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Part Of The Body Encyclopaedia Britannica
1,248 wordsCanada, federated country of North America, bounded on the north by the Arctic Ocean; on the Northeast by Baffin Bay and Davis Strait, which separate it from Greenland; on the east by the Atlantic Ocean; on the south by the United States; and on the west by the Pacific Ocean and Alaska. Canada is the world's second largest country, surpassed in size only by Russia. Canada has a total area of 9, 970, 610 sq. km (3, 849, 652 sq. mi), of which 755, 180 sq. km (291, 575 sq. mi) is covered by bodies ...
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Tipper Gore Juvenile Delinquency
5,065 words... g. The Technical Report of the Commission on Obscenity and Pornography stated: ... efforts to restrict or censor have the psychological effect of increasing the desirability of the material. Increasing the difficulty of obtaining erotic materials, harassing and punishing pornographers and purveyors of pornography, setting minimum age limits for the purchase of these materials, and so on, may have the unwanted effect of increasing interest in the materials, rendering them more desirable, and ...
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Nuclear Family Family History
1,392 wordsSince their inception in the 1860 s, family albums have played an important role as the promoters of familial ideology and treasures of familial memory. Most family photograph albums in containing a great variety of items, both identified and unidentified, from different periods and of varying quality, held together by their collective identity with the family (Schoeman, 1996: 8). The function of familial photography is to fix perception and memory, represent a method of preserving memories, doc...
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Oxford Oxford Economic Effects
2,056 words... ad, the Somme, Jutland etc. and a reportedly growing movement for a negotiated peace, all added to 'war-weariness' and the fragile truce between the workers and their government disappeared in 1917, after a severe winter of food and fuel shortages sparked a wave of industrial unrest. The strikes were ended by firmness and concession, and arrests were made under Regulation 42 of the Defence of The Realm Act (DORA) impeding the production of war material The leaders were in fact shop stewards,...
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Serial Killers Brain Damage
1,107 wordsI hated all of my life. I hated everybody. When I first grew up and can remember, I was dressed as a girl by Mother. And I stayed that way for two or three years. And after that I was treated like what I call the dog of the family. I was beaten; I was made to do things that no human bein would want to do. Ive had to steal, make bootleg liquor; Ive had to eat out of a garbage can. I grew up and watched prostitution like that with my mother till I was fourteen years old. Then I started to steal, d...
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Punched Card Machines John W Mauchley
1,250 wordsThe History of Computers Only once in a lifetime will a new invention come about to touch every aspect of our lives. Such devices changed the way we manage, work, and live. A machine that has done all this and more now exists in nearly every business in the United States. This incredible invention is the computer. The electronic computer has been around for over a half-century, but its ancestors have been around for 2000 years. However, only in the last 40 years has the computer changed American...
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Compulsive Sexual Behavior Disease Or Not
2,377 wordsCompulsive Sexual Behavior: Disease or Not Sex and love addiction is a relatively new conception for understanding and treating compulsive sexual behavior and relationship dependency. This paper is aimed to prove that compulsive sexual behavior is a disease, driven sexual acting out and intensive, unending, and unhealthy romantic attachment. Compulsive sexual behavior requires treatment and recovery. Unfortunately, the medical profession continues to debate the diagnostic terminology to be appli...
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Allen Unwin 1988 Pp
1,814 words... 144) argues: All of us, men as much as women, are caught up in modes of self production and self observation... Women are no more subject to this system of corporeal production than men; they are no more cultural, no more natural, than men. Patriarchal power relations do not function to make women the objects of disciplinary control while men remain outside of disciplinary surveillance. It is a question not of more or less but of differential production... In contrast to the traditional argu...
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Religion And Science Science And Religion
1,753 wordsPsychology of Religion The relationship between religion and science is a problem significant for a psychology based on the notion that individuals construct their own worlds. The issue is equally pertinent to any of the constructivist perspectives but is most clearly seen in one particular psychology, personal construct psychology. In this last perspective, we see the clearest example of the apparent tension that arises between that psychology's model of the person as "scientist" on the one han...
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Original Work Published Good And Evil
1,761 words... claims. Constructivist theory would equate religion and relativism, construing religion as personal beliefs found by an individual to agree with his or her own needs and interests. The psychology of religion would then be the major focus of inquiry, an exercise in teasing out what caused religious belief or what its purpose was for individuals and groups. That religious belief and practice as a human phenomenon is a proper subject of inquiry using personal construct theory as a methodology i...
