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- 5381: Euthanasia
- ... confident that doctors can be relied on to make the enormous efforts sometimes necessary to save some lives, while at the same time assenting to requests to take other lives. Such confidence reflects, perhaps, a high opinion of doctor's psychic robustness, but it is a confidence seriously undermined by the shocking rates of depression, suicide, alcoholism, drug addiction, and marital discord consistently recorded among this group. "Dangers of Societal Acceptance ... right to say, "Enough's enough. The treatment's worse than the disease. Leave me alone. Let me die!". Ironically, those who deny the terminally ill this right do so out of a sense of high morality. Don't they see that, in denying the gravely ill and suffering the right to release themselves from pain, they commit the greatest crime? The period of suffering can be shortened. If you have ...
- 5382: Why Puritans Came to America: Freedom
- ... rights towards life, liberty, and property would not be deprived by the state governments without due process of law. Here, the most basic rights of the people were secured from the state governments. In Minersville School District vs. Gobits, Lillian Gobitas refused to salute the American flag. She was a devout Jehovah's Witness and was told not to "`Heil Hitler' nor any other creature." This straight-A student was eventually expelled and here father, Walter, took the case to the Supreme Court. In 1940 the Court ruled for Minersville School District, yet this decision was overturned on Flag Day, 1943. Lillian Gobitas, now 67, realized that she was entitled to the freedom to speak and to express herself, or freedom to not speak or not ...
- 5383: Genetics and Evolution: Cystic Fibrosis and Down Syndrome
- ... of the lungs, which usually cause death in childhood or early adulthood. Some mildly affected patients may survive longer. Doctors can diagnose the disease by testing the patients perspiration because people with Cystic Fibrosis have high amounts of salt in their perspiration. Those with respiratory infections are treated with antibiotics, with aerosols that relieve constriction of the airways and liquefy the thick mucus, and by physical therapy to help patients cough ... mongolism, is a congenital malformation accompanied by moderate to severe mental retardation, is caused by a chromosomal abnormality. People with Down syndrome are often short in height and have a small, round head with a high, flattened forehead and split, dry lips and tongue. A typical feature is a fold of skin, the epicanthic fold, on either side of the bridge of the nose. The palms show a single transverse crease ...
- 5384: Cost Of Wwii
- ... capacity was destroyed. Estimates show that these areas lost more than 5,000,000 people. Perhaps 1,000,000 Yugoslavia civilians also died at the hands of the Germans. Numbers in German area are so high because of the Nazi murder's of the Jews and other groups. Hitler's concentration camps and the deportation of thousands also contributed greatly(See pictures M & O). Outside the Soviet Union the heaviest losses ... with only 20,000 lives lost. In Western Europe, France lost 500,000 people, half of them being civilians. Even Holland lost 200,000 lives. Although Belgium and the Scandinavian countries numbers were not as high compared to other countries, they did suffer heavily in relation to their small population. Economically, World War II cost the World many inner and outer problems. Primarily, the most significant casualty over the long term ...
- 5385: Asynchronous Transfer Mode Networking (atm)
- ... been achieved otherwise.) The average ATM network runs as three-times the speed of the Fast-Ethernet and approximately twenty-five-times that of a basic (switched) Token Ring. ATM is able to achieve these high speeds due to the constant high-bandwidth (made possible by Asynchronism) and the ability to simultaneously transmit multiple media formats (made possible by ATM topology and Asynchronism.) The structure, or topology, of an ATM revolves around the use of cells (unlike ...
- 5386: Crazy Horse
- ... as they were passing, a few miles south of Fort Laramie, an Indian stole a cow. The Mormons reported this to Lieutenant Hugh B. Fleming, the commander of the post. Fleming demanded that the offender, High Forehead of the Minneconjou, face charges. Chief Conquering Bear suggested that the Mormons come to his herd of ponies and pick out the best pony he had to replace the cow, which to the Sioux ... the American economy was booming. Railroad stocks led the way. On, September 18, 1873 banking crashed, farm prices plummeted, grasshopper plaques ruined crops, and yellow fever struck in the Mississippi Valley and unemployment went sky high. The government figured that its role was to pour money into the economy. The gold supply was insufficient. President Grant s solution to the economy was to open new territory for exploration. So in the ...
- 5387: More About The 1968 Tet Offensive
- ... of young volunteers. to join the army. After the first wave of Communist attacks, a great number of youth under draft age - below 20 years old - voluntarily enrolled in the army for combat units, so high that thousands of young draftees were delayed reporting for boot camps. On the Communist side, the number of ralliers known as "chieu hoi" increased about four times. The offensive planners apparently expected the so-called ... fighting men strongly believed the rumors turned them into a deadly psychological weapon which very few or maybe none has ever properly treated in writings about the Vietnam War. Most authors studied the war at high echelons, but neglected the morale of the buck privates and the effect of the media in the Vietnam War. No military plan even by top strategists in the White House could succeed if half of ...
- 5388: Caffeine 2
- ... and stimulant effect. There are four ways in which caffeine stimulates the nervous system. Of these, one is of primary improtance. Another has some level of importance, and the other two only occur at unrealistically high levels of caffeine in the body. The first of these methods, and the most important, is blocking adenosine receptors. As caffeine has a similar structure to the adenosine group, but also has more heavily electrophilic ... depriving the body of an energy supply. Caffeine fools phosphodiesterase into attacking it instead, which inhibits the breakdown of cyclic AMP. However, the concentration of caffeine required for this effect to become significant is sufficiently high that the adenosine blocking remains the dominant factor. The other two laboratory effects of caffeine have been judged insignificant in actual biochemical situations. Caffeine can increase the speed of rapid information processing by 10% 1 ...
- 5389: The French Revolution
- ... from Louis XV, who passed a bill to let wealthy commoners purchase prominent spots in political and social positions. This event shows how corrupt and money hungry the government had become, by letting anyone get high up in the political chain just by feeding the gluttonous king. The next king, Louis XVI saw that the majority of France (75%) was peasants and serfs. Consequently, to try to ensure their happiness (and ... making the nobles pay taxes. Ever since the foundation of the monarchy, the nobles and the clergy were exempt from paying taxes. The burden was left to the commoners. But, with the deficit being so high and France supporting the Americans in their war, something had to be done.5 This proved to be unfortunate for the king, however, this proved to the straw that broke the camels back. The nobles ...
- 5390: Political Policies Between The
- ... the Soviet armed forces and the Soviet/Cuban involvement in Africa placed extreme pressure on dιtente's success. In the midst of these events the signing of the Helsinki Accords in 1975 placed human rights high on the political agenda. America began to place pressure on the USSR's domestic policy in regards to the treatment of Russia's minority groups. Carter's crusade to liberalize Communist societies through external pressure ... States in Soviet internal affairs producing a hostile Kremlin. Jimmy Carter spoke grandly about his "ultimate goal, the elimination of all nuclear weapons from earth" (Isaacs, Downing 1988:354). Disarmament and arms control were a high priority for Carter and he was proposing to introduce radical cuts in arms levels which was flatly turned down by Moscow. In 1977, the Soviets stepped up there nuclear arms in Europe. They replaced all ...
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