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- 20701: Medicine In America
- James Cassedy’s Medicine in America, A Short History takes a comprehensive look at medical progress in America from its colonial days to the present time. The book takes on five different themes in discussing medicine. First, it ... the colonies from Great Britain caused a break in medical advancement in America. Many physicians saw fit to pack up and return home. Main stream medicine at the time could be considered barbaric by today’s standards. Treatments such as excessive blood letting, which was thought to balance the body’s four humors, often did more harm than good. Sometimes they even led to death. The government began efforts at this time to pass laws requiring physicians be licensed. Thirteen states passed such laws, but ...
- 20702: Entertainment: The Limit
- Entertainment: The Limit What's one of the first things the American people think about when it comes to entertainment? Movies! The American people have become so involved with big screen entertainment that almost everything is evolved around them. From cartoon shows to television shows everyone wants to be on the big screen. How does the movie get there? It's not by magic. To put a movie onto the big screen or to make a movie it costs a great deal of money. The cost could reach 60 million dollars or more. Would the American ... should be used to improve education or to build better learning centers. Movies can also be educational. Many famous plays and documentaries have been put on the big screen. Many of the American people don't participate in going to stage plays and therefore the big screen is the only way they can be educated. Buying four movie passes maybe a lot cheaper than buying four tickets for the family ...
- 20703: An Attraction To Gangs
- ... families with single parents and working mothers. The lack of a nurturing family environment and parental guidance are some of the key factors in being able to recruit a gang member. If your children don t find the love and support that they so desperately need at home, they may have the tendency to seek it elsewhere. The attraction of belonging to a gang is becoming more popular among our youths ... elders to teach and guide them, and also strong, masculine figures to model themselves after. Their strength is in their unity and they perform rituals that strengthen their bonds of affection towards each other. It's no wonder that lost souls are prime candidates for recruitment. Members are required to act, dress and portray themselves in a certain manner. Their identities are formed through their association with each other. Younger members ... speaking alike and even develop their own secret codes. In essence they are given new identities and are molded to fit into the lifestyle. Parents should take special precautions to insure that their children don t fall prey to the influence of gangs in their neighborhood. Although they can t always be with their children or watch them all the time, they should still take the time to know of ...
- 20704: Aristotles Philosophy On Why P
- Aristotle's Philosophy regarding why People enjoy viewing Tragedies. The word Tragedy can be applied to a genre of literature. It can mean any serious and dignified drama that describes a conflict between the hero (protagonist) and ... to any self-knowledge the hero gains as well as to insight to the whole nature or condition of mankind, provided that that knowledge is associated, as Aristotle said it should be, with the hero's 'reversal of fortune'. A Reversal is a change of a situation to its opposite. A clear example is Oedipus' situation at the beginning and at the end when Oedipus is King. Another example in the ... and their behavior assessed carefully. These characters hold the work together. It is because of the fact that the audience can identify with these characters, which attracts the attention and involvement of the audience. Aristotle's Tragedy must have a build up and a release of emotions. This single factor also proves to be a significant element regarding the enjoyment of Tragedies. History affirms human nature's need and desire ...
- 20705: Alcohol 2
- ... had through recent history and is a choice which I believe should remain just that a choice. There has been only one period of history where alcohol purchase and consumption was limited. During the 1920 s, specifically 1920 to 1933 (and 1917 to 1919 in Canada) beverages such as beer, gin, rum, whiskey, and wine were forbidden to manufacture, sell, or transport. Supporters of prohibition believed alcoholic beverages endangered mental and ... produced disastrous results. But look at me. I m a responsible person. When I drink I always make sure that I have a designated driver. Why should I be punished by the few who can t handle that responsibility? How about my grandparents? They believe in having a glass of wine with their dinner. Its an old family custom which has maintained by my generation. Should I be told what I can and can t drink? I was reading Time Magazine recently and a recent study has been released which states that a glass of wine a day has been shown to improve liver function, lower cholesterol and lessen ...