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Norton Critical Edition Authoritative Text Backgrounds
3,566 wordsMarlow's Catharsis in Heart of Darkness Conrad's novel, Heart of Darkness, relies on the historical period of imperialism to illuminate its protagonist, Charlie Marlow, and his struggle with two opposite value systems. Marlow undergoes a catharsis during his trip to the Congo and learns of the effects of imperialism. I will analyze Marlow's change, which is caused by his exposure to the imperialistic nature of the historical period in which he lived. Marlow goes to the Congo River to report on M...
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Crown Of Thorns Coral Reefs
3,746 wordsCoral reefs are among the most varied and productive communities on Earth. They are found in the warm, clear, shallow waters of tropical oceans worldwide. Reefs have functions from providing food and shelter to fish and invertebrates to protecting the shore from erosion. Unfortunately, as our understanding of corals and coral reefs increases, it becomes apparent that the effects of the human population on these communities may be increasing as well. Reef-building (or hermatypic) corals are of th...
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Mainframe Computers Ms Dos
4,131 wordsDigital Equipment Corporation (DEC) Overview Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) is one of the most successful computer manufacturers in the world. Throughout its nearly 40 -year history, it has struggled through the ups and downs that have plagued virtually every company in the computer industry. Unlike many others, however, DEC has managed to reemerge time and again as a top player in the industry. The Early Years The first 35 years of DECs history can be tied directly to the history of its fo...
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War In The Pacific Allied Forces
297 wordsThe island of Truk was 800 square miles of sheltered lagoons and strong defensive capabilities. (1) In 1944 the island became vulnerable to allied attacks. (2) All of the warships were subsequently moved away from the island leaving all the forces on the island without warship protection. Truk was still considered one of Japan? s greatest naval bases. Vice Adm. Church Hara was in command of the forces on the island. At this point in the war the allied forces were just moping up the Japanese as t...
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Death With Dignity Pain And Suffering
1,798 wordsEuthanasia has become an issue of increasing attention because of Dr. Jack Kevorkian's assisted suicides. As of October 21 Kevorkian has assisted in nineteen suicides. Because of the increasing number of suicides in Michigan, Gov. Engler signed an anti-suicide law in late February that made doctor-assisted suicides a felony. During the 21 -month trial period of the new law anyone assisting in a suicide can be sentenced to up to four years in prison and fined more than $ 2, 000 (Reuters, 1993). W...
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Sense Of Place Second Generation
1,376 wordsManyImigration To Canada INTRODUCTION Many people immigrated to Canada with hopes of a better life and refuge from places and times of uncertainty. People in foreign countries were made aware of Canada and all it supposedly had to offer through channels such as relatives who were already living in Canada and governmental advertising. Information given was not always as accurate as it should have been. Views on the early settlement of Canada varied depending on the person and his or her experienc...
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Voir Dire Impartial Jury
2,870 wordsAnonymous Juries The American criminal justice system has traditionally made the identities and addresses of jurors known to the judge, the prosecution, and the defense. That tradition began to erode with the unprecedented sua sports trial court decision to use an anonymous jury in the case United States v. Barnes, a highly publicized criminal trial of notorious organized crime figures in New York City. Since Barnes, Federal prosecutors in New York have requested and been granted anonymous jurie...
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Jean Jacques Rousseau Civil Religion
1,726 wordsReligion is a component of almost every society. Knowing this, one might look at the function it serves. For Jean-Jacques Rousseau, religion, specifically a civil religion established by the Sovereign, is an instrument of politics that serves a motivating function. In a new society people are unable to understand the purpose of the law. Therefore, civil religion motivates people to obey the law because they fear some divine being. For a developed society, civil religion motivates people to maint...
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Stratospheric Ozone Ozone Layer
2,496 wordsThe Atmospheric Ozone Layer The stratospheric ozone layer exists at altitudes between about 10 and 40 km depending on latitude, just above the tropopause. Its existence is crucial for life on earth as we know it, because the ozone layer controls the absorption of a portion of the deadly ultraviolet (UV) rays from the sun. UV-A rays, including wavelengths between 320 and 400 nm, are not affected by ozone. UV-C rays between 200 and 280 nm, are absorbed by the other atmospheric constituents besides...
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Republic Of Vietnam Men And Women
1,829 wordsJohn Clark Pratt Poetry that documents the attitudes toward the Vietnam Was well as the origins, development, and conduct of the was both pervasive and significant. Although only a few poems by French writers reflect that countrys involvement, the Vietnamese tradition of poetic expression produced a large body of work, both personal and political, written by soldiers and civilians of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV) and the Republic of Vietnam (RVN). Unfortunately, except for the efforts...
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