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- 7071: Colonization
- ... South America during the 16th century. After the discovery of sophisticated cultures on the mainland of Central and South America, the Spaniards decided to conquer these cultures. The first of the conquests began in present-day Mexico in 1519, when Hernando Cortes and his army arrived and systematically began to conquer the advanced civilization of the Aztecs. This was followed by numerous other conquests of the other major civilizations (e.g ... his name. Of course the Northwest Passage was never discovered and therefore the Dutch decided to colonize. In 1614 Dutch trading outposts were established on Manhattan Island (New Amsterdam) and at the site of present-day Albany (Fort Orange). A profitable fur trade was carried on and became the main source of revenue for the Dutch West India Company, the joint-stock company that ran the colony. The original intentions for ...
- 7072: Personal Essay: Look Before You Leap
- Personal Essay: Look Before You Leap One bright Easter day about four years ago, my family had gone to my grandparents' house to celebrate Easter like we usually do each year. We talked, ate, and had fun. Little did we know when we drove up to the house that, by the end of the day, we would be in a hospital emergency room. It all started when my cousin suggested that we have a water fight. We had water guns and "water Easter eggs." These were plastic eggs filled with ...
- 7073: The Controversy Surrounding the Gulf War Syndrome
- ... sounding that chemicals were in the air. All allied troops in the immediate areas followed orders given to protect themselves with all means possible. A statement from Major Randy Herbert sums up what happened that day, We received the hand arm signal for chemical attack. We put on our suits, masks, and gloves. In a few minutes, we were told the alarm was false, so we took our equipment off. Some ... to produce a synthetic biological agent that does not naturally exist and for which no natural immunity could have been a cquired. Five years later, there was the first reported case of AIDS. To this day, all documents about this project are classified (Riley). Could our own government have created this deadly virus? They won't let the public know the answer. Moving along, during the 1995 heat wave that swept ...
- 7074: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
- ... describes the worst problems that children can get from prenatal alcohol exposure. Blume, Sheila B. 1998. "Alcoholism in Women". Harvard Mental Health Letter. pp 5-7. The author of this article, Shelia B. Blume, M.D., C.A.C., is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and Medical Director of the Alcoholism, Chemical Dependency, and Compulsive Gambling Programs at the South Oaks Hospital ... regarding FAS, a referral system for students identified as having possible alcohol and drug-related effects, and a district wide plan meeting for meeting the needs of students with known or suspected effects. Coles, Ph.D, Claire. 1994. "Critical Periods for Prenatal Alcohol Exposure". Alcohol Health and Research World. pp.22-29. According to this article, birth defects associate with FAS can vary, depending on when during gestation the fetus is ...
- 7075: False Memory Syndrome
- ... resistant to correction. The person may become so focused on the memory that he or she may be effectively distracted from coping with real problems in his or her life. Jo hn F. Kihlstrom, Ph.D. There are many theorys that try to explain how memory works, still we are not sure that's how memory works. One of the most amazing theorys of how memory works, is the one which ... uncovered are accurate. One's emotional reaction to a perceived memory need not correlate with the veracity of that event, but rather only to whether one believes that event to be true." Richard Ofshe, Ph.D. and Ethan Watters
- 7076: Civil War
- ... a De Kalb regiment of German American clerks, the Garibakdi Guards made up of Italian Americans, a "Polish Legion," and hundreds of Irish American youths form Boston and New York. But in Ohio and Washington, D.C., African American volunteers were turned away from recruiting stations and told, "This is a white man's war." Some citizens questioned the loyalty of immigrants who lived in crowded city tenements until an Italian ... On Good Friday, April 14, 11 days after Union troops had entered Richmond, an actor named John Wilkes Booth assassinated Lincoln as the President watched a play from his box in Ford's Theater, Washington, D.C. The one man who might have brought about a just peace was dead. The Civil War had solved some old problems for the United States. But it created some new problems as well. But ...
- 7077: An Observation Of Sacred Hoops
- ... and International Entrepreneurship major at CSU Monterey Bay is easy. Especially since the entire mission statement of the school has evolved around the concept of unity, compassion, diversity, and an understanding of other cultures. From day one as a freshman the students are instructed in these area and competencies. As the student excels into a higher level of education, usually at the junior level, the competencies will further change and develop ... to me and to start with that and end with what was previously thought to be important. We often get sidetracked by the thought that we are getting a lot of tasks done throughout the day, when in fact we are accomplishing only many miniscule and unimportant tasks that take a lot of time.
- 7078: Dinosaur History
- ... must have been a world-wide scale disaster. "For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth and the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy." - Exodus 20:11, John 1:3. Those are the words from the Bible. What that says there is that God created everything on Earth and that includes Earth itself, therefore dinosaurs ...
- 7079: Andrew Marvells To His Coy Mis
- ... that the mistress coyness is a crime only because of the lack of time available. The speaker continues with We would sit down, and think which way To walk, and pass our long love s day (3-4). The tone of such a verse is overtly suspicious, automatically suggestive of the insidious nature of a man hungry to feed his lust. However, another possibility lies in the direct message Marvell puts forth in his verse. The spoken comments themselves suggest that We would sit down, and think and pass our long love s day (3,4). The impression given is one of joint merriment in love. The speaker associates the passion of his coy mistress with his own, creating a sense of understanding and common ground. The speaker then ...
- 7080: Beowulf - Christianity Vs. Pag
- ... the monster's arms out of its socket. Superhuman feats also appear in the fight with Grendel's mother. When Beowulf enters the water, he swims, without the use of oxygen, downward for an entire day before he sees the bottom. During the battle with Grendel's mother, Beowulf realizes that Unferth's sword is useless against the monsters thick skin. He grabs an enormous sword made by giants, almost ... their joy. Grendels stalking of the Danes is similar to the devil when he was cast out of heaven and the joys that were there. He became jealous of mankind and to this day stalks people with temptations of evil. More parallels are evident in Beowulf's preparation and descent into the mere where Grendel's mother lives. While Beowulf is preparing to enter the water, he is pondering ...
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