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- 5461: Why Safety Belts
- ... cause of many serious injuries. In a crash, occupants tend to move toward the point of impact and not away from it. People in the front seat are often struck by unbelted passengers who become high-speed projectiles. The Internal Collision The internal collision often causes fatal injuries. Even after the occupant's body comes to a complete stop, the internal organs are still moving forward. Suddenly, these organs hit other ... belt was worn incorrectly or the crash was so severe that the occupant would have been more seriously or fatally injured without a safety belt. Myth: Safety belts are important only for long trips and high speed expressway driving. Fact: Three out of every four traffic crashes happen within 25 miles of home and at speeds under 40 miles per hour. Unbelted passenger vehicle occupants have been killed at speeds of ...
- 5462: Chinese Immigrants
- ... to 30 immigrants. Rats and mice were everywhere, and catching diseases were often and deadly. Since there were no good vaccinations, many died from diseases caught from their workers. Sometimes the dirt would be inches high. Living in these conditions would be very harsh, yet still more and more immigrants from China came to mine and work on the railroad. The Chinese played a very important, yet dangerous job building the ... and it was sick and sad to watch your friend being blown up. The Chinese were willing to do this because it was basically the only thing that they could do. Discrimination against them was high, so they wanted to do something that they would not be made fun of doing. They were willing to work for low pay, since even as low as their salary would be, it would still ...
- 5463: Censorship
- ... upset with her parents for raising her in such a sheltered environment. When she went away to college, she got a taste of what the real world was really like. These days, an average elementary school student knows many things. They are influenced by a wide range of sources, from television and other forms of media, their environment at home and school, to their personality and background. What they read does not necessarily mean that they will follow it. Literature is a valued source of knowledge for these children, and should not be held back. So rather ...
- 5464: Huck Finn
- ... in a drunken state. Huck grows up following his own rules until he moves in with the Widow Douglas and her sister, Miss Watson. Together, the women attempt to "sivilize" Huck by making him attend school, study religion, and act in a way the women find socially acceptable. However, Huck's free-spirited soul keeps him from joining the constraining and lonely life the two women have in store for him. The freedom Huck seeks in Tom Sawyer's gang is nothing more than romantic child's-play. Raiding a caravan of Arabs really means terrorizing young children on a Sunday School picnic, and the stolen "joolry" is nothing more than turnips or rocks. Huck is disappointed that the adventures Tom promises are not real and so, along with the other members, he resigns from the gang ...
- 5465: Crime
- ... Such groups are often called the “crime syndicate or the underworld.” Organized crime specializes in providing illegal goods and services. Its activities include gambling, prostitution, the illegal sale of drugs, and loaning money at extremely high rates of interest. Many of these activities are often called “victimless crimes” because both the buyer and the seller take part in them willingly. Most activities of the crime syndicate are not reported to the ... many of the people fear the police and refuse to cooperate with them. All these factors increase the possibility that a person who lives in a slum will commit criminal acts. Most residents of the high-crime slum areas of many large cities are negroes or members of other minority groups. As a result, the crime rate for such minority groups is higher than that for the white majority group. Nonwhites ...
- 5466: Marketplace For System Analyst
- ... a variety of specialized consulting services. Many work for government agencies, manufacturers of computer and related electronic equipment, insurance companies, financial institutions, and universities.8 Since employers look for the most qualified applicants possessing a high level of technical expertise, individuals with an advanced degree in computer science, management information systems (MIS), computer engineering, or an MBA with a concentration in information systems should enjoy very favorable employment prospects.4 College ... are also taking steps to ensure that they have skilled workers, even if that means recruiting foreign workers. The Senate committee approved a bill to raise the number of "H-1B" visas, which allow foreign high-skilled workers to remain in the United States for up to six years.9 Computer companies argue that the shortage of available talent would dampen the industry's explosive growth. Information System enrollments plunged 50 ...
- 5467: MBO In Russia
- ... employees didn’t have a chance to set objectives for their work they performed. The central planning department set quotes, by which all the organizations had to obey even if those planks were set too high to reach. Workers were responsible for reaching organizational goals no matter for at what costs, but on the other side the means by which they had to reach the organizational goals were predetermined by the ... employees), lawyers, etc. So, at the time being, there are only a few organizations that are led by professional managers and the rest by, for instance, doctors and teachers; as a result, Russia has a high rate of firm’s failures. The overall atmosphere of distrust has created such a situation where it is difficult to deal with any firm. You are afraid of being cheated; as a result, people are ...
- 5468: Code Of Behavior
- ... 13th centuries and stemming originally from the Ars Amatoria (The Art of Loving) of the Roman poet Ovid. According to these conventions, a nobleman, usually a knight, in love with a married woman of equally high birth—or, often, higher rank—had to prove his devotion by heroic deeds and by amorous writings presented anonymously to his beloved. Once the lovers had pledged themselves to each other and consummated their passion ... France; playwright and poet Federico García Lorca of Spain; the Mexican poet Octavio Paz; and the Alexandrian-born Greek poet Constantine Cavafy. code of behavior that medieval knights followed. Chivalry was a feature of the High and later Middle Ages in western Europe. While its roots stretch back to the 9th and 10th centuries, the system of chivalry flourished most vigorously in the 12th and 13th centuries before deteriorating at the ...
- 5469: Firearms; Vital Tools for Self Defense or Deadly Killers?
- ... women to use handguns. Over three thousand women armed themselves and took training courses. As a result, Orlando's rape figure dropped to 4.1 per 100,000 - a 90 percent drop from the previous high. Similar programs in Detroit and Highland Park, Michigan, and Montgomery, Alabama saw impressive reductions in crimes against women, including both rape and robbery. One woman victim decided on her own that she had enough. A ... legally owned handguns in New York City, a city of nearly 8 million people.5 Yet research indicates that there are at least 750,000 hand guns in the city and gun - related crime remains high. In 1989, 70 percent of the city's twenty - two hundred homicides were caused by gunfire. The BATF says that 96 percent of all handguns used for criminal purposes come from outside the city. This ...
- 5470: Causes Of World War I 3
- ... Great War. Without a doubt, the one underlying cause of the three described above that was most responsible for World War I was the system of alliances. The Triple Alliance and Triple Entente created extremely high tension in Europe which motivated countries to move into war for an inane incident such as the assassination of the archduke of Austria. Europe was divided into two opposing groups and each nation was ready to enter war due to militarism. The high tensions between European nations ultimately led to the declaration of war on Serbia by Austria on July 28, 1914, marking the beginning of World War I.
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