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- 3561: Artificial Heart Devices
- ... human lives. In considering the full impact of artificial heart devices on society, we must not narrow our thinking to include only the beneficial possibilities. There exist moral, ethical, and economic factors that accompany these new innovations to humanity. Who will receive these brilliant inventions? Obviously not all of the patients will get transplants, so selection criteria must be established. The high price of artificial heart devices and their implantation will ... fittest." We are preserving the weaker gene pools and contributing to the deterioration of the human species. These and other considerations play a vital role in determining the artificial transplants actual benefit to the contemporary world and the world of tomorrow. A full-scale incorporation of the artificial heart devices technology into the medical world could have serious consequences, all of which must be considered before such a rash step is taken. Artificial ...
- 3562: Environmental Issues Associated With Vehicle Use
- ... of the environmental problems associated with increasing use of the motor car. The increasing use of the motor car has lead to many environmental problems and some of these have a profound effect on the world we live in. Many of the greenhouse gases are released during fossil fuel combustion and from other car exhaust pollutants. The greenhouse effect is thought by many people to be one of the most serious environmental threats to our present way of life on earth. The incomplete combustion of fossil fuels in motor cars also leads to photochemical smog, which is a major problem in many parts of the world, for example, Los Angeles regularly, experience health threatening levels of pollution due to photochemical smog. Some of the consequences are: reduced visibility; bronchitis; blocking of stomata, reducing CO2 absorption; erosion of limestone and sandstone buildings ... traffic? The traditional approach in the UK to the rising demand for car use is to satisfy that demand, instead of controlling it. One of the ways the government does this is by building more new roads and motorways. Since 1951 the length of road in the UK has increased by more than 21%, from approximately 297,000 km of road to over 360,000 km. This has been combined ...
- 3563: Wherefore The Maintenance Of L
- ... on military news contradictions, has been kicked out of the military press reporting pool. This Chechan conflict is just another example of an ill equipped militia fighting one of the most powerful militaries in the world to a standstill. This is as it was with the Afghans who were even so primitive that they had to forge rifle barrels in their own backyard furnaces. The Afghani ultimately kicked the Soviet invaders ... Jew's valiant final defeat. History repeats with the citizen patriots of Lexington and Concord, who demonstrated with their blood the power and the purpose behind the Second Amendment to the Constitution of the then new United States of America. The Second Amendment confidently guarantees that We the People will ever remain free. Pro Second Amendment people always talk a good game. But what would happen should Americans ever needed to ... Now here are a few more questions for anyone who would ask them. Is it anyone's contention that our civilization is eternal, immune to breakdown and decay? What is the foundation for this astounding world view? Why has no other society in the past attained perpetual stability, security, and justice? How does history advocate the idea that this nation will be the one that is unique and invincible? At ...
- 3564: Huckleberry Finn 2
- ... would stay up and take Huck s turn on the raft and like when Huck wouldn t leave Jim in jail and went to break him out. This love is very realistic in the real world it just isn t shown you have to look for it(47-9). The novel Huck Finn is a great American classic. the novel shows in many ways the realism that was in the world when Twain wrote the book and that same realism is still around today. Even though some times people want to deny it for fear of reality. Works Cited Angell, Roger. Huck, Continued. The New Yorker. New York: June 26, 1995:131. Blair, Walter. The Grangerfords. Mark Twain and Huck Finn. London: Union Press, 1962:199-203. Blair, Walter. So noble and so beautiful a book. Mark Twain and ...
- 3565: The Death Penalty Is An Inappropriate Punishment That Must Be Abolished
- ... to be completely sure that the murderer will never kill again. Also, the sentence of life without possibility of parole could change due to changes in state laws. Take the case of James Moore of New York, who raped and strangled 14-year-old Pamela Moss in 1962. The Moss family requested that the state not execute Moore as long as he received life in prison without parole. Now, due to a change in the state sentencing laws in 1982, he is eligible for parole every 2 years (n.pag.). This catastrophe would not have happened had the state of New York simply used the death penalty. The death penalty is the only form of punishment that can guarantee that a murderer will never kill again. While this may be true, capital cases cost taxpayers much ... if the leaders do not act responsibly, then the citizens have no moral obligation to act responsibly either (Porter n.pag.). In addition, the United States is one of only six countries throughout the entire world that still allows capital punishment. The United Nations criticized the U.S. for monitoring other countries' human rights violations when the U.N. considers capital punishment just as serious as any other violation (Death ...
