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- 22601: Alcohol Benefits
- ... people who drank moderately, about one or two drinks per day, had a lower chance of developing blocked arteries in their legs. This condition results when the arteries in the legs become hardened. Researchers aren't sure exactly why alcohol works this way. It could be because alcohol improves circulation slightly, dilates blood vessels or raises the level of good cholesterol in the blood. Researchers will continue studying this to determine how alcohol helps. But before you start drinking more, the researchers say the biggest risk factor for blocked or hardened arteries is smoking. Smokers in the study didn't get the beneficial effects from alcohol. Heavy drinking isn't good for you, either, and can cause additional health problems. The best results were seen with only a drink or two each day. Drinking more isn't going to have additional health benefits. Doctors ...
- 22602: Summertime Blues
- ... these feelings in a reader but William Shakespeare? His various plays keep us entranced and curious but it is his poetry that strikes a chord deep within us. "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" by William Shakespeare is particularly powerful using specific phrases to evoke the inner feelings of the reader as well as the woman to which he is speaking. Shakespeare creates wonderful imagery by using elegant ... woman he loves. Shakespeare wrote his sonnet when he was deeply in love with a woman. The woman used by Shakespeare is consistent throughout his sonnets, but no one is quite sure of the woman's identity. An expert on Shakespearian sonnets, Katherine Duncan-Jones, states "one sixth of the sonnets are addressed to the dark lady-and these can be seen as brutally defiant of Petrarchanism, yet the history of ... of children playing and the sun shining, basically a carefree day where everything is beautiful. He contemplates whether or not to compare his love to this ideal day, "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" (Line 1) but decides against it in his second line because he feels his love is "more lovely and more temperate" than this day. He then proceeds to bombard us with images of ...
- 22603: African Americans in the Civil War
- ... in the Union Army was completed by a number of actions by the Black man that gained him the respect of becoming a soldier. The two are different in that it was to President Lincoln’s benefit to enlist Blacks as soldiers as he did. Whereas the later was the Black Man’s will to fight for his freedom and prove himself as equal as any White man. However, because the Black population was stopped from entering the army under a 1792 law, the Black Man becoming a ... about the usually held fear White people had about putting Blacks on the fighting line of the armies in the Civil War. Whites felt that the Civil War was a war started over White man’s issue and what possible reason would the black man have for wanting to fight in this war. But what they thought was wrong. The Black Man saw the Civil War as a chance to ...
- 22604: Charles Dickens 4
- ... Dickens traveled a lot and had seen many little things and some great things, which, because they interested him, he thought may interest others (Internet Site #3). His books all contain themes that show Dickens s dislike of the way his society is. He wrote primarily for the lower-middle class. He was not particularly fond of the aristocratic class, and how they treated the people of lower classes. His ideas ... This book conveys that wealth does not always mean happiness. Scrooge had all the wealth in the world, but he was not happy. Another theme in this book is greed, which is one of Scrooge s qualities. Dickens understands the evils that greed can cause, so he criticizes it in Christmas Carol. This book also contains the theme of alienation because Scrooge alienates himself from the rest of the world, including ... the System . Dickens said that we must not look to the individual, but we must look to the System because he blamed a lot of the corruption in society on them. Dickens working in Warren s Shoeblacking factory had a crucial influence on his emphasis upon orphans and abandoned children, the self-pity that permeates many of his works, and their fairy-tale plots (Internet Site #4). This experience explains ...
- 22605: The Right to Privacy by Robert Bork.
- The Right to Privacy by Robert Bork. Robert Bork's The Right of Privacy examined the landmark case Griswald v. Conneticut. Bork's "originalist" view proclaimed that Justice Douglas erroneously interpreted the right of privacy from the Constitution. The originalist view is that judges must strictly adhere to the language of the Constitution, thus people do not have ... in the ability of government officials to enforce the law. Yet, Bork disagreed with the method used by Justice Douglas to overturn the conviction of two doctors distributing information on condoms. Bork felt that Douglas's liberal use of penumbras to create a zone of privacy was an excessive use of judicial power. Bork feels a judge must follow the Constitution and should not imply anything from the various ideas ...
