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Special Theory Of Relativity Speed Of Light
1,097 words
Albert Einstein, a German-American physicist, gave
so much to this country. Einstein was born in Ulm
on March 14, 1879, and spent his youth in Munich,
where his family owned a small shop that
manufactured electric machinery. He died in
Princeton, April 18, 1955. When repeated business
failure led the family to leave Germany for Milan,
Italy, Einstein, who was then 15 years old,
withdrew from the schools of Munich. He stayed a
year with his parents in Milan, then left to
finish secondary school i...
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Great Warrior P 1
427 words
Menelaus (Born 70 (possibly) died 130) Menelaus
although a great warrior was also a great observer
and thinker. Menelaus was the son of Atreus.
Menelaus brother was the leader of the Trojan
army, Agamemnon. Although he was not a major
warrior in the war, his brother was the commander
in chief of the forces against Troy (Parada, p.
2). Although little is known about Menelauss life
in Alexandria, other records show that he recorded
astrological records. Menelaus observed the
occultation of the sta...
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Quantum Mechanics Main Issue
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... derivation and decision making. The same
applies to the couplets: order / disorder, element
/ system, evolution / revolution and not alive /
alive. The latter is at the heart of the applied
ethical issue of abortion: when should a foetus
begin to be considered a live thing? Life springs
suddenly. It is not more of the same. It is not a
matter of quantity of matter. It is a qualitative
issue, almost in the eye of the beholder. All
these are problems that call for a non-continuum
approach, for...
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Internal And External Point Of View
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ter>Sam Vaknin's Psychology,
Philosophy, Economics and Foreign Affairs Web
Sites Knives and forks are objects
external to us. They have an objective - or at
least an intersubjective - existence. Presumably,
they will be there even if no one watches or uses
them ever again. We can safely call them
"Objective Entities." Our emotions and thoughts
can be communicated - but they are NOT the
communication itself or its contents. They are
"Subjective Entities", internal, ...
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Runnin' Down Some Lines Book Review
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Deprived of opportunities for advancement in
mainstream society, [black ghetto] teenagers
elevate their personal style into a philosophy of
life. Their exemplars are pimps and gangsters...
Gangs develop to bolster self-identity through
psychological control of the streets; hip
"threads" and "freaked out" cars also serve as
outward signs of inner creativity. Both sexes
consider coitus ("doin' the do") a natural and
desirable part of adolescence; soft drugs,
primarily marijuana ("tea"), also offer...
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Amount Of Money Professor Higgins
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... er lessons and her teacher. Eliza most likely
gains most of her emotional appeal by her
unfailing innocence and thirst for knowledge. The
other remarkable character presented in the drama
is the infamous Henry Higgins. This character is
the direct protagonist of Eliza and yet the
observer oftentimes can identify with him as well.
He is brilliant in the study of phonetics, but
awkward and rude in the area of social graces.
Even his own mother comments undesirably when she
says You offend all ...
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Ways Of Thinking Sherlock Holmes
1,075 words
Knowledge was one of the most powerful tools of
the middle ages. It was highly valued by many
kings and members of nobility, but the greatest
procurer of knowledge through the middle ages was
undoubtedly the church. Their motive for the
capturing of wisdom was not for their own
enrichment, but predominantly self-preservation.
If the general public were to get hold of such a
wealth of philosophical and scientific works that
were withheld in the monastic libraries then they
would almost certainly ...
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Group Dynamics In 12 Angry Men
1,603 words
In the 1957 classic 12 Angry Men, group dynamics
are portrayed through a jury deliberation. Group
dynamics is concerned with the structure and
functioning of groups as well as the different
types of roles each character plays. In the film,
twelve men are brought together in a room to
decide whether a boy is guilty of killing his
father. The personality conflicts, the joint
effort and the functioning of several minds
together to search for the truth are just a few
characteristics of group dynamic...
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Middle Of The Road Time Passes
1,298 words
One day, Dorko walks into a popular fast food
joint for no other reason than that is where his
feet took him. Taking haphazard bites from other
customer's food, he crookedly makes his way to the
line at a cash register. Of course, the act of
getting in line was a complete accident. He stares
at the menu; he stares at the employees; he stares
at a man picking his pockets. 'Need help?' start
Dorko, 'Here, it makes things a lot easier if I
just hand you my wallet. Preferably with you
holding a gun ...
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Narrator Third Person
661 words
Cafe with Character Carson Maccullers wrote her
novella, The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, in third
person. In this dramatic narrative, the narrator
is an observer. In the novella, character serves
to accent the narrator? s limited point of view.
The motivations behind Miss Amelia? s, Cousin
Lymon? s, and Marvin Macy? s actions are often a
mystery to the narrator. Miss Amelia is the main
character of the novella. She was a? ... dark,
tall woman with bones and muscles like a man. ?
(p. 4) Miss Amelia h...
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Tom And Daisy Gatsby Funeral
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Nick versus Gatsby Mainframe computers analyze
information and present it so that the observer is
able to make accurate observations. In The Great
Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the
narrator, Nick Carraway, tells a story in which
Jay Gatsby tries to attain happiness through
wealth. Even though the novel is titled after
Gatsby, Nick, just as a mainframe computer,
analyzes the actions of others and presents the
story so that the reader can comprehend the theme.
