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- 411: Biological Warefare
- ... there were no technical errors or problem with the circulation of air. It was a colourless, odourless, and tasteless chemical agent that was used by terrorists. This story actually happened in the busy subways of China. Everyone on the subway suffocated to death. Biological and chemical arsenals are effective in eliminating a large number of people in a short period of time. It is economical, efficient and swift. The victim is ... uncertain stability outside of animal host. Symptoms, appearing two or three days after exposure, include high fever, delirium, severe joint pain, bleeding from body orifices, and convulsions, followed by death. No known treatment. Conclusion Russia, China, and Iraq are just a few of the countries who are suspected in storing biological and chemical agents. It is even rumoured that North Korea is researching on their own biological and chemical facility. As ...
- 412: Exotic Diseases And The Treat To Humanity
- ... they most likely wouldn’t have stopped the virus in time from spreading. (Witness, 1995) In 1991 El Tor hit the coast of Peru. A crate of infected algae in water was shipped in from China and dumped in the Callao harbor. EL Tor came right into people’s homes through their faucets, the population was literally feasting on the deadly virus. El Tor started to spread all over Latin America ... the size of a large virus, extremely difficult to detect. ( Garrett, P. 533-4, 1995) In 1991 El Tor hit the coast of Peru. A crate of infected algae in water was shipped in from China and dumped in the Callao harbor. EL Tor came right into people’s homes through their faucets, the population was literally feasting on the deadly virus. El Tor started to spread all over Latin America ...
- 413: Japanese Medicine
- ... because; it is developed from other cultures traditional medicine. For example, Chinese medicine was first introduced to the imperial court during the 5th century. It is believed that traveling monks and physicians from Korea and China brought the concepts and practices of Chinese medicine to Japan, with in-depth diagrams of certain practices by the Chinese doctor Zhi Cong around 560 A.D. Many of the oriental methods are based upon ... and various bone-setting methods. The Japanese base most of their medical tactics on the balancing of Qi. Qi was developed through traditional Chinese medicine. About 2,500 years ago, in the mountains of Northern China, Taoist priests practiced Qi labeling it the vital life force. They believed that this source was inseperable from life itself. Through Traditional Chinese medicine it is phylosophized that Qi is displayed as both yin “interior ...
- 414: Colonial Impact On The Indian
- ... the imports and exports was maintained. The items imported into India were pearls, wool, dates, dried fruits and rosewater from the Persian gulf; coffee, gold, drugs and honey from Arabia; tea, sugar and silk from China; gold, musk and woolen cloth; metals like copper, iron and lead, and paper from Europe. The main items exported from India were cotton textiles. Besides cotton textiles, which were famous throughout the world, India also ... goods or tribute or profits without really paying for them. Britain did not any longer have to send bullion to India to balance her accounts. Instead bullion was now sent out from India either to China or to Britain. (Bagchi, Page 89). Bagchi's estimate is that 'external drain' from Bengal constituted about 3 to 4 per cent of the gross domestic material product. If expenditure on wars of the East ...
- 415: Nuclear Proliferation
- ... build a reactor in Cuba. Pakistan my be the most advanced country. American spies reported the sale of 5,000 ring magnets (used to enrich uranium for the manufacturer of nuclear bombs)to Pakistan from China. US protested but China continued. Pakistani government has agreed not to build any more nuclear bombs-its siting on 10 or 15 weapons- in return for the delivery of 38 US F-16 fighter jets which has concerns for ...
- 416: Should Abortion Be Supported?
- ... able to support your life or even to have you live in the same house. Do they have the right to kill you because you are both an economic and an emotional burden? However, in China, the government has set some laws to legalize the abortion. For instance, people who live in the cities can't have more than one child. If you already have one child in your family, you ... three children. However, if you exceed the number of children allowed, you are breaking the law and you will be asked to pay a fine and your children will not be given legal citizenship. As China is already over-populated, this is a means they use in hope of restraining the population growth. It sounds like an effective way to control birth and population, but it is a crucial to do ...
- 417: Drugs
- Drugs Drugs have been around for hundreds of years. Indians were known to have used Opium and other drugs for medical and various other purposes. During the 7th Century A.D. in China a drug emerged called Opium. Opium, the dry juice from immature seed pods of the opium poppy plant, is a narcotic drug that is very powerful in the relief of pain but is also very addictive. At the beginning Opium was like any other drug, but then people unaware of the harm it could cause began to use it more and more often. During the 19th century in China there was a period called the Opium Wars where the use of Opium had become such a problem the government tried to prohibit it. But by then no one could stop its growth. In 1803 ...
- 418: Buddhism
- ... was adopted by the Thai people between the 1100s and 1300s, and then moved into Laos and Cambodia. About the beginning of the Christian era, Buddhism was carried to Central Asia. From there it entered China by the early 1st century AD, influencing Chinese culture and, in turn, adapting itself to Chinese ways. Buddhism also expanded into Vietnam, Korea, and Japan. Buddhism was first introduced into Tibet in the AD 600s and soon became a significant force in Tibetan culture. Several important new sects of Buddhism developed in China. My opinion: 1. I do not mind where it was founded but I really think they should not divided it into two major branches because there a lot of people believe that religion and there ...
- 419: Legalization of Marijuana
- ... harms of the plant itself. Marijuana is the name of the plant known to botanists as Cannabis Sativa. Other names for the plant exist throughout the world. In Africa, Marijuana is known as "dagga", in China as "ma", in Northern Europe as "hemp" and in the United States as either "pot", "buds", "reefer", "weed" or the more direct, "smoke". Marijuana goes back over five thousand years. It is one of the oldest agricultural commodities not grown for food. Hemp, first cultivated in China as early as 2800 B.C., soon stretched to central Asia where it spread like milkweed or thistle. Marijuana soon began to crowd out neighboring grasses and reaching heights of three to twenty feet stretched ...
- 420: Black Plague
- ... by bacilli coughed or sneezed in to the air or by human fleas. The plague had struck other parts of the world before it was first reported in Europe. The disease had been found in China and throughout India around 1332. Nomadic horsemen may have carried the plague westward between China and the Black Sea, where it apparently spread into Russia. Rumors had spread to Europe about the strange and terrible things happening in the East. Europeans began fearing this plague not knowing of its origin ...
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