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- 1491: Marijuana
- ... case but also the employment effects it would have. Granted there are no hard facts that say marijuana needs to be legal (or illegal). If a person tries pictures the number of jobs a single American field of Marijuana would create, they find it's an innumerable number. The job's cigarettes create through different aspects of preparation such as growth, harvest, manufacturing, distributing and selling, makes it is easy to ... share of marijuana. The survey showed an increasing percentage of pot smokers (tokers) as they advanced through school. The facts about Marijuana are simple. If examined, the facts about Marijuana's potential beneficial possibilities to American society become apparent. The social, intellectual, economical, commercial, medical, and environmental benefits it would create if legalized are enormous and potentially a great help to our country. The supporters of the legalization of marijuana can ... for medical purposes was only a small step forward yet it pleased marijuana activists. Marijuana activists feel it was the first step to total legalization of Marijuana. Regardless of the marijuana activist's case, the American public has to realize that Marijuana is a drug. Marijuana damages your body and your mind. The laws in America are simple in accordance to marijuana. Marijuana is an illegal substance that which you ...
- 1492: Capital Punishment
- ... These laws limit the death penalty to murder and to other specified crimes that result in a person's death. These crimes include armed robbery, hijacking, and kidnapping. Many countries, including most European and Latin-American nations, have abolished the death penalty since 1900 - including Canada, which did so in 1976. In the early 1990's, the United States was the only Western industrialized nation where executions still took place. History ... rack. One of the most notorious ways of executions was being beheaded by a guillotine. This machine, invented by Joseph Ignace Guillotin (1738-1814), became the official instrument of execution in France during the French Revolution. It dropped a huge knife that cut off the victim's head. It was regarded as quick and merciful. The guillotine was used until 1981, when capital punishment was abolished in France. The death penalty ... to 220, including shoplifting items above five shillings, cutting down trees in a park, or shooting a rabbit. Many capital crime offenders were pardoned on the condition that they agreed to be transported to the american colonies in North America. American colonies at that time also used capital punishment. The number of capital crimes varied from one jurisdiction to another. The Massachusetts colony was noted for executing people for the ...
- 1493: The Question of Equality
- ... Equality is the fundamental demand of the rebellion of the poor: it should be the ideological force behind the new society. How this egalitarian demand is understood is crucial to the distinction between the Democratic Revolution and the Marxist-Jacobin Revolution. The Marxist answer to the egalitarian demand is the dictatorship of the proletariat, which Maurice Duverger shrewdly describes as an accurate continuation of the Jacobin theory of terror: ". . .Man is born but capitalism corrupts him ... system of oppression, exploitation and alienation development by capitalism, violence must be used. Violence against the state, in the first palace, so long as it is in the hands of the exploiting classes: This means revolution. Next, when the working class has taken power, the force of the state is directed against the exploiters and used to destroy every trace of exploitation: this stage is the dictatorship of the proletariat." ...
- 1494: Preserving Flowers
- ... NAL Call No.: 80.H787 Emerson, William J. 1979. "Drying flowers in a microware oven." THE PRAIRIE GARDEN. 36: 96-97. NAL Call No.: 80.W73 Loebel, JoAnn Schowalter. 1987. "Flowers for drying: everlasting perennials." AMERICAN HORTICULTURIST. 66(10): 10-13. NAL Call No.: 80.N216 Nau, Jim. 1989. "A flower grower's bibliography: basic references." GATHERINGS: THE CUT FLOWER QUARTERLY. 1(1):2-3. O'Neil, Sunny. 1988. "An exciting ... Plan/plant now for your dried flowers." FLOWER AND GARDEN. 28(2): 26-28. NAL Call No.: SB403.F5 Russell, A. Brooke. 1987. "How-to hints for July gardeners: dried florals capture summer's glory." AMERICAN HORTICULTURIST. 66(7): 8, 10-11. NAL Call No.: 80.N216 Sheffield, Richard R. 1980. "Plant everlastings for year-round enjoyment." ORGANIC GARDENING. 27(1): 186-188. NAL Call No.: 57.8.OR32 Swan, Joyce ... 32(3): 38-39. NAL Call No.: SB403.F5 BOOKS ----- COMMERCIAL FIELD PRODUCTION OF CUT AND DRIED FLOWERS: A NATIONAL SYMPOSIUM. Sponsored by The Center for Alternative Crops and Products, University of Minnesota and The American Society of Horticultural Science, December 6-8, 1988. [Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota?, 1988?]. NAL Call No.: SB442.85.C6 Conder, Susan. DRIED FLOWERS: DRYING AND ARRANGING. Boston: David R. Godine, 1988. (ISBN 0- ...
- 1495: Justify The Knowledge Or It Wi
- ... same tattooed drug addict losers would be Nobel Prize winners. Its not these rebels that are causing environmental problems, sucking up all the available resources at the expense of people living in poverty, and sending American jobs across the Mexican border for the sake of a greasy buck. It is not the individualist envisionary artists we call elements of a demoralized young generation that are over taxing the people to build ... cultivation of intellect. On computations and word problems, the lowest scoring Beijing schools did better than the highest scoring Chicago schools! Only 4 percent of the Chinese children had scores as low as the average American child. Interestingly, the Chinese had worse facilities and larger classes! The Chinese parents were also poorer and less educated than the American parents! In this case, the government propagates to its society the importance of education because it benefits them. Since it is a Communist society, people who are more productive and intelligent benefit the high ...