Throughout the novel, Nick ...
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Otto Frank Carol Ann
1,502 words
Observer Review: The Hidden Life Of Otto Observer
Review: The Hidden Life Of Otto Frank By Carol Ann
Lee Answers from the attic The Hidden Life of Otto
Frank Carol Ann Lee Viking? 17. 99, pp 384 Until
the start of the Second World War, Otto Franks
life was as soothing and wrinkle-free as freshly
laundered linen. Born into an upper-middle-class
German family his were the kind of people who
called on their neighbours only at the correct
hour of the afternoon he worried about the same
things as any...
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Review Up The Down Escalator Chronic Pessimism Society
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Observer Review: Up The Down Escalator By Observer
Review: Up The Down Escalator By Charles
Leadbetter An old case for a new order Up the Down
Escalator Why the Global Pessimists are Wrong
Charles Leadbeater Viking? 17. 99, pp 384 A book
which proclaims that its purpose is the defeat of
chronic pessimism needs to begin with a convincing
demonstration that the enemy exists. The failure
of Up the Down Escalator to perform that essential
task is largely attributable to Charles
Leadbeater's apparent...
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Hong Kong Observer Review
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Observer Review: Fragrant Harbour By John
Lanchester Observer Review: Fragrant Harbour By
John Lanchester With a little help from his
friends Fragrant Harbour John Lanchester Faber
163; 16. 99, pp 310 What does John Lanchester
sound like? What is his true voice, his tone, his
signature style? To read his fiction is to be left
wondering about such things, because there is no
one characteristic Lanchester style: you do not
open one of his books at random as you do
something by, say, Martin Amis...
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Observer Review Reflections Shadows By Saul Steinberg
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Observer Review: Reflections And Shadows By Saul
Observer Review: Reflections And Shadows By Saul
Steinberg And Aldo Buzzi Fragments from the
cartoon philosopher Reflections and Shadows Saul
Steinberg and Aldo Buzzi Allen Lane? 9. 99, pp 101
This strange and tiny book derives from
conversations between Saul Steinberg (1914 - 99)
best known as the least obviously comic of the New
Yorkers cartoonists and his friend the Italian
writer Aldo Buzzi. The venue was Steinberg's
country house in the Hampt...
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Upper Middle Class L Carter
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Observer Review: The Emperor Of Ocean Park
Observer Review: The Emperor Of Ocean Park By
Stephen L Carter Supreme Emperor The Emperor of
Ocean Park Stephen L Carter Jonathan Cape? 18, pp
657 After Jonathan Franzens T he Corrections and
Jonathan Safran Foers Everything Is Illuminated,
The Emperor of Ocean Park is the third recent
American novel to arrive here with the hyperbole
that comes with a massive advance and ecstatic US
critical reaction. But The Emperor of Ocean Park
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P 233 Rez Reverte Arturo P 233 Rez Reverte Coy
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Observer Review: The Nautical Chart By Arturo
Observer Review: The Nautical Chart By Arturo P?
rez-Reverte In search of lost treasure The
Nautical Chart Arturo P&execute; rez-Reverte
Picador? 16. 99, pp 465 Towards the end of The
Nautical Chart, the central character, Coy, finds
a turtle caught in a net. He dives into the sea to
free her, slashing away at a thousand feet of
fishing mesh that trap her until, finally, she
swims off, exhausted, trailing blood that turns
the water pink, and without ...
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Human Dignity Observer Review
980 words
Observer Review: Our Posthuman Future By Francis
Observer Review: Our Posthuman Future By Francis
Fukuyama A penny for his thoughts Our Posthuman
Future Francis Fukuyama Profile? 17. 99, pp 400 A
little, for Francis Fukuyama, has gone a long way.
In 1989 he made himself famous by opining that,
with the breaching of the Berlin Wall, history had
ended. His pronouncement hardly qualified as an
idea; it was a slogan, crassly bolstering American
triumphalism. At the time he was a middling policy
wonk...
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O Acute Observer Review
984 words
Observer Review: Gaud&impute; By Gijs Van
Hensbergen Observer Review: Gaud&impute; By Gijs
Van Hensbergen Catalan who got the cream
Gaud&impute; Gijs van Hensbergen HarperCollins?
24. 99, pp 322 A sensational building by an
eccentric architect transforms a provincial
Spanish capital. No, not Frank Gehrys Guggenheim
in Bilbao. It happened long before in Barcelona
when Antoni Gaud&impute; built the astonishing
church of La Sagrada Fam&impute; lia. Yet built is
the wrong tense. La Sagrada Fam&imput...
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Oxford Reference Online Oxford Reference Book
798 words
Online reference Book publishing is like farming:
a lot happens in the spring, summer is pastoral,
autumn is hectic and everyone gets drunk in
winter. Just now, as Observer readers will know,
the Anglo-American book trade is going through one
of its seasonal spasms. Charles Frazier,
bestselling author of Cold Mountain, has sold his
new (unwritten) book to Random House for $ 5
million and all over Manhattan people who should
know better are crying Foul! As Mark Twain
memorably put it, when people...
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