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- 4581: A Healthy Personality
- ... has many curves and blind corners. Ones ability to adapt to this constantly changing road is one of the most important components of a healthy personality. That is, the ability to adapt to a changing world. Another important component is the ability to handle stress. We are just beginning to find out what stress does to our bodies and minds, and most of it is not good. Some other components I will discuss are having a good self-concept and everything that encompasses self . Our world is constantly changing and putting different pressures and demands on us. We have to adapt to many new kinds of stressors resulting from evolution alone. Time is changing constantly and that brings on new situations ... our state of mind and relationships with others. The way we handle stress and how we react to it plays a big role in the development of a healthy personality. To go out into the world not prepared to handle stress would be like going into war with no ammo in the guns. You would not last very long in either situation. There is no denying the fact that all ...
- 4582: The Human Cloning Controversy
- ... Yes, as long as no law exists banning headless humans. Before going into this controversy, some background about what has happened in cloning would be useful. Two astonishing feats have been achieved in the scientific world. One is the cloning of a sheep named Dolly, and the other is the development of headless frog embryos. Dolly was cloned in Edinburgh, Scotland, at the Roslin Institute in July 1996. The headless frog ... no law existed that banned scientific research using clones or scientific research of cloning. Within ninety days after Dolly's "birth," an announcement which did not happen until February 1997, almost every country in the world put a moratorium on human cloning. The moratorium means that no scientists can clone even one somatic cell that comes from a human being. Many researchers are concerned that laws prohibiting human cloning will threaten ... 18 months provided he could get financial backing, with his first service being cloned babies for infertile couples. Seed and others should not be hampered by the kind of legislation Clinton, as well as other world leaders and religious figures, proposes. Science, specifically genetics, is a field that is constantly evolving and progressing. The field of genetics has taken center stage in the debate over the rights and morals of ...
- 4583: Margaret Bourke-White
- ... portfolio, was admitted into the country. She made a total of three trips and gained a reputation for being and expert on Russian industry. In 1931 she wrote her first book, Eyes on Russia. During World War II Margaret was sent Europe to cover the war. She got pictures of her own ship being torpedoed and became the first woman in a bomber. She also went with General Patton's troops to be one of the firsts to photograph a ...
- 4584: The Fear of Science
- The Fear of Science To live in the today's world is to be surrounded by the products of science. For it is science that gave our society color television, the bottle of aspirin, and the polyester shirt. Thus, science has greatly enhanced our society; yet ... for the study of the evolution of humans. Many people in the nineteenth century detested Darwin's theory of the evolution of man because it went against their religion, which believed that God created the world. Science, soon, developed the big bang theory, which states that earth was created by the attraction of atoms. The nineteenth century society was afraid of science because it contradicted their beliefs, and was afraid that ... science would soon lead to the destruction of mankind. The novel Frankenstein is about a man name Victor Frankenstein who wanted to tamper with life and death by "exploring unknown powers, and unfold to the world the deepest mysteries of creation." (Frankenstein, pg.40) He acquired the knowledge of science when he attended the university of Ingolstadt, and once the knowledge of science was gained, Frankenstein went to his secret ...
- 4585: Fifth Business
- ... and religion. One of the characters that Davies uses to relate the theme of magic and religion is Dunstable Ramsay. Dunny was brought up in a Scottish Presbyterian family in Deptford, Ontario. While in the war, he kept himself busy by reading the New Testament and states “Arabian Nights and the Bible were getting pretty close”, referring to both magic and religion. After servicing in the war, Dunstable is renamed Dunstan by Diana after Saint Dunstan. Dunstan’s study of saints becomes his passion and he later travels around the world in search of information about several living saints. During his search for saints, Dunstan coincidentally comes across Le grande Cirque forain de St. Vile and Illusions, a circus where Paul Dempster preformed magic. This ...
