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- 7891: Genetic Engeneering
- ... issue genetic engineering has its good points and it s bad points. It is good for financial reasons, it would create more jobs, it could create better quality foods for lower prices and help solve world hunger but in the long run it could turn out a disaster, causing pollution, killing crops, animals or even us, is it such a good idea to play with gods creations? Only you could decide ... due to disease and weather damage, and we the consumers would get better quality foods for a smaller price. More food could be created with the use of genetically engineering therefore solving some of the world hunger problem. The world has a population of 5.8 billion today. A lot of those people are starving because there is either not enough food in the area as it is too hard to grow or because ...
- 7892: Money
- ... all must ask ourselves is anything really free? Is there such a word and if so what is its true definition? Many would say "Yeah there are a lot of things out there in the world that are free." but are they really is the questions? Can you believe that Melville Dewey once said, "free as air, free as water, free as knowledge?" Free as knowledge? Let's get real, this is the modern world --- air and water no longer come cheap! Hey, you want breathable air, you better pay your air conditioner's power-bill. Free as water? If you've got sense you buy the bottled variety or ... compound. If it wasn't for the four-eyed chemists in their white lab coats concocting new methods of cleaning the air in order to make it "breathable". Where would we be? Probably in the world filled with dust, radiation and skyrocketing amounts of carbon dioxide. All this valuable research and data doesn't come cheap. Every time you get your paycheck and you notice a couple of dollars missing ...
- 7893: Popularity of Television and Magazines On Designing Individual Space
- ... building. According to Le Corbusier monk's had taken into account "
the problems of the bourgeois society and the biological family and solved them, "(Banham, 1987, p114). But monks do not live in the 'real world', their lives are protected from distractions and temptations of the outside world, which are even more prominent in the 1990's, with the temptations of advertising and media to purchase consumer goods. Ultimately Corbusier saw the human race as an anonymous unit and not as individual free ... home with the copious amounts of coverage. Coates sees the city as a living organism, and that there is a confirmed link between the media and architecture, '
we live in a media - and information - saturated world of interactivity, yet the unusual ambition of architecture is still limited to questions of form and function.'(Jonathon Clancy DATE p11). Without the media, architects could not gain business, because through media attention architects ...
- 7894: 1980s Sports
- ... of talented athletes, it was a decade of all sports. The popularity of many sports were increased in this decade, mostly because of television. The Olympics were a big part of the 1980s. The world records, the Olympic records, the introduction of new sports and womens sports. Baseball, basketball, football, boxing, and some other sports also had their part in this decade. In 1982 the IOC voted to return ... by US President Jimmy Carter, also in 1980 the winter games in Lake Placid, New York were among the most exciting in history. Eric Heiden won all five speed skating races, setting an Olympic or World record in each race. Eric became the first man to win five individual gold medals in one Olympics. The mens US hockey team also won an unexpected gold medal by defeating the Soviet Union ... for the first time in over thirty years and took home their share of medals. In 1988 the summer games Ben Johnson of Canada defeated Carl Lewis in the 100-meter dash and set a world record. Three days later the IOC announced that Johnson had tested positive for steroids. The IOC states anyone found guilty of using any kind of drug is disqualified and unable to compete in the ...
- 7895: The History of Ice Hockey
- ... the league). These teams and team owners came up with a radical plan in mind: the creation of new league. They were tired of the NHAs problems. In time, it would become and the worlds premier professional hockey league, with its teams playing both Canada and the U.S. Between the moment of its founding and our time, it would divide its history into three eras-a struggling infancy ... were admitted with no charge. The meager crowd left no doubt that pro hockey, even under a new banner, was still suffering from the army scandal, most of the greatest players were off fighting at war. Again on the disaster side, the Westmount Arena burned to the ground in early 1918. Montreal had not drawn good crowds during the season and with arena lost, the owners decided to call it quits ...
- 7896: Mark Twain
- ... What you find in Twain is the opposite: a lively affection and admiration for black Americans that began when he was a boy and grew up through the years. In a widely praised post-Civil war sketch titled A True Story, for example, he wrenchingly evoked the pain of an ex-slave as she recalls being separated from her young son on the auction block, and her joy at discovering him ... venture to compare blacks and whites, the comparison is not conspicuously flattering to the whites. The first one is One of my theories is that the hearts of men are about alike, all over the world, whatever their skin-complections may be. The second quote is Nearly all black and brown skins are beautiful, but a beautiful white skin is rare. The third and last quote is There are many humorous ...
- 7897: Plato vs. Marx: Philosophical Arguments
- ... of something was gaining true knowledge. He believed that if one could understand the ideas or the true definition of something, they then had true knowledge of it. This type of knowledge comes from a world of being, where everything is something because it is forever unchanging. It always is that specific thing. On the other hand, Marx thought that true knowledge originated from the world of becoming. To understand and gain knowledge according to Marx, one had to study things and experience them first hand in the real, physical world. According to Plato, the rulers or kings in the ideal state are philosophers. A true philosopher, who must be a special kind of person in order to rule, enjoys learning about all things. Plato ...
- 7898: A Rose For Emily
- ... father's strict mentality. After being the only man in her life Emily's father dies and she finds it hard to let go. Emily was raised in the ante-bellum period before the Civil War. This story takes place in the Reconstruction Era after the war when the North takes control of the South. Like her father Miss Emily possesses a stubborn outlook towards life, she refuses to change. This short story explains Emily, her mystified ways and the townsfolk's ... the effect that she no longer went out at all. The tax notice was also enclosed, without comment," (40-41). Miss Emily was convinced that she had no taxes in Jefferson because before the Civil War the South didn't have to pay. This change occurred when the North took over the South. "After her father's death she went out very little; after her sweetheart went away, people hardly ...
- 7899: Indonesia Crisis As An Example
- ... framework that led to the victory of Deng Xiaoping over Maoist forces and set the stage for the implementation of Deng s economic reforms. Both China and Indonesia moved cautiously toward engagement with the outside world s economic system. Both Deng and Suharto held the reins tightly on the process of development. But as economic development began to accelerate and involvement with international finance developed, both Deng and Suharto had to involve their militaries, not only to control the process but also to facilitate it. In developing countries, the military is frequently the most modern institution in society. Preparing for war requires two things. The first is some degree of familiarity with technology and the principle of technological development. In societies in which the understanding of better and worse technology is fairly abstract, the military -- which ...
- 7900: Tales of the City
- ... Boy Next Door" ch.15 p.54-56: This is the introduction of the meandering & oversexed Brian Hawkins. Mary Ann reads her mail. There is an impression that she is very lonely in her new world. Anna intervenes by sending up Brian Hawkins. He had no idea of the reason why Anna would ask him to go up and see Mary Ann, but the light dawned for her. She explained that ... p.136 Ch. 41. Frannie Freaks p.139 Ch. 42. The Case of the Six Batons p.142 Ch. 43. Back to Cleveland p.145 Ch. 44. Michael's Pep Talk p.148 Ch. 45. War and Peace p.151 Ch. 46. Once More into the Beach p.154 Ch. 47. Fantasia for two p.157 Ch. 48. They Mysterious Caller p.160 Ch. 49. So Where Was Beauchamp p.163 ...
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