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- 2591: The Atomic Bomb and the Manhattan Project
- ... detonation. The methods of fusion in both of them were the same. The positive result of using plutonium was it was much more abundant than U-235. The discovery of plutonium was made at Berkley College in California. This discovery was very important because it decreased the time it was going to take the to make the bomb by an unimaginable amount of time. Not hundreds of years, but in time ...
- 2592: The Reformation
- ... it was before the Reformation. Finally, religion became less political and more a direct expression as to what the people believed in (Mosse, George). Works Cited Calvin, John. Institutes of the Christian Religion. 1845, Wheaton College. (Documents) Comptons Encyclopedia. Reformation. 1998 ed. Mosse, George L. The Reformation. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1963. http://www.calvin.edu/meeter/refcente.htm (Internet source)
- 2593: The Vietnam Era
- ... the "televison war." They watched their friends and family being shipped off to fight in a war when there was no direct threat against the U.S. Many people dodged the draft by going to college or by fleeing to Canada. My father told me stories of his friends that dodged the draft. One of his friends tattooed "f*** you" into the side of his hand so it would face front ...
- 2594: The Vietnam Era
- ... problems. American soldiers were being killed because we were trying to solve their problems. Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy were both assassinated in 1968. Kent State University was the site where protesting college students were ordered to be killed by guardsmen. the students were protesting the war. My Lai was the site of a village of women and children massacred by U.S. troops. the main method of ...
- 2595: Canada in WWI
- ... history had Canada been so dominated by its youth. With youth came new opinions and ideas, this generation of Canadians had only experienced prosperity and they began to expect it. Many of them went to college where they were taught how to solve the problem of the recurring depressions, like the one of the thirties. They used this knowledge to set up government programs that eventually swiftly snuffed out the beginnings ...
- 2596: The Metis
- ... Metis revolt in 1849 against the Hudson's Bay Company. Born in the red River region in 1944, Riel had been chosen as a possible candidate for the priesthood and had stidied at the Jesuit College de Montreal. However, he failed to complete his religious studies and returned to the Red River in 1868, looking for employment. His powers of eloquence and his hot-tempered nature soon made him an outspoken ...
- 2597: Teenage Suicide
- ... to be a young person in our society. A number of forces-cultural, social, biological, psychological can create unbearable stress. The pressure to succeed in school, is one major source of stressful friction between teenagers, college students, and parents. Unrealistic expectations of both young people and parents in this regard can lead to extreme anxiety, communication problems are now considered by experts as being a leading suicide at risk factors in ...
- 2598: Cults
- ... says Dr. Lorna Goldberg, a New Jersey psychoanalyst. No one plans to join a cult unless they see that cult as a possibility for a family, or a better society. Cults target people in transition--college students away from home for the first time, people who have moved to new cities for jobs, those who have just been divorced or widowed. Usually individuals 16 to 25 or 35 to 40. The ...
- 2599: Women In The Police Force
- ... Behavior, 9, 1:13-34 Kearney, Katherine G. White & Thomas. Men & Women at Work LeBeuf, Marcel-Eugene & McLean, Julia. 1997. Women in Policing in Canada: Beyond the Year 2000-Its Challenges. Ottawa, On: Canadian Police College. Lunneborg, Patricia W. 1989. Women Police Officers. Springfield, Illinois: Charles C Thomas Publishers. Martin, Susan Ehrlich, and Jurik, Nancy C. Doing Justice, Doing Gender. Sage Publications "RCMP Having Trouble Getting and Keeping Female Mounties". Canadian ...
- 2600: The Repulsive Effects of Smoking
- ... you have had your eyes on. What tobacco companies do not want to tell you, for the sake of their profit, is that smoking has a lot of negative effects. A recent survey composed of college students opinions, revealed what they really think about smoking. The students at the University of Florida argued about these questions: Does cigarette smoke effect a persons health and body? Does cigarette smoke habit bring ...
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