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Frank Lloyd Wright Organic Architecture
1,317 words
Do you have a living room in your house? A
carport? Does your house have an "open" floor
plan? If so, then the way you live is being
directly influenced by Frank Lloyd Wright's
innovations in residential architecture
(Copplestone 1). Frank Lloyd Wright was born in
1867 in southwestern Wisconsin of talented and
dynamic parents; his father a preacher and
musician, his mother a teacher. From his father,
Wright learned how the order and structure of
music had influenced his perception of
architectur...
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Trigger Locks Violent Crimes
1,251 words
With the growing number of reports, on television,
about violent crimes at school, it is no wonder
that President Clinton is pushing for more gun
control. Although the number of violent crimes
committed in schools is far less than the number
committed at home, the president feels that
stricter gun laws need to be in effect. In the
light of the recent shootings at Columbine High
School in Columbine, Colorado, there have been
serious increases in the number of proposals to
help regulate gun use. I...
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Amounts Of Alcohol Heavy Drinkers
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Alcohol is the most used and abused drug in the
world, for this reason there is no wonder why we
have alcohol problems. The most common problem is
alcoholism. Alcoholism is a chronic usually
progressive disease that includes both a
psychological and a physical addiction to alcohol.
Alcoholics know what will happen to them when they
drink but they are so addicted they cant stop
drinking. Alcohol becomes the most important part
of the persons life. It totally consumes them, all
their thoughts and ...
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Recidivism Of Sex Offenders
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... imply notifying the public does not remove the
responsibility of the legal system from keeping
sex offenders from committing another offense. If
the correctional system releases a convicted
offender and places him or her on parole they must
be supervision. A study found in the Journal of
Criminal Justice and Behavior, by R. Hanson and
Andrew Harris, looked at possible behavioral
indicators predicting the recidivism of a sex
offender. They found recidivists generally have
poor supports, attit...
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Tribe Members Life Style
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The Lenni-Lenape were organized into three
subtribe's: "the people who lived near the ocean"
Each subtribe had a sub-chief (shakira) and the
Lenni-Lenape usually considered the Unami sakai to
be chief of all subtribe's. From the map you can
see where the trails were that they used to move
between their villages and their summer
residences. Many of the trails would became the
early highway system for the Europeans. Contact
with the "whites" was sporadic until the early
1600 's. The Dutch traders ...
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Copyright C 1994 Percent Of The Cases
1,103 words
Child abuse is the intentional, unexplainable
infliction of physical, moral, and sexual pain and
suffering on a child. It is caused mainly by
parents who were maltreated as children
themselves. Causes also include stress, poverty,
and / or unemployment. There are many cases of
abuse, but those such as Elisa Izquierdo's stand
out. Child abuse consists of various different
causes, types, and cases. There are many causes
for child abuse, but some project over the rest.
In some cases children are mi...
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British East India East India Company
1,076 words
Beginnings The first time that the British came
into contact from outside people since the
disappearance of the land bridge connecting the
British Isles to mainland Europe occured in the
year 43 A. D. This was the year that Ceasar send a
Roman expeditionary force under the command of
August Plates to the British Isles. Although the
indigenous Celtic tribesmen put up heavy initial
resistance, superior armed and trained Roman
Legionnairies were able to subdue them and
successfully occupy Great Bri...
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One Of The Largest Buenos Aires
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The capital of the country, Buenos Aires is also
Argentina's leading city in population, commerce,
and industry. It is located near the Atlantic
Ocean coast, on the broad Ro de la Plata, an
estuary at the mouth of the Paran and Paraguay
rivers. The early Spanish colonists named the city
for the "good winds" that brought them to the
port. Today about 10 million people live in the
Buenos Aires metropolitan area, one of the largest
in the world. The city proper makes up a federal
district, and its ...
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Sahara Desert Fertile Plain Land
358 words
ter> Essay: What is desertification, where is it
found, and what are the causes?
Desertification is the process by which land dries
up eventually over time and the land turning to
desert. This is common in Africa where most of the
terrain is a desert. It is believed that the
Sahara desert was once fertile ground but now it
is dried up. Sand as far as the eye can see and
very little rainfall occurs in this region. About
2500 B. C. , the climate of the Sahara changed.
Africa was once a f...
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Britain And France British And French
1,019 words
The League of Nations had been a partially
successful organization in the 1920 s. During the
1930 s the situation became worst, and the League
had been bypassed and ignored by powerful nations.
The long term and short term weaknesses of the
League had been exposed. The League had depended
on Britain and France for support in times of
crisis. However neither France nor Britain was
willing to abandon their self-interests, and spend
more of their time supporting the League. During
the 1930 s, it be...
