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- 15881: Euthanasia: A Question of Ethics
- ... main fundamental moral principle: mercy. It is not a new issue; euthanasia has been discussed-and practised-in both Eastern and Western cultures from the earliest historical times to the present. But because of medicine's new technological capacities to extend life, the problem is much more pressing than it has in the past, and both the discussion and practice of euthanasia are more widespread. Euthanasia is a way of granting ... suffering-provided, of course, that the treatment offers the patient no overriding benefits. The physician must refrain from ordering painful tests, therapies, or surgical procedures when they cannot alleviate suffering or contribute to a patient's improvement or cure. Perhaps the most familiar contemporary medical example is the treatment of burn victims when survival is unprecedented; if with the treatments or without them the chances of the patient's survival is nil, mercy requires the physician not to impose the debridement treatments , which are excruciatingly painful, when they can provide the patient no benefit at all. Although the demands of mercy in burn ...
- 15882: Chinese Communist Influences
- ... a non-Western revolution is more than a clich. That revolution has been primarily directed, not like the French Revolution but against alien Western influences that approached the level of domination and drastically altered China's traditional relationship with the world. Hence the Chinese Communist attitude toward China's traditional past is selectively critical, but by no means totally hostile. The Chinese Communist revolution, and the foreign policy of the regime to which it has given rise, have several roots, each of which is ... expanding West brought to bear on it. The general sense of national weakness and humiliation was rendered still keener by a unique phenomenon, the modernization of Japan and its rise to great power status. Japan's success threw China's failure into sharp remission. The Japanese performance contributed to the discrediting and collapse of China's imperial system, but it did little to make things easier for the subsequent successor. ...
- 15883: The Ironies in Orwell's 1984
- The Ironies in Orwell's 1984 The novel 1984, by George Orwell, has many examples of irony throughout it. The two major types of irony: verbal irony and situation irony, are demonstrated again and again in this novel. In the ... the first example of this irony is discovered when the main character, Winston Smith, uses the "Memory hole" to deposit things -- one would think that this would be where things are remembered ("Memory"), but it's actually an incinerator. The next example of irony comes when you learn about the departments of Government in Oceania. The Ministry of Truth is actually the maker of lies for the history books, the Ministry ... seen in the name of the leader of Oceania, "Big Brother." The concept of a big brother is one whom is older and wiser and helps the "littler siblings" -- this not the case with 1984's Big Brother. The Big Brother in this novel completely watches over every move a person makes keeping them controlled with fear. The next type of irony is Situation irony, which is when a character ...
- 15884: Out Of This Furnace
- ... average person and even worse for arriving immigrants. Despite the dreary and miserable outlook, many Americans, holding onto the ideals of laissez-faire and the American Dream, persevered in the hopes of success. Thomas Bell's Out of this Furnace is one such story. Coming to America with dreams and hopes of a better life, Bell tells the story of reality and challenges that await the immigrating Slovaks. He shows through ... and power of large corporations. Djuro Kracha, a recent immigrant, leaves Hungary in hopes that he is "leaving behind the endless poverty and oppression that were the birthrights of a Slovak peasant in Franz Josef's empire" (Bell, p.3). Kracha's desire to leave his plight behind in his native country and restart his life in America is the reason that also drove the Chinese to the United States, earlier the Irish and later the ...
- 15885: War of the Worlds
- ... who wanted to be with them, and we hear about how the twins enjoyed to go out with boys and then drop them again - for fun. The I-person says that Suki and herself haven't changed, but that it is the things which had changed. Then the twins think back on the past and we hear about how wild the twins were and how their father helped them when there were in trouble. The problem was that the twins wanted to change the world and therefor wanted to speak in the Gurudware. The twins said some thing, which specially the men didn't like. Therefor the father had to save them from the angry men. In the end of the story the twins decided to stay with their mom and fight for what they believe in. B: Essay ... say that the two twins are revulutionary. The twins want to speak in the Gurudwara, so they can tell the other women and children to fight for their rights. After normal indian traditions women don't have anything to say. It is the men who make the decitions and therfor decides over the women and children. The two sisters want to help other women and children and on a sunday ...
