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- 1071: Martin Luther King Jr ]
- ... one's assets is a sign of a successful businessman, thus it is also a sign of someone who is successful in the eyes of God. If money is invested properly, a person can receive interest and increase his financial status. If a person has an animal that is breeding, that animal's offspring will increase that person's financial status. In order to become a successful businessman it is often ... played an important part in spreading the ideas of Luther to European commercial centers. Accordingly, one of the most fruitful areas of study with respect to the rapid spread of Luther's ideas is the interest of the merchants and other urban classes in Germany, especially in the free imperial cities. Although scholars have analyzed various aspects of city life at the close of the Middle Ages in great detail, they ...
- 1072: Religious Life In Indonesia
- ... in the 1960s and have since grown rapidly. There popularity among the population is a response to the growing western influences, people wish to reclaim the old values of Islam. In an Islamic banking system, interest cannot be accepted on loans or given to money in saving accounts. In an Islamic bank, a person can place money in a bank account. The bank uses this money to invest in other business and then divides the profit between them and the client at a predetermined rate. Interest was banned in the Koran because it was seen as the exploitation of the economically weak by the strong and powerful. Indonesian women are far more socially and politically advanced than women in almost all ...
- 1073: Howard Hughes
- ... media’s job to pinpoint what events and people would prove to be an effective story. This was certainly the case for Howard R. Hughes. Son to the wealthy Howard Hughes Sr., Howard became the interest of the American people and newspapers for most of his life. Being deemed one of the most famous men of the mid-20th century was greatly attributed to Hughes’s skills as an industrialist, aviator ... of Swell Hogan. Dollars were not of concern to Hughes as the cash flowed freely out of Hughes Tool. In early 1926, Hughes bought controlling shares in a chain of 125 theaters, and 70 percent interest in Multi-Color, a corporation developing color motion picture film. Swell Hogan was finished by mid-1926, and failed miserably in its first screening. Hughes hired the best producers and editors in Hollywood, but the ...
- 1074: Life And Legend Of Howard Hugh
- ... media’s job to pinpoint what events and people would prove to be an effective story. This was certainly the case for Howard R. Hughes. Son to the wealthy Howard Hughes Sr., Howard became the interest of the American people and newspapers for most of his life. Being deemed one of the most famous men of the mid-20th century was greatly attributed to Hughes’s skills as an industrialist, aviator ... of Swell Hogan. Dollars were not of concern to Hughes as the cash flowed freely out of Hughes Tool. In early 1926, Hughes bought controlling shares in a chain of 125 theaters, and 70 percent interest in Multi-Color, a corporation developing color motion picture film. Swell Hogan was finished by mid-1926, and failed miserably in its first screening. Hughes hired the best producers and editors in Hollywood, but the ...
- 1075: Social Institutions
- ... in terms of individuals. They see suicide as a personal act that results from psychological factors, such as depression or frustration. Sociologists acknowledge the suicide is more interested in the social factors that affect suicide rates. According to the sociologist view of suicide, variations in suicide rates can be understood by studying the structure of society. One good example from the film that ties all of these different characteristics together would be the Neil Perry incident. Neil wanted to perform and become ...
- 1076: Effects Of The Atomic Bomb
- ... in Hiroshima, and approximately five hundred and ten meters in Nagasaki (Outlaw Labs). Even without causing many deaths the nuclear radiation probably caused the most serious effects. Those with definite proof were those of increased rates of cataracts, leukemia, cancer of the thyroid, cancer of the breast, cancer of the lungs, cancer of the stomach, and mental retardation on babies in utero. Those that had substantial but not definite proof were those of tumors of the esophagus, tumors of the colon, tumors of the salivary glands, and tumors of the urinary tract organs. Those that had no definite nor substantial proof were those of increased rates of birth mortality, birth defects, infertility, and susceptibility towards illnesses (Physicians and Scientists on Nuclear War, 1981). The total number of people effected by the nuclear radiation was estimated to be thiry-five thousand people ...
- 1077: The Effects of Creatine
- ... that there was a 3.7 fold increase in blood creatine levels and a 90 fold increase in urine. He found no significant increase in creatinine in the urine or any detrimental effect on filtration rates or protein excretion rates. These findings show that creatine is not harmful to the kidneys for short term use. Creatine is safe for most people to use, provided they mind the proper dosages and don’t have any medical ...
- 1078: Future Psychology
- ... left us! Procrastinating and dodging tactics have been successful in recent decades, yet world problems have not gone away. Various changes need to take place within coming decades, not just legislation or fooling around with interest-rate settings, something fundamental. We will decide on restorative world changes by choice. A redemption factor or changes foisted on us by circumstances, in states of emergency. The council is out, and the future is ... potency today. The unwillingness of world powers in the early-1990s sends a message that the New World order cares only when there is big money involved. This suspicion encourages a world culture of self-interest, which is ominous for the future. The abrupt comfort and fake inability of those in a position to affect the situation was a classic symptom of our times. Guessing possibilities has its value if it ...
- 1079: Sex Education -- 2
- ... in the University of North Carolina, brings a point about the effectiveness of sex education in Europe. In the Education Digest, she claims that in certain parts of Europe where sex education is taught, the rates of pregnancies amongst teenage girls are two to seven times lower than the teenage pregnancy rate in the U.S. (Berne 27). The point she is trying to make is that if sex education is ... She says, "The role of media, particularly television, is pervasive, and the depiction of sex and violence is ubiquitous at virtually all hours of the day" (Rosoff 33). It is impossible to compare teenage pregnancy rates of two different regions of the world when the teenagers in question are living in completely different societies. With the media comes peer pressure. If something is believed by popular culture to be "hip" and ...
- 1080: Japanese Animation
- ... demonstrated by its superior visual production and sophisticated, diverse story lines, then it is exemplified by the variety of audiences for which Japanese animation holds appeal. Japanese animation is subject-intensive, and thus attracts the interest of certain highly defined groups. American animation on the other hand tries to lump together as wide a sphere of interest around a work as possible in order to obtain the maximum possible audience. As a result, American animation usually abandons specific topics, and almost invariably turns to the tried and tried again slapstick comedy routine ...
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