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- 6821: Chromosome Probes at the University of Toronto
- ... diagnostic tests, which, because the current tests are time consuming and technically difficult to do, are restricted to women over 35 and those who have a family history of chromosomal abnormalities. Prenatal tests using Willard's probes would be much simpler and faster to perform and could be available to all pregnant women who wish to take advantage of the technology. Current prenatal testing involves growing fetal cells in vitro and examining them, over one or two months, to see if there are two copies of a particular chromosome, which is normal, or one or three, which is abnormal. A test using Willard's probes would require only a few cells and a few days to detect abnormalities. "I don't think it's beyond the realm of possibility that these kinds of tests could eventually be done by an obstetrician in the office during the early stages of pregnancy," he adds. The determination of ...
- 6822: The Great Gatsby: Eastern Desires
- The Great Gatsby: Eastern Desires The roaring twenties. Cars were the things to have and a party was the place to be. Everybody wanted something. F. Scott Fitzgerald's book, The Great Gatsby, describes the events that happen to eight people during the summer of 1922. In the book, people went from west to east because something they desired was in the east; unfortunatly ... was from the midwest, and even though his family was doing pretty well in the money department, Nick wanted to make his own money. By going from the midwest to the east, Fitzgerald shows Nick's desire to have more money. After spending the summer in the east and seeing how money affects people, he decides to go back west. I see now that this has been a story of the ... need to have money and be able to give Daisy anything she wanted. He found out that Daisy was in the east and went to go try to get her back. ...I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy's dock. He had come a long way to this blue lawn and his dream must have seemed so close ...
- 6823: Environmentalism
- ... Maybe they are right in saying that we will never find the perfect mixture, but this negative attitude is part of the problem. Nothing will be accomplished unless we reject apathy and negativity. One writer, T.H. Watkins, has criticized the idea of putting a “price tag” on the earth. He thinks that it is wrong to assign a value to out planet. How can we possibly give a monetary value to something that we can’t live without? Although this may be true, is it possible that this monetary value might give us a perspective on just how much the earth’s resources are worth to us? It is said that the “value of the biosphere’s essential “ecosystem services”, such as climate regulation, soil formation, food production, flood control, and water supply, averages about $33 ...
- 6824: Conservative Personalities
- Conservative Personalities 1. Conservative From the introduction, we know that the performance has begun to suffer under Jack's style of leadership. It is mainly due to the personality of Jack. He is a quite conservative person who has a tendency to maintain a state of affairs without great or sudden change. Also, his ... he would turn down the subordinates* suggestion whenever new ideas come. Jack seems to define role and tell people what, how, when and where to do various tasks only. On the other hand, Jack isn't a relationship-oriented leader as he doesn't emphasize the building of relationships with employees. Accordingly, Jack can't maintain a good relationship with his subordinates. In his mind, he thinks that there is no equality status between the superior and the ...
- 6825: What Is Zen
- ... a love for life . Meditation cannot make a person eternally young, but can increase the quality and longevity of life. In daily life, people pay little attention to their own bodies and minds. These people s levels of energy are far lower than they could be and often experience negative emotions such as hatred, despair or anger. The practice of Zazen is the Secret of Zen Central and indispensable to Zen ... a Japanese term that means meditation. It consists of two characters: za, to sit (cross-legged), and zen, from the Sanskrit dhyana, meaning concentration, dynamic stillness, and contemplation. The means toward the realization of one s original nature as well as the realization itself, Zazen is both something one does sitting cross-legged, with proper posture and correct breathing and something one essentially is. To emphasize one aspect at the expense ... concentrate primarily on the exhalation, which should be calm, long and deep. The inhalation should be natural, automatic, and spontaneous. The concentration on the exhalation creates great energy in the lower abdominal region. The body s energy center is not in the head or upper body but in the major nerve groups located from the solar plexus to the lower abdomen . All martial arts are traditionally based on this breathing. ...
