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- 1251: The History Of Corvettes
- ... maximize the Corvette’s power range. They also came out with a handling package which was raising the size of the wheels and tires to give the car better traction, and give the driver more control in bad weather. In 1990, Chevrolet came out with a new type of Corvette called the ZR-1. For this new car, Lotus and Chevrolet teamed up to make a new and improved engine called ... Speedster. It was a convertible with a 450 horsepower engine. The prices started at $107,000. The new LT-1 engine came out in 1992. It was a 300 horsepower engine. Also, a new traction control device was introduced in the stock Corvette Coupe. The device turned on by the switch of a button, and prevented the car from slipping off the line and letting you take off without spinning wheels. Teamed up with the ABS breaks, traction control was a breakthrough in safety features for Corvette. The 1 millionth Corvette was also built in 1992. It was a white roadster with red interior. In 1993, the stock Corvette Coupe was up to ...
- 1252: Buddhism
- ... Five Precepts are explained and is the understanding that how we act also reflects our character. The Five Precepts are Don't kill or injure living things, Don't steal, Don't lie, Have self control in matters of sex (here we should pursue a loving relationship over unmeaning sensual pleasure), and Abstain from intoxicants. Right Livelihood is having an occupation that "Promotes life instead of destroying it". Occupations such as ... stumbling blocks along the way to enlightenment but our Right Effort will draw us through them. Right Mindfulness is the constant awareness of our feelings, thoughts, and actions. The Buddha wanted us to be in control of these things instead of them being in control of us. Right Concentration is an element of the Eightfold Path that addresses stillness or being aware of a still center as everything around us is flowing and changing. This is the idea I ...
- 1253: Karl Marx 4
- ... Communism." In the Manifesto, Marx identifies class struggle as the primary dynamic in history and predicts that class rivalry will generate a revolution in which the proletariat will defeat the bourgeoisie, abolish private property, gain control of economic production, and class distinctions will begin to disappear. Marx identifies the Communists as the partners and theoretical front line of the proletariat. The Manifesto ends with a call for unity; Workers of All ... town, and with that came the dependence of the peasant of the bourgeoisie. The bourgeoisie overtook the feudal system and replaced it with free competition. With this, though, the bourgeoisie were no longer able to control its power because of over-production. There was too much substance, industry and commerce for society to handle, and society stepped back into momentary barbarism. The weapons with which the bourgeoisie overtook feudalism were now ... its struggle with the bourgeoisie. Trades people easily become proletarian because they cannot compete with the new technology. The proletarians revolt by smashing machinery, burning factories then move to fighting landowners, and smaller forms of control. The proletarians set up trade unions to counter attack the bourgeoisie control on wages. They unite by means of communication, set up by these unions, and are able to influence legislature to their aid. ...
- 1254: REM's Losing my Religion: An Analsysis
- REM's Losing my Religion: An Analsysis Religion an essential guide to peace and happiness for us as individuals or is it simply an easy way to control people who choose to follow it? That is a question I have asked myself for the last five years and to this day I do not have an answer. However, to shed a little light ... by Emile Durkheim is to promote social cohesion by bringing a large group of people together and uniting them by using shared symbolism, values and norms. The second function of religion Durkheim described is social control. What better way to have people follow a set of values than through religious belief ? Issues such as reproduction, birth, marriage and death are all tagged with religion so that those who choose to follow ... Having said that , I feel the only function religion has is to conform people to follow a set of rules which are designated by the community as a whole. Essentially religion is a method of control the only difference is that religion is based on the love or faith of a given god. However, if we were to accept Durkheim's explanation then in actuality we would all be religious ...
- 1255: Social Reproduction Theory
- ... and philosophies about education as do the teachers of the chosen school so that their youth can better relate in the learning environment. Which this primarily occurs within private schools. But parents can have this control within the private school sector, the public schools are based on residence and the teaching norms are based more generally. Thus, youth will succeed their parents through this theory of social reproduction. What influence do ... two other factors, the school SES and the cognitive achievement. It does seem interesting that these studies are based primarily on white individuals, homes, and schools. These studies are all very specific and have numerous control factors that make their findings focal pointed and not entirely representative of the entire population. Putting this aside, the main point to focus on with all possibilities including race, gender, home, and neighborhood and socioeconomic ... status the primary influence is drawn back into the home and the socioeconomic status of the family. This determines so much of their achievement and is a difficult issue to address because there is not control of the education system to direct and fix this dilemma. From the beginning, a youth is set into a particular status and for their entire academic experience, this will play a substantial part in ...
