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- 1931: The Bluest Eye 3
- ... both characters try, the worse things get. Pauline strived for beauty because she wanted to attention and wanted to be beautiful. Pauline seemed to have just worse case of bad luck, when she was a child she stepped on a nail and she was left with a limp forever. The wound left her with a crooked, archless foot that flopped when she walked .. (110). She tried to put that behind her ... trying so hard to become beautiful and things going bad the harder she tried , she just gave up. Pecola strived for beauty throughout the whole book, she knew that people though she was an ugly child. So she thought if she had blue eyes , things would be different and she would be recognized and become beautiful. Pecola, being a child, did not know that her wish was just not possible. But she was a kid and didn t know any better. She figured that if she had blue eyes like Maurine Pie, she would ...
- 1932: Genetic Engineering: A Leap In To The Future Or A Leap Towards Destruction
- ... of the next one hundred years following Mendel's discovery. These early studies concluded that each organism has two sets of character determinants, or genes (Stableford 16). For instance, in regards to eye color, a child could receive one set of genes from his or her father that were encoded one blue, and the other brown. The same child could also receive two brown genes from his or her mother. The conclusion for this inheritance would be the child has a three in four chance of having brown eyes, and a one in three chance of having blue eyes (Stableford 16). Genes are transmitted through chromosomes which reside in the nucleus of every ...
- 1933: Genetic Engineering, History and Future
- ... of the next one hundred years following Mendel's discovery. These early studies concluded that each organism has two sets of character determinants, or genes (Stableford 16). For instance, in regards to eye color, a child could receive one set of genes from his father that were encoded one blue, and the other brown. The same child could also receive two brown genes from his mother. The conclusion for this inheritance would be the child has a three in four chance of having brown eyes, and a one in three chance of having blue eyes (Stableford 16). Genes are transmitted through chromosomes which reside in the nucleus of every ...
- 1934: David Levinson: Seasons' of A Man's Life
- ... 21, 27, 43 and 52. The husbands of these women were also evaluated at the same time intervals. the first period studied was early parental time. All of the women had a t least one child and only a few continued in pursuing a professional career. The second period studied was post parental and in this stage, more than 70% of the women were now in the labor force. The results ... their approaches towards their lives. In more modern times, women may enter their career of choice and still become a wife and mother. While their husbands do share in the work concerning the household and child rearing responsibilities, it is the women whose career is put on hold during the last months of pregnancy and the first months of motherhood. Many mothers take much more time off from their careers than ... burn" to the top. In other words, these working mothers do eventually reach the top ladder rung of success in their field, but because of the interruption in their rise to the top due to child raising, their success is usually slower than their h usband's. In regard to Levinson's model of development, the "Becoming One's Own Man" (or woman) stage may take longer to reach for ...
- 1935: Environmental Crisis
- ... our environmental problems have largely resulted from population growth, which has lead to apathy and inaction with regard to the wasteful consumption of resources. Examples are the desertification of the Sahel in Africa, the one child policy in China and the mis-management of our oceans. The Sahel is a strip of land that extends for more than 6000 kilometres across the southern edge of the Sahara desert. It stretches from ... of living. During the 20th century 3.9 billion people have been added to the world's population. This is an increase of 244%. Rapid growth occurred because of the improvement of living conditions, reduced child mortality rates and increased life expectancy. The population of undeveloped nations will continue to grow in the foreseeable future because at present 45% of the population is under 15 years of age. In the North ... campaigns, financial and material incentives, and numerous other sanctions were used to implement the policies. All these efforts were, at first, to redirect young couples to have fewer offspring and, later, to heed the one-child-per-couple, or "minimal reproduction," policy. The purpose of this call for minimal reproduction was to keep the population from exceeding 1.2 billion by the year 2000. The scheme has proved problematic inside ...
- 1936: Environmental Pollution
- ... before we throw a piece of trash on the ground, throw it into a nearby garbage can. We should look at our Earth as a precious human being and treat it like it were a child of our own. We should not trash it and take advantage of it. If we abuse our Earth now who knows how it will get back at us in the future. Saving the Earth is such a simple task, and I think everyone should be involved in it rich or poor ...
- 1937: Bone People
- ... my family, because they're all normal and demonstrative physically." (pg: 265) Joe is Sharing with Kerewin his feelings about family, and childhood. "I've often thought that maybe what happens to you as a child determines everything about you. What you are and what you do, and somehow, even the things that happen to you." (pg: 226) He wants Kerewin to share some more things about her own life, and ... Joe can be a good father at times, but is unfortunately abusive towards Simon. "Eh, I don't know why I hit you," he says in a low voice, talking more to himself than his child. "I'm drunk or I'm angry, I'm not myself
even when it's necessary to beat you o I don't know, it's not like I'm hitting you, my son
" Simons moves, and Joe looks down to see what he's saying. It feels like it is, says Simon wrily. He closes his hands over the child's small hands. "Thank you for not holding grudges," his voice lower still, husky and shaking a little. "God knows I deserve your hate
but you don't hate," he says wonderingly, "you don' ...
- 1938: The Promise of Genetic Engineering
- ... is responsible for allowing tomatoes to soften and ripen can be transformed to produce the opposite effect. The billions of tomatoes that circulating all around the world can therefore be made to resist the normal abuse of shipping and transport, and also having a longer shelf life. This practice could be applied to all other sorts of fruits and vegetables. This would allow for less of a waste of food therefore ... extract some amniotic fluid. As a result, several hundred diseases and defects can be diagnosed before birth (Office of Technology, 1990). Therefore parents can choose to have an abortion if they do not want their child to have a defect. For over two centuries, vaccination has changed very little from the time of Edward Jenner, the first physician to have ever tried the method on a human being (Yong Kang, 1989 ...
- 1939: Teen Smoking
- ... it. All this attention was great to him. Poor kid smokes a pack a day now. Another reason kids may start smoking is their parents. Parents who smoke are much more likely to have their child smoke. A child who is around it all the time and seeing you parents smoke sets a bad example. Parents are supposed to be role models for their children. These kids generally start smoking younger and tend to ... are 6 until they are 18. Parents who tell their kids not to smoke once when their kids are 10 are more likely to have smoking children then the parents who constantly talk to their child. In conclusion, I state that I am against teen smoking. Even though I am a teen smoker. It would be impossible to keep all teens from smoking but it is defiantly possible to greatly ...
- 1940: Hereditary
- ... are BB (25% chance), or pure brown eyes, Bb (50% chance), or a hybrid whose children may have blue eyes, or bb (25% chance), or pure blue eyes. There is a 75% chance that the child will have brown eyes. The same chart may be used for a number of traits, but in higher animals, such as humans, there are variations. For instance if a person who has light brown eyes has a child with a person who has dark brown eyes, the child's eyes are likely to be medium brown. The charts are still valid though, because not all traits are compatible. Recessive genes do not visibly show up when there is a dominant gene present. ...
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