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- 521: Genetic Engineering Of Foods
- ... there has not been the time or the public debate essential for accumulating sufficient experience to justify any broad claim to safety. The technique for inserting a DNA fragment is sloppy, unpredictable and imprecise. The effect of the insertion on the biochemistry of the host organism is unknown. The effect of the genetically engineered organism on the environment is unknown. The effect of eating genetically engineered foods is unknown. There is no basis for meaningful risk assessment. There is no recovery plan in case of disaster. It is not even clear who, if anyone, will be ...
- 522: Televised Violence is Here to Stay
- ... be quickly establish or resolve; it is visual and understandable; it is attractive to large segments of the audience. There is indeed violence in the real world, and to ignore it in drama is in effect to lie. There will never be a cure for the addiction to violence. Media viewers hunger for the violent action on the television. The people speak through ratings, showing that violent programs are exceedingly popular ... also believe that the televised violence will lead them to accept violence as a solution to personal and social problems, creating an increase in social delinquency (Zuckerman 64). However, such exposure has precisely the opposite effect. Viewing violence on television will allow the media user to discharge in fantasy what he might otherwise act out (Ball 239). It provides a safe and harmless outlet for human frustrations and aggressive-hostile impulses ... heritage into which he was born. If there is any "social damage," it is the faults of the home, the school, the neighborhood, or other social settings (Larsen 141). Exposure to violent stimuli has no effect on already established attitudinal commitments regarding violent mortality. Empirical research has found no evidence that exposures to explicit violent materials play a significant role in the causation of delinquency or criminal behavior among youth ...
- 523: Gender 3
- ... power dress', wearing clothes that sometimes made them look like imitation men. The eighties had men and women conforming and becoming conservative, as the number of women in the workplace began to show it's effect. We saw a softer 'new man', with terms rising such as 'SensitiveNewAageGuy'. Woman would now dress in tailored clothes, with often long flowing locks. The nineties contains a further growth in female employment and increasing ... sound as if they are not definite and confident. Men tend to interrupt women more than the other way round; women are generally better listeners. Women tend to notice detail whereas men notices the overall effect. For example, a women may notice that a man has an attractive tie, or a women has used eye make-up well, in the same instance, a man would think that the other man had ... 0 Gestures: A women may be raised thinking that excessive gesturing is not in some way feminine. A man may have been raised with the idea that showing emotion is not masculine and hence would effect his gesturing repertoire compared to that of a women. Some gestures are more prevalent among the certain sexes, for example: a man straightening his tie, a women pushing back her hair, however they are ...
- 524: Stylistic Analysis of the Opening Page of Dracula (Children’s Version)
- ... which is mentioned in the text as where Jonathan Harker, the subject and author of the diary, stays for the night. It is a colourful picture, which attracts the reader’s attention, and has the effect of setting the scene and putting an idea into the reader’s mind that the story is set “a long time ago”. For children, it is important that this is clarified at the beginning, so ... double-cuff on his jacket (and two buttons), as well as a pocket. There is a thin black line which frames the spread, and the pictures cross it at several points. This can have the effect of making the text more informal or user-friendly. The facing page, in the lower right corner is an old woman, clutching at a rosary, with a distressed look on her face. The details include ... s books, and prevents confusion and loss-of-the-plot. The “cliff-hanger” to encourage the reader to continue reading, is well used by the editors for children, because it keeps their attention. The overall effect of the way in which the editors have made this version of Dracula appropriate for children is very successful, in that children would respond enthusiastically to the layout and to the retelling of this ...
- 525: Gender
- ... power dress', wearing clothes that sometimes made them look like imitation men. The eighties had men and women conforming and becoming conservative, as the number of women in the workplace began to show it's effect. We saw a softer 'new man', with terms rising such as 'SensitiveNewAageGuy'. Woman would now dress in tailored clothes, with often long flowing locks. The nineties contains a further growth in female employment and increasing ... sound as if they are not definite and confident. Men tend to interrupt women more than the other way round; women are generally better listeners. Women tend to notice detail whereas men notices the overall effect. For example, a women may notice that a man has an attractive tie, or a women has used eye make-up well, in the same instance, a man would think that the other man had ... 0 Gestures: A women may be raised thinking that excessive gesturing is not in some way feminine. A man may have been raised with the idea that showing emotion is not masculine and hence would effect his gesturing repertoire compared to that of a women. Some gestures are more prevalent among the certain sexes, for example: a man straightening his tie, a women pushing back her hair, however they are ...
