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- 16661: Euthanasia
- Euthanasia Euthanasia is one of the most acute and uncomfortable contemporary problems in medical ethics. Is Euthanasia Ethical? The case for euthanasia rests on one main fundamental moral principle: mercy. It is not a new issue; euthanasia has been discussed-and practised-in both Eastern and Western cultures from the earliest historical times to the present. But because of medicine's new technological capacities to extend life, the problem is much more p Euthanasia is a way of granting mercy-both by direct killing and by letting the person die. This principle of mercy establishes two component ...
- 16662: Christa Wolf
- Wolf, Christa (1929- ), German novelist and essayist, known for her novels about Germany during World War II (1939-1945). Born Christa Ihlenfeld in Landsberg an der Warthe (now Gorzów Wielkopolski, Poland), she studied at the Universities of Leipzig and Jena from 1949 to 1953. In 1951 she married writer Gerhard ... East Germany, and a woman who stays. Two of her later novels, Nachdenken über Christa T (1969; The Quest for Christa T, 1971) and Kindheitsmuster (1976; A Model Childhood, 1982), examine the final years of World War II and the early development of the GDR. The first of these novels describes the life of a woman and her early death from leukemia, which is described as a psychosomatic response to circumstances ...
- 16663: Entertainment During The Renaissance
- ... 219). William Shakespeare was an excellent author, he experimented with all the rules of theater by combining tradegy and comedy(Sarah Howarth, 21). Shakespeare was associated with two obsessions Change and changeability and playing the world on stage(John Brown, 173). The theaters themselves were a beautiful sight. The stage was set on one side of the circular building. The other three sides had seats. There was also a tower called ... of the Roman empire. Hawking was popular among European nobility between the 10th and the 17th century. But its popularity began to decline with the later introduction of guns. Interest in the sport revived after World War 1, particularly in Great Britain and Europe. An organization for falconing established in the United States in 1942, was succeeded by the North American Hawking association. The style of hunting varies from country to ...
- 16664: Pro Choice Among Women
- ... account of the wrongness of killing is correct because it explains why we believe that killing is one of the worst of crimes.”(141) Would it also be wrong to place an individual in the world that is handicapped, deformed, or otherwise incompetent? Abortion is an inexpensive procedure to prevent this from occurring. If a woman knows that the fetus will more than likely not have a “FLO”, then she is ... life followers tend to direct the woman towards adoption services, or orphanages. To Pro-life believers, the cost of adoption is incomparable to the cost a life. If finances decide bringing a child into the world, then Pro-life activists believe there is no reason not to fulfill a pregnancy. They will raise funds, or incorporate funding from the government to support an infant that can not be raised by the ...
- 16665: The Painting of Pygmalion and Galatea: A Sensual Embrace
- ... the other two are alabaster. The melancholy mood of the studio's surroundings is lightened by the romance stirring between Pygmalion and Galatea, as if the artist's old dreams have been adandoned while his new one comes to life. In every aspect, Jean-Léon Gérôme has illustrated the emotional sense of love in his classical painting of Pygmalion and Galatea. The original work is exhibited at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The dimensions of the oil on canvas painting are 35 x 27 in.
- 16666: Barbituates
- ... downtown to a local pub to celebrate where some army officers where celebrating Feast Day of Saint Barbara. So he took the name Barbara and combined it with the chemical that mostly made up this new acid and came out with barbituric acid. In 1912, two German scientists used von Baeyer’s acid to synthesize a new drug, barbitol. What they were looking for was a drug that would combat the effects of anxiety and nervousness. They were successful but the side effects were too great. Barbiturates are drugs that cause depression ...
- 16667: Heart Of Darkness 4
- ... A man believing himself to be a or the God is seen, by the society from which he was taken out of, as a monster. Since monsters can not be allowed to roam the civilized world, someone must be sent to destroy it. To find the monster, the person selected must take the same path as the monster. This path is a journey into one s own mind, soul, or true ... to collect and deliver --out of Africa-- any and all ivory found. Kurtz is also an extremist, and with these extremes he has been in many environments from which he learned and applied to the world in which he now dies in; . . .the path of Kurtz s career from the most enlightened European traditions to the most primitive human instincts. . . (Walker, ixv). He, in doing his job to the extreme, eventually ...
- 16668: Bioremediation Of Explosives In Contaminated Soil
- ... fossil fuels and will produce an end product usable for backfilling, landscaping, or erosion control. Introduction Whether people know it or not explosives, such as tnt, are a very important part of their lives. Since World War I, munitions have been manufactured in the United States using a variety of energetic materials, including propellants, explosives, and pyrotechnic (PEP) materials. (Noyes, 1996) Many manufacturing sites contain explosives. As a result they have ... testing has been completed. (Akhavan, 1998) Geokinetics has pioneered the use of electrokinetic techniques to dramatically enhance bio-remediation of TNT and other "difficult" organic contamination. (Westing, 1985) Soil contaminated with TNT from a German World War I munitions factory (which exploded in 1918) was treated by electrokinetically enhanced bioremediation. Laboratory studies were undertaken using pilot scale batch units to determine optimal full scale operating conditions. The "Pool Process" provides the ...
- 16669: Euthanasia
- ... most stick it out to the end, not giving up taking the easy way out. As long as a person still is able to know what is happening around them and can interact with the world around them it should be illegal for doctors to aid in their suicide. "Some say that doctor-aided death is widespread already, only covertly, and that the Netherlands is a model of how to establish ... a valid reason for leagalizing anything. Where would it end if the practice of euthanasia were to be legalized, how far would it go? Would it end with assisted death for the terminably ill? The world looks to the Netherlands as the only working model of assisted death, a nation known for its open aproach to abortion, prostitution and drug use. "A `coffieshop' next to an Amsterdam police station has on ...
- 16670: Killer Bees
- ... km (300 mi) per year. By the 1980s, Africanized honeybees had reached Central America and soon colonized Mexico. In 1990, the first swarm was found in the United States. The bees spread from Texas to New Mexico and Arizona and then into California by 1994. The bees reached an apparent climatic limit to their southern range in the middle of Argentina, and their range is expected to be similarly limited to ... expected to have the same impact in the United States because of advanced beekeeping technology and climatic limitations on the spread of the species. Africanization of beehives can be prevented by the annual introduction of new European queens to each colony. Africanized honeybees have increased the number of human deaths due to bee stings in Mexico and Argentina and probably in other countries. In the United States, however, although more people ...
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