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- 6531: Catalytic Converters
- ... Converters Notice when a vehicle drives by nowadays, that it is so much quieter than those loud oldies that pour out the blue smoke. Ever wonder just what is underneath a vehicle that makes the new ones so much cleaner. It is called a catalytic converter. The main function of a catalytic converter is to decrease pollution emitted from a vehicles exhaust. The concept behind this is to add a catalyst ... thereby ceasing the reaction to exist. Phosphorus had much of the same effect on the pellets so the gasoline must contain minimal amounts of it as well. A catalytic converter can be located in every new vehicle today, unless the vehicle runs on diesel fuel. In case you were interested in finding the catalytic converter nearest you, you may want to take a look under the nearest vehicle. It looks like ... these to our atmosphere spurred on the creation of anti- pollutant components in vehicles and the trend for a pollution free environment still continues. It will be a great struggle as inventors come up with new and bizarre ways to keep our atmosphere intact. Already, electric and solar powered test cars have taken to the highways to test their durability, effectiveness, and convenience. The catalytic converter was definitely the original ...
- 6532: Stoker and Rice's Books About Vampires
- ... compare with our own ordinance survey maps; but I found that Bistritz, the post named by Count Dracula, is a fairly well known place” (Stoker 2). In contrast, Rice sets her story in the modern world. New Orleans is the main area which her story takes place. Her vampires like to live in houses rather than castles. This now brings up the subject of contact with people. Lestat likes to talk to ... of five female vampires living with him in his castle. Other than that there is no mention of contact with other vampires. Actually there is no mention of any other vampires that exist in the world Stoker created. Anne Rice, obviously with more space to explore her vampires, made an entire world of vampires living incognito with mortals. She actually has a family tree of vampires which decends from a ...
- 6533: AIDS and You
- ... seen as a disease of gay males in this country. This was a result of the fact that gay males in this culture in the days before AIDS had an average of 200 to 400 new sexual contacts per year. This figure was much higher than common practice among heterosexual (straight) men or women. In addition, it turned out that rectal sex was a particularly effective way to transmit the disease ... of this society looked on smugly, for both populations tended to be despised by the "mainstream" of society here. But AIDS is also spread by heterosexual sex. In addition, it is spread by blood transfusions. New born babies can acquire the disease from infected mothers during pregnancy. Gradually more and more "mainstream" folks got the disease. Most recently, a member of congress died of the disease. Finally, even the national news ... The danger of contracting AIDS is so real now that it has massively affected the behavior of both gay and straight folks who formerly had elected to lead an active sexual life that included numerous new sexual contacts. Abstinence The safest option regarding AIDS and sex is total abstinence from all sexual contact. For those who prefer to indulge in sexual contact, this is often far too great a sacrifice. ...
- 6534: A Dream Deferred - Poetry Explination
- ... The poetry of Langston Hughes, the poet laureate of Harlem, is an effective commentary on the condition of blacks in America during the 20th Century. Hughes places particular emphasis on Harlem, a black area in New York that became a destination of many hopeful blacks in the first half of the 1900ís. In much of Hughes' poetry, a theme that runs throughout is that of a "dream deferred." The recurrence of ... a clear picture of the disappointment and dismay that blacks in America faced in Harlem. Furthermore, as the poem develops, so does the feeling behind "A Dream Deferred," growing more serious and angrier with each new line. To understand Hughes' idea of the "dream deferred," one must have an understanding of the history of Harlem, for each and every line in this poem has a figurative, not literal, meaning and relates precisely to his experience in New York. First intended to be an upper class white community, Harlem was the home of many fancy brownstones that attracted wealthy whites. Between 1906 and 1910, when whites were forcing blacks out of their ...
- 6535: The Homeless Population
- The Homeless Population One of the most important issues that concern me today is homelessness and the every year homeless increase. This is an important issue because millions of people throughout the world have no place to sleep or no food to eat. These people constantly wonder the streets begging for food, money, and any thing else that the people have to offer. The homeless have no remorse ... cloths, and blankets to keep themselves warm. These homeless people have to live day by day trying to survive. Homeless people usually tend to sleep in alleys or on sidewalks in big cities throughout the world. Some of the homeless tend to wander out of the city borders and into less populated areas. They gather all of their belongings and head for new more peaceful locations. The worst part of the year for the homeless is during the winter. They have to sleep in the freezing cold and many times they even have to sleep in the ...
- 6536: Symbolism in "The Pearl" by John Steinbeck
- ... great pearl, which he discovers. As Steinbeck unfolds The Pearl, he presents Kino as a, "angry, frightened, but resolute man, determined to keep what he has earned" (Beachler 62). He has earned "Pearl of the World," (Steinbeck 27) a legendary item of considerable wealth. "Kino, on the other hand sees the great pearl as providing the opportunity to pay for a church wedding, new clothes, a rifle, and schooling for his son…" (Warren 28). From these wants and needs, Kino symbolizes "clearly good and innocent" (McCarthy 108), but Kino changes in his desperate attempt to bring about wealthy reforms. Even his conscience, which is symbolized by the music in Kino's head, tries to warn him about his greed. This ‘music' symbolizes ones own conscience in the real world. By the end of this relentless parable, the reader sees the irony in the fact that even a good person can be led astray by his feeling of inner responsibility to provide for his ...
