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- 851: Mancur Olson’s The Logic of Collective Action
- ... groups functioning in the United States. A large and educated middle class, technical advancements and the expanded scope and size of government have led to proliferation (Walker). A large portion of interest groups present in Washington, D. C. are business, consisting of 57% of all interest groups (Walker). What the common man usually associates with the notion of interest groups are membership-based groups. Membership groups are groups that almost anyone ... this take on a company’s environmental lobbying, it is again seen as a means for the business to promote its own existence. The large number of businesses that are represented as interest groups in Washington goes a long way to support Olson’s by-product theory. Business lobbies government in addition to their primary purpose of survival. Important support for Olson’s by-product theory comes in the form of ... at the importance of institutions and the role they perform in the interest group universe in his work “Interest Representation: The Dominance of Institutions.” Salisbury reports that a large amount of interest groups represented in Washington D. C. are institutions rather than membership based groups (Salisbury). Before further discussion, a comprehensive definition of the term institution must be given. An institution is an organization whose interest is politically and analytically ...
- 852: The American Classroom: Making it work for the Native American
- ... to provide the best education for a Native American student an understanding of Native American culture is necessary along with course material which is relevant and accurate. Being a successful teacher in the state of Washington requires that the individual have a firm understanding of what it means to teach a Native American student. It is estimated that in 1990 over half of the Native American population lived in Oklahoma, California, Arizona, New Mexico, Alaska, and Washington (Manning 54). With this in mind a teacher in this state must understand some important facts about the education of a young Native American. According to Manning Native American students function at equal levels to ... the student with an unbiased view they should take all of these considerations into mind. One of the biggest struggles of educators is integrating multiculturalism into the curriculum. Etta Hollins, former professor of Education at Washington State University, wrote an entire book on this exact subject. Hollins stresses the difference between explicit and implicit curriculum. The explicit curriculum is the textbooks and other readings that the students are required to ...
- 853: History of Athens, Greece
- ... Architecture is another important quality that we got from Athens. There are many different buildings in the United States that have ancient architecture. Greek architecture dominates the style of buildings in the government buildings of Washington D.C. and hundreds of other cities in the United States. Such as courthouses, libraries, university buildings, interior of theaters, opera houses, and many other types of buildings. Many different languages are from Latin. Such ... Greek Parliament, The National Garden. One that is really important is the Panathinaikon Stadium. This is were the first Olympics were held in 1896. This is on Mets Hill. There is Lycabettus Hill were St. George's chapel is. This has a great view to Athens city. Athens is a very important to our history because of all that it has done for us. For example if they never cam around ...
- 854: Mt. St. Helens
- Mt. St. Helens There are many volcanoes in the world today. The volcano we chose to do a report on is Mt. St. Helens. Mt. St. Helens is a volcano in Washington State, U.S.A. It's 8,364 feet above sea level. Mt. St. Helens is a volcano in the Cascade Range. It's also a volcano in the Ring of Fire. Mt. St. Helens is a composite volcano. That means it's a layered volcano. Mt. St. Helens is snowcapped. The first person who found and named Mt. St. Helens was George Vancouver in 1792. He named it after Allyne Fitzherbe the Baron of St. Helens ( A city near Liverpool.). Mt. St. Helens is known for its beauty. There's a lake called Spirit Lake on the ...
- 855: Jack Kevorkian
- ... days before (Filene 134). ³Another critic said, ŒIf anything the clandestine administration of a lethal injection in the back end of a rusty van mocks the very phrase, death with dignity¹² (Filene 134). In 1992, Washington state initiative 119 asked the public to vote on a referendum that would make physician-assisted suicide illegal in Washington for at least a three year period. The initiative failed to pass by a slim margin (Hamel 128). In a poll in 1991, 72 percent of the public approved of Dr. Jack Kevorkian's actions ... Death. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1997. Hendin, Herbert. Suicide in America. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1995. Larson, Edward. A Different Death. Illinois: Intervarsity Press, 1998. Uhlman, Michael. Last Rights. Washington D.C.: Ethics and Public Policy Center, 1998. Wolfson, Adam. ³Killing of the Dying.² The Public Interest Spring 1998: 56.
