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- 7351: The Writing Of The Constitutio
- ... bodies , determining how their members are selected , and prescribing the rules by which they make their decisions . The nation's founders , fifty-five men , met in Philadelphia in the summer of 1787 to write a new constitution and to form a new government. George Washington was elected chairman of the convention.The founders were all very well-educated. Over half the delegates had collage degrees, which was rare in the North American continent at that time. They ... that the purpose of government was the protection of individual life, liberty and property. Following the election of George Washington as president of the convention, Governor Edmund Randolph of Virginia presented a draft of a new constitution .The Virginia Plan proposed a two house legislature. A lower house directly elected by the people of the states based on the population , and an upper house elected by the lower house.The ...
- 7352: The Electronic Computer
- The Electronic Computer One of the most important themes in the history of civilization is our ever increasing use of tools to shape and control the world around us. These tools range from the simple hammer and saw of the carpenter to all the complex machine of our modern civilization. We use tools to extend our power. Tools allow us to engage ... can serve as personal mind tools for individuals. Moreover, computer chips can be incorporated in other machines that can benefit from computer control, such as washing machines, microwave ovens, television sets, cameras, and automobiles. Entirely new machines, such as pocket calculators and video games, become possible. A computer stores and manipulates data under the control of a set of step-by-step instructions called a program. A computer runs or executes ... computer and the telephone network. In the future, the telephone industry is expected to convert to an Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN), which promises faster and more reliable digital communication. Computers have given rise to new forms of crime as well as to new variations on old forms of crime. Traditional crimes such as embezzlement may be even easier with computers, since computer systems will accept any transactions that obey ...
- 7353: Describe The Main Limitations Suffered By Those With Chronic
- ... of effort. Examples include gymnastics, cricket and basketball. Swimming with its controlled breathing pattern is also recommended as it promotes chest development, flexibility and, therefore better breathing. (Roberts, 1996) There has been extensive research into new drug treatments of asthma by pharmaceutical companies and universities over the last 20 years. One such new effective drug to emerge is a Leukotiene receptor antagonists (LTRA). It was recently introduced into Australia this year and the USA 3 years ago. In people with asthma, leukotrienes play a key role in causing ... in relation to the 6th step - educate and review regularly and highlights the importance of education programs undertaken by organizations such as the Australian National Asthma Campaign, Asthma Victoria, the Thoracic society of Australia and New Zealand and other relevant educators. The 1990 and 1993 national surveys of 22,000 adults and 16,000 children conducted by the National Asthma Campaign (NAC) showed improved asthma management practices in the three ...
- 7354: Dyslexia
- ... influential in their life. In conclusion I have found that children are a real threat to this disorder, especially in the United States of America. We may not have the highest illiteracy rate in the world but the children still need all the language and speech classes that they can fit in their schedule. Children usually find the ability to read very boring and unimportant. -What we need to be teaching them is how much the skilled reader is important to the world around them and that they cannot do many things without being able to read. They also need to learn that they should treasure the fact that they can read, because the children of the world with dyslexia are much worse off than they are. Dyslexia is a very serious problem and needs to be researched further. What Characteristics Accompany Dyslexia? Few dyslexics exhibit all the signs of the disorder. ...
- 7355: Dreams
- ... Be? ³Over a seventy-year life span, you¹ll devote at least fifty thousand hours to dreaming² (Segell 42). These dreams can be made up of many things. They can be a window into another world or ³like a urgent fax from your subconscious² (Graves 97). Many things can affect what we dream about and they are not always our previous thoughts. Things such as gender, information gained during the course ... Lowe 3). The problem with the all of the interpreters is that they looked for the meaning of the dreams and not why we we are having the dreams. Although many researchers have found many new facts and information on dreams there is still a lot of information that still needs to be discovered. Although the break through in dreams and psyche have baffled the scientific industry, the thought of being ... in, they can always tamper with what they find. Work Cited Graves, Ginny. ³What your dreams are trying to tell you.² Glamour Aug. 1998 v96 n8 p190-191, 236. Freud, Sigmund. The Interpretation of Dreams. New York: AVON BOOKS,1965. Lowe, Ralph. Interpreting Dreams. New York: Doubleday, 1963. Segell, Michael. ³Dreams: his and hers.² Esquire Feb. 1996 v125 n2 p42.
