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- 21421: Les Miserables
- Les Miserables Les Miserables is one of the most captivating plays of our lifetime! It grabs the audience and pulls you in head first. You can't take out eyes off of the stage, and even if you can, the music will take your breath away! I have seen the play 3 times and I don't think I enjoy anything in this world more than watching that play! Les Miserables starts off on a chain gang in France. The sheriff comes out and gives one of the convicts his release papers ... Valjean leaves the prison and sets out to find work. But no one will give him work because of his tattoo which reads 24601, his prison ID number. Then in the time when he couldn't be more down a priest invites Valjean to stay with him. Despite the kind priest taking him in and feeding him, Valjean decides to take the silver from the table. In the run he ...
- 21422: Mythology
- ... the past. Myths do not correctly explain what literally happen but suggest that behind the explanation there is a reality that cannot be seen and examined. One of the best-known mythological books is Homers Iliad, which tells of the Trojan War. No one reading the book today believes Homers story as a historically factual account. However it is believed that at some time, many centuries before Homer lived-there really was a war between the Greek city-states and the residents of northwestern Asia ... the gods like, and where did they come from? How did humanity originate? Why is there evil in the world? What happens to people after they die? Myths also try to account for a societys customs and rituals. Myths are used to justify the way a society lives. Ruling families in several ancient civilizations found justification for their power in myths that described their origin in the world of ...
- 21423: The Virtues Of Honesty
- ... as the vice president and president of the United States of America when that official assumes office. The taking of an oath generally implies some legal or moral sanction for failing to carry out one's sworn pledge. A trial witness, for example, may be charged with the crime of perjury for lying under oath. When someone swears to a statement under oath or on an affidavit and the statement is ... this is if a person represents himself or herself as the agent of a business with which she of he is unconnected to and causes another party to make a contract to the other party's disadvantage or injury, the first party is guilty of fraud. Therefore, if in making a contract, a person obtains an unjust advantage because of the defective mental capacity, intoxicated condition or youth of the other ... polarized light to the left. Scopolamine is used medically to dilate the eye; to depress the central nervous system, which effect makes it valuable as a sedative and preanesthetic; and to prevent motion sickness. Scopolamine's effect on the central nervous system also makes it useful as a "truth serum," by means of which uncooperative people may be forced to answer question. This method of interrogation is common in popular ...
- 21424: Hypothermia
- ... Hypothermia can also occur when a person has illnesses or health problems such as heart circulatory, or thyroid diseases; diabetes, arthritis, and other conditions that prohibit mobility. Having these conditions can interfere with the body's ability to fight the cold. When a person is fatigue or in poor physical condition, or drinking alcohol, wearing inadequate clothing, or taking combinations of medications it may also lead to hypothermia in cool or cold weather. Drinking alcohol may lower the body's temperature and dull the awareness of the cold. Taking a combination of some medications can actually lower the body's resistance to the cold. Infants and the elderly are most vulnerable to hypothermia for they have less body mass. It is a proven fact that large people cool slower than small people therefore children ...
- 21425: The Use Of Oils In Sacraments
- ... which is beyond dispute: in the Latin Church the sacrament of confirmation is conferred by using the sacred chrism or olive oil mixed with balsam and blessed by the bishop, and by the sacramental minister s tracing the sign of the cross on the forehead of the recipient, while the minister pronounces the words from form. The rite s vary, as do the their origins. The first records of confirmation in the East appeared in the fourth or fifth centuries. Today s confirmation is not much different from past ones. The anointing with chrism comes after the laying on of hands . While anointing the individual with the chrism, the bishop simply says the individual s confirmation ...
- 21426: Forests And Oceans As Carbon Sinks
- ... amount of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere has been increasing rapidly over the last few decades and continues to do so. 2) Historically, the trends in increase of carbon dioxide started in the late 1700's. This was the approximate time of the Industrial Revolution. At this time, the carbon dioxide concentration was around 270 ppm (pounds per million). Concentrations grew very slowly from this time until the twentieth century. But ... far the most abundant of sources. The carbon dioxide from land use change comes mostly from deforestation which occurs mostly in Brazil, Indonesia and Columbia. The last major source of carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere is the emission from cement plants. Carbonaceous material used for making cement releases significant amounts of carbon dioxide. This source is fairly large since cement is used for roads, bridges, buildings and powering and ... and eventually larger fish or animals that ultimately die, leaving skeletons or carbonate shells that sink to the ocean floor. This process takes carbon from the rapidly changing part of the cycle near the ocean's surface to the deep ocean where it may be stored for thousands of years. Sunlight penetrating the ocean surface is depleted as it passes downward, creating what is called the euphotic zone. This is ...
- 21427: Confucius 4
- ... positions, which were filled by those scoring highest on examinations in the Confucian classics. It also blended with popular and important religions and became the vehicle for presenting Chinese values to the peasants. The school's doctrine supported political authority using the theory of the mandate of heaven. It sought to help rulers maintain domestic order, preserve tradition, and maintain a constant standard of living for the tax paying peasants. It trained its followers in generous giving, traditional rituals, family order, loyalty, respect for superiors and for the aged, and principled flexibility in advising rulers. Confucius was China's first and most famous philosopher. He had a traditional personal name (Qiu) and a formal name (Zhoghi). Confucius's father died shortly after Confucius's birth. His family fell into relative poverty, and Confucius joined a growing class of impoverished descendants of aristocrats who made their careers by acquiring knowledge of feudal ritual ...
- 21428: Death Can Come Too Late: Active and Passive Euthanasia
- ... heal, allowing him to recover the ability to breath unassisted once weaned off a respirator. This means that he will continue to live, if one can call his existence living, for years to come. Perry's mother, who refused the suggestion of "letting him die" while her son was comatose, acknowledges that he would not have wanted to live in his present condition. She refused the suggestion of letting him die ... often less brutal, is refused. Certain clarifications are necessary before discussion can begin on whether there truly is a moral difference between active and passive euthanasia as the two terms are commonly used today. Barron's Medical Guide defines the word euthanasia as "the act of deliberately causing another's death to relieve suffering". It is broken down into active euthanasia, which is "the use of artificial means to hasten death", or passive euthanasia, which is the "withholding of treatment necessary for the prolongation ...
- 21429: Origin Of Man
- ... today. This trans- formation is explained by the theory of the evolution, where changes in an organism are due to the changes in the conditions of their environment. With the rigorous changes of the environment's condi- tions, living creatures especially animals had to adapt their physical and biological make-up to these changes to meet their needs. The story of man's evolution is one of increasing differentiation from the other groups of animals to which he is related. It is believed that over 60 million years, descendants of the early primates gradually evolved to produce modern man. Tree-living creatures, more like rats than men, were followed by the ancestors of today's lemurs and monkeys, and by a primate called Dryopithecus, believed to be the common ancestor of both apes and man. A breakthrough in man's evolution came when creatures became adapted to standing and ...
- 21430: Euthanasia
- ... 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 p Euthanasia is a way of granting mercy-both by direct killing and by letting the person die. This principle of mercy establishes two ... physician or other caregiver to extend mercy to a suffering patient may mean to refrain from procedures that cause further suffering-provided, of course, that the treatment offers the patient no overriding benefits. The ph s performed even though a patient's survival is highly unlikely; although patients in arrest are unconscious at the time of resuscitation, it can be a brutal procedure, and if the patient regains consciousness, its aftermath can involve considerable pain. In ...
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