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- 621: Biosafety Protocol: Is There A Need For One?
- Biosafety Protocol: Is There A Need For One? Outline Thesis statement: An international biosafety protocol should be created to establish and maintain control over the products designed with biotechnology. I. The existing laws and regulations that govern the release of transgenic organisms are inadequate or nonexistent. A. The developed nations of the world are using regulations that were designed to control and monitor crops created with traditional technologies. B. Biotechnology is regulated by three different agencies. C. The undeveloped nations have virtually no regulations governing transgenic organisms. 1. This indicates that biotechnological research can and is ... results in the creation of beneficial transgenic (genetically engineered) species, many countries and researchers are ". . . quite leery about the uses of biotechnology" (8). Therefore, an international biosafety protocol should be created to establish and maintain control over the products designed with biotechnology. The existing laws and regulations that govern the release of transgenic organisms are inadequate or nonexistent. In general, the developed nations of the world are using regulations that ...
- 622: Tele-education
- ... Consultatif International Telegraphique et Telephonique CPE Customer Premises Equipment IP Internet Protocol ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network ISO International Standard Organization JAMES Joint ATM Experiment on European Services LAN Local Area Network MAC Medium Access Control Mbone Multicast Backbone PC Personal Computer POP Point-of-Presence PVC Permanent Virtual Channel QoS Quality of Service RAT Robust Audio Tool SLIP Serial Line Internet Protocol TCP-IP Transmission Control Protocol - Internet Protocol TES Tele-Educational Service UI User Interface VIC Video Conferencing Tool VP Virtual Path VPN Virtual Private Network VSD Virtual Student Desktop WAN Wide Area Network WWW World Wide Web XC Cross ... well as asynchronous mode like interactive self study, participation and threaded bill board conferences and sharing of documents. The virtual college is run primarily in a local network environment in order easily to monitor and control the students and technology. Then, when there are several countries participate, each sites are connected by the JAMES (Joint ATM Experiment on European Services) broadband network. 3.3.3 ACTS Project AC052 (RACE Project ...
- 623: Welcome To The Monkey House
- ... and America's preoccupation with the Cold War, love, status, and identity. The first story, "Welcome to the Monkey House" a future society is described in America where a scientist had invented and ethical birth- control pill that removes all pleasure from sex, and the government requires al women and men to take them. "The pills are ethical because they didn't interfere with a person's ability to reproduce, which ... in a pleasurable way. In this case he dresses up as an old man who wants to commit suicide. When he seduces these women, always at gunpoint he forces them to abandon their ethical birth control pills. "The people who understood science said that people had to quit reproducing so much, and the people who understood morals said that society would collapse if people used sex for nothing but pleasure" This ... should be pointed out about this story is that it was originally written for Playboy magazine. One of the ironies of the story was after Billy raped the suicide hostess and removed her ethical birth control pills. He leaves her with a poem and a bottle of regular birth control pills. The poem was "How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways" which is ironic because Billy has ...
- 624: Violence in Schools
- ... is no evidence that a metal detector will solve the problem of violence in schools, even though it offers a highly visible symbol to the community (Apfel 22). Even if the schools with all the gun violence in their schools do put in metal detectors at the front entrances of schools, their are many ways kids can sneak in weapons to school. In 1990 congress made it a felony to bring a gun within one thousand feet of any school under the "Gun-Free School Zones" provision of the 1990 crime prevention package. These laws wont help very much because of the fact that students can sneak in weapons through bathroom windows, or an unguarded entrance during ...
- 625: Reasons For The Fall Of Socialism/Communism In Russia
- ... assumed controlled and subsequently ordered the exile of all apposing cabinet ministers, including Trotsky. Anyone in the Union who objected to his decisions was sent to Siberian prison camps or murdered. He now had full control without any intervention from other liberal or moderate parties. He decided to concentrate on improving military strength and building on improving the Soviet economy, rather than follow Lenin's revolutionary goal of dominating the world ... bettering the plight of the individual, attempting to increase the supply of food and making goods such as home appliances, making automobiles somewhat available, and providing more housing. A new policy of efficiency and quality control was brought in. Leadership was somewhat decentralized to allow common managers and directors more power to run their production units. Although Krushchev started a process of slight reform he was dismissed due to in part ... After the ousting of Khrushchev, Leonid Brezhnev became the Soviet Communist Party Secretary General in October of 1964. Under his administration the majority of the decentralization of power was destroyed bringing a centralized form of control back into effect. Krushchev's denouncing of Stalin's policies was criticized and slowly some of Stalin's political disciplinary policies were restored. Stalin was named a war hero. There began an outright attack ...
