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- 27811: Television Is Ideally a Tool
- ... sophisticated and flexible, for our diverse population. Programs should be arranged to allow for parental discretion, categorization, and somewhat interactive viewing. Children need a tool to familiarize them with the outside world, something that wont scare them, but rather inform them. Too much television can be very harmful to anyone. A portion of television, for a child, can be used as a great tool. If a kid were to watch ... certain show daily, sit down once a week and watch the show with them. Your interest in the show will also be a supporting guide for their growing minds, influencing them for the future. AT&T has categorized television programs in a way that enables you to view children rated programs all together. A kid pushes a button on the remote, and boom, all his shows are categorized. He can then ...
- 27812: The Lowell Observatory
- ... a National Historic Landmark; it allows viewers to go in and look through the telescope during the night shows. Dr. Percival used this telescope to study Mars; this telescope was also used in the 1920's by V.M. Slipher to discover evidence of receding galaxies. The Lowell Observatory was mainly founded because of Dr. Percivals' interest in discovering life on mars. Lowell observatory was the first observatory in Arizona. It ... the art electronic cameras, auxiliary instrumentation and spectrographs. Recently they have gotten the privilege to have the access to the Navy Optical Interferometer. Lowell does a lot with NASA too; the astronomers often use NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to help with their research. A lot of research has been done at this observatory, including the discovery of the evidence of expanding of the universe in 1912-1917 and the successful ...
- 27813: The Bill of Rights
- ... protected individual rights. Seven of the thirteen states adopted constitutions that included specific bills of rights. The first state bill of rights was the Virginia Declaration of Rights, adopted as part of the state b's first constitution on June 12,1776. Virginia's declaration, drafted mainly by George Manson, served as the model both for similar state documents and for the US Bill of Rights. It provided guarantees for most of the rights secured in the latter document ...
- 27814: Polarizatiion
- ... support for his or her position in the form of new ideas and arguments. Group members opinions will change if they are exposed to a variety of different opinions assuming it fits into the persons preexisting opinions and how logical the information represents reality. The social comparison theory generally states that people change their opinions in order to conform to the social norms of the group. This theory compares self ... polarizing and each member adopts the stereotyped attributes of the group. These theories are not in opposition, but rather each theory is more appropriate in certain situations. Today group polarization is very evident in Americas political system. As America becomes more extreme in their beliefs, Republicans and Democrats find it impossible to cooperate with each other. It seems that each party exercises power for their own groups gain while forgetting ...
- 27815: Malpractice or Poor Judgement?
- ... against doctors has begun to soar. For example, in Kerala, approximately 1800 cases (15% of the total number of cases) have been filed. As Dr. Dipak Banerjee of the Indian Medical Association puts it: It's degenerating into a kind of witch-hunt. For years the community of doctors across India was immune to charges of malpractice, but the tide has begun to turn. Doctors are now having to dish out ... for treatment. There are para- medical staff, blood banks, nurses, ward boys, poor infrastructure facilities, equipment and even patients themselves that could be responsible for poor results. Yet we are becoming the scapegoats for everybody's woes." Another major problem is that this prestigious profession is being piled in with a whole range of other services. This has led to speedy trials in consumer courts, whose panels are comprised of people ...
- 27816: Anorexia
- ... from the University of Paris named Ernest Lasegue. How do you identify the signs of this very dangerous disease? Some of the physical signs are intolerance of cold due to the absence of the body s natural insulator, dizziness and fainting spells, dry skin, loss of muscle, and the most obvious, weight loss of at least fifteen percent(Baker 13). There are also behavioral changes in a person when he or ... that many of the anorexic people come from an environment where often times a very high value is placed on being thin or perfect. Sometimes it is triggered by a dramatic change in the person s life. Frequently, people who have anorexia tend to be perfectionists. They have unusually high expectations, yet they often lack self esteem. Anorexics may feel that they have been isolated or friendless for some time. This ...
- 27817: Charles Dickens
- ... Smollet, and Henry Fielding. However, most of the knowledge he later used as an author came from his environment around him. 4 MIDDLE LIFE Dickens became a newspaper writer and reporter in the late 1820's. He specialized in covering debates in Parliament, and also wrote feature articles. His work as a reporter sharpened his naturally keen ear for conversation and helped develop his skill in portraying his characters speach realistically ... adventure and misadventures of the English Countryside. After a slow start, The Pickwick Papers as the book was usually called gained a popularity seldom matched in the history of literature. 7 Then in 1837, Catherine's sister Mary, died. Because of her death Dickens' suffered a lot of grief. This led some scholars to believe that Dickens loved Mary more than Catherine. Catherine was a good woman but she lacked intelligence ...
- 27818: The Crusades: Both Failures and Successes
- The Crusades: Both Failures and Successes In the 600's, the Arabs, who were mostly Muslims, conquered Palestine. Palestine was the holy city of Christians and though they were allowed to live there and practice their religion openly, many wanted to control the city again. For about 400 years, everything continued peacefully. Then, in the 1000's, the Seljuk Turks took Palestine. These people persecuted Christians and attacked Asia Minor. When the Byzantine emperor asked the Pope for help, he was more than ready to help. Europeans had been persecuted in the ...
- 27819: How The Internet Got Started
- How The Internet Got Started Some thirty years ago , the Rand corporation , America's formost cold war think tank, faced a strange straegic problem. How could the US authrieties succesfully communicate after a nuclear war? Postnuclear America would need a comand-and-control network, linked from city to city ... nodes on the infant network, which was named arpanet, after its Pentagon sponsor. The four computers could even be programed remotely from the other nodes. thanks to ARPANET scientists and researchers could share one another's computer facilities by long -distance . This was a very handy service , for computer- time was precious in the early 70s. In 1971 ther were fifteen nodes in Arpanet; by 1972, thirty-seven nodes. And it ...
- 27820: Sappho (the Greek Poet)
- ... of the great Greek lyrists and few known female poets of the ancient world, Sappho was born some time between 630 and 612 BC. She was said to be small and dark in appearance. Sappho's home was the city of Mytilene on the island of Lesbos. She was born of a noble family, the child of Skamandronymos and Cleis. She also was an aristocrat who married a prosperous merchant, Kerhylas ... her for education in the arts. She nurtured these women, wrote poems of love and adoration to them, and when they eventually left the island to be married, she composed their wedding songs. That Sappho's poetry was not condemned in her time for its homoerotic content (though it was disparaged by scholars in later centuries) suggests that perhaps love between women was not persecuted then as it has been in ...
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