- 6537: Crime and Punishment and The Outsider: Self Discovery
- ... of their crime. In time, both Meursault and Raskolnikov realized their beliefs differed society's, however only Raskolnikov choose to act on it. Raskolnikov had finally realized his false conception of his place in the world. He was now able to admit to himself that he was not like the “real master (Napoleon)”19 who could massacre cities and abandon armies without a thought. Instead, he considered himself and “aesthetic louse ... of suffering. Sonia also suggested that he; Go now. Go this very moment, and stand at the crossroads; bow down and first kiss the earth which you have defiled; then bow down to the whole world, to the four points of the compass, and say aloud, for all men to hear, "I have killed". Then God will send you life again...You must accept suffering and redeem yourself by it; that ... he had confessed, Raskolnikov stated that despite his seven years of imprisonment “he had risen again and he knew it”28. This conception was also reinforced by a dream of his. He dreamt that the world was swept by a mysterious plague that was going to destroy all but a chosen few. Those attacked by the plague considered their own ideas infallible. As a result, the world was devastated as ...
- 6538: Alternative Medicine
- ... policies and standards regarding coverages for alternative medicine modalities. From a sociological standpoint, unconventional, alternative, or unorthodox therapies refer to medical practices that are not in conformity with the standards of the medical community. The New England Journal of Medicine defines unconventional therapies, “as medical interventions not taught widely at U.S. medical schools or generally available at U.S. hospitals. Examples include acupuncture, chiropractic, and massage therapy”(1993). Coverages vary ... treatment, which it supported in explicit detail. From this one may conclude that chiropractic is the only alternative treatment that has established a beneficial reputation in possibly preventing illness and promoting wellness in the western world. An extremist might say because Health Net does not include any other forms of alternative medicine, that these modes of treatment are not generally accepted by the medical community or deemed effective or appropriate in ... by U.S. medical schools and insurance companies as being beneficial to the treatment of disease and illness with scientific evidence. “In 1993, the National Institutes of Health chose Dr. Joe Jacobs to head their new Office of Alternative Medicine. The office was created last year under pressure from a Congress alarmed by the soaring cost of high-tech healing and the frustrating fact that so many ailments such as: ...
- 6539: Cloning
- Cloning In many controversial topics around the world, such as abortion, gun control, legalized drugs, the death penalty, and cloning (to name a few), we can find differing positions, and opinions. Many of these arguments, can be narrowed down to two different views ... Roslin Institute in Edinburgh announced on that he had replaced the genetic material of sheep's egg with the DNA from an adult sheep, and created a lamb (Dolly), the topic of cloning "created" many new questions of its own. None were as controversial as: Will they apply this to humans as well? According to Dr. Wilmut, the answer was "there is no reason in principle why you couldn't do ... a child who is dying from a terminal illness. Using a deterministic argument, many infertile couples are worried that any "government restrictions on human cloning might hurt their chances some day for bearing children through new medical technology" ( Newsday, Thomas Maier, 03/14/1997). In a form of expressive individualism, Tom Buckowski, from Studio City, California said, "It's my body, my choice, right? But what if I want my ...
- 6540: Did Napoleon Betray The Revolu
- ... Liberty, equality and fraternity. For it is ideals rather than realities that Napoleon allegedly betrayed. The reality of the French revolution is 8 periods of constant change and successions of policies and leaders, with each new leader and party brining amendments to the revolution. Napoleon’s “coupd’e`tat of 18 brumaire was an insurance against both Jacobin revolution and Royalist restoration.” The French people expected Napoleon to bring back peace ... treachery. France had been through years of revolutionary change but it still lacked the administrative structure to implement revolutionary reforms. Napoleon created a logically organised civil service that was so efficient that most of the world adopted the French administration system Much of it’s efficiency came from the fact that position were awarded for skill rather then social status Napoleons motto being “a career open to all talents, without distinction ... Revolution, he lost the justification for his regime and consequently lost all the power he had amassed. Bibliography Broers, Michael Europe Under Napoleon 1799-1815 Arnold, London, 1996 Ellis, Geoffrey Profiles in Power: Napoleon, Longman, New York, 1997 Encyclopaedia Britannica, CD Rom, Standard Edition, 1999 Furet, Francois ‘Napoleon Bonaparte’ in G, Kates(ed.) The French Revolution: Recent Debates and New Controversies Clarendon Press, Oxford (1997) Gildea, Robert Barricades and Borders: ...
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