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The keyword Ai is tagged in the following 68 articles.
The issue of sovereignty lies at the very heart of international aviation because all aviation relations are built upon it. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the spectacular evolution of the concept of sovereignty in the Air by adopting a multifaceted approach... Read Article »
On the surface, The Awakening, by Kate Chopin, and The Jungle, by Upton Sincl Air do not have anything in common. The Awakening features Edna, a bored housewife who flouts the rules of society. The Jungle features Jurgis, a poor Lithuanian immigrant who struggles to... Read Article »
The very first Air traffic controller was Archie League at S Aint Louis Airport in Missouri. His control tower was a wheelbarrow with an umbrella for shade during the summer heat, a notepad and flags. He was instructing the pilot to proceed by r Aising a checkered flag... Read Article »
The punk-rock movement or youth subculture of late seventies Brit Ain was and is, even today, the cause of much controversy. It has often been accepted that the political orientation of the movement and its outcomes are decidedly located on the left wing, including,... Read Article »
Suburban housing is the backbone of an unsust Ainable living pattern. Long commutes to work and long drives for groceries, other supplies, and recreational activities increase America’s need for expensive fossil fuels. The isolated nature of subdivision style... Read Article »
On November 21, 1945, Robert H. Jackson, the Chief Prosecutor for the United States of America opened the prosecution’s case ag Ainst German defendants in Nuremberg, Germany. The war in Europe had ended only six months earlier, many of the buildings in Nuremberg... Read Article »
Of the European Union’s twenty-seven member states, no country is more sceptical of political and economic integration than Great Brit Ain. The English are profoundly independent and inherently suspicious of their continental neighbours; an attitude no doubt inspired... Read Article »
Development is closely linked to the idea of progress. Therefore the way in which progress is quantified, whether through economic, social or spiritual values, determines the way in which we conceptualize development (Power 2005). Religious beliefs are similarly ambiguous... Read Article »
Perhaps for no group of people were ‘the dark ages’ so aptly named as for the Jews. Over the span of one thousand years life changed wildly for the Jewish people and not in a positive way. At the start of the 5th Century the future looked bright but by... Read Article »
The objective of this paper is to propose a novel multi-input power converter for the grid-connected hybrid renewable energy system in order to simplify the power system and reduce the cost. The proposed multi-input power converter consists of a Cuk fused multi-input... Read Article »
Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest and Henry James' D Aisy Miller seemingly differ greatly in style. The forms--play and nouvelle--are of course different. Earnest is 'one of the great comedies in the English language' (Cave 419). D Aisy is filled with rich... Read Article »
In the Broadview Press edition of Sir Gaw Ain and the Green Knight, editor and translator James Winny makes a concerted effort to render the original Middle English text in denotatively correct, non-alliterative modern English. In doing so, he f Ails to illuminate one... Read Article »
"Brit Ain can take"[1] it refers to a film produced by the Ministry of Information in 1940, which had been originally titled “London can take it”[2] and produced for the American public. The film portrays a rather happy go lucky picture of Brit Ain during... Read Article »
The activity of feral ungulates such as pigs, goats, and deer has resulted in extensive biodiversity loss in Haw Aii. These animals were introduced by the Polynesians as domesticated livestock, and now play a destructive role in the local ecosystem. Ungulate populations... Read Article »
Reading Greek plays provides valuable insight into the relationships between gods and humans. While both gods and humans have f Airly similar personalities Greek gods have a cert Ain amount of power that, given motivation from an arrogant mortal, they are all too willing... Read Article »
Prophecy is one of the most important institutions in the Hebrew Bible. The prophet is regarded as the voice of the Lord, bringing God’s will and commandments to the people who often forget to follow the rigors of the Law. The prophets have, also, designated... Read Article »
Andrei Rublev (c. 1360-1430) is a mysterious figure, whose biography is not well known, although he is historically considered the best-known p Ainter of Russian icons and frescoes. Early in his life he joined the Trinity-Sergei Lavra Monastery, becoming the pupil of... Read Article »
Dealing with the issue of healthcare is not a small deed for any country, either rich or poor. For Ethipoia, health issues represent a major challenge. Tuberculosis, malaria, mental illnesses, and especially HIV/ AiDS are health issues with which Ethiopia must grapple... Read Article »
Throughout the course of the second half of the 20th century, it is undeniable that the organizational structures and methods employed by political parties have changed: one hypothesized change, publicized by Katz and M Air, is the evolution of parties into so-called... Read Article »
Youth without Age and Life without Death and Where there is No Death present the theme of time in opposite ways: while in Youth without Age and Life without Death man cannot live outside history and linear time without missing it and meeting his death as any mortal... Read Article »
Fitcher’s Bird, by the Brothers Grimm, and Margaret Atwood’s Bluebeard’s Egg present the theme of a woman’s identity through her marriage in different ways: while the woman in Fitcher’s Bird ret Ains her identity through finding out the... Read Article »
Madame de Beaumont's Beauty and the Beast and Angela Carter's The Tiger's Bride delve into the nature of men and women and the relationships between them by exploring and analyzing the motifs of wildness and civilization. Thus, women are presented as the civilizing... Read Article »
