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- 5351: Artificial Contraceptives
- ... average of one pregnancy can be expected to occur. This with the effectiveness of artificial contraceptives methods including the pill and IUDs(Billings, pg. 13). As also mentioned in her book, the method requires a high level of motivation and cooperation. Yet, unlike other contraceptives, the method causes not side effects or changes in the natural body processes. With this method no equipment is necessary, making it inexpensive. In addition, a ... the mucus(Billings, pg. 14). In sum, if artificial contraceptives were eliminated, we would be forced to relay on natural family planning. In doing so, sexual intercourse would become for everyone as an act of high responsibility. Moreover, if this method was well taught and adopted by everyone, it is possible that we might even decrease the number of unwanted and aborted children. Works Cited Billings, Evelyn. 1st Ed. The Billings ...
- 5352: Macbeth - Supernatural Forces
- ... finally, the last apparition appears and is a child crowned, with a tree in his hand. The apparition is saying that he will never be defeated until Great Birnam wood shall come against him to High Dunsinane Hill. "Be lion melted, proud, and take no care who chafes, who frets, or where conspirers are: Macbeth shall never vanquish'd be until Great Birnam wood to High Dunsinane Hill shall come against him." (Act VI, Scene I, ll.98-102). These apparitions convinced Macbeth that this was his fate and became over confident, and lead him to his death. The use of ...
- 5353: Chernobyl
- ... is in no way healthy to anyone. It is much more easier to develop a life threatening disease if you are currently being effected by the radiation or have already been effected. Becoming sick from high amounts of radiation does not only happen to people in the immediate area of the nuclear accident. Although these people are the most effected, they are by far not the only ones. Radiation can be ... so that the deaths and illnesses don't continue to pile up. A million and a half people in and around Chernobyl (including the workers who cleaned up the site after the accident) received extremely high doses of radiation, not to mention the people everyday that ingest radiation daily from the food products that were produced and still are being produced there. Ukraine used to be one of the main producers ...
- 5354: Reproductive Technologies
- ... these drugs may not be warning the couples about the risks involved in taking the drugs. Babies born under these drugs may be multiples, which could include the babies being born premature or, having a high risk of developing numerous health problems. Other ways of becoming pregnant include IVF (In-Vertro Fertilization), which takes healthy sperm and a healthy egg and conception in a test tube occurs and then it is transplanted back into the mothers womb. This also can create multiple births because of the high number eggs that must be used in order to up the potential of making a baby. Many of these couples have options of selected abortion to limit the risk to mother and child. These issues ...
- 5355: Book Report on "The Lost World"
- ... set up the exploration, Richard Levine, is a rich and reckless yet well known adventurer who spends a lot of his time and money exploring different places around the world and helps at a middle school to give students of ideas of careers in science. Sarah Harding is a zoologist who was hired to possibly deal with some of the animals. Jack Thorne is the man who made all of the ... and all but Levine were killed. He would be found later. The team left for the island soon after to try and find him. Unknown to anyone, two of Levine's students at the middle school where he helps, sneaked into the cargo of the plane and went to the island with them. His two star pupils, Kelly and Arby really wanted to go when he told them that he was ...
- 5356: Buddihism
- ... s followers. About the first century C.E. a major split occurred within the Buddhist fold--that between the Mahayana and Hinayana branches. Of the Hinayana ("the Lesser Vehicle"*) branch of schools, only the Theravada school (founded 4th century B.C.E.) remains; it is currently found in Sri Lanka and all Southeast Asian countries. This school stresses the historical figure of Gautama Buddha, and the centrality of the monk's lifestyle and practice (meditation). Theravada monks hold that the Buddha taught a doctrine of anatta (no-soul) when he spoke of ...
- 5357: Battle Of Computer Bytes
- ... make very long file names on Windows 95 instead of short and strange names that leave you wondering about, such as on Windows 3.x I could not name a folder This is stuff for school it would have to be much shorter. The Help system helps you implement its suggestions. A multilevel Undo command for all file operations safeguards your work, something Macintosh does not have. Something that Windows 95 ... a long time, if ever, that they will decide to make it for a Mac. Plus since of the many people with IBM PC's at home, people can bring their work to and from school. If everyone had the same kind of computer on a network, students could go into the computers at schools all over the world to use programs there. So since now that the quality of computers ...
- 5358: Saint Francis of Assissi
- ... solecisms. In later years he avoided holding a pen; he preferred to dictate, and to sign his pronouncements with a cross or tau, a semisacred symbol. However, he learned enough Latin for his purposes, for school routine and for the comprehension of the ritual. Francesco also had the education of the home and shop. He could admire his father, honest and worthy, but an austere man, taking up where he laid ... of the Franciscan Order, after the chapter of 1266 at which it was decided that such a life was needed, because of the proliferation of apochryphal and spurious lives, records that Francis was sent to school to the priests of Saint George's, also in Assisi. But he seems to have learned little from them except enough Latin to read with difficulty and write great labour. In later life, the clerky ...
- 5359: Causes Of The Civil War 2
- ... did not give them the feeling of fair treatment. Ever since the beginnings of settlement, England and America had been growing apart. England was still an aristocracy, ruled by men born and bred to a high station in life. The society was one of culture and refinement. Deprived of abundant opportunity at home, the common people accepted a position of dependence rather than independence. But in America, things had gone differently ... the import taxes collected in England. The company was practically bankrupt and had an immense amount of unsold tea, therefore it was able to sell their tea cheaper than local merchants, who had to pay high taxes were. The company was willing to pay the Townshend tax when they unloaded their tea in America. The colonists greeted the cheap tea as a bribe offered to the people for their consent to ...
- 5360: Persian Gulf Crisis
- ... have the resources and materials to manufacture one. Despite a failed attempt at building two reactors in the late seventies, Saddam was determined to hold nuclear capability. He tried again in 1989 to purchase three high-temperature furnaces from a New Jersey company, claiming that they were to be used for prosthetic limbs for Iran-Iraq war vets. The deal was called off after the company, Consarc, was warned by the ... for nuclear capabilities and a naval power. Most of this support of foreign arms came during the Iran-Iraq war, against the Ayatollah's Islamic revolution. $500 million of the $65 billion was spent on high-tech equipment purchased from the United States. It is ironic that some of the missile sites that were set up by the United States would later become bombing targets during the Gulf War, in 1991 ...
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