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- 3131: A Trip To Panama City
- A Trip To Panama City Day 1: We arrived at Omar Torrijos airport via American Airlines early in the afternoon. We purchased our required tourist cards (3 balboas, as US dollars are called in Panama) at the airport, then caught a taxi for the 18 mile ride to our downtown ... 18 miles away and surrounded by a strong wall. This old Spanish city is now the in the middle downtown Panama City. Panama City is an international melting pot and its eating choices range from American fast food to excellent internationall cuisine. Eager to begin our sightseeing, we grabbed lunch at a nearby McDonald's after checking in then caught a bus. The buses in Panama are a tourist attraction in ... for a performance of the Folkloric Ballet. The Folkloric Ballet features native folk dances and costumes and was very entertaining. Day 3: We rented a car and left Panama City headed southwest along the Pan American Highway. First we visited the Parque Natural Metropolitana, a zoo on the outskirts of Panama with monkeys, deer, sloths, and iguanas. We then drove toward El Valle, about 75 miles away. El Valle is ...
- 3132: An Ethical and Practical Defense of Affirmative Action
- An Ethical and Practical Defense of Affirmative Action Affirmative action has been the subject of increasing debate and tension in American society. However, the debate over affirmative action has become ensnared in rhetoric that pits equality of opportunity against the equality of results. The debate has been more emotional than intellectual, and has generated more tension ... of, the virulent disease of racial discrimination. Affirmative action is, and should be seen as, a temporary, partial, and perhaps even flawed remedy for past and continuing discrimination against historically marginalized and disenfranchised groups in American society. Working as it should, it affords groups greater equality of opportunity in a social context marked by substantial inequalities and structural forces that impede a fair assessment of their capabilities. In this essay I ... the opportunities to defy the pernicious stereotypes and stigmas cast upon them by others. In fact, I claim that not using affirmative action will only accomplish the continued exclusion of Black Americans from participation within American society and thus further ingrain stereotypes and stigmas. Another reason that the stigma critique of affirmative action confuses me, is because the discussion is always limited to race and gender based affirmative action policies. ...
- 3133: Mans Discovery Of Fossil Fuels Could Be His Downfall. Discus
- ... and waterpower for milling grain have also been used nearly as long. The development of the steam engine by George Stephenson in the late 1700 s was the technological breakthrough that led to the industrial revolution. For the first time in human history transportation could be provided without the use of domesticated animals. Steam engines were used in steam locomotives, steam tractors and steam ships (B.Nebel and R.Wright 1995 ... led to a switch to coal as the major source for fuel and energy. As well as powering steam engines coal became widely used for heating, cooking and industrial processes. Air pollution during the Industrial revolution was far worse than anything seen today. Apart from the smoke and fumes obscuring visibility, they also caused major health problems to the inhabitants of the industrial areas reducing life expectancies, predominantly with respiratory diseases ... atmosphere from burning fossil fuels, and their major contribution to what is known as the greenhouse effect have been well documented. One of the main contributors to this is carbon dioxide (CO ). Following the industrial revolution the combustion of fossil fuels, together with deforestation, has caused an increase in concentration of atmospheric CO by 26% (K. Pickering et al 1995). The global air temperature of the earth is increasing; the ...
- 3134: Military Technology
- ... industrialized world. Computers invaded in the following decades the lives of most people in various worksaving machines and in the middle of the Eighties also in the form of Personal Computers (PCs). But the computer revolution also made its impact on other areas, which the bright scientists probably never anticipated. War has in all times been one of the main reasons that new inventions have been made, and the military was ... both in Operation Desert Storm and in Kosovo. New naval ships have radar systems that is capable of spotting possible treats 35 miles away both in airspace, on land and water and under water. The American Aegis system can within this range determine whether an object on the radar is friendly or hostile, and can spot the newest supersonic missiles in 1 to 5 seconds. That is very quick compared to ...
- 3135: Comparison of John F Kennedy and Abraham Lincoln's Lives
- ... years later a similar tragedy took place on November 22, 1963, as John F. Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald. The coincidental deaths of both of these presidents led to a great downfall in American history, but it also led to the further research of the presidents to find even more similarities about them. Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy were two presidents whose lives were coincidentally linked together by ... the United States Congress in 1846. On November 6, 1860, at the age of 51, Lincoln became the 16th President of the United States (O Sullivan 10). He led the Union to victory in the American Civil War and brought an end to slavery. He was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth in 1865 and was then succeeded by his vice president, Andrew Johnson. One hundred years later another president by the ... when Kennedy was 43 years old, he became the 35th President of America(O Sullivan 10). He established the Peace Corps Of America which was an agency that promoted world peace and friendship by training American volunteers to perform social and humanitarian service overseas (John 1). Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in 1963 and was succeeded by Lyndon Johnson. Many historians have found several interesting similarities through research ...
