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- 2361: Mars
- ... couple of days," said Cathy. Cathy didn't know it then but when the Earth died so did all the water supply to Mars. Cathy is in the 6th grade at the Earthling-Alien elementary school in the city of Worthac. Today was Saturday so she had to go to school every day except every other Sunday. It was 2:30 am Mars-standard time and Cathy was already late for school. The blazing green sun was right over head. When she stepped out the door, she almost fainted. The blue grass, yellow trees, and the silver flowers were all looking so nice today. Cathy was ...
- 2362: My Life In Vietnam and The Move To the United States
- ... In 1990, my life was changed when my family immigrated to a new country, hoping for a better future; wealth and education. My life in Vietnam was hopeless, because I was a outstanding student in school but didn’t have the money to further my education. I spent the majority of my time in book stores, wasting my coins on every comic book I found. I wasn’t good boy as ... would change forever. After spending nine years in Vietnam, our family moved to a totally different environment. This I knew would be my toughest challenge to date. As a third grader attending a new elementary school in a new country, I felt left out because of my inability to communicate and adapt with the environment. Some kids assumed that I did not understand them at all, so they made rude remarks ... I understood them, maybe not completely, but I knew the intent of their messages. All that I had was my Apple II computer at which I just sat and programmed when I came home from school. At home, my parents pressured me to study all of the time, but I was frustrated and wanted to return to Vietnam. I wanted to go back and talk freely with my friends and ...
- 2363: Legalizing Idustrial Hemp
- ... with marijuana. Marijuana comes from the flowers of the Cannabis sativa plant and contains more than 1.00% THC (Mississippi Potency). Industrial hemp has no psychoactive properties. Industrial hemp can be grown as a profitable, high-quality fiber crop without producing marijuana. Registered seed varieties that produce hemp containing less than 0.3% THC even in the flowers are available throughout Europe (British Farmers). Farmers in the European Community have been ... 520). Hemp seed oil makes an ideal all-purpose lubricant (Conrad 24). The seed cake is the solid part of the seeds that remains after the oil is expelled. Hemp seed cake makes a nutritional, high-protein supplement to wheat flour. It contains 25% protein (Erasmus 231). The whole hemp seed contains 20% high-quality digestible complete protein (Wirshafter 205). The hemp seed can be eaten as a nutritious snack, like sunflower seeds. Birds like hemp seed because of its nourishing, oily content (McKenny 64). A hemp crop ...
- 2364: Carpe Diem Dead Poet Society
- ... make changes. Neil wanted to be an actor and it his father wouldn’t let him, so it was clear that he had to do it behind his fathers back. The lead part in the school play was given to Neil. He participated in it behind his fathers back. At the auditorium, during the play Neil’s father showed up. Neil went home with his father because Mr. Perry had withdrawn Neil from school. Later that night the two had argued this was a factor leading to Neil’s suicide. The dead poet society had some more problems since the death of a dear friend such as the expulsion of Newanda and the dismissal of Mr. Keaton . Newanda was a radical student who didn’t like the idea of an all school boarding school and let it be known all over so that he would get expelled. A phone rang in the auditorium while the dean was giving a speech, it was Newanda on the other ...
- 2365: Justice
- Justice Justice is something everyone deserves, but it isn't always what they get. Justice can be unfair at home, school, and even in the workplace. Siblings always seem to complain about chores. This family member may get too many, while another doesn't get enough. Chores are an argument because they aren't exactly done ... sister uses the car all week, while her brother has to ride his bike. No one deserves the car more, so there should be equal amounts of use. Another place where injustices occur is at school. Budging in the lunch-line, pop quizzes, homework, detentions, and cheating are just a few of the complaints that occur at school. Budging, whether in the lunch-line or the bathroom line, is completely unfair. (Unless, of course, you're the person budging.) A line is formed as a way to make everyone wait the same. ...
