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- 2041: Dragons
- ... This clearly states that dragons are a fire hazard. Dr. Steven Ossafat, the head of the Organization of Determining Fires, has declared that "dragons are the cause of 30 percent of Americas fires". The O.D.F. considers the purchase of a dragon plain stupidity. However, dragons should be acknowledged as good housepets because they are very useful. Dragons are very useful to lift heavy objects. They are the strongest animals ... pollution of the environment. So, as one can see the uses of a dragon are countless. Finally, a dragon makes a good housepet because they are very cheap to maintain. Most housepets eat twice a day. While a dragon can only eat once a day or they'll get extremely sickly. They have sensitive digestive tracks and small stomaches, which makes it easy to fill them. They are herbivores, which is fortunate because one doesn't need to pay ...
- 2042: Franz Kafka
- ... of his writing, that he never widely published his works, and even asked a friend to burn all manuscripts. Not only was Kafka Jewish, he resented this fact. Once Kafka even stated that "Sometimes I’d like to stuff all Jews (myself included) into a drawer of a laundry basket-then open it to see if they’ve suffocated." As anyone can see, Kafka was enormously enticed by death, and the ... this was absurd to Gregor. His family had now begun to treat him like an animal, just for one difference. While Gregor is "bleeding heavily"(139), the family "In the course of the very first day, father laid out their overall financial circumstances and prospects to both the mother and the sister"(148). The family prospers during Gregor’s forced employment and then nearly perishes after Gregor’s Metamorphosis. Instead of worrying about Gregor’s physical status, they talk of financial status after their money machine has broken down. This kind of behavior is eventually seen as influenced by Capatalistic society. One day this man of society is changed by the evils of capitalism and it’s social scene. From being a savior to his family, Gregor Samsa is transformed into a "monstrous vermin"(117). Kafka takes ...
- 2043: Charles Manson Aka Jesus Christ
- ... If you know anything about these two, the answer is: Most likely. Let us take a look at these two. Both Jesus Christ and Charles Manson led a cult that still thrives to this very day. Christ's followers are still preaching his words, as do Christ's followers. And each cult are growing as time goes by. Both "Christianity" and "The Manson Family" will be here forever. As old followers ... fool who knows absolutely nothing." Is that true? No, absolutely not!! Charles Manson is also a human being like us, might we remind you. He has a brian, he knows what's going on. We'd rather listen to Charlie's words than some finatic priest. Manson knows and has expierenced hardships in life too. Your society has caused Charles Manson to become what he is today. If you'd listen to him in the beginning, the world wouldn't have a Charles Manson. To put a long topic short, man is known to create gods. Man has then created Jesus Christ, man has ...
- 2044: Charles Manson
- ... store and was then sent to the Indiana Boys School in Plainfield, Indiana, where he ran away another eighteen times before he was caught and sent to the National Training School for Boys in Washington D.C. Manson never had a place to call "home" or a real family. He spent his childhood being sent from one place to another, and trouble always seemed to follow him. His mother's negligence ... did so. It wasn't long before Manson and his followers were arrested for the savage murders. Manson carved an "X" into his head, that he later turned into a swastica, claiming that he "X'd" himself from our world. Many of his women quickly followed suit. Even when faced with the death penalty for the murders, Manson's followers still believed in and loved their leader. The murder trial attested ... found guilty. The jury sentenced all of the murderers to be put to death, but because the state of California soon after abolished the death penalty, the sentences were commuted to life imprisonment. To this day, Manson and his followers are still in prison. Manson is eligible for parole, and has had several hearings. He still claims that he wasn't responsible for the murders and acts as if the ...
- 2045: Beta Carotene
- ... carotene is the active component in the protective vegetables and that supplementing with beta-carotene might prevent certain cancers. The idea was based on the fact that took 50 mg of beta- carotene every other day. Another involved 18,314 smokers, ex-smokers, and asbestos workers. Not only did beta carotene produce no measurable health benefits, but the study of beta-carotene is an antioxidant and the most abundant carotenoid in ... a natural life-saver. Now I understand why my parents are always telling me to "eat my vegetables, they are good for you." SOURCES 1. "Beta-Carotene: A Nugget of Nutritional Gold.", Marilyn Carnell, Ph.D., R.D Better Homes and Gardens, October 1992: 64-66. 2. "Beta No More", Christine Gorman. Time Magazine, Jan. 29, 1996: pg. 66. 3. Peto , R, et al. Can dietary beta-carotene materially reduce human cancer ...
