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- 3061: Black Like Me
- ... released. John Howard Griffin began this novel as a white man on October 28, 1959 and became a black man (with the help of a noted dermatologist) on November 7. He entered black society in New Orleans through his contact Sterling, a shoe shine boy that he had met in the days prior to the medication taking full effect. Griffin stayed with Sterling at the shine stand for a few days ... leave the state as soon as possible. P.D. East, Griffin's friend, was more than willing to help his friend out of the dangerous situation that he had gotten himself into and back to New Orleans. From New Orleans, traveled to Biloxi, Mississippi and began hitch hiking toward Mobile, Alabama. Griffin found that men would not pick him up in the day nearly as often as they would at night. One of ...
- 3062: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Survival In Society
- ... smashed the door, left some his hair on a bloody ax, and left a trail of food, creating the impression that he was killed by robbers; his plan is a success. Huck must enter the world after his death in disguises, born as a new person repeatedly to conceal his real identity. Dressing as a girl to go ashore to gather information is just one of the identities he must assume through out his whole journey. This example shows how ... himself as George Jackson and that he fell overboard from a passing steamboat. He is welcomed into the Grangerford's home because his identity and story is convincible. After a day there, Huck forgets his new name. Understanding Buck, the youngest of the family, desire to show off, Huck gets him to spell his name revealing his new identity. Getting Buck to spell his name because he understands his personality, ...
- 3063: Phobias
- ... a fear must cause great distress or interfere with a person s life in a major way. The word phobia is Greek, therefore, any word that proceeds it should be Greek too. To coin a new phobia name, it is proper and only accepted to follow this rule. The rule has been broken many times in the past, especially by the medical profession. The medical profession is steeped in Latin and ... recall the experience producing the phobia. For example, if a person was humiliated by performing in front of others, they may develop a social phobia. Social phobia is the third largest medical problem in the world. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, (NIMH), social phobia is "a disorder characterized by overwhelming anxiety and excessive self -consciousness in social situations." Social phobia is defined "as people intensely afraid of any ... recently identified the site of a gene in mice that affects learned fearfulness. Scientists believe that the sensitivity due to social phobia may be physiologically, there might be a biochemical basis for the disorder. The World of Psychology book states that "the neurotransmitter serotonin plays a important role in anxiety attacks." A process called observational learning or social modeling is when a person with social phobia acquires their fear from ...
- 3064: Children And The Single Parent
- ... living apart hurts. For children, divorce is not a one time event, but a continued process. This is a traumatic experience for the children because it leaves them feeling alone, as if nobody in the world cares about them. Single parenting affects each child differently according to that child's age. Infants and young children can feel abandoned by the decision of parents to get divorced. Most infants and young children ... 34). Adolescence are unpredictable. They are independent beings. Parents who earlier felt pushed out of their children's lives by an angry ex-spouse, find a second chance to heal old wounds and create a new relationship with their adolescent child. Over time, parental wars take a greater toll on a child's development. When parents fight, children lose faith, and the world becomes a scary place. Parents can find themselves picking up pieces of the adolescents life. Children become masters of manipulating parents to meet their needs. Children learn to take care of themselves first ...
- 3065: Genetic Engineering 5
- ... quotation states that incredible inventions, such as genetic engineering, are not always beneficial to society. Genetic engineering is altering the genetic material of cells and/or organisms in order to make them capable of making new substances or performing new functions (Wald 45). It is also one of the top controversial issues of the 20th century (Epstein 1). Many believe that continuing to provide genetically constructed inventions in this world is ethical, which means that these inventions conform to one s moral standards (Epstein 5). Others argue that such inventions as human clones, which are genetically constructed humans, and other genetically created figures, are ...
- 3066: Computer Crime
- ... began when the AT&T telephone network crashed on January 15, 1990. The crash occurred due to a small bug in AT&T's own software. It began with a single switching station in Manhattan, New York, but within ten minutes the domino effect had brought down over half of AT&T's network. The rest was overloaded, trying to compensate for the overflow. This crash represented a major corporate embarrassment ... main goal is usually to receive free telephone service, through the use of such devices as homemade telephone boxes. They are often much more extroverted than their computer equivalents. Phreaks have been known to create world-wide conference calls that run for hours (on someone else's bill, of course). When someone has to drop out, they call up another phreak to join in. Hackers come from a wide variety of ... Hackers, Crackers, and Phreaks: "Hackers" are the "wizards" of the computer community; people with a deep understanding of how their computers work, and can do things with them that seem "magical". "Crackers" are the real-world analogues of the "console cowboys" of cyberpunk fiction; they break in to other people's computer systems, without their permission, for illicit gain or simply for the pleasure of exercising their skill. "Phreaks" are ...