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Keynesian Economics Aggregate Demand
967 words
IS/LM Model and New Classical Model Recent years
have witnessed the development of a New IS-LM
model that is increasingly being used to discuss
the determination of macroeconomic activity and
the design of monetary policy rules. It is
sometimes called an optimizing IS-LM model because
it can be built up from micro foundations. It is
alternatively called an expectational IS-LM model
because the traditional models behavioral
equations are modified to include expectational
terms suggested by these ...
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Brain Damage Blood Pressure
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In America today, Ecstasy Ecstasy In America
today, somewhere around 4 and a half million
people regularly take some kind of illegal pill.
One of these pills that have lately increased in
popularity is known as ecstasy. Ecstasy, or also
known as MDMA, was first developed as an appetite
suppressed. Eventually it was figured out that
this little pill could give you quite a trip. Some
people may say that ecstasy is fun, but what they
fail to realize is that it can have physical
effects as well as m...
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Fossil Fuels Greenhouse Gases
1,324 words
The importance of the greenhouse effect was just
conceived in the mid-twentieth century. ? For
billions of years, cosmic forces shaped Earth, and
land and air coevolve at an almost inconceivably
slow pace to create a climate in which human
beings and other creatures could flourish. ?
(Francesca Lyman). Now, for the first time,
humanity has the power to change the global
climate. By releasing the huge amounts of carbon
stored in fossil fuels over millions of years, we
are distorting the natural c...
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Dark Ages People Share
853 words
In every day life we experience many internal
conflicts and crisis. These crises often manifest
themselves as moral dilemmas and are a part of
being human. But the question that arises is what
causes us to handle ourselves the way we do in
those situations. Some people might say faith, but
the true answer is our beliefs. That is why we
seem to be at an all time low in morality, we are
having a crisis of belief. Most people believe
that faith is what holds us together, and our
beliefs are just a ...
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Mental Retardation
608 words
fetal alcohol syndrome The 1990 s is witnessing
the significant impact alcohol-related birth
defects are having on our society. These birth
defects are caused by maternal use of alcohol
during pregnancy which are irreversible, yet
preventable. The most severe outcome, fetal
alcohol syndrome (FAS), to the less easily
diagnosed fetal alcohol effects (FAE). The
incidence of FAS is estimated at. 33 per 1, 000
live births. The estimated incidence of FAE is
three times that of FAS. With an annual cost...
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Water Quality Water Sources
572 words
Forest Roads And Their Effect On Water Quality
Roads are often necessary to perform certain tasks
in the forests. When roads are made, they often
pose the problem of erosion, and damage to nearby
water sources. The two articles I read on this
topic were both from the August 1999 issue of the
Journal of Forestry. Both discuss the different
techniques and methods for trying to limit the
amount of silt that contaminates roads due to
disturbance. The first article, ? What We Know-
and don? t know- a...
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Marlow Journey
746 words
As Heart Of Darkness As we follow Marlow? s
journey to the Congo of Africa, the absurdities of
the events he encounters becomes complex. Marlow?
s mission is to retrieve the chief agent of a
British Ivory trade company, Kurtz a failed
philanthropist to the African Natives engulfed by
the primeval nature of the dark jungle. Throughout
the Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad uses irony to
emphasis and point out that the quest for truth
and light through blinded ambition will only lead
to permanent da...
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Four Noble Truths Hinduism And Buddhism
1,020 words
Hinduism and Buddhism Throughout the world,
different nations have different believes or
religion. Some religions evolve from others, and
others are combination of other religions.
Religion is a way of life, a life style; it should
dictate how you live your life. For instance, in
India, Buddhism evolved from Hinduism, a religion
were people believe in 300, 000 gods. Even though,
Hinduism and Buddhism have different similarities
such as believes in god, soul, and rituals, which
in some ways conne...
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World War Ii League Of Nations
937 words
History of the League of Nations- Through my
studies and research I have come to the following
conclusion about the League of Nations: despite
all of President Woodrow Wilsons efforts, the
League was doomed to fail. I feel this was so for
many reasons, some of which I hope to convey in
the following report. From the day when Congress
voted on the Fourteen Points, it was obvious that
the League had a very slim chance of being passed
in Congress, and without all of the World powers,
the League had...
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Income Inequality Unskilled Workers
679 words
Income inequality in the United States remained
relatively stable for a period of nearly forty
years. Beginning in the 1970? s, however, this
period of stability ended, as the first signs of
widening income inequality became apparent. Over
the course of the 1970? s and 1980? s, an
increasingly clear trend toward greater income
inequality emerged. By the end of the 1980? s, the
top 20 percent of workers were receiving the
largest share of income ever recorded by
government figures, and the bottom...
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