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- 1951: Tall Stories
- ... public view. Alternatively, you might design your building like a broadcasting tower, and tie it to the ground with heavy, sloping guy wires extending from the four corners of the roof to the ground. A control mechanism at the end of each cable would act like a fishing reel, drawing in the cable whenever the sway of the building caused it to slacken. Tall buildings also encounter the problem of vortex ... inside the structure pushes air up the stairwells and elevators, like smoke up a chimney. Strong, cold drafts blowing up the building create heating problems and make it difficult to open doors into stairwells. To control stack effect, buildings must be as airtight as possible, with ventilation ducts extending only part way up the building, and revolving doors at ground level. The one invention that, above all, has enabled buildings to ... sand, loose silt, soft clay. Increase surface area of piles. Perhaps the most critical servicing job is protecting the building's occupants from fire and smoke. Today's skyscrapers are equipped with ultra-sophistated fire-control systems: automatic sprinklers help douse the fire while exhaust fans suck out the smoke from burning areas, preventing it from escaping into other floors and stairwells. Feeding the sprinkler systems are huge water storage ...
- 1952: Nuclear Weapons Are A Threat to All
- ... materials used in making fission weapons are uranium and plutonium. They are the only elements able to be used in making a fission weapon. There are two different ways to make a fission weapon: the gun-type method and the implosion method. In the gun-type method, two pieces of material, each having a subcritical mass, are placed at opposite ends of a metal cylinder. One of the pieces has a powerful, nonnuclear explosive behind it that explodes on impact ... the U.S. government that nuclear weapons could be used in war. On August 6, 1945, the United States used the first nuclear weapon on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. It was a 13 kiloton gun-type fission bomb. Three days later, the United States dropped a 22 kiloton implosion-type fission bomb on another Japanese city called Nagasaki. On August 14, eight days after the first bomb was dropped, ...
- 1953: Capital Punishment
- Capital Punishment There has been many controversies in the history of the United States, ranging from abortion to gun control, but capital punishment has been one of the most hotly contested issues in recent decades. Capital punishment is the legal infliction of the death penalty on persons convicted of a crime (Cox). It is not ...
- 1954: Persuasive Essay on Capital Punishment
- ... in an institution. Every year, valuable tax dollars go towards keeping prisoners in jail however, if the death penalty was used more often, some of this money could go towards other important causes such as gun control and education (Caldwell 598). Moreover, it is important to keep in mind that laws do change as do parole boards and people eventually forget the past. Life imprisonment lets the murderer live and as long ...
- 1955: Capital Punishment
- Capital Punishment There has been many controversies in the history of the United States, ranging from abortion to gun control, but capital punishment has been one of the most hotly contested issues in recent decades. Capital punishment is the legal infliction of the death penalty on persons convicted of a crime (Cox). It is not ...
- 1956: The Drug War in America
- ... in a effort to remove these worker from the work force this ordnance was passed. The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was another law that was inacted for the same proposes. The first federal drug control law passed was the District of Columbia Pharmacy Act. This act regulated narcotics. Cocaine based products were being sold in many forms, such as soft drinks, cough medicine, and the coca crop was cultivated ... Las Review-Journal) The violence associated with the street sale and dealing of drugs such as crack bring up another issue and that is whether or not it is time to take the sale and control of drugs out of the criminals hands and place it in the governments hands. Some such as Professor Milton Friedman believe that the legalization of drugs would destroy the black market, drug use would go ... become sophisticated, multibillion dollar industries that quickly adapt to new U.S. drug controls efforts. (U.S. General Acct. Office) Today 17 billion dollars a year are spent on the drug war. The ability to control the in flow of drugs into the country is almost impossible because the bad guy has more money and will continue to have more money because they have no rules to play by and ...
- 1957: Case For Legalizing Marijuana
- ... drug user from himself. The argument takes two forms. One has to do with the damage a drug may do to a person's health and the other with the individual's power of self-control or freedom. First consider the health effects. By any reasonable standard, marijuana is a mild drug and as for overdosing, there is no scientifically valid evidence of anyone dying of an overdose of marijuana smoke ... The first deals with physical injury and the second with spiritual health. The main physical threat to society is that users under the influence of a drug with crash a car or airplane, or lose control in some way and do harm. People who have recently smoked marijuana do show signs of clumsiness and disorientation. They should not operate machinery in this condition. One study estimates that alcohol plays a part ... of all fatal highway crashes. Marijuana may present similar risks, but at present there are no reliable data on its importance in accidents. According to John Stuart Mill's writings, the government should try to control only the aspects of drug use that injure society. In this vein, it makes sense to have laws against driving under the influence of marijuana similar to those governing driving under the influence of ...
- 1958: Capital Punishment
- Capital Punishment There has been many controversies in the history of the United States, ranging from abortion to gun control, but capital punishment has been one of the most hotly contested issues in recent decades. Capital punishment is the legal infliction of the death penalty on persons convicted of a crime (Cox). It is not ...
- 1959: Marijuana: The Legalization
- ... on it. Sure, there are prescription drugs on the market that are potentially dangerous but their effects are nothing compared to that of marijuana. Such a comparison can be made between a knife and a gun, prescription drugs being the knife and marijuana the gun. They are both potentially lethal and incredibly dangerous but they have their differences. With a knife, you have to be careless enough to fall on it. With a gun, all you have to be is stupid enough to mess with it. Of course, others have their opinions and I respect that. Lester Grinspoon states "One of marijuana's greatest advantages as a medicine ...
- 1960: Capital Punishment
- Capital Punishment There has been many controversies in the history of the United States, ranging from abortion to gun control, but capital punishment has been one of the most hotly contested issues in recent decades. Capital punishment is the legal infliction of the death penalty on persons convicted of a crime (Cox). It is not ...
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