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- 27341: Analysis of Rich and Poor and The Case Against Helping the Poor
- ... ourselves. The author of Rich and Poor cites a statistic that the United States gives a mere .15% of its' GNP to foreign aid annually, far below the UN goal of .7%. But the U.S. still gives more aid in terms of absolute dollars than any other country, so we therefore produce the most overall support. As long as we continue our pattern of affluence and prosperity, we we be ... An interesting property of this topic is that many ethical standpoints are irrelevant. Cultural relativism is so biased that it can not be applied, the reason for this was supplied earlier in regards to Kant's categorical imperative. Ethical egoism is biased in the same manner, in that for all members of the rich society, not giving foreign aid is more personally beneficial. In turn, for members of the Third World ...
- 27342: Greek Olympics
- ... in their right hand. The palm branch was considered a symbol of victory because it was resilient and did not buckle or flatten under pressure.” In the huge temple of Zeus, in front of Phidia’s gold and ivory statue of Zeus each of the winning athletes would exchange their palm branch for the sacred crown of wild olive leaves. Even the huge statue of Zeus had a gold wreath of wild olive leaves for his “victor over the gods at Olympia”. When the judges placed the wreath on the winner’s head, each victor became liked by the gods. Outside the temple the watchers showered the newly crowned champions with flowers and leaves. After the ceremonies there were huge parties and games in the fields for ...
- 27343: Air Pollution
- ... production of photochemical smog. Nitrogen oxide is also dangerous it causes serious illness and deaths even if the exposure to NO2 is short. "The gas was responsible for 124 deaths in a fire at Cleveland's Crile Children Hospital on May 15, 1929, when x-ray film containing nitrocellulose accidentally caught fire and produced NO2" (Hodges 63). Solution: As one can surely see these types of air pollutants are harmful to ... cost of devices to reduce pollution are accurate, but what about the money it takes to repair the damages caused by air pollution? The annual total for air pollution is $16 billion in the U.S. The amount spent dealing with air pollution leaves less money for our government to give to researchers to find cures for diseases, military expenses, or for government debt. It is like throwing away money just ...
- 27344: Critical Analysis of "The Eagle" by Lord Tennyson
- ... The Eagle" by Lord Tennyson The name of the poem I am writing about is called “The Eagle” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. It is in figurative language form. The poem is divided into 2 Stanza's with 3 lines each. And there are an average of 9 feet a line. The rhyme scheme is every last word in each stanza rhyme's. Some of the imagery is with sight and sound. For sight they are “Close to the sun”, “Azure world”, azure mean the blue color in a clear daytime sky. “ Wrinkled sea beneath”, and “mountain walls ...
- 27345: Vegetarian Diet
- ... animals undergo has become so extreme that to partake of food from these creatures is to partake unknowingly of the abject misery that has been their lives"(14). But whatever the reasons behind a person’s choice to be a vegetarian, it is important to understand the different diets that individual vegetarians can choose. In the widest sense of the word, a vegetarian diet is a diet that is made up ... colons, lowers the risk for diabetes, helps control blood glucose levels, and also lowers the risk for cancer and heart disease (Messina 59). And it is grain products that form the base of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Department of Health and Human Services Food Guide Pyramid, which recommends servings of bread, rice, cereal, and pasta 6 to 11 times per day. (Farley 52) The typical intake of fiber ...
- 27346: The Formation of Rocky Shores
- ... They generally occur where there are steep coasts and where there is a lack of large sediment deposits. There are several ways that rocky shores are made. One way is by geological events. The America’s west coast, for example, are still rising and changing due to earthquakes and other natural occurrences. The uplifted coasts have not had time to erode or accumulate sediment. Eastern Canada and New England were once ... more problems they must survive. The changes in tides brings changes in temperature. Ocean temperatures stay relatively constant. However, when it is low tide some organisms become exposed and they must deal with the air’s different temperatures. most organisms deal with high temperatures in the same way as they deal with lack of moisture. With changes in tides and temperature comes changes in salinity. Weather also affects the amount of ...
- 27347: Malcolm X
- Malcolm X Malcolm X (born in 1925 and died in 1965), was black American leader, born in Omaha, Nebraska, as Malcolm Little. Malcolm's father, who was a Baptist minister, was an outspoken follower of Marcus Garvey, a black nationalist leader of the 1920s. The family moved to Lansing, Michigan, and when Malcolm was six years old, his father was murdered after receiving threats from the Ku Klux Klan. Malcolm's mother suffered a nervous breakdown and the eight children were taken by the welfare department. Malcolm was sent first to a foster home and then to a reform school. After the eighth grade, Malcolm moved ...
- 27348: Thomas Aquinas and The Existence of God
- ... Aquinas tried to come up with a theory to prove the existence of God. Aquinas tried to prove that God exists in his first cosmological argument by using seven steps. In order to understand Aquinas’s argument you have to understand what it means to me moved. To be moved does not mean to be set in motion or physically moved from one location to another by pushing, shifting etc. To ... to be a pile of ashes, but it is not a pile of ashes it is actually a house. If you burned the house down then it would be actually a pile of ashes. Aquinas’s second step states, “Nothing can be reduced from potentiality to actuality, except by something in a state of actuality.” Aquinas means that the change of state requires something in the state of actuality to actualize ...
- 27349: Funeral Blues
- ... Wystan Hugh Auden (1907-1973) was born in York, England, and later became and American citizen. Auden was the founder for a generation of English poets, such as C. Day Lewis, and Stephen Spender. Auden’s earlier works were composed of a Marxist outlook with a knowledge of Freudian Psychology. Later works consisted of professing Christianity, and what he considered “increasing conservatism”. In 1946 Auden emigrated and became an American citizen ... with the rhyming pattern: AA, BB, CC, DD, EE, FF, GG, HH. Death is the subject of this poem, and becomes clear when Auden says, “Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come, ”. This poem’s topic has to do with someone close to the narrator dyeing possibly a lover. Auden uses a great deal of imagery in this poem; such as, “Tie crepe bows round the white necks of the ...
- 27350: What Psychology is to Me
- ... actually included under the title psychology. Many psychologists focus on more quantitative aspects than the function of the human mind. There are several different areas that are more easily researched than that of the brain's functionality. An example would be behavioral psychology in which the focus is put on observing behavior rather than on the processes going on inside the brain that invoke the subject's behavior. This is just one of the many examples that illustrate this point, and that makes developing a working definition of the term psychology extremely difficult to attain. The range of topics that are considered ...
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