt Em, and one representing all of the bad ones ...
- 8595: Technology Has Influenced Our
- ... masses of stars called nebulae to help with proving his theories. In the twenties some believed that we were all part of one huge galaxy and still others believed that the possibility of a whole world of galaxies outside our own was conceivable. What Edwin Hubble observed with his telescope led him to theorize that galaxies all began from a very densely compacted matter that exploded. In 1929 he professed we ... of the fundamental forces. In 1964 two physicists Murray Gell-Mann and George Zweig came upon the idea that all the "new" particles could be explained by smaller objects that Gell-Mann named quarks. The world's major accelerators and their accomplishments are the following: 1)Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, in California, discovered the charm quark. 2)Fermilab: Fermi National Laboratory Accelerator, in Illinois, where the bottom and top quarks were ... yet another substructure to the leptons and the quarks or are they the end? Will higher energy accelerators yield more results? The questions seem as infinite as the possibilities that exist. A look into the world of technology and how it has shaped the understanding of the universe would be incredibly lacking if it did not mention the computer. Computers are an essential part in speeding up studies of all ...
- 8596: 27 Years of Influential 60 Minutes
- 27 Years of Influential 60 Minutes Since 1968 America has been better enlightened than previously concerning current events and happenings around the world. A considerable factor for this occurrence is the television program 60 Minutes which debuted on the air in September of 1968. Many other television newsmagazines have been produced since its creation, however none have possessed ... to the show. Before 1968 the nightly news would simply broadcast headlines; comparable to reading a newspaper. But 60 Minutes became a television newsmagazine offering the reader revealing, on camera stories about happenings around the world. Viewers of the show became better informed as to actual business, political, and science practices. Howard Stringer, president of CBS Broadcast Group, says that "60 Minutes invented a new genre of television programming-the newsmagazine ... follow. Many newsmagazines have come and gone through the years proceeding 60 Minutes' inception, all of which borrowed something along the way. Today more than ever it is easy to see that people want real world stories, and the television newsmagazine provides this for the viewer complete with unbelievable video footage and ground-breaking stories.60 Minutes invented this form of service for the public and they have received proper ...
- 8597: Zora Neale Hurston
- ... recognized not for being the first Afro-American writer, but rather for her ability to bring forth her cultural language and imagery. If not for Zora's pioneering effort as a female black writer, the world of modern literature would have never seen the cultural insights of the African American culture in such a candid way. Zora's date of birth is said to be in January of 1891, however her ... most of her more renowned and known work by herself. The entire list of her published short stories include: Muttsy (Opportunity), Possum or Pig (Forum), The Eatonville Anthropology (Messenger), How It Feels to be Colored (World Tomorrow), The Gilded Six Bits (Story), The Fire and the Cloud (Challenge), Tell My Horse, Now Take Noses, Moses Man of the Mountains, Dust Tracks on a Road (Hurston 203-7). Her career was sustained ... stated, "Their Eyes Were Watching God speaks to me as no novel, past or present has ever done . There is enough self-love in that one book---love of community, culture, traditions--to restore a world. "(Magill 570-2) Zora's Neale Hurston's personal life consisted of some disappointments and some successes. After collecting folklore in Florida in 1927 she met Herbert Sheen. It was during this trip that ...
- 8598: Van Gogh
- ... Lauren Kane) Vincent Van Gogh was indeed a brilliant artist. His work influenced and inspired many people. He tried to express his feelings through his paintings. Van Gogh once said, "there is nothing in the world as interesting as people... one can never study them enough."(Raboff and Peter) Van Gogh often painted people's expressions, their body language and in fact their actions. He did this for self-fulfillment and ... every man must carry his own load"(Elizabeth, Lawrence Hanson 15) By the end of July,1869 Van Gogh started working in the Goupil Gallery. He was very content working there. He was in the world of art, "a world full of paintings gorgeously framed and temptingly hung. "(Elizabeth, Lawrence Hanson 16) He was encouraged to learn how the business ran, furthermore he was encouraged to acquire knowledge. One may ask, how does a ...
- 8599: Robert Frost And His Life
- ... especially close to a brooding Welshman named Edward Thomas, whom he urged to turn from prose to poetry. Thomas did so, dedicating his first and only volume of verse to Frost before his death in World War I. The Frosts sailed for the United States in February 1915 and landed in New York City two days after the U.S. publication of North of Boston (the first of his books to be ...
- 8600: The Call Of The Wild - Symbolism
- ... these items symbolize. The main character in the book is Buck, a half St. Bernard, half Scotch shepherd dog. In the story, he is betrayed by someone he trusts and is thrown into a harsh world. A world where you must work or be discarded. He adapts to the harsh environment, and soon enough becomes the leader of a wolf pack. Here London makes Buck a symbol of one that reaches full potential ... he kills him along with a number of other Indians. The vein is yet another symbol. It symbolizes Buck’s last tie with civilization. John Thornton was the only thing holding Buck to the civilized world. When he was killed by the Yeehats, Buck would now be a primitive animal. All he had to do was avenge the death of the only man he ever loved, John Thornton. There are ...
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