Kant believed there was no certain knowledge to be obtained on these questions. ... At the same time there is in our nature a basic desire to pose these questions. ... Only when you do something purely out of duty can it be called a moral action. Kant's ethics is therefore sometimes called duty ethics. ... He believed that man's "practical reason" would force the nations to emerge from the wild state of nature which creates wars, and make a contract to keep the peace. ...

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There is no longer a question of wether or not a bioterrioists will attack, but rather the question remains, when will they attack. ... This is also called germ warfare. ... Anthrax most commonly occurs in wild and domestic lower vertebrates (cattle, sheep, goats, camels, antelopes, and other herbivores), but it can also occur in humans when they are exposed to infected animals or tissue from infected animals. conventionaly left in a chamber set at a tepmature of 20C, and the bacteria would convert onto spores. ... (Weiss) The question still remains in the mind of a lot of people...

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Fear of communism, nuclear war, the future, and of all things considered unknown, unusual or untraditional ran wild throughout the United States as the Eisenhower administration worked tirelessly to address the hysterical concerns of his constituents, doing so masterfully. ... The biggest question on everyone's mind as the Cold war threat progressed was rather simple: "Who will strike first?... Outlining the facts of nuclear war the diagram concludes in large lettering: "RESULT: A growing question whether a policy of receiving the first blow may be the best one". ... Fe...

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Then in 1952, a multi-camera/widescreen projector process was introduced called Cinerama. ... Ansocolor was used heavily in Westerns allowing filmmakers to experiment with films such as The Wild North & Kiss Me Kate until 1955 when Eastmancolor was created and eventually took over as the main color system. ... Eventually this style diminished and a genre called "adult westerns " began. ... In the 1960's, films such as The Seven Year Itch and Some Like it Hot By Billie Wilder was the beginning of a cycle of cynical, sex comedies concerned with the strategies of seduction which reflected th...

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Hitler, during WWII, tried a revolutionary way to take over country by country, he called it the Blitzkrieg, in which many tanks would storm a front to lay down fire before any troops moved in to take over what might have been left standing. ... This little quote can sum up all the ways that one could have been killed for during WWII in a concentration camp, not even a child would be spared if any questions were asked. ... Leaving the spear fixed in Siegfried's heart, he fled in wild desperation, as he had never fled before from any man." ...

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After the chaos of the boxer rebellion Hay called for an expanded "Open Door Policy," for all parts of China. ... Propaganda was spreading like wild fire through America; the people were fired up and were in the mood for war. ... If every country washed by the Carribean Sea would show the progress in stable and just civilization which, with the aid of the Platt Amendment, Cuba has shown since our troops left the island, and which so many of the republics in both Americas are constantly and brilliantly showing, all questions of interference by this nation with their affairs would be at an end. ...

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After a few years in Liverpool, England, Sam immigrated to Canada to join his brother Shalom in a business venture trading with Indians and fur trappers in the wilds of Ontario. ... There was hardly a basic value or tenant that wasn't called into question regarding our way of life and thought. ...

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Late some nights, the narrator gets drunk and begins to call up old friends on the telephone. ... The narrator promised that it won't be that kind of book, and that he'd call it The Children's Crusade. ... He calls attention to the moment when Lot's wife looks back and is turned into a pillar of salt. ... He returned home for rest, but without warning one day he went to New York and claimed on the radio that he had been kidnapped by aliens called Trafalmadorians. ...

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John Dewey's The Public and Its Problems is geared towards major questions about political philosophy. ... The reclamation of the Pontine marshes was imperative to the fascist party in Italy because one of the central symbols of the regime was to convert wild nature into productive nature. ... The New Dealers, as Garraty calls them in New Deal, National Socialism, and The Great Depression, did not imprison people for their political beliefs and widened the influence of underprivileged elements in society. ...

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An end-of-century stoicism, and a growing pessimism among writers and intellectuals, may be traced to several sources, not least the publication in 1859 of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species which put the existence of God into radical question. ... Modernism is essentially post-Darwinian: it is a search to explain mankind's place in the modern world, where religion, social stability and ethics are all called into question. ...

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