- 3067: Black Like Me
- ... released. John Howard Griffin began this novel as a white man on October 28, 1959 and became a black man (with the help of a noted dermatologist) on November 7. He entered black society in New Orleans through his contact Sterling, a shoe shine boy that he had met in the days prior to the medication taking full effect. Griffin stayed with Sterling at the shine stand for a few days ... leave the state as soon as possible. P.D. East, Griffin's friend, was more than willing to help his friend out of the dangerous situation that he had gotten himself into and back to New Orleans. From New Orleans, traveled to Biloxi, Mississippi and began hitch hiking toward Mobile, Alabama. Griffin found that men would not pick him up in the day nearly as often as they would at night. One of ...
- 3068: The Internet Contributes To The Process Of Globalization
- ... society and is arguably the most powerful catalyst in the globalization process. There is a growing concern that the Internet will bring about or increase the presence of a "McWorld". That is to say a world saturated by U.S. popular culture and marketing strategies where mass entertainment products etc. are leveled to the lowest common denominator in an effort to make them attractive to the broadest possible audience. However, others ... no more American than electricity. It may have been invented there, but electrons have no national allegiance. And soon, neither will the information transformed global community. What would a man from Mars, looking at this world and the Internet make of all this talk of globalization and by extension cultural imperialism. There is lot of controversy surrounding the amount of English on the Net. This is not an issue - English is not an oppressive force but a translative machine. It is possible some languages will become marginalized (French as the Latin of the 21st century) however it is unlikely that the world will become all Anglo-Saxon. The US does dominate the world of images and icons. Cindy Crawford and Pocahontas analogized to statutes of Lenin in the old Soviet Union. However, this is not an ...
- 3069: Canada's Institutional Landscape and The Government's Ignorance of Farmer's Needs
- ... the market proceeds in its current direction. The competition that is waged between the United States, European Community, and Canada causes the price of wheat to drop due to the elasticity of wheat on the world market. Wheat is an elastic commodity, especially with the inception of free-trade, because of the vast number of available substitutes. What the elasticity of wheat means to Saskatchewan farmers is that any price changes ... be successful in a free-market system where they can compete with international competitors is false. The elasticity of wheat means that, even if Canadian farmers were to become the largest wheat suppliers in the world, they would do so only with low prices and insignificant advantages to Saskatchewan wheat farmers. One recent federal cost-recovery initiative involved the abolition of the Crow's Nest Pass Agreement. The agreement was arranged ... farmers in Alberta. The reason being that the transportation costs will not affect the farmers as bad as they will in Saskatchewan and the development of large regional centers, already present in Alberta, will bring new initiatives and diversity. In the meantime, the Saskatchewan wheat farmers have been forced to sacrifice their lifestyle to survive in a new economic agenda pushed by the bureaucrats in the east and by an ...
- 3070: Malcolm Little
- ... the clothes they wore, how proud they were, and the city of Boston it self. He met a man named Shorty who helped him learn the ropes of the street life and to get a new image. Shorty also got Malcolm a shoe shining job. Malcolm was basically living on the streets, and this is where he got the nick name Detroit Red. In his late teen years he was arrested ... the name X, and it symbolizes his real last name before the slave handlers. After studying under Muhammad and expanding the Nation to its greatest heights Malcolm was elected minister of an Islamic temple in New York. There he met and married Betty X. they had a total of six children together, all of which were daughters. He started out teaching independence from whites trying to control blacks. "Our enemy is ... s speeches and even his most personal meetings. They were afraid of what he might start. When Fidel Castro came to speak in America, Malcolm and he had many private conversations. Malcolm picked up many new ideas from Mr. Castro. In 1964 Malcolm announced his split with the Nation of Islam. The main reason for this split is due to Malcolm publicly speaking of his hatred for white men of ...
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