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- 3551: Chernobyl
- ... to the air. The radiation was sent into the atmosphere. The easterly winds took the radiation and it circled most Europe and Russia. No one was aware of the accident until a research lab detected high amounts of radiation and notified the Specialist team from Moscow. The Specialist team was dispatched to the scene. Their biggest problem was the evacuations of the town of Prioyat. Prior to the evacuation the people ... emergency squads and the fire brigades. Of the 115,000 people who were evacuated from the 30 Km zone in the early stage of the accident from April 28 through May 6 did receive relatively high levels of radiation, although no one developed acute radiation syndrome. The other problem that existed was how to stop further radioactivity from being released into the atmosphere. This problem was solved with the idea of ... is a sort of concrete shell that was placed around Reactor 4. The sarcophagus was made of 1,000 tons of concrete and about 2,500 tons of steel. The sarcophagus is about 14 stories high and weighs almost 6,000 tons. The sarcophagus, however, is in bad shape. The sarcophagus has taken a beating with the weather and the amount of radioactivity on the inside. The concrete structure has ...
- 3552: The Holocaust
- ... teaching the Holocaust, students will understand the far-reaching effects of this event. When the subject is brought up, they will understand what it is and know how to relate to it. A poll of high school students revealed only 2% knew what countries were involved in World War II and the effects of the Holocaust. None could provide a full graphic outline of the Holocaust. We do not want our students ...
- 3553: The Invention of the Atomic Bomb And Its Use
- ... to me that the atomic bomb equals all of the cruel acts. Therefore, I do not think the dropping of the atomic bomb can be justified with the act of Japan. When I was a high school student, a teacher of history taught us that America dropped the atomic bomb for various reasons, not only for beating Japan. It was not until that I knew the fact. Though the teacher did not ...
- 3554: The Hundred Years' War
- ... The Hundred Years' War went well for England. Eventually the false sense of prosperity created by the pillaging of the French towns and villages began to surface. Also, the commoners were becoming dissatisfied with the high war expense. The war was a strain on England's resources and it was beginning to get difficult to pay the soldiers' wages as well as maintain the garrisons. The English subjects were taxed out ... political conditions of 1442-53 they were seldom able to resist the bribes, threats, and sanctions employed by a stronger and wealthier monarchy." 21 He who controls the Channel controls, controls the gold. Subsequently, the high rate of the nobility defection to France severely weakened England and ultimately caused its collapse of territory control. It took over a hundred years and five English kings to win the sovereignty of the French ... armies, and people willing to bear the cost through taxation. For almost a hundred years England had this combination while France did not. The English hated the French and always feared an invasion. Also, the high demand for English would exports created a substantial treasury for King Edward to pay for the war. However, the pendulum swung the other way. As a result, England may have won the battle, but ...
- 3555: Business Cycle
- ... at low interest rates. FannieMae is able to make money in any kind of economy. During times of low interest rates they make money on people who bought fixed rate mortgages at a time of high interest rates. They also have a hard making money during this time because their marginal percentage is smaller and they make less of a profit. During times of high interest rates, they lose money on people who bought fixed rate mortgages at low interest rates. They also make a lot of assets during this time because they borrow from the federal reserve or banks at lower interest rates and lend money at high interest rates. Overall, FannieMae will profit during any kind of economy. Tiffany & Co., the world’s largest jewelry company profits when during a bull market and when people have an excess of money. Since, ...
- 3556: Book Review On Public Administ
- ... be no moral community without some agreed upon arrangements for all three (p.150).” Morality in government has been extended from generation to generation. Government has tried to fix moral wrongs through creating the public school system to provide education for all, the abolition of slavery, and constantly raising concerns of ecology for future generations. “Following the logic of the command theory of social equity, public officials should seek to adopt ... results (less ethical government) 1. Due to downsizing of merit civil servants, the loss of institutional memory and the “hollowing out” of government. 2. Deregulation. No rules which gives incentive to fraud). 3. Contract employees (high kickback and fraud) 4. This statement plainly shows that government is in need of much work and public administrators will continue to have the hardest task of gaining citizen trust based on government’s profound ...
- 3557: The French Revolution
- ... was equal in terms of its social, economic, and spiritual power. The First Estate owned nearly 10 per cent of all land in France. It paid no taxes but, to support church activities such as school running and caring for the poor, they collected a tithe, or a tax on income. About one-third of the entire clergy in France served as parish priests. Also included in this estate were the ... for the wars of Louis XIV. Louis still borrowed money to fight wars and to keep French power alive in Europe. These costs greatly increased the national debt, which was, at the time, already too high. When King Louis XVI came into power, he realized that these problems existed. At first he did not know what to do, until he found a man by the name of Robert Turgot. He eased ...
- 3558: Anorexia
- ... be skinny in order to be successful. I think it's fair to say that most teenage girls think they have to be skinny to be beautiful. I know how that feels. All through out high school I had a bad eating problem. I wasn't over weight at all, but I thought I was because I didn't look exactly like one of those girls in the magazine ads. I had ...
- 3559: The Dropping of The Atomic Bomb: Was It The Best Way to End The War?
- ... to me that the atomic bomb equals all of the cruel acts. Therefore, I do not think the dropping of the atomic bomb can be justified with the act of Japan. When I was a high school student, a teacher of history taught us that America dropped the atomic bomb for various reasons, not only for beating Japan. It was not until that I knew the fact. Though the teacher did not ...
- 3560: Beauty Is Only Skin Deep
- ... only skin deep’ is expressed in many ways by people. If you are not one of those beautiful people in this world then to some people you mean nothing. When you look around a normal school you see clicks right? Well that’s what I am talking about. You see the people who express them selves by wearing darker clothes, and the people who always wear the trendy and instyle clothes ... truth some people do not want them. I certainly do not. There is no one in this world that I know of that would go for a guy because she sees his name of the high honor list, or she finds out his GPA and wants to date him. Same goes for guys too. Guys are the most stereotypical, they are conceived as only thinking girls are hot or they could ...
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