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- 11531: Embracing The Change
- ... fiction novel? A scientist s unrealistic fantasy? Maybe something that could happen in 500 years? That may be what many of you believe. But right now, these miracles are happening in laboratories all over the world. The first Genetic Engineering technique, still used today, was the selective breeding of plants and animals, usually for increased food production. In selective breeding only animals with desirable characteristics are chosen for further breeding. Though ... would press for a complete ban. But the potential benefits of genetic technology far outweigh the potential risks. I believe in a position of critical support, which reflects the suspicious optimism most people around the world have toward genetic technology. In rural Oklahoma, these ideas do seem fictitious. But the benefits for local farmers and ranchers are obvious. Many long time farmers may be incredulous to such changes, but I strongly ...
- 11532: Men's Basketball
- Men's Basketball Basketball is a sport that has been around for a long time. Although baseball is the American sport, basketball is a worldly sport. It is played all over the world. Some of the greatest athletes of all time were basketball players. I know not one person who has not heard the name Michael Jordan, the greatest player of all time. Basketball takes skill, coordination, and ... concurrent leauge by initiating the WNBA. The first professional womans basketball leauge opened the door for girl athletes. It had always been the "boys" were more athletic, but now its becoming more of a womens world. I'd like to see a common man play Cynthia Cooper one-on-one.
- 11533: Plato's Republic
- ... civil and military duties, let them range at will, free from all serious business but philosophy; for theirs is to be a life of happiness, crowned after death with a fitting destiny in the other world (Plato 207). With that said, there is now an overview of what Plato feels to be the ideal society. Elements discussed include how society is educated, categorized, as well as ruled. And some people accepted ... explain why he should be taken seriously, for he is one of the few who has seen this light, and he is trying to adjust society in such a way that it would resemble the world he was exposed to when he left the cave. But he does not think that ordinary people would accept these proposals, and may even fear Plato to be insane (Plato 231). Many other of his ...
- 11534: The History and Facts About Nicotine and Tobacco
- ... smokers do know that smoking cigarettes cause cancer, they just smoke because its rebellious. Some other reasons why teens smoke is because they feel like they are invincible, also because they live in a world of violence, a world were they think they will get shot or get AIDS before the ever die of cancer. To cut down on these teens from smoking, anti-smoking advocates have called for stricter regulation of cigarettes. They ...
- 11535: Advertisers Take Us For Spend-
- ... paid and advertising-supported programming. Newspapers derive some 76 percent of their incomes from advertising, and national magazines, about 63 percent. Another aspect of modern advertising is the Internet. In the last three years the World Wide Web has become a focal point for people who enjoy shopping and bargains. They can now buy things from all over the world and have them shipped to your door within 24 hours all courtesy of a piece of plastic!
- 11536: Does Heaven Exist?
- ... taking the Genesis account literally, the majority of Christian believers understand this story metaphorically. Creationism is the name given to the belief that the creation story of Genesis is the literal truth about how the world came into being. According to Christian creationists, God created the universe and everything in it in six days, at a time, which biblical scholars have said to be just over six thousand years ago. Up until the late nineteenth century it was quite possible to believe in the scientific world picture and also in the biblical story of creation, because science itself did not have any particular account of creation. But in the past century scientists have gradually pieced together their own accounts of how ...
- 11537: Assassination Of Martin Luther
- ... native of South Dakota, is the state animal and another nicknames is the Coyote States 42 Tennessee Its nickname the Volunteer State came from the larger number of Tennesseans who volunteered for service in the War of 1812, particularly in the battle o New Orleans. In the Mexican War also the number of Tennessee volunteers far exceeded the states quota (number of people expected to volunteer). 43 Texas The nickname Lone Star State comes from the single star in the Texas flag, which was ...
- 11538: Madame Bovary 2
- ... he was also a limited person. Uncle Benny, who wasn t Dels Uncle or in any way related to the characters, offers a metaphor for the structural and thematic organization of the novel. Benny s world, his home, was awash with trivial everyday objects such as, a wealth of wreckage, a whole rich dark, rotting mess of carpets, linoleum, parts of furniture, tools and etc. But meanwhile he was such a ... but to his way of thinking the river and the bush and the whole Grenoch Swamp more or less belonged to him, because he knew them, better than anybody else did. Also Uncle Benny s world was really wild and strange like the girl he married through answering a newspaper advertisement and his account of his unsuccessful trip from Jubilee to Toronto to find her when she unpredictably left him and ...
- 11539: The Environmental Impact of Eating Beef and Dairy Products
- ... pounds of vegetation a month. Without plants to anchor the soil, absorb the water, and recycle the nutrients, the land has become increasingly vulnerable to wind and water erosion. More than 60 percent of the world's rangeland has been damaged by overgrazing during the past half century. Cattle ranching has also been linked to Global Warming. The grain-fed-cattle complex is now a significant factor in the emission of ... accounts for 6 percent of the global warming effect, is released from fertilizer used in growing the feed; and methane, which makes up 18 percent, is emitted from the cattle. The final victims of the world cattle complex are the animals themselves. Immediately after birth, male calves are castrated to make them more "docile", and to improve the quality of their meat. To ensure that the animals will not injure each ...
- 11540: Paralytic - Sylvia Plath
- ... the day outside glides by like ticker tape. The night brings violets, Tapestries of eyes, Lights, The soft anonymous Talkers: "You all right?" The starched, inaccessible breast. Dead egg, I lie Whole On a whole world I cannot touch. At the white, tight Drum of my sleeping couch Photographs visit me- My wife, dead and flat, in 1920 furs, Mouth full of pearls, Two girls As flat as she, who whisper ... breast to Plath, which is just a metaphor to say that they are not really concerned; they are just doing their job. Plath considers herself a dead egg in stanza five. She cannot touch the world, simply because she has been incarcerated or locked up in this shell. She cannot break through it though, because the contents of the egg, her passion, emotions, and in essence, herself, are dead. She is ...
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