- 526: Chronicle - Life And Times Of
- ... was lighter in color than Sula and could have passed for white if she had been a few shades lighter she. A trip to visit her dying great-grandmother in the south had a profound effect on Nel’s life. In many ways the trip made her realize her selfness and look at things around her in a different light, eventually sowing the seeds that initiated the friendship between herself and ... received. It was an accident, but like most secrets between friends, it only made the bonds that bind them even stronger. The accidental death of Chicken Little at the hands of Sula had a profound effect on the friendship. Sula had not meant to kill Chicken and Nel knew this, and therefore made the unspoken pact of silence with her. The incident only exemplified the bonds that made two disparate people ... if anyone had seen what had transpired. The callousness of that act and the fact that even though Nel acted calm about the situation, she did not try to save him also, further demonstrates the effect that each one had on the other. Sula was a mean in many ways because she believed no one loved her except for Nel. When she overheard her mother say that she liked her, ...
- 527: The Atom
- ... the discharge-tube" fluoresced just as the wall of the tube itself did when bombarded with cathode rays, but he was too intent on studying the rays themselves to purse the cause. Rontgen isolated the effect by covering his cathode-ray tube with black paper. When a nearby screen of florescent material still glowed he realized that whatever was causing the screen to glow was passing through the paper and intervening ... exposed the whole thing to the sun for several hours." When he developed the photographic plate "I saw the silhouette of the phosphorescent substance in black on the negative." He mistakenly thought sunlight activated the effect, much as a cathode ray releases Rontgen's X rays from the glass. The story of Becqueerel's subsequent serendipity is famous. When he tried to repeat his experiment on Feb. 26 and again on ... claims and clear up epistemological fallacies. Mechanistic physics had become authoritarian. It had outreached itself to claim universal application, to claim that the universe and everything in it is rigidly governed by mechanistic cause and effect. That was Haeckelism carried to a cold extreme. It stifled Neils Bohr as a biological Haeckelism and stifled Christian Bohr and as a similar authoritarianism in philosophy and in bourgeois Christianty had stifled Soren ...
- 528: Confederate States Of America
- ... was numbers. Give Abraham Lincoln seven million men and give Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee twenty-one million, cognitive dissonance doesn't matter, European recognition doesn't matter, the Emancipation Proclamation and its ripple effect don't matter. Twenty-one to seven is a very different thing then seven to twenty-one" (Zebrowski 223). Despite the North's enormous population advantage over the South during the Civil War, other wars ... condition for Union Victory, it is not a sufficient explanation for that victory," says James McPherson (Zebrowski 224). When looking at economic factors in the Civil War, we find that the war had a devastating effect on the South and a converse effect on the North. Because of the Northern blockade and the disconnection of Southern farmers from markets in the North, sales of cotton became nearly impossible. In the North, the war produced the same suffering ...
- 529: Stalin
- ... definitely not have as high as they were at the outbreak of war if not for Stalin rule. Stalin instituted the Five year Plans to boost Soviet society and industry. In 1928 Stalin put into effect the first Five Year industrial and economic development plan for the Soviet Union which forced the country to develop as an industrial nation. The plan called for the industrial output to rise by over 20 ... a strong system of alliances that promised military support and mutual aid if one of the signatory countries was attacked. What the Western powers wanted however was a series of large alliances for a psychological effect and not real support. This was unacceptable to Stalin therefore he started to probe the Germans for a possible treaty. The Soviet Union signed several treaties with France, Czechoslovakia, Mongolia, and China but they were ... Union was saved. Had it been under the leadership of the intended Communist bureaucracy it would have surely fallen. As we have seen in our country even simple matters can take forever to go into effect or get started under a bureaucracy. In that highly volatile and dangerous time period only an iron fisted rule could bring about change fast enough to due any good. True in the short term ...
- 530: Does Hamlet Have A Tragic Flaw?
- Does Hamlet Have A Tragic Flaw? Question: Does Hamlet have a tragic flaw? If so, what is it and how does it effect his surroundings and how does it effect Hamlet himself? What is the outcome of his flaw? Hamlet has a tragic flaw in his personality and behavior. His flaw is that he is overly concerned with death and tragedy. This flaw or weakness ... a ghost. The ghost of Hamlet's father told Hamlet that he was murdered by Claudius and asked Hamlet to avenge his murder. This is where the flaw is adopted by Hamlet and begins to effect his life. Hamlet begins to dig deeper and deeper to find the truth. He puts on an act of madness to disguise his revenge. Hamlet becomes so over-whelmed with death that death is ...
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