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- 11861: Abilities of People With Disabilities
- ... bans discrimination against those who are blind, deaf, mentally retarded, HIV positive, physically impaired, or have cancer or epilepsy, is designed to help more than ten million Americans move into the mainstream of the working world. "This is the 20th century Emancipation Proclamation for people with disabilities," says Iowa Senator Tom Harkin, the law's chief sponsor. Under the act, employers are forbidden to discriminate in hiring, promotions, and firing. They ... people with disabilities.. Says Bobby Silverstein of the Senate Subcommittee on Disability Policy: "Companies are sending human- resources employees to seminars and sensitivity training, reading manuals and meeting with disabilities-rights advocates." So in this world of political correctness, people can not even treat someone who has an extra bulge in one place or another as an equal. Laws are helping, but as Mrs. Sommer says, "The most significant barrier to ...
- 11862: The Rms Titanic
- ... She brushed the berg so gently that nearly all of the passengers slept through it (Tribute to the RMS Titanic). A look at the Titanic's catastrophic disaster at sea some 85 years ago, the world has been captivated by the "unsinkable" ship's history, from the birth of the idea to the aftermath of the crash and sinking. By the turn of the nineteenth century, the race to build the ... fastest steamship was in full swing. The two leading sea liner competitors in Britain during this era were the Cunard Lines and the White Star Lines. Both of these companies were striving to become the world leader in sea vessel manufacturing. One summer night in 1907, the managing director of the White Star Line, J. Bruce Ismay, met at the home of Lord James Pirrie, a partner in the firm of ...
- 11863: Charles Dickens 5
- ... his tombstone in Poet's Corner, Westminster Abbey reads: He was a sympathiser to the poor, the suffering, and the oppressed; and by his death, one of England's greatest writers is lost to the world. The storys, characters, and places he wrote about will live forever. Dickens 1842 On January 3, 1842 Charles Dickens sailed from Liverpool on the steamship Britannia bound for America. Dickens was at the height of ... sides of the Atlantic and, securing a year off from writing, determined to visit the young nation to see for himself this haven for the oppressed which had righted all the wrongs of the Old World. The voyage out, accompanied by his wife, Kate, and her maid, Anne Brown, proved to be one of the stormiest in years and his cabin aboard the Britannia proved to be so small that Dickens ...
- 11864: Hiroshima (book Report)
- ... into an amount of 20,000 tons of TNT. (WOW!) They dubbed it the the largest bomb ever yet used in the history of warfare. After about a week later, the emperor announced that the war was over. I personally think that this means that there probably won t be any more attacks from anybody. (The obvious) Father Kleinsorge Father Kleinsorge thought about Father Schiffer and Father La Salle, he needed ... then later found out all her family were dead. She then later went back to Kabe, depressed. The next day, she met her younger-sister who had not been in Hiroshima, who said that the war was over. Chapter 4 Panic Grass and Feverfew Father Kleinsorge, Mrs. Nakamura, her daughter Myeko, and Mr. Tanimoto came down with a capricious disease of weariness and feverishness, later to be known as radiation sickness ...
- 11865: D.h. Lawrence
- ... horror because he is not the same man she once loved Seeing his hands, with the ring she knew so well upon the little finger, she felt as if she were going dazed. The whole world was deranged. She sat unavailing. For his hands, her symbols of passionate love, filled her with a horror as they rested now on his strong thighs. Also an example of this heightened sensation would be ... Heightened sensation, the reflection of nature, and much emotion were intertwined into every book, story, or poem he wrote. These themes of his organic writing came from his own day-to-day experiences in the world. Such a theme came from the alienation between his parents. Many people had their own opinions of the type of writing David Herbert did. The controversy in his writing ranged from: charming, wise, and sympathetic ...
- 11866: Windows 95 Beats Mac
- ... pulling teeth. The instructions given to help install hardware were too complicated for the average user. There was also the issuer of compatibility between the large number of different hardware setups available in the PC world. Is a particular board going to work with my PC? With Windows 95, these problems were alleviated with plug and play technology. With plug and play compatible boards, the computer detects and configures the new ... voice recognition, whereas the Pc user does not have. In truth, the promised building blocks for telephony control do not yet exist. I think the speech is not good point in the Mac. In the world of computer, people cannot stand still for too long without getting passed by. Windows 95 now threatens the only assets the Mac has in capturing the interests of the consumers because of configuration in the ...
- 11867: Poverty -
- Poverty has stuck many people across the world. Many people have died because of the lack of food, clothing, and money. Poverty has raised the rate of crime due to the lack of essential items they need for survival. It also has caused hunger across the world. Lastly, poverty has caused much death due to the lack of medicine and unsanitary living conditions. Along with poverty comes the fear of safety. Not only a fear for the common, middle class, people but ...
- 11868: Dreams
- Dreams The powers of dreams have always been underestimated. There is a whole new world in the sub conscious mind that helps us in a subtle way. In this project you will see how a baby was born because of a dream, how nightmares can be partially good for you ... you could do whatever you like because it's your mind that's controlling you not your body and gravity. For example, you could fly or walk through walls. The powers of dreams The dreaming world could be a very powerful thing so much so that it causes a baby to be born because of lucid dreaming. In a true story taken from the book called Living with Dreams a woman ...
- 11869: Thomas Jefferson
- ... slavery was morally wrong and forcefully declare that it ought to be abolished?" (Wilson 66). Wilson also argues that Jefferson knew that his slaves would be better off working for him than freed in a world where they would be treated with contempt and not given any real freedoms. Another way that Thomas Jefferson shows his moral character is in his most famous achievement, the drafting of the Declaration of Independence. This document is probably the most important document in the history of the United States, and one of the most important in the history of the world. Jefferson writes that "all men are created equal" and argues that every man has the right to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." Jeffersons document shows not only his strongly held beliefs in ...
- 11870: The Trip: Journey to The Center of Terence McKenna's Inner Self.
- ... complete shock that it caused the literal turning inside-out of his intellectual universe. He was knocked off his feet and set himself the goal of understanding this. His quest led him all over the world, exploring traditions of magic-religious drug usage. In the years since his fateful encounter with the self-transforming machine elves of hyperspace, McKenna has fashioned his mental Merzbau on the New Age lecture circuit, where ... everything about us that distinguishes us from other primates, except perhaps the loss of body hair. During one of McKenna's more memorable trips the mushroom told him that it is literally not from this world; in fact, it is an alien symbiote whose spores were borne across the galaxy. This may all seem a little far fetched to most people, but nothing is impossible!
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