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- 371: Internet, Its Effects In Our Lives And The Future Of The Internet
- ... might be, there are some quite considerable consequences and drawbacks. A very important disadvantage is that the Internet is addictive. One of the first people to take the phenomenon seriously was Kimberly S. Young, Ph.D., professor of psychology at the University of Pittsburgh. She takes it so seriously, in fact, that she founded the Center for Online Addiction, an organization that provides consultation for educational institutions, mental health clinics and ... problems. Psychologists now recognize Internet Addiction Syndrome (IAS) as a new illness that could ruin hundreds of lives. Internet addicts are people who are reported staying online for six, eight, ten or more hours a day, every day. They use the Internet as a way of escaping problems or relieving distressed moods. Their usage can cause problems in their family, work and social lives. They feel anxious and irritable when offline and ...
- 372: Important Presidential Electio
- ... a measure, the Mann-Elkins Bill, to regulate the railroads more effectively; and he backed several social reforms, including an employer's liability law for work done on government jobs and a mandatory 8-hour day in federal employment. Thomas Woodrow Wilson was born in Staunton, Va., on Dec. 28, 1856. He was profoundly influenced by a devoutly religious household headed by his father, Joseph Ruggles Wilson, a Presbyterian minister, and ... he was elected. If Roosevelt hadn't formed his own party, Taft would have had a better chance of becoming President of the United States. 1936 The candidates in the election of 1936 were, Franklin D. Roosevelt, a Democrat, Alfred M. Landon, a Republican, and Norman Thomas, a Socialist. Roosevelt was born on January 30, 1882, at Hyde Park, N.Y., to James Roosevelt. He was an average student at Harvard ... was elected governor of Kansas, and two years later he was the only incumbent Republican governor to be reelected in an otherwise Democratic landslide. This success made Landon a strong candidate to oppose President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1936. Although he won 17,000,000 votes, Landon carried only two states, Maine and Vermont. Following his defeat Landon retired from national politics. Norman Mattoon Thomas, born in Marion, Ohio, November ...
- 373: Beware -- Witch Hunt In Sessio
- ... patriarchy. Families endured prolonged separations, divorce and desertion occurred more frequently, and the trend toward sexual permissiveness accelerated. Juvenile delinquency emerged as a perplexing social problem, and the rate of premarital pregnancy and illegitimacy rose. (D Emilio, 233) While the public was being presented with radical gender and social changes, the government began utilizing the field of psychiatry as a credible tool in analyzing what they considered to be the breakdown ... doubt or lack of evidence to support the notion that a gay subculture was emerging. The evidence to support this contention is accumulating as the exploration of the social history of the gay subculture progresses. (D Emilio, 234) The networks and communities of gay men and lesbians were emerging, as the need for identification, validation and social rapport grew increasingly stronger in light of government and public oppression. These networks were ... 1950's. How and in what way was the government helping to meet the public's needs for a safe environment, a booming economy, family stability, the opportunity to achieve the American Dream? According to D'Emilio, the government " set their minds on achieving a stable international order and prosperous domestic economy policies that political leaders pursued in the international arena helped to condition their response to domestic instability. The ...
- 374: The Atomic Bomb
- ... was involved and why, what happened in this event, and explain the impact that it had on the world. After Einstein predicted, that mass could be converted into energy. This was confirmed experimentally by John D. Cockcroft and Ernest Walton. “Physicists from 1939 onward conducted much research to find answers to questions as how many neutrons were emitted in each fission and which elements would not capture the neutrons but would ... Roosevelt commanded an American effort to obtain atomic weaponry before the Germans. With an increasing threat from Germany, President Roosevelt needed to take an aggressive stance. He was in a position of nuclear threat. F.D.R needed to do something, and do something very fast. This is why the president called to order the “Manhattan Project.” Nothing happened until Vannevar Bush, coordinator of scientific activities for the war, took charge ... Harvard and completed a four-year chemistry degree in only three years. Robert also studied subatomic physics at Cambridge. At Cambridge, he suffered a mental breakdown. At Gotigen, a German University he got his Ph.D. He then established a goal to bring “new physics” back to the United States. On November 1,1940 Major General Leslie asked Oppenheimer to lead, the Manhattan Project. Robert willingly took the job. This ...
- 375: Origins Of The Cold War
- ... allies are very important considerations when tracing Cold War origins. The post war geography of Europe greatly depended on the allied conduct of the invasion of Europe, the most important factor being the timing of D-Day. The allies at long last established a beachhead at Normandy in June 1944, and opened the second front, causing Hitler to divide his forces, and begin the long fighting retreat back to Germany. After a ... fighting across the continent, the Russians won the race to Berlin, although all parties did confine themselves to their agreed zones of occupation, and the potential clash between the two liberating armies never materialised. If D-Day had transpired a year earlier, the allies could well have swept through Germany, Poland and Austria, and kept post war Europe free of Russian occupation. As it turned out, Russia ended the war ...
