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- 5931: New Reproduction Technologies
- During the debate on March 15, 2000 which discussed new reproductive technologies (NRTS) issues were raised regarding the positive and negative effects of NRTS. Issues raised by the advocates of NRTS were surrounding infertility, homosexuality, disease, and cloning. All of these factors raised were concerning ... NRTS have failed so I am left feeling inadequate. Gee, thanks. Well, this is only a discussion paper, so I can go back and change my mind, or I can decide to try only one new technology and if it doesn t work I ll just adopt a child. Right? The pressure to bear children using ones own genetic make-up is overwhelming. After being presented with the option of NRTS ...
- 5932: The Glass Menagerie: Symbols
- ... his remarkable use of symbols, is able to effectively express the theme of “The Glass Menagerie” : That of hopeful aspirations followed by inevitable disappointment, having dreams which are destroyed by the harsh realities of the world. Symbols are a major part of this play, as Tom, the narrator, is a poet, and admits he has a weakness for symbols. One major symbol presented in the story is that of the fire ... finally comes, and it seems like it was meant to be, as they dance and kiss, he announces he is engaged, and dashes their hopes. The ever-fragile Laura, temporarily drawn out of her dream-world shell of her glass collection and the victrola, draws further back into herself. Now a terrible desperation fills the apartment, and Tom decides he must escape the suffocating environment to follow his own calling. The fire escape to him represents a path to the outside world. For Laura, the fire escape is exactly the opposite--a path to the safe world inside, a world in which she can hide. Especially symbolic is Laura's fall when descending the steps to ...
- 5933: How to Find A New Home
- How to Find A New Home Buying a new home? Well there is many to choose from. Because it's the 90's, any kind of home you ever wanted, you could probably find. From tiptop spacious mansions, to the small and confortable mobile ...
- 5934: Privacy On The Internet
- ... trying to stop the IPv6 , an every day occurring problem from eventually taking over the already used widely IP addressing system. Intel also has had a feud with the government about privacy issues. When their new chip came out, the Pentium III it had skeptic problems with its serial number feature. That is why I strongly agree with EPIC and what they are representing, privacy on the Internet. Say you were ... around, would you want every site that you have visited to know who you are and almost every thing about you? No. That is why Intel had to disable their serial number feature in the new Pentium III. With this feature, each site on the Internet that you have visited could use this number to look you up and see who you are and almost every thing about you. Before released ... computer it is hard for this option to be accessed. And once again Intel was back in the courts trying to explain their reason for yet another problem. The government finally ruled that when a new PIII chip is to be installed into a computer the serial number option is to automatically be turned off. Yes, Intel had some very good reasons for this security feature but the public did ...
- 5935: Article -New York Times
- By: Cynthia Rhymes E-mail: CRhymes@hotmail.com The New York Times Hearings End in Online Pornography Case By PAMELA MENDELS PHILADELPHIA -- A federal online pornography law will either unconstitutionally chill free speech on a variety of commercial Web sites or spur the creation of sensible screens between children and sites that exist to sell pornography. Those were the opposing views expressed Wednesday during the final day of hearings in United States District Court here to decide whether the new law, the Child Online Protection Act, should be blocked by a preliminary injunction. Judge Lowell A. Reed Jr. had asked both sides to be prepared to respond to a list of 19 questions he had ...
- 5936: Livestock and Wastes
- ... On June 21, 1995, North Carolina suffered the largest agricultural waste spill in its history: a 7.5-acre, 12-foot-deep lagoon leaked 25 million gallons of hog waste into the headwaters of the New River near Richlands. The waste from the 10,000-head operation, owned by Oceanview Farms, contaminated the water for several miles downstream, increasing the levels of nitrogen, phosphorus, and other nutrients. When nutrient levels increase ... result of the Oceanview Farms spill. There have been six other waste lagoon spills in North Carolina and three in Iowa, which shows that this was not an isolated occurrence. Downstream of the spill, the New River also had high fecal coliform bacteria counts. Fecal pathogens that can be transmitted from livestock to people include enteric bacteria such as salmonella and shigella, and protozoa such as cryptosporidium and giardia. People could ... exposed to these pathogens by fishing or swimming in contaminated waters or by eating shellfish, which are filter feeders and can concentrate pathogens (Thompson 24). When investigating the Oceanview Farms hog waste spill into the New River, North Carolina, DEM (Department of Environmental Management) officials found that the lagoon had not been operated properly. An irrigation pipe had been bored through the lagoon’s earthen wall, which weakened it. The ...
