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- 6971: Gang Violence
- ... Signs are flashed to gang members or to rival gangs. These signs say we are number one, or Power. They also have signs to show victory and a primo sign after a fight or gang war. Signs can represent gang names. Some examples are Mafia Crips, Athens Park Boys, or the Underground crip. Signs are shown below. While gangs grow and get more powerful, what is being done? City police departments ...
- 6972: Blind Conformity: Malcolm X
- ... assured that black people were being brainwashed to believe that they actually were inferior to white people, thus they conked their hair. They were, essentially, giving up what they were fighting for as far as civil rights- the right to be who they were and also be accepted by society. Therefore, the conking of their hair was a hypocrisy and a contradiction of all their morals and values. Blind conformity caused ...
- 6973: Censorship of Books: Freedom of What?
- ... enough to handle material covered in a class that her child wasn't even enrolled in, the book was banned, which is in violation of the rest of the students' First Amendment Rights. The Chocolate War, a book written by Robert Cormier, was censored in a middle school in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. This book has won several literary awards including American Library Associations Best Book for Young Adults. It is about ...
- 6974: Are UFOs Real?
- ... man has wondered on his position in the universe. Is he alone? Is he the divine creature? Is he descended from an ape or a godly being? Finding its major roots just recently after World War II, the idea of extraterrestrial life existing and visiting our planet has held us captivated. The probability of alien visitors, although not entirely proven, is growing in acceptance due to an overwhelming amount of evidence ...
- 6975: George Lucas
- ... by far in the entire class. After receiving his bachelor of arts degree from USC in 1966, Lucas had to decide what to do with his future. He contemplated whether to enlist in the Vietnam War, but when he tried to join the air force, he was rejected for his police record. All of the speeding tickets he had received when he was younger were coming back to haunt him. Unable ...
- 6976: Venomous Creatures of the West Pacific
- ... hyderozoans, the predominant stage is pelagic, drifting on the sea surface with a gas-filled float and capturing food organisms with long-trailing tentacles containing stinging nematocysts. This group contains the infamous Portuguese man of war whish carries virulent poison that can endanger human life. Recent estimates put the number of species of hydroids at more than 2700, most of which are harmless, although a small number can inflict injuries on ...
- 6977: Evolution
- ... produce more offspring than were necessary to replace themselves, leading to the logical conclusion that eventually the earth would no longer be able to support an expanding population. As a result of increasing population however, war, famine and pestilence also increase proportionately, gener ally maintaining comparatively stable population9. Twelve years later, Darwin published a two-volume work entitled The Descent of Man, applying his basic theory to like comparison between the ...
- 6978: Marie Curie and Her Discovery of Radium and Polonium
- ... served as the first director. Her now grown daughter, Irene, assisted her at the institute teaching medical orderlies and doctors how to use the new technique of X-ray equipment. After the outbreak of World War I in 1914, Marie realized that X-rays could be used to locate broken bones, bullets, and pieces of shrapnel. Marie organized mobile X-ray units to equip ambulances with which she drove to the ...
- 6979: Satellites
- ... During the years 1943 through 1946 several studies concluded that available rockets would be unable to place a satellite into orbit. Work on rockets for missiles and upper atmosphere research was so great after World War II that by 1954 the possibility of launching a satellite was no longer in serious doubt. In October 1954 the Committee for the International Geophysical Year (IGY), announced to other countries that they were considering ...
- 6980: Cloning, Right or Wrong
- ... good than harm. But if it was used just to make clones of people just as spare parts for people then it is bad. It would also be bad if clones were just sent to war as soldiers. I believe that cloning of humans could help mankind infinitely and would be the most significant scientific advance in history.
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