- 376: A Tale Of Two Cities The Arche
- ... he made other people’s lives happier. Dr. Alexander Manette was a prisoner in the Bastille for eighteen years. He was an innocent man; however, he was captured and put in prison by the brothers D’Evremonde. Dr. Manette helped a lot of people throughout his life; he sometimes sacrificed his own happiness for his beloved daughter, Lucy. Before Dr. Manette was sent to prison, he had done his best to ... a kind and warm person. He did nothing to harm anyone, at least not intentionally. He always tried to help everyone. Charles Darnay denied his real identity to everyone around him. His real name was D’Evremonde, the name that brought shame to him. He was born of a French father and an English mother. Darnay was his mother’s name. Unlike his dad and uncle, he was a very kind ... Darnay did not wish for that to happen, he wanted Dr. Manette and his daughter to have a good relationship. “But, do not believe, that if my fortune were so cast as that, being one day so happy as to make her my wife, I muse at any time put any separation between her and you, I could or would breathe a word of what I say now-besides that ...
- 377: Werewolf Legends
- ... president passed a law in the 1920s by which the 7th son of a family automatically receives the godfathership of the president of Argentina! Through this, the state gives him a gold medal on the day of his baptism (when the president officially becomes his godfather) and a scholarship for all of his studies until his 21st birthday. Supposedly, this ended the phenomenon of people condemning their children for fear of ... break the spell by calling the werewolf by his Christian name or giving him some bread to eat. Sometimes after the werewolf had regained his human form, he would still have his tail till the day he died. Some houses actually exhibit sauna benches (or whatever they are called; 'lauteet' in Finnish) that have a hole in them, presumably cut for the ex-werewolf's tail. Finland's southern neighbor, Estonia ... s legends say that once in animal form, they can get killed if wounded, but in case they survive, they will show the wounds or damage done suffered while in animal form According to modern-day Mexican indigenous beliefs, the nahuales can shapeshift by performing anyone of the following: Jumping over a wooden cross, getting into deep sleep, putting on an animal skin, or covering their bodies with an ointment ...
- 378: Permeability of Hydrophilic
- ... advantages over conventional drug absorption models: (a) it is less time-consuming; (b) it enables rapid evaluation of methods for improving drug absorption; (c) it allows an opportunity to use human rather than animal tissues; (d) it can minimize expensive and sometimes controversial animal studies. Human colorectal carcinoma cell line Caco-2 is nowadays the most widely used and the best explored model for drug intestinal transport (Hidalgo et al. 1989 ... studied over time (days 1-10). The data was processed using a Lab View software package modified by Gråsjö et al. Cell morphology 2/4/A1 cells were routinely monitored under phase-contrast microscope each day. At appropriate time points nuclei were stained with DAPI (4,6-diamidino-2- phenylindolole, Molecular Probes, Leiden, Holland). The percentage of apoptotic nuclei was quantified according to the method of Aharoni et al. (1995). Cells ... of 2/4/A1 cells 2/4/A1 cells seeded on ECL coated filter supports showed different growth rate dependent on the temperature. At 33°C 2/4/A1 cells proliferated rapidly, growing exponentially until day 4 after seeding and forming multilayers consisting of immature enterocytes. Growth was significantly reduced at 37°C and the cells formed monolayers. There was a decrease in cell number at 39°C and 10 ...
- 379: Mothers in the Workplace
- Mothers in the Workplace As Barbra drops Jessica off at the regular day-care, staffed with well-trained, caring professionals, she stops to think for a moment. Is this the right thing for our daughter? Should my husband or me stay home with Jessica, even though we can't afford to? Will day-care cause problems for Jessica that we can not foresee? These are just a few questions that a mother might ask herself as she gets herself off to work. Most working mothers feel like their ... a double income family mothers deal with less problems. One reason mothers who work have less problems is because they are not under so much emotional stress. They are not inside of a house all day doing repetitive house work. Instead they are working and enjoying the drive or walk to and from work. Also appreciating the environment of people around them. In a study of "745 married women" it ...
- 380: How Advertising Affects What You Buy
- ... due to these people by their ways of making people notice their product. Preston Tucker advertised his new car early, and received many replies on what the car was about; the Nylon company advertised a day in which their product would start selling and the country ran out of stockings to sell; and the Kleenex company used advertising to decide which of two products they should sell. Advertising has different effects ... what is, or is not, worth buying; what they buy, when they buy it and how much are bought. Advertising "symbolizes and concentrates in its image all that is considered good and bad in present day commercial and industrial capitalism in America." (Bensman 9). When advertisers plan their strategies for the sale of a certain product, they look at who would use the item. If the product was make-up, the ... performance.'"(Panati 346). They were passing in strength and elasticity of the previously known textile fibers. DuPont started advertising early about the "miracle yarn" and the stockings that were made from it. They advertised a day that DuPont would start the sale of the nylon stockings, and they called it "NYLON Day"-May 15, 1940, which is when the stockings were to be first sold. The stores had to make ...
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