What is A Robot WHAT IS A ROBOT The term robot comes from the Czechoslovakian wordfor "forced labor," invented by Karel Capek. Karel Capek used robots in his plays and had them look and behave like people. Today, the word "robot" is harder to define because of new designs and technology. The third e...

The image usually thought of by the word robot is that of a mechanical being, somewhat human in shape. Common in science fiction, robots are generally depicted as working in the service of people, but often escaping the control of the people and doing them harm. The word robot comes from the Czech w...

Fahrenheit 9/11 I saw this movie as an eye-opener. It was a real hit in the head for me since I was so clueless as to Bush and his administration. I couldn't believe that a man that we put all of our trust into is really a cold-blooded killer. I mean, that's really what it all comes do...

Name: Melissa Loh Sue-Yin Class: 3/5 Date: 26/12/2003 Subject: English Commonwealth Essay Machinery Machinery has always been an indispensable part of our lives. Originating as simple machines such as pulleys and levers, machines first came into existence thousands of years ago. These si...

PEZ and PEZ dispensers can be found in over 60 countries around the world! This year marks the 50th anniversary of the well-loved candy. The wordPEZ? derives from the German wordPhefferminz? which means quite simply, peppermints. They shortened the name to PEZ taking the first, middle, and las...

The Terminator The Terminator film series was the tremendous popular success in USA for a few reasons. First, I think it's because the main character, Arnold, was very poplar at that time because he's so masculine, most audience want to see him. Second, I think because the producer spent a...

The poem "The Unknown Citizen " by W.H. Auden, is a poem about the dangers of conformity and the failure to cultivate a sense of individuality. The individual that is described in the story is somebody who never made a mark on society. He did everything that he thought was supposed to be d...

In almost every culture throughout history, there has been dance. Prayer dances, celebratory dances, social dances. In many cases, we can see the cultural progression through the progression of dance. In the United States alone, we've seen the transitions from the European-grown ballet to tap, th...

Over the past year there has been vast improvements political or economical event The 90’s has been a decade full of controversial and world changing events. The first one I could think of would have to be the Persian Gulf War with Iraq. I think that war brought together the United States, sto...

Technology. The Way of the Future? The 90's has been a decade full of controversial and world changing events. The first one I could think of would have to be the Persian Gulf War with Iraq. I think that war brought together the United States, stopped our fighting with each other, and helped us focu...

Are Uniforms Really Necessary Do clothes really make the man or the does the man only emerge when the clothes cease to have the power to control the man? Does our outward appearance define who we are or do our actions and intellect distinguish us as thinking individuals apart from the masses? Can ...

It spins! It sleeps! It flips! It turns! It's the amazing yo-yo! So many people have busted a few moves with a yo-yo, or at least tried to, sometime in their lives. It's seems that it's been a toy that's been around forever. But, of course, it is a man-made object, therefore it must have an inventor...

Reich's Boats In the late 1970's it was customary for families to have the "dad" as the bread winner. The "Leave it to Beaver" persona poured from home to home and engrossed the budding families to come. Now in the modern day "Gucci" society, a one ...

In August of 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue. This is a clever rhyme that people use to remember when Columbus set off and discovered the New World. But what if he didn't get permission from Queen Isabella to go off into the unknown to do this? It might have been another hundred years b...

4-H is a program that operates under the United States Department ofAgriculture. It is the youth education branch of the Cooperative Extensionservice. Each county and state in the United States is served by a CountyExtension office that allows people to access 4-H programs. Most stateshave ...

Politics in American is at most, very depressing. You have the mud slingers and the muckrakers, the big money campaigns of presidents, Congress and Gubernatorial elections and those which barely scraping by as in the local county commissioner, who was urged to run by a couple of friends but had n...

i made an A on this one! hope it's helpful! Supply Supply is the willingness and ability of sellers to produce and sell different quantities of goods at different prices during a particular time period. The law of supply states that there is a direct relationship between the price of a good...

Any time the military or an organization makes a major change, whether it's a new customer service plan, restructuring, downsizing, or in the case of this paper a new leader, it's the job of the leadership and management teams to communicate the new change effectively. "An organization will take on...

The complexion of farming is changing radically. The land cannot support as many farm families as it did in an earlier time. Small farms are being consolidated into larger ones. General farms, with several kinds of crops and a barnyard of farm animals, are yielding to specialty farms that concentrat...

JAPANESE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT POST WORLD WAR II World War II left many powerful nations in smoke and rubble. The deconstruction of many countries gave them the chance to rebuild their cities and economies. No country took more advantage of this opportunity than Japan. Japan was a huge milita...

Japan is one of the world\'s leading economic powers when concentrating on its Gross Domestic Product of four point two trillion United States dollars. Its economy is only second to the United States in terms of production. However, Japan has not always contained a relatively strong economy. The Jap...

Our country, one of the most liberal around the globe, prides itself on the rights that each individual is granted upon birth. As citizens of the United States we often overlook the rare personal freedom that we are granted upon birth. As we turn the calendar onto another century we continue to grow...

The Economic Game of Our Era: U.S. DominanceApproaching to the 21st century, world economy becomes more and more global.In today's life, several parts of an item can be made in different countries and unified to produce an output. Realize a laptop whose processor is made i...

Computers seem to control our lives. It is hard to live without a computer, and no matter how hard you try to remove yourself from computers, they always affect your life. Many people think it is good that computers make things simple. "The Jetsons" was a cartoon where computers controlled the wo...

FARMING 19TH CENTURY TO PRESENT Agriculture has been the most important activity in America from the 1600's to the present but is rapidly declining in economic importance in the 21st century. The farm equipment has improved drastically, from hand labor to gas and diesel machinery (Fite 1). In the ...