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- 28511: Explaining The Three Parts Of
- Throughout the first part of the declaration, Jefferson was writing of people s natural rights. It was based upon the ideas of John Locke. He believed in life, liberty, and property. Locke felt as if the government did not protect Or submit the natural (or Jefferson referred to ... position of King George III, of Great Britain, throughout all of second component of the declaration. He fabricated a list of all incriminations against the king. Jefferson stated that the king never had the colonist s well being at heart. He was out to soil their lives. Jefferson stated that King George III did things illegally. Jefferson felt that the American colonists were being deprived of benefits and privileges. In the ...
- 28512: Cells
- ... cell. The DNA of a cell is found in the nucleus along with RNA. The nucleus is surrounded by two membranes due to the need to be highly selective with materials that enter the cell's nucleus. The cell itself is surrounded by a membrane. In between the membrane of the nucleus and the cell membrane is cytoplasm. It is in the cytoplasm where all of the other organelles are stored ... animal cell has a more flexible, softer outer membrane. Also in the plant cell are chloroplasts, which are not in the animal cell. Chloroplasts carry out photosynthesis which is the plants ability to make it's own food. This also accounts for the large central vacuole in the plant cell. It is used for storage.
- 28513: An Experiment in Edge Damage
- ... much different wear patterns than sawing. After sawing, the serration is rounded but still existent. Also the basic outline of the pre-use flake is preserved. Blunting eliminates the serration and smoothes out the flake's natural changes in width. There is a distinct difference in the wear patterns of sawing and blunting. The two would be hard to mix up. This experiment was a macroscopic experiment, however, and did not allow for microscopic analysis. Therefore, it was not unexpected that tiny cuts made by the wood could not be seen in the flake's utilized edge. Nevertheless, the macroscopic wear patterns on the flake are convincing of this one fact: Use wear analysis can be accurately used to infer the function of prehistoric tools. The unmistakable dulling of the ...
- 28514: Legalizing Marijuana Legislation
- ... treatment of over 100 illnesses. This act was designed to prevent non-medical use, and this made it so hard to obtain for medicinal purposes it was removed from the pharmacopeia. In 1988 the DEA's own administrative law judge, Francis L. Young, said that marijuana in its natural form fulfilled the legal of currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States. He added that it was "one of ... chemotherapy. Polls and voter referenda have repeatedly indicated that the vast majority of Americans think marijuana should be medically available, since in some cases it is the only thing that works. One of the marijuana's greatest advantages as a medicine is its remarkable safety. It has little effect on major physiological functions, and there is no know case of lethal overdose. Marijuana is also known to be far less addictive ...
- 28515: The Industry Of Fools
- The gambling industry of the United States has grown at a spectacular rate since the 1980's. Billions of dollars are spent on various forms of gambling each year from the $1 lottery ticket at the gas station, to the roulette wheel on the strip in Las Vegas. With this enormous growth ... Wherever there is a large amount of money and alcohol, there is going to be crime. If casinos move into an area, so do criminals. Also, a pro and con list about gambling on PBS's web site states that in most cases where casinos have been built, the crime rate has risen considerably. Gambling is the largest source of organized crime in the nation. However, crime is not the only ...
- 28516: World War 2 and Executive Order 8802
- ... rights in America, nearly 75% of the Jewish population in Europe were systematically exterminated. Six million Jews were murdered during WW II. Another seven million Gypsies, Polish, and assorted Europeans were also executed by Hilters Nazi regime. Millions more lost their lives in battle. As the American "public" remained ignorant to the Jewish Holocaust, Black leaders were beginning to apply pressure on president Roosevelt. In 1941, A. Philip Randolph and other Black leaders met with Eleanor Roosevelt and members of the presidents cabinet. Randolph presented a list of grievances regarding the Civil Rights of Blacks, demanding that an executive order be issue to stop job discrimination in the defense industry. President Roosevelt later tried to convince Randolph ...
- 28517: British India And Revolution
- ... which display the version of events accepted in official British circles. This version preferred by the British writers fails to acknowledge an unprecedented level of widespread unrest among ordinary Indians, who saw the British government's actions as disrespectful and indifferent towards long established rules and customs'. Indian nationalists saw the causes of the uprising as not being caused by unhappy soldiers of the Bengal army, but as a reaction of ... popular topic in Victorian England. The basis for these views were no longer regarded as simply being as personal belief, it was now considered a scientific fact by the publication in 1859 of Charles Darwin's, Origin of the Species which now gave British sentiment a factual support. The Darwinian ideas introduced into English society justified imperialistic political policies and social movements. At the turn of the century England perceived their ...
- 28518: FEMINISM
- ... make moral decisions according to different but equally mature and morally upright reasoning.(2) She feels that women are different because they posses a different hereditary set of values and beliefs. This opposition to Kohlberg's theory was backed by research. Even though there was research done to support Gilligan, it seemed to have experimenter bias. It was not an open or strong experiment and it only observed the actions of ... people in it have set up the basis for gender difference and now many feminists are breaking down those barriers. Carol Gilligans position on moral development and her views as a feminist, suggest that womens nature is not something to be replaced, but something to be maintained, indeed celebrated, for the sake both of women and society.(1) This view is tied in with the general definition of feminism, that ...
- 28519: Air Polution
- ... 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 ...
- 28520: British Imperial Regulations D
- ... restricted trade of such shippers as the Dutch, by stating all goods must be transported on English vessels to or from the colonies. This helped keep money within British control, but also increased both England s and the colonies merchant marine. Further laws were passed, but none that imposed strict regulations on the colonies. In fact the colonies received advantages from the mercantile system of England. As colonies of England they ... some of their markets. They therefore sometimes would result to illegal smuggling because at the early enactment of such laws the enforcement was somewhat lenient. Nonetheless the colonists did not react well to the British s imperialistic encroachment upon the freedoms. The colonists were also subject to the mercy of the British merchants. Falling prices in England left the colonists helpless as they could easily fall into deeper and deeper debt ...
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