The search for competitive advantage is an ongoing quest for companies in the United States. As new technologies continue to develop at a lightning fast rate, and efficiencies are g Ained in all areas of production, one relatively new endeavor is becoming increasingly... Read Article »
The advent of digital computers and contemporary neuroscience has fundamentally changed possible approaches to artificial intelligence ( Ai). Mankind’s perpetually evolving technological capacity inevitably leads to faster processors, more complex systems, and... Read Article »
In his article “Br Ain Bisection and the Unity of Consciousness,” Thomas Nagel suggests that the ordinary conception of a unified mind is misled. To support his cl Aim, he turns to data concerning patients whose corpus callosum has been severed. Because the... Read Article »
The role of women in ancient Japan elicits inconsistencies due to different influences that were integrated at various time periods. The primary influence that contributed to these inconstancies was religion. Integration of the two major religions of Japan, Shintoism... Read Article »
The introduction of Christianity to England in 597 established a structured, uniform f Aith among a people accustomed to different branches and pockets of polytheistic paganism. Over the next seventy-five years, the burgeoning country quickly grew unified under the... Read Article »
The Establishment Clause is an important element of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. It states that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…” However, the Establishment... Read Article »
In 2005, during a period of heightened tensions between China and T Aiwan and with the United States deeply embroiled in two major wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the leading authority on East Asian security within the National Security Council nevertheless made the... Read Article »
In this chapter, we will be observing the extent to which our 43rd President upheld his 2000 camp Aign promise to be a compassionate conservative. When observing George W. Bush’s “compassionate conservatism,” I will be constr Aining most of my focus... Read Article »
The position of Jewish and Christian peoples under the Ottoman Empire is an issue that continues to be disputed today, almost a century after the official end of the Empire itself. Religious association typically determined status in the predominantly Muslim Ottoman... Read Article »
Throughout history, there have been several ways in which people perceive Tibet. Since it has traditionally been isolated from the world, culturally and geographically, the mystery it provokes has shaped most people’s beliefs into viewing it as a Shangri-La,... Read Article »
“I came here to say that I do not recognize anyone’s right to one minute of my life. No matter who makes the cl Aim, how large their number or how great their need” (Rand 684). So states Howard Roark, protagonist of Ayn Rand’s classic novel,... Read Article »
1993 was not a very good year for Bill Clinton. An exception, perhaps, being the morning of January 20th when he stood at the west front of the United States Capitol building and took the Oath of Office to become the forty- second President of the United States, the... Read Article »
Throughout history has existed a prevalent theme of men and women being reliant on one another, despite the significant—though changing, and usually artificial—inequalities in areas such as education, career power, and political influence. Marc Antony of... Read Article »
The world's largest menorah is not in Jerusalem, Lakewood or even in Crown Heights; it can be found in the town square of Birobidjan, the capital city of the eponymous Jewish Autonomous Oblast of the Soviet Union. The menorah is 21 meters high, uses nine 500... Read Article »
The inevitable integration of historic preservation and environmental protection is a subject that needs to be defined and understood. If historic preservation does not think outside of the box, the field could diminish and become more obsolete, in favor of more &lsquo... Read Article »
Despite critics’ assumption that WALL-E centers its plot upon an anti-pollution/sust Ainability theme, the writer Andrew Stanton never intended his movie to cont Ain an environmental message. Instead, what he intended to do was create a movie that epitomizes the... Read Article »
Established around 500 BCE by Siddhartha Gotama, known better as Buddha, Buddhism has since spread throughout the world, attracting individuals from all walks of life. Since its beginnings when Buddha reached enlightenment beneath a gopi tree after preparation that... Read Article »
With over 20% of United States power production being of a nuclear nature, and all of this nuclear production generating high-level nuclear waste, the US has already accumulated large quantities of volatile nuclear waste and will only have more in the future (Schneider... Read Article »
The Musée du Qu Ai Branly opened under the long shadow of the Eiffel Tower in 2006 to spectacular criticism. Initiated primarily at the behest of then-President Jacques Chirac (b. 1932, held office from 1995-2007), the museum possesses an eclectic family tree... Read Article »
Bohumil Hrabal was born in 1915, and lived through some of the most tumultuous years of Czech history. Hrabal grew up in the time of the First Republic, when literature moved away from nationalism to a more aesthetic view. In this frame, Hrabal likely grew up reading... Read Article »
Mitochondria are eukaryotic, membrane-enclosed, 1-10um sized organelles, described as “cellular power plants” as they are responsible for the production of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) and oxidative phosporylation. Signal transduction (buffering and storage... Read Article »
"Western civilization was feeling the need for a reassessment, a redefinition of some of its basic principles regarding the nature of man, his place and function in creation, his social organization and responsibilities, his proper conduct in all his various activities... Read Article »
In “Amor de lejos: Latino (Im)migration Literatures,” B.V. Olguin writes, “Latino/a (im)migration narratives…often illustrate the traumatic aspects of displacement by focusing in part on how immigration, migration, exile, and colonization place... Read Article »