- 2366: Rapid Population Growth
- ... information is important because some species may contain information to help or even cure diseases. In the low deforestation areas approximately 15% of the planet’s species can be expected to be lost. In the high deforestation case, perhaps as many as 20% will be lost. In total about 500 000 to 600 000 are expected to be extinguished from 1980 to 2000(Abraham 1997). These are species that humans will ... Many developing countries, for example are faced with economic crisis and political uncertainty, which results in downsizing their financing on family-planning programs. People who live in countries where contraceptives are legal with a in high standard of living, seem to have jobs where they are “salarymen”. In these jobs, people work very long hours, spending many nights and holidays with clients and colleagues. With all this time devoted to work ... control experts are finally understanding that couples will have a family despite technological aspects, such as contraceptives (National Geographic) These situations are only found in developed countries. Most people unfortunately do not live in a high standard society. “Ninety-seven increases are taken place in less developed parts of the world. In Asia the population increases by 50 million, the population of Africa by 17 million and Latin America and ...
- 2367: Orson Welles
- ... remaing to pursue her music ambitions in Chicago. Welles live most of his time with his mother and Dadda Bernstein, but regularly traveled with his father on holidays. His health effectively kept him out of school until he was eleven, so he had acquired a lot of cultural groundings at home with his mother and the doctor. Fears that he might prove ungovernable like his brother Richard, who had been expelled from school by the age of ten and subsequently banished from home, brought him in 1926 to enrollment in the Todd School for Boys at Woodstock, Illinois, a few months after his mothers death from a liver condition at the age of forty-three. The school was ideally equipped for the nurturing of a young wayward ...
- 2368: Smoking
- ... at 6-month period). Health Locus is defined by how the participant attributed health outcomes (internal, external or by chance). The results of this experiment showed that those individuals across the three groups who had high levels of self-efficacy was related not to the number of attempts to quit, but the success of the attempts, while "the role of Health Locus of Control [was found to be] complex needing further ... the fourth time block (rest of the day was divided into blocks 2 and 3). Subjects made self reports before and after each cigarette for that day. For subjects in the stress group, stress was high before each cigarette and decreased afterward, increasing again prior to the next cigarette (cyclicle pattern). Subjects in the arousal group over the day yielded an increase in arousal in block one, that increased gradually until high in later afternoon, then decreasing at night. These outcomes lend support to the theory that the main problem with the arousal modulation theory "is the linkage of stress and arousal" (p. 394). This study ...
- 2369: Arianism
- ... because they held the creation of the Son to be out of nothing. But a view so unlike tradition found little favour; it required softening or palliation, even at the cost of logic; and the school which supplanted Arianism form an early date affirmed the likeness, either without adjunct, or in all things, or in substance, of the Son to the Father, while denying His co-equal dignity and co-eternal ... of God to be everlasting, they imagined Him as having become the Son to create the worlds and redeem mankind. Among the ante-Nicene writers, a certain ambiguity of expression may be detected, outside the school of Alexandria, touching this last head of doctrine. While Catholic teachers held the Monarchia, viz. that there was only one God; and the Trinity, that this Absolute One existed in three distinct subsistences; and the ... heathen philosophies. Associated with Paul, and for years cut off from the Catholic communion, we find the well-known Lucian, who edited the Septuagint and became at last a martyr. From this learned man the school of Antioch drew its inspiration. Eusebius the historian, Eusebius of Nicomedia, and Arius himself, all came under Lucian's influence. Not, therefore, to Egypt and its mystical teaching, but to Syria, where Aristotle flourished ...
- 2370: Ahold In The Czech Republic
- ... Republic in 1997. The company owns and rents a large number of estates that are managed and maintained with top expertise. The ultimate aim of Euronova is to provide customers with first-class services and high-quality goods at reasonable prices in pleasant and friendly atmosphere. As it wants to remain number one in the Czech retail market and in order to meet its strategic plans and customer s needs, Euronova ... retail store chains MANA is the largest Euronova chain. Their primary assortment includes more than 6,000 foodstuffs (including fresh vegetables, fruit, bread and meat products), toiletries, cosmetics and other products. The MANA range, offering high quality at low prices, is constantly enlarged. Having a selling space of 800-1,500 m2, MANA supermarkets are found in cities with a population of more than 20,000. Intended for weekly family shopping ... relating the points mentioned above to a large retailer such as Ahold, the strategy they should adopt is dependent on the type of store formula. The MANA supermarkets differentiate themselves from Czech competitors by offering high quality foodstuffs in a broad assortment at lower prices, and provide good customer service too. MANA is comparable to the Dutch Albert Heijn supermarkets since they offer more or less the same service to ...
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