- 1256: Stephen King: Telekinesis And It’s Effects On The Innocent
- ... process Carrie became so enraged and engulfed in her powers that all else became a blur to her. It was as if the powers of telekinesis took over her body and she became unable to control her actions. Carrie uses her telekinetic powers to destroy everything in sight ..... distinctions between good and evil lose their significance for her, and Carrie’s night of carnage include those who are innocent along with those who are culpable (Magistrale 336). In the context of the story Carrie there is one noticeably underlying, repeated, question. Did Carrietta White ever have control of her own telekinetic abilities? The phenomenon commonly known as telekinesis or psychokinesis has most often been reported as being used in times of stress and crisis situations. Most situations occur under conditions in which the person, or persons, possessing the powers of telekinesis are not aware of their abilities or are not able to control their own actions. Even Carrie herself briefly realized that her own powers and abilities were beginning to get out of hand and beyond her own control. At one point Carrie herself recognizes that it ...
- 1257: The Problems of Conflict
- ... take unilateral action to break the destructive pattern. Defensive behavior usually occurs when you anticipate or perceive being threatened by a person or situation. When any combination of the six “defensive producing” elements of evaluation, control, strategy, neutrality, superiority, and certainty is present, a spiral, usually begins, a spiral that starts with a little discomfort and often escalates into all-out conflict. On the other hand, you can also start a ... the six alternative attitudes and skills of description, problem orientation, spontaneity, empathy, equality, and provisionalism. You don’t have to give up or give in. You just have to stop trying so hard to demean, control, and impose your hard- and- fast superiority on others. By learning that sometimes it's our own transparently manipulative behavior that creates defensiveness in others, we are one step closer to communicating interpersonally. They could ... take unilateral action to break the destructive pattern. Defensive behavior usually occurs when you anticipate or perceive being threatened by a person or situation. When any combination of the six “defensive producing” elements of evaluation, control, strategy, neutrality, superiority, and certainty is present, a spiral, usually begins, a spiral that starts with a little discomfort and often escalates into all-out conflict. On the other hand, you can also start ...
- 1258: Violence In Television Programs
- ... if children imitate violent acts observed on television is an experiment done by Albert Bandura, Dorothea Ross and Sheila A. Ross. To test their hypothesis, the subjects were divided into three experimental groups and one control group. The first group observed real life aggression, the second group observed the same models but on film and the third group watched an aggressive cartoon. The groups were also subdivided into male and female ... and Telecommunication Commission (CRTC) Public Hearing on television violence; Shaw gave an interesting and somewhat disturbing presentation about the facts of television violence. In its presentation, Shaw discussed three initiatives that it has made to control television violence. These three initiatives: increasing the production of quality children’s programming, providing customers with a direct means to control television programming coming into their homes through "V" chip technology, continuing support for education and other public initiatives in dealing with the problems of violence, could control violence in America by controlling the amount ...
- 1259: Gene Therapy
- ... metastasis, and response to therapy. Universal agreement has not been reached as to the best treatment for prostate cancer at any stage. Radical prostatectomy, external-beam radiation therapy, brachytherapy, and cryotherapy can affect local tumor control and are potentially curative in patients with clinically localized disease. In spite of the widespread use of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) in early detection and screening, many cases are not diagnosed until the disease has ... present time. Unfortunately, progressive disease develops in many patients who undergo these treatments, thus proving them to be noncurative. Gene therapy has emerged as an exciting new treatment that may affect both local and systemic control of prostate cancer. With respect to cancer, the goal of gene therapy is to prevent or treat disease by using the therapeutic information encoded in the DNA sequences. Evidence suggests that tumor formation is caused ... further development of vector systems at the basic science level as well as a better understanding of the genes involved in tumor induction and proliferation. Parkinson's disease is a chronic degenerative neurologic condition affecting control of voluntary movement. The disease is most commonly treated with pharmaceutical products containing L-dopa and then in more advanced cases, with neurosurgical procedures. Cell Genesys, Inc. announced that company scientists have demonstrated long ...
- 1260: Multicultural Education
- ... see themselves as active makers and changers of culture and society. If given the skills to judge people and their thoughts fairly, and the knowledge that they can make a difference, students will take better control of life in the future. Fifth, the program should be committed to the honoring and continuing examination of democratic values as an essential basis for social organization and nation building. Although the democratic system is ... a teacher can be a great help in providing information about other cultures, by the same note, that information can be just as harmful if it is incomplete. In order for students to be in control of their own identity, they must have some idea of how others look at these same qualities. Children must be taught to resolve inner-conflicts about their identity, so that these features that make us ... As Harlan Cleveland points out, many countries still feel that the predominant race must be the one in power. For instance, try to imagine a Turkish leader in Germany, or anyone but a Japanese in control of Japan (Cleveland 26). Only in America is there such a diverse array of people in power from county officials all the way up to the make up of people in our Supreme Court. ...
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