Cedar Rapids Community School
.... agreed and the Court of Appeals affirmed
Issues: Does this fall under the Americans with disabilities act, and is the Cedar Rapids school district liable for providing a qualified nurse to attend to his needs during the school day.
Decision of the court: The Supreme Court ruled 7-2
Majority opinion: Justice Stevens wrote the majority opinion which may, in general, be viewed as a reaffirmation of the Tatro case. The Court ruled as follows:
1. The "related services" regulation under the .....
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Code Of Behavior
.... Alighieri's La vita nuova (The New Life) and La divina commedia (The Divine Comedy), and in the sonnets of the Italian poet Petrarch. Troubadours and Trouvères (Provençal trobar,"to find" or "to invent"), lyric poets and poet-musicians who flourished in France from the end of the 11th century to the end of the 13th century. The troubadours, who were active in Provence in southern France, took their inspiration from the ancient Greek conception of the lyric poem as a vocal composition (see Lyric). Writ .....
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Chernobyl
.... the nuclear reaction and turned into steam to turn the turbines of the generator. Leonid forced the reactor up to 7% power by removing all but 6 of the control rods. (Medvedev 26-36) This was a violation of procedure and the reactor was never built to operate at such low power. This type of reactor is very unstable when filled with water. (Medvedev 37) The operator was not successful in getting the flow of water corrected and the reactor was getting increasingly unstable. The operator disabled emergen .....
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Albert Einstein 3
.... and entered the Swiss National Polytechnic in Zurich.
Einstein often cut classes and used the time to study physics on his own or to
play his violin. He passed all of his tests and graduated in 1900 by studying
the notes of a classmate. His professors did not think highly of him and would
not recommend him to a university.
For two years Einstein worked as a tutor and substitute teacher. In 1902 he
got a position as an examiner in the Swiss patent office in Bern. In 1903 he
marrie .....
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Classical Greece, The Seed Of
.... this is not the case. Any piece of earth goes to the bottom, the quicker the larger it is” he is able to prove his point by the use of evidence. The method in which Aristotle supported his arguments is constantly used today as it shows that the point one is arguing is true.
Hippocrates, another ancient Greek scientist and doctor, used deductive reasoning to come to conclusions. Through careful hypothesizing, observation, critical thinking, and supporting evidence, Hippocrates was able to determine that .....
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Cuban Missile Crisis
.... and stubbornly bourgeois. In 1943 President Batista appointed a communist to his Cabinet, as he used communists as leaders of the labor unions. Batista started to fail the Cuban communists and their loyalties transferred gradually to Castro, completely by 1958. Most Cubans idolized Castro, supported his government and at least accepted his measures. He claimed to have a desire to help the poor and said he would have found it impossible to follow the dictates of a single philosophy. In 1960 Castro was swift .....
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Causes Of World War I 3
.... did, eventually leading to the Great War.
Without a doubt, the one underlying cause of the three described above that was most responsible for World War I was the system of alliances. The Triple Alliance and Triple Entente created extremely high tension in Europe which motivated countries to move into war for an inane incident such as the assassination of the archduke of Austria. Europe was divided into two opposing groups and each nation was ready to enter war due to militarism. The high tensions .....
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Civil Rights Movement 3
.... and employment, and have been denied equal access to restaurants, hotels, and other public accommodations and facilities. A main goal has been to end such discrimination and guarantee equal rights and opportunities for all people. Black Americans, who make up the largest minority group in the United States, have been denied their full civil rights more than any other minority group.
Black Americans made significant gains in their struggle for equal rights during Reconstruction, the 12-year p .....
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Conformity In The 1950s
.... became the center of social conformity and became the ideal for American culture.
On the social aspect, women returned to the weak and demure image of helpless women. “Momism” became the term to describe the ideal household women in the 1950s. As always, men dominated the suburban household. People once again became religious in fear of being accused otherwise. Female sexuality became a shocking issue of the 50s. With the moral of Christian culture, premarital sex and other lewd acts were shunned .....
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Cuba And The Cuban Missile Cri
.... their oil supplies and imposed an economic embargo on the island because of the naturalization of US owned companies and citizens by the Cuban government. This calls for a massive oil shipment from the Soviets but unfortunately, Russia was unable to handle such a demand because of their limited overseas shipping capabilities. Subsequently, Russia puts an order for extra oil tankers from Italy, a capitalist country. When Italy agrees to the business proposition, the US is infuriated that another capitalist .....
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Cuban Missile Crisis
.... first of many events that led to the Cuban missile crisis, which occurred over a year later. The Bay of Pigs incident broke all of the little trust that the Cubans had left I the United States, and ignited the support of Castro by the Soviet Union. Khrushchev's strong backing of his ally was a direct result of the invasion. The day of the incident, he wrote a note to Washington expressing his unhappiness and pledging that he would give "all necessary assistance to Castro" (Walton p104). This in turn ala .....
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Czechoslovakia
.... continuing on to Yugoslavia, and so just misses the Czech lands.) During the Migration of Peoples - roughly from the 3d to the 7th centuries AD - Slav colonization spread westward from the Steppes of the East (probably from Panonia) all the way to the territory of the present-day Czech Republic and up to Poland and down again to Yugoslavia. From probably the sixth century AD on, the Slavic peoples settled, in several waves of migration, into the regions which had been conveniently abandoned by the Germa .....
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Catal Huyuk
.... going to get his ax re-sharpened and paying the craftsmen with some game that he has killed.
The clay balls mentioned during class were very technologically advanced for the time. These clay balls were used in all sorts of ways. For instance after being heated they could be used for bringing water to a boil quickly and the clay balls could also be used in cooking meat. The clay balls are placed inside the meat buried and as the clay balls slowly cool the meat cooks. The final use for the clay balls .....
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Chivalrous Code
.... the terror-filled Grendel crept away, mortally wounded. Beowulf had upheld this particular code with valor and bravery.
For my second example, I looked to Sir Gawain. The story of the Green Knight is seeped with instances of chivalry, and honorable men. “Always keep one’s word of honor,” was an obvious code for this particular story. Not only did Sir Gawain show respect for the codes of chivalry by serving his king, exhibiting courage, and fighting with honor; he kept his words of honor that had been .....
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Aboriginal Beliefs
.... all living things, including the Aborigines themselves. Sometimes human, sometimes animal, they were possessed of miraculous powers. Their deeds on earth are enshrined in Aboriginal mythology and are closely associated with animals and other features of the natural environment. Each tribe had it’s own creation myth. For example, the people of the Arunda tribe believed that the spirits cut them from the earth in the Dreamtime.
Originally, myths, or Dreamtime stories, were not expressed simply in .....
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