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- 25611: Prejudice
- ... of prejudice that I have experienced. Sometimes, I have felt prejudice against me when sports teams were being chosen. It seemed as if captains would look at me and decide that I was fat, wouldn¹t be very fast, or be very good and not choose me. In fact, I play hard and am fairly good at several sports. I feel like I can make a strong contribution to a team, and am hurt when captains don¹t want me on their teams. In fact, there have been times when I have gotten on a team and done well. Then sometimes the kids that I have played with will choose me to be ... differently because of their unique qualities rather than giving them a chance to prove themselves. Sometimes people respond by trying harder to prove themselves, but other people just give up. In sports, if you don¹t give some people a chance, you might lose a good prospect to another team, or they might give up and never develop into the player they could have been. I think from my experience, ...
- 25612: Kkk 2
- ... over the horses. The Ku Klux Klan grew rapidly and spread terror across the South. Klan members beat and even murdered blacks and their white sympathizers to keep them from exercising their rights. Early 1900's: In 1915, William J. Simmons, a former Methodist clergyman, organized a new Klan in Atlanta, Ga., as a patriotic, Protestant fraternal society. The Klan directed its activities against groups it considered un-American, including blacks ... KKK spread rapidly throughout the Southern United States and became known as the invisible Empire. Its attacks helped drive blacks out of Southern political life. The crazy members:Increased civil rights activities during the 1960's brought a new wave of Klan violence. Klan members were involved in many terrorist attacks, including the killing of three civil rights workers in Mississippi, and the bombing of a Birmingham, Ala., church in which ... girls were killed. President Lyndon B. Johnson used the Federal Bureau of Investigation to probe the Klan. Some Klan members were sent to prison, and membership fell to about 5,000 by the early 1970's.
- 25613: Geography Of Indonesia And Aus
- ... southeast of Asia, separated by the Timor Sea and the Java Trench. Both have undergone challenges in economy, government, and demography that are both similar and quite different from the other. Indonesia is “the world’s most expansive archipelagic (fragmented) state” (Blij 503) with multiple heritages and cultures. Australia has been slowly declining over the past century and continues to economically disintegrate. According to records kept on the economy, government, and ... lumber, tin, coffee, tea, and other cash crops. However, the population continues on an upward climb that will have a doubling time of 43 years. This creates a much longer-term threat to the country’s future than anything does else does. With this steep climb in population, the nation has already been forced to import large amounts of rice and wheat to feed its people. The land is extremely fertile ... of reciprocation. Australia and Indonesia, both found in the southeastern hemisphere of the world, are fighting both similar and differing battles to provide stability. The lands of Indonesia are relatively uniform as spread over it’s 13,000 islands, except for the highly differing population levels that range over the five main islands. Australia has a much larger landmass, but the population also is heavily focused to the east coast. ...
- 25614: Brave New World
- ... Santayana once said, “Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination.” In life, there is no such thing as a “complete utopia”, although that is what many people try to achieve. Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World is an attempt at a utopian society. In this brave new world, mothers and fathers and family are non-existent. Besides being non-existent, when words of that sort are mentioned, ears ... is shown as a perfect world in which everyone is happy. If this was true, the people would not need to take soma, an equivalent along the lines of a cross between one of today’s “designer drugs” and Prozac. The Director, who goes nameless for most of the story, is less important than the controller is, and he also knows less. This is shown by his shock when the Controller ... this occurrence shows that he was more emotion than what is “good for you” in this system. When Bernard brings Linda and her son, John to the Director, he responds with disgust. After this, Linda’s face twists “grotesquely into the grimace of extreme grief ( )”, an emotion that is unknown to these sheltered people. It is impossible to live in a perfect society, because nothing can be forever perfect, and ...
- 25615: Buddhism
- Buddhism Buddhism is one of the major religions in today’s world. Some think of Buddhism as a philosophy, others as a religion, and some think of it as both. However, it is not really a religion in the true sense of the word. In Buddhism ... of all religions can study the teachings of the Budda. Buddhists do not worship the Budda; they look to the Budda for teaching and guidence, but not for salvation. Buddists want to make the Budda’s teachings available to all that are interested, they do not attempt to convert others to Buddhism. While the rest of humanity dwells in the dream that is called waking human state, one Siddhartha Guatama roused ... a man who stood apart from the crowd, who owned nothing and was unaffected by the petty concerns of the masses, and who radiated calm, serenity, and a profound inner peace. This sight lifted Siddhartha’s spirits, since it revealed to him that he could transcend the mundane existence and find true happiness. At this point, Siddhartha resolved to renounce the world and find inner peace. He felt that the ...
