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Athena
1236 Words - 5 Pages

.... wisdom and reason. The most famous temple to Athena was the Parthenon (5th century BC) which was named for Parthenos ("the Maiden"), which still stands atop the Acropolis in Athens. The interior of the Parthenon stands a statue of Athena Parthenos, sculpted by Phidais. When I was reading through myths, I decided I would talk about "The Gift of Athena" which, in my opinion, best illustrates Athena's colorful personality. Here is how "The Gift of Athena" goes: Long, long ago, when this old world was a very young place, and when the few people there were had just begun to live together in groups for their own protection, the great gods selected the places for humans ....


A Couple Of Yahoos
626 Words - 3 Pages

.... Ken, settling in the Berryessa suburb of San Jose. Yang spoke Mandarin Chinese and hardly any English, but soon learned it and became a strait-A student. He was admitted to Stanford University, where he obtained his bachelor’s and master’s degree in electrical engineering in 1990. It was there that he met David Filo. Filo and Yang were doctoral students in computer engineering. As one of their assignments they were working on the computer-aided design of computer chip circuitry. For this project they were set up in an “office” which was really a trailer that was filled with computers and equipment. “ I was terribly bored,” Filo stated, “And with our ....


Calculus
569 Words - 3 Pages

.... considered one of the great physicists all time. He applied calculus to his theories of motion and gravitational pull. He was able to discover a function and describe mathematically the motion of all objects in the universe. Calculus was invented to help solve problems dealing with "changing or varying" quantities. Calculus is considered "mathematics of change." There are some basic or general parts of calculus. Some of these are functions, derivative, antiderivatives, sequences, integral functions, and multivariate calculus. Some believe that calculus is too hard or impossible to learn without much memorization but if you think that calculus is all memorizin ....


Mill's Utilitarianism: Sacrifice The Innocent For The Common Good?
1329 Words - 5 Pages

.... must evaluate both the overall welfare of the people involved or effected by the action taken, and the consequences of the action taken. To calculate the welfare of the people involved in or effected by an action, utilitarianism requires that all individuals be considered equally. Quantitative utilitarians would weigh the pleasure and pain which would be caused by the bomb exploding against the pleasure and pain that would be caused by torturing the terrorist. Then, the amounts would be summed and compared. The problem with this method is that it is impossible to know beforehand how much pain would be caused by the bomb exploding or how much pain would be caused b ....


Serial Killers: Not All Serial Killers Are Insane
678 Words - 3 Pages

.... a very intelligent man as well as being elusive. The intellect he has is shown through his murders. After killing his victims, he cut them open and toyed with their anatomy. To the untrained eye it looked as though he butchered his victim with no goal in mind, but to the keen eye it is the work of a genious. When the best known detective agency in the world, Scotland Yard, fails to catch a serial killer it scares the city, nation, or even the world. The world would have a problem of its own in the 1940's: The Ill Reich. Adolf Hitler was a man of great power. This man had developed his power on his own. He was very manipulative and creative and used his wit to gain power amon ....


Why Are People Migrating To Co
326 Words - 2 Pages

.... lead the way in migration to Colorado averaging one in every seven residents moving to Colorado. Texas, Florida, Arizona, and Illinois were the following states after California in migration to Colorado in 1997. Although people are migrating to Colorado in large numbers recently, the population growth has taken its toll on the state affecting traffic, schools with overcrowding, and real estate prices. So what are people doing when they migrate to Colorado? Obviously people are becoming attracted to the state for various reasons including most importantly the family type setting in a small city lifestyle. The family setting that has lured people to migrate to ....


The History And Progress Of Wrestling
1489 Words - 6 Pages

.... and his party representing the university of Pennsylvania and the American schools o f Oriental Research. While making excavations in Mesopotamia, they found the ruins of a temple at Kyafaje, near Baghdad, two slabs. One was of stone, on which in bold relief, were the figures of two pugilists squaring off. The other was a cast bronze figure showing two wrestlers each with a hold on the others hips. These slabs, created by the Suzerains an ancient tribe that long since has disappeared, are dated as at least 5000 years of age. (Menke) The Greeks, who regarded a discus thrower as the best type of athlete, placed the wrestler second. Sometimes it is difficult to separate ....


Sexual Behaviour As The Means
1311 Words - 5 Pages

.... sexual repression are the means of order in their societies yet with this tragedies arise. In Brave New World Aldous Huxley examines a futuristic anti-utopian society. This society is strong in sexual freedom. Natural reproduction is no longer used to reproduce. A process called “Bokanovsky’s Process”(3) is used. This process is the fertilizing and conditioning of embryos and toddlers. This process is Brave New Worlds way of keeping “social stability”(5) .This world of laboratory babies occurs only because of the engineering of the embryos before they are born. Approximately 75% of female embryos are dosed with a male sex-hormone to render the ....



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