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Prince William Sound Christian Science Monitor
1,783 wordsOn March 24, 1989 at 4 minutes past midnight, the oil tanker Exxon Valdez struck a reef in Alaska's breath-taking Prince William Sound. Instantaneously, the quiet waters of the sound became a sea of black. "We " ve fetched up - ah - hard aground north of Goose Island off Bligh Reef, and - ah - evidently leaking some oil, " Joseph Hazelwood, captain of the ship, radioed the Coast Guard Marine Safety Office back in Valdez. That "some oil" turned out to be a total of 11, 000, 000 gallons of crude o...
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Health Care Provider Effects Of Alcohol
1,641 wordsDespite a minimum legal drinking age of 21, many young people in the United States consume alcohol. Some abuse alcohol by drinking frequently or by binge drinking -- often defined as having five or more drinks in a row. A minority of youth may meet the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV) criteria for alcohol dependence (1, 2). The progression of drinking from use to abuse to dependence is associated with biological and psychosocial factors. This Alcohol...
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Amount Of Work Lot Of People
872 wordsIn today's society, a lot of emphasis is placed on how you look. Almost everybody wants that "perfect body." But with all the things people have to do, not many are willing to put in the time to get it. So there must be an easy way to get it. Right? Not too long ago people steroids. They injected horse testosterone into their veins to increase the amount of muscle mass produced from lifting. But after a while, some professional athletes and high profile people started showing the side effects th...
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Wtc Retail Recovery Grant Program Helping Affected Businesses
940 wordsGovernor George E. Pataki announced that as of today, New York State's WTC Retail Recovery Grant Program has dispersed 1, 270 checks totaling $ 5. 4 million to assist small and medium-sized retail businesses affected by the September 11 terrorist attacks. Altogether, 1, 573 applications have been approved totaling $ 6. 8 million. "Small and medium-sized retailers have continually played a vital role in the New York success story for generations, " Governor Pataki said at an event in Chinatown wi...
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Due To A Lack Allegory Of The Cave
1,363 wordsThe Benefits Education Has On Individuals And/Or Society Plato, the most creative and influential of Socrates' disciples, wrote dialogues, in which he frequently used the figure of Socrates to espouse his own (Plato's) full-fledged philosophy. In "The Republic, " Plato sums up his views in an image of ignorant humanity, trapped in the depths and not even aware of its own limited perspective. The rare individual escapes the limitations of that cave and, through a long, tortuous intellectual journ...
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Herbert Hoover Rural Areas
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World War Ii Secretary Of State
1,765 wordsDuring the winter of 1946 - 47, the worst in memory, Europe seemed on the verge of collapse. For the victors in World War II, there were no spoils. In London, coal shortages left only enough fuel to heat and light homes for a few hours a day. In Berlin, the vanquished were freezing and starving to death. On the walls of the bombed-out Reichstag, someone scrawled Blessed are the dead, for their hands do not freeze. European cities were seas of rubble 500 million cubic yards of it in Germany alone...
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Prince William Sound Advancement Of Science
1,394 wordsCleaning Up after the Exxon Valdez Was A Mistake Through many hours of research I have determined that the spill cleaning techniques used to clean the Prince William Sound area of Alaska did more harm than leaving the oil where it was. The Alaskan oil spill has become the most studied and managed event of its kind. Although there is not much that can be done about the marine life that came into direct contact with the crude oil, the geologic effects that the oil introduced into the area should h...
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Amp World Report News Amp World
2,035 wordsNobody knows about cosmetic surgery better than Edward Mondeck and his two children, ages 9 and 11. Rosemarie Mondeck, 39, decided to have a bit of tummy fat removed after having two kids. She let the doctors use a new procedure called tumescent liposuction. The patients are primed prior to surgery by injecting large amounts of diluted local anesthetic and epinephrine, drugs that shrink capillaries. They reduce bleeding and make it easier to suck fat out according to doctors. After the drugs wer...
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Organ Donation Organ Donor
1,738 wordsIn March of 1999, I was given a gift from a person I never knew; a person I? ll never get to know. This gift cost the person who gave it to me, no money, but it was the most valuable gift I? ll ever receive. The gift was a piece of life from another person. At the age of twenty-four, I broke my hip. After three unsuccessful surgical attempts to heal it, my doctors performed a total hip replacement. The top four inches of my femur were sawed off, and the inside of my bone was hollowed out. A stee...
