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- 731: Toxic Waste
- ... coal and other fossil fuels were used as a source of energy. They were burned and the gas given off was harmful to the atmosphere. Unknowingly factories burned fossil fuel causing what we call the greenhouse effect. Unfortunately, factories continue to burn these fuels. Toxic waste also causes acid rain. Acid rain is caused by oxides of sulfur, carbon, and nitrogen from burning fossil fuels combine with moisture in the air. In ...
- 732: The Life and Times of Edgar ALlan Poe
- ... James Kirke Paulding for a government job and stated in his letter that he did not have a problem with drinking, and if he had he could easily quit. Words that have the complete opposite effect than intended. Arthur Gordon Pym & Ligeia Two weeks after begging for a non literary work, Harper and Brothers in New York published Poe's first book of fiction. A 200 page volume entitled "The narrative ... abuse. Poe denied this and said that he hadn't touched a drop. Whether he was drinking or not is uncertain but even if it did it doesn't seem to have had any devastating effect on his duties. As soon as Poe parted with Burton, plans of making his own magazine came up. He wanted the independence a magazine of his own would provide and planned to publish around New ... deductions and the detective work of Dupin is in no way coincidental, but the whole story is written backwards. Everything in the narrative is adapted to the given outcome. This "backward writing" creates a brilliant effect and as Poe himself said: "where is the ingenuity of unravelling a web which you yourself... have woven for the sole purpose of unravelling?" Poe was praised for the novelty of the story and ...
- 733: The Death Penalty for Justice and Safety
- ... not feel or follow it were not to suffer punishment. Although there have been numerous studies that show the death penalty as an effective deterrent, there are just as many that show there is no effect. Death penalty opponents argue that the burden of proof is on the defenders of capital punishment to show that the same deterrent effect could not be accomplished with less severe punishment such as life imprisonment. According to death penalty opponents, capital punishment is not necessary to deter while long term imprisonment is a more powerful deterrent since execution is carried out in relative secret (Haag 211). In addition, as executions have become more common, they are less frequently reported in the media and thereby lose a good portion of whatever deterrent effect it may have had. If there is no deterrent value to the death penalty then all we have done is kill a bunch of murderers and no innocent lives would be saved. If there ...
- 734: The Future of Human Evolution
- ... Chinese population. Therefore some group traits ae more common than others. Yet the loss of these alleles and the gain of these mutations offer marginal contributions to our species and thus have little or no effect. The first step in understand evolution in present terms is to mention genetic engineering (including genetic drift). The first step to understanding genetic engineering, and embracing its possibilities for society, is to obtain a rough ... number of offspring then not all of the parent's alleles will be passed on to their progeny due to chance assortment of chromosomes at meiosis. In a large population this will not have much effect in each generation because the random nature of the process will tend to average out. But in a small population the effect could be rapid and significant. Suzuki et al. explain it as well as anyone I've seen; "If a population is finite in size (as all populations are) and if a given pair of ...
- 735: Rising And Falling Of The Berl
- ... this scheme was the open border to West Berlin. Which hundreds of East Germans left the country daily. Most of them went underground and werent notice. Even regular spot checks by police had no effect because most people avoided it by making several trips few belongings at a time. This flow of refuges continued for about a six month period. After that it stopped for a little while, but as soon as the effect of the Seven-Year Plan began to be felt the flow of refuges arose again. In 1959, it was a total of 144,000 refuges and in 1960 it rose to 199,00 and in ...
- 736: Stress In Relation To Police W
- ... through a divorce are 5 times more likely to commit suicide than officers in a stable marriage are! Relationship problems, however, are highly related to job stress. So we see that stress has a profound effect on police officers lives, especially their home lives. Studies have called police work a "high risk lifestyle (Brown)." Not high risk in terms of the physical dangers of the job, but high risk in terms ... the chief executive officer and other commanders make it a matter of policy to pay hospital visits to every officer shot or involved in a serious accident. This easily implemented policy can have a profound effect not only on the injured officers but also on the department as a whole. Everyone experiences stress. As any stress counselor would explain, a certain degree of stress is essential to a healthy, productive life ...
- 737: Plan and Purpose (Creation) or Time and Chance (Evolution)?
- ... be referred to as the atmosphere, between the waters of the sea and the waters of the sky. God created a canopy of water in the upper atmosphere. This canopy of water acted as a greenhouse, allowing vegetation and animals to grow very rapidly and people to live much longer (around 900 years). This protective canopy covering shielded living organisms from the sun and its damaging effects, and provided necessary moisture ... a time when the atmosphere and ecological balance were different, allowing vegetation and animal life to live longer and grow much larger because there was a canopy of water located in the sky that provided greenhouse conditions which could support large life forms. The environment had only one season, which was constantly maintained at a sub-tropical climate. The canopy of water provided warmth, moisture, and filtered out the damaging effects ...
- 738: Steroids The Easy Way To Destr
- ... a disease, an addiction, just like pot or speed or any other drug. When you're on it, your mind is clouded. You can't think straight. You're afraid to stop." Steroids have addictive effect like those of amphetamines, such as rage, uncontrollable aggression and almost schizophrenic behavior. Because of the dependency and psychological effects, steroids are dangerously addictive drugs. All drugs are toxic substances to the body, and steroids are no exception. Steroids have a pronounced effect on the behavior of the user, create an imbalance in the body's hormone system and create addiction. Before taking steroids, athletes should think about the consequences. There are more healthful ways of becoming big ...
- 739: Influences Of Socratic Philoso
- ... He who knows what is good, will in turn do good,"which he proclaimed, was an action guided by a divine voice or"conscience" which told the difference between right and wrong. A significantly profound effect which Socratic philosophy had created in Athenian times, was simply the distinction between a sophist and a philosopher. A sophist, was somewhat of a "self- appointed know-it-all", who took money for teachings which did not necessarily have any profound effect. A philosopher, on the other hand was considered the direct opposite. The word itself really means one who loves wisdom; a real philosopher knows that in reality he actually knows very little about life and ...
- 740: The Scarlet Letter Essay
- ... him to a shriveling, pathetic creature. The only thing that brings him any strength is a re-affirmation of his sin with Hester, and the plot to escape the town (201): "It was the exhilarating effect-upon a prisoner just escaped from the dungeon of his own heart-of breathing the wild, free atmosphere of an unredeemed, unchristianized, lawless region." In short, fallen nature has set him free from his inner distress, but left him in an "unchristianized" world, a heathen world, damnation. He has given in to sin. He has, in effect, willingly agreed to commit more sins. Dimmesdale realizes he is doing this but is too much of a coward to admit his original sin to the public. He becomes a figure that no one can ...
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