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- 6081: Organized Crime
- ... obsessive gamblers who had control of nearly all racetracks and casinos in the early 1900s. "As sportsmen, they invested money in racehorses and promoted racetracks. Throughout this time, organized crime may have reached its high point in the United States in terms of the proportion of the population that constituted customers and in terms of the impact upon local police and politicians" (American History 260). The Italians, of course, already ... Each district was a part of its ethnic group. Very powerful men who were respected by all of the districts soldiers, counselors, and captains led these groups. Each ethnic gang had its most high in command. In fact the Dons throughout history are single handedly responsible for all changes in the way business worked. "Vito Cascio Ferro, (1862-1945), is believed to be the one man primarily responsible for ...
- 6082: Music And Censorship
- ... than a kite." Most people never actually saw Jimi Hendrix the person, but a blurred vision of him. When Jimi performed on stage at Woodstock, a man from the crowd asked him, "Jimi are you high?" He simply replied back to the man, "Thanks man I got mine," causing the crowd to act wild almost as if he had saved someone's life, but ironically he unintentionally destroyed their lives. In ... to believe that they are alone in this world. It makes people think that they control their environment, when in fact only God does, not them. Indian and Monk chants actually make a person seemingly high through deep meditation. Meditation was originally intended for the pure thought of God, but with new age thoughts, we are perverting it. Censorship puts a cap on ungodly music and makes music a good experience ...
- 6083: Political Policies Between The United States And The Soviet
- ... 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 ...
- 6084: Environmental Pollution
- ... believe that all cities with populations exceeding 50,000 have some degree of air pollution. Burning garbage in open dumps causes air pollution Scientist have discovered that over the South Pole the ozone has a high level of ozone depletion. A computer-enhanced map, taken from satellite observations of ozone levels in the atmosphere over the South Pole, shows the region of ozone depletion that has begun to appear each spring ... Earth. Air pollution causes global warming which scientist believe is making the Earth warmer and melting ice up in the South and North Pole. The country Holland has had water from the ocean got too high for them and flooded into towns. Holland spent millions of dollars to put up dikes which are big barriers in the water to prevent their town to be completely submerged. With the ocean getting deeper ...
- 6085: Fluoride
- ... to milk, breads and fruit drinks; iodine to table salt; and both vitamins and minerals to breakfast cereals, grains and pastas. The protection of fluoridation reaches community members in their homes, at work and at school -- simply by drinking the water. The only requirements for the implementation of fluoridation are the presence of a treatable centralized water supply and approval by appropriate decision makers. Some people believe that there are effective ... as a public health measure for the prevention of tooth decay in the United States. The fact of the matter is that while other community-based methods of systemic and topical fluoride delivery (i.e. school-based fluoride mouthwash or tablet programs) have been developed over the five decades that water fluoridation has been practiced, none is as effective as community water fluoridation and none is free from financial constraints or ...
- 6086: Global Economy and the Environment
- ... In general, international agreements have its advantages, due to the fact that we can harmonize international standards. Therefore environmental concern is one of the key issues that the policy makers and MNCUs should set a high priority on. This is because growth and development is strongly correlated with environmental degradation. Furthermore, it is fair to say that the MNCUs are more likely to have a more harmful environmental impact from growth ... there is also a need for more serious political considerations, when being engaged in a free trade. In this case, the Department of Commerce should have carefully reexamined the political and military criteria, before a high level of free trade took place between the U.S and France. But as the world becomes more integrated socially and economically, the idea of expanding the international trade will have numerous benefits, if they ...
- 6087: Michelangelo 2
- Michelangelo Buonarroti born March 6, 1475 in the small village of Caprese Italy. A sculptor, architect, painter, and poet in the Italian high renaissance. Michelangelo's father Ludovico Buonarroti had connections to the raining Medici family, Michelangelo studied at the gardens when he was 15 years old, shortly after he was invited into the household of Lorenzo de ... 1519 Leonardo da Vinci, his old rival, died at the age of 67. Raphael, his young rival, died at the age of only 37 in April 1520. The three names whose names together defined the High Renaissance, Michelangelo was the only one left at the age of 45 he called himself an "old man" prone to illness, abused by life, haunted by the premonitory shadow of death, he was wrong 45 ...
- 6088: Michelangelo
- ... grief, Mary is restrained, and her expression is one of resignation. In this work, Michelangelo summarizes the sculptural innovations of his 15th-century predecessors such as Donatello, while ushering in the new monumentality of the High Renaissance style of the 16th century. Michelangelo was pessimistic in his response to Strazzi. I did not see Strazzi as complementing him. Michelangelo responds in a pessimistic tone to what should have been a complement ... Sebastiano del Piombo, and Titian. In conclusion, Michelangelo (1475-1564), was arguably one of the most inspired creators in the history of art and, with Leonardo da Vinci, the most potent force in the Italian High Renaissance. As a sculptor, architect, painter, and poet, he exerted a tremendous influence on his contemporaries and on subsequent Western art in general. Michelangelo was pessimistic in his poetry and an optimist in his artwork ...
- 6089: Critique of "The Invisible Man"
- ... education. He was then mocked by having to recite a speech he was to memorize, which showed the total disrespect the people who were giving the scholarship had for the future students. After getting into school, a simple job turned into an unforeseen disaster that would change his life forever. He was to chauffeur Mr. Norton, a founder of the college he attended. Mr. Norton was a well educated but very ... journey he stuck with his ideas. The Invisible Man has many ties with reality in the sense that it shows how cruel and brutal life can be. Our main character worked hard to get into school only to have it taken away from him. The same happened to him when he got a job at the factory. The final and most devastating blow is dealt by the Brotherhood. They took him ...
- 6090: Preaks Vs. Administrators
- ... Although it isn't easy for an individual to get a direct connection to the Net,many private institutions are getting connections. This is mainly due to thefact that in order to support the very high speed of the Net, a fast computeris needed and a fast connection. A fast computer can cost in the tens ofthousands of dollars, at least, and a fast connection can cost twenty thousand dollars or ... dollars a year. Individuals can still get on the Net through these private institutions. The privateinstitution spoon-feeds the Net to the slower computers over their slowerconnection lines (Spencer, "Stranglehold" 8).The Internet began very high-class, due to the fact that only superintelligentcollege students and professors could access it. The discussions tended tostay intellectual, with very little, if any, disturbance ("Internet History").However, relatively recent changes in the availability of ...
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