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- 11571: Capone
- ... did not become a leader until he went to Chicago. At the time he was still an apprentice to Johnny Torrio. In the midst of the gang violence and bootlegging was Chicago. Chicago was a great place to start a ring of organized crime. The government was very weak which made it easier to do crime. Capone entered the city of Chicago in 1920. At the time, Big Jim Colosimo ran ...
- 11572: Male Circumcision: A Social and Medical Misconception
- ... practiced pediatric surgery and an estimated one to one-and-a-half million newborns, or 80 to 90 percent of the population, are circumcised. (Lund, 1990) Despite these statistics, circumcision still remains a topic of great debate. The medical community is examining the need for a surgical procedure that is historically based on religious and cultural doctrine and not of medical necessity. Possible complications of circumcision include hemorrhage, infection, surgical trauma ...
- 11573: Oliver Cromwell
- ... in modern European history. Although he was a convinced Calvinist he believed deeply in the value of religious toleration. Cromwell's victories at home and abroad helped to vitalize a Puritan attitude of mind, in Great Britain and in North America, which has continued to influence political and social life until recent times. (Gaunt, 1996) Cromwell, the only son of Robert Cromwell and Elizabeth Steward was born in Huntingdon, England in ...
- 11574: Lucid Dreaming
- ... or that they are actually in bed. Lucidity and control in dreams are not the same thing. It is possible to be lucid and have little control over dream content, and conversely, to have a great deal of control without being explicitly aware that one is dreaming. Lucid dreams usually happen during REM sleep. Working at Stanford University, Dr. Stephen LaBerge proved this by eliciting deliberate eye movement signals given by ...
- 11575: Martin Luther King
- ... little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls and walk together as sisters and brothers." In his speech Dr. King hopes to persuade the "Great America" to abolish all racial prejudice. Dr. King uses many different but effective methods to convince the reader of his point. King uses the words from an old Negro spiritual, the famous line, "Free at ...
- 11576: The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano
- ... for running away or rebelling. He did not remember an African who was not cut or flogged in the region. The slaves were treated this way because the West Indies produced sugar, which was in great demand in Europe. The death rate was high because planting sugar in a sweltering tropical condition was so tedious. Because the world wanted so much sugar the planters stopped at nothing to produce it. The ...
- 11577: Margret Atwood
- Canada has had Its fair share of great authors like Farley Mowat, Steven King,Stanley Burke, and many more. But one Margaret Atwood was born in Ottawa, Ontario, on November 18, 1939. Because her father was a forest entomologist, Atwood spent most ...
- 11578: Cystic Fibrosis
- ... a result of the thick, sticky Mucus that will hold and trap germs in the bronchial tubes. It should be taken In to consideration that children with cystic fibrosis have large appetites and Eat a great deal. In spite of their malnutrition, they art not in pain and do Not generally feel it. Extracts of animal pancreas, in powder or granule form, are prescribed To replace the missing enzymes from the ...
- 11579: Clinical Chemistry Tests In Medicine
- ... renal disease, overtreatment with certain diuretics, diabetic acidosis, hypoventilation (as occurs in pneumonia or emphysema), and adrenal insufficiency (de Morais, 1995). As seen above, one to two milliliters of blood can give a clinician a great insight to the way an animals' systems are functioning. With many more tests available and being developed every day, diagnosis becomes less invasive to the patient. The more information that is made available to the ...
- 11580: The Circulatory System
- ... capillaries present a far larger surface with which the blood comes in contact than do other blood vessels end because they consequently offer the greatest resistance to the progress of the blood, they have a great influence on the circulation. Capillaries expand when temperature rises and help to cool the blood then they contract in cold and help preserve internal heat.
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