- 4586: The Threat of Nuclear Energy
- ... wrote, "One pound of plutonium-239, distributed to the lungs of a large population, could cause between ten and fifteen million lung-cancer deaths" (32). Plutonium is rapidly becoming more and more common throughout the world because it is being produced all the time in nuclear reactions. The Nuclear Control Institute, in Washington D.C., published a paper on the Internet describing the problem of plutonium production. By the turn of ... needed to build a Nagasaki-type bomb. The amounts will continue to grow rapidly. By 2010, there will be 550 tons of separated plutonium in commerce, more than twice the amount now contained in the world’s nuclear arsenals. By that time, Japan will have acquired an amount of plutonium equivalent to the present U.S. military stockpile. ("The Problem", 2) The quote above has a few hidden statements behind it ... of their crime ridden country to work for a terrorist group or another country associated with terrorism like Iran or Iraq. Money is not a problem for these two countries who hold some of the world’s biggest oil reserves. This paragraph represents only one type of terrorism that can be done with money and talent but what can other terrorist groups do who don’t have very much money? ...
- 4587: Hamlet And Comic Relief
- ... a globe, but it is interesting to note that Shakespeare s theater was named The Globe (Thomson 19). While memory holds a seat adds to the theatric pun, providing a subtle advertisement pitch. The comic world is frankly controlled and unified (Weitz 64), whereas the tragic world is one that has many possible routes and directions. Shakespeare often presents a love triangle of daughter, father, and prospective son-in-law (96). This can be a humorous triangle in a comedy (such as ... as honest as a fishmonger, which is to say that Polonius is lower than the lowest of the low. Hamlet goes on to belittle Polonius some more. He says that to be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man pick d out of ten thousand (2.2.194), and then says what Polonius probably thinks is a very crazy thing: For if the sun breeds maggots in ...
- 4588: Endangered Species
- Abstract: For Endangered Species I am doing my project on endangered species. In the world there are a lot of endangered species for example: birds, insects, tigers, whales and many more. I have learned many things from this project on how the animals get endangered and ways how to help ... and do not harm it, it might have baby s and have more of its kind. A species is named endangered when of its kind occurs in a low number. About 1000 species in the world are named endangered, or are in threat to be extinct. I never knew that some kinds of birds were in danger. We can help these animals and plants by making laws that you are not ... is presumed to be the major habitat destruction that resulted from logging of large Southern forests. Ivory-bills required large tracts of land with old trees and were unable to cope with timbering activities. The world's last dusky seaside sparrow died in Florida in June 1987 because its habitat, Florida's coastal salt marsh, was severely depleted. In the early 1990s the spotted owl of the United States Pacific ...
- 4589: Soldiering & Symbolism
- ... With democracy comes the idea of multi-ethnic societies with freedoms such as civil liberties, expression, speech and equality. This does mean though, that these multi-ethnic societies are a utopia, existing without conflicts and war. Ethnic differences are a major factor for tensions among people of a common land. Kosovo is a recent reminder to this very point. Kinship to the land is not as strong as ethnic differences, even ... points of view from authors Cynthia Enloe, and Donald Horowitz, one will learn to realize that democracy is not always what one expects. While not directly discussing the relationship between democracy and ethnic conflicts or war, Cynthia Enloe goes into detail about ethnic differences leading to conflict. She also goes on to discuss the inferiority of ethnic groups leading to military servitude in order to advance their social or class status ... the “martial races” forced outside the framework of society for their differences. These people are looked upon as expendable, not needed for higher levels of society. The united States, supposedly the greatest democracy in the world, has had a long history of using “expendable” peoples for their protection. The African Americans during W.W.II, were used in great numbers to fight the Nazi threat of Germany, but when it ...
- 4590: Fahrenheit51 4
- ... roar with accusation and shake down a fine dust guilt that was sucked in their nostrils as they plunged about."(37). Ray Bradbury's novel Fahrenheit 451 takes place in a futuristic city while a war is taking place. Oddly enough the city has its own problems. The protagonist , Guy Montag, goes against society and steals books to read at home, meets a friend to help him in his brave stand ... the history of the profession."(53). Montag disagrees with him and meets an old retired English Professor named Faber who helps him understand the books. "The things you're looking for, Montag, are in the world, but the only way an average chap will ever see ninety-nine per cent of them is in a book."(80). In doing this he gets wiser and learns more about famous poets and writers ... reason, reading books. This group hopes to preserve knowledge for future generations by memorizing passages from books. They do this so they cannot be caught and it also improves their thinking. All the while a war is going on and all of a sudden planes came swooping down and bombed the city. "The city rolled over and fell down dead. The sound of death came after" (160). Montag and his ...
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