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- 121: Cultural Diversity in Local Politics
- ... s Black Power. (Carmichael and Hamilton) In this work, as in most of the literature, the foundation of coalitions were based on common interests. They argued that all political relations are based on common self interest benefits to be gained and losses to be avoided. From this perspective, Carmichael and Hamilton argued, there were no permanent friends or enemies for Blacks in their struggle for freedom and power only temporary alliances ... competing and cross-cutting interests that, on the face, appear to be overwhelming. Ethnic groups, for example, have diverse interests based on such factors as citizenship, ethnicity and class. Latinos are divided by the diverse interest of an immigrant noncitizen population and citizen native population. This became evident in the aftermath of the riots when the mostly Mexican Americans, citizen-based East Los Angeles leadership attempted to disassociate themselves from the ... increasing signs of developing into two separate communities. Thus, in the context of Los Angeles, it is increasingly difficult to conceive of common interests among groups who do not themselves have monolithic interests. Making common interest the basis of coalitions is exacerbated by the more enduring and seemingly intractable issues that derive from the structural concerns cited earlier. Given the economic changes that have pitted some groups against others for ...
- 122: Latin America And Slavery
- ... the stress of working in the fields and in other aspects of enslaved life the aboriginal population soon dwindled to next to nothing. Looking at just the aboriginal population, there was a traumatic fall. Birth rates were very low, especially given that the newer mixed children as a result of crossed marriages took genes out of the native pool and into the European pool. Extreme blood mixing was going on. Between ... brought in to replace the dead natives, new races were popping up in Latin America. Right then the population in Latin America was undergoing vast changes. Population growth is usually due to either high birth rates with low death rates or heavy immigration. During this time there were normal birth rates, high death rates, and heavy immigration to compensate for the death rate. This caused a slight increase in the population during this time, ...
- 123: Personal Writing: Taking The Merkler Interest and Personality Type Self Assessment
- Personal Writing: Taking The Merkler Interest and Personality Type Self Assessment After taking the Merkler-Interest and Personality Type Self- Assessment, I couldn't wait to read the results because the Myers-Briggs Self-Assessment had been so correct. The Merkler found me to have an artistic, social, and investigative (ASI ... But I learned from those mistakes and am more careful in my "giving." The Merkler also found me to have a strong sense of "social conscience." I believe this to be true because of my interest in government and politics and my being a very verbal person. My last dominant personality type was investigative. Being investigative means being more concerned with "what might be," rather than "what is." This is ...
- 124: Effect Of Temp On Endo And Ectotherms (metabolism)
- ... increase. I also predict that the metabolic rate in the endotherm will remain relatively the same as the outside environment temperature changes. I also make the prediction that the ectotherm will have much lower metabolic rates than the endotherm. The procedures for this experiment are those that are referred to in Duncan and Townsend, 1996 p9-7. In our experiment however, each student group chose a temperature of either 5 C ... measured. the flask was then placed in a water bath of the selected temperature for thirty minutes, and then the O2 levels were measured again. Each group shared their findings with the class. The metabolic rates of the mouse were conducted by the instructor and distributed. We also did not use the Winkler method to measure the O2 levels. We used a measuring device instead. The results of this experiment are shown in the compiled student data in Table 1 below. the metabolic rates of the mouse remained constant with a slight flux, however, the crayfish metabolic rates were very different from one another. Table 1 Metabolic Rates of Mouse and Crayfish at Various Temperatures Temperature C Metabolic ...
- 125: College Application Essay: Influence of My Academic Interest in Education
- College Application Essay: Influence of My Academic Interest in Education An experience that significantly influenced my academic interest in education stems from the death of my uncle. In todays society, students spend more time at school than at home. Therefore, teachers must be in-tune with their students. If teachers cared more about their students and wanted to make a difference in their lives, then maybe my uncle would be here today. My uncle started showing interest in drugs when he was about sixteen. He was living with my parents and going to high school in Houston. He lived with my parents because his parents had divorced the previous year and ...
