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- 7181: Russia
- ... of people were arrested and either harassed or killed. Stalin then decided to concentrate on improving military strength and building on improving the Soviet economy, rather than follow Lenin's revolutionary goal of dominating the world. In order to obtain the immense amount of money needed to maintain his militia, he began a series of five year programs which would force the average farmer to meet a quota by the end ... their own needs. Brezhnev had now assumed control of the Union. A rigid Stalinist with hard-line ethics, Brezhnev's goal was to make the USSR into one of the strongest political superpowers in the world. The military was richly funded and the authoritative influence of Brezhnev could be felt in the asperity of the population. When Brezhnev died in 1982, he left behind an empire with one of the world's strongest military sectors, but weakest population morale. The Soviet Union was an empty superpower with crumbling financial, social and political sectors. In the following years, the Union witnessed very little political reform in ...
- 7182: The Existence of Prejudice: Past and Present
- The Existence of Prejudice: Past and Present Prejudice and discrimination have been a part of American history since before the Civil War. Throughout history, the government has tried to enact legislation to change the views of society and give equal rights to all people. However, we still find ourselves struggling for equality among all people even though ... written and discussed about judging people not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. Slavery was recognized by the Constitution of the United States. In 1863, after the Civil War, the Emancipation Proclamation was passed, and several constitutional amendments that changed the legal status of African Americans were also passed. The Supreme Court of the United States declared federal statues that were to enforce the ... laws against discrimination in public accommodations. Other states banned discrimination in the sale of private housing and college admissions. However, laws continued to vary from state to state and were not enforced. Before the Civil War in the North and South, public school segregation was common. Laws existed that forbade the teaching of reading and writing to slaves. After the Civil War and until the year 1954, schools continued to ...
- 7183: Canadian Confederation
- ... Britain was giving to this idea of Confederation in British North America. Great Britain no longer wanted to be concerned with nor did they wish to provide the financial assistance to support Canada in any war. By the 1860’s railways were being hailed as an answer to economic problems. Those people in the Maritimes who supported Confederation argued that a transcontinental railway would improve among the colonies and would also ... their economic problems, they became more afraid of incidents that were occurring in the United States. In recent years the United States had taken over a great deal of land in North America. During the war of 1812 the Americans had invaded and occupied parts of the colonies. After the rebellions of 1837 a number of border raids on Canadian settlements had taken place. Now in the 1860’s the American Civil War was raging and it appeared that the North would be the winner over the South. Since Britain was a supporter of the South, would the North, if victorious over the British in the South, ...
- 7184: PORONO IN THE MEDIA
- Pornography in the Media It started by way of messengers and scribes, evolved through the presentation of newspapers and radio, brought us together with television, and now serves us world-wide via the ever-popular Internet. It is the mass media, and even from the earliest days of its existence, it has contributed greatly in ways that both enlighten and enrich society, and ways that deteriorate and perplex it. It is not a surprise to learn, then, that the mass media is the most powerful source of information we have, and nothing else in today’s world influences public perception quite as heavily. Unfortunately, however, most of what is broadcast or transmitted in the news today is with reference to the chaotic condition of our planet, or something else that society as ... that pornography is largely a male interest, a noted increase in female interest would certainly cause an increase in the amount of pornographic material geared for women; this relates to the laws of the business world (Christensen 1990:50). Having discussed the untruthfulness of the claims against pornography and showing that pornography is not “evil”, it is now possible to consider the violence issue. Are men who are exposed to ...
- 7185: Philosophy - Kants Universal L
- ... The initial stage of the Universal Law Formation of the Categorical Imperative requires that a maxim be universally applicable to all rational beings. M1 succeeds in passing the first stage. We can easily imagine a world in which paramedics always answer widows truthfully when queried. Therefore, this maxim is logical and everyone can abide by it without causing a logical impossibility. The next logical step is to apply the second stage ... but ended up drowning, and he was wearing a brown suit and brown loafers, then you should tell the widow that he died instantly in order to spare her feelings." We can easily imagine a world in which all paramedics lied to widows in this specific situation. That does not necessarily mean that it will pass the second test however. Even if it does pass the first test, narrowing down maxim ... everyone else. If you create a maxim about lying to widows that is specific enough to pass the first test, so can everyone else. One must ask if rational beings would really will such a world in which there would be many, many specific, but universal, laws. In order to answer this question, one must use the rational "I" for the statement "I, as a rational being would will such ...