- 25616: Archimedes
- ... crown the king was sold was in fact not gold. It was also said that Archimedes single-handedly defended the city of Syracuse during a Roman siege by constructing huge lenses to focus the Sun's light on Roman ships and huge cranes to turn them upside down. When the Romans finally broke the siege, Archimedes was killed by a Roman soldier after snapping at him "Don't disturb my circles", a reference to a geometric figure he had outlined on the sand. Archimedes biggest contribution to math, especially geometry, was his discovery for finding the volume of a sphere showing that it ...
- 25617: Brave New World
- ... find Linda among the Indians. At first they do not realize who she is, but she explains what happened. Linda is aged and obese. Also, Linda has a son named John who is the Director's child. John is educated and mature, having read Shakespeare (forbidden in civilization). Bernard takes the two back to London for study. Once back, Linda takes too much soma, and she falls into a coma. Bernard ... same in the end, Huxley shows the same hopelessness that George Orwell showed in 1984. I liked this book because Huxley paid attention to detail and created a thoroughly engrossing literary masterpiece. Some of Huxley's "predictions" have begun to become reality. For instance, soma is strikingly similar to Prozac, and individuals are taking to new violent extremes, striving to stand out from society. Huxley's thinking was truly ahead of its time. Bibliography Brave New World Word Count: 803
- 25618: From the Menstral Cycle to Birth
- ... amnion, which is a fluid filled sac, develops to protect the embryo from infection, dehydration and impact. Cells of the endometrium and embryo combine to form the placenta. The placenta is attached to the mother's uterus and is connected the embryo by the umbilical cord. The placenta is full of tiny capillaries. Nutrients and oxygen diffuse from the mother's blood into the blood of the developing fetus and waste material diffuse from the fetus to the mother for disposal. If the mother drinks alcohol of smokes during pregancy the fetus does not get its ... full supply so it could be born small or abnormal. Around forty weeks of pregnancy the baby is delivered through the vagina and takes its first breath. The baby then suckles colostrum from its mother's breast. Colostrum is full of milk sugars, protein and antibodies. Once the baby is delivered, the placents is no longer needed and is also delivered and then discarded.
- 25619: The Life of Elizabeth Blackwell
- ... Blackwell Elizabeth Blackwell was born on February 3, 1821 to Hannah and Samuel Blackwell of Bristol, England. Her father owned and operated a sugar refinery, but it burned down when she was eleven. So, Elizabeth’s father decided to move to America in 1838. During their trip to America, she saw a horrible disease going around called cholera. Many of the passengers aboard the ship died from it. It was this ... open her own hospital. Elizabeth had to buy a house as her office because no one would rent space to her. This house later became the New York Infirmary for Women and Children. It wasn’t long before Elizabeth started seeing many patients because the Society of Friends supported her accomplishment as a doctor and referred people to her. She also helped train nurses for the battlefront during the Civil War ...
- 25620: The Black Plague
- ... shelter and better food on the table, the family tree had no chance of maturing.2 Birth and death rates were hideously altered. Labor, taxes and industrial shrinkage soon saw the effects of plague. England's cloth trade suffered, yet never diminished. Industrial shrinkage was a great cause in the fall of the economy. With the unfortunate dying by the dozens, some were left wandering if this was a sign of ... misleading as it may seem, rural lifestyle was ultimately bettered by the pestilence. Diets had taken a turn for the better. Meats, bread and ale were all upgraded as a result of the plague. England's countryside, when in comparison with urban parts, was seen as in better well being than ever before.4 The style of house building was altered for the better. The family was now separated from the ... toll on English society was both good and bad. Families were left unable to prosper yet in the countryside the people are living better lives. The outcome of the disaster was unpredictable yet the East's most popular philosophers gave their predictions anyway.
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