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- 2231: Drug Prohibition
- ... now use drugs, the conclusion would be that 165 million people would be drug users in the United States. Considering the United States has only 200 million people over age 12, believing that such a high number of people would use drugs is hard. Gorman's report also includes Dr. Dupont's projection that if drugs were legal 50 million people (1/4 the over 12 population) would use marijuana regularly ... violent behavior, less racism, and the end of the infringement of certain rights. It is clear that Prohibition has a hand in each of these societal problems. We would greatly reduce crime, which repeatedly appears high on surveys as the biggest problem America faces, if legalization were to happen. Much of the concern about drugs and crime is that the use of drugs somehow causes crime. These studies are usually faulted ... not appropriate (Miller 61). Instead, many experts claim that much of what is labeled "drug-related" crime is instead due to criminality. This criminality of drugs is a causal factor in crime because of the high costs to consumers and high profits for suppliers. The market prices for marijuana, cocaine, and heroin are about 100 times what the price would be in a free market. This means crime results from ...
- 2232: The Glass Menagerie Theme
- ... her children and it happens regardless of her efforts, the children do not grow up and be what she wishes. The children do end up either trapped inside themselves or forced out by the mothers high expectations. Williams shows us how Amanda who's love that can be overwhelming also has particular goals set for children. Her former husband had left her with a always present "larger than life photograph" (1900 ... help her find a match for Laura. Amanda will have what is best for children at any cost to herself or to the children themselves. McKendry 3 Due mostly to Amanda's overwhelming love and high goals for her Laura, Williams shows how Laura lives trapped. The result of an illness Laura is left with a defect for the rest of her life. This is also a symbol of her crippling ... a way for Laura to get away from her mother dominance. Throughout the whole play, Williams portrays for us how Tom feels the distress of his sister's trapped life, and the overwhelming love and high expectations of his mother and is lowly being forced out of living with his family. Tom feels like he has to take care of his mother and sisters because of his father being gone. ...
- 2233: Jane Addams
- ... House The argument Addams makes that "educational matters are more democratic in their political than in their social aspect" (197), I believe she is referring to the long struggle between the teachers and the Chicago School Board. The Chicago School Board was politically corrupt. Many of the teachers and custodial engineers were friends of politicians who secured their positions in exchange for certain kickbacks. The school board maintained control over the school administration for many years. During which they restricted the types of children that were able to attend the public schools and they restricted the amount of freedom and ...
- 2234: Cause and Effect of Speeding
- ... is one of the most common ways that people break the law. When people break the law there are unpleasant consequences. A speeding ticket is an effective form of discipline: paying for a ticket, traffic school, and higher insurance rates. Paying for a speeding ticket is an unpleasant experience. A ticket can be outrageously expensive depending on how fast you were speeding. Some states charge ten to twenty dollars per mile ... your case, you generally end up paying the fine. This only leads to another line, and another wait. This has to be the most unpleasant part of a speeding ticket. In addition, paying for traffic school is also a disagreeable experience. If you waited to see the judge, you may be on your way after paying the fine. If the judge is kind, and offers a traffic school option, the unpleasantness continues. Usually the traffic school is no where near to the courthouse, which causes you to search to find the it. The great experience of paying is close at hand after ...
- 2235: Unidentified Flying Objects: Fact or Fiction?
- ... performed genetic engineering on apes thereby creating the Homo Sapiens and man's intelligence. The third, and least accepted, is that colonists from another galaxy came to Earth, mated with the primitives and established a high level of culture, before being destroyed by some natural catastrophe. And upon this catastrophe and destruction, we build and grow (Fitzgerald 1). Berossus, a Babylonian scholar, may have been the first astronaut historian. He said ... breeding, scientific experimentation, etc. (Although I found fault with one of my primary sources, it by no means typifies the value of other such publications. Each book must be valued on its own.) Using super high-tech computer photograph analyzers, scientists were able to determine the validity of the widely known Trent photos. In Oregon, 1950, a Mrs. Trent was feeding rabbits in her backyard when she saw a huge metallic ... and out of the planes' courses. Such oddities were to be eventually called "foo fighters." World War Two was a time of secrecy and great inventions. Instinctively, the allies thought they were some kind of high tech German innovation. Naturally, too, the Germans thought vice versa. Therefore, nothing of an extraterrestrial nature was ever reported (Life 26), at least officially. There are countless reports where U.S. air force personnel ...
- 2236: Gold And Its Uses.
