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- 5841: Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Grim P
- ... quickly turns into a protest against a quasi-utopian society and a totalitarian government. The book appears to be a satire at the start, similar to books such as “Gulliver’s Travels”, or Huxley’s “Brave New World”, but all too quickly the reader will “discover, quite unpleasantly, that it is not a satire at all.” Nineteen Eighty-four is not simply a criticism of what Orwell saw happening in his national ...
- 5842: Woodrow Wilson
- Diseases need heroes: men or women who have triumphed despite the disease. For the child with polio, one could always point to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who campaigned on leg braces to become governor of New York and then president of the United States. For epilepsy, there is always Joan of Arc or Napoleon. The blind and deaf have Helen Keller. Woodrow Wilson provides a similarly inspiring story for both dyslexia ... years--his attempts to reform Princeton academia were often impractical. By 1910 he was essentially being forced out of his presidency by the trustees. But no matter--in 1910 Wilson was elected the governor of New Jersey. Being a university president is not the usual route to such an office (from being a zoology professor at the University of Washington, Dixie Lee Ray went on to become governor--but her stepping ... they just tension headaches, or perhaps neurological symptoms? He was re-elected to a second term in 1916, but suffered a number of TIAs during the next two years as American involvement grew in "the" world war. Edwin A. Weinstein, the neurology professor who wrote the authoritative Woodrow Wilson: A Medical and Psychological Biography, also notes that President Wilson "grew more suspicious, secretive, and egocentric." An occupational hazard of the ...
- 5843: Prozac: Mania
- Prozac: Mania "Yeah, I'm on Prozac," I hear quite often, said as if the speaker had just received a new Porsche. I often do catch myself responding with, "I'm on Zoloft isn't modern medicine great?" In a way, this exchange is a way of bonding. In another, more twisted way, it is a ... only serve to heighten the overall contempt toward younger people on antidepressants, and the glamour of taking them. In the recent Kids in the Hall movie, "we [were] offered a wacky dystopian vision of a world Prozaced out of its wits" (Ansen). This refers to the wide usage of antidepressants to treat trivial disorders. "Happy pills for every occasion" ‹doctors are still looking for the perfect way to treat minor personality ... how mainstream antidepressants have become, even though Cobain sings about Lithium, which is used to treat manic- depressive patients. An entire computer bulletin board is devoted to Prozac alone, and endless resources exist on the World Wide Web (Cowley 41). As we joke about Prozac and recommend it to our friends, though, it is becoming too widespread to be ignored. In ten years, we might all be taking some form ...
- 5844: Fascism Compared To Communism
- ... the state. Both systems were based on entirely different ideology and goals. Hitler's Mein Kampf established the superiority of the German race and the need to expand as wanted by God. Hitler wanted the world. The government in Russia established by Lenin was based on a book called Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx, a call to the proletariate to unite and rebel against their selfish employers. It is my belief that Lenin had entirely good reasons for doing as he did, and felt he was helping the world as apposed to Adolf Hitler. Immediately after Lenin's death, a man very much the same in nature as Hitler, Stalin, came to control the Bolsheviks and throw Russia in a civil war in a ... a virtual death sentence. For Hitler to ascend to that level of power he rammed the Enabling Act through the German Congress which gave him the power to enact laws. Under Article 1 of his new power, Hitler decreed the only existing party shall be the NSDAP. With Article 2 he declared all association of, collaboration with, and support of other parties would result in imprisonment in camps similar to ...
- 5845: Facts Behind The Great Depress
- ... first year of the Hoover administration became diverted by an event that shook the very economic foundations of the nation, namely, the stock market panic of 1929. The United States had enjoyed a boom after World War I, in which wages were high and production and consumption increased. During this period many had developed a tendency to invest savings and earnings in speculative ventures, particularly the buying of stocks on margin ... exhausted itself and gave way to an equally feverish wave of selling. Prices dropped precipitously, and thousands of people lost all they had invested. This collapse frequently meant complete financial ruin. On October 29 the New York Stock Exchange, the largest in the world, had its worst day of panic selling. By the end of the year declines in stock values reached $15 billion. The Great Depression The stock market panic preceded an economic depression that not only ...