- 856: Alcatraz
- ... nor was he the grandfatherly person portrayed by Burt Lancaster in the well-known movie. In 1909, Stroud was convicted of manslaughter; while serving his prison sentence at the U.S. Penitentiary (USP), McNeil Island, Washington, he viciously attacked another inmate. This resulted in his transfer to USP Leavenworth, Kansas. In 1916, he murdered a Leavenworth guard, was convicted of first-degree murder, and received a death sentence. His mother pleaded ... prison hospital). In 1959, he was transferred to the Medical Center for Federal prisoners in Springfield, Missouri, where he died on November 21, 1963. Prison Life While several well-known criminals, such as Al Capone, George "Machine-Gun" Kelly, Alvin Karpis (the first "Public Enemy #1"), and Arthur "Doc" Barker did time on Alcatraz, most of the 1,576 prisoners incarcerated there were not well-known gangsters, but prisoners who refused ...
- 857: The Yucca Mountain Nuclear Repository
- ... around the nation, including highly dangerous plutonium from decommissioned nuclear warheads and millions of gallons of liquid waste generated while making those warheads. The infamous K-Basin tanks at the Hanford nuclear weapons plant in Washington are already leaking into the Columbia River. Expert say that waste must be removed before it completely poisons the river and a wide swath of Washington's environment. Hanford's tank waste totals 54 million gallons, much of it so deadly it must be isolated from humans at least 10,000 years. Hanford is the warning poster for problems nuclear utilities ... to 70,000 1983 - DOE signs contracts with utilities to accept and dispose of their nuclear waste by Jan. 31, 1998. 1986 - DOE proposes Yucca Mountain in Nevada, Deaf Smith County in Texas, and Hanford, Washington, as disposal sites. 1987 - Citing program costs, Congress directs DOE to study only Yucca Mountain, dropping the other sites in what Nevada's officials call the "screw Nevada" bill. The decision cancels plans for ...
- 858: The Turning Point of the Civil War
- ... Preparations for the South's attack were delayed yet again, but the half-hearted attack, which was opposed by many of Lee's officers, began around noon with the infamous Pickett's Charge. Major General George Pickett, a division commander, led roughly 13,000 men across hundreds of yards of open fields, across a road and a number of fences, and up the side of Cemetery Ridge, all the time under ... different ideals that they could not coexist in "one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all." The South was fighting against a government that they considered to be unfair. They believed that Washington was overtaxing them, with tariffs and property taxes making their lifestyles even more expensive than they already were. On the other hand the North was fighting these wars for two reasons, first to keep the ...
- 859: Donatello
- ... marble figure of St. John the Evangelist for the cathedral and a wooden crucifix in the church of Sta. Croce. The full power of Donatello first appeared in two marble statues, "St. Mark" and "St. George" which were completed in 1415. "St. George" has been replaced and is now in the Bargello. For the first time, the human body is rendered as a functional organism. The same qualities came in the series of five prophet statues that Donatello ... the "Zuccone" and "Jeremiah". "Zuccone" is famous as the finest of the campanile statues and one of the artist's masterpieces. Donatello invented his own bold new mode of relief in his marble panel " St. George Killing The Dragon" (1416-1417). The technique involved shallow carving throughout, which created a more striking effect than in his earlier works. He no longer modeled his shapes but he seemed to "paint" them ...
- 860: Television And It's Effects on Children
- ... teachers have noticed the difference between children who watch television excessively and those who don't. "The watchers fidget in their chairs, eye contact is less stable and their attention to stories is significantly shortened".(George Hottecker; The Big Picture pg1) Children who watch t.v find it harder to stay focused on one activity more then a child who doesn't. This can make them have problems with group activities ... do more creative things like . Some examples are painting, reading books, acting out stories with puppets, dancing, and just getting them to interact with other children their own age in a safe and positive way. George Hottecker mentions these examples as positive ways of changing their behaviours and that "television just numbs the brain!"(The Big Picture; Internet; George Hottecker) So what you once thought was a good idea by letting your children watch television has turned out to be a bad one. You thought that letting them watch television would make them ...
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