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- 791: Recommendation For Recycling Water in Florida
- ... to be able to provide any sort of water reuse. Another problem is that Florida's warm, slow-moving streams and sensitive lake and esturine require tighter treatment requirements. This has led to an increased interest in land application of treated wastewater and reuse technologies to both clean up the wastewater effluent, and to find another economically suitable use for it. The first reuse projects were created for Tallahassee and St ... antidegredation policy, which is contained in permitting and surface water quality rules, applies to all proposed new or expanding surface water discharges. It requires demonstration that the proposed water discharge is clearly in the public interest. As part of the public interest test, the applicant must evaluate the feasibility of reuse. If reuse is determined to be feasible, reuse is preferred over surface water discharge, or other means of disposal. Florida's Chapter 62-610, FAC ...
- 792: First And Second Reconstructio
- ... rights were dependent upon alliances made with groups with conflicting interests White Northern Republicans and White elites in the South.17 Though they pursued political equality for Blacks, their goals were shaped more by self-interest than for concern for Black equality. By 1905 Blacks lost their right to vote. In Louisiana alone the number of Black voters fell from 130,334 in 1896 to 1,342 in 1904.18 The ... while whites flee to the suburbs. The de facto segregation that has emerged has shifted the good jobs to suburbs and relegated lower-class Blacks in cities to diminishing job prospects. This has caused rising rates of unemployment, economic desperation, and jobs predominantly in the low-wage sector. This poverty cycle among lower-class Blacks remains after vestiges of legal Jim Crow have disappeared.47 White flight to suburbs and the ...
- 793: Friendship
- ... as much as they are capable of. Only friends can help you distribute the love you have for the world and for yourself. The true person would do what was in his long term self-interest. This often leads to the good of other people because a true person receives pleasure from it. In friendship, he is cultivating a good relationship for himself, but he is also promoting his friend. Through ... has to deal with many other people that is in some ways related to his friend. Knowing that his friend might be hurt if something would happen to them, it would be in his self-interest to promote their happiness too. It is in this sense that we can reach the world through friendship. We are promoting the good of the world through our own wish for self-preservation. And when ... part in friendship knowing that it is not only good for them, but for others as well. Two kinds of self-love exist. One includes yourself, and one includes others. To realize your own best interest and mold them together with the welfare of others is actualizing ones ideal self. Friendship is sharing in the search for truth and good with one or others. If one were truly good, ...
- 794: A Statistical View of European Rural Life, 1600-1800
- ... conventional medical help, and would live in a single room with a large family. Most farmers were illiterate especially in Southern Europe and their farming technology was not updated. Protestant Northern Europe had higher literacy rates because Protestantism encouraged individual bible reading, while catholic Southern Europe was highly illiterate because the Catholic Church did not encourage literacy in the least bit. The spread of education led to new ideas and farming ... the infant and child mortality in France during the 17th and 18th centuries varied from 580 to 672 deaths out of every 1000 births. Obviously, as sanitation, and technology spread, the infant and child mortality rates decreased. In document 9, we can see that the life expectancy in Colyton, England fluctuated dramatically between the 16th and 18th centuries due to natural causes, From 1538-1624, the High mortality age was 40 ... the Plague. In Document 10, the seasonal incidence of Mortality in rural areas of France during the 17th and 18th century is displayed. The months of February to April, and October had the highest mortality rates. October was during the harvest time, and perhaps people had the most contact with each other, causing them to be more vulnerable to spreading and catching diseases. During February to April, temperatures were freezing, ...
- 795: How the Government May Have Created AIDS
- ... and for which no natural immunity could have been acquired. Mr. Sikes. Are we doing any work in that field? Dr. MacArthur. We are not. Mr. Sikes. Why not? Lack of money or lack of interest? Dr. MacArthur. Certainly not lack of interest. Mr. Sikes. Would you provide for our records information on what would be required, what the advantages of such a program would be, the time and the cost involved? Dr. MacArthur. We will be very ... to death in his home in Springfield, Missouri, an apparent suicide, on August 11,1988. Was Ted Strecker suicidal? Perhaps. In the past he suffered from depression and monumental frustration at the relative lack of interest in his findings. Dr. Strecker spoke with him the night before his death. Ted was cheerful, in good spirits, and looking forward to certain new developments that promised progress. The next day he was ...
- 796: Ritalin
- ... drop off rapidly. Some individuals, especially children, may obtain 4 or even 5 hours of positive effect (Clark 1996). Social Factors Leading to increased use of Ritalin Recently, there has been a dramatic upsurge of interest in using stimulants (mainly Ritalin) for children and adults for the increasingly popular diagnosis of ADHD. According to Persky (1996), the high frequency of the diagnosis of ADHD is a uniquely American phenomenon. Children and ... was produced (DEA in Persky 1996). Patterns of Abuse According to Bailey (1995), epidemiologists at the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) describe Ritalin abuse over the last two decades as "sporadic but persistent," and rates of use fluctuate over time. When purchased in pharmacies with a valid prescription, Ritalin tablets cost 25 cents to 50 cents each. In the illicit street drug market, tablets sell for $3 to $15 each ...
- 797: African Diaspora
- By: Andrew Wright The study of cultures in the African Diaspora is relatively young. Slavery and the trans-Atlantic slave trade brought numerous Africans, under forced and brutal conditions, to the New World. Of particular interest to many recent historians and Africanists is the extent to which Africans were able to transfer, retain, modify or transform their cultures under the conditions of their new environments. Three main schools of thought have ... creolization of Africans and Europeans in Colonial Louisiana: "Conditions prevailing...molded a Creole or Afro-American slave culture through the process of blending and adaptation of slave materials brought by the slaves..." (159). Lower mortality rates among slaves, levels of freedom gained through escape and survival in the swamps and a relatively small white population led Hall to characterize Louisiana as creating "the most Africanized slave culture in the Untied States ...
- 798: Madame Bovary: Emma's Escape
- ... through affairs and novels, to a women whose life is so chaotic that she disintegrates and kills herself. Indeed, Madame Bovary is like a poem comprised of a progression of repeating images. Emma Bovary found interest in the things around her which prevent her boredom in her early education it was the novels she read, "They were filled with love affairs, lovers, mistresses, persecuted ladies fainting in lonely country houses." She also found interest in the sea but only because it was stormy. But all the things that Emma found interest in she soon became board of from Charles to Leon. This cycle of boredom and the progression of images of confinement, escape, and chaos, parallel both in the Chapter on Emma's education and ...
- 799: The Unification of Europe Under the Maastricht Treaty
- ... economic rivals now in full cooperation!) Ultimately, these countries concerned with their own interests in mind will disregard the treaty. For example, during the last several weeks in defiance of the treaty Britain lowered it interest rates while Germany raised theirs. Both to accommodate their own separate economies! This sort of unity does not seem to me to set an example from which to abide by in the future. Under the Maastricht ...
- 800: Gorbachev: Analysis of Three Books About Gorbachev
- ... how government would give more freedom in the choices that people involved in producing the agricultural goods can have. Lewin underlined the importance of Gorbachev's decision to allocate allotments which led to the bigger interest of the Soviet people in working the land which ultimately led to the increase in agricultural production. Lewin also mentions the better Russian-American relations which was due to the fact that Gorbachev was ready ... in the efficiency of production, quality of products, scientific and technological development ... began to widen, and not to our advantage". All this eventually led to an economic deadlock and stagnation that paralyzed Soviet society. Declining rates of growth affected other aspects of the Soviet life, for instance the social sphere, which began to lag behind other spheres in terms of technological development, personnel, know-how and quality of work. Gorbachev also ...
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