- 2046: Confucius and Confucianism
- ... disciples his ideas would probably still be unknown. Confucius never wrote anything down himself; his disciples wrote all of his sayings down in a collection of books called the Analects. These contain all that modern day man knows about Confucius. There existed two important Confucian philosophers-Mencius (390-305 BC) and Xunzi (mid 200's B.C.). They held beliefs similar to Confucius but they were somewhat different. Mencius's viewpoint ... to live in harmony with nature. Beginning in the 200's B.C. Buddhism and Taoism began to affect and reshape the standards of Confucianism, and things such as nature came into play. Around A.D. 200 to 600, there was a rapid decline in the Confucian Beliefs in China. This was partly because Confucianism now had to compete with Buddhism and Taoism, which were developed around this time. These religions were to Confucianism as night is to day, in other words, they were exact opposites. Buddhism and Taoism were largely concerned with the meaning of suffering and death, while Confucianism largely ignored these. The revival of Confucianism began around the 600's ...
- 2047: Anger Management And Health
- ... scan the body for tension. Let the tension go as you encounter it. After five to ten minutes the body is less tense. It is suggested that this exercise be done once or twice a day for two to three weeks to get useful results. (4) Redford Williams, a professor of psychiatry at Duke University Medical Center and co-author of Anger Kills, has spent more than 20 years studying the ... and relaxation, people may be able to achieve dominance over anger, rather than allowing it to have dominance over them. BIBLIOGRAPHY 1 American Heritage Dictionary Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA 1985 2 Gaylin, Willard, M.D. The Anger Within: Anger in Modern Life. Simon and Schuster, New York, NY 1984 3 Internet Research: Coping with Anger, 1996 4 McKay, Rogers When Anger Hurts: Quieting the Storm Within. New Harbinger, Oakland, CA 1989 5 Bernstein and Rozen Dinosaur Brains: Dealing with all Those Impossible People at Work. John Wiley and Sons, New York, NY 1989 6 Weisinger, Hendrie, M.D. Anger at Work: Learning the Art of Anger Management on the Job. William Morrow and Comapny, New York, NY 1995
- 2048: Evolution From A Molecular Perspective
- ... that enters their mind is the completely incorrect thought that man evolved from monkeys. Man did not, in fact, evolve from monkeys, this is a known and agreed upon fact. The only connection between modern day men and modern day chimpanzees, for example, is the fact that they must have shared a common ancestor. The "common ancestor" theory, as I have chosen to name it, states that all life living, or ever to have lived ... affinity for oxygen. "H. F. Bunn has shown that mammalian hemoglobin can be divided broadly into two groups: the great majority have intrinsically high oxygen affinity, which is lowered in the red cell by DPG," (D-2,3-biphosphoglycerate) "while those of ruminants and cats (Cervidae, Bovidae, Felidae) and of one primate, the lemur, have an intrinsically low oxygen affinity that is little, or not at all, lowered by DPG (" ...
- 2049: Predator - Prey Relationships
- ... on how well it can use it’s defense mechanisms to prolong it’s life. The next topic of discussion is the relationship between predators and their prey. Predators and prey effect each other from day to day interactions to the evolution of each other. Predator and prey populations move in cycles, the number of predators will influence the number of prey and the number of prey available will influence the population of ... 1-38. Polak, Michael and Therese A. Markow. 1995. Effect of Ectoparasitic Mites on Sexual Selection in a Sonoran Desert Fruit Fly. Evolution, 49: 660. Ramachandran, V.S., C.W. Tyler, R.L. Gregory, and D. Rogers-Ramachandran. 1996. Rapid Adaptive Camouflage in Tropical Flounders. Nature, 379:815. Ricklefs, Robert E. 1993. The Economy of Nature. New York, W.H. Freeman and Company, 322. Turk, Jonathan, Amos Turk, Janet Wittes, ...
- 2050: Harry Elmer Barnes
- ... classic revisionist anthology, Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace. Barnes analyzed George Orwell's classic novel as a work of prophecy and sounded the alarm to reverse the "1984" trends prevalent in the America of his day. Barnes argued that propagandists and "court historians" were fashioning a present, based on a falsified and inaccurate telling of the past, that was designed to meet Establishment desires to participate in world wars. Ironically,Barnes ... world would progress from the "1984" trends he identified to the trends Bradbury identified in Fahrenheit 451(3). In our time, we see the events of Bradbury's science fiction novel coming to pass every day. Custodians of our peace of mind Bradbury explained the origins of the book burnings in Fahrenheit 451 through his fire chief, Captain Beatty: "It didn't come from the Government down. There was no dictum ... speak" to faceless strangers are all the rage. How far are we from Bradbury's broadcast TV "families"? Montag's wife exclaims, "If we had a fourth wall [of wall-size TV screens], why it'd be just like this room wasn't ours at all, but all kinds of exotic people's rooms."(22) When war is declared in Fahrenheit 451, people are not over concerned. It will be ...
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