- ... or extended into extraordinarily thin sheets. For example, one ounce of gold can be hammered into a 100 square foot sheet. Gold is the most reflective and least absorptive material of infrared (or heat) energy. High purity gold reflects up to 99% of infrared rays. Gold is also an excellent conductor of thermal energy or heat. Since many electronic processes create heat, gold is necessary to transfer heat away from delicate ... to the leaching circuit where cyanide dissolves the gold. Sulfide refractory ore without carbon is oxidized in an autoclave to liberate the gold from sulfide minerals, then it is sent to the leaching circuit. Treated, high-grade ore is leached with cyanide. The gold is absorbed out of solution onto activated carbon. The remaining cyanide solution is recycled. The gold loaded carbon is moved into a vessel where the gold is ... up to 90 % gold. Dore' bars are then sent to an external refinery to be refined to bars of 999.9 parts per thousand pure gold. The prime use is in electronics. Our age of high technology finds it indispensable in everything from pocket calculators to computers, washing machines to television and missiles to spacecraft. The rocket engines of American space shuttles are lined with 35% gold brazing alloys to ...
- 2237: Maglev Consequences
- Maglev Consequences Magnetically levitated ground transportation, or "maglev," is an advanced mode of surface high speed transportation whereby a vehicle gliding above a guide track is suspended, guided, and propelled by magnetic forces. Because they never touch the guide track causing friction, maglev vehicles can be designed to travel at extremely high speeds, 500 kilometers per hour (300 miles per hour), or more! Americans traveled 3.2 trillion passenger kilometers (2 trillion passenger miles) by car, truck, bus, and public transit, and 9.8 billion passenger kilometers ... to cost $3 to 4 billion. Current transportation technologies are petroleum dependent, accounting for 64 percent of total petroleum use. Without transportation alternatives that reduce petroleum dependency, transportation related petroleum use is expected to remain high--36 percent above our own US petroleum production, so we will have to get the oil from other countries which will raise taxes on oil imports, possibly creating national security problems. High speed ground ...
- 2238: Sex Education -- 2
- Sex Education is Ineffective Perhaps one of the most controversial issues arising today is that of sex education in America's public school system. In today's world, where information travels at the speed of light and mass media is part of our everyday lives, teenagers are more exposed to this world than ever before. In this country ... vice-president of the Institute for American Values, says, "Principals have to do little more than buy a sex-education curriculum and enroll the coach or home-economics teacher in a training workshop, and their school has a sex-education program" (Whitehead). It is unsettling to think of how just anyone can teach a program. Workshops cannot possibly provide teachers with enough skill and expertise to adequately educate teenagers about sex ... United Sates has a completely different culture. Europeans are not exposed to the type of movies and television programs that American teenagers are exposed to. Charles Krauthammer, former chief resident in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, points out, "Kids do not learn their morals at school. They learn it at home. Or they used to. Now they learn it from culture, most notably from the mass media" (Krauthammer 584). Jeannie ...
- 2239: Family: Good or Evil?
- Family: Good or Evil? If I were to go and interview 15 elementary school teachers about deviance, I bet at least half would say that the family is the problem behind social deviance. If I would have asked the same question 10 years ago teachers would have said "peers ... society nowadays that experiences over 50 percent of marriages ending in divorce, things have definitely changed. Most children live in one of three environments in today's society: single parent, latchkey (they come home from school and nobody is there), or they have both parents. Most probably are in the first category, however, and this is very said. When living in this kind of environment the child only has one role ... s boyfriend. The 15-year-old was not thinking she just wanted to get away from the situation. By running all she did was made the situation worse, because when she returned and went to school everybody started calling her a "hooker." This happens more times than not with these children running it does not solve anything; it just makes the problem five times worse. Any kind of violence or ...
- 2240: Pay For Student Athletes
- ... is the issue of whether student athletes should be paid or receive any form of monetary compensation. The NCAA rules committee has stood strong on its stand that athletes who receive scholarships should go to school and should not need any more money to support themselves. But students and some coaches think their rules are to harsh and the NCAA should pay student athletes or let them find ways to make ... College athletes should not be paid the extravagant amount of money that the professionals are paid. They are amateurs and should be treated as so. But small amounts of money to help them through the school year should be allowed. It would be too much to ask of athletes to hold jobs, go to school full-time and play college athletics. By paying them they would help them out greatly. People argue that by paying college athletes, it would blur the line between professional sports and amateur sports. But ...
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