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- 1241: Banded Iron Formations And The
- ... the neglect of volcanic gases in his model casts significant doubts on the validity of his analysis. Knoll(1979) believed increases in atmospheric oxygen were probably occasioned by increases in primary productivity and/or decreased rates of oxygen consumption. He believes the increase from very low O2 levels to 1 to 2% PAL may have been related to productivity increases associated with rapid growth and stabilising of the continents during the ... seawater on the burial efficiency of organic matter within marine sediments seems to be slight. Nutrients are a more likely link between PO2 and the burial rate of organic matter, and hence between PO2 and rates of long term O2 generation(Betts and Holland,1991). Holland constructed a plausible argument that links the marine geochemistry of PO43- to that of iron and hence to the O2 content of the atmosphere today ...
- 1242: Karl Marxs Oppinion On Religio
- ... religions, such as Buddhism and Taoism, that do not assume the existence of a supernatural being. Marx was a militant critic of religion generally and of Christianity particularly. He pointed out the ultimate conflict of interest in the Catholic Church during the 19th century (The time when he lived). The fact that the church was telling people that their lives would be better in heaven (if you gave money to the ... lead to communism. Communism did take off many different places at different points in history, with varying degrees of success. In recent years, many Buddhist leaders have lost their influence, and some nations have lost interest in Buddhism. Vietnam and Cambodia have joined China, Mongolia, Tibet, and North Korea as once Buddhistic but now Communist nations. Even as Western ideology (whether in the form of communism or capitalism) has moved into ...
- 1243: Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau
- ... a democracy, which is prevalent in the United States. According to Hobbes, continual war is inevitable if there is no government. Since individuals in the state of nature do what is in their best self interest, at one point they decided to voluntarily and mutually transfer their rights to another person (the sovereign) in an attempt to get out of the miserable, constant state of war. Hobbes interpreted government to be ... if the people were in a state of war with the government. In Rousseaus social contract, the individual must give up personal freedom to the general will, which is the sum of all private interest of the general people. Rousseau has the impression that if people believe they are part of the government, they will work, fight, and build, without complaining in the belief that what helps the good of ...
- 1244: Alfred Hitchcock
- ... the very bottom of the business. As a young man Hitchcock was raised and lived in England with his parents. When a new Paramount studio opened he rushed to get a job there having had interest in film making for quite a bit of time. He was employed at Paramount as a "title designer" for silent films meaning he wrote out the lines that are displayed after each shot in the ... also displayed his talent in being able to make a novel's story line work in a movie with just a few adjustments. He was able to compress the novel to a length that would interest the audience and improve upon it as well. The length was important to Hitchcock for he once was quoted as saying, "The length of the film should be directly related to the endurance of the ...
- 1245: Capital Punishment Should Be A
- ... as a deterrent to crime. According to the American Civil Liberties Union, the death penalty not only does not deter crime- among states that have either abolished or instituted the death penalty crime and murder rates have remained unchanged. Additionally, Eric Pooley of Time magazine, in his research, reports that no proof exists to substantiate claims that capital punishment discourages crime by anyone other than the criminals whom are executed. Glenn ... the Washington Legal Foundation is quoted as saying that "there are no convincing studies" [connecting] the death penalty and the crime rate. Whitehead 3 In the absence of persuasive studies linking capital punishment and crime rates, who better to turn to than the individuals who walk the thin blue line- law enforcement officials may be better equipped to address this subject. Time magazine reports that 67% of polled police chiefs also ...
- 1246: Sex in Advertising
- ... much stricter contraints. The public has become less sensitive to sexy ads, but increasingly irate about claims involving food and Mother Earth. "While we will tolerate an expansion in areas that may offend our prurient interest, we are not prepared to do that with products that effect our quality of life" said Stuart Lee Friedel, an attorney with the New York based law firm of Davis & Gilbert, who specializes in advertising ... dressing and undressing women fill not only films but the pages of magazines advertising food, clothing, automobiles, hotels, refrigerators, chewing gum and everything which in the opinion of the business man would represent the vital interest of people. Advertisements have never been granted the unqualified rights of free speech held by books, articles or news programs. The indecency of American and world wide advertising has become indescribable. Sex in advertising will ...
- 1247: Australia And Asia Relationshi
- ... enemy (Vadney 1998). Not surprisingly during this period there was a substantial body of public opinion which, either because of initiation at Australias involvement in both the Korean and Vietnam War's, was because of interest in developing closer ties with China in economic and humanitarian grounds, was influencing the political orientation of the Australian government. The election of the Whitlam Labor government in 1972 saw the emergence of an explicit ... been predicted on political grounds but, increasingly, as the world moves to embrace a global village profile governments of all political persuasion's are shaping the foreign policies on the basis of national economic self interest. In handling bilateral relationships, the Government often claims to have adopted an integrated approach taking into account the totality of Australian interests. But, a closer analyses of this claim reveals it would be almost impossible ...
- 1248: Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye
- ... The story and plot become more complex as new Transformers and advancements in technology are developed by both sides. I constantly watched the show for about three years from its first episodes in 1984. My interest in the show slowly died because most of the original Transformers were killed off, and a new generation of was created; which I didn't care for as much. In writing this paper, I have discovered that there is still an interest for Transformers within me. I recently spent many hours looking at old Transformer photos and scripts from the internet. Maybe I'll try to complete my collection of action figures, and even try to get ...
- 1249: Atomic Bomb 9
- ... seventy meters in Hiroshima, and approximately five hundred and ten meters in Nagasaki. 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 of babies. 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 or substantial proof were those of increased rates of birth mortality, birth defects, infertility, and susceptibility towards illnesses. The blast, the thermal radiation, or the nuclear radiation from an atomic bomb explosion will have severe effects on both humans and on the environment ...
- 1250: Television Censorship
- ... film have been brought before the Supreme Court. In the cases during the 1970s the court ruled that laws against obscenity must be limited " to works which, taken as a whole, appeal to the prurient interest in sex; which portray sexual conduct in a patently offensive way; and which, taken as a whole, do not have serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value." The Court has further held that obscenity should ... THE PURPOSE "It is the purpose of this Act to increase competition in all telecommunications markets and provide for an orderly transition from regulated markets to competitive and deregulated telecommunications markets consistent with the public interest, convenience, and necessity (Telecommunications Bill of 1995, Internet)."
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