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- 4661: Vampires
- ... Ph.D., a professor of chemistry at the University of British Columbia presented his theory that blood-drinking vampires were not vampires at all but rather victims of a disease known as Porphyria.(Dresser, Norine. American Vampires p171) " Porphyria is an incurable genetic disease which affects at least 50,000 patients in the U.S. that causes sudden symptoms of severe pain , respiratory problems, Skin lesions and sometimes death."(Dresser, Norine. American vampires p171) "Porphyria may well have been responsible for many a vampire tale - especially since the disease is hereditary" (Garden, Nancy. Vampires p98) A person that is affected by Porphyria can seem very scary to ...
- 4662: Nuclear Weapons: Other Options
- ... the enter this country which, in turn, would keep them off the streets and away from America's youth. Likewise, the trade deficit needs money to reverse its downward climb. Other countries are buying up American companies, and literally America itself. We owe countries billions of dollars which we can never pay off at the rate we are going. The American dollar is falling below other countries' currency. Our country needs extra money to pay debts and to renew trust with other countries. Once trust is renewed, we can again emerge as a leading super power ...
- 4663: Endangered Species in Canada
- ... creatures that shared our planet. Human activities have driven many species to the verge of extinction, but there have been some encouraging examples of how society can save endangered animals. One of these is the American bison, or buffalo. The buffalo once was the symbol of the American wilderness. These huge animals roamed the plains, grazing in enormous herds. There were 30 million buffalo in the West in the 1860's. But, by 1883, hunters had killed all but 1,00 of them ...
- 4664: Snowboards
- ... for riding in deep powder, often using iron edges on his earlier boards. During the following two years Dimitrije also reached an important agreement with Petit Morey and Kendall, the two main insurance companies of American ski resorts, to cover liability for snowboarding. In 1977 the main snowboard company for today started production; Jake Burton made and sold his prototypes with handmade bindings. These included some elements similar to modern design ... and Chuck Barfoot created the first board made of fiberglass. At the end of the seventies the beginning of the eighties, the snowboard begin to appear in some sports magazines (especially skateboard magazines,) and on American and Canadian TV. A beer commercial showed Paul Graves riding a snowboard. This introduced the snowboard to the public, although it was still considered a strange sport. Now that snowboards were allowed on some mountains ...
- 4665: British Through
- ... ten times which would cause havoc on money markets all over the world and he must prevent lives from being lost. He prevents this from happening with the assistance of Pussy Galore. Even though the American agents are aware of Goldfinger's plan, they leave it up t o Bond to save the day which he does. Later on, the President of the U.S. wanted to thank him b ut Goldfinger gets in the way along with Oddjob. The American couldn't save their own gold on th eir own and had no idea as to what was going until James Bond informed them. Instead a Bri tish agent had to do most of difficult ...
- 4666: Hypnotism
- ... not, or at least not completely. Not according to the scientific community at least. My sources for this statement are The World Book Encyclopedia, The Wizard from Vienna: Franz Anton Mesmer, Applied Hypnosis: An Overview, American Medical Journal, and Hypnosis: Is It For You? Although they state it in different ways they all basically agree that nobody can give a very accurate definition or description of hypnosis, or hypnosis. Although some ... His methods bypassed the conscious mind through the use of both verbal and nonverbal pacing techniques including metaphor, confusion, and many others. He was definitely a major influence in contemporary hypnotherapy's acceptance by the American Medical Association. There are many misconceptions about hypnosis that are totally without basis. Such as, "Hypnotized persons will tell secrets or will always tell the truth." The truth is, hypnosis will not cause a person ...
- 4667: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
- ... He underwent surgery at a boarding house across the street from the theater. Lincoln died the morning after he was shot. His body was sent to Springfield, Illinois for burial. 3. Peterson, Roger S. “Declassified,” American History, July/August 1996, pp. 22-26. This article summarizes the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas Texas, on Friday, November 22, 1963. Also discussed is the investigation that followed. Kennedy was assassinated ... chief Justice Earl Warren. It is not known who fired the second shot. Some other researchers contend that the CIA plotted Kennedy's assassination. . 4. Fraser, Richard A.R., M.D. “How Did Lincoln Die?,” American Heritage February/March 1995, pp. 63-70. This article talks about what actually killed President Abraham Lincoln. John Wilkes Booth is Lincoln's assassin. It is not known whether the shot that Booth took actually ...
- 4668: The Seminole
- ... Britain forced Spain to trade Florida for Cuba. (Garbarino 39) In 1783, Florida became Spanish after Great Britain lost the Revolutionary War. The period of peace and prosperity was now over for the Seminoles. The American settlers were soon attracted to the fertile land that the Seminole owned. Some of them even trespassed and set up farms. (Lepthien 16) The Indians warned them that they would be attacked if they did not leave. The Americans did not comply with the Seminole, so they raided the American Homesteads. Also, at this time, the plantation owners whose slaves had become Seminoles, demanded their slaves back, and they sent slave-catchers to the Seminole lands. (Garbarino 39) The War of 1812 also affected the ...
- 4669: The Increasing Application of Scientific Management Principles Of Work Organisations To Services Is, Despite Its Limitations, Inevitable and Irreversible
- ... they believed that faster work would put them out of a job and because hourly or daily wages destroyed individual incentive. Taylor believed that in order to discourage, and indeed halt, this ‘soldiering' a ‘ mental revolution' was required. He believed this could be achieved via four vital principles: (1) the development of the best work method, via systematic observation, measurement and analysis; (2) the scientific selection and development of workers; (3 ... reducing staff training, thereby reducing costs. This is especially useful in hotels whereby high turnover of labour often results in high staff training costs. From such an example it can be seen that the ‘technological revolution' has greatly aided, and indeed encourages, the application of scientific management in the service sector implying that such management is inevitable. Turning to the ‘irreversibility' aspect of the statement the motives of wanting to reverse ...
- 4670: Symbolic Analysts
- ... as well as the number of in-person service jobs e.g. bank tellers, but growth in the number of symbolic analytical positions. The loss of repetitive manufacturing is primarily a cost saving plan of American corporations. Corporations seeking to lower their costs of labor move their large, low-skilled manufacturing to points all over the globe in attempt to find the lowest wages. Replacement of some in-person services is ... over the globe, selling their services to a wide variety of customers. This growth might not seem beneficial for America in the traditional sense, as analysts will work for foreign companies just as easily as American ones, but the intangible gains of knowledge and experience stay within our country. People cannot be shipped and marketed as easily as a new VCR. The interesting point of Reichs theory for the future is ...
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