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- 1471: Puritans And Witches - Natural
- ... for the ways of nature and as a scheme by which man could gain control over his life. The Northern European belief in witches was a holdover from a pre-Christian time when cause-and-effect reasoning was not at its best. Two events which occurred in the same timeframe were often misconstrued to have a cause-and-effect relationship. For example, if a farmer cut wheat on the full moon, and the wheat went bad, the farmer might blame the moon phase for the molding of the wheat; or he might blame his ...
- 1472: Drugs Debate
- ... a substance can have such an extraordinary affect on people and help to bring into this world exquisite masterpieces, then it would be devastating to prohibit its use. Mind constricting drugs do not have this effect. Although many significant writers of the "Beat Generation" used mind constricting drugs, they all concluded that its use led to horrible circumstances. In most cases, mind constricting drugs have the opposite effect on the mind as mind expanding drugs do. To put both of these discernible categories together would be ignorant. To prevent people from choosing to consume substances which, although might increase risks of bad health ...
- 1473: Japan
- ... Current--influence Japan's climate. The warm, dark-blue Japan Current flows northward along the country's south coast and along the east coast as far north as Tokyo. The Japan current has a warming effect on the climate of theses regions. The cold Oyashio Current flows southward along the east coasts of Hokkaido and northern Honshu, cooling these areas. Seasonal winds called monsoons also affect Japan's climate. In winter ... their income on leisure activities. Social Security and Health Care In the early 1990s about 18 percent of the annual national budget was allocated for social security purposes. A medical insurance system has been in effect in Japan since 1927. Self-employed people and employees in the private and public sectors are included under the medical plan. Social welfare services have greatly expanded since World War II; legislation enacted or amended ...
- 1474: Asian American Literature
- ... can exploit others without exploiting himself. Lee proves otherwise as Henry's life parallels that of many other ethnic minorities. The people of various cultures are interrelated so that their actions affect each other. The effect of a betrayal haunts the one who betrays and furthermore harms the community. In betraying John Kwang, Henry has not analyzed the kind of effect he will have on the rest of the community. In order to bring down Kwang's political career, Henry provides the ggeh list to Dennis who makes it into a charge against all immigrants. The ...
- 1475: Won't Libertarian Socialism Destroy Individuality?
- ... the want of development of the personality [leading to herd-psychology] and the lack of individual creative power and initiative are certainly one of the chief defects of our time." [Op. Cit., p. 28] In effect, modern capitalism has reduced individuality to a parody of what it could be (see section I.7.4). As Affie Kohn points out, "our miserable individuality is screwed to the back of our cars in ... living anarchy (as many of these communities can be termed, although they would be considered imperfect anarchies in some ways). It means that people simply do not limit the activities of others, period. This in effect makes absolute tolerance a custom, or as the modern would say, a law. But the difference between law and custom is important to point out. Law is dead, and Custom lives (see section I.7 ...
- 1476: Affirmative Action Policies
- ... interested in since I can remember. i know alot about it and beimg an african american, a woman, and a minority, i am very opinionated about it. Policies on Affirmative action were first put into effect in the late 1960's and have been in effect in the us, but if forced strongly, it would not benefit just blacks and minorites, but white males workers as well. It would however harm employes, this explains the attack against affirmative action by both ...
- 1477: Canada - Environment and Economy
- ... designed to hold firm the trust and support of America with little thought for future stability. The NAFTA will see a surge of industry head south in search of cheap labour and lower taxes; the effect on the Canadian economy may be devastating, however the effect on our environment will be twice as harrowing seeing as most of Canada's air borne pollution problems originate in the US. The ramifications of industry relocating in Mexico, with even lower environmental standards than ...
- 1478: A Portrait Of The Artist As A
- ... the Artist as a Young Man: Religion as Repression Like his protagonist, James Joyce was an Irish Catholic. He was also sent to Clongowes Wood College to board and study as a young boy. In effect the story is in part an autobiography of Joyce's own life up to the age of twenty or so (Kershner 6). In his essay A Portrait as Rebellion Norman Holland states: Because of Portrait ... former corrupt past he would never be able to talk to her in the role of a priest. This realization convinces Stephen to again forsake religion. He turns and runs from the woman and in effect runs from religion and into a new life of freedom. Stephen decides to become an artist. Suzette Henke observes in her critique Stephen Dedalus and Women: A Feminist Reading of Portrait: Through Portrait, Stephen manifests ...
- 1479: American Prohibition
- ... into thirteen years of chaos. The eighteenth amendment was ineffective because it was unenforceable, it caused an explosive growth in crime, and it increased the amount of alcohol consumption. The Eighteenth Amendment was put into effect to prohibit the manufacture, sale and transportation of all intoxicating liquors. Shortly afterward, the Volstead Act, named for author Andrew J. Volstead, was put into effect. This complimentary law determined intoxicating liquor as anything having an alcohol content of more than 0.5 percent, omitting alcohol used for medicinal and sacramental purposes; this act set up guidelines for enforcement as well ...
- 1480: "The Baltics: Nationalities and Other Problems"
- ... but continued. Lithuania's rate of influx of these kinds of people increased. "The differences could be explained in terms of the birth rates in the Baltic countries and in Russia." (51) Immigration had an effect on the demographics of Latvia and Estonia; 11,000 into Estonia compared to a birthrate of 2,500 for Estonians and 4,000 non-Estonians in the country. In Latvia, the peak rate in the ... and to pardon or grant amnesties to citizens sentenced by a Union republic's judicial organs. Furthermore, although the union republics retained the right to secede from the USSR (Art. 72), this guarantee was in effect neutralized by the new definition of the USSR as a `unitary' state whose `sovereignty'... extends to all of its territories.'(Art. 75). Brezhnev did make the claim that the republics were being given certain additional ...
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