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Feet Per Second Gulf Of Mexico
1,083 wordsJohn M. Barry's Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America, takes us back 70 years to a society that most of us would hardly recognize. In 1927, the Mississippi River flooded 27, 000 square miles from Illinois and Missouri south to the Gulf of Mexico. No one expected the government to help the victims. President Calvin Coolidge even refused to visit the area. As a result, the flood created and destroyed leaders: Herbert Hoover, Coolidge's secretary of Commerce, w...
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Virtual Reality Medical Field
1,618 wordsVirtual reality has been made possible through sophisticated computers and complex programs that were designed to detect and interact with the persons actual body movements and actions in real time. The person can manipulate the virtual, or computer generated, environment with specially designed tools such as gloves, a helmet, and a variety of other such devices (Virtual Reality: History). These tools that are needed for advanced virtual reality simulations are usually owned by institutions such...
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Paradise Lost Epic Hero
3,675 wordsParadise Lost is an epic poem based on the Biblical story of Adam end Eve. It attempts to justify and explain how we came to be what we are today. The central question to Paradise Lost is where does evil comes from? Throughout the poem we receive information about the origin of evil. At the beginning of John Milton's work we are given the Biblical explanation, of Adam and Eve eating from the tree of knowledge and being expelled from the Garden of Eden. This was mans first disobedience, which bro...
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Flaw In His Character Books I And Ii
2,545 wordsJohn Milton's Satan People argue about who the hero is of Paradise Lost: Satan, Adam or Christ, the Son? Since Milton's overall theme stated in the opening lines of Book I is to relate Mans first disobedience and to justify the ways of God to men, I think Adam must be regarded as the main hero. John M. Steadman supports this view in an essay on Paradise Lost. It is Adams action which constitutes the argument of the epic. Steadman continues that the Son and Satan embody heroic archetypes and that...
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Peter The Great Wanted To Make
2,278 wordsPeter the Great: The Creator of the Golden Age of Russia Peter the Great, one of the most talked about Czars in Russian history, was a key figure in the rise of the Russian Empire, with his brute determination, and his longing to create a fabulous city. No knowing, that by creating this grand city known as St. Petersburg, he would spawn the dawning of a new age of Russia, known as the Golden Age. Peter I, as he was otherwise known, founded a spot on the Neva River, and decided to build his city ...
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Goods And Services Laissez Faire
1,271 wordsTopic: What contribution did Adam Smith and John M. Keynes make to the study of economics? Adam Smith was the founder of economics, as we know it today. His thoughts have shaped modern ideas about the market economy and the role of the state in relation to it. Smith laid the intellectual framework that explained the free market (which still holds true today) and laissez-faire. Both are connected with the underlying theme of economic growth. Smiths analysis is not confined to showing the interrel...
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