- 7186: Their Eyes Are Watching God
- ... is raised to uphold the standards of her grandmother’’s generation; she is taught to be passive and subject to whatever life gives her. But as Janie grows older she begins to realize that the world may not like it, but she has got to follow her desires, not suppress them. The story begins in her childhood, with Janie exalting material possessions and money, two things she has never had an ... not belong to the sobbing school of Negrohood who hold that nature somehow has given them a lowdown dirty deal and whose feeling are all hurt about it.... No, I do not weep at the world- I am to busy sharpening my oyster knife. Hurston showed her true opinions on race relations in her autobiography Dust Tracks on the Road when she declared black artists should celebrate the positive aspects of ... of it. In her autobiography she wrote: I had stifled longing. I used to climb to the top of one of the huge chinaberry trees which guarded our front gate, and look out over the world. The most interesting thing that I saw was the horizon... It grew upon me that I ought to walk out to the horizon and see what the end of the world was like. Like ...
- 7187: All My Sons
- ... the main subject in the three act play, All My Sons, by Arthur Miller. Joe Keller and Herbert Deever are two ordinary men, trying to succeed in life. They ran a machine shop during the war that produced airplane parts. “The night foreman came and showed him the cylinder heads... they were coming out of the process with defects. So Dad went directly to the phone and called here and told ... shipped to the Army. They were used, causing the death of 21 men. Keller and Deever were brought to trial, where Keller went free and Deever went to prison. At the same time during the war, Joe Keller’s son, Larry was pronounced missing. Kate Keller, Joe’s wife and mother of Larry and Chris, went crazy about the report of Larry missing. She is described in her early 50's ... described as a pretty girl who is 26 years old. She is gentle but despite herself capable of holding, fast to what she knows. She was Larry’s sweetheart before he went off to the war. Ann was asked by Chris to return to her hometown to visit. Chris asked her to come so he could ask her hand in marriage. Chris Keller, is 32 years old and solidly built. ...
- 7188: The Team v.s. The CEO
- ... how the new way of the future will not be the power driven CEO, but a collaboration of co-workers working together on a team. Yes, a team. He talks about how chaotic the business world is becoming today, with such large and demanding companies. He believes that there is no way that the CEO's of the past can keep up with such large companies. It is really a pretty ... rather than one individual, there are almost no limitations as to what they may accomplish. He believes working together in a collaborative manner is going to be the way of the future companies of the world. As with everything in life there are always drawbacks to a good thing. Granted that team management does sound like a great idea, there are many obstacles along the way that you will need to ... be difficult, due to different personalities, backgrounds, morals and other qualities. Because of these obstacles and many more, it is sometimes a difficult process to accomplish what is needed. Despite these difficulties, corporations around the world still feel that team management is the wave of the future. According to a study given by the Work in America Institute Inc. (WAI) ninety- five percent of the 100 leading U.S. companies ...
- 7189: Classification
- ... Classification in biology, is the identification, naming, and grouping of organisms into a formal system. The vast numbers of living forms are named and arranged in an orderly manner so that biologists all over the world can be sure they know the exact organism that is being examined and discussed. Groups of organisms must be defined by the selection of important characteristics, or shared traits, that make the members of each ... distantly related. Carolus Linnaeus is probably the single most dominant figure in systematic classification. Born in 1707, he had a mind that was orderly to the extreme. People sent him plants from all over the world, and he would devise a way to relate them. At the age of thirty-two he was the author of fourteen botanical works. His two most famous were Genera Plantarum, developing an artificial sexual system ... in naming species taxonomists realized that there would have to be a universal system of nomenclature. A system that was not affected by language barriers, and would also classify the millions of species throughout the world. Binomial classification in its simplest form is a way of naming a species by means of two names both in Latin. Latin was originally used because it was the language of the founders of ...
- 7190: Lung Cancer
- Lung cancer is an uncontrolled, extremely deadly division of cells in the lung (World Book, Lung Cancer ). The two major types of lung cancer include small and non-small cell. Many different risk factors contribute to lung cancer. There are numerous symptoms that are difficult to detect in the ... lung cancer affect different types of cells in the lung and spread in different ways. Small cell lung cancer is limited to a section of the chest known as the hemithorax and regional lymph nodes (World Book, Lung Cancer ). Small cell lung cancer usually exists early and spreads out abruptly (Virtual Hospital, 3/23/99). Non-small cell lung cancer is first confined to the lung, then spreads throughout the chest (MSKCC, Lung Cancer ). Small cell lung cancer spreads quickly (World Book, Lung Cancer ). In the United States 85 to 90 percent of all lung cancer cases are related to smoking. Cigarette smoking is the main cause of lung cancer (Scientific American, Lung Cancer ). Second- ...
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