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- 2471: Serial Killing: Is It An Addiction?
- ... a coping mechanism. Just as addicts tend to fall into a downward spiral, until all else in their lives centers around the addictive substance, the serial killer's life begins to revolve around fantasy. The revolution becomes so dominating that eventually fantasy becomes the center of the serial killer's life. And just as the heroin addict's need for a fix may drive him to steal, the serial killer's ...
- 2472: Failure of Gun Control Laws
- ... gun owner. These Minutemen, so named because they would pick up their personal guns and jump to the defense of their country on a minute's notice, served a major part in winning the American Revolution. The founding fathers of this country understood that an armed populace was instrumental in fighting off oppression, and they made the right to keep and bear arms a constitutionally guaranteed right. Over the years, some ...
- 2473: E.E. Cummings
- ... can be derived from the numerous instances and forms of the number '1' throughout the poem. First, 'l(a' contains both the number 1 and the singular indefinite article, 'a'; the second line contains the French singular definite article, 'le'; 'll' on the fifth line represents two ones; 'one' on the 7th line spells the number out; the 8th line, 'l', isolates the number; and 'iness', the last line, can mean ...
- 2474: Software Licensing and Piracy
- ... and businesses. Also available to help corporations understand the copyright law is a 12-minute videotape, which is composed of the most commonly asked questions and answers to them. The video tape is available in French and Spanish and all together over 35,000 copies of the tape had been sold. SPA has also compiled a free Self-Audit Kit with which organizations can examine their software use practices. Included in ...
- 2475: Study on Juvenile Psychopaths
- ... who'll be the super-predators." According to Fagan: Child abuse and alcohol ruin these children. But the groundwork was laid three decades ago with the widespread adoption of birth control, which made the sexual revolution possible. It altered people's dedication to their children and altered a fundamental orientation of society. Sexual morality got unanchored in the 1960s, followed by the legalization of abortion. "Abortion is a very definite rejection ...
- 2476: Edgar Allan Poe
- ... wife. In 1815, John Allan moved his family to England. While there, Poe was sent to private schools (Asselineau 410). In the spring of 1826, Poe entered the University of Virginia. There he studied Spanish, French, Italian, and Latin. He had an excellent scholastic record. He got into difficulties almost at once. Mr. Allan did not provide him with the money to pay for his fees and other necessities. Poe was ...
- 2477: Methamphetamine: Built for Speed?
- ... themselves of the drug's addictive nature. Others say that speed alone is what fuels the rave scene, keeping it from dying. Amphetamine was first synthesized in 1887. First popularized by pharmaceutical company Smith Kline & French as the nasal inhaler, Benzedrine, in 1932. (Amphetamine is widely known as a bronchio dialator, allowing asthmatics to breathe more freely.) A probable direct reaction to the Depression and Prohibition, the drug was used and ...
- 2478: Phencyclidine: The Dawn of a New Age
- ... a few Freudian psychologists carried out unauthorized experiments in which perfectly healthy patients were given PCP and observed (Nintey Fifth Congress, 1978). Although their research did not provide much useful data, it did begin a revolution in our knowledge of the chemical basis for schizophrenia (Nintey Fifth Congress, 1978). In 1987, the FDA removed Sernyl (phencyclidine's market name) from the human market and reserved it for use only as an ...
- 2479: Eleanor Roosevelt
- ... boost their morale. She also visited military camps inside the United States and reported her findings to the President. She was a critic of racial discrimination and even resigned from the Daughters of the American Revolution because of their racial policies. She pushed for better job opportunities for blacks. She was criticized harshly for her views, although she tempered herself for the sake of her husbands re-election. She was ...
- 2480: Xenotransplantation
- ... transplantation into humans. It all started in 1682 when a Russian physician reportedly repaired the skull of a wounded noblemen using some bone from a dog, from here nothing really happened until 1903 when a french surgeon inserted a slice of rabbit kidney into a child suffering from kidney failure. Even know the scientist found his current results to be good the girl only lived for an extended two weeks. The ...
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