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- 1111: Prescribed Burning
- ... but this forest burned 50,000 acres naturally before fire suppression." He also reports good chemistry between his fire folks and the community on prescribed burns: help from local volunteer firefighters, field trips by a high-school biology class, and locals who now understand why the process is desirable and accept it. * Angeles National Forest, California: A prescribed maintenance burn on a firebreak just east of Altadena in the San Gabriel foothills ... year in 20 years." Some near-term burn targets: 3,000 acres of highly fuelled forest-lands next to Yosemite, a critical brush-forest interface involving another 3,000 to 4,000 acres, and other high-priority protection areas where hundreds of fuel-surrounded homes crowd national-forest boundaries. * On Eldorado National Forest west of Lake Tahoe, and farther north on Plumas National Forest near Mt. Lassen, fire officers can ...
- 1112: Character Development
- Character Development School Trying Character Education on For Size The role of the school is changing today. The school now must realize its role in character development. “Schools must recognize that they cannot accomplish the academic aspect of their mission if they do not attend to the needs of the whole child, and ...
- 1113: Labor Unions
- ... which brought enrollment to its lowest level since the 1930’s (Gamboa, 1999). The U.S. Department of Labor reported that 13.9% of American workers were unionized in 1998 as compared to the 35% high of the 1950’s (Gamboa, 1999). Recent data suggest that union density has been trying to plateau during the late 1990’s (Whitford, 1998). American Attitudes Toward Unionism. With the consistent decrease in union membership ... closes the gaps in compensation between: the non-educated and educated; women and men; and African Americans and Caucasians than do their nonunion equivalents (Gamboa, 1999). Median earnings of non-union Ohioans without and with high school diplomas in 1997 were $6.50 per hour and $8.75 per hour, respectively. A union member without a diploma, however, received $11.20 per hour (Gamboa, 1999). Again, these data are similar for ...
- 1114: Masters Of The Vineese School
- The three prominent composers of the classical period were Franz Haydn, Wolfgang Mozart, and Ludwig van Beethoven. These three composers together are known as the masters of the Viennese School. All three of them studied and composed their music in a time of experimentation. They examined the different uses of the major-minor system and then capitalized on the possibilities. From this came the ideal ... the following year Mozart held a party in honor of Haydn and played all six Haydn quartets, composed by Mozart. Unfortunately, at a young age of 35, Mozart died. The third master of the Viennese School was Ludwig van Beethoven. Beethoven was born in Germany in 1770. Although Beethoven’s father was a singer for the prince, he had a difficult childhood. Beethoven’s father was an alcoholic and Beethoven was ... in which he was a prominent composer. During Haydn and Mozart’s time it was extremely hard to break out of the royal patronage system, which Mozart found out. All three masters of the Viennese School were composers in the Classical period but Beethoven was also the transition between the Classical and Romantic periods. In 1792 Beethoven received composition lessons from Haydn and they became lifelong friends. In 1802 he ...
- 1115: HDTV: The Emergence of a New Generation in Television.
- HDTV: The Emergence of a New Generation in Television. Abstract High definition television is proving itself to be a leader as a new innovation of television. The impact HDTV will have on consumers, the laws surrounding this new medium, and it's attributes and in differences ... in the United States switches over to the digital signal, ana log signals and television sets will still be in use, it will be hard for consumers to bow down and purchase 600 million new high definition television sets. HDTV, is known in the television industry as high definition television. HDTV is paving the way as a new medium waiting to emerge as the greatest thing to hit television since color. However it's not the 1950's and HDTV is already ...
- 1116: Savage Inequalities by Jonathan Kozol
- ... a product of their environment? In Jonathan Kozol's book Savage Inequalities, he speaks of children who are deprived of the right to a descent education. But how can this be the case. Is one school given more money than another? Funds for public schools come from property taxes. In wealthy communities where property values are generally higher more money is allocated, than in a poor communities with lower property values ... textbooks. Members within the communities also have the opportunity to contribute money into their schools via fundraisers. This allows the schools to give their children the technology and materials needed. This in turn allows the school to use funds for other things such as renovations and simple luxuries like air conditioning and an advance curriculum. Yet some poor communities can not even afford to provide a playground or a lunch area ... schools students. When people look at this they sometimes look at it as unfair and racist to a certain point. These schools are for the most part based in urban communities where there is a high crime rate and a large number of uneducated civilians. These neighborhoods are home to many menial workers and unemployment, as well as welfare recipients. The lack of education and opportunities provided by the schools ...
