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- 4521: Mandatory AIDS Testing
- ... first case the top courts had to deal with involving the transmission of AIDS. Now a under existing laws, any one knowingly donating blood can be prosecuted. In another case this one being on the civil aspect involving a married father of two is suing the estate of his homosexual lover, saying the man failed to disclose that he was carrying the AIDS virus until shortly before dying.(Star, '94) This ... high risk group you are partially negligent. This case shows that there are repercussion to ones actions you must be extremely selective of who you have sexual encounters with. It also looks more towards the civil side of AIDS and the law, the decision of the case was not obtained. It's safe to say that AIDS has changed our views on any sort of sexual activities we conduct ourselves in ...
- 4522: Germany 2
- ... exports, particularly to other members of the EU and the US, as well as strengthening equipment investments. But anemic private consumption and contraction in the construction industry limited the expansion. Unemployment continued to set post-war monthly records through the end of 1997 and averaged 4.3 million for the year. In preparation for the first of January 1999, the start of the European Monetary Union, the government has made major ... Germany is mainly Roman Catholic. About 500,000 Jews lived in Germany before WW II. Most Jews who were not able to escape from the country were murdered in concentration camps by nazis during the war. Only about 30,000 Jews live in Germany today. The practice of religion was discouraged in East Germany during the years of communist rule. Festivals are held almost all year round in Berlin, and the ...
- 4523: Bitter Sweet Aspartame A Diet
- ... bombastic. "My doctor gives it to me every day. Anybody who says saccharin is injurious to health is an idiot!" Still, saccharin was banned, only to be restored during the sugar-short years of World War I. Available as powders or pills, to say nothing of in a huge variety of processed foods, saccharin remained popular throughout World War II. Its only drawback was its bitter metallic aftertaste. Food processors licked that problem by combining saccharin with cyclamate, another artificial no caloric sweetener. Then in the 1960s came disturbing news. Two different studies suggested ...
- 4524: Landmines
- ... recognize no cease-fire and long after the fighting has stopped they continue to maim or kill. Mines also render large tracts of agricultural land unusable, wreaking environmental and economic devastation. Refugees returning to their war-ravaged countries face this life-threatening obstacle to rebuilding their lives. Leading producers and exporters of antipersonnel mines in the past 25 years include China, Italy, the former Soviet Union, and the United States. More ... delivered mines. These are mines that are usually disseminated from an aircraft, making an accurate mapping, recording, and marking of these mines impossible. There are indeed efforts to demine the landmines, which are scattered around war torn regions. But the means to demine them have remained primitive at best. Demining technology has not caught up with the advances in mine manufacturing technology but a number of processes are now being developed ...
- 4525: Laura Secord
- ... was a clever man. In her family there were inventors, mechanics, merchants, magistrates, teachers and soldiers. Laura had three sisters. When she was eight her mother had died and her father had gone off to war, so Laura had to look after them. After two years or so Laura's father married someone else. A month later she got ill and died. Three years later he remarried a woman named Sarah ... they moved to Queenston. Laura did not work but James was a Merchant. Life was good for Laura, James and their family, and it seemed the future held nothing but happiness. On June 18, 1812, war was officially declared. It was Great Britain with the Native Americans against the United States. Queenston and Niagara Falls were long awaiting the attack of the US forces from across the Niagara River. James had ...
- 4526: Anxiety And Depression In Afro-Americans
- ... worthlessness, loss of hope, and often apprehension, while anxiety is a generalized feeling of fear and apprehension. The number of reported cases combining both depression and anxiety with Afro- Americans has dramatically increased since the civil rights movement, when scientists began recording such causal relationships. In addition, statistics show that the rate of violence demonstrates a positive relationship of mental health disorders within the black community. Studies by Bell, Dixie-Bell ... anxiety is because there is, "no apparent way out of the situation."(Friedman, p.77) Socio-Cultural Distress Despite the feeling that some substantial progress in terms of race relations has been made since the civil rights movement of the 1960's, "afro- americans still feel that they are at the bottom of the race poll." (Fenton, p.13) Much racism and prejudice still exists in America today and with occurrence ...
- 4527: THE GRAPES OF WRATH
- ... at the market. The Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, farmers were given price supports for not growing crops. These allowed farmers to mechanize, which was necessary because of the scarcity of farm labor during World War II (Reische 52). During World War II, demand for food increased, and farmers enjoyed a period of general prosperity (Reische 52). In 1965, the government reduced surplus by getting farmers to set aside land for soil conservation (Blanpied 121). The Agricultural ...
- 4528: Reversing The Aging Process, Should We?
- ... play G-d by changing the aging process. Man has a natural tendency to play the role of G-d. Man has a an inherent need to affect others, be it through the vises of war, power, manipulation or politics. However mans natural tendency to play G-d has reached its final manifestation. By attempting to slow down the aging process man is using himself as the ultimate canvas ... are we to say we should live longer. On the other hand whos to say we shouldnt. Yes the human lifespan has been adjusted in the past, but those were all external stimuli, war, famine, disease and the CIA were all responsible for changing the definition of a lifetime. However adjusting DNA is an internal change. Changing our society and hygiene is light years away from control ling microscopic ...
- 4529: Sirens Of Titen
- ... is less didactic in this work; third, the positive forces, particularly love, carry more weight." (Reed:66) The Sirens of Titan has been, as many other Vonnegut's books, influenced by his experiences from World War Two (The Fire-bombing of Dresden was a benefit just to one man, to Kurt Vonnegut. Over the years, he got five dollars for each corpse, as he himself says.) The war is not the novel's primary target, yet it has a great effect on it. "In this, his second novel, Vonnegut discovered an answer to Dresden, but he did not yet know how to apply ...
- 4530: The New Immigration
- ... the people of France, was dedicated by President Grover Cleveland. Set at the entrance to New York, the statue was just in time to greet the biggest migration in global history. Between 1880 and World War I, about 22 million men, women, and children entered the United States. More than a million arrived in each of the years 1905, 1906, 1907, 1910, 1913, and 1914. Not everyone had to travel in ... To lower wages, plant managers often tried to pit one racial, religious, or ethnic minority against another to keep the pot of hostility boiling. A labor paper reported that employers were "keeping up a constant war of the races." Bosses placed spies among their employees so they could report "troublemakers" - any who urged workers to organize unions. Word Count: 621
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