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- 5431: Wrestling 2
- ... real and disturbing, causing children to develop a sense of threat from society. For example, the infamous Columbine incident was consistently broadcasted by every possible news angle. Due to the news, the idea of a school shooting was implanted into many children's minds, resulting in future school shootings. Granted, the news was needed to mourn the tragic deaths of the students and also to acknowledge the acts of violence were wrong. However, the news-castings there has been an increasing amount of ...
- 5432: Being Popular
- ... to a party every weekend, they become used to the alcohol and drugs and begin to drink and do more drugs. Then they become addicted. Once they’re addicted, their life begins to fall apart. School grades drop, they are not studying at night any more, they don’t pay attention in class, and they don’t do the assigned work. They don’t take care of themselves, they don’t ... is drunk or on drugs. They smell bad, and their attitudes have changed. Drug and alcohol abuse is a serious problem among many young people. If young people would try being themselves and focus on school work, instead of trying to fit in, there would not be as many problems with drug and alcohol abuse.
- 5433: Nigeria and Ogoni's Campaign
- ... decimation of their natural resources. The Niger Delta and Nigerian coastal wetlands have been described as one of the most fragile ecosystems in the world and include rainforests and mangrove habitats. Demand for land is high with over six million people living in the region. The heavy competition between Ogoni for what is, by right, Ogoni land has resulted in extreme tension in the area and the severe punishment of the ... areas and made the residents half-deaf and prone to respiratory diseases. Whenever it rains in Ogoni, all that falls is acid rain, which further poisons the water and essentially the agricultural land. Shell's high pressure pipelines pass above ground villages and criss-cross over land that was once used for agricultural purposes, rendering it economically useless. Many pipelines pass within meters of Ogoni homes. Shell maintains that if their ...
- 5434: George Washington Carver
- ... Growing up, George was captivated by plants. Many neighbors referred to him as the “Plant Doctor”. Since Carver was an African American, he was not accepted at any local schools, therefore he had to attend school eight miles away from home. He did very well in school. In 1885 he was accepted to Highland College in Kansas. However, race became an issue again and they took away the offer. He became very discouraged and chose to travel abroad until 1890 where he ...
- 5435: Charles Dickens 2
- ... He spent most of his childhood in London, the setting for many of his novels. He lived in a middle-classed family that, but his father was incapable of managing his own finances. Dickens started school at the age of nine, but his education was interrupted when his father was imprisoned for debt in 1824. He was then forced to work at Warren’s Blacking Factory, a shoe-polish factory, to ... and he would later devote many of his books to the retelling of his experiences. Dickens was saved from this situation when his father was released from prison. From 1825 to 1827, Dickens again attended school for two years of formal schooling at Wellington House Academy in Hamstead. For the most part, however, he was self-educated. In 1827, dickens took a job as a legal clerk. By 1829, he had ...
- 5436: Lisa Bright And Dark By John N
- ... think she is making it up. With no adult help, the problem has to be taken into the hands of Lisa and her three teenage friends. Lisa Shilling starts off as any normal teenager, attending school, going out with friends, and even dating. As the novel progresses, Lisa slips into dark, depressive moods on occasional days, and then into depression altogether. Lisa s friends notice her change and take it into ... state of depression, which helps to make the atmosphere of the novel very mysterious. Just when it appears that Lisa is getting better, another episode occurs. The story is disturbing, being set around Lisa s school and home. With other characters in the story, such as Lisa s parents, causing conflicts with Lisa receiving proper treatment, the story is given a disturbing yet realistic feel. Instead of the story being told ...
- 5437: Work Force
- ... social harmony in a world without jobs", Rifkin believes that blue and collar workers will be cut out of the work force because they will be replaced by machines in new technological generation. Since the high-technology is being introduced into a wide variety of work situations, millions of blue and white-collar workers are forcing into temporary jobs and unemployment lines. Nobel-winning economist Wassily Leontief has warned that with ... 2000; secretaries are declining gradually as computers, e-mail, and fax machines produced. On the contrary, optimists counter with the argument that additional employment will be provided by the new products and services of the high-technology revolution and they point to the fact that earlier in the century the automobile made the horse and buggy obsolete but created millions of new jobs. In truth, the new products and services replace ...
- 5438: Legalization of Drugs
- ... above would be severed" (Lindsmith Center). Second, many illicit-drug users commit crimes such as robbery and burglary, as well as drug dealing, prostitution, and many others, to earn enough money to purchase the relatively high-priced illicit drugs. "Unlike the millions of alcoholics who can support their habits for relatively modest amounts, many cocaine and heroin addicts spend hundreds and even thousands of dollars a week" (Lindsmith Center). If the ... case if they were legalized-the number of crimes committed by drug addicts to pay for their habits would, in all likelihood, decline. Even if a legal-drug policy included the a demand of relatively high taxes in order to discourage consumption, drug prices would probably still be lower than they are today. The third drug connection is the commission of crimes- violent crimes in particular-by people under the influence ...
- 5439: Womens Development
- ... mechanisms that are needed for low income women to serve as empowered community re-developers. Source: Sandra Schilen, "Case Study: Grassroots Women Reclaiming and Rebuilding Community: Neighbourhood Women's Renaissance", paper presented at the ACCEDE High Level Conference on Women in the City, Paris, 4-6, October, 1994. Planning with a Gender Perspective Women experience and use the urban environment in different ways from men and thus have different priorities in ... the use of either fuel or water. The result was that kitchens became sculleries, and cooking activities continued to take place in open spaces at the back of the dwelling. This was reinforced by the high cost of gas and kerosene, leading women to opt for firewood or charcoal as cooking fuel. Source: Falu and Curutchet 1991. Women, as prime users of housing and human settlements, often have insights which can ...
- 5440: Fine Automobiles (persuasive)
- ... away from the driver and his/her passengers. Another feature is intelligent airbags which inflate in the areas of possible impact as well as re-inflate in the chance of another collision. Yet safety features, high performance engines, gorgeous interiors and exteriors, as well as the overall quality of the new generation of automobiles will come at a high price. To some people this addition to their opulent way of living is no difficulty worth worrying over, yet to others affording such a wonderful machine will mean malnourishment. The best autos, offering a liberal ...
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