- 5846: Ebola
- Ebola Ebola hemorrahagic fever is a 20 year old virus that, with a mortality rate of 50% to 90%, is one of the world's deadliest viruses. Its causative organism is called Ebola virus. Ebola virus is a member of filoviridae, a family of negative-strained RNA viruses. The filoviridae family consists of five known members, Marburg, Ebola Zaire ... Ebola antigens, antibodies, or the isolated virus in the specimens. Since the virus is so deadly, these diagnostic tests are an extreme biohazard and are performed only with extreme caution. The Ebola virus is the world's third deadliest infectious disease, behind HIV, and rabies, which has a vaccine. The only treatment that can be given to Ebola victims is support. They are usually very dehydrated and need management of fluid ... Sudan became very ill. Later that year a similar virus spread through more than 50 villages along the river in Zaire. This outbreak caused about 500 deaths. Scientists from the CDC in Atlanta named the new virus Ebola, subtype Zaire. The virus that caused the outbreak in Sudan was later called Ebola Sudan. In 1977 a child in Tandala, Zaire died of a hemorrahagic fever. In 1977 another outbreak occurred ...
- 5847: Journalism on the Internet
- Journalism on the Internet The common forms of media in today's world each have both advantages and disadvantages. The Internet has been around for an almost equal amount of time as most of them, but only recently has it become a popular way of retrieving information. The ... online service is a web page that sells something. It is easy to order anything, from flowers to even airline tickets. "...opportunity to buy tickets through TicketMaster." But even this has problems, "the Internet is new and many possible types of fraud must be dealt with," but the solution is software, "Secure Courier...a secure means of transferring financial transactions". This service is the home shopping, catalogue, and printed flier replacement ... are dedicated to letting people access them. Many companies have a web page that offers help to customers, news, services, product updates, advice from experts, even "information on elections, government programs, and so forth." "These new, online services include daily industry news, classified, a directory of suppliers, an interactive forum, and tons of reference material, including government documents, surveys, speeches, papers, and statistics." Even home businesses can have a page ...
- 5848: Rachel Carson
- Rachel Carson Rachel Carson, a world renown biologist wrote many books inspired by her work as an employee for the US fish and wildlife services. During her time with the wildlife services, Carson witnessed sever environmental corruption. Carson witnessed the death ... reluctance, feeling that others were better qualified to investigate the pesticide industry. Despite the book’s enormous impact, she remained modest about her accomplishment; as she wrote to a friend, “The beauty of the living world I was trying to save has always been uppermost in my mind - that, and anger at the senseless brutish things that were being done....Now I can believe I have at least helped a little ... Wildlife Service from 1935-1952, Carson knew of the early studies of DDT’s lasting effects on the environment. Called a “savior of mankind” because of it’s efficacy in controlling insect-born disease in World War II. DDT was the most widely used of chemical pesticides. By halting the transmittal of typhus through fleas DDT saved many lives during the war. Being an organic, synthetic insecticide of the chlorinated ...
- 5849: Environmentalism In The Sixtie
- ... in-the-face' for America. They needed to realize the harm that was being done to the natural resources and their decreasing availability as a result. With the decreasing availability and increasing prices of oil, new energy sources had to be discovered. Although scientists found nuclear power to be a clean, cheap, and unlimited source of power at first, the environmentalists fought to minimize its usage for fear of nuclear meltdowns ... energy sources were possible, and what appeared to be the most effective were tidal energy and solar energy. These environmentally safe methods of harnessing energy were just what the environmentalists had aimed for, and a new movement had been started - environmentalism. If you read this circle it. The environmentalists also tried to advocate the conservation of energy, so that the cleaner but less effective ways could be manipulated to produce more ... EPA), which helped set laws regulating use of pesticides, insecticides, and other potentially dangerous sprays. They protected endangered wildlife, and ordered that car manufacturers had to provide pollution control devices on exhausts of their vehicles. New waste disposal and sewage treatment plants were being built to prevent further pollution of the land and water and to clean up the rivers and lakes. Government also regulated unsightly junkyards and dumps to ...
- 5850: Theories of Knowledge and Psychological Applications
- ... to obtain knowledge is something that psychologists have studied for a number of years. The ability to store and retrieve knowledge provides individuals with the propensity to form logical thought, express emotions and internalize the world around them. In order for a psychologist to understand the theories of knowledge it is necessary to investigate the aspects of the theories. In this paper we examine the history , the basic construct, the similarities ... like the Rashevsky model, Grossberg's theory was comprised of complex mathematical terms and was therefore extremely difficult to understand. His neural network models are only now being recognized as truly revolutionary (Martindale, 1991). Many new theorists would enter the field of neural network models, but it was the work of Rumelhart, Hinton, and McClelland that would simplify the way we would view such models (Arbib, 1995). It was in 1986 ... complex. In the terms of a psychological context it is important to understand the knowledge theories. The history, the construct, and their similarities all allow the psychologist to better understand how an individual internalizes the world around them. The basic understanding of the knowledge theories allows the psychologist to comprehend how therapeutic techniques effect the clients' internal constructs and also how all knowledge, both past and present, plays a role ...
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