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- 5481: Decline Of The American Empire
- ... its fortune by export, but like Britain at the turn of the century it is beginning to rely on imports as its currency becomes less attractive for export. This is caused by a society of high-wages and high consumption and expectation. Although Japan still maintains a favourable balance of trade, it is importing products from the NICs which were once its specialty. The Japanese miracle is running out of steam, like post-war ...
- 5482: The Aborigines
- ... destination was Ayers Rock which is a large boulder. Then the last destination was Mount Olga. This is a grouping of large round-toped pillars. Most of these pillars were more than five hundred feet high. Some were over 1000 feet high. One morning the scientist awoke and heard noise from behind a small rock formation and when he checked it out he saw a group of young Aborigines boys painting each others bodies with coal, chalk ...
- 5483: Computers And Internet In Our Life
- ... have some basic computer knowledge and typing skills. (www.strana.ru) A lot of people nowadays like being lazy because computers can fulfill a lot of work. You can see computers everywhere: in shops, at school, at your bank. Computers do a lot to make our life easier: If you have the Internet, everything is hundred times easier for you. You can find whatever you want, you can buy whatever you ... and fun for kids. The I-net helps Pystogov 5 kids from one country meet kids from another. It is a great way to communicate and to learn foreign languages. Now we cannot also imagine school without computers. It proves that society and computers are undividable. What is also important is that computer games are the main way to spend their free time. They play video games instead of doing their ...
- 5484: Q/A: Legalization of Marijuana
- ... A. "Marijuana" refers to the dried leaves and flowers of the cannabis plant,1 which contain the non-narcotic chemical THC at various potencies. It is smoked or eaten to produce the feeling of being "high." The different strains of this herb produce different sensual effects, ranging from sedative to stimulant. Q. Who Uses Marijuana? A.There is no simple profile of a typical marijuana user. It has been used for ... one single case, not ever. THC is one of the few chemicals for which there is no known toxic amount.10 The federal agency NIDA says that autopsies reveal that 75 people per year are high on marijuana when they die: This does not mean that marijuana caused or was even a factor in their deaths. The chart below compares the number of deaths attributable to selected substances in a typical ...
- 5485: ALCHEMY
- ... art was attributed to Hermes Trismegistus and supposed to be contained in its entirety in his works. The Arabs, after their conquest of Egypt in the seventh century, carried on the researches of the Alexandrian school, and through their instrumentality the art was brought to Morocco and thus in the eighth century to Spain, where it flourished exceedingly. Indeed, Spain from the ninth to the eleventh century became the repository of ... On the introduction of chemistry as a practical art, alchemical science fell into desuetude and disrepute, owing chiefly to the number of charlatans practicing it, and by the beginning of the eighteenth century, as a school, it may be said to have become defunct. Here and there, however, a solitary student of the art lingered, and in the department of this article "Modern Alchemy" will demonstrate that the science has to ...
- 5486: Life of John F Kennedy
- ... in Brookline, then in the suburbs of New York city. John had a good childhood, full of family games and sports. He attended several private schools throughout his education, but finally ended up at Choate School in Wallingford, Connecticut where he graduated in 1935. John spent the summer of 1935 studying at the London school of Economics before entering Princeton in the fall. His time at Princeton was short, he had to leave at Christmas vacation because he was suffering from jaundice and could not continue his studies. He then ...
- 5487: 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 ...
- 5488: Developement Of Europe
- ... became associated more with improvement and advancement. “Modernization” refers to the processes political, economic, and social that made a society modern. An example of this would be industrialization. Finally, “modernism” is a reference to a high cultural movement and was used to relate to changing attitudes. It is basically a celebration of the notion of progress. “Modernity” during the French Revolution was used as a term of abuse. At this time ... for the chemical firm I. G. Farben. This was one of the Nazi’s largest camps. By 1943, Auschwitz had the capacity to burn 1.7 million bodies per year. This was necessary because a high percentage of new arrivals, about sixty percent, were sent directly to the gas chambers. This sixty percent consisted mostly of women, children, and old people. The rest were put to work under conditions of brutality ...
- 5489: Stalin
- ... Stalin's iron fisted rule things were able to happen much more quickly then they would have under a large bureaucracy. Indeed the great advances in industrialization and defense would almost definitely not have as high as they were at the outbreak of war if not for Stalin rule. Stalin instituted the Five year Plans to boost Soviet society and industry. In 1928 Stalin put into effect the first Five Year ... sectors of industry were established, which had not existed in tsarist Russia-machine tool production, automobile and tractor manufacturing, a chemical industry, motor works, airplane factories, the production of powerful turbines and generators, production of high grade steel, ferrous alloys, synthetic rubber artificial fibers. Construction was begun of thousands of kilometers of new railroads and canals, the eastern part of the country became the second metallurgical and oil center of industry ...
- 5490: Jennifer Lopez
- ... five, their relationship was not always understandable. Jennifer made a major decision and that was not to go to College. That decision was very disappointing to her parents who wanted her to go to law school. Her parents supported her pursuit of a career in show business, they did not wanted to be in the expense of her education. When Jennifer told her parents that she was not going to College and law school, they thought it was really stupid to go off and try to be a movie star. Her parents who at that time could not understand the choices she made are very happy for their daughter ...
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