Space Westerns. space Westerns use the themes and tropes of Westerns within science fiction stories while taking place in space. These influences can include subtle things like the exploration of lawless frontiers‚ or the more extreme side with space cowboys riding robot horses and shooting ray guns. The origin of this sub genre can be traced back to late 1920s and early 1930s space opera comic strips such as Buck Rogers. When superhero comics declined in popularity in 1940s America‚ Western comics
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| Western Festival in China Yurong | | | Since China’s opening up to the world in the late 1970s‚ western cultures flooded into China. Some foreign festivals were also imported to China‚ and became rapidly very popular. At the same time
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through many new empires‚ events and groups of people which included the Muslims‚ the Catholic Church‚ the Barbarian invasion‚ and the Byzantium Empire. These people and events influenced the way Western civilization has developed today. One period in history that had many contributions to the way western civilization has developed today is the middle ages. The idea that the Middle Ages were "dark ages" has been exaggerated a lot. In fact the middle ages are split into three distinct time periods
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Imperialism Near the end of the nineteenth century‚ there was a sharp increase in the need for people of Western civilization to expand their way of life across the globe. Colonization had begun in the 1600s as a method of economic gain for European countries. The reasons for expansion in the late nineteenth century‚ however‚ had deviated from only economical prosperity. The notion that evolution as well as the belief in their racial and cultural superiority caused many white Europeans and
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The Western Empire seemed to derive most of its knowledge and theories from those of the Eastern Empire after the fall of Rome. Astronomy and medicine are two of the specific examples discussed concerning the backgrounds and beginnings of western sciences. The Greek and Islamic background to Western astronomy deals with realists and instrumentalists‚ the realists representing physical reality and the instrumentalists predicting concepts with the idea that physicist ’s models are mere convenient
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5) a) Evidence supporting USSC’s claim that the costs in question involved tooling modifications: * Collected invoices/purchase orders‚ obviously labelled accordingly * USSC executives’ explanations * Explanations of Mr. More and guided tour at Lacey Manufacturing Company b) Evidence supporting USSC’s claim that the costs in question involved generic production expenses: * Information provided by Mr. Yamont of Barden Corporation * Confusing nature of explanations provided
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Since opening its “doors” in 1852‚ Western ideals began to influence the way Japanese people saw themselves. Many did not believe a nation-state could be consolidated under the Tokugawa regime‚ and should therefore reform the government and the nation according to Western ideology. This is perhaps best exemplified in the Meiji Restoration‚ which began as a way to not only reform the old Tokugawa way of life‚ but to also transform Japan into a nation that could stand on equal grounds with the West
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The Western Frontier The romanticism of the west employed the frontier as the outer edge of the wave meeting “between savagery and civilization.” To historians‚ a frontier is “is not a lining of marking the start of an empty place but a zone of interaction where two or more societies vie for the use of land.’ In the “frontier thesis”‚ Frederick Turner describes the frontier as “gradually peopled.” However‚ the congress in 1862 funded the transcontinental railroad‚ the union pacific‚ and
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EASTERN AND WESTERN PHILOSOPHY The subject of philosophy has always been divided along two lines of thinking – the eastern and the western. Though each line is concerned with finding the right path to follow‚ the methodology and teachings of the philosophers from either line of thinking has been distinct and different. This paper aims to examine the ideas of one eastern and one western philosopher – Confucius and Socrates respectively and compare the two for similarities and differences. One
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Author’s Name Instructor’s Name Course Name Date Obesity in Western Societies Statistics show that obesity has risen in tremendous numbers over the last couple of years. All over the world‚ it has become an issue of wide discussion and worry‚ more so in the western society‚ where a third or more of the population has obesity (centers for disease control and prevention‚ 2011). Obesity can be defined as having excessive fat in the body and therefore contributing to a higher than recommended body weight
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