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- 9061: Creative Writing: The Wave
- ... and his Nazi's to show these students what they are becoming. I will tell them all that they would make great Nazi's. I mean, look at it, how close did they come to World War Three happening in the extreme. That would make me the new age Hitler and I can't and won't let that happen. Well, that is what I will do, I will stop this immature ...
- 9062: 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.
- 9063: Silent Spring
- ... not feel that there is hope for our future. The quote I chose to use tells of no hope either. The quote is telling that this is what happens when chemicals are used. In the world today more and more chemicals are being produced to kill off certain plants. Todays knowledge of chemicals is increasing and each day more people are replaced with the work of machines. These machines make ... these chemicals are also destroying the ozone. When there are other ways to rid land of these plants in an area, why should very harmful chemicals be used? I know the answer to this. The world today lives a life where knowledge and less manual labor means better. Although this is the wrong way to look at the beauty and helpfulness of the enviroment, poeple still do. I think that the ... of the quotes are right in being pessimistic. I feel that in the book Carson is also pessimistic about the future of our enviroment by the feeling she displays in her writing. Everyone in the world should be pessimistic about the enviroment. Yes, you may not live long enough to see what the total outcome of all these chemicals are, but your children will and their children will. The situation ...
- 9064: Web Site Promotion
- Promoting a World Wide Web Site As we enter the new millenium, more and more businesses are deciding to go along with building what is called sites on the world wide web, better known as a web site. It seems as though these days to many people is that all you have to do is build a web site and you are set to go ... to this method is that the recipient of the email may enjoy the site and forward the same email to people that they know. Emails also cost nothing if there is already access to the World Wide Web through an ISP (Internet Service Provider). This method is the most commonly used and it can and does work (7 Ways). A very similar way but much less direct method is simply ...
- 9065: Vincent Van Gogh
- By: Phil In present time, Vincent van Gogh is probably the most widely known and highly appreciated person of postimpressionism. During his brief lifetime, Vincents work went almost unknown to this world. His work now hangs in countless museums throughout the world and is considered priceless. His work became an important bridge between the 19th and 20th centuries. The art-historical term, Postimpressionism was coined by Roger Fry a British art critic, who described the various styles ... him in the cemetery. Vincent van Gogh was an artist whose life was cut terribly short. He sold only one painting during his lifetime, Red Vineyard at Arles, and was little known to the art world at the time of his death, but his fame grew rapidly thereafter. His influence on Expressionism, Fauvism and early abstraction was enormous, and it can be seen in many other aspects of 20th century ...
- 9066: Creative Story: Lycanthrope
- ... up with 'caline'. Which, unfortunately, I am." "A Caline," I said. "Half-dog, half-cat -- Lyle, what are you talking about? That's impossible!" He shot me a look. "Well, you're talking to the world's only one, as far as I know of, Niles." "Well, what-- When did all this happen?" "Like I said, I've been this way all my life. It has to do with my -- well ... off-guard and thrown him and emotional curve. But I continued nevertheless. "You're making it very hard for me not to act that way. After all, you have the qualities of some of the world's most vicious -- and successful -- predators, you have better senses than I could even hope to imagine, you killed a man--" "Would you kill, to save your own life?" "Well, I--" "The question is no ... accepted you?" Lyle beamed. "Now you're catching on!" He said. "You were right. Humans were the only ones who accepted me for what I was, as you are learning to do, Niles. The human world was the only one where I was treated without bias or disdain. But still, let me tell you about one of my cases, just to make sure you understand." "One of your cases..." "Yes! ...
- 9067: Creative Story: Intellegence
- ... you wouldn't have given it to me; instead you would have let someone else swindle you and you would have gone to hell. So I decided to use the most powerful weapon in the world." "You are very wise, sir," said Running Bear "but what is the most powerful weapon in the world? Knives? Guns?" "No. Intelligence." Intelligence can be the most powerful and benevolent force in the world when used correctly.
- 9068: Affirmative Action - Does It W
- ... well as one that believes that affirmative action is still needed in today's society. Mary Guy believes that affirmative action programs are still needed today. She noted that if we lived in a perfect world we would not have a need for organizations to have affirmative action programs (240). However, since people have a tendency to work around people that are most like us, programs are needed to ensure that ... including resource acquisition, marketing, creativity flexibility, and corporate attractiveness. These advantages would lead to greater profits and therefore a more positive outcome (Gilbert & Stead 11). Thc theories of affirmative action are changing in today's world, according to the authors of "Diversity management..." Many states, as well as the federal government, are debating the future of programs that are viewed as giving any type of advantage to a particular group of ... no matter how they are implemented, result in individuals being classified and treated according to their race and gender. Diversity management programs within an organization will promote the multiculturalism that is required, as our business world becomes more and more global. Though traditional discrimination is still around in some cases, I do not believe that we need to keep affirmative action in the form that it is in today. A ...
- 9069: Creative Story: Deadlock
- ... I hate this stupid robot!" she yelled out loud, then suddenly closed her mouth. For Susan Calvin had just remembered that her pact with the satans, as she thought of them, known to the robotics world as the team of Powell and Donovan. She stretched, rolled out of bed, and went downstairs, wrapping a robe around her as she went, to get some coffee. "Well, since I'm already up, I ... they were causing all those robots to go psycho," she thought. "Good thing that U.S. Robots and Mechanical Men hushed up that little incident, I'd be out of a job if the whole world, the xenophobic and primally-fearful lot of them, knew about that!" As she got out and buttered her toast, she mulled the day ahead of her in her mind. Weekends were never truly weekends for ... the entire field, and you are treating me as if I know nothing at all of the field!" "You are the field, Calvin! Don't kid yourself, you are the only robopsychologist in the entire world, and a decreasingly useful one at that! Why do you think there is only one? There is no need for one even!" "Hah! You pathetic Moses imitator, you don't fool me, your entire ...
- 9070: The Life of Anne Frank
- ... life with the seven other people in hiding--her parents, her sister, the van Pels family (called the van Daan family by Anne), and Fritz Pfeffer (called Alfred Dussel by Anne), as well as the war going on around her, and her hopes for the future. When she filled up her original diary, Miep Gies and Bep Voskuijl, two of the family's helpers,brought her ledgers and loose sheets of ... for most of the occupation,broadcast a request over the radio for people to save their wartime diaries. Anne Frank then began to rewrite her diary with the intention of having it published after the war. On August 4,1944, the Nazis raided the Secret Annex and arrested the residents. They emptied Otto Frank's briefcase onto the floor, including Anne's diary, in order to carry the family's valuables ... took away for safe-keeping. Miep put Anne's diary in her desk drawer, to await Anne's return. Anne Frank did not survive the Holocaust. Her father, Otto Frank, returned to Amsterdam after the war ended, the sole survivor among those who had hid in the Secret Annex. When he found out that Anne had died in Bergen-Belsen, Miep Gies gave him Anne's diary, which she had ...
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