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- 22141: Bombing of Dresdon
- ... legitimate act of war, and its result was the terroristic mass murder of over 135,000 people. Bombing civilian targets in enemy territory became an open issue on March 30, 1942 when the Prime Minister.s science advisor, Professor F.A. Lindemann (who later was recognized as Lord Cherwell) delivered to Winston Churchill a report which contained a strong argument in favor of striking civilian targets. .Cherwell.s report contained the final rationalization for the program Bomber Command was undertaking., and it would henceforth be paper-clipped to the plans of the bomber offensive. (Hastings). In his report, Lindemann estimated that forty tons ... a nation of refugees could be the result of strategic air attacks. It is wildly believed among scholars that the information cont.ained in this report was the basis of the attack on Dresden. Lindemann¦s figures were correct, but his thinking was immoral and inhumane. The people to whom his statistics referred so objectively were innocent civilians, more than half of them women and children. The assault upon them ...
- 22142: How Weather Affects The Qualit
- ... drive in these conditions and have problems getting baby-sitters for their kids. Many people go down South during the winter for a vacation and they love the weather down there and claim they can’t wait till they go again the next year, yet when the same weather comes to Southern Ontario during the summer months, almost everybody complains. During the summer in Southern Ontario the weather is the exact opposite that of the winter. The days are long, humid, and hot. During these days people feel lazy and don’t want to work much. Almost all the people who didn't take their entire holiday during the winter to go down South take the rest of it ,or even all of it if they didn’t go anywhere during the winter, during the summer. These ...
- 22143: Leonhard Euler
- ... to follow in his footsteps and sent him to the University of Basel to prepare for the ministry, but geometry soon became his favorite subject. Under the teachings of Johann Bernoulli, Euler obtained his father's consent to change his major to mathematics. After failing to obtain a physics position at Basel in 1726, he joined the St. Petersburg Academy of Science in 1727. By the time Leonhard was twenty years old, he suffered from severe eye problems, and was almost completely blind at an early age. But this did not stop him. In pure mathematics, he introduced Leibniz's differential calculus and Newton's method of fluxions into mathematical analysis; refined the notion of a function [f(x)]; made common many mathematical notations, including e, i, the pi symbol, and the sigma symbol; and laid the foundation for ...
- 22144: Les Etats Unis Du Mexique
- ... be scared to challenge the concepts of the traditional American Dream. Will society become dysfunctional if someone challenges the American Dream or will it make our country stronger and more diverse? According to James Baldwin’s “My Dungeon Shook: A Letter to My Nephew” African Americans can not obtain their piece of the American Dream. Baldwin wrote a letter to his nephew in hope of guiding him through life. Baldwin had ... to succeed in life but not to expect the unassailable. By believing the white man one can not succeed but by knowing where one comes from will lead to success was the foundation of Baldwin’s message (243-246). When reading “My Dungeon Shook: A Letter to my Nephew”, it was clear that Baldwin was not just writing a letter to his nephew but to society by interacting personal thoughts with public awareness. Although Baldwin’s letter was addressed to his nephew, he intended for society as a whole to be affected by it. “This innocent country set you down in a getto in which, in fact, it intended that ...
- 22145: History Of Police Corruption
- ... are now involved in more serious criminal activities. Low-level passive forms of corruption (i.e., systemic bribery schemes, non-enforcement of the law, collusion) have been replaced by more aggressive forms of corruption. Today's police corruption is most likely to involve drugs, organized crime, and relatively sophisticated but small groups of officers engaged in felonious criminal activities. The cycle of police scandals in New York City provide a clear example of this trend. In the 1970s, New York's Knapp Commission on Police Corruption identified two general forms of corruption -- police officers involved in relatively low level forms of corruption and misconduct, and those officers involved in large scale corruption. Twenty years later, New York's Mollen Commission revisited the issue and found the face of corruption had changed. Their primary problem was "crew corruption," wherein groups of officers protect and assist each others' criminal activities. The Mollen Commission identified ...