- 3566: Internet Censorship
- ... was not until after the government opened it up to public use in the late 1980s that the Internet became a unique communications phenomenon. Nobody could predict the speed by which people all over the world latched on to this new form of technological communication. A wealth of information is readily available to those who possess the technological means to access and to contribute to it. However, this availability has some individuals and governments worried. Enter ... be used for anything from cooking dinner to finding out the latest movie showtimes. 2. Being such a good source of reaching people, the internet can change the way society works. It is an entire new way of communication. A small phone wire or data cable from a network can transmit data that is then interpreted by us, the user, as communication, interaction. By using the internet we are not ...
- 3567: Ben And Jerrys
- ... been granted the right to become the major depositories and bestowers of wealth in our society." Businesses, whether they want to or not, have a tremendous impact on the economic and social status in the world. The underlying problem with this relatively recent shift is that too often is the case that larger corporations neglect to acknowledge the potential danger they pose to the environment and the society as a whole ... years ago, has always rendered these qualities vital, no matter what their circumstance was. The two men met in 1963 as seventh graders in a small Long Island gym class. Ben, a native of Brooklyn, New York, attended Colgate University for only a year before dropping out to return to his high school job as a neighborhood ice cream man. He had a brief stint at Skidmore College as well as NYU, and moved to upstate New York before going into business with his partner and long time friend Jerry Greenfield. Jerry was also born in Brooklyn and after high school attended and graduated from Oberlin College. After being rejected form ...
- 3568: A Clockwork Orange 2
- ... a better future where we will live united and in peace with one another. Nevertheless, there are those among us that do not share these beliefs. In A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess, a futuristic world is turned upside down and in shambles. This 1962 classic is a frightful depiction of what our society could become and possibly, what it already is. Drugs almost seem to be legal and unregulated and ... of his "droogs"(friends) that help him in his crimes are Dim, Pete, and Georgie. Throughout the story, the author creates his own language called "nadsat", which is used by the youth of the futuristic world. "Nadsat" is a mix of Russian, English, and the slang words of both. The story begins at the start of a wild and violent night with Alex and his friends sitting in a diner. To ... years in prison at the age of only fifteen. He goes to jail and still goes about his violent ways, and eventually kills another prisoner. After this, he is chosen as a subject for a new experimental treatment called, "Ludvico s Technique", it is supposed to cure him of his ultra-violent ways. He is transferred to a new building specifically made for this new treatment. Here he is conditioned ...
- 3569: Importance Of Being Earnest 2
- ... be all." says the man as he waves off the servant. So is this the scene of yesteryear's society or one of today's, well in actuality it can be either. In today's world the rich still rely on butlers and maids. It seems to be a practice that will always exist in this world, but the question largely is not on their jobs, but if they are deemed of a different class, and sadly to say yes. In today's world it seems that class is still a huge part of the world order, and moreover it seems that there will always be the rich and poor, the owner and the worker. This is even ...
- 3570: Chemical and Biological Weapons
- ... that since they do not have the same capabilities or funds, they have the right to make and use chemical weapons in order to counter our advanced weaponry. Because of the fact that many third world countries feel the need to make chemical weapons, it is frequently called the poor mans atomic bomb. Unlike chemical weapons, biological weapons have not been used in modern day warfare. But in todays technologically advanced world, genetics is quickly becoming a threat in biological weapons. Scientists are using genetics to develop new deadly diseases that would be used to harm an opposing country. The new bacteria and viruses that the scientists already have the ability to develop, could be used against hostile countries. Bacterias and viruses ...
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