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- 1121: Drugs Should Not be Legalized
- ... the legalization debate in local perspective" (Internet). After learning about the issues regarding both sides of the argument, I would choose to support those who oppose legalization of any drugs. Drugs simply create problems which effect society in several ways. The government has made several efforts to control drugs and their users, however, to most the problem appears too out of hand. "Others see potential profit in legalizing drugs and still ... this period for dispensing narcotics, and some 3,000 actually served prison sentences. Consequently, doctors all but abandoned the treatment of addicts for nearly half a century in the United States" (Grolier). The only resulting effect will be a negative one. There are no positive aspects of putting drugs on the streets with a label reading "legal." There are plenty of people in society that find enough trouble on their own ...
- 1122: Black Holes
- ... can be supported by electron degeneracy pressure and form a white dwarf. A remnant between ~1.4 and ~3 M(@) is halted by neutron degeneracy pressure and forms a neutron star. Degeneracy pressure is an effect that results from quantum mechanical interactions when the density of subatomic particles increases. As it depends only on this density, it is non-thermal and will remain no matter how much the star cools down ... in high-redshift quasars. A pulsar is a rotating neutron star with skewed magnetic poles . Radiation is emitted in the direction of the magnetic poles, and if this beam passes earth, it has the same effect as a lighthouse. The incredible angular momentum of a pulsar makes its pulses extremely regular, to a degree of accuracy elsewhere found only in atomic clocks. As such, the orbit of a binary pulsar can ...
- 1123: Is The Internet Bring A New Era Of American Cultural Imperia
- ... values and ethics: its full embrace of new technologies and its strong values of conservatism and familial loyalty. The influx of pornography and other illicit Western cultural imports via the Internet will have an detrimental effect on the younger generation. The Singapore Broadcasting The Internet is a vast collection of web pages, databases, and Usergroups. The key for using the Internet is the knowledge of where and how to gain information ... contribute to the physical backbone of the Internet (Bony, http://www.cnnfn.com). One of the seminal attributes of the Internet is that it is extremely difficult to regulate. As Barber stated, if they cannot effect a total takeover of the digital thoroughfare, they aspire at least to gain control of its gateways and tollbooths. (Barber, 273) U.S. based Internet Service Providers (ISPs), such a AT&T WorldNet, Microsofts ...
- 1124: Leprechaunism
- ... on any other part of the body as well, such as the extremities. Pincer nails. This is where the nails of the feet and hands have an increased inward folding. This often gives the visual effect of claws in severe cases. Hirsutism or excessive hair growth. Gynecomastia or abnormal swelling of the breasts with prominent nipples. This effect is the result of excessive production of estrogen. Enlarged genitalia. Dysmorphic facial features including large, low-set ears, depressed nasal bridge with a broad nasal tip and flared nares, and thick lips. A severe lack ...
- 1125: Affirmative Action And Its Eff
- ... only does it affect white males, but the recipients of affirmative action suffer from negative side effects also. There is an angry backlash that women and minorities feel from affirmative action. There is also the effect of pampering. It can make any individual lazy and unmotivated. Affirmative action does nothing but build walls to separate us more, and pollute our work atmosphere with tension. An angry backlash towards the recipients of ... on the job, it gives males a basis for their resentment and skepticism of females..." (Cohen 18). This can cause additional tension between men and women that was not there before affirmative action. Another side effect is how pampering can make a person lazy and unmotivated to excel. This is exactly what affirmative action does. It makes sure that women and minorities are pampered to make up for lost time. Well ...
- 1126: Charles Dicken's Novels: Literary Criticism
- ... to develop his writing abilities and skill, establishing himself as the major and primary Victorian novelist (Bloom 189). The journey from boyhood into manhood is a momentous one, and definitely something that has a lasting effect on one's person. Charles Dickens in his novel David Copperfield describes the journey into manhood by telling a story similar to his own life through the life of "David Copperfield." There isn't one ... covers eighteen years ending with one of the bloodiest battles, the Reign of Terror in 1973. Although most of the major revolution events take place off stage in the novel, they do have a major effect on the lives of the characters in the story. It would certainly be no error to say the events of the French Revolution, which make up so much of the setting in this novel, is ...
- 1127: The Crucible
- ... in horror and began to repeat everything they heard. Finally, the girls' hysterics caused Mary Warren to accuse John Proctor of witchcraft. Once the scam started, it was too late to stop, and the snowballing effect of wild accusations soon resulted in the hanging of many innocents. After the wave of accusations began, grudges began to surface in the community. Small slights were made out to be witchcraft, and bad business ... in horror and began to repeat everything they heard. Finally, the girls' hysterics caused Mary Warren to accuse John Proctor of witchcraft. Once the scam started, it was too late to stop, and the snowballing effect of wild accusations soon resulted in the hanging of many innocents. After the wave of accusations began, grudges began to surface in the community. Small slights were made out to be witchcraft, and bad business ...
- 1128: The Evolution Of Modern Englis
- ... too commonly used can lose their vividness. For example, in an article for the Ottawa Citizen, Dan Leeth described the landscape of the Grand Canyon as vast emptiness", a metaphor that has lost it's effect on the reader due to the fact that it is used too frequently in Modern English. Another way that a metaphor can lose it's effect on the reader is when it is manipulated by the author and twisted out of context. For example, in another article, Randall Denley, speaks of the unions and their "kangaroo courts", a metaphor that is ...
- 1129: Under Age Drinking : The Problems It Creates
- ... on a person. I grew up in a town that has the most bars per capata in the state of Montana and is in the top ten in the United States. This has a huge effect on under age drinkers. The bars card at the door and as long as your 18 your in. And since the bouncers will stamp nearly anyone they know or like the number of kids is ... the spring. All this partying catches up with these young peolpe. They don't get jobs because they are too tired from partying all night or all weekend long. Thier grades start slipping. The worst effect, however has to be the addiction to alcohol. I've seen freshman who drink all the time because they feel they can't live without their alcohol. Of course you have to realize that this ...
- 1130: Zinn's A People's History of The United States of America
- ... ripe for revolution. The reason that this book might be better titled A Proletarian's History of the United States is that Zinn's main focus on the book besides the actual history is the effect of the history on the common people and the workers, or proletarians as Marx and Engels referred to them. While most history books focus on the dominating Europeans, Zinn focuses on the dominated Native Americans ... writer. To state the facts, however, and then bury them in a mass of other information is to say to the reader: yes, mass murder took place, but it's not that important... it should effect very little what we do in the world" (8). Zinn says that "selection, simplification, [and] emphasis" (8) are necessary to the historian, but he chooses to take a different stance in his writings. "...I prefer ...
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