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- 5951: Kuwait
- ... and points of interest, I will know take you back in time to the year 1931 and tell you a brief plot of how this country was formed. Back in 1930 when Britain was in control of the Arabian Peninsula, their never existed a country known as Kuwait. This land was a little Emirate who's people lived largley on the seach for pearls and fish to eat. It's inhabitant ...
- 5952: Acupuncture 2
- ... clinic in Houston. They specialize in Acupuncture Therapy for diseases and conditions such as acute and chronic pain, degenerative diseases, arthritis, M.S., post-stroke, migraine headaches, lower back pain, facelifts, weight reduction, and smoking control. The Dr. that performs acupuncture at this clinic is Dr. Duong Hoang (M.D.), C.A. The fees vary according on types of treatment. And usually a complete physical examination is required before your first ...
- 5953: The Green Revolution in Asia
- ... of this is the governments' inability to make decisions. Water is a large problem. Groundwater is falling several meters per year and the people just dig their wells deeper. There is fierce competition for the control of the major waterways. Overcultivation has forced farmers to clear forests. The result of the deforestation is soil erosion. Freeman Singh, chief of a tribe near Cherapunji puts it this way " If there is no ...
- 5954: Ghana
- ... slave trading began abolishing it as illegal and immoral. The British abolished it in 1807, the Danish is 1804 and the Dutch in 1814. In 1821, British forts were transferred from private ownership to government control. The Gold Coast became a British colony and the new government was known as the British Colony of Sierra Leone. In 1850, there was movement to establish a constitution. In 1851, an assembly convened to ...
- 5955: Odysseus' Journey
- ... her den, while they screamed and stretched out their hands to me in mortal agony.” (204-206) Calypso For seven years Odysseus lived on the island of Calypso, the nymph, who had him under her control. Only with the help from the gods could Odysseus escape from the clutches of the beautiful immortal. Hermes is sent to deliver this message: “ Athena says that you are to let this man go at ...
- 5956: Hero Worship
- ... wheel of a school bus after it was involved in an accident. This boy may have saved the lives of the children loaded on the school bus by preventing the bus from careening out of control. Because of the unusual circumstances of this incident, the media rightly focused on this child as a hero. Many other forms of heroism do not fit this very succinct definition. The school teacher who has ...
- 5957: Aids 5
- ... is responsible for warding off disease--and leaves the victim susceptible to various infections. AIDS was first conclusively identified in the United States in 1981, when 189 cases were reported to the Centers for Disease Control. Within a decade the disease had spread to virtually all populated areas of the world. In the United States alone there are about 65,000 new cases every year. The origin of the AIDS virus ...
- 5958: Role of Horses in England
- ... 000 passenger cabs and also vans, wagons, and carts. To contribute to the congested streets, a carriage requires much more space than a car. This is because "the behaviour of horse traffic is unpredictable, its control of direction erratic, and its road discipline poor" (p166). Therefore, once there was an alternative to this by driving a car, people took advantage. However, since many still could not afford the luxury of driving ...
- 5959: About Open-Minded People
- ... minded people. People who understand what is going around them show common sense and kindness and, therefore, they are considered open-minded. In the stress or very tensioned filled situation usually people sometimes lose their control and become rude or worse aggressive. Open-minded people always find enough patience to calm down the situation of helping the person who gets in trouble or giving up their rights in favor of others ...
- 5960: What Philosophy Might Do to Us
- ... of Athens to think about things the way they are instead of accepting public opinion. "The unexamined life is not worth living," said Socrates (Plato 38a). The Athenian people rejected the idea that man has control over himself, instead they believed that everything was dictated by the Gods. The fact that Socrates strived to live a virtuous life was his undoing. The people of Athens killed him because he challenged their ...
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