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- 11811: Health
- ... multiple, chronic, and treatable but not curable. Acute illness may be superimposed on these conditions. Although there are factors that affect our health and the aging process that are not in our control , In a World Health article , K. Warner Schaie(1989), research director of the Andrus Gerontology Center at the University of Southern California, cites three reasons for optimism about future old age: The control of childhood disease, better education ... and not being afraid of the aging process may slow the process. REFERENCE Oates, Joyce Carrol. (1993, Spring/Summer). The ageless self. Generations, (Vol. 17 Issue 2, p13). Schaie, Warner K. (1989, Nov). Looking ahead. World Health, pp.2-4. Health, Disease, and Disability
- 11812: The Springfield Armory
- ... that would manufacture these wood parts using a metal template. This drastically improved production time because now, each musket could be produced faster for a smaller cost. In the period of time before the Civil War, massive advances in technology took place. In the 1840s, the unreliable flintlock muskets were replaced by to percussion ignition muskets. This new ignition system was much more reliable than the flintlock. The percussion ignition ... Europe. The faster the rifles were made, the quicker the troops could be armed. Throughout the length of WWI, the Springfield Armory produced over 250,000 rifles for the troops in Europe. Soon after the war, testing was done on a new advance in small weaponry, the semi-automatic rifle. The pioneer of this new aspect of rifles was John Garand. Once testing was complete on the newest innovation to come ...
- 11813: The Great Gatsby: The Green Light
- ... must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created. A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about... The phrase "Material without being real" is an important part of this passage. Nick was saying that Gatsby was living in a material world where he could feel, see, and touch, but which had no meaning to him. A rose does not possess beauty in itself, but it is beautiful because we feel its beauty. The green light in ...
- 11814: Ebola
- Ebola Ebola hemorrahagic fever is a 20 year old virus that, with a mortality rate of 50% to 90%, is one of the world's deadliest viruses. Its causative organism is called Ebola virus. Ebola virus is a member of filoviridae, a family of negative-strained RNA viruses. The filoviridae family consists of five known members, Marburg, Ebola Zaire ... Ebola antigens, antibodies, or the isolated virus in the specimens. Since the virus is so deadly, these diagnostic tests are an extreme biohazard and are performed only with extreme caution. The Ebola virus is the world's third deadliest infectious disease, behind HIV, and rabies, which has a vaccine. The only treatment that can be given to Ebola victims is support. They are usually very dehydrated and need management of fluid ...
- 11815: Islamic Women
- ... principle also applies to inheritance and other issues. The Koran states that the man, since he is supporting the woman, should receive twice as much of everything. Until recently education for women in the Muslim world has been minimal. Since the modernization of the whole country, women have had been found to work in different jobs all over, in Muslim societies. Many women all over the world, especially the woman in the U.S. do not understand why the Islamic woman take on what the men give them. However, it is after you read a work like this, you begin to understand ...
- 11816: The Music of Generation X
- ... riot." The song then leads into companionship to not caring about values/norms that society has set like, drugs, alcohol, and money problems. The last song was just released last Wednesday. "Hope in a Hopeless World," by Widespread Panic is a song that geniunely conveys the problems in today's society. The title itself explains the behaviors of depression and loss of reality. The song looks at the downfalls in our ... explain my thoughts. The Golden Rule in my opinion is a major norm in our society, and with that out of the way everything is really unfriendly and depressing. "Looking for hope in a hopeless world" explains that people are trying to come out and have a life, but there are so many drawbacks that they are often stuck. The song also says that you have to keep trying: You've ...
- 11817: Extra Sensory Perception
- ... ESP as extra sensory perception, they call it biological information, also clairvoyance is called bio-location. The Russians are also spending a lot of time studying dowsing and skin-vision. In some parts of the world, people are said to be able to find water by holding a stick in a certain way and and walking over a field. These people are called dowsers. An example of skin-vision is when ... sensory perception. Just because we cannot take a picture of it does not mean that it does not exist. As J. B. Rhine, the famous biologist has said: ³Among the scientific professions of the western world, there has grown up a conviction that the universe is physical, and that anything that does not fit into the physical picture is unreal and should be ignored if it cannot be disproved.... The natural ...
- 11818: Money Vs Morality
- ... the homes of Africans, and kidnap children and adults. It did not matter if they were women, men, or children. They were simply just dirty slaves to the English. Another way of getting slaves was war. They would take the prisoners of war from warring tribes in Africa. The third known way to obtain slaves was to pillage. All three ways were efficient, and often used. So the slaves were then loaded on a carrier ship. The slaves ...
- 11819: Fear 2
- ... Our fears may be sudden like when your kid brother jumps out behind you and yells boo . People s fears can be built up over a long period of time, for example, during the cold war millions of people thought that at any moment they would be attacked by the Russians, so they built bomb shelters because of that fear. Some of our fears come straight from our imagination. They may ... wake. I wear my seat belt for protection, and sometimes I look in my closet before I go to bed. It s the larger planet-wide fears that we collectively hold our breathes for, of war, of starvation, of toxic pollutants, of disease and other events. We fear for the uncertainty of our loved ones or the loss of a loved one, an ancient fear yet new to every generation. Still ...
- 11820: Human Dignity In A Lesson Befo
- ... a crime, and though he did not commit it, he is sentenced to death as a hog a word that denies any sense of worth or fragment of dignity he may have possessed in a world ruled by oppressive white bigots. Jefferson is at an even greater loss as he has no education and after the conviction he doubts that God can even exist in a world that would send an innocent man to his death. It is clear that Jefferson does not believe he has any value. I m an old hog. Just an old hog they fattening up to kill ...
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