- 3136: Political Process of Early 1800s
- ... angered many people who did not own enough land but felt that they deserved a voice in the election of their president. After all, the president was not to serve only the rich, but every American citizen. (Once again, D Boals) Only a few western states, like Ohio, allowed a greater voting bracket before 1816. African Americans even after the changes were only allowed to vote in a few northern states ... population, or around 80,000 people still not allowed to vote. (Textbook.) It was not really until the early 1850s when the voting bracket was truly changed to include nearly the entire white male American population. The voting process from the beginning of this country was a horrible thing. It started off with people saying in front of their peers which candidate they were voting for. This made peer pressure ... wasnt. Once again, peer pressure had a great influence on your vote. It wasnt until the civil war that votes were truly secret. That was when the curtain came into effect. Finally the American voting process was a mostly fair one. Well none of the two topics that I have just discussed would have even been an issue of no candidates were nominated, so that brings me to ...
- 3137: Beat Movement
- ... generation of people sees the world. That generation is mow aging and its representative voices are becoming lost to eternity, but the message is alive and well. The Beats have forever altered the nature of American consciousness. The Beat Generation of writers offered the world a new attitude. They brought to society a consciousness of life worth living. They offered a method of escape from the stultifying, unimaginative world we live ... exploration of one's intellect. Beat has had many different contemporary implications in music, poetry and literature. Literature has been liberated considerably. The poetic form has been changed to inaugurate a new poetic form, an American form. "There was less emphasis on tradition and more emphasis on the individual talent. (www.rohan.sdsu.edu)" One of the most important contributions to contemporary verse was to take poetry out of the classrooms ... flavor, keeping it strong. James Wright was one of the writers that kept the flame going. "He was much admired poet of his generation...(www.rohan.sdsu.edu)" His works have a "sense of Midwestern American bleakness...(www.rohan.sdsu)" One of his poems goes like this "My bones turn to dark emeralds Your hands turn yellow in the ruins of the sun Suddenly I realize That if I stepped ...
- 3138: Chile
- ... an army on the frontier. CHILE was poor and dependent on its richer neighbor for wealth and security. III. INDEPENDENCE One of the most important reasons for CHILE"S independence as well as other Latin American countries, was the emergence of a class of CRIOLLOS (Creoles). Creoles were American born Spaniards, who were different from the Iberians. They developed a desire for a self-government. The Criollos, then, began and supported a movement in order to gain independence from Spain. The Criollos had a ... Spain had to pass through Panama by land to the Caribbean and Havana, Cuba, instead of directly by ship from the port of Valparaiso. This system was definitely one of the reasons Spain lost its American colonies. Spain was also facing problems in providing its colonies with a good variety of manufactured goods. The Spanish economy was not doing well. The colonies began buying manufactured goods from other countries, especially ...
- 3139: Catch 22
- Joseph Heller published Catch-22, his first novel. Based on his own war experiences, the novel wickedly satirized bureaucracy, patriotism, and all manner of traditional American ideals. This was reflective of the increasing disdain for traditional viewpoints that was growing in America at that time. The book soon became championed as another voice in the antiwar movement of the 1960's ... of death, despair, and otherwise pointless existence. Beyond its importance as a novel about the war, Catch-22 also lambastes the blind conformity to social norms of the 1950's. This unthinking loyalty to the "American way," he suggests, puts too much power in the hands of those cynical enough to exploit the impressionability of the masses. Indeed, this seemed to be the case during the Eisenhower years. Senator McCarthy's ... to see how they are being used for the advancement of others; in escaping, Yossarian imparts this awareness to Major Danby and the chaplain. So the novel could be seen as an appeal for the American people to come to their senses and take back their lives from the "fat cats" who had taken control of them. When it was published in 1961, Catch-22 was met with surprisingly little ...
- 3140: Alcohol An Issue Within College Society
- ... West, 28). This is a problem that exists among men and women of all ages. Alcohol addiction has no barriers to race, religion or sex; anyone can have this addiction. Is alcoholism a disease? The American Medical Association and the World Health Organization officially acknowledged alcoholism as a disease in the 1950 s. It is very apparent that alcohol abuse has major effects on major organs of the body. Ethyl alcohol ... binge drinking, defined as consumption of five drinks in a row by men and at least four drinks in a row by women in the past two weeks, has gone down according to the study (American Medical News, 39). This landmark study of college drinking has changed the thoughts and ideas of college administrators. It has been proven that this is a major problem, and it is worsening among the young ... can be put to blame for this problem that exists at our colleges. Yet it must be realized that unfortunately, as wrong as it may be, alcohol becomes a part of many students' lives. Many American-College students go to parties where alcohol is present. But the majority of these students are underage, illegal drinkers according to our laws. The point being that trying to tell students not to drink ...
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