- 7356: Censorship And The Internet
- ... the press generally has a large amount of freedom, the Internet has recently been in the spotlight. A banned book on the health history of former French president Francois Mitterrand was republished electronically on the World Wide Web (WWW). Apparently, the electronic reproduction of Le Grand Secret by a third party wasn't banned by a court that ruled that the printed version of the book unlawfully violated Mitterrand's privacy. To enforce censorship of the Internet, free societies find that they become more repressive and closed societies find new ways to crush political expression and opposition.13 Vice - President Al Gore, while at an international conference in Brussels about the Internet, in a keynote address said that "[Cyberspace] is about protecting and enlarging freedom ... Other countries have attempted similar moves. The Internet cannot be regulated in the way of other mediums simply because it is not the same as anyt hing else that we have. It is a totally new and unique form of communication and deserves to be given a chance to prove itself. Laws of one country can not hold jurisdiction in another country and holds true on the Internet because it ...
- 7357: Technological Advances In Agriculture Since The 1600's
- ... only a few pounds of fiber. Whitney's cotton gin, when operated by power, could separate more than 1000 pounds a day" (Todd & Curti, 330). Whereas cotton was previously limited in supply and production, this new invention provided the means for an economic boom in the South and largely contributed to the Southern culture. Several new improvements in agriculture were seen to chronologically correspond with the development of the cotton gin. Charles Newbold made a significant advancement in agriculture in 1797 with his introduction of the cast-iron moldboard plow. The ... and corn shellers, were progressively improved upon in the century following their development and laid the foundation of efficiency and productivity as the basis of modern agriculture. Today, the average American's detachment from the world of farming serves as a testimony in itself to the immense increases in the productivity of modern agriculture. The concern of the majority is not directed towards growing and storing enough food to last ...
- 7358: Terrorism 2
- In June 1914: A young man in Sarajevo steps up to a carriage and fires his pistol. The Archduke Ferdinand dies. Within weeks, the first world war began. In the 1940s: The French resistance kill occupying troops when and how they can. In June 1944: at Oradour-sur-Glane, in Central France, German SS troops take revenge, massacring 642 villagers. In August 1945: the United States Air Force drops the world's first nuclear weapon. Some 190,000 Japanese die, nearly all of them civilians. Within days the second world war has ended. Which of these four events was an act of terrorism? Which achieved anything? Which, if any, will history judge as justified? And in whose history? Terrorism is not the simple, sharp- ...
- 7359: Auschwitz-concentration Camp
- ... three areas: Auschwitz was the camp commander's headquarters and administrative offices. Auschwitz was called Birkenau and it was the death camp with forty gas chambers. Auschwitz was a slave labor camp (Funk and Wagnalls New encyclopedia). On the gate of Auschwitz was a sign in German which read, 'Arbeit macht frei', which means work makes you free. Auschwitz included camp sites a few miles away from the main complex. At ... linings of jackets. If they didn't have they might steal from someone else. The smells were horrible because there wasn't enough water to clean the Latrine, the so called bathrooms (Funk and wagnalls New Encyclopedia). When people were loaded onto trains to be taken to the gas chambers, they were told that they were being "resettled" in labor camps. This was one of the many lies told. It was ... they thought they were being taken to the baths. While people were waiting for them 'baths', a group of women prisoners, dressed in navy skirts and white shirts, played very delightful music (Funk and Wagnalls New Encyclopedia). In Auschwitz, Jews were killed by something called Lykon B. It was hydrogen cyanide which was poured through the ceiling of the gas chambers and turned into gas. The S.S. commanders of ...
- 7360: Technology: Friend or Foe?
- Technology: Friend or Foe? As we approach the new millenium, it has become obvious that more than ever before, we need technology. And yet every new technology places new demands upon us creating new forms of frustration and stress. We can not live with it, but we can not live without it. If we fail to conform ourselves, will we remain the ignorant ...
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