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- 27121: Genetic Engineering 2
- ... the future. They also feel somatic therapy should be used on individuals who are certain to die or become paralyzed from their genetic default. It should not be allowed to perfect or alter an individual s makeup or offspring. The biggest type of genetic engineering used today is gene engineering is the manufacturing of pharmaceuticals. Insulin, a pancreatic substance that is responsible for the breakdown of glucose, is a hormone which ... several proteins are being studied and tested nation wide. Another advancement in medicine, which is, nothing less than astounding is vitro fertilization or the fusion of the sperm cell and the ovum outside the woman s body. In vitro fertilization is a useful tool for morphological and biochemical studies of sperm penetration of ova, of polspermy, and other abnormalities of fertilization (Lipken and Rowley 18). These are just a few of many miracles that gene engineering has made possible to save a person s life. Whether you use gene engineering for agricultural use or medical application, you must always realize that you are still altering and changing human nature. Sometimes the change is for the betterment of society ...
- 27122: Telvesion
- In an article The Plug-In Drug the author Marie Winn discusses the bad influence of television on today s society. Television is a drug that interfere with family ritual, destroys human relationships and undermines the family. Marie Winn claims that television over the years have effected many American family life. Since television is everyday ... with the television, they fail to fully develop their communication and social skills. This further intensifies the decline of the family relationships. But, for most part, author feel television is drug that is corrupting today s society. Many of us fail to recognize how it has caused the decline of family rituals, the avoidance of relationships and the destruction of the family. Our addiction to this daily habit cause us to ... have little or no time for their children often substitute television as a baby-sitter and parents blame television as child bad conduct. But it is parents who should to be blame for the child s bad behavior because not providing proper care and guide for the child. Parents should set limitation and boundaries for themselves to cope with the television addiction. Family matter should be their number one priority ...
- 27123: Pablo Casals
- ... opponent of Fascism, Casals exiled himself from Spain. He did this in a protest against the regime of Frincisco Franco. For a time, he even stopped performing altogether. After this long exile, in the 1950's Casals began being active in music again and he organized and ran many series of musical festivals in France and Puerto Rico. In putting together these performances, Casals found a certain need inside himself to ... hope that my dream for an occupation is even half as successful as his was. He was definitely one of the most influential men of the early half of the twentieth century. BIBLIOGRAPHY 1. Phillips, S. "Funk and Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia", Running Press, New York 1982 2. James, M. "Conversations with Casals", Grace Books, New York, 1962
- 27124: The Balance of Power Theory
- ... we can see the B.O.P. concept in action. The clearest example of the B.O.P. concept can be found in the Cold War. In the Cold War the two superpowers the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. held a stable world balance between them. Both states sought to deter domination by the other through a build up of arms and through the creation of strong alliance systems. Under the B. ...
- 27125: Politicking Goes High-Tech
- Politicking Goes High-Tech This reading dealt with the fact that the major decision makers for people when voting (especially for Senators) are the television spots. The article discussed how today's campaigns are now candidate-centered rather than political party-centered and how they require large sums of money in order to pay for all the advertising, and a team of professional workers rather than a ... and the other has to decide how to respond." After you run the ads you have to poll the people, of course, to determine how they feel about your standings on issues. If they don't like them, then you have to change your ads; and if your opponent is winning, you might as well say something about him/her to make him/her look bad to the viewers"negative ads ...
- 27126: What Are Visual Defects and How Common Are They ?
- ... are nearsightedness and farsightedness. In nearsightedness, also known as myopia, the eye is longer than usual. This is corrected by using a concave lens to spread the light rays just enough to increase the eye's focal length. Hyperopia, also known as farsightedness, is caused by a shorter than usual eye. A convex lens increases light bending and returns the point of focus to the retina. Bibliography Coon, Dennis, Introduction to Psychology, St. Paul, Minnesota, West Publishing Company, 1989, pp. 85-87. "Eye," Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia, 1994, 1995 Compton's NewMedia, Inc. Pierenne, M. H., Vision and the Eye, London, England, Chapman and Hall Ltd., 1967, pp. 2-9.
- 27127: Terrorism 2
- ... troops when and how they can. In June 1944: at Oradour-sur-Glane, in Central France, German SS troops take revenge, massacring 642 villagers. In August 1945: the United States Air Force drops the world's first nuclear weapon. Some 190,000 Japanese die, nearly all of them civilians. Within days the second world war has ended. Which of these four events was an act of terrorism? Which achieved anything? Which ... in front of the building. In fact, it would mean that the fuse had to have been lit almost a full minute before the truck was parked in front of the Murrah entrance. "We don't know for sure on that," one source said. "But we're operating on that theory." 1. The FBI believes that the Mercury was parked 80 feet from the Ryder truck, although how they came to ...
- 27128: Civilisations
- ... regulation was due to the flooding of the Nile. The Egyptians were therefore also always in much closer proximity to one another than for example the Greek Civilization. Another difference was that the Egyptians didn't have quite as many influences from other groups of people as did the Greeks. The location of the Nile and surrounding area provided a natural barrier from others. Thus their development was largely due to ... gods, the Hebrews believed in one God. The God was unique also in that he controlled nature. Their God was called Yahweh. The significance of this difference was that although a radical idea in it's early day, this monotheism came to predominate later on. The Greek Civilization, unlike the Egyptian grew out of a need for protection and peace from the many invading groups. The Greeks developed the polis and ...
- 27129: The Chernobyl Accident
- The Chernobyl Accident No center of population on the earths surface is secure from surprise destruction in a single attack. There is no defense in science against the weapon which can destroy civilization. (Gale 210) The Chernobyl disaster on April 26, 1986 is described as ... The fallout caused an international uproar against the Soviet Union for its lax safety measures and its concealment of the fact that the dangerous radiation was floating toward neighboring countries. (Time 39) The Chernobyl accident's consequences, aggravated by the political, economic and social changes of the past years, have led to a worsening in people's quality of life and health, and to negative impacts on social activity. The situation has been further complicated by the spreading of incomplete and distorted information on the accident consequences and measures for their ...
- 27130: Maxine Kumin and Her Poetry
- ... eternity at Lytle and South Dixie the light changes. In her last poem written in the booklet, Getting Through, she describes different types of snow. When she writes, No mail today. No newspapers. The Phone's dead. Bomb's and grenades, the newly disappeared, a kidnapped ear, go unrecorded but the foals flutter inside warm wet bags that carry them eleven months in the dark. This shows her life's simplicity versus the complexity of society. The poems written by Maxine Kumin all use detailed information about the specifics of farm life, including typical animal actions, and movements, and plants common to the New ...
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