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- 7741: Global Warming 3 --
- ... and greed. I read a short story the other day, about the people in a village having never heard the word cancer until they were run out of their homes and into the city area's. Years later, some of the people from this village are dying from disease. my point is that before they came to the cities, they had always died of old age ...) FIRST of all, it is ... we are in the late nineties, and we are not so stable anymore. Our activities and what we use to perform our activities is increasing year to year, many of them doubling and tripling. It's a case of the amount of gases that Earth produces naturally vs. the amount of gases produced manually by us. Do you drive? How about using those disposable diapers that NEVER disintegrate? Do you smoke ... use lawn pesticides, ... Okay, this could go on forever. The effects of the huge overuse of these items of luxury plus all the other unmentioned items and activities plays havoc on our atmosphere. We didn't worry about this 100 years ago, and the industrial revolution is the culprit for a large part of this. The reason for this is a little thing called Carbon dioxide. Where is the C02 ...
- 7742: Roman Acheivements
- Roman Acheivements Great Works of Art One of the Roman's greatest acheivements was their large amount of art. They created forms of art, fine tuned other existing forms to suit their needs, and created an extensive body of literature. Roman art in it's heyday was a pinnacle of human artistic achevement and it is truely a shame that hardly any of it still exists. The bas relief sculpture form was a completely Roman invention. It was a form ... Ζnid is arguably the greatist books in history. It is all to often thrown out as erotic garbage from two thousand yers ago, when in actuality it competes on the same literary plane as Plato's Republic and Homers duet epics, the Illiad and the Oddesy. Created an Empire The fact that they conquered so much land (most of the know world) is amazing in itself. The tactics used to ...
- 7743: OpenVMS: Using a Virtual Operating System by the International Securities Exchange
- ... wants to implement this virtual operating system. Where and what is OpenVMS? OpenVMS was originally called VMS (Virtual Memory System); it was first brought into existence in 1976 as a new operating system for Digital's new, 32-bit, virtual memory line of computers, named VAX (Virtual Address eXtension). The designers of OpenVMS were Dave Cutler and Dick Hustvedt, it was designed entirely within Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). OpenVMS is a 32-bit, multitasking, multiprocessing virtual memory operating system. OpenVMS currently runs on Digital's VAX and Alpha computer systems. Digital Equipment Corporation owned the operating system. It wasn't until January 25, 1998 Compaq computers acquired Digital Equipment at a tremendous price of 9.6 billion dollars. "This is a marriage made in heaven," says Sateesh Lele, CIO at the European division of ...
- 7744: Reconstuction
- ... smoking rubble left as their houses. The whole country was a shambles and everyone agreed on one thing - it was time to start the healing and recovery of a nation. But the reconstruction period wasnt just about healing. It was a new beginning. For the north, for the south, for everyone a new start. Yet, it was the most important new start to the former slaves, the African-Americans. After ... they? True, they no longer belonged to someone else
well at least not technically. They would be able to earn their own money now
.. or would they? At least they would be given equality
. Wouldnt they? The answer to these questions is simply no. The "reconstruction", the "new beginning", may all have been true. It was a "new beginning" wasnt it? Yes, it was, but was it a good one? The answer to that question is no. A large cause for the civil war was to free the African-American slaves, to allow them ...
- 7745: Flowers For Algernon
- Medical operations are carried out everyday, but for some, an operation can change a person's life. One experiment was done on a mentally retarded person to try to raise his intelligence. The experiment worked, but after months, the patient regressed dramatically. In the book, Flowers for Algernon, by Daniel Keyes, this intelligence operation was preformed, and the patient was Charlie Gordon. After the operation, Charlie was very bright, but experienced psychological traumas, loneliness, disillusionment, and social inadequacies. Charlie's psychological traumas or emotional upset was caused by his memory recalls. After his operation, he remembered every aspect of his childhood, whether it was good or bad. "...He's normal! He's normal! He'll grow up like other people. Better than others..." Charlie had dreams of how his mother was ashamed of him. His mother always thought her son was normal and ...
- 7746: Music and Stress
- ... helps with deciding what music would be most effective in reducing stress. Here are my findings for different types of stress: For most physical symptoms, I found that a calming music worked best these CD's give a good example of calming, relaxing music (from my collection): Enya, The Vienna Boy's Choir, Collage (A compilation of classical works proven in a psychologically monitored project found to greatly reduce anxiety. They are collections that are popping up at several doctor office waiting areas to calm the patients.), Sarah McLachlan, and the Moscow Boy's Choir. For behavioral aspects of stress, I found that listening to music with a sing-a- long' interface worked best. I concluded that this was for the following reasons: A. it kept my mouth ...
- 7747: Racism Related To The Novel Ja
- ... essence of the Harlem Renaissance, the age of the New Negro, for many black women it represented the disenchantment of urban life. The age that emphasized reacial pride and equality but often overshadowed black women s equality. In the novel, examples from Joe and Violet s encounters with racism can be compared to Toni Morrison s dealings, how and when racism got its start, and how it is today. In Jazz, Joe and violet were intially dazzeled by the prospect of life in New York, the center of the age ...
- 7748: Spring Silkworms
- ... the family in the village ran a silkworm business. They were ran by their own family too because hiring people would cost more money. Family member was definitely the cheapest and safest human resource. Old T'ung Pao's family was quite successful when he was young. However, the phosphorous did not maintain after a generation. Yet, the structure and hardship of his family continued to mirror the rigidity of traditional Chinese society. They ... harvest by the amount of sprouts that a garlic put out, the way they isolated Lotus believing that she would bring bad luck to them just because her family had a bad harvest, and Huang's interest in Taoism, they were all somehow reflection of Mao's affection. Just around the same period of time, he has been encouraging the peasants for abandoning the worship of Gods and rejecting Buddhism. ...
- 7749: Sexual Harrassment: We Need to Take Action
- ... or threaten to tell on them, which will scare the offender as well. Doing this will let the offender be aware that he/she is doing something wrong and should stop. If the offender doesn't understand what he/she is doing wrong, then both the victim and the perpetrator could talk it out. The victim will then be able to tell how he/she feels, and maybe the perpetrator will ... would make the sexual harassment not stop. The victim will just always have those bad emotions inside bottled up and these could be harmful. The offender would take advantage of the situation or probably doesn't know what he/she is doing is offensive. If someone feels that he/she is being harassed, they should report it right away. It will make the case easier to handle and control than reporting ... let them know what they are doing wrong. We need to communicate to each other to understand each other. Sexual harassment is a tough topic that involves a lot of argument. Even some women don't even notice that they are being harassed till later on. Men might rethink their behavior by consulting their female co-workers. Women should get into the man's emotion when talking about sexual harassment. ...
- 7750: Flowers For Algernon
- ... eyes, especially the "young" Charlie who haunted the "older" Charlie while he was in his genius state. Daniel Keys was able to make the people (pepul) come alive by painting their portraits with Charlie Gordon's words. I don't remember when I have read a book that incorporated so many interesting ideas and concepts into the actions of one person. Also, it seems to me that Charlie was right when he wrote, "Ironic that my intelligence doesn't help me solve a problem like this." He was referring to a moral decision he had to make about one of his co-workers at the bakery. Charlie's intelligence put him into just ...
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