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- 1051: Capital Punishment
- By: Kenneth Hammond E-mail: P1ayBoyKH11@aol.com Capital Punishment There has been many controversies in the history of the United States, ranging from abortion to gun control, but capital punishment has been one of the most hotly contested issues in recent years. Capital punishment is the legal ... usual alternative to the death penalty is life-long imprisonment. Capital punishment is a method of retributive punishment as old as civilization itself. The death penalty has been imposed throughout history for many crimes, ranging from blasphemy and treason to petty theft and murder. Many ancient societies accepted the idea that certain crimes deserved capital punishment. Ancient Roman and Mosaic Law ... of sentencing a capital offender to life imprisonment rather than to death. After the 1830s, public executions ceased to be demonstrated but did not completely stop until after 1936. Throughout history, governments have been extremely inventive in devising ways to execute people. Executions inflicted in the past are now regarded today as ghastly, barbaric, and unthinkable and are forbidden by ...
- 1052: Existentialism in the Early 19th Century
- ... recognition of the pure contingency of the universe, and the word anguish is used for the recognition of the total freedom of choice that confronts the individual at every moment. History Existentialism as a distinct philosophical and literary movement belongs to the 19th and 20th centuries, but elements of existentialism can be found in the thought (and life) of Socrates, in ... existentialism, reacted against the systematic absolute idealism of the 19th-century German philosopher G. W. F. Hegel, who claimed to have worked out a total rational understanding of humanity and history. Kierkegaard, on the contrary, stressed the ambiguity and absurdity of the human situation. The individual's response to this situation must be to live a totally committed life, and this ... existentialism is a form of humanism, and he strongly emphasized human freedom, choice, and responsibility. He eventually tried to reconcile these existentialist concepts with a Marxist analysis of society and history. Existentialism and Theology Although existentialist thought encompasses the uncompromising atheism of Nietzsche and Sartre and the agnosticism of Heidegger, its origin in the intensely religious philosophies of Pascal and ...
- 1053: Sport Psychology
- ... teachers, administrators, coaches and last but by no means least, the athletes themselves. It is sport psychology that has stood apart from the discipline of psychology as a whole. "Its history is different, its concerns are often different, its centres of learning and teaching are often different, and its professional training is different." (Garfield, 1984:34) Yet despite this, sport psychology ... psychology but as its Jekyll and Hyde." (Garfield, 1984:63) Within psychology as a whole, the idea of goal setting to guide or direct our behavior has a well established history. However, the recent use of goal setting as a per-formance enhancement technique can be traced directly back to Edwin Locke's goal set-ting theory. His theory is the ... s long term commitment to sport." (Butt, 1987:215) At the same time, the dangers associated with either parents or coaches emphasizing extrinsic rewards are openly acknowledged. In brief, the history of research on work motivation has shown a gradual shift from traditional content models of work motivation which strived to list or classify motivators, and towards an appreciation of ...
- 1054: The Changing Face of Basketball
- ... being the best defensive center in the league, prided himself on being able to guard the best offensive center in the league: Chamberlain. Russell verses Chamberlain will go down in history as one of the best matchups in the history of the sport. Throughout the ten years the opposing centers played, they met 162 times (Minsky 30). In those games, Chamberlain's points were down and rebounds were up and ... Basketball has come a long way since its soccer ball and peach basket beginnings in that its style, players, facilities and leagues have devoloped dramatically and gained tremendous popularity. I. History A. What B. When C. Basic rules II. Development A. First great players B. Facilities C. Leagues III. Salaries A. Original B. Salaries now C. Salaries compared to other professions
- 1055: Holocaust Revisited
- ... persecutions of the Jews before the war. This paper will discuss the measures in which the Jews were tormented by the Nazi regime. I have read several books on the history and theories of the Holocaust. Although Michael Marrus has written a terrific book, The Holocaust in History. The book Holocaust, Religious & Philosophical Implications, by John K. Roth and Michael Berenbaum examines a number of different religious and philosophical issues in regard to the Holocaust. The most prominent ... unmatched qualities of this historical catastrophe and sets it apart. Still, after all of the research, reading, and listening that I have done recently in learning about this time in history, I still cannot fathom something of this magnitude happening, and happening so recently. The idea that the survival of a country is dependent on the eradication of an entire ...