- 5937: Causes Of The American Civil W
- ... leaders maintain harmony between their Southern and Northern supporters, thus, the platforms of both during presidential elections like that of 1848 tried to avoid that particular slavery question. But the extension of slavery into the new territories was one of the largest issues of the time, and with growing opposition from the North, evasion of it became increasingly difficult. Another significant cause of the war was the growth of different responses ... as an intolerable breach of faith would henceforth resist to the last trench all future southern demands for slave territory. (Bailey, 415). However, when pioneers started settling in Kansas, groups of free-soilers, like the New England Emigrant Aid Company, came as well, angering southerners because the northern Nebrascals, allegedly by foul means, were now apparently trying to abolitionize both Kansas and Nebraska. (Bailey, 421). In 1857, the slavery supporters drew ... laws, and conductors of the Underground Railroad started rescuing perhaps several hundred slaves each year, slave-owners began crying out that the Fugitive Slave Law passed in 1793 wasn t effective enough, and demanding a new one. In some areas of the North, owners couldn t reclaim their escaped property without the help of federal marshals. Black leaders and sympathetic whites in numerous communities formed vigilance committees that cooperated with ...
- 5938: Between the Wars: 1919-1941
- Between the Wars: 1919-1941 United States involvement in World War II was inevitable. Circumstances preceding the entrance of the United States into this foreign conflict proved that she would not be able to avoid active participation. With a government increasingly changing its views from isolationism to internationalism, and with each successive presidency’s administration doing the same, the United States would not be able to hold out from World War II as long as the conflict was waged. It even became obvious, when President Roosevelt reacted to the German blitzkrieg in France by declaring an “unlimited national emergency” in the United States, that involvement in World War II had become unavoidable. The dominance of isolationist sentiment in the foreign policy of the United States was increasingly reversed to the dominance of internationalist sentiment. In 1919, the United States Congress voted ...
- 5939: The Big Bang and The Steady State Model
- ... exactly how the universe began and how it will end. However, the Big Bang model is the most logical and reasonable theory to explain the universe in modern science. ENDNOTES 1. Dinah L. Mache, Astronomy, New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1987. p. 128. 2. Ibid., p. 130. 3. Joseph Silk, The Big Bang, New York: W.H. Freeman and Company, 1989. p. 60. 4. Terry Holt, The Universe Next Door, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1985. p. 326. 5. Ibid., p. 327. 6. Charles J. Caes, Cosmology, The Search For The Order Of The Universe, USA: Tab Books Inc., 1986. p. 72. 7. John ...
- 5940: The Unemployment Rate
- ... time. c) The viewpoint of the labour union They believe that the this scheme should be stopped at once. They were disappointed by the Governor's failure to scrap the imported labour scheme for the new airport project. Construction workers would continue to see their jobs being taken by foreign laborers. Unionist Lee-Cheuk- yan said that in Hong Kong, we don't need any imported labour, not even 5,000 ... in 1995, the contribution also increased to 31%. The data help to conclude that the duration of person who are unemployed extended very much. Before, they are temporarily unemployed, but they can soon find a new job within a short period. But now, they have to face a permanent problem of losing job. A set of data further illustrates the worse situation. The number of persons unemployed for more than 6 ... and the retailing industries. In 1995, the unemployment rate in construction decrease, but the underemployment rate increased. There are some large project that lead to greater labour supply in the construction sites. For example, the New Airport project demands many skilled construction labour. On the other hand, the demand of lower-skilled construction workers decreased because of the decline in the estate market. The large construction project are often technology ...
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