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- 27641: Running Wild: Essay About the Novel Hiroshima
- ... in Hiroshima. These days, the killing experience is remote and the savagery comes easy, because there moral horror is remote. We sense that we could have easily been in their place. Hence the popularity of T.V.. The enormous scale of horror is a nagging reminder of our weakness and fear. We can't go back to killing one at a time or in large numbers. To prevent this requires an intelligent strength. Were is the good tyrant to keep everyone in strength?.
- 27642: Mars:
- ... life form had been found in a meteorite, from 1984. President Clinton had this to say about the matter: This is a product of years of exploration and months of intensive study by the world s most distinguished scientists. Like all discoveries, this one will and should continue to be reviewed, examined and scrutinized. After Clinton said this it was almost as if a scientific boom had occurred. NASA research teams ... could have been incorporated into the ground as carbonate minerals, and once that happens, the water could have frozen out in the ground. It might have been lost to space as well. I think that s one of the goals of the next decade aside from the life question to try to understand what happened to the climate. I found that this question was interesting because it explains what might have ...
- 27643: Cornelius Vanderbilt
- ... it was named for him. By 1840 his company had more than 100 steamboats and more employees than any other company in the United States at the time. By the time he was 40, Vanderbilt's fortune exceeded 500,000 dollars, but he was still looking for new opportunities. During the 1849 gold rush, Vanderbilt offered an overland route across the isthmus of Panama that saved 600 miles and this got ... Company. He dabbled in Atlantic passenger ships but found them to be unprofitable and he sold all but the one named for him, for three million dollars, turning over the remaining ship to the U.S. government. As Vanderbilt closed on 70, he began his railroad empire, he bought out New York and Harlem railroads, defeating Drew again in the process. By the time 1867 rolled around Vanderbilt owned Central Railroad ...
- 27644: The Ethics of Euthanasia
- ... an individual from an incurable disease or intolerable suffering. The term is sometimes used generally to refer to an easy or painless death. Voluntary euthanasia involves a request by the dying patient or that person's legal representative. Passive or negative euthanasia involves not doing something to prevent death—that is, allowing someone to die; active or positive euthanasia involves taking deliberate action to cause a death. Euthanasia has been accepted ... the medical profession itself agree that doctors are not required to use “extraordinary means” to prolong the life of the terminally ill. What constitutes extraordinary means is usually left to the discretion of the patient's family. Modern technological advances, such as respirators and artificial kidney machines, have made it possible to keep persons alive for long periods of time even when they are permanently unconscious or irrevocably brain damaged. Proponents ...
- 27645: History of Castles
- ... converted for use as a chateau. The tower of London is an example of the later Motte-and-bailey castle. It now serves as a tourist attraction. One of the few castles in the U.S. is the Castillo de San Marcos in St. Augustine, Flardia. It was built by the Spaniards between 1672 and 1760. It had walls 30 feet high and 15 feet wide it is the largest surviving castle in the U.S. . BIBLIOGRAPHY ------------ castle Academic American Encyclopedia 1987 CASTLE Encyclopedia International 1982 CASTLE World Book 1986 CASTLE Britanica Junior Encyclopedia 1982 castle Merit Student Encyclopedia 1983
- 27646: Dragons in America
- ... best interest. Incidents in the past that have caused great turmoil in politics is Watergate, and Communism in foreign countries such as Germany and Russia. Some celebrities scare Americans because they are seen as hero's or idols in the films, or events they are in. O.J. Simpson is a monster because he was a legend and a hero of all football fans. When he turned out to be a ... tend to be seen more as entertainment. The O.J. trial was seen more as entertainment than the trial of a killer. This is all too common on television such as in shows like” America's Most Wanted” where the audience is entertained by hearing the stories of killers and the fact that they are loose. Criminals on TV are not seen as evil but rather as entertaining. Fear exists in ...
- 27647: Enzymes
- ... able to carry out chemical reactions at a great speed and at comparative low temperatures. Almost 2,000 different enzymes are now known, each of them capable of catalyzing a specific chemical reaction. The molecule (s) on which an enzyme acts is known as its substrate. For example, sucrose is the substrate for the enzyme sucrase. Enzymes have specific structures that only its specific substrate will fit into. The polypeptide chains ... on the enzyme induces an allosteric change, or conformational change, that prevents the active site from binding to the proper substrate. An allosteric change could be either a negative modulator or a positive effector. There s also cooperativity. This is the binding at an active site that makes the others more reactive. An example to this is hemoglobin. Co-enzymes are also factors of enzymes. These are heme-groups or prosthetic ...
- 27648: The Criminalization of Knowingly Transmitting AIDS
- ... agreed to take the case, agrued that the AIDS disclosure law is unconstitutional. Privacy of those with AIDS is what they were worried about. Opponents argued that "they're [those with AIDS] killing people. It's like rape." The maximum sentence Hanlon could have recieved was four years in prison and a $2000 fine. In addition, under the current New York State law, which dates back well before June, 1987, the ... to another person is murder. The recipient of the virus will, in almost every case, die rather quickly of an AIDS related disease. **name** feels that "if someone knowingly transmits AIDS to another person, it's like committing murder. He or she should be punished to the full extent of the law." In addition to personal interviews, I have found the opinions of Governor Cuomo and former President Ronald Reagan. On ...
- 27649: Chicago
- ... Addams, Florence Kelley, Clarence Darrow, Mary McDowell, Thorstein Veblen, Albert Parsons, Ida B. Wells, George Pullman, Louis Sullivan and Danker Adler are few of the people among them. No large city even Peter the Great’s St. Petersburg had ever grown as fast as Chicago. Right from the beginning, the city was envisioned. In 1830, empty prairie defined the grid of the future metropolis. The streets, the blocks and the Allys ... did they manage to communicate in English?, What did they do after coming here?, where did they live?” etc. I found the answer after an easy try. It is Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr’s Settlement house, that was called Hull House lately.
- 27650: Totalitarian Society As Showed
- Totaliterainism found in Animal Farm George Orwell¹s story, Animal Farm, is a satire of Soviet Russia. In a more general sense, however, the story traces the rise and fall of any totalitarian regime. All of the animals on Animal Farm somehow contribute ... windmill, on the contrary, it was he who had advocated it in the beginning, and the plan which Snowball had drawn on the floor of the incubator shed had actually been stolen from among Napolean¹s papers² (71). Squealer lied and maipulated the animals and since the animals were not that smart, they believed it. In the beginning, Animal Farm, like Soviet Russia was supposed to be a fair, socialist society ...
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