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- 3901: Gulf War Illness
- During the Gulf War, Americans were entranced by the overwhelming military superiority exercised by the United States during Desert Storm. After long weeks of waiting to find out how high the casualty figures would climb during the opening round of the New World Order, relatives and friends breathed a sigh of relief when the Iraqi armies were stomped by a margin of about a thousand ... have been identified. GWI spreads far more easily than AIDS, by sex, by casual contact, through perspiration, or by being too close to someone who coughs. Your children can be infected at a playground or school it is that contagious. One of the more ominous aspects of GWI is that the microorganism is communicable between humans and dogs and cats (and presumably other animals). Veterans' pets are coming down with the ...
- 3902: The Increasing Application of Scientific Management Principles Of Work Organisations To Services Is, Despite Its Limitations, Inevitable and Irreversible
- ... front desk computers that provides the receptionist with information that can be supplied to the guest, thereby standardising the service offered and reducing staff training, thereby reducing costs. This is especially useful in hotels whereby high turnover of labour often results in high staff training costs. From such an example it can be seen that the technological revolution' has greatly aided, and indeed encourages, the application of scientific management in the service sector implying that such management is ... this and more make it impossible to go back to a non-rationalised world, if it ever existed". p.13 MacDonaldisation has become so entrenched in society that customers expectations have risen to such a high level that certain sectors of the service industry, such as fast food outlets, could not be decentralised. Other factors that could prevent companies reversing rationalisation include the enormous costs involved in demechanising' the company. ...
- 3903: Symbolic Analysts
- ... This class of workers includes scientists, engineers, and other scientific or technical specialties as well as marketers, investors, some types of lawyers, developers and a wide variety of consultants. The symbolic analysts will have a high level of education, both in the classroom and on the job experience. Reich believes that this new, actually redefined, class of workers will be the best bet for job growth and success into the next century. Opportunities for job growth will remain rather high. This is a result of two factors, a slowing growth in population and the future retirement of the baby boomer generation (Reich, 203). It is not the number of jobs in the future that is ... of living for those who reside in the United States. In fact, I believe his symbolic analyst will only enlarge the growing income inequality between the rich and poor. Unless you are benefited by a high education and superior thinking abilities, your potential to earn good money in the future is dark indeed. With fewer low skill jobs around, those who are not prepared will be scrapping to find enough ...
- 3904: Beer
- ... early as 1612. Harvard College ran a brewhouse on campus in 1674, and the Harvard's first president was ousted because he failed to supply enough beer and food rations (5). Beer was valued so high in the Colonial economy that Harvard students were allowed to pay school tuition in wheat and malted barley. Students were rationed two pints of beer a day until the end of the 1700s when they stopped brewing. Many of the Statesmen had a love for beer. William ...
- 3905: A "Full House" in the "Hand" of Education
- ... the keys that play a major role in education. Dr. Mike Rose, the son of Italian immigrants, never thought of going to college. He did well enough to pass, but never really performed to a high standard. He came to believe in the canon--a historically validated body of knowledge, an authoritative list of books and allusions. He thinks that, "the great books are a window unto a common core of ... Library of Congress"(Brooks 147). Her ideas on education were simply to obtain one. She expresses by way of a poem, 'We Real Cool' that it might seem cool to not have responsibilities, such as school and a family to take care of, but that without an education, those people are as good as dead. Her short, but very frank poem informs college professors of the responsibility they have to make ...
- 3906: Josef Mengele
- ... And he gave us sweets. He wore a white gown, but beneath it you could see the SS trousers. He gave us candy, and then gave us some horribly painful injections." Josef Mengele was very high up in Nazi status, he reported to Heinrich Himmler, who reported directly to Adolf Hitler. The attraction of Auschwitz to Mengele was the limitless supply of human test subjects. Mengele was able to perform ANYTHING ... twins. The dyes often resulted in injury, sometimes complete blindness, not to mention excruciating pain. Another set of experiments were designed to create better equipment for German soldiers, better gear for the cold, and for high altitudes. A set of freezing experiments were performed to make clothing for navy crew who might fall in the water. People were placed in vats of ice water, naked, to see the fatal temperature of ... warm the person up, back to normal functioning levels-this almost never worked. One of the more gruesome experiments was a pressure chamber. Prisoners were locked inside a pressure chamber that would simulate flying at high altitudes. The person's breathing pattern was meticulously recorded, until they died. People would often kill themselves by throwing themselves against the walls of the chamber, so that they would not die a more ...
