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- 3551: The Positronic Man
- ... or Second Law By telling the story from the robot's point of view the book was able to show how we as humans would be perceived, by an intelligent robot that begins as a child with full talking and thinking capabilities and slowly comes to know what it is to be human. What we consider a simple gesture or saying would seem confusing to this robot (full grown child). This story enables us to view everyday commonplace events through a different pair of eyes. Things such as emotions, ageing and death are some examples of events and processes that would seem so illogical to ...
- 3552: A Critique Of the Stanford Experiment
- ... people then and still today try to get to the top of every situation. In this case, the guards were given the power, and it probably took a day or so before they began to abuse they power and abuse the inmates. If only they experiment would have been conducted a year later, Haney, Banks, and Zimbardo may have been able to foresee the outcome by reading Robert Reich's "An American Morality" which includes ...
- 3553: John Paul Jones
- ... The Bonhomme Richard vs. The HMS Serapis John Paul was born in the small fishing village of Arbigland, Scotland on July 6, 1747. To his parents John Paul and Jean MacDuff he was the fourth child. They had seven children but unfortunately all but two died in infancy. The family was originally from Fife but John Paul's father had taken the family and moved to Arbigland where William Craik, the ... Paul grew up on this estate and to those who watched him grow up, it seemed that he always had a fascination and a passion to sail something. Whether it was a leaf as a child or a bit of wood blown by a small paper sail, John Paul was a seaman from birth. He attended Kirkbean School but spent much of his time at the small port of Carsethorn on ...
- 3554: Aerosol Spray Cans
- ... the air. Federal controls were introduced to ban the use of Freon, and other propellants are now employed, notably butane which, however is dangerously flammable. Among young people in United States, conventional drug or alcohol abuse has given away-for an increasing number of teen-agers-to a practice called 'huffing', inhaling chemicals found in aerosol sprays and other common household items such as cigarette lighters, paint thinner, gasoline. Inhalant abuse is becoming increasingly common among young middle-class teenagers. It is a cheap, and sometimes deadly, thrill. Bibliography: Aylesworth, T.G. It Works Like This. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1968. Casey, Maura. "When a quick ...
- 3555: Lead and The Environment
- ... and intellect, academic failure, neuropsychological deficits, attention deficit disorder, hyperactive behavior, antisocial (criminal) behavior, neurological problems, encephalopathy (brain swelling), major organ failure, coma, and death. These injuries can be life-threatening or can prevent a child from realizing his or her scholastic, vocational, and financial potential, or from becoming a self-sufficient adult. To confirm lead poisoning, the best test is a venous blood lead level. If the blood lead level ... iron studies can be used to determine if iron deficiency anemia exists. With an elevated blood lead level of 50 ug/dL, the conclusion is that the boy is lead- poisoned. In this case, the child should be referred for appropriate chelation therapy immediately. One particular category of toxic tort is injury caused by exposure to lead-based paint. The hazards of lead-based paint have been known since the early ...
- 3556: The Artificial Family
- ... but rather felt pity that she left him. Mary is presented as a closed-off person who is disciplined in emotion and in physical stature. She is described as being a strong model for her child and apparently the child had followed her model until the marriage with Toby. Mary is seen as reserved and dressed that way also. Toby described her as smelling of burlap and that she wore her hair up with bobby ...
- 3557: Witchcraft 2
- ... involvement, attention, rebellion, concern for environment, morality, flexibility, or even a quest for power. Many parents don t know what to do for their children. Experts say to be flexible and listen to what your child is saying. They should avoid driving them underground. Being sensitive to Wicca is something very important because of the power it holds. However, parents should be cautious about what their child is do, or dealing with. Sometimes, witchcraft can lead to other things such as cults. Most importantly, parents should ask questions. It is better to be safe than sorry when it comes to a teen ...
- 3558: Nuclear Power: Cons
- ... a very high price to pay for what can be currently done safely. Even coal, a very dirty fuel does not contribute to cancer as much as radioactive waste produced by fission. In fact, a child living in close proximity to a fission reactor is fifty times as likely of forming a type of cancer such as leukemia or glaucoma, as opposed to one living close to a coal burning power ... they cannot be compared to a serious disease such as cancer, which may be passed genetically and for which there is no immediate cure. "She [a mother] probably is very unhappy to learn that her child living near a fission power plant is at a 0.5 percent chance of dying of cancer over a periodic exposure." (Taylor, 155) A 0.5 percent exposure is equal to a 1 in 200 ...
- 3559: Embracing The Past To See The
- ... instruction and lack of motivation. The influx of shattered images brought forth by the Report of the French Commission on American Education, 1879 reminds us of a time long ago when education was for every child, not select few. Stoic instructors molding young minds in the quest to advance America as a whole. Civic pride and duty were influencing every aspect of American education. Both essays draw from the influence of ... stated that the youth of America were offered the same curriculum in the hopes to form a united, equal society. America, as seen by the French, was a land of golden opportunities available to every child regardless of social standing. It was the basis for our country to survive. It safeguarded our standing in the world. Mike Rose s school offered quite the opposite. It was a haven for long standing ...
- 3560: Antonin Scalia
- ... was born on March 11, 1936 in Trenton, New Jersey to a Sicilian immigrant father and an Italian-American mother and was raised in Queens. He attended Catholic schools in New York City as a child and teen. Scalia then attended Georgetown University, spending his junior year at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland, and graduated at the top of his class with an A.B. (Sorry, I dont know ... of "The Washington Rev. Code §26.10.160(3)" which "permits any person to petition for visitation rights at any time and authorizes state superior courts to grant such rights whenever visitation may serve a childs best interest."* The Troxel family wanted visitation rights to their deceased sons daughters, and Granville, the mother of the girls, didnt oppose to visitation, but had a problem with the amount of ...
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