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- 4151: El-nino
- ... sea surface temperature is about 8 degrees C higher in the west, with cool termperatures off South America, dut to an upwelling of cold water from deeper levels. This cold water is nutrient-rich, supporting high levels of primary productivity, diverse marine ecosystems, and major fisheries. Rainfall is found in rising air over the warmest water, and the east Pacific is relatively dry. Warming of the Pacific waters is not the ... roughly 1 millisecond, mostly because of shifts in atmospheric angular momentum. During the current El Nino, the day has grown longer by four-tenths of a millisecond. Last year, Earth squeaked past the previous record high for globally averaged temperatures, continuing a balmy trend that has made this decade the hottest in more than a century of temperature data. "All of us are pretty happy with the agreement of the different ... El Nino helped push Earths temperature into a new territory last year by producing a vast pool of warm water in the equatorial Pacific Ocean. Even without El Nino, however, global temperatures would have remained high. During the first few months of 1997-before El Nino blossomed-the land surface was already quite warm. In contrast to the global pattern, eastern North America stayed cooler than normal last year, as ...
- 4152: Willy (death Of A Salesman) Vs
- ... the Sun, play a big part in the outcome of their respective drama and show a lot of similarity in their principles while differences in personality lead them to different endings. Willy, a salesman, has high hopes for himself and his sons, but ends up with all his dreams crushed. Willy is the main character in Death of a Salesman. He is a father of two sons, Biff and Happy, and ... who are well built and attractive, turned out to be failures: " Biff Loman is lost. In the greatest country in the world a young man with such-personal attractiveness, gets lost."(Discovering Literature, 1215) His high expectation for his sons and their failure hurt him. Willy pretends to be a successful man in front of his wife. In addition, Willy does not like his wife to mend stockings, because he feels ... father's death. His ignorance to the business world eventually costs him all his money. One of Walter's business partners steals his money, and Walter learns from that incident but it comes at a high price. However, Walter's mother thinks although the money is lost, her son has come out as a better person: "He finally come into his manhood today, didn't he? Kind of like a ...
- 4153: The Apathy Of Generation X
- ... make them get involved include birth control, use of tobacco products and A.I.D.S. research to name a few more. In 1991, Montanas state Legislature enacted a unique referendum. It allowed the states high school students to determine whether or not tobacco products should be sold to young people. In the turnout, a whopping 51,233 students (76% of those enrolled), turned out to be heard. Therefore there is no ...
- 4154: Legislative Proposal for New Indecency Language in Telecom Bill
- ... by a minor; (ii) a university provides on-line access to all students, including some freshmen under the age of 18, to its library, including works containing indecent passages; (iii) a company that employs a high school senior as an intern knowingly posts a message from an employee that contains some of the Seven Dirty Words on an employee bulletin board. Under a plain language reading of the proposal, any of these ...
- 4155: Where The Red Fern Grows
- ... the dogs he wanted. He was so excited that instead of waiting for the dogs to come to him he went to the dogs. After getting the puppies Billy got into a fight with some school kids because they were picking on the puppies and Billy was getting angry. He wanted to protect the puppies When Billy and his dogs went coon hunting Old Dan went up a dead hollow tree ... the coon. This all happened when Billy promised his dogs that if they get the coon up the tree he would get the coon. So Billy thought of climbing the tree but it was to high. So he tried to cut the tree down. It took along time; Billy s Grandpa made a dummy so Billy can go home and rest. The purpose of the dummy was to make the coon ...
- 4156: Invaded By Immigrants
- ... tougher. Lately there has been a movement to remove discriminatory law from the Canadian constitution and it is getting so we are too politically correct. In 1996 so many Asians flooded Vancouver that a separate school system had too be set up to accommodate these students who would not learn English or fit into the full English schools. This represents astronomical costs to British Columbia's already stretched educational system all ... 1990, spent $16 billion more in welfare payments to immigrants that they paid back in taxes. Perhaps what is most disturbing is that immigrants feel they can steel from us in order to maintain a high standard of life in our country, immigrants compose 25 percent of the prisoners in federal penitentiaries, which our taxes support. The fact is that the immigration problem is not going to go away. By 2050 ...
- 4157: Planck v. Indiana
- ... good are among the most difficult. According to Mr and Mrs. Planck's attorney, John Price, the Planck's religious beliefs prohibit them from accepting professional medicine practice, as they practice alternative medicine and home school their children. After a complaint from an older Planck daughter, who did not embrace or respect her family's lifestyle, the state was called in to investigate the health of the Planck children. In a ... a house with a SWAT team that home-schools their children? If those children do not learn as much as their counterparts in public schools, is the state justified in ripping them out of home-school and pushing them into a public school? In a sense, this is what has happened in the Planck case, however, the end result was the unfortunate death of their son Lance. The other side of this argument, that the state is ...
- 4158: Immigration Reform
- ... American Immigration Reform (FAIR) newsletter shows, . . . the share of immigrant households below the poverty line (29 percent) is much higher than the share of native households that are poor (14 percent)--more than twice as high. Due to the large numbers of poverty stricken immigrants, they are more likely to take part in means-tested programs such as AFDC. Family reunification laws generally do not serve the purpose implied by their ... less have the desire to be reunited with them. The laws are often used to further economic goals rather than joining families. People migrate to the United States with pipe dreams of financial securities. The high rates of family sponsored immigration from poor countries such as China and the Philippines rival those of richer countries such as Japan. Immigration reform not only has a strong following but an equally large opposition ... level of education. Immigration is not to blame for the all the country's problems but they are increasing the effects and making them harder to solve. At the present time the numbers are too high, creating difficulties for natives and immigrants a like. With logical policies and better planned numbers, immigration is a good thing. Policy improvements will help this country regain control of its borders and better provide ...
- 4159: The Advantages Of Stupidity
- ... stupid, and does it in the wrong crowd, like a group of adults, it will seem more immature than funny. If one is forced to act stupid while dealing with lower life forms, for example, high school teachers, one may encounter barriers such as cruelty and insensitivity, with the utterance of statements like, "Think with your head straight!" or, "You have a brain, use it." Yet these are all true, there are ...
- 4160: Has Political Islam Failed in Algeria?
- ... country to live under extremely harsh standards of living for the average individual. While most of the Algerian citizens are under 30, namely 75%, which means a huge number of people in need for a high rate of creation of jobs, especially with the growth rate of population that is up to 3%, thirty percent of the Gross National Product used to go to service the payment of the national debt ... Berberists, all demonstrating their disillusionment with the FLN (National Liberation Front). The FLN government responded by the Army intervention and the arbitrary arresting of the protesters. They used torture against people which ultimately created a high measure of resentment and destruction of the government legitimacy. Moreover, the government doctrine to reform the Algerian economy was so much supportive to those who had money already, which gave no benefit to the crushed ... Saying that Islam is the solution would not help decreasing the both internal and external debt, raising the rate of growth of the GNP, develop up to date technical assistance to develop industrial infrastructure and high value added products or solve the problem of repression and authoritarianism. In addition, the Islamists do not have a clear political agenda to tell what they are going to do with the banking system ...
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