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- 741: The Physics Of Scuba Diving: Swimming with the Fish
- ... a different speed in water than in air. When light enters the air in your mask from the water, the change in speed causes its angle of travel to shift slightly. This causes a magnificent effect that makes objects under water appear 25% larger and closer (Ascher, 52). Water has other effects on light. As you descend, there is less light. This is due to several facts: some light reflects off ... air currents, or as perspiration cools the skin through evaporation. Water conducts heat away from your body twenty times faster than air does, meaning that for a given temperature, water has a far greater cooling effect. Even seemingly warm 86F water can become chilly after a while (Cramer, 91). The loss of body heat in water can quickly lead to a serious condition unless you use insulation to reduce the heat ...
- 742: Internet, Its Effects In Our Lives And The Future Of The Internet
- ... its role as a condition of freedom: A shield of privacy is absolutely essential if one is freely to pursue his or her projects or cultivate intimate social relationships Under the directive, that came into effect on 25 October 1998, the processing of data about ethnic origins, political opinions, religious and philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, health and sex life, is prohibited except where there are special exemptions or derogations. Moreover ... consider us prospects for their products or services; our financial profile and credit history is available to a plethora of "legitimate" users, and our medical records are more widely accessible than ever before. The Net effect is that each of us can become an open book to anyone who wants to take the time to investigate our background. Another adverse consequence of all these is that we can be more easily ...
- 743: Technological Literacy
- ... and needs of students. Of all the innovations in communications technologies over the past two decades, the video cassette recorder (VCR), computer, and now the global network of the internet have had the most profound effect on home entertainment, education, and workplace practice. The video cassette recorder (VCR) permanently changed the way viewers access broadcast television. No longer tied to network schedules, viewers now take for granted the flexibility of pre ... which they are produced and embedded in everyday life. By meta-knowledge I mean having an understanding of how knowledge, ideas and information `bits' are structured in different media and genres, and how these structures effect people's readings and uses of that information.. Second, it involves mastery of the technical and analytic skills with which to negotiate those systems in diverse contexts. This refers to how the pragmatics of use ...
- 744: Huck Finn
- ... who goes with what is suggested. The most important personal decision that is made throughout this entire novel is made by Huck near the end. Huck realizes the importance of Jim to him and the effect he has had on his life. Huck has come to truly see Jim s humanity and has to decide whether to free Jim or leave him behind. Huck decides, All right, then, I ll go ... truths of who each of us is as a person, as well as who we are in society. Every single word and action has an impact on our society. It is these actions that adversely effect us because they can be good and help or bad and hurt. Our society is built upon our search for truth, so does that mean that there is truly something that can be morally wrong ...
- 745: Othello
- ... that he is no longer noble, for he calls himself: "He that was Othello", in Act V, Scene II. Othello also equates himself to the heathens he used to slaughter and kill himself. Iago can effect this extraordinary response only because Othello is lacking in trust. This lack is implicit in the Moor's situation from the start, for he cannot partake of the social cohesion that encourages and reinforces trust between humans. The fact that he is in effect an alien in Venice - he is black, a mercenary soldier in a very biased society. I feel it is this insecurity that forbids the entrance of trust into Othello's environment. Importantly, Othello, once distracted ...
- 746: Was The Atomic Bomb Nessary
- ... a turning point in modern warfare, civilian population centers are also considered fair game to the military. The moral issue of dropping an atomic bomb is very controversial. Especially since radiation is a major side effect of such a weapon. On the other hand though, fire-bombings of other Japanese cities had left other civilians equally scarred. If one wanted to argue the issue of radiation as a side effect of atomic bombing, they would have to find a way to argue the side effects of bombing altogether. Is it immoral to use a bomb? No; it s not very nice, but it s not ...
- 747: Privacy and the Internet
- ... person. (Rose, xv-i) It should not come as a surprise then that privacy in the online world is a major concern. But though the information superhighway is a new communication medium, the forces in effect are the same as they have always been. There are and always will be legal issues just as their are and always will be moral or ethical values that people strive to maintain. What sets ... forces determine privacy. The two primary forces - cultural principals and governmental regulation - constantly battle with each other to satisfy this longing for "freedom from unauthorized intrusion." However, it is important to realize that other forces effect online privacy as well. The Main Determinant Of User Privacy Is The System Operator The system operator is the general term given to the entity which provides access to the internet. The system operator sets ...
- 748: The Alien And Sedition Acts
- ... public defamation, which led to the Sedition Act. In a letter to his Vice-President, John Adams, President Washington spoke of the problem that immigration produced. He wrote that incoming immigrants would have an unwelcome effect on the nation, as they would "retain the language, habits and principles (good or bad) which they bring with them." This same problem was noted nine years earlier by Thomas Jefferson. It was his belief ... compact" theory). Thus the states had the right to repeal the act, or at the very least, ignore it. Only two states followed the republicans, Virginia and Kentucky. Although the Sedition Act went out of effect in 1801, it kept alive the old debate of states' rights and central authority.
- 749: Edgar Allan Poe
- ... it a second edition though and it was entitled "Poems by Edgar A. Poe" in which his famous poems "To Helen" (another version was published in 1848) and "Israfel" appeared. These show of the musical effect that has come to characterize Edgar's poems. Later Poe moved to Baltimore to live with his aunt, Maria Clemm, and his first cousin Virginia. In 1832 he won a $50 prize for his story ... York and Philadelphia, trying to establish a name in literary journalism but without any major success. His theories on musical poems and short prose narratives which were to aim at "a certain unique or single effect" can be for example be seen in "Ligeia"(1838) and THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER (1839) which would eventually become one of his most famous stories. "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1841 ...
- 750: Upton Sinclairs Book The Jungl
- ... legislation change. There were some critics on the reasoning Sinclair used in "The Jungle". "His reasoning so false, he is naοve in his disregard of human nature". Also " his conclusions so perverted that the only effect can be only to disgust many honest sensible folk with the very terms he used so glibly" (Blinderman 103). Sinclair's book "The Jungle" effected the business of Chicago in a good way. "The Jungle" made laws come into effect to make meat packing, and the food safer. Today there is meat grading, the ink used today (that is used for stamping) is harmless, it is made from vegetable dye (Ziegler 374). Meat packing today ...
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