- 1117: 1963: The Hope That Stemmed From the Fight for Equality
- ... their fight for parity. Patience and caution were not the virtues it took to make a change ("As militancy rises in ranks of the Negroes in the North" ). Students staged numerous sit-ins challenging the school systems. They were seeking acceptance into these predominately white schools. The goal of Negroes in the North was not integration, but desegregation. Similar circumstances occurred in Philadelphia, Baltimore, New York, Detroit, St. Louis, Chicago, Boston ... stores in downtown Birmingham opened their counters to Negroes. There was a promise for better, although not equal, job opportunities. A board was to be set up to look at the possibility of integrating the school system. Finally, on May 10th, the jails began releasing Negro demonstrators. Negroes saw these three promises as a gigantic step towards victory. Martin Luther King's victory statement attributed the victory to the mass demonstrations ... and children was a deciding factor in white leaders' decisions. When one Negro teenager was asked to comment on his involvement, he said, "I marched for freedom -- freedom to eat and work and go to school with whites. It's no sin to be born black" ("Tension Growing Over Race Issue" 38). Other victories included being allowed to try on clothes in a store, being addressed as Mr. or Mrs., ...
- 1118: Ozone
- Ozone Ozone (O3) is a molecule consisting of three oxygen atoms, similar to the oxygen we breathe (O2), however oxygen consists of only two oxygen atoms. In the stratosphere, a region high up in the upper atmosphere, light rays are responsible for the breaking down of oxygen (O2), breathable oxygen into its two separate oxygen atoms. Lone oxygen atoms are markedly reactive. When a lone oxygen atom ... combines to form ozone (O3). The ozone layer is a small residual amount of ozone concentrated in a band in the upper atmosphere. This band of concentrated ozone resides approximately between twenty and forty kilometers high in the stratosphere. The ozone layer reactions that both create and destroy ozone has come into a dynamic equilibrium. This dynamic equilibrium is very delicate and resulted during atmospheric formation (Environment Canada, 1996). Ozone, however ... protect the earth from most ultraviolet light. Ozone prevents most UV-B radiation from reaching the surface of the earth (Environment Canada, 1996). Ozone is very important to life on earth because the harmfulness of high-energy UV-B radiation stems from the high energy of these light rays, enabling them to penetrate deeply into water, plant tissue and epidermal tissue of animals. Increased UV-B radiation results in harming ...
- 1119: High Noon
- High Noon is one of the western films that can move you by its existentialist themes, where an individual's values are above the societal norms and where the authenticity of being is existence. This is ... anti-hero, is counting on getting special deputies sworn in to assist him. Everything hinges on midday. The suspense builds and the tension mounts as the clock ticks ever closer to the inevitable fate of high noon. The passing of the time symbolizes the idea of mortality, which is a form of expressionism. Even the judge who sentenced Miller and who is a mirror of society's morals is not willing ... choice, the authenticity of himself is realizing his own potential in liberty. His life and activity make sense in the historical context as a participation in the continuity of man's life as being-oneself. High Noon is representative of man's existence in the world related to his being with others. Because man has freedom, his acts are always limited to certain conditions, by uncertainties and risks, forces and ...
- 1120: The Matchmaker
- ... trouble working with her. In fact, Homer and Mary began to be good friends. As it wound up, Mary’s kids were the exact same ages as Homer’s and even went to the same school as Homer’s children did. Homer’s wife, Marge, had talked to Mary on several occasions like Back-to-school, or school plays. Marge thought it would be nice to invite over Mary for dinner one night. When Homer suggested that idea to Mary, she said she was way too busy. She went on to say ...
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