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1,415 wordsDivorce in the United States Divorce involves the recognition that a marriage has hopelessly failed and that at least one of the partners has no desire to continue the marital relationship. Divorce legally dissolves a marriage, and permits the partners to remarry if they choose. Divorce differs from an annulment, which declares a marriage invalid because of some flaw in the contract. The early American settlers brought with them three different views on divorce: 1) the Roman Catholic view that m...
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman Narrator
2,208 wordsDoctor Knows Best Often human illness calls for medical attention to acquire both soundness of body and mind. Opinions from medical professionals are sought after by those individuals seeking reassurance and peace of mind in knowing they will receive the best possible treatment. In her short story? The Yellow Wallpaper, ? Charlotte Perkins Gilman presents a situation where a respected professional, medical opinion contradicts those thoughts and desires of the patient. The? wife, ? and narrator, ...
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Target Heart Rate Blood Vessels
2,314 wordsAsthma is a pulmonary disease with the following characteristics: 1) airway obstruction that is reversible in most patients either spontaneously or with treatment; 2) airway inflammation; and 3) increased airway responsiveness to a variety of stimuli (Enright, 1996, p. 375). There presently exist many varieties of asthma that differ in the severity, means of induction, and methods of treatment. One type is exercise-induced asthma. Exercise-induced asthma (EIA) is a temporary increase in airway r...
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt Soil Conservation
744 wordsWhen Franklin D. Fdr FDR When Franklin D. Roosevelt took office in March 1933, the country was in horrible economic condition, banks were collapsing, businesses were failing and the stock market continued to plummet. Promising the New Deal in his candidacy, he took bold action as leader of the country against hunger, unemployment, and the other problems of the great depression. In Roosevelt s inaugural address he spoke, First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fe...
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt World War Ii
2,044 wordsHistory Coursework: Franklin Delano Roosevelt Essay, Research History Coursework: Franklin Delano Roosevelt Assignment Two: Objective 3 1. Source A is a speech made by Governor F. D. Roosevelt in 1930, when the Depression was really beginning to bite. ? He says that Central Government has a responsibility to those citizens who are in real trouble, or even starving, to help those people. Source B is another speech from Gov. Roosevelt, this time in 1932, while campaigning to become President. ? He...
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Lower Interest Rates Gross Domestic Product
2,583 wordsEconomics Coursework: The Price Mechanism Introduction I have been asked to investigate a question similar to? What determines the price of a particular good or product? . I have chosen to answer the question, What determines the price of houses? I have also come up with a hypothesis related to my question, later in my investigation I will either prove or disprove this theory. My hypothesis is, House prices are mainly determined by mortgage rates. To collect my information I will use a wide rang...
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Second World War Britain And France
1,785 wordsEurope after the second world war, had been left decimated for the second time within twenty years. With this unlike the previous war, the United States was now determined to insure their own economic security, as well was ready to aid Europe in any ways that were needed. The US however was not going to help unless they were asked to help by the European nations. The United States did not wish to force upon any other nation, the ideologies of the United States, nor to influence other nations aga...
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Rate Of Change Financial Crisis
1,039 wordsOverview As Asian markets and economies experienced a drastic slide beginning in the summer of 1997, threatening the stability of other world markets and potentially dampening the technology boom that had been driving world development, the editors began a look at the effects of cultures and economic systems on social and technological change. Following is a Q& A interview with James Fallows. Beginning in 1999, Fallows was media columnist for The Industry Standard. He also is the former edit...
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Physician Assisted Suicide Quality Of Life
2,342 wordsThe mission of this hospital is rooted in our emphasis on the individual, and directed toward providing the highest level of autonomy, beneficence, comfort, healing, privacy and respect for the dignity of the patient. With these as our guiding principles, we evaluated Physician Assisted Suicide (PAS) as a possible treatment option at this institution. We have concluded that PAS can be a viable treatment option after making the following considerations: 1. During the elements of justified PAS, 2....
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Supply Side Economics Ronald Reagan
1,235 wordsOn February 23, Reaganomics Reaganomics On February 23, 1977, Congressman John Rousse lot, a Republican from California, rose to his feet on the floor of the House of Representatives and said in a booming voice: Mr. Chairman, I offer an amendment as a substitute for the amendment in the nature of a substitute. It was a historic date, for that arcane legislative language marked the origin of Reaganomics (Roberts 7). Reaganomics has become somewhat of a political code for economist around the worl...
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