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- 8011: Bill Gates
- ... saw this opportunity and took advantage of it. When William Henry Gates came into the world in the year 1955, the fledgling computer industry was still trying to spread its wings and fly. AOn the day he was born in 1955, fewer then 500 electronic computers had existed in the entire world, their total retail value amounted to less then $200 million, and the term Asoftware@ had not yet been coined ...
- 8012: The X Files: Negative Images of Races
- ... reality. Children take these images and grow up believing in them. Is this what we want our society of the future to be like? I sure hope no, cause it's not a place I'd like to live in.
- 8013: Women in South Asia
- ... Her husband and his family tied her hand by bed and put gas all over her and then threw a match over her. After she was visited by a reporter, she passed away very next day. Reporter said that ninety nine percent of Pakistan women abused by their husbands and family. I found out mistreatment of women in South Asia is more serious and fearful than I thought. This type of ...
- 8014: H.i.v. About Aids
- ... a mutation useful to the virus will arise. To fully appreciate the extent of HIV multiplication, look at the numbers published on it; a billion new viral particles are produced in an infected patient each day, and in the absence of immune activity, the viral population would on average double every two days. With the knowledge of HIV s great evolutionary potential in mind, Nowak and his colleagues conceived a scenario ...
- 8015: Slavery
- ... enslaved. He said that the color of people's skin suggests only a slight difference. The beauty of nature lies in the fact that all is varied. Another man, Jacques Necker, told people that one day they would realize the error of their ways and notice that all people have the same capacity to think and suffer. The slavery issue was a topic of debate among the people of France. The ...
- 8016: Feminism And Gender Equality In The 1990’s
- ... because of the obstacles that society sets in front of her. Society and media attempt to create an illusion that women have every right that men enjoy. However, women will never be equal until the day female scientists, intellectuals, professionals, military leaders, and politicians are just as accepted and encouraged to participate in all of society’s arenas as males. Endnotes: 1. The Ethnic Moment, By P.L. Fetzer. Page 57 ...
- 8017: Slaves in Rome: Low Level Servants or Overlooked Mental Force?
- ... far as to sell "guaranteed" and "not guaranteed" slaves to the equivalent of buying a car "as is". Slaves were dealt in outrages numbers, "Delos, a major trade center, could handle 10,000 slaves a day in its market" (Spielvogal 118). The treatment of Roman slaves is hard to generalize. Stories of kind treatment and even times slaves would fight to defend their owners are numerous. Then there are those cases ...
- 8018: Violence on Television
- ... desensitized to the consequences and harm that comes out of violence, and becoming more fearful of being attacked. The contextual patterns noted below are found consistently across most channels, program types, and times of the day. Thus, there are substantial risks of harmful effects from viewing violence throughout the television environment. Perpetrtrators go unpunished in 73% of all violent scenes. This pattern is highly consistent across different types of programs and ...
- 8019: Charlie Chaplin
- ... Film Critics vote Chaplin the best actor of the year award in 1940, but he turned it down. And to top everything off was Knighted by Queen Elizabeth 11, of England. Charlie died on Christmas day 1977 at 4:00 A.M. at his estate in Switzerland at the age of eighty-eight. Word Count: 520
- 8020: Charles Lindbergh
- ... expanded version of the book “We”. The book won him a Pulitzer Prize in 1954. Following the publishing of his book he was appointed brigadier general in the United States Air Force reserve. President Dwight D. Eisenhower appointed him in 1954. After serving as the brigadier general Charles Lindbergh began to travel all over the world. He visited Africa and the Philippines and became fascinated with their cultures. In the 1960 ...
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