- 626: The Scarlet Letter: Theocracy and Guilt and Punishment
- ... all of life with its rules and regulations. Those who were nonsubmissive to their rules would face harsh and humiliating punishment. Guilt and punishment is a system engendered by theocratic domination as a way to control and manipulate the people it dictated over. By placing guilt on people for their sin and punishing them if they were insubordinate to the rules, a theocratic society can control its people. Hawthorne presents the concept and theme through his use of literary devices or techniques such as imagery, symbolism, and light and dark words. Theocratic domination is the ambience of control of a society based on religious ideals and laws. It is a society that relies on the guilt that comes from the violation of the laws of its religion and the punishment of these ...
- 627: Stinky Solution
- ... to about twenty-five percent of the nation s adult population, according to a U.S. government survey released in November, 1999 (Cooper n.p.). According to Michael Ericksen, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention s Office on Smoking and Health, the smoking rate among young adults ages 18-24 rose about four percent because of the increase in teen smoking seen over the next ten years. He ... on their own in the battle against tobacco, a product which will claim four million lives during the next ten years (Hamilton 102) and about 400,000 deaths annually, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Cooper n.p.). As the leading preventable cause of death in the United States, the country as a whole, must do less cooperation with the tobacco industry and instead spend more time educating ... of better ways for spending their money (Lang 75). Plus, adults who live below the poverty line are more likely to be smokers that those above the poverty line, according to the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention. High school dropouts are also three times more likely to smoke than college graduates (Cooper n.p.). Instead of buying cigarettes, which also come with all sorts of breathing problems, odor problems, ...
- 628: Digging By Seamus Heaney
- ... with that. The first stanza of the poem is the stanza where you can interpret its meaning in a variety of ways. Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests snug as a gun. The phrase is a similie comparing a pen to a gun. The way in which the poet has written the lines implies that he is in fact as comfortable with a pen as he is with a gun. The poet is also saying that a gun is snug. Now for me there is nothing snug about a gun, this could imply that the poet is uncomfortable writing but I dont think ...
- 629: Chinese Dynasties
- ... and contributions: China changed from one of the most backward parts of the world to one of the most advanced. Iron, Ox-drawn plow, crossbow, and horses were all introduced. Large scale irrigation and water control projects increased crop yield greatly. Communication system was improved due to the increase of new roads. Coinage was developed and chopsticks came into use. Chinese writing system was developed. The great schools of Confucianism, Taoism ... 6. Tiang: (618 A.D. - 907 B.C.) founded by a former high official of the Sui Dynasty A. Reason's for Rise: B. Territorial Location & size at height of power (map): Re-extended Chinese control over much of central Asia and Korea. C. System of government & rule & names of noted rulers and their accomplishments: The civil service system grew into a mature form and most government officials had to take ... and society was dominated by the civil government. The civil service test was expanded so that the government would have a constant flow of young talent. The Sung re-organized the imperial government, centralizing the control of the dynasty at the capital. The local government was left pretty much the same. Education flourished and the economy also continued to expand. The literature that was being created in the late Tang ...
- 630: Animal Farm
- ... novels and essays for a living under his pen name "George Orwell." He was a political writer of his time, and usually wrote from his intense feelings and fierce hates. He hated government having complete control, and served in the Loyalist forces in the Spanish Civil War. He contradicted himself in many ways. He was a socialist while hating communism and was a literary critic while distrusting intellectuals. He hated how ... structure 2. conflict 3. point of view 4. symbolism and figuration language 5. theme and author's vision I hope this essay shows the ideas of Eric Blair and the freedom we have under government control. Body- 1. plot structure The story starts off in a form called "Manor Farm." An old white boar called "Old Major" tells all the farm animals of a day when all the animals would be ... Napoleon, both wanted power and snowball is chased out of the farm by Napoleon who had his own plans for the future of "Manor Farm" after the Rebellion. As the pigs take more and more control, they start acting more like man, and using his habits. At the end the animals watch from outside a window as the pigs have liquor and play cards with the men while they trade ...
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