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- 2921: Henrietta Edwards
- ... Muir Edwards was elected to be the Chairman and Irene Parlby as Vice Chairman. With her new responsibilities she began to change federal and provincial laws concerning women, marriage, divorce, adoption, property and dower rights, child protection, minimum wage and widows allowance. In 1916 she published the first edition of "The Legal Status of Women in Alberta", which was the same year women achieved the right to vote. In 1921 and ... the government to review Canadian Policy. She told the government more then they wanted to know when she said, "war or no war there should be a Department of Public Health and a Department of Child Welfare". Henrietta Muir Edwards died at Fort McCloed on November 10, 1931. In her honor two plaques were erected in her honor. The first plaque is located at the entrance to the Senate Chamber in ...
- 2922: Friend Green Tomatoes
- ... novel Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Frannie Flagg and in one's own life. The first and most basic form of love is found in the family. From the time a child is born, in usual circumstances, that child is loved unconditionally. A person grows up with their family, and is able to express who they really are. Because of this, ties within the family are usually quite strong. Take for example the relationship ...
- 2923: Tom Clancy: Rainbow Six
- ... vary phones that the terrorists are using to communicate, with each other. Once their communication is out Rainbow Six easily takes them out one by one. They then take out the large group. Only one child is killed. The terrorists do this killing to show they are serious. One terrorist goes outside and takes a child that is in a wheelchair and shoots her in the back. The team just had to sit there and watch. If they had interrupted, they know more children will die. In the meantime while this ...
- 2924: A Look at the First Works of the World
- ... human, and grew up in the same way. God kept in contact with him, telling him that his offspring would be numerous. It was thought that Abraham's wife was barren, so he had a child with her slave, and named it Ishmael. However, Abraham and his wife were visited by some wise men who told them that she would soon produce a child. Through Abraham's faith in God, his wife gave birth to a son, Isaac. At this point God was still communicating with Abraham. He told him to sacrifice his son to him. Having nothing but ...
- 2925: History Of Boot Camp Correctio
- ... tough" policies. Proponents of boot camps cite their potential for rehabilitating offenders and curbing future criminal behavior. Opponents caution that more information is needed on a variety of issues including costs and the potential for abuse of power. Research into boot camps began with a 1988 study of Louisiana's boot camp program and continued with a multisite evaluation in 1989. (Cowels, 1995) Fueled primarily by growth in the number of ... actually happens in boot camp. (3) Better assessment techniques to determine how offenders change in boot camp. (4) Staff qualifications, including the ability to impose discipline evenhandedly while taking account of individual differences. (5) Potential abuse of power and the effect it may have on both inmates and program staff. (6) The need for clear policies governing the use of immediate punishment, force, and profanity. (Cronin, 1994) (Parent, 1989) The American ...
- 2926: Huffing
- ... and uncontrollable shaking. Ophthalmic Nerve: Toluene may affect this nerve causing sight disorders. The Blood: Some substances like nitrites and mthylene chloride (paint thinner) chemically block the oxygen carring capacity of the blood. The Heart: Abuse of inhalants can result in sudden sniffing death syndrome. This is due to a sudden and unexpected disturbance of the hearts rhythm. All inhalants can produce sudden sniffing death syndrome. The Lungs: Repeates use ... toluene impair the kidneys ability to control the amount of acid in the blood. This is reversible when toluene leaves the body but, in the long-term, kidney stones may develop. Muscle: Chronic inhalant abuse can lead to muscle wasting. Reduced muscle tone and strength. Bone Marrow: Benzene, a component of gasoline, has been shown to cause leukemia.
- 2927: Feral Children
- ... shed light on the origins of language and on the interrelation of culture and biology. There have been more than 40 recorded cases of children being reared by animals, from a 14th-century Hessian wolf child to such 20th-century cases as a gazelle boy in the Western Sahara and a wolf boy in Sultanpur, India. Most of the evidence for these cases, however, has been second-hand and lacking in ... the more recent fictions of Mowgli in Rudyard Kipling's JUNGLE BOOK (1894) and TARZAN OF THE APES in several works by Edgar Rice Burroughs. They have been the themes of the films The Wild Child (1970) by Francois Truffault and The Mystery of Kaspar Hauser (1974) by Werner Herzog. The latter, derived from the novel by Jakob Wasserman, is also based on a true case.
- 2928: Hamlet
- ... due to her subordinate role in society. The character of Nora is not only important in describing to role of women, but also in emphasizing the impact of this role on a woman. Nora's child-like manner, evident through her minor acts of disobedience and lack of responsibility compiled with her lack of sophistication further emphasize the subordinate role of woman. By the end of the play this is evident ... the family begins a threesome, which makes it a permanent system for the first time. If a childless spouse leaves, there is no system left, but if one leaves the new threesome of couple and child, the system itself survives. Thus, symbolically and in reality this transition is a key in the family life cycle. The patriarchal system that has characterized our culture has impoverished both women and men, I look ...
- 2929: The Life of Charles Dickens
- ... good man, as men go in the bewildering world of ours, brave, transparent, tender-hearted, and honorable. Dickens was always a little too irritable because he was a little too happy. Like the over-wrought child in society, he was splendidly sociable, and in and yet sometimes quarrelsome. In all the practical relations of his life he was what the child is at a party, genuinely delighted, delightful, affectionate and happy, and in some strange way fundamentally sad and dangerously close to tears. At the age of 12 Charles worked in a London factory pasting labels ...
- 2930: Streetcar Named Desire
- ... Blanche to end up in the mental hospital, and Stella being little slow, realize later that she deserted her sister and blames herself. "She doesn't seem to see much. She laughs incessantly like a child tickled and stops abruptly as the stimuli, the tickling, stops and returns to the same condition, a pleasantly drugged child." (Pg. 304 Kazan) Comparing Blanche with Stella, these two characters have similarities. It is noticeable in the play that Stella is in search for "Desire" like Blanche. When she finally got to the paradise, she ...
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