- 22146: Civilization In Egypt
- ... to different things in our life today such as paper, surveying, the calendar, and they tamed the cat. Religion was a big part of society in Egypt. Religion was the basis for all of Egypt’s arts and government. Literature was mainly used in religion and the basis for education came from religion. They worshiped animals like the cat. They believed in an afterlife, which made them try to preserve the ... it was right or not they believed strongly in their answers. All this made their civilization as a whole much more stable and permanent. This all helped them to maintain it and preserve it. Egypt’s economics were fairly stable also. Trade was involved tremendously in Egypt. Foreign trade was done only according to the kingdom’s needs. A group of government officials was elected by the pharaoh’s and the officials were the ones who collected all the taxed, looked over the construction, checked all the irrigation, done the surveys, ...
- 22147: TV Violence and Children
- ... often feature dehumanized characters, such as Transformers and the Ninja Turtles, who engage in the destructive acts of violence by fighting our real life social problems. With acts of violence, kids learn to think that's how they should solve their problems. MTV's Beavis and Butt-head encourages fire, smoking, foul language, drinking and stealing. With these bad attitudes seen depicted as normal on TV shows kids are lead to believe it is cool be have that type ... be to watch television with their children so they can help children understand that violence hurts people physically and emotionally. Our society should take a long hard look in the mirror; the values of today's youth are reflections of the values of their elders. We should remember the words of the father in Harry Chapin's song "Cat's in the Cradle" when he comes to realize his son " ...
- 22148: Levi
- ... was translated into eight languages and adapted for the theater and radio. It documented how the camp deprived each individual of his and her identity and dignity, and brought about annihilation of the internees. Levi's alert moral consciousness blocked any hate for the oppressors, in spite of the brutality to which he was subjected. LA TREGUA (1963) was its sequel, and portrayed the wanderings that Levi and his companions followed at Russian directive through a devasted eastern Europe. Among Levi's other works is IL SISTEMA PERIODICO (The Periodic Table, 1975). The work uses the Russian chemist Mendeleyev's periodical table of elements as the base of autobiographical meditations, each named for a chemical element, where among others 'Vanadium' represents his unexpected encounter with a former official Auschwitz and 'Zinc' explorers the fascist ...
- 22149: Frankenstein
- ... easy answer to the problem. This again shows the ignorance of society in this novel. Two of the most inaccurate assumptions of society revolve around the central characters of Dr. Frankenstein and the monster. Society's labels for these two extremely different characters are on the exact opposite side of the scale from where they are supposed to be. Dr. Frankenstein is more of a monster while the monster is the more decent of the characters. Dr. Frankenstein, the so labeled decent, no-fault man, is actually irresponsible, stubborn, and extreme in his actions throughout the novel's plot. His irresponsibility shows through many times in his feelings toward his creation. While he was in the process of shaping his creation, Frankenstein is so caught up in his work and his yearning to ... the beast. He travels to all extents to hunt and destroy this monster, going through forests, mountains, and glaciers, and depriving himself of people, food, and sleep. There is no gray area in Dr. Frankenstein's head. There is only black and white. He either loves the monster totally or wants to slay it. He has to fully devote himself or not do his task. There is no just liking ...
- 22150: Euthanasia and the Robert Latimer Case
- ... was what he thought was best. He valued her rights as his daughter, unfortunately he did not value her rights as a human being. As euthanasia is one of the most controversial issues in today's society, up there with abortion and the legalization of marijuana, there is a close 50/50 opinion base on the topic. Thus, it would seem either extremely difficult for a jury to make a reasonable ... upon the elderly, sick, and disabled of our society. This is a risk for which a law should not have to take blame for, and changing this law would only encourage that. As for Latimer's sentence; this raises the ever-controversial question of ‘how can you put a price on a person's life?'. Will ten years in prison change the way Latimer feels about his actions? No is the most likely answer to the question, as Latimer clearly stated "I still feel what I did was ...
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