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- 17411: Carlos Santana
- ... renewed hope and opportunity for a new life. Both for Carlos and his family. The eight-year old Carlos quickly left the violin for the guitar, studying and emulating the sounds of B.B. King, T-Bone Walker and John Lee Hooker. Soon he was being asked to join local bands like the T.J.'s, where he added a unique touch and feel to his own renditions of all the great songs of the 1950's. As he continued to play with different bands along the busy Tijuana Strip, ...
- 17412: Tracking the Economy Report
- ... United States economy is very difficult to understand. It is so difficult because we cannot predict what will happen in the next century, the next decade, or even what will happen tomorrow. Our economy hasnt been through a depression, since the Great Depression in the 1930s. We have been anticipating another depression for quite a while, the last few decades, in fact. But our economy has been lucky enough to stay away from such a horrible thing. Predicting the way our ... guess. We can say that is doing quite well, but that can change at any given moment in time. The reason we can say this is because our unemployment rate has decreased and it hasnt been this low in quite some time. We can also say that our economy is doing poorly, the reason for this is because there are thousands and thousands of people in our country that ...
- 17413: Alcoholism: Cunning, Baffling, Powerful, Patient And Deadly
- Alcoholism: Cunning, Baffling, Powerful, Patient And Deadly Today's substance abuse, whether alcohol or drugs, continues to be a major social problem. Common patterns occur in all forms of substance abuse. While some types of substance abuse problems are slightly different in terms of causes and cures, experts agree that there are some do's and don'ts which relate to kicking the abuse habit. If you or a loved one have a substance abuse problem, this article can give you sound advice on understanding what substance abuse is, and ... like me if I give up alcohol. There is a side that come out that is very attractive. CATASTROPHIC EXAGGERATION: You expect disaster, and disaster means the end of the world. E.g. - I won't be able to tolerate the discomfort of sobriety I AM CONTROLLED: You feel externally controlled, you see yourself as helpless and a victim of fate. E.g. - The alcohol makes my days tolerable, without ...
- 17414: The Controversial Issue of Doctor-Assisted Suicide
- ... prescription drugs, pay for the doctor appointments, tests, and in some cases lenghty hospital stays. Some insurance companies will refuse to pay for certain test, or drugs, or even refuse treatment altogether. Many patients can't aford to pay for these treatments, and even if they coulld, most of the treatments only prolong life for a short amount fof time. There is also no guarantee that the quality of life during these treatments woulld be wourk the time and money. No one wants to die in debt and leave their families with nothing but medical bills. If you don't wish to continue living in pain, why should you have to pay for treatment that you don't want? When someone is sicsk it is hard on the whole family. When someone is dying they not only have to deal with their own pain and suffering, both physically and mentally but also ...
- 17415: Modern Torture
- ... central and international coalition with a centralized agreement on the correct and humane that can investigate and punish countries that commit this crime. A Judicial process through an international criminal court can punish the officers, doctors or politicians that allow and commit these crimes to be committed within their countries borders. Torture isnt a tool of nations at war anymore as is often believed. Countries that are not engaged in any offensive use torture on its own citizens and inhabitants. China is a perfect example. The human rights violations in the People's Republic of China remain systematic and widespread. The Chinese government in an effort to suppress dissenting opinions and to maintain political control over the legal system abuses its judicial domestic courts to the extent ...
- 17416: Technological Developments
- Scientific and technological developments have real and direct effects on every person\\'s life. Some effects are desirable; others are not. Some of the desirable effects may have undesirable side effects. In essence, there seems to be a trade-off principle working in which gains are accompanied by ... exponential rate. We feel that our entire world is moving, changing, mutating, at an accelerated pace. Our interactions with this world of information seem plagued by an increasing sense that we cannot keep up, can\\'t take it all in, that we are being overwhelmed by information, deluged by data: the sense of an \\"information overload.\\" One of the first attempts to represent this kind of information overload appears in Ted Mooney\\'s 1981 novel, Easy Travel to Other Planets. There, Mooney describes \\"A Case of Information Sickness\\" in the following terms: If information was once considered the solid ground, the \\"factual\\" basis, on which to make ...
- 17417: ESP
- ... detects pain and prevents us from injuring ourselves further. Smell: this helps us identify hazardous chemicals which stops us from burning our lungs. But what about a sixth sense? What if you could read someone's mind and know what there really thinking when they say hello? Well, some believe that there is indeed a sixth sense; ESP. Extra sensory perception, or ESP, is defined as a way of receiving information ... So, for a long time, ESP was considered to be a supernatural phenomenon. That meant that ESP experiments were put on the shelf as far as scientists were concerned. In the middle of the 1940Ήs, a new idea was born. It was thought that the three types of ESP were just different examples of the same thing. From that premise came an attempt to relate parapsychology to the other sciences- physics, biology, and psychology. LetΉs take physics, which is the study of the physical. ESP has yet to be explained in physical terms, so physicists cannot account for it. But why is ESP non physical? For one thing it ...
- 17418: Installing A Car Stereo System
- ... wattage sufficient for the front speakers. The sub-woofer system will be powered by an additional external amplifier by using these jacks. CD Controller Although cassettes are more versatile at this point in time, CD's are readily available and deliver a more quality sound. It would be a very good choice to assure that a CD Controller is built in. One that controls more than just a specific multi-CD ... door will only reproduce sounds in the upper-midrange to high range. The head unit will produce enough wattage to effectively cover this range in a set of speakers this size. The 6"x 9" 's in the rear sides will reproduce the full range of sound excluding the low range reproduced by the subwoofer. To effectively do this without loss of sound quality, a set of 2-way 6"x ... sound in the range of 1200hz- 1500hz. The subwoofer system can adequately supply all the tones generated below the 1500hz point, and compensate for the lows lost by the absence of amplification in the 6x9's. The rear door speakers will be the Kenwood KFC-1054. They are 5" in diameter and have a mounting depth of only 1" which makes this also ideal for installation into factory cut speaker ...
- 17419: High School/College Contrasts
- ... already noticed a lot of differences between the two. Some of the changes were good, but there were also some bad ones. The first difference I noticed right away was the fact that you don't have all of your classes every day of the week. In high school, you had anywhere from three to six classes every day. They weren't very long, but that gave you homework almost every night. In college, however, you normally have about five classes. Some of the classes met twice a week, and others met three times a week. This ... worried about discipline and trying to keep the students from tearing up the classroom. In college the teachers act like they could care less what you do, but you know they really do care.!? That's probably because it's not their money you are wasting when you go in there and just goof off. College teachers will just tell you to leave if you are disturbing the rest of ...
- 17420: A Worn Path: A Tale of Unstoppable Love
- ... as Phoenix Jackson makes a long journey into town to get medicine for her chronically ill grandson. She strives forward despite frequent obstacles in her way that include her own failing health and the grandchild's slim chance of survival. Phoenix Jackson is "an old Negro woman" who continues forward over barriers that would not even be considered a hindrance for the young. This is a journey which she has taken ... going to be for an elderly woman such as her. The description "Her eyes were blue with age. Her skin has a pattern all its own of numberless branching wrinkles" are indications of Phoenix Jackson's old age. She supports herself with a cane, striving not to fall with every step she takes. She wears a "dress reaching down to her shoe tops" along with "an equally long apron of bleached ... out of a predicament, and having her grandson as a reason to keep going. Walking across a log with her eyes closed is another daring thing she attempts. After safely crossing she says "I wasn't as old as I thought." She sits down to rest "when a little boy brought her a plate with a slice of marble-cake on it." When old Phoenix reaches "to take it there ...
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