- 22606: Franny and Zooey: Childhood
- ... mind. Memories of climbing trees, playing dress-up and other fun-filled reminiscences float through these waters like drift wood. I remember nothing but living in a joyful bliss. My only tragdy was when Barbie's beloved Ken's head fell off. We are all increadibly innocent as children. We will reach out to anyone's hand with out eyes fille with trust. The events of our childhood determines who we are, what we will be, what our future hold. For example, I have recently learned that, in many cases, ...
- 22607: A Friendly Enemy
- ... that she would like to die. The women and the nurse hear Medea wishing for death as if it were a treasure or something valuable. The nurse and women are not in agreement with Medea’s view of death. To them, death would be something that lurks around anything and anywhere waiting to strike. "He strikes from the clear sky like a hawk, he hides behind green leaves, or he waits ... compare to death. A hawk is a swift predator that attacks unnoticed, but to Medea death is a trophy. For Medea death has a value of importance. A friendship has been established. Death is Medea’s friend. She uses it as a weapon to get what she views as justice. "Then if you have a dog eyed enemy and needed absolute vengeance . . . Unchild him, ha? And then unlife him"(23). Medea ... her miserable and craving for revenge. Thus, she went on taking the life of his bride-to-be and the life of their children. She also wanted to wash herself from the impurities of Jason’s touch. "Ah, rotten, rotten, rotten: death is the only water to wash this dirt" (12). This is a metaphor for she compares death to a water, which is a symbol of pureness, to cleanse ...
- 22608: Gilgamesh
- ... harshly. The people call out to the sky-god Anu, the chief god of the city, to help them. Inresponse, Anu creates a wild man, Enkidu, out in the harsh and wild forests surrounding Gilgamesh's lands. This brute, Enkidu, has the strength of dozens of wild animals; he is to serve as the subhuman rival to the superhuman Gilgamesh. A trapper's son, while checking on traps in the forest, discovers Enkidu running Naked with the wild animals; he rushes to his father with the news. The father advises him to go into the city and take ... state, but the har-lot offers to take him into the city where all the joys of civilization shine in their re-splendence; she offers to show him Gilgamesh, the only man worthy of Enkidu's friendship. Gilgamesh meanwhile has two dreams; in the first a meteorite falls to earth which is so great that Gilgamesh can neither lift it nor turn it. The people gather and celebrate around the ...
- 22609: Electronic Monitoring vs. Health Concerns
- ... Concerns Is privacy and electronic monitoring in the work place an issue that is becoming a problem? More and more employees are being monitored today then ever before and the companies that do it aren't letting off. While electronic monitoring in the work place may be the cause of increased stress levels and tension, the benefits far exceed the harm that it may cause. Employees don't realize how often electronic monitoring happens in their work place. An estimated twenty million Americans are subjected to monitoring in their work place, commonly in the form of phone monitoring, E-mail searches, and searching ... levels in employees. While the advantages derived from electronic monitoring far outweigh the disadvantages. Through the use of employee monitoring, companies can save money in overall operations cost by weeding out those employees who don't pull their weight, and cut down on employee theft. By monitoring employees, it is possible to measure their performance and see if they are meeting standards. By getting rid of those employees who don' ...
- 22610: Cyclohexanone
- ... material was collected between 153°C and 155.5°C, for a theoretical yield of 55%. The Infrared Spectrum of the sample follows on page 4. Conclusion The Infrared spectrum for cyclohexanone below, from McMurry’s “Organic Chemistry” has two distinctive absorption’s relevant in this experiment, the aliphatic C-H stretch around 2900 cm-1 and the C=O stretch around 1750 cm-1. The Infrared spectrum for adipic acid below, from McMurry’s “Organic Chemistry” also has two distinctive absorption’s relevant in this experiment, the C=O stretch around 1750 cm-1 and the O-H stretch around 3000 cm-1. The boiling point range of ...
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