|
Enter your query below to search our database containing over 50,000+ essays and term papers
Search results 7231 - 7240 of 14240 matching essays
- 7231: Advanced Green Builder Demonstration House
- ... have been lost if the natural surfaces were covered and finished. Windows along the exterior were placed such that the desired natural light was allowed access to reduce the reliance upon electric light during the day. From the outside, one can see the two distinctly different masses divided by the outdoor breezeway. The interior's program dictates this division. Although designed as a house with one mass being used for living ... is deceiving due to the metal grated flooring above. This second story flooring allows ample diffused light to shine down onto the workspace/dining table. This added light allows the occupants to work during the day using nothing but small task lighting when necessary. Possibly my favorite detail of the interior would have to be the custom stairs leading up to the second floor library. The stairs are similar to those ...
- 7232: Water Pollution
- ... of the term, it is also accurate. The “foreign matter” referred to can exist in many forms; oil, garbage, and human wastes are only a portion of the total pollutants that enter the ocean each day. POINT SOURCES OF POLLUTION A point source of pollution is a source that can be easily traced or identified. The obvious point source type is garbage. Humans dump tons of trash in the ocean on ... over 7 million pieces of trash.1 The worst offenders are commercial ships. The world fleet of commercial boats dump over 5,550,000 plastic, metal, and glass containers into the ocean in a single day.2 The most harmful of these is plastic. Sea mammals such as birds and dolphins often get tangled in the plastic six-pack rings, fishing lines, and net that humans discard into the ocean waters ...
- 7233: Sex On Television
- ... husband Ricky Ricardo wanted his wife to stay home and take care of the house while he earned a living entertaining at a local nightclub, the Tropicana . Lucy Ricardo was never satisfied with the dull day to day activities of a housewife. So every episode depicts her taking on another adventure, or getting herself into a messy situation and trying to get out of it before Ricky got home. In the beginning of ...
- 7234: Dehumanization Of Infants
- ... the laws made no sense citing a case where a girl was scheduled to go to have abortion performed not realizing how far along the child really was and gave birth to him the same day, she said it was aronic because that same child could have been killed the next day legally What impact does this have on society. I think that this lowers the standard of life that we have in this country by allowing abortion we have set our selves up for demeaning the ...
- 7235: A Comparison Contrast Of A Bra
- ... a totalitarian state. Winston bears the blunt of his mistakes, the crime of individuality and dissention. A Brave New World is as much a satire on the reality of today (the reality of Huxley's day) as it is a novel about the future. ANeil Postman ...warned Awhen a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is defined a s a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes ... Bernard is merely transferred to an uncomfortable location. The hypocrisy is much more evident within A Brave New World as well, owing to the controller's having had a son. Both books forewarn of a day when humankind might fall slave to its own concept of how others should act. The two books ask not whether societies with stability, pacification, and uniformity can be created, but whether or not they are ...
- 7236: Al Capone 2
- Al Capone Alphonse Capone was perhaps the most famous of all American gangsters in history. Al Capone was involved in many serious crimes including the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre, income tax evasion, and the illegal selling of liquor. He also took part in the running of gambling and prostitution. He dominated organized crime in Chicago from about 1925 to 1931. Al Capone's ... Torrio. In the next few years Capone spent his time killing his rivals and competitors in a series of gang wars. The most famous event that Capone was responsible for was the St. Valentine's Day Massacre in 1929. At this occurrence, Capone's gunmen dressed as police officers and executed seven members of the "Bugs" Moran gang. This incident won Capone control of Chicago's underworld. In June 1931 Capone ...
- 7237: Admiration Of Anne Bradstreets
- ... unlikely Beginning with the Figure I have since made there. I was in my working Dress, my best Clothes being to come round by sea. I was dirty from my journey; my pockets were stuff d out with shirts and stockings; I knew no Soul, nor where to look for lodging. I was fatigu dwith Traveling, Rowing and Want of Rest. I was very hungry, and my whole stock of cashconsisted ... unlikely Beginning with the Figure I have since made there. I was in my working Dress, my best Clothes being to come round by sea. I was dirty from my journey; my pockets were stuff d out with shirts and stockings; I knew no Soul, nor where to look for lodging. I was fatigu dwith Traveling, Rowing and Want of Rest. I was very hungry, and my whole stock of cashconsisted ...
- 7238: Ethics in Cyberspace
- ... of expectations and responsibilities. Sample AUPs are available on the Internet at gopher sites and can be retrieved by using Veronica to search keywords "acceptable use policies" or "ethics." The Computer Ethics Institute in Washington, D.C. has developed a "Ten Commandments of Computing": 1) Thou shalt not use a computer to harm other people. 2) Thou shalt not interfere with other people's computer work. 3) Thou shalt not snoop ... Information Ethics "Computer Ethics Statement." College & Research Libraries News 54, no. 6 (June 1993): 331-332. Dilemmas in Ethical Uses of Information Project. "The Ethics Kit." EDUCOM/EUIT, 1112 16th Street, NW, Suite 600, Washington, D.C. 20036. phone: (202) 872-4200; fax: (202) 872-4318; e-mail: ethics@bitnic.educom.edu "Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986." P.L. 99-508. Approved Oct. 21, 1986. [5, sec 2703] Feinberg, Andrew ...
- 7239: Personal Writing: Non-Conformity
- ... what we were saying. Sometimes, my friends and I would pass notes back and forth in class. They contained some naughty words. I really don't think that we realized how awful we were. One day on the playground, my friend had some of the notes in her pockets. They fell out, and a teacher saw them, picked them up and read them. Naturally, we were called down to the prinicipal's office. He was quite angry and I had to write any apology letter to my teacher. My parents and other parents were there to “scold” us. To this day, I have always felt guilty about that. I wonder why I was so stupid to say things like that or to even write them down. I don't like telling people that story, and when ...
- 7240: The Supreme Court
- ... cases. These Justices hold their terms for life, “during good behavior” under Article III. The current Supreme Court Justices are Justice John Paul Stevens, appointed by Gerald Ford in 1975. Ronald Regan appointed Justice Sandra Day O’Conner to her term in 1981. Justice Antonia Scalia was appointed by Ronald Regan in 1986. Another Justice appointed by Ronald Regan is Anthony Kennedy in 1988. George Bush appointed Justice David Souter in ... his blistering dissent of the state court's 4-3 ruling upholding use of the chair last month. The decision came less than an hour after the state Supreme Court granted Anthony Bryan a two-day stay to pursue federal appeals. Bryan was scheduled to go to the electric chair at 7 a.m. recently for the 1983 murder of a watchman abducted in Mississippi. Bryan's lawyer, Andrew Thomas, called ...
Search results 7231 - 7240 of 14240 matching essays
|
