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- 8581: The Incident At Columbine And The Media's Effect On Children
- ... school violence at the expense of the best interests of students, teachers and parents. Columbine High School, which had to endure its own searing moment of national attention several months ago, is already under a new media siege as the young people in Littleton, Colo., prepare to go back to school tomorrow. Clearly, the tragedy at Columbine and the other multiple shootings in our schools over the past two years are newsworthy and deserve our full attention. But as young people prepare to go back to school filled with the excitement of a new year, do they really need to see endlessly repeated images of past tragedies that remain extraordinarily rare in our schools? The 24-hour news channels, the emergence of online media and increased competition among various ... children to be. I encourage and respectfully ask the media to allow the young people who will go back to school at Columbine High and across America to do so with the hope of a new school year rather than the fear of last spring. The Littleton community has been working hard to knit itself together, just as school systems around the country have been working to prevent future tragedies. ...
- 8582: EGYPT
- ... s monument. The construction of Step Pyramid of Pharaoh Djoser began around 2630 B.C. and was designed to awe the ancient Egyptians, to impress them with their rule's godlike strength. It was the world's first great construction project; indeed, it was the world's largest building. Djoser, the second king of the 3rd dynasty, hired an architect called Imhoptep who for the first time constructed a tomb completely of stone. Imhoptep is considered the preeminent genius of the ... scene, but some archaeologists speculate that there was an Old Kingdom belief that a work of art, a building, had power and utility in the afterlife in direct proportion to its uselessness in the real world. In this view, each false door, each dummy temple worked in the afterlife precisely because it could not function in this one. On the north side of the pyramid is a small stone cubicle, ...
- 8583: The Praying Mantis
- ... of 20 mantid species native to North America. The European and Chinese mantids were introduced to America around the turn of the century. The European mantis is said to have first been brought to Rochester New York in 1899 on a shipment of nursery plants. The Chinese mantis arrived in 1895, from China (duh), on nursery stock sent to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. KEY FEATURES Key features of mantid physiology include a triangular ... fight each other. In this manner Wang Lang and the abbot spent quite a long time learning movements and tactical positions of the praying mantises, engaged in deadly fights. Then the two masters developed a new, secret technique of boxing which was significantly different from other ones. Later Wang Lang said to the abbot: "Even though you and I developed a new style of boxing, we should not forget the cause and the source of our knowledge. If the praying mantis while striving for food and existence did not reveal us its secrets, we would never ...
- 8584: Affirmative Action
- ... inferior to a man’s intelligence of work skill trades. They believe that a woman can simply not handle the physical or mental stress of that comes with high ranking in jobs in the business world. This, of course, is ridiculous. Affirmative action has allowed women to display that they can handle everything that is required of them. In an ideal world, the only thing that we should be considering is an applicant’s ability to do the job. However, we are not living in an ideal world, and employers still unfairly take these group differences into account when making their decisions. Affirmative action does not require that a company hire a less qualified applicant based on the fact that they’re ...
- 8585: Photosynthesis
- ... the one that makes the plant grow highest. So consider just how important that green plants really are to the human race and their survival on the earth. Works Cited Alberty, Robert A. Physical Chemistry. New York: Wiley, 1983. Asimov, Isaac. Photosynthesis. New York: Basic, 1968. Brock, William H. The Norton History of Chemistry. New York: 1993. Huheey, James E. Inorganic Chemistry. New York: Harper, 1972. Levine, Ira N. Physical Chemistry. New York: McGraw, 1978.
- 8586: Parental Conflict In Turtle Mo
- ... Rosen and his mother Lucy. There are several factors that contribute to this conflict and the work as a whole. The strife between Keith and his mother results from Keith’s desire to live in New York with his father, the lack of parental involvement, and the lack of communication between Keith and his mother. The discord between Keith and his mother results from his preference to live with his father in New York. Keith has no choice in the decision and now he lives in Verity, a town he hates. This situation lies at the root of his rebellion against his mother. When he lives in New York he is never particularly well behaved, “but after eight months in Florida, he is horrid”(5). Through his rebellious actions Keith generates grief and worry in his mother Lucy. His backpack must be ...
- 8587: Women In The Police Force
- ... including secretarial work or as specialist in juveniles." (Cohn.pg.188) These were the main role that women police officers were historically given. However this has changed over the years. It was not until after world war two that women began to be hired by police departments voluntarily. Women had proven that they could handle themselves in situations that dealt with high stress level. "World war two provided convincing evidence that women were valuable auxiliaries within all-male organizations." (LeBeuf & McLean, 41) This was a start in their quest for equality and fairness in a male dominated police force but it was far from enough. After world war two women did receive some recognition that they were able to perform as an officer in a police department. However, attitudes stayed the same as they had always been. In the seventies a ...
- 8588: Tourism In Canadian Provincial
- ... the park was created, was used primarily for logging purposes. It was constructed between the years 1894 and 1896. However, the completion of the railway had a great effect on the recreational use of the new park, for it was now accessible for the first time to everyone. For the next 40 years, the people using the park for purposes like lodges, youth camp, could only be accessed by train. Some ... which states that "logging companies will manage our public land and will have rights to it for up to 100 years at a time. Logging companies have openly stated that they do not want any new protected areas to come out of Lands for Life and they want to log in existing parks like Algonquin." The third area where the Plan introduced far-reaching changes was that of recreation in the ... the costs could properly be borne by the general revenues of the province." Many of these provisions continue to be refined and modified particularly in response to periodic public reviews of the Master Plan. Thus new issues that deal with human interaction through outdoor recreation and the stability of the park are continuously brought up. The decisions by the park planners with respect to the issues facing the park could ...
- 8589: Slavery - Underground Rail Road
- ... and railway terms were used to describe system as a way to hide the real nature of the operation. The underground railroad extended from Maine to Nebraska but was most concentrated in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indian, New York, and The New England States. More of the more specific spots were Detroit, Michigan, Erie, Pennsylvania, Buffalo and New York. The slaves and the people who housed the slaves spoke in a disguised language that was used words like "freight, lines, stations and conductors". Freight meant freed slaves, lines were routes, stopping places ...
- 8590: Alice In Wonderland
- ... these worlds of fantasy and make them realistic. How do these two great authors make the unbelievable believable? Both Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and The Island of Dr. Moreau float in between a dream world and reality, which makes the real seem unbelievable and the unbelievable seem real. In H.G. Wells’s The Island of Dr. Moreau, we see right from the beginning that imagination and reality are blended ... This is the same technique that Lewis Carroll uses in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. The story begins with Alice getting tired, which implies that she is falling asleep and going to enter the fantastic world of dreams. Immediately, she sees a white rabbit in a waistcoat. This puts the reader directly into the world of fantasy and imagination. It is Carroll’s use of explanations that makes this unbelievable world seem real. No matter how strange something appears it has a meaning and a reason. When the Mock ...
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