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- 9591: Flooding
- ... to treat undeveloped areas. Sea levels continue to rise and will accelerate, said Michael Weinstein, and a coastal partnership will be needed to deal with the problems the rising ocean will bring to New Jersey’s 127-mile coastline. Various sectors of the coastal zone - tourism, fishing, the salt marshes which nurture many young fish, health, water supply and the threat of rising insurance rates - are all important to the state’s economy. These sectors face the peril of a 15-inch sea level rise over the past century and up to a possible 6-foot rise in the next century. Since 1980, six nor’easters have ... perhaps eventually causing polar ice sheets to disintegrate. Warmer temperatures are also increasing annual rainfall and the frequency of severe rainstorms. Before discussing the impacts of rising seas, Titus showed a picture of his family’s house on Long Beach Island, New Jersey and showed the portion of the house that would be underwater during a storm if sea level rises as projected. “But my grandfather built this house with ...
- 9592: Terrorism in the US
- Terrorism in the US Although America is made out to be one of the greatest nations on earth, it has it's fare share of problems. Most of the problems are minor and just need to be dealt with to properly correct them; however, most of them are not as insignificant. Terrorism has recently been on the rise and it's becoming a great threat to all American's lives. From minor protests to the Unabomber and the Oklahoma City Federal Building; terrorism is rapidly growing in America and something must be done to prevent it from engulfing the basic carefree lifestyle of ...
- 9593: Antigone 9
- ... control his character, principals, and his judgement deteriorated. Antigone was written by a man named Sophocles. He was a man that did an excellent job of showing how absolute power will corrupt absolutely. Using Creon's utmost authority, Sophocles told of how everything he once stood for had crumbled. The play Antigone begins by telling of a troubled royal family. In this play there are nine main characters. I will focus ... rites, but Polynices was given absolutely no burial rites of any kind because he was a traitor. His death was forbidden to be mourned throughout the city. The death of Eteocles and Polynices spurred Creon's rite to the throne. He insisted that the body of Polynices lay to rot for all the city to see. Antigone, being his sister, couldn't stand to see this happen. She went and did her best to cover her brothers body. She got caught while doing this. She then was brought before her uncle the king. She denied nothing, ...
- 9594: Death Be Not Proud
- Death Be Not Proud The novel, Death Be Not Proud, by John Gunther, is the story of the struggle of a child to stay alive. Johnny Gunther Jr.'s constant hope got him out of bed every morning with a positive attitude. His outright opposition to the fact that he was going to die and his determination not to, kept a fiery spirit in him so that he didn't give up. Johnny's stubborn determination to not accept defeat at so early an age, along with the tremendous courage he showed when realizing that he must accept his defeat, is a strong point portrayed in this novel. ...
- 9595: Medieval Battle Tactics
- ... of infantry and some cavalry was an important factor in Roman War. However, if Rome and England were compared then the cavalry of Rome later developed into the Knight. The well trained infantry of Rome’s legion for attacking and invading now was set to defend in Medieval England as it more compares to the castle. Now that you know some about the origination of the Knight and the castle, let’s get into the tactics used by the land units of Medieval England like the knight and the archers. The knight, being the cavalry of the castle, and also the last line of defense between invaders and the castle, were inferior to a well trained army of foot soldiers. Usually, it was the knight’s ability and bravery decided the medieval battle. The Medieval Knight was trained from childhood. However, they were never taught any strategies. So, when it came to fighting in the battlefield, they used a guerilla ...
- 9596: Personal Writing: Jealousy and My Friend
- Personal Writing: Jealousy and My Friend Jealousy is definitely a green-eyed monster. Unfortunately, my best friend is the most jealous person I know. I don’t know how in the world we get a long so well because it’s obvious I’m the person she’s most jealous of. I wonder if she’s really a true friend. First of all, I drive a nice sports car and ever since me and her became friends, she’s “accidentally” burnt five ...
- 9597: Global Warning
- As the world's expanding population burns large quantities of fossil fuels and simultaneously cuts down large expanses of forests worldwide, the concentrations of CO2 and other greenhouse gases are building up in the atmosphere. "The green house effect is the (imperfect) analogy used to explain the atmospheric phenomenon that keeps our planet warm enough to sustain life." There is mounting evidence that this shift in Earth's atmosphere will lead to global changes and potentially major climatic disruptions . The major concern is not that the greenhouse effect is real;"we wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t." It’s that it "may be exacerbated by anthropogenic increases in the effective gasses, threatening a disruption to the equilibrium between incoming and outgoing energy, and a resulting ...
- 9598: Heart Murmurr
- Heart Murmur, Atherosclerosis, & Heart Failure A heart murmur is a sound caused by blood flowing through a child's heart or through blood vessels entering or leaving the heart. More that 50 percent of all people will be diagnosed with a heart murmur sometime in their lives. When a child's doctor or nurse practitioner detects a heart murmur, this causes many parents quite a bit of anxiety, especially if they have relatives with heart disease. Luckily, in most children a heart murmur does not mean ... murmur. As the baby grows, the murmur will become softer and many times disappear altogether. Another common innocent murmur heard in children ages 3 to 8 years is a vibratory musical murmur called a Still's murmur. No one knows the cause of the murmur other than blood flowing through a healthy vigorous heart. The murmur is usually detected at a well-child visit or if the child comes in ...
- 9599: Seeking Pleasure and Aggression Is Part of Human Instinct
- ... and the definitions of happiness or pleasure. In other words, pleasure to Freud is basically in sexual terms, “ Sexual gratification is the prototype of all forms of individual happiness...”. On the otherhand, Hay Ibn Yaqzan's happiness or his pleasure is found in totally different kind of human instinct, which is the substitute gratification for sexual pleasure, because religion and science are included in Freud's lists for intellectual replacements for the lost sexual happiness. So Hay, according to Freud, is someone who favored the substitutes of sexual happiness. But, did not experience sexual pleasure in the first place. Therefor, we cannot say that Hay is someone who escaped the sexual pleasure to the intellectual replacements, because of civilization. The concepts of Freud equation does not suit Hay's case. At the sametime, we can make the link between Hay and Freud's concept from the civilization point of view. According to Freud, our sexual instincts are operates by civilization, and it does ...
- 9600: Alfred Hitchcock
- ... that are displayed after each shot in the film. From that job he worked his way up through the business to assistant director and directed a small film that was never finished or released. Hitchcock's directorial debut took place in 1925 with the release of the film "The Pleasure Garden". His breakthrough film came just a year later with "The Lodger", a film that came to be an ideal example ... of a crime he did not commit and through a web of mystery, danger, action, and of course love he must find the true criminal. This plot came to be used in many of Hitchcock's films throughout his career both silent and "talkie". It was not long before Hitchcock came to be known as the "Master of Suspense". He was said to have "not only mastered the art of making films but he also mastered the task of taming his own raging imagination". The first Alfred Hitchcock film I am going to address is his and England's first "talkie" which is the dramatization "Blackmail". This film, released in 1929, was originally shot as a silent and some people say it should have remained as a silent. Nonetheless, it was a tremendous ...
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