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- 27221: The World Without Cars
- The invention of the automobile in the early 1900's was one of the many great inventions during that time. Cars have enabled our nation to grow and develop. Life without cars would cause the world to be a completly different place. The loss of ... of moving goods from city to city would need to be found. Also, cultural development would be affected if their were no cars. There would be more room for people to walk and cities wouldn't be so compact. The environment is a major factor in the life of every human. Cars greatly harm our environment. If we did not have cars our environment would be much better. We would not ...
- 27222: The Renaissance and the Church
- ... brought new products and goods to Western Europe. In the year 1305 the Roman Catholic Church was relocated from Rome to France. With this the power of the papal states was divided among the region's leading families. Starting near the year 1300 the demand for reform began to grow at a rapid pace. By the 1600's close to half of the practicing Catholics in western Europe had left the Church to join one of the new reformer religious groups. This reform brought about new ways of thought and new attitudes towards religion and the human race. The young German scholar realized that the way to salvation was "justification by faith." Martin Luther's beliefs were deemed to be heretic in nature and he was hidden away by a German prince. The word Renaissance means a "rebirth". This is exactly what happened after the Crusades and split of ...
- 27223: Medieval Weapons
- ... three kinds of hilt. Similar to swords was the elegant dagger. These miniaturized swords did not become important until the 12th or 13th century, at which time they became a standard part of any knight's repertoire. The most popular type of dagger was the roundel dagger. This dagger had a double-edged, tapered blade and a simple hilt with circular guards. Another popular form of dagger was the bullock knife ... in a fraction of a second. One particularly interesting variety of javelins is the Angon, used mainly by the Franks and Saxons. The Angon had a barbed head, causing it to lodge in an enemy's shield or flesh. Normally, a soldier would use his sword to cut off the shaft of the spear, but the Angon had a long metal neck, making this impossible. Thus, once an Angon hit a ... right angle to a straight stock, which held the intricate mechanism that drove the crossbow. A soldier using the crossbow had to use all his strength to load the crossbow with a quarrel, the crossbow's equivalent of an arrow. Even though the Pope condemned the crossbow, it still became even more important in combat than the regular bow and arrow. Weapons are an intricate part of history, as well ...
- 27224: Euthanasia
- ... months to live and decides to end their life prematurely, saying that they are going to die anyway, why bother with waiting. It is the same with anyone. Everyone will eventually die, so why doesn't every one just kill themselves now? It is because there are things they want to do and see, there is life they still have yet to experience. The same thing is true for a terminably ... abortion was because it was being done anyway. People HAD access to abortion, it was just being done terribly. We're in exactly the same situation today: People do have access to assisted suicide--it's just being done so badly. (Shavelson, 39)" Just because something is done does not mean that it should be legal. Many things that are illegal are done anyway. Look at drugs, underage drinking, drunk driving ...
- 27225: Time To Put Sexual Abuse In Pe
- ... perpetrate abuse have not dropped in from outer space. They are men who are born here, of Irish parents, reared in Ireland, [they] came through an Irish education system, are not all mad and don't have psychiatrist disturbances." In my own experience, a man I know who was convicted of child sex abuse was a leader in his local community; he was charming, handsome and charismatic, a good athlete, apparently ... discovery, which sent shock-waves of disbelief through both family and community. There are approximately 400 male sex offenders in Irish prisons. According to November 1998, there were 279 men serving sentences in the Republic's prisons for sexual offences (no breakdown available, unfortunately, to distinguish between adult and child abuse), representing one in eight of the sentenced male prison population. At present in Northern Ireland prisons there are approximately 110 ...
- 27226: Tocacco And Its Effects
- ... smoking among adults in the United States has dropped 30%. Private businesses and all levels of government have jumped on the nonsmoking bandwagon. Almost every state now restricts smoking bands for indoor workplaces. The U.S. Surgeon General has proposed that America become a completely smoke-free society. Despite such progress, tobacco use remains widespread. About one in four American adults mokes, and each more than 400,000 Americans die from ... of the mouth and nose. It triggers the release of powerful chemical messengers in the brain, including epinephrine, norepinephrine, and dopamine. But unlike street drugs, most of which are used to achieve a high, nicotine s primary attraction seems to be the ability to modulate everyday emotions. At low doses, nicotine acts as a stimulant: it increases heart rate and blood pressure and can enhance alertness, concentration, rapid information processing, memory ... nicotine, for instance. At high doses, on the other hand, nicotine appears to act as a sedative; it can reduce aggressiveness and alleviate the stress response. Tobacco users may be able to fine-tune nicotine's effects and regulate their moods by increasing or decreasing their intake of the drug. Studies have shown that smokers experience milder mood variation than nonsmokers while performing long, boring tasks or while watching emotional ...
- 27227: Suspenseful
- The solitude of the fearful evening added to frightful atmosphere of the cold winter's night. The piercing wind breathed heavily through the city and the tiny droplets of rain danced on the roofs of every building like a concert of tap dancers. All were asleep cozy in their beds ... her mind. The words 'rapist' and 'serial killer' were her only thoughts. Terrified she slowed her pace as she tried to decide whether she would avoid finding out his purpose by going to her neighbour's house and stay there the night, or ignore her fear and go home. "Look at yourself, pull yourself together" she muttered to herself in a voice that seemed to rebuild her confidence. Then she smiled at herself amused at the fact that she was talking to herself. And in that sudden spur of reassurance, she passed her neighbour's house and quickly walked up her driveway, trying to ignore the figure, which seemed to be watching her every move. As she reached the front door, she dug clumsily into her handbag in search ...
- 27228: Topology
- Topology Topological ideas are present in almost all areas of today's mathematics. The subject of topology itself consists of several different branches, such as point set topology, algebraic topology and differential topology, which have relatively little in common. We shall trace the rise of topological concepts ... geometry where distance was not relevant. The next step in freeing mathematics from being a subject about measurement was also due to Euler. In 1750 he wrote a letter to Christian Goldbach which gives Euler's famous formula for a polyhedron, v - e + f = 2, where v is the number of vertices of the polyhedron, e is the number of edges and f is the number of faces. It is interesting ... reason must be that to everyone before Euler, it had been impossible to think of geometrical properties without measurement being involved. Johann Benedict Listing (1802-1882) was the first to use the word topology. Listing's topological ideas were due mainly to Gauss, although Gauss himself chose not to publish any work on topology. Listing wrote a paper in 1847 called Vorstudien zur Topologie although he had already used the ...
- 27229: Who Is The Tragic Hero In Antigone?
- ... hero. She tries to help her brother without worrying about what will happen to her. She says, "I intend to give my brother burial. I'll be glad to die in the attempt, -if it's a crime, then it's a crime that God commands" (Sophocles 4). She was also punished for doing what was right. Her epiphany came, hidden from the audience, before she hung herself. Creon's "nobleness" of taking in young Antigone and Ismene is overshadowed by his egotistical nature. He will not allow justice to come about simply because he wants to protect his image. He says, "If she ...
- 27230: Superconductors
- ... normal to a superconducting state is regular across a region of mixed behavior. A Type 2 superconductor will also allow some invasion by an outer magnetic field into its surface. A Type 1 superconductor wont. Super conductors have many uses. They are used in trains as magnetic-levitation devices, which makes certain trains appear to float while in motion. Superconductors are also used medically in MRIs and commonly in electric generators, making them more efficient.
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