- 126: Invisible Man
- ... wrote was the Prologue and the Epilogue, thus his most developed state of character lies within the pages of this final part of text. In this study, the character who writes the novel is of interest, not the character who lives the novel. Because of this the study will focus on the Prologue and the Epilogue. According to Henry Louis Gates, Jr., " Race, in much of the thinking about the proper ... over it, like a garrison in a conquered city.(18) Thus, civilization has lost its mastery over the invisible man because he feels the need "to strike out" with his fists. A second point of interest while pursuing a Freudian critique comes on page fourteen, where the invisible man says, "I was the irresponsible one; for I should have used my knife to protect the higher interests of society."(19) This ... the darkness and the cave in which he lives. These two images are important to his unconscious mind, and Jung sees their existence as an indicator of a rebirth to come. The next line of interest to this Jungian interpretation shows signs of the rebirth Jung predicted. In the Epilogue, the invisible man says, "The hibernation is over."(28) It is important to note that Jung believes: Rebirth is not ...
- 127: Social Security In the Future? Maybe Not
- ... out of our weekly pay. Then that money is put into a savings fund where it is held until we retire. When we retire the money is returned to us in monthly checks plus the interest. This is where we are wrong. Social Security is a pay-as-you-go system where the current workforce pays for the present retirees, and then when they retire they will depend on the younger ... every 10 years" (Bosworth 36). If you do the math you will realize by the time Generation X retires the payroll tax needed to keep Social Security going will have almost doubled. The higher tax rates will start some sort of recession with people getting far less out of their pay checks to live on. Anyway who wants pay more taxes. They would also like to cut many of the benefits ... Senators plan proposes that 2% of the 12.4% tax would be taken out and placed in private accounts set up by the government. The money would be one's own personal account with compound interest (Congressional Digest 246). The Institute for Research on Economics of Taxation (IRET) adds, "that they would not be able to touch that money until they retiree or become disabled. The money is theirs the ...
- 128: The Choosing of a Landfill Site
- ... distinction between 'hazardous'/'non-hazardous' and of ensuring that 'inert' wastes are genuinely inert. In practice, many wastes described as 'inert' undergo degradation reactions similar to those of municipal solid waste (MSW), albeit at lower rates, with consequent environmental risks from gas and leachate. Alternatively, landfills can be categorised according to their management strategy. Four distinct strategies have evolved for the management of landfills (Hjelmar et al, 1995), their selection being ... strategy currently for MSW landfills in developed countries. The duration of a pollution risk is dependent on the rate of water flow through the wastes. Because it requires active leachate management there is currently much interest in accelerated leaching to shorten this timescale from what could be centuries to just a few decades. C) Controlled contaminant release The top cover and basal liner are designed and constructed to allow generation and ... and may also stipulate a minimum unsaturated depth beneath the landfill. In other cases, acceptability is dependent on the results of a risk assessment that examines the impact on groundwater quality of possible worst-case rates of leakage. For the controlled contaminant release strategy, the characteristics of the external environment in the location of the landfill, particularly its hydrogeology and geo-chemistry, are integral components of the system. As such ...
- 129: Global Warming
- ... Then, growth rate slowed as people adapted to the precipitating innovations. Each surge increased the population more than 10-fold. It appears that we are nearing the end of the present surge as recent growth rates have declined. After the initial spurt, subsequent innovations did not perpetuate growth rates. The only significant innovations were those that produced the next surge. However, accumulated innovations during the surges may have played a role in the eventual decline in population growth rates. Starting with high birth and death rates, death rate declines and longevity increases, but birth rates stay high. Some time later, birth rates decline so that eventually, net births minus deaths produces slow growth. ...
- 130: GIS and My Fields of Interest
- GIS and My Fields of Interest I was introduced to GIS in the Fall of 1998. My Environmental Science Lab Instructor spent an afternoon giving us an overview of this "new" technology. Needless to say an afternoon was not enough to ... science and political science and a minor in biology. I have ambitions towards law school and I would like to touch on the uses of GIS in all of these areas that which I have interest in. I will not go into too much detail when dealing with each area because if I did you wouldn't ever get it all read so I think I will just touch on primarily the present applications of GIS in these areas that interest me the most. Let's start with laws and legality and how that relates to GIS. Early on with GIS, there were many legal battles over information and if it should be a commodity ...
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