- 1056: George Orwell Wrote 1984 As A Political Statement Against Totalitarianism
- ... of 39 who is not extraordinary in either intelligence or character, but is disgusted with the world he lives in. He works in the Ministry of Truth, a place where history and the truth is rewritten to fit the party's beliefs. Winston is aware of the untruths, because he makes them true. This makes him very upset with the government ... laugh when Winston and Julia getting caught. Now all he can do is wait for his next victim to enter his store. The Ministry of Truth is a place where history and facts--significant and insignificant are rewritten to reflect the party's utopian beliefs. They thoroughly destroy the records of the past; they print up new, up to-date editions ... Row, 1983. 89-103. Verity, John W. "Why Big Brother Isn't Watching You." Business Week 9 January, 1995: 15- 16. Weight, Richard. "Return To Albion, Intellectuals in Wartime Britain." History Today. December 1994: 37-43.
- 1057: Comparison Of Hitler And Stali
- ... day, from hour to hour. Gentlemen, not you who will be the ones that deliver the verdict over us, but that verdict will be given by the eternal judgement of history, which will speak out against the accusation that has been made against us....That court will judge us....as Germans (who) wanted only the best for their people and their Fatherland, who fought and were willing to die. You might just as well find us guilty a thousand times, but the goddess of the eternal court of history will smile and tear up the motions of the states attorney and the judgement of this court: for she finds us not guilty". After Hitler gave this speech, the court ... nothing terrible, or exceptional, or surprising in the fact that they prefer to be outside the party, that they are cutting themselves off from the party. If you study the history of our party, you will find that always, at certain serious turns taken by our party, a certain section of the old leaders fell out of the cart of ...
- 1058: Ralph Waldo Emerson 2
- Ralph Waldo Emerson certainly took his place in the history of American Literature. He lived in a time when romanticism was becoming a way of thinking and beginning to bloom in America, the time period known as The Romantic Age ... and beauty became a part of classic American literature. His expressions were absorbed into some of the most exceptional essays, poems, and philosophical ideas ever created. His famous essays are "History," "Art," "The Poet," and the famous "Self-Reliance." He gathered his essays into two volumes. The first was released in 1841, and the second was released in 1844. Poems however ... Emerson also expressed himself through poems such as "Uriel," "The Problem," "The Sphinx," and the well-known "Days." Many of these works of Emerson have taken their place in the history of American literature. In Emerson s poem Days the line marching single in an endless file. Emerson is giving personification to Days, the same with the line And the ...
- 1059: Illuminating the Path of Progress
- Illuminating the Path of Progress Thomas Alva Edison is the most famous inventor in American History. Edison designed, built, and delivered the electrical age. He started a revolution that would refocus technology, change life patterns, and create millions of jobs. He became famous for his scientific ... the 1920's, Edison was the most famous living American. People in the United States honored Edison's contributions by naming him one of the most important individuals in American history. Among his many honors he was voted the "most useful American" in 1913. In 1971 he ranked third of the ten greatest men in American business history. He was elected to the American Academy of Sciences. In 1928 Congress ordered a special gold medal to be made in his honor for his lifetime contribution to society. ...
- 1060: Stalin and The Soviet Union
- ... memory of the people under his rule. Although admired by some Russians, most would agree with the assessment in the West that Stalin was one of the cruelest dictators in history. FURTHER READING: De Jonge, Alex. Stalin and the Shaping of the Soviet Union. Morrow, 1986. Engrossing on the man and his era. Deutscher, Isaac. Stalin: A Political Biography. Oxford, 1949, 2d ed., 1967. Standard life and times. Medvedev, Roy Aleksandrovich. On Stalin and Stalinism. Oxford, 1979. Based on material researched after Medvedev wrote Let History Judge (1972). SOVIET UNION: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik), the original Communist dictatorship, the West’s principal adversary in the post-1945 hostility of the ... personal service (such as tutoring or baby-sitting) and to the urban bazaars selling produce from the peasants’ garden plots. The black market, having flourished at earlier points in Soviet history when state supply of consumer goods and other commodities fell short, grew steadily in the 1970s and 1980s. The goods sold had often been embezzled from the public sector, ...
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