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- 2061: Labor In America
- ... church, to read, to write and to attend lectures. They saved part of their earnings to help their families at home or to use when they got married. The young factory workers did not earn high wages; the average pay was about $3.50 a week. But in those times, a half-dozen eggs cost five cents and a whole chicken cost 15 cents. The hours worked in the factories were ... the 1920s began, organized labor seemed stronger than ever. It was successful in getting Congress to pass laws that restricted immigration to the United States. Unions believed that a scarcity of labor would keep wages high. But events that took place in Europe were already threatening labor's gains. In 1917, a communist revolution overthrew the government of Russia. Communists also attempted revolutions in Germany, Hungary and Finland. Immigrants entering the ... maintain a decent standard of living. Hours were shortened to give them more time for leisure. The law also forbade the labor of children under 16 in most occupations. Unemployment in the United States remained high until the United States entered World War II in 1941. Then, defense industries boomed, and millions of men entered the armed forces. By 1943, unemployment ended and industry was faced with a shortage of ...
- 2062: Pre-Eclampsia and Eclampsia Disorders In Pregnant Women
- ... is secondary to a primary problem-that is a renal disorder, heart disease, endocrine disorder or some other condition is the cause of the hypertensive disease. Women with chronic hypertension who become pregnant are in high risk. Because of arterial narrowing the blood supply to the uterus is compromised and growth and oxygenation of the fetus are jeopardized. Pre-eclampsia and eclampsia are also likely to develop, with characteristic tissue swelling ... pre-eclampsia next to their usual chronic hypertension. To show how eclampsia is related to physics we must look at the fact that eclampsia primarily comes about from hypertension. The swelling occurs: when there is high quantity of sodium; H2O is attracted into the veins. The walls of the veins are permeable to H2O at this point, starving the rest of the cells of the body from water that later leads ... body seem to break down, affecting not only the mother, but the fetus as well. Hypertension forms like this: there is direct proportion between pressure and volume--when there is a large volume there will high pressure. In relation to physics we have to speak of Fluids In Motion. We must picture fluid in a tube: when there is a certain amount of volume going through a tube it's ...
- 2063: Teen Smoking
- ... action and have urged tobacco companies to do the same against under age smoking. Despite all positive actions against it, "pack-a-day" smoking has risen thirty-three Percent in the past ten years among high school seniors. Throughout life children and adults are being persuaded to do or try something that goes against what they believe. Peer pressure is common place in grade school, where children are constantly being exposed to smoking. Cigarettes are being smoked everywhere authority is not, during school or any other place kids congregate. Kids smoke because they want to feel like they 'fit ...
- 2064: Ted Bundy
- ... that, parental involvement and security is very important in a young child's life and that he never had that protection. Bundy was very shy as a youth and he was often bullied in junior high, as a result of he was subjected to humiliation often. Even though he was subjected to this kind of behavior he managed to maintain a high grade average throughout his education. Many say that Bundy was a very successful, pleasant student. Bundy's focus changed in the spring of 1967, when he met the woman of his dreams Stephanie Brooks. This ... that same night the police had found a key in the parking lot where Debby Kent went missing. A month later a witness called in stating they saw a VW Bug speed away from a high school the night Kent disappeared. Bundy was arrested on August 16, 1975 caught speeding away with no lights on, in the Salt Lake neighborhood. A search was conducted of the VW. There was no ...
- 2065: Fritz Haber
- ... It was Haber, along with Carl Bosch, who finally solved this problem. Haber invented a large-scale catalytic synthesis of ammonia from elemental hydrogen and nitrogen gas, reactants which are abundant and inexpensive. By using high temperature (around 500oCelsius), high pressure (approximately 3000 psi), and an iron catalyst, Haber could force relatively unreactive gaseous nitrogen and hydrogen to combine into ammonia. This furnished the essential precursor for many important substances, particularly fertilizers and explosives used ... to attain economic success on an industrial scale." In 1911, Haber was appointed director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physical Chemistry in Berlin. This new research facility was to become more famous than the school he had built up at Karlsruhe. With the outbreak of World War I in 1914, Haber was in charge of forming a center for cross-disciplinary research in chemistry and physics and as such, ...