- 1496: Japanese Capital Structure And
- TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION Capital structure in Japan has been noted to be more highly leveraged than comparative North American firms which brings to mind the question: how is it that Japanese firms have been able to take on such high levels of debt? The answer lies in the environment that Japanese firms have been ... In addition, keiretsu firms tend to stay out of Japanese bankruptcy courts. Since financially distressed keiretsu firms are bailed out internally, the direct costs of bankruptcy such as legal and advisory fees, are vastly reduced. American firms on the other hand see the majority of disputes, arising from financial distress, ending up in bankruptcy courts. This problem in the US corporate system can be partially attributed to the wide use of ... s, the trend in capital structure was away from the traditional model of high levels of bank debt. Firms began to lower their leverage rates, following more of a mix that was similar to their American counterparts. Another factor contributing to this trend was the stockpile of cash that Japanese firms had accumulated during the high growth era with which they were increasingly depending on to finance new projects. Deregulation ...
- 1497: Les Miserables
- Les Miserables The musical Les Miserables plays today in the Imperial Theater on Broadway. The play is based on the book by Victor Hugo, in which the story of the French Revolution from the perspective of the lower class that would do anything to get their freedom. Cameron Mackintosh, produced the play, while Alain Boublil and Claude -Michel Schonberg directed it. The music was done by Schonberg ... During these gloomy opening scenes we see the use of, whims of society, in which the lower class of France were in constant suffering because of their status. This would lead to the inevitable French Revolution. The next scene takes place eight years later in Montreuil-Sur-Mer. During those years Jean Valjean had broken his parole and changed his name. He had started a new life where Valjean has become ... to take care of Cossette. His obstacle is the ever persistent, Javert. And his tactic for now is his new assumed identity. The tone at this time is the feeling of unrest from the poor, revolution was imminent . Javert, sings the song, "stars" in which he vows to search for Valjean for the rest of his life. Then Gavrouche, a young poor boy sings ac character song, "Look Down", where ...
- 1498: Death of a Salesman : A Social Criticism
- ... one, not even Miller himself, can fully agree on who Willy Loman is or what his motivations are; whether or not he is a tragic hero, or precisely what the show says about today's American society. It may be "an attack on capitalism" (Weales xv) but certainly "it cannot... be reduced to an old-fashioned propaganda play" (Weales xv) by any stretch. The inability its audience to precisely pin down ... here. Bricks and windows, windows and bricks"¹. It seems as though Willy has boxed himself in, however, because he refuses to realize his inability to be a successful salesman. The "living" city is symbolic of American business. The only way to go is up unless you fail, and then you are devoured by progress. Willy is living in a time when his worth as a human being is judged on how ... is no point in starting anew. Eleanor Clark remarks that "it is our particular form of money economy that has bred the absurdly false ideals of both father and sons" (Clark 220). Is it the "American dream...distorted to the dream of business success" (Clurman 213) that has left Willy so disillusioned? Does he feel that he is worthless as a man if he cannot sell his product (or himself)? ...
- 1499: Saving Private Ryan
- Saving Private Ryan The movie Saving Private Ryan is about a group of American soldiers walking around in Europe during World War II. The objective of this mission is to find one man whose three brothers were killed and return that man back to his mom in America. Private ... Miller and his company to find Private Ryan. The company searching for Private Ryan encounters many attacks from the Nazis. This movie starts off pretty good with one of the largest battles in history. Many American soldiers died on the beach. The ones that survived were unfortunately put back into fighting with out any sort of break This movie gave an excellent portrayal of World War II. It makes me think ... their country. If I was around for this war, I doubt I would have made it off the beach in the first scene. The movie also tells about many different types of attitudes that the American boys had about the war and how they reacted to it. An example of this would be when the company took over a machine gun and one of their friends died from enemy fire. ...
- 1500: The Dangerous Opportunity: Community Based, Crisis Intervention
- ... of untreated crisis may be suicide or a psychotic episode, or at the least disruption in the persons self esteem, personal functioning and usual patterns of coping. Historical Development: Prior to urbanization and the industrial revolution most people lived in small villages or on farms. Family members tended to stay in close proximity depending on one another for support and survival. Contemporary urban life is much more isolating. Families usually consist ... and fireman and emergency medical personnel. CISD is now applied more widely to groups who have collectively experienced trauma such as natural disasters, violent crimes, and acts of terrorism. Recently volunteer organizations such as the American Red Cross have established programs for training of critical incident stress debriefing counselors and sets standards for providing this important intervention in appropriate situations. Collateral crisis intervention therapy takes place when two individuals have experienced ... R., Boehler,S., Nixon,S. (1998) Oklahoma City: disaster challenges mental health and medical administrators. Journal of Behavioral Health services and Research 25, 1, 93-100 Wright, J & Beck A.T.,(1994). Cognitive Therapy, in American Psychiatric Press, Textbook of Psychiatry (2nd ed.) Washington D.C. : American Psychiatric Press.
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