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- 481: Exxon Valdez
- ... Picou, a sociologist from the University of South Alabama, has also shown that the people who have been affected by the oil spill have been traumatized and suffer from bouts of depression. There are high rates of alcoholism and social ills that can be directly linked to the Exxon Valdez. Although many have fallen victim to the oil spill, Exxon, the owner of the Exxon Valdez was not held unaccountable. Within ... Councils, one, which operates from Cook Inlet and the other from Prince William Sound. These councils are funded solely by assessments that are made on the oil industry. The councils include a number of local interest groups and present views from all aspects of the general population. Since these councils have access to capital, they have the ability to fund research and projects that allow them to play big roles in ...
- 482: Russia and US International Relations
- ... often provides incentives for arms races and other types of hostile interactions. Realists see geographically based groups as the key actors in the system. These groups are usually nation-states that are guided by national interest. National interest, under realism, is defined in terms of security and power. For sources of theories, insights and evidence, realists look towards politics, history, and, to a degree economics. The preceding views were shared by all types ... no discretion as to which state is the purchaser, for much needed state income. This is nuclear proliferation at its most basic level. In the self-help, anarchy system, nation-states are motivated by national interest, power, and security. In a realist system, the state will work towards fulfilling these motivations at all cost. Another threat that results from the economic disparity is what is called the hair-trigger effect. ...
- 483: The Aging Process
- ... you sweat or not, because these functions are exercised, but if you don't use your brain for mental tasks, its ability to remember does decrease, not from age but from disuse. SEXUAL FUNCTION Sexual interest does not disappear in women after menopause, but the loss of estrogen definitely influences a woman's interest in sex. Estrogen will maintain her organs in a state of sexual readiness. Estrogen replacement helps to prevent the loss of sexual interest and function. The healthy older male continues to produce high levels of testosterone for life. The testicles clearly have a different age cycle from the ovaries. The failure of sexual performance in most older ...
- 484: Animal Testing: Animals Suffer
- ... humans to suffer in order to study our behavior or try to experiment on a vaccine, how would we feel? In Singer's article he presents the term speciesm. Speciesm is “the notion that the interest of non-human animals need not to be considered”(Singer, 398). He claims that specieism is analogous to racism, and I agree it is definitely a form of discrimination. If one argues that the term ... have no rights because he says to have rights involves making a moral claim. He then adds by saying that having a moral claim means “having the capacity to recognize conflicts between one's self interest and what is right and being able to restrain one's self-interest when appropriate” (Cohen, 406). In response to his statements I would argue that first animals should not be compared to humans in a sophisticated manner as to say they don't think like us. ...
- 485: Internet Groups
- ... the country. And that is important in this case because giving and receiving help is what this group is all about. They are a cybernetwork group "dedicated to computer users helping other users." The shared interest between users is simply computer users who either need help, or are willing to lend help to their fellow members. CEBUG holds nine meetings each year at a local high school. The meetings are open ... the authority structure of the group, there is a president, Irene M. Kraus, but as far as I maintenance of the group and its activities, that is mainly taken care of by members and Special Interest Groups (SIGs). SIGs exist within user groups to help further define interest areas, or may be dedicated to the support of certain hardware or software products. Articles on club news or SIG events are available in the newsletter that they send out to their members each ...
- 486: Divorce
- Divorce Divorce rates in the United States are rising every year more and more. Is everybody marrying the wrong people or are people not giving their marriage a chance? The decline of the respect for marriage in people today has been a major factor in the rising divorce rates. Divorce goes up every year, and now about fifty percent of all marriages in America end up in divorce. Compared to zero or one percent in the middle ages, that is a tremendous increase. The ... keep the sacred bond of marriage sacred. If we as people limited ourselves a little, and worked with our problems instead of turning around on them, we could change the direction of the numbers. Divorce rates could start dropping, and that would help kids regain their lost respect for marriage and it’s responsibilities, hardships, good times and bad times. If we could just get the ball rolling it would ...
- 487: Anxiety And Depression In Afro-Americans
- ... be found in two forms. The life of Afro-Americans is filled with both eustress and distress, but it is the high rate of distress due to socio-economic circumstances that are responsible for higher rates of depression and anxiety amongst them. Depression is an emotional state characterized by extreme sadness, gloomy ruminations, feelings of worthlessness, loss of hope, and often apprehension, while anxiety is a generalized feeling of fear and ... caused."(Harton, p.89) The reaction to the results of these two cases was caused by distress within the black community. In addition, it is this distress that will cause blacks to suffer from high rates of anxiety. Studies show that Afro-Americans demonstrate higher levels of fear and apprehension. When asked what their anxiety was caused by, Afro-American teens said that their fear comes from fear of dying before ... of anxiety blacks than in whites. Additional Factors... In addition to examining the relationship between socio-economic circumstances and violence exposure, researchers wanted to see if their were any other factors that contributed to higher rates of depression and anxiety in blacks. An examination found that higher levels of distress were correlated with alcohol and illicit drug use. Also, results showed a positive relationship for poor academic performance in school ...
- 488: Research Essay, East Timor
- ... journalists were killed by Indonesian security forces when they were reporting on a conflict between pro-Fretilin supporters and the Indonesian military. With the now imminent threat of an Indonesian invasion, little to no international interest excluding Australia and abandonment by the Portuguese delegation, Fretilin declared independence on November 28th 1975. Now with East Timor declaring its “independence” from Portugal the threat of invasion by Indonesia was now a reality. From ... Santa Cruz or Dili Massacre. The East Timorese under the Church and Bishop Carlos Belo are now in the search for peace. Since the Santa Cruz massacre in 1991 there has been much more international interest in the affairs of East Timor as now other country’s can see that basic human rights have been and are still being violated. This foreign interest is momentarily aiding the search for peace because the Indonesian government know now that the big brothers are watching. The relationship between the church and state, as mentioned before is one of conflict. On ...
- 489: ALIEN EXISTENCE
- ... been questioned about the CIA's involvement with UFOs. The report explains that the both the CIA and the United States Airforce conducted the UFO cover-up. During the Cold War, both agencies hid their interest in UFOs because they feared public knowledge of the agency's interest would make the UFO problem worse. Both the CIA and the US Air Force felt the UFO problem could be used by the Soviet Union to make an attack on the United States. The report ... NASA along with individuals in the general public who come into contact with extra-terrestrials and their vehicles. UFO believers found it interesting that on the one hand the government was denying they had any interest in extra terrestrials yet they had a law on the books that forbid contact with extra terrestrials and their craft. There are two projects that the government ran about aliens. The two projects are ...
- 490: The National Debt
- ... scrap pieces of metal and the cash became paper. Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford passed the debt and added to it. The first sign of bankruptcy occured during the Jimmy Carter Presidency. Inflation skyrocketed and interest rates fluttered near 20%. President Ronald Reagan made the economy act better, temporarily. To make the economy better, Reagan invented something called a credit spree. A credit spree in my opinion is when we go out ...
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