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Battleship Technology and its Combat Relevance

quite awhile. Philosophers of every time period have looked at war and tried to find a theory to explain it (Honderich, 1995). Her...

Sewing Machine and its Influence

to adorn the body. Yet, at the time that the sewing machine was developed, the nation was readying itself for war. In fact, the ma...

Porto Cath as the Twentieth Century's Greatest Invention

members who experienced cancer. One, the elder, did not have the option to receive a port cath due to their non-existence. The mot...

1940s' Scientific and Technological Developments

The discovery in the 1940s that ticks are attracted to a cloth which had been impregnated with the scent of a dog (Miller, 1996), ...

Social Impact of the Telegraph Machine's Invention

have had no idea the significant impact his communications device would one day have upon the entire global community. "Morses in...

Neo Aristotelian Analysis of President Ronald Reagan and the Challenger Space Shuttle Tragedy

disaster. It was his administration, after all, that had been intent on having the Shuttle be declared operational while it was i...

Growing up in a Multicultural Background

wife and mother but also serving as the cultural interpreter for her four daughters and husband as they make the transition from l...

TV's History, Development, and Cultural Contributions

they have so come to believe that a meaningful life is tied to what and how many products they purchase (pp. 112). Furthermore, Co...

Twentieth Century Fashion and Economics

In seven pages twentieth century fashion is examined in a consideration of nylon's invention, how the Second World War liberated w...

Computer Industry Development and the Invention of Printed Circuit Boards

This paper examines the impact of the printed circuit board invention upon both contemporary society as well as the computer indus...

Religion and Emily Dickinson

who see; But microscopes are prudent in an emergency!" The poem whose first lines begin, "Safe in their Alabaster Chambers" is a ...

Harvard Business School 9-679-089 Case Study

increased vocabulary and provided for versions in French, German, Spanish and British English(Burgleman, et al 1996). The Speak an...

Vacuum Cleaners That Work Automatically

In five pages the invention of autonomous vacuum cleaners is considered in terms of impact upon the workplace and the home. Five ...

Synthetic Cubism and the Works of Pablo Picasso

28). Similarly, it has been stated that abstract art grew out of the virtual disappearance of the recognizable nude or still lif...

A Historical Overview of the Alphabet

This paper addresses the history of the modern alphabet and discusses the importance of writing as an invention that helped mankin...

21st Century Intellectual Property and Invention Protection

In twelve pages UK law if the focus of this paper that argues it is presently ineffective in protecting invention copyrights and i...

Snell's Law and Technology

In a paper of seven pages, the writer looks at Snell's Law. Inventions dependent upon the law are examined. Paper uses five sourc...

Necessity is the Mother of Invention

Mankinds history and prehistory is replete with the invention of extremely diverse tools, devices, and other aspects of the variou...

Rome Necessity is the Mother of Invention

Mankinds history and prehistory is replete with the invention of extremely diverse tools, devices, and other aspects of the variou...

Development of 3D Printing

The paper is made up of 6 slides that outline issues associated with 3D printing. The invention is presented along and then the w...

Communicative Disorders: Stuttering and Dysarthria

This research paper presents an overview of dysarthria and stuttering, which are both communicative disorders. The paper discusses...

Exploring Inventions

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at important inventions. The gun and the bicycle are both covered. Paper uses four sou...

Grade Retention 20th Century Events

These researchers report that just 5 percent of 169 studies analyzed reported significant benefits for the retained students while...

From the Invention of the Automobile to the Kent State Massacre

1. How did the mass production of the automobile affect...

Mead on Warfare

that the tendency to engage in wars is a human invention, and that the inevitable result of innate human tendencies or instincts. ...

Political and Social Philosophies of James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, John Locke, and Thomas Hobbes

This is particularly true for Jefferson verses Madison and Hobbes verses Locke. Despite their differences in philosophies, ...

Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine Writing About America

There is no question that through Jeffersons influence, the United States of America was built on a foundation of democracy and li...

Thomas More and Thomas Hobbes on Religion and the State

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares Hobbes' Leviathan and More's Utopia in terms of how the state and religion are dep...

Dylan Thomas's 'Fern Hill' and Revisiting Childhood

In five pages this poem is analyzed in terms of the poet's employment of imagery and the reasons for its complexity. Two sources ...

Failed Covert Operations In Evan Thomas's "The Very Best Men"

also the ongoing breakdown between Cuba and the United States.3 Twelve hundred American-trained Cuban exiles had visions of viole...