- 3907: Model Rockets
- ... rocket is a miniature rocket patterned after military or space rockets. Model rockets usually eight less than 4.5 kilograms. Many of them measure between 20 and 61 centimeters long. Model rockets can elevate as high as 480 kilometers an hour.(Rocket,Model World Book Encyclopedia 1992) Rocketry is dated back to 1048 AD were the Chinese knew them as Fire Arrows. Rockets first came to the new world during the ... a complete vehicle driven by such a propulsive engine. A rocket engine provides the means whereby chemical matter is burned to release the energy stored in it and the energy is expended, by ejection at high velocity of the products of combustion. The ejection imparts motion to the vehicle in a direction opposite to that of the ejected matter. A rocket is propelled by rocket reaction and includes all components necessary ... com/lib/reference/sci_ enc/R0/284.html) In chemical rockets the propellants are chemical compounds that undergo a chemical combustion reaction, releasing the energy for thermodynamically accelerating and ejecting the gaseous reaction products at high velocities. Chemical rocket propulsion is different from other types of rocket propulsion, which use nuclear, solar, or electrical energy as their power source. Liquid-propellant rocket engines use liquid propellants stored in the vehicle ...
- 3908: The Latvian-Russian Relations
- ... they managed to keep their language. They were forbidden to go to church, but they kept their faith and religion. They had to obey and accept communism principles, but they still did not loose they high moral beliefs, responsibility, and hope for freedom and independence. Communist empire changed lives of millions of people, including many who had never lived in a communist country, but who have been touched by a Cold ... away from it is not an option any more. In March 3,1998 the situation worsened even more between Russia and Latvia, when mostly Russian demonstrators gathered outside the Riga city government building too protest high cost of living, blocking rush-hour traffic through the city center. (Latvian-Russian Crisis, 1) The out of control demonstration was stopped by police and security guards without any injuries reported. Once again this became ... feel like they are at home. They want to hear Latvian on the streets, work places, and public institutions. They are happy that their children can go to Latvian schools and learn about their history, high morals, and integrity. They want their streets and their homes to be a safe place for their families, because they have had plenty of long winter nights without the lights on, just because they ...
- 3909: American and Nigerian Culture
- ... match symbolizes the coming into manhood of the Nigerian teenager. Also, working on the farm with your father in Nigeria is another step toward manhood. In America, a job, the right to vote, graduation from high school, and even owning or driving a car seem to be thought of as indications of manhood or maturity. Though our cultures seem alike in the above ways, they are very different in their technological status ...
- 3910: George Orwell
- ... and his "much younger wife" Ida. Relations between Orwell and his father wre non-existent for the first eight years of his life ("Orwell," The Oxford Companion 516). Orwell was considered to be "another public school boy," who alwys seemed to the with an "akward squad" (George Orwell," The Oxford Illustrated Hisory 442). In 1990-4, Orwell, his mother, and his older sister moved to England leaving Orwell's father on his own in India until he retired in 1911. Orwell continued his education at "St. Cyprian's Preparatory School under the regime of Mr. and Mrs. Wilkes," which he later brutally portrayed in his novel Such, Such Were the Joys" ("Orwell," The Oxford Companiion 516). After leaving school, he joined the "Imperial Indian Police," and after five years in Burma, resigned in 1928 ("George Orwell," The Oxford Anthology 2140). Burma left him with a "lifelong distaste" for power ("George Orwell," St. Martin' ...
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