- 6826: Darkness At Noon
- Dante’s Inferno is one of the three parts of his Divine Comedy. The Inferno is divided into thirty-four cantos, each containing a description of a specific region of hell. Sinners in each area are punished ... different sins. Sinners of lust suffer in upper hell, sinners of violence in middle hell, and the sinners of fraud in the lowest part of hell. The sufferings of these people are portrayed through Dante’s eyes as he descends lower and lower into hell with Virgil, his helper. The punishment for each sinner corresponds to the sin that they committed. In Canto 18, Dante and Virgil travel into the First ... pandered his own sister, giving her to another man as a prostitute. These panders and seducers had forced other people to obey them, many times against their will, and had tortured them if they didn’t listen. As compensation for their sins, they are being held under the control of the demons, and are also being tortured continually. This continual suffering also accounts for the surplus time these sinners had ...
- 6827: Should The Internet Be Censore
- ... com Should the Internet be censored? Censorship on the Internet is a very controversial issue. Many agree that censoring violates the First Amendment of free speech. Yet many also believe that it is the government’s duty to censor to protect children and teenagers. The EFA (Electronic Frontiers Australia Inc.) is an organization against Internet censorship. The EFA’s goals are “to advocate the amendment of laws and regulations in Australia and elsewhere which restrict free speech...and to educate the community at large about the...liberties issues involved in the use of computer-based communications systems.” (President of EFA) The EFA shares similar goals with the USA’s EFF (Electronic Frontiers Foundation) These organizations believe that free speech is a right and it will be taken away by censoring the Internet. Does freedom of speech include pornography and “obscenity”? Some argue that ...
- 6828: A Man For All Seasons - 16th Century
- The 16th century was a time of political upheaval, a time of conflict and corruption … and a time of heroes? All these elements are visibly present in Bolt’s book, A Man for All Seasons. As I was reading this story I was thinking that it could probably apply to our day and age but that begged the question. Why did Robert Bolt decide ... Bolt selected this man, he began to write and realised many more things about Thomas More, which had drawn him to the 16th century character. One of the things that Bolt found out was More’s sense of self. He remarks on this on page 12 of the preface. "At any rate, Thomas More, as I wrote about him, became for me a man with an adamantine sense of his own ... pull a few tricks that would get you in well with the local lord and this improve your life. I’ll prove that in my next area of focus. Robert Bolt was fascinated by More’s ability to gain status through hard, honest work. He did not get to his position because of the people he knew but because of who he was and how hard he worked. But you ...
- 6829: Global Cultures
- Begler, Elsie. “Global Cultures: The First Steps Toward Understanding” Social Education. September 1998, 62(5) pg. 272-275. In Begler’s Article a discussion on how educators should go about teaching culture occurs. The article starts out by giving a definition of what is meant by culture and the different aspects of culture. The The author ... when our own is misunderstood. I find this fact to be very true, from my own experiences in life as well as our class discussions. For instance when the case where the Navajo students wouldn’t take the test and I was presented with the question of how I would deal with this situation. This at first confused me but after thinking about the situation, I realized that I couldn’t understand why this would occur from the point of view of my own culture. I don’t know why it is so ingrained in our culture to try to be #1 so how can ...
- 6830: A Separate Peace
- ... the branch so Finny would loose his balance and fall. Finny does not believe a word of this disturbing revelation and sends Gene away. When Finny does return to Devon, he never brings up Gene’s off-the-wall confession. Months pass and suddenly the accident is brought up again by a boy named Brinker who believes that there is more to the story than what is being said. (No one ... So Brinker set up a sort-of mock court one night and took Gene and Finny there. Finny was seated in the middle of the Assembly Hall and asked to tell what happened. Since Gene’s confession, Finny refuses to believe it is true and imagines that Gene wasn’t even in the tree with him, therefore, he would not be able to place Gene as the guilty one. As the story unravels of what really happens, Finny gets fed up and leaves the ...
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