- 20706: An Explanation Of
- ... the Pharisees that everyone deserves the hope provided by a second chance in life if they are willing to swallow their pride, admit their mistakes, and ask for forgiveness. The younger, rebellious son, the story s protagonist, discovers the forgiveness which is key to this parable, as he moves from ignorance to knowledge despite his pride. The stage is set for his fall in the beginning when he asks his father ... goods that falleth to me (8-9). He wants his inheritance in advance, which seems inappropriate and is an obvious foreshadowing of the mistakes that are to come. It quickly becomes evident that the boy s inexperience with money will lead to his downfall when Jesus tells that he gathers all together and takes his journey to a far country (9). He is out to live the good life as he ... is living would bring shame to his family, especially his father. This father/son relationship can already be associated with the God/man relationship. Man lives a sinful life that brings shame to God-- man s creator, or father-- but it is the forgiveness God has that gives man hope. Jesus goes on to show the Pharisees how the aforementioned hope is so essential for the lost sinners of the ...
- 20707: Asian Economic Crisis
- For the last few decades, Asia had been the world's economic miracle, achieving remarkable rates of growth and building high-quality manufacturing industries in just about anything and everything. However, since the struggle with collapsing currencies and plunging stock markets beginning in 1995, the Asian ... which deal with and/or depend on tourism is on its way to impoverishment. This means that export prices had to be raised in order to stay in competition. It seemed, although, that this wasn t enough to accommodate the money losses. Cutbacks, thus needed to made; extra expenditures and areas of obscurity had to go. With this in mind, many businesses (mostly private) began cutting back in the employment line. Many workers were fired, or let go, as they put it, because the company couldn t afford the extra disbursements. This may have been beneficial for the companies, but not its employees and their families. With my father, a Fire Specialist for the Guam Fire Bureau, and my mother, a ...
- 20708: Bowling Speech
- ... scores the next time they go out on a Friday night. Organizational Pattern: Informative Intended Audience: Comm 101 class Introduction I. Attention-Getting Device: How many of you guys think that you are the world s worst bowler? I bet you didn t know that the lowest game ever bowled by a man on ABC men s league is two. Mike Kappa, of Racine, Wisconsin, accomplished his outrageous score by throwing 18 gutter balls. However Richard Caplette, of Danielson, Connecticut, who threw nineteen in one game, holds the record for the ...
- 20709: Personality Traits of Romeo
- ... how boring life would be if all humans only demonstrated one personality trait. In literature, characters are made more interesting by being developed as round characters, people with more that one personality trait. In Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet, Romeo demonstrates being lovesick, impulsive, and sneaky. One of the personality traits that Romeo demonstrates in the play is being lovesick. First, when Romeo falls in love with Rosaline, she does ... up his windows, locks fair daylight out,/ And makes himself an artificial night” (Act One, scene two, lines 137 to 139). Romeo gets over Rosaline when he sees Juliet at the ball at Lord Capulet’s house. Obviously, Romeo’s inability to find true love forces him to become lovesick. Another personality trait that Romeo demonstrates in the play is being impulsive. One of the parts where this personality trait is shown is in ...
- 20710: Cyberspace Offers A Revolution
- ... issue or anything else, they can do it in total freedom. A major principal of law and order is to control a certain area and population. Laws that apply to one state or province don't necessarily apply to another. An interesting quality which the internet has, is that even in countries where freedom of speech is not a reality, the internet cant be censored by law (however, perhaps it can ... With the passage of the 1996 Telecommunications Act, American Congress has prepared to turn the Internet from one of the greatest resources of cultural, social, and scientific information into the online equivalent of a children's reading room. By invoking the overboard and vague term "indecent" as the standard by which electronic communication should be censored, American Congress has insured that information providers seeking to avoid criminal prosecution will close the ... for one reason or another the incident turned to fatality. Now, of course it can be argued that for these reasons certain information on the Internet should be censored. However, the main issue, which isn t being acknowledged, is the individuals responsibility for both the writing and reading of these materials. The Internet is not the cause of the fatalities. Indeed if anyone really wanted to learn how to make ...
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