- 15886: Excalibur
- ... time. Every aspect of a mans life revolved around their desire to one day serve their king as a knight. The yearning aspiration to become a knight is portrayed in several ways in John Boorman's movie, Excalibur. Arthur's responsibility as a squire (before he was king), Lancelot's challenge of worthiness and Perceval's ambition illustrate the urge that exists in men to serve their king as a knight. The responsibilities of a squire serving a knight is one way in which ...
- 15887: Newton and Prisms
- ... science. His discoveries and theories were the groundwork for much of the scientific achievements of today. Newton is known for many fields of science and math ranging from calculus to gravity, but for Mrs. Presley's pleasure and mine, I will discuss his work with optics. Before Newton could become the genius he became he had to start somewhere. He was born in Woolsthorpe, England on January 4, 1643 and raised ... prism is a type of lens with sharp angled edges that are able to separate light. Prisms can be very simple boxes or triangles or prisms can be in complex shapes like diamonds. The prism's ability to bend visible light into the different colors that make up the rainbow is what helped it become the perfect tool for Newton. To set up his experiment, Newton took a single beam of ... through many different types of prisms. Newton was trying to see if the colored light could e broken down. He concluded after much testing that the colored light was the base of the spectrum. Newton's experiment also helped conclude the different lengths of light. Because the red light bent the least after passing through the prism, he concluded it had the longest wavelength. On the other hand, the violet ...
- 15888: Peru
- Peru Peru's gross domestic product in the late 1980s was $19.6 billion, or about $920 per capita. Although the economy remains primarily agricultural, the mining and fishing industries have become increasingly important. Peru relies primarily on ... government imposed an austerity program that removed price controls and ended subsidies on many basic items and allowed the inti, the national currency, to float against the United States dollar. About 35 percent of Peru's working population is engaged in farming. Most of the coastal area is devoted to the raising of export crops; on the montaρ a and the sierra are mainly grown crops for local consumption. Many farms ... tons) in the late 1980s, were sugarcane (6.2 million), potatoes (2 million), rice (1.1 million), corn (880,000), seed cotton (280,000), coffee (103,000), and wheat (134,000). Peru is the world's leading grower of coca, from which the drug cocaine is refined. The livestock population included about 3.9 million cattle, 13.3 million sheep, 1.7 million goats, 2.4 million hogs, 875,000 ...
- 15889: Crusoe Savage Man
- ... him to be. In "Robinson Crusoe," Robinson in one of his travels leaves him stranded on a deserted island. This is the setting where some may consider that Robinson Crusoe becomes a model of Rousseau's savage man. Both of these books were published in the Eighteenth Century, with less than thirty years between them. The time period of which these books were written coincide with each other. The basis, which Robinson Crusoe was written, was the idea of capitalism and discovering the New World. The First and Second Discourses was written with the idea of the New World's people, for example the "Caribs" of Venezuela. Rousseau refers to the savage man as having desires for food, physical needs, to be at ease, and not to be in pain. When Robinson owned his own plantation he only produced the quantity he needed to survive. That fact coincides with Rousseau's idea of the savage man, but after two years Robinson produces a larger quantity to sell for profit. This course of action can be associated with capitalism and being prepared for the future. This ...
- 15890: Colonial Impact On The Indian
- ... to import. Since the economy was on the whole self-sufficient in handicrafts and agricultural products, India did not need foreign imports on a large scale and continued to enjoy a healthy trade. Secondly, India's foreign trade suited its requirements very well. In other words, the commodity pattern, so important to any country's foreign trade, was in India's favor. India exported the items it specialized in and imported the ones it needed. As discussed above India was a land of extensive manufactures. Indian artisans were famous for their skills the world over. ...
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