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Search results 1961 - 1970 of 7307 matching essays
- 1961: The Philosophical Foundations
- ... is to examine the lives of several heroes and then extract the explanatory principles from the facts. In my judgment, Ayn Rand is one of the greatest heroes in the history of mankind. What makes her so? Look at the facts of her life: born, raised, educated in a dictatorship, she yearns for political freedom and, alone, defects to America. Raised ... of man's sinfulness, she rejects it and fights for the glory of man's mind. Through years of exhausting effort, she writes two of the greatest novels in the history of world literature, struggles to get The Fountainhead published, sees Atlas Shrugged attacked by every major critic, without exception, but breaks through the hostility to achieve great commercial success. She ...
- 1962: The Origins Of Star Wars
- ... he does it. The origins of the much of Star Wars will be explained and the symbolic nature of the characters will be touched upon, as well as a brief history of the most important part of the story line. The Star Wars universe has a rich and complex history. It starts with Yoda, who trains Obi-Wan. Obi-Wan, after serving in the Clone Wars of the Old Republic' which existed right before the Empire, decided to take on ...
- 1963: The New World
- ... the surge of the nuclear war had brought these people back from the dead. The one hundred survivors had come up with eight leadership positions. From these twelve people from history, only eight will be given the chance to be leaders in the New World. The role of President was the most important. Without a good leader, the project of starting ... Because of her loyalty to God, Anne Hutchinson would make the best leader of the Church. The eight leadership positions have now been filled. There are still four people from history who did not get chosen. Margaret Sanger would not have been a good leader in the New World because she focused on making sure all women used birth control (http ...
- 1964: The Land Ethic
- ... an excellent opportunity to contribute to this movement and, by showing equipment and drawings, people hope to enlighten people by working on this most consumed of consumer technologies. A brief history 1873. Ireland. A young telegraph operator, Joseph May, discovered the photoelectric effect: selenium bars, exposed to sunlight, show a variation in resistance. Variations in light intensity can therefore be transformed ... This is why the television is the most important medium of today. But you never know... television today something better such as the Internet tomorrow. Sources 1 )Yahoo.com search history of the television,importance of the television, and television 2) Compton's encyclopedia 3) Dictionary 4) Assorted books at the library 5) AOL search media
- 1965: The Internet Terms
- ... be archived: sea, tar, taz, taZ, tgz, and zip. See compression 3. ARPANET. The network created by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) that became the Internet. See the Internet History 4. Backbone A central network connecting other networks together. Formerly a network run by the National Science Foundation for the US, there are now multiple backbones run by commercial providers ... 20. FYI acronym for phrase "for your information" 21. Gopher A friendly menu system for exploring the Internet developed at the University of Minnesota. To learn more, explore gopherspace. See History 22. GUI Graphical User Interface. Pronounced "gooey". An operating system interace between the user and the computer based on graphics. GUIs typically use a mouse or other tracking device and ...
- 1966: The Future Looks Bright For Ja
- ... com). Three of the four most disastrous nuclear accidents have occurred in the past twenty years. Theoretically, nuclear fission(1) is an excellent means to generate electricity; however, fission s history of accidents has shown it to be too risky to the environment. Countries are beginning to turn away from nuclear energy and rely more on alternative renewable energy sources and ... accidents. The release at Tokai, although a rather small facility, was rated a 4, placing it as one of the sixth worst nuclear accidents. Chernobyl is the only 7 in history and Three Mile Island was a 5 (www.uic.com). It is especially disquieting that Chernobyl and Three Mile Island were caused by human error. A RESOLUTION FOR JAPAN As ...
- 1967: The Eternal Struggle
- ... though creating a single "evil" entity that had to be overcome by the forces of "good". Although these are only a few examples of the immeasurable amount of situations throughout history in which violence has significantly benefited technology, economy, and moral , they clearly portray the necessity of aggressive conflicts in order to progress as a civilization. The final factor in my ... were it not for its military strength, which it used to quell rebellions, maintain classism, and intimidate the rest of the world. Although freedom is highly beneficial to the individual, history shows that the sword is mightier than the pen. It would be nice to believe that one day we could belong to a Utopian society in which humans had absolutely ...
- 1968: The Development Of The Prison
- ... that a return of capital punishment would be most effective; this has been proven to work, and there was really no reason for it to change. Bibliography: G.M. Trevelyan, History of England, 1985 Sir L. Woodward, The Age of Reform; 1815-1870, 1962 L. Stone, Social Change and Revolution in England, 1965 James Walvin, Victorian Values, 1987 Microsoft, Encarta, 1998 Sydney Wood, Living in Victorian Times, 1985 Roy D. King, The Future of the Prison System, 1980 Kenneth O. Morgan, The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, 1984 Britannica, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1997 Home Office, Report on the Work of the Prison Department, -1977 Labour Party, The Labour Party Website: http://www.labour.org.uk, 1998
- 1969: The Danger Of Air Bags And The
- ... which can and sometimes does lead to mal-function. (Carr, R.W.) Conclusion In today's world, the risks we are exposed to are some of the lowest risks in history, but they are some of the most debated and addressed issues as well. With current and future technology, we strive for a goal that is not obtainable, absolutely no risk ... all we do, especially with the function of an automobile. The idea of all this new legislation and technology is not to eliminate this risk, but to reduce it. In history their has been a significant group of automobile owners/drivers or passengers killed by air bags, but this number is extremely small in comparison to the number of lives these ...
- 1970: The Channeled Scablands Of Eas
- ... The silt reaches a maximum depth in the Pullman-Colfax area at 200 feet. The Northern Hemisphere's Ice Age began more then 2 million years ago, but the Scablands history was not yet formed until 100,000 years ago. At this time the great continental glaciers began to make their march from British Columbia to what is now known as ... Lake Missoula were released with all of its power and rage. The lake drained at a rate unmatched by anything man has ever seen or imagined. At this point in history the water had only one way to flow: to the south and then to the west through a path of the least resistance, which meant- where the ice was not ...
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