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- 5341: The Great Depression
- ... to increasing the national income, to putting more people into private jobs, to giving security and a feeling of security to all walks of life. Unemployment was a major concern, as unemployment rates reached as high as 24.9%, the need for finding jobs for its people was abundantly clear. The United States takes a stand against the problems for which it believes was the cause of all this suffering. The poverty level was astonishingly high; the United States undertook a three million-dollar slum-clearing project, by helping to provide new work over existing work. President Roosevelt firmly incorporated a new public works program. The goal of this was to ...
- 5342: Maria Mitchell
- ... sky. He also encouraged her toward teaching and passed on a sense of God as in the natural world. By the time Maria was sixteen, she was a teacher of mathematics at Cyrus Pierce's school for young ladies where she used to be a student. Following that she opened a grammar school of her own. And only a year after that, at the age of eighteen she was offered a job as a librarian at Nantucket's Atheneum during the day when it opened to the public ...
- 5343: Michelangelo
- Michelangelo Buonarroti is arguably one of the most inspired creators in the history of art and the most potent force in the Italian High Renaissance. As a sculptor, architect, painter, and poet, he exerted a tremendous influence on his contemporaries and on subsequent Western art in general. Michelangelo was born March 6, 1475, in the small village of Caprese near Arezzo. He lived during the Italian High Renaissance. Although he was born in Caprese, he lived in Florentine. There he created some of the most spectacular works of art ever. One in particular was the statue David. Michelangelo had a serious reason ...
- 5344: Florence Nightingale
- ... almost superhuman labors in the field of nursing. Florence Nightingale was born in Italy in 1820 and was named Florence after her birthplace. A brilliant child, Florence attained outstanding academic achievement in her years attending school. Florence grew up to be a lively and attractive young woman, admired in her families elite social circle and was expected to make a good marriage, but Florence had other concerns. In 1837, Florence was ... The London Times Florence was able to raise one million dollars, a terrific amount of money in those days, to improve the quality of nursing. In 1860, she used this money to found the Nightingale School and Home for Nurses at Saint Thomas Hospital. She also became involved in the training of nurses for work in the workhouses. In later life Florence Nightingale suffered from poor health and in 1895 she ...
- 5345: Business And Communications
- ... the majority of employees, and lack of honest, direct conversation between business and its customers. These problems need to be fixed for a business to truly succeed, and can be fixed if managers and high-ranking officials take the initiative and implement a few simple and straightforward techniques into their business styles. Current problems facing business communications deal mainly with the apparent lack of functional inter-level communication. That is ... stockholders, they are dodging a bullet and enforcing a hierarchical position over its customers and stockholders. However, customers are not the only ones often left in the dark on business decisions. Sometimes, even high ranking officials are not consulted and are left to adapt to a change they had no say in. Such was the case with James Bennett, CEO of Picadilly Cafeterias, Inc. In 1986, then chief financial ...
- 5346: Diabetes
- ... important in the treatment of diabetes. Meal plans help control weight, control blood sugar levels, and help reduce the chances of needing additional medications. A healthy diet should include avoiding sugar, eating low fat and high fiber foods. Meals should be eaten regularly and at least three times a day to control blood sugar levels. Exercise plans help to maintain muscle tone and physical fitness. Also, it helps to increase sensitivity ... are also receiving a new kidney. Statistics show that 15% of all patients who get a new pancreas die within five years of the transplant. Serious complications frequently develop from diabetes. Arteriosclerosis, cataracts, foot ulcers, high blood pressure and neuropathy. All of these complications can occur if the patient does not maintain his or hers blood sugar levels. Also, if blood sugar levels are poorly controlled, the diabetic may develop serious ...
- 5347: Ty Cobb
- ... Lajoie were in a dead-heat tie for the American League batting title. Cobb sat out that day's doubleheader. His teammates were angry at him, knowing he was just trying to keep his average high by sitting out. Nearly all players in the league were rooting for Lajoie to win. The St. Louis Browns, who were playing Cleveland that day, let every ball hit by Lajoie to fall in for ... sliding into a base, "steel showing" as he called it. He would come in full speed and put his spikes, which he was rumored to have sharpened especially for the occasion prior to each game, high enough to bloody the opposing player up. The player had two options: either tag Cobb out and take the punishment or get out of the way and allow Cobb to reach the base safely. More ...
- 5348: Cocaine and Its Dangers
- ... are different ways of taking cocaine, because it is in a powdery form. "The most popular ways to take cocaine is snorting into nostrils or taking it orally." "To get a faster and even stronger "high", users take street cocaine and mix it with chemicals and make a paste, called freebase." "Freebase is smoked, and during heating, the chemical sometimes exploded and burned the users." "Injecting cocaine is an other way ... and paranoid, they might even have hallucinations." "These users may also experience tremors, vertigo, muscle twitches, or with repeated doses, a toxic reaction closely resembling amphetamine poisoning." "The physical symptoms include accelerated heartbeat and breathing, high blood pressure and body temperature." "It may also include chest pain, nausea, blurred vision, fever, and convulsions of a coma." "Some of the people do not know that cocaine is toxic, although few people realize ...
- 5349: Exotic Diseases And The Treat To Humanity
- ... millennium, many new and old diseases await humanity. What the world doesn't comprehend is that an epidemic can be easily spawn off by many other problems humanity faces today. Some of those problems are high population density, newly inhabited areas, increased travel, new generation without immunity, mutation in microbes, over use of antibiotics, poverty/poor sanitation, and change in human activities. Diseases come into existence, change, and vanish, but some ... is aware, there are some deadly viruses that have been successfully eliminated or prevented by vaccines. Unfortunately, these so-called extinct viruses are not exactly extinct. Smallpox was a deadly virus, which caused a extreme high fever, spotting on flesh, then the spots open, dry up, then fall off. This virus attacks the heart, lungs, throat, liver, and leads to death. (EDRA, 1998) This virus was said to have been eliminated ...
- 5350: Buddhism
- ... live for example I have to suffer to do this project so I can get a good grade, so I would be appreciated, so I could get into a good college and get a good high paying career, by the time you finish reading my example I hope you would understand what I mean. But about the relief thing I think that is something that is impossible to be done in ... got to say It was fun and challenging. 8.I think it is pretty good that Buddha did not assign any one because there would be any people that are miserable and people who are high in society class. 9. I think everything should've been written earlier because orally things could be lost and forgotten, and everybody trusts the good old pen and paper. 10. The only thing I can ...
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