- 2066: Narcissism: Psychological Theories and Therapeutic Interventions in the Narcissistic Disorders
- ... have been advanced by the psychodynamic perspective and to a lesser extent the Jungian (analytical) perspective. Essentially, both theories cite developmental problems in childhood as leading to the development of the narcissistic disorder. The existential school has also attempted to deal with the narcissistic problem, although the available literature is much smaller. Existentialists postulate that society as a whole can be the crucial factor in the development of narcissism. The final ... many ways the humanistic approach to narcissism echoes the sentiments of the psychodynamic approach. The Psychodynamic Perspective of Narcissism The psychodynamic model of narcissism is dominated by two overlapping schools of thought, the self psychology school and the object relations school. The self psychology school, represented by Kohut, posits that narcissism is a component of everyone"s psyche. We are all born as narcissists and gradually our infantile narcissism matures into a healthy adult narcissism. ...
- 2067: Mandatory AIDS Testing
- Mandatory AIDS Testing AIDS has become a worldwide epidemic that has struck every identifiable group. However, persons who are considered to be in a high-risk group of contracting HIV, the disease believed to cause AIDS, are still stigmatized by the media and other professionals as being diseased and abnormal. It is quite surprising still that this type of stereotype ... returns with a negative HIV status may be in fact a carrier and not know it because the antibodies have not shown up yet. Misguided, this individual believing to be HIV negative, may participate in high risk activities for contracting HIV and infect others as well. Mandatory Aids testing also involves sub-policy known as contact tracing or partner notification. The intent of this policy is to have an individual who ... people from voluntary testing is evident from the possible discrimination that one might face undergoing the procedures of the policy. As of today, there is no mandatory AIDS testing programs being implemented for persons of "high-risk groups". One cannot help but feel the society as a whole believes when one is dealing with an issue like AIDS, which is so sensitive and private, the rights and the comfort of ...
- 2068: Diabetes
- ... have fatigue. Your blood becomes acidic and respiration becomes abnormal. People usually die from diabetic coma until they figured out how to use insulin therapy. In both forms it could cause a kidney disease from high blood sugar levels; bad sight from blood vessels in eyes rupturing, less blood going to the limbs could make them have to cut them off. They have high blood pressure which increases heart attacks and strokes in diabetes too. Type II This type is found in mostly in people over 40 it progresses slowly unlike type I. The insulin in the pancreas is ... sugar comes in slow. For type II they have to loose weigh and exercise more. Some people test their own blood sugar levels throughout the day and have insulin pumps. DIABETES Robert Quinn Brick Memorial High School January 23, 1997
- 2069: Isaac Asimov
- ... small candy and magazine store. This is one of the places where Asimov began to learn about printing. Also it was here that Asimov learned good business and self-discipline skills (Bloom, 251). Asimov attended school and was a very bright student. He went to college at Columbia University. He graduated from there with his master’s degree in Chemistry in 1941. His career was cut short though because in 1942 ... the lives of 3 young boys living in a small town. At first Asimov gave up writing, for he did not think he knew what he was doing. However, his whole attitude changed when at school one day he told the story he had written. His friend was impressed with it and wanted to borrow the book when Asimov finished it. This gave Asimov the confidence he needed to begin a writing career that would last a lifetime. Asimov’s first published writing was in his high school’s newspaper column. He wrote a humorous story called “Little Brothers.”(12) Asimov’s first published story was in 1939 it was entitled “Marooned Off Vesta”. This story was featured in the magazine ...
- 2070: Clarence Thomas Supreme Court Justice
- ... emphasis on Black self-help. Thomas grew up not knowing his biological father but recalls his “grandfather as the greatest single influence in his life”. The only time he wore shoes were to go to school, he also worked six hours a day at his family owned icehouse and fuel station, in addition to schooling. He also had other chores that included raising chickens, pigs and cattle; cleaning house as well ... He credits these lessons early in life of hard work and self-reliance for giving him the drive to be where he is today. His grandfather, who could not read, sent him to a Catholic school run by a group of White nuns that was established for poor Black youth. He later became one of the first Blacks at his all-white Catholic high school. His first premonition was to enter the priesthood but declined after a fellow seminarian student exclaimed, “ Good I hope the SOB dies” following the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. assassination. He came ...
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