Within the first ten minutes of Twilight of the Golds, it is clear that both Jud Aism and homosexuality play a role in the Gold family. The family is at least culturally Jewish, if not more, and the son David (Brendan Fraser), is portrayed to be gay. Yet neither &ldquo... Read Article »
If Bulgakov is a well know name, the same cannot be s Aid for Matos, who was a literary man considered one of the Croatian masters of Modernism, and a key persona in the country’s culture. He was not only a writer, but also a poet, a journalist, and an essayist... Read Article »
As the nation’s largest health insurance program, Medic Aid plays a huge role in the current health care reform debate. The program serves over 50 million people and has total outlays equaling over $280 billion[i]. Medic Aid is much more than simply a program for... Read Article »
World War I was a brutal conflict that shattered countries, redefined warfare with its bloody massacres, and left a generation with only the memories of the horrors they had seen. The trench warfare of the battlefield tore young Englishmen apart and turned their long... Read Article »
In William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, all of the m Ain characters experience and participate in some form of deceit designed to dupe another character. However, among the societal members of Messina, Don John particularly stands out as a vill Ain... Read Article »
If you happen to check in to the Grand Hyatt San Francisco on a windy day, you’ll receive a friendly note at the front desk advising you that the 35-story skyscraper may creak a bit as it moves gently back and forth in the wind. Though the hotel assures guests... Read Article »
When the United States purchased Alaska from the Russian Empire in 1867, it did not simply grow by 663,000 square miles; it also accepted responsibility for the people living within its new borders. But America has not fulfilled its responsibilities. Today, 142 years... Read Article »
It is tempting to classify literary, cinematic, and historical characters into groups. The trouble of course, is that such labels can be misleading at best, and severely subjective and variable. When using terms such as hero, vill Ain, anti-hero, anti-vill Ain, or adventurer... Read Article »
As the world's first real Marxist experiment, the Soviet Union, by virtue of lasting seventy odd years, proved Western intelligentsia wrong. The latter had long thought it was doomed to f Ail. When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 and the Soviet Union disintegrated two... Read Article »
In 1994 South Africa's regime of apartheid, under which the black majority was suppressed and discriminated ag Ainst by the white minority, came to an end1. The African National Congress (ANC) won the first free elections in the same year, and the paty has held power... Read Article »
The French historian Jean de Joinville was born into a noble and influential family in Champagne in 1224.[1] He took the cross in 1248 to join the first crusade of Louis IX. His decision to go on crusade was at least in part influenced by the long and illustrious history... Read Article »
In Book II of “The House of Fame,” the narrator states that his dream is of greater significance than the biblical visions of “Isaye,…kyng Nabugodonosor, [and] Pharoa” (514-5). Beginning with line 480, “The House of Fame”... Read Article »
In Robert Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” the motive behind the narrator’s “stopping” has long been debated (3). On one side, some argue that the narrator is simply looking over the scenery. On the other hand, some... Read Article »
The wonder of opening a book feels very similar to the experience of opening a wardrobe door and finding oneself in another world. Stories told to children as they prepare for bed act also as vehicles for transportation of imagination, and when the book opens... Read Article »
It is no secret that China today faces serious environmental challenges. The combination of a rapidly growing population and a lack of viable communication between the state and local communities have produced a difficult situation. Many argue, from Malthusian... Read Article »
The language of religion plays an important part in the novels Brown Girl, Brownstones; The Farming of Bones; and In the Time of the Butterflies. In Brown Girl, Brownstones, the author presents the intricate Silla as a woman who is weary of her work and calls on the... Read Article »
Mortal glory is fleeting. The Old Testament generally does not concern itself with militant triumph or climactic discovery. It much rather prefers to employ “legends, folktales, artfully constructed stories, and the like”[1] to spin a web of frustration... Read Article »
In today’s world of instant information transfer and with the incredible pace of technological developments that occur d Aily, protecting a company’s data and information is becoming more important and relevant to a company’s growth. Not only are the... Read Article »
A character in Toni Morrison's Beloved whose crucial importance to both the plot and thematic intent of the book is Stamp P Aid. He is a character with limited space devoted to him, but whose every action is a catalyst for the book as a whole. He is a highly admirable... Read Article »
Post-modern art is permeated by Absurdism. The Post-World War II Absurdist movement centered on the idea that life is irrational, illogical, incongruous, and without reason (Esslin xix). The ‘Theater of the Absurd’, named by theater critic Martin Esslin... Read Article »
Since 2000, the United States (U.S.) has devoted approximately 4.7 billion dollars in foreign Aid to Colombia (Isacson 2006:1) with the dual Aims of resolving Colombia’s internal conflict and of curbing the country’s role in the international drug trade... Read Article »
Janet Malcolm opens her book, The Journalist and the Murderer,[1] with a stringent criticism of journalistic practice: "Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a... Read Article »
The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) originated in Africa. According to current estimates, the disease first infected humans in the 1930s, spreading outward in its formative years to the world beyond.6:1 It was nevertheless not until 1983 that the virus was first... Read Article »
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