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World War Ii European Culture
1,093 words
Is it a new trend? No. Alcohol has been a part of
the lives of people for centuries. Its uses vary
from "worship ceremonies, " to "magic and
medicine, " to celebration of "births, marriages,
and initiations. " Like today, centuries ago
people found drinking a delightful custom,
however, intoxication has always caused social
difficulty. One of the earliest records of alcohol
regulation recovered is in Egyptian "temperance
tract" which states Take not upon thyself to drink
a jug of beer. Thou spea...
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Doctors And Nurses Drug Interactions
948 words
Medication Errors are among the biggest issues
devoted in health care setting today in America.
According to a recent Journal of the American
Medical Association, medication error causes more
than 10, 000 of injures and deaths every year.
Medication giving include five basic rights: Right
patient, Right medication, Right route, Right
dose, and Right time. Contrary to the above is
medication errors. However, most common errors are
occurred by poor transcriptions, drug
interactions, drug name conf...
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Parts Per Million Shortness Of Breath
1,183 words
Smog has been around for a pretty long time,
people just knew it as something else. Smog comes
from the word smoke and fog, and that's
practically what it is. It was a serious problem
before, before nature and humans went unharmed in
the presence of smog but now it's serious. What
does all of this polluted air do to the body? The
answer depends on the situation. How long a person
is exposed to pollution, the type and
concentration, the place, time and day,
temperature, weather and more. But one ...
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Des Moines Mississippi River
1,156 words
In the summer of 1993 the United States were faced
with the most devastating flood that has ever
occurred. Seventeen thousand square miles of land
were covered by floodwaters in a region covering
all or parts of nine states (North and South
Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa,
Wisconsin, Minnesota and Illinois). All large
Midwestern streams flooded including the
Mississippi, Missouri, and Kansas, Illinois, Des
Moines and Wisconsin rivers. The Mississippi river
was above flood stage for 144 ...
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Mandate Of Heaven School Of Thought
1,177 words
n the history of Imperial China the issue of the
authority of rulers has been worked out in
relation to the prevailing philosophies of their
times. The longest, most influential and enduring
of these is Confucianism. The philosophy and the w
in which it demands virtue and duty from a ruler
has nt always gone down well with rulers of a more
autocratic nature and has at times been displaced
by the school of thought known as Legalism.
"Notably the Legalist believed that the people
existed for the s...
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Civilian Population Security Forces
352 words
Even so, 15 million individuals of Kurdish origin
presently live in the Republic of Turkey. Kurds
have for decades been subjected to economic
disadvantages and human rights violations which
bear the hallmarks of systematic persecution
intent on destroying the Kurdish identity by
silencing the Kurdish language and other cultural
expressions through violence or censorship. Since
1984, the Republic of Turkey has faced insurgency
at the hands of the Kurdistan Worker's Party
(PKK). It is estimated th...
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Positive Effect Classical Music
828 words
The purpose of the memory lab was to determine
which environments are most suitable for memory
retention. The participants of this experiment
were the students enrolled in our GSC 101 physical
science class. Ages ranged from 18 years of age to
possibly 50. Of these participants we had a wide
range of educational majors, ethical background,
and genders. All participants were required to
submit a list of thirty common words to be used in
the experiment. The testing procedures started at
approximat...
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Treatment Of Women Feminist Movement
884 words
No one else is free while others are oppressed,
states Martin L. King. It is an essential claim
that women are oppressed. What is oppression?
Oppression is the subjugation by one group to
another group. By being oppressed you are being
denied your human right to be an equal. Equality
should not be an unattainable ideal that is only
imagined in a far off place. Equality should be
realistic and true. However, is equality just an
unrealistic ideal for women in todays society? To
achieve a goal of e...
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Society Of Today Ownership Of The Handmaid Considered
893 words
Atwood, Margaret. 1986. The Handmaids Tale. The
Handmaids Tale focuses itself on some past history
of societies that once were and to some extent may
be reality of today. The main characters face
certain uncertainty unless they follow the rules
of the society and accept their position within
the society. One must contemplate whether there
may be any risk, large or small, that the current
society we live in may be susceptible to this type
of change. If you consider the base to be that of
old day ...
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Friedrich Engels Communist Manifesto
1,103 words
... es (Haberman, 1987: 149). Falling under the
same "spell" as the bourgeoisie did themselves,
the new rulers can satisfy their own desires while
governing a body of people who are much more
subdued. This passivity comes from the feeling of
their supposed victory over the bourgeoisie which
has, in reality, really just created a much more
efficient work force and because of their own
blindness, they cannot see that while their rulers
may have changed, their oppression remains the
same. The Commu...
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Carbon Monoxide Uv Rays
1,307 words
Modern Health Hazards, dangers arising from man
made circumstances that threaten the wellbeing of
humans environment. These are normally taken as
hazards arising from the mistakes human's have
made over the past year's affecting the Healthy
status of the entire planet completely. Different
hazards threat human life on earth & By the level
or extent of threat the effect can be serious and
sometimes even cause death. Modern Hazards mainly
are pollution of different types, Drugs, chemical
usage and...
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Committed A Crime Committed The Crime
1,353 words
One of the most vaguely understood events in the
United States is the modern criminal trial. Most
people have a faint knowledge of the goings-on of
criminal proceedings, mainly due to what is seen
on television, but the person who knows the real
course of a trial is rare. However, there is
nothing mysterious about the events that determine
criminal guilt. Trials are carefully orchestrated,
following procedures that have been laid in legal
concrete over the years, and generally follow the
same ba...
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Dialectical Materialism Socioeconomic Classes
385 words
(1, 2) Marxism has understood the idea of social
theory as critique in at least two different
senses. One understanding can be regarded as
relatively straightforward, at least for the
purposes of the present discussion. It is a
version of the critique of ideology and it
involves the claim that society itself generates
forms of perception that are essentially illusory.
Marx supposed that historical process should be
viewed dialectically influenced by opposite
forces. Marx agreed with Hegel that a...
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Kansas Nebraska Act American Civil War
741 words
A compromise is when two or more parties in
disagreement reach an agreement that does not give
all sides exactly what they want, but enough of
what they want so that they can be happy.
Compromise is the best possible solution to a
conflict however it does not always work. One
needs only to look at situations such as the
Bosnia-Herzegovina to see that. During the events
prior to the American Civil War, many different
compromises were made in an attempt to impede the
growing disagreements. However...
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The World And Ideas Of Karl Marx
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... the proletarians own class society within
their own people, therefore going against
everything in which the revolution was trying to
accomplish. This organization of the proletarians
could enable them to attain the goals which they
set out to grasp. Upon reaching these goals it
would be reasonable to question whether the
classes now set up within would actually
disintegrate and allow for equality amongst all
men. This would mean that the governing
proletarian assembly would deteriorate and b...
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Martin Luther King Jr Civil Rights Movement
1,360 words
Many social changes that were addressed in the
1960 s are still the issues being confronted
today. The ' 60 s was a decade of social and
political upheaval. In spite of all the turmoil,
there were some positive results: the civil rights
revolution, John F. Kennedy's bold vision of a new
frontier, and the breathtaking advances in space,
helped bring about progress and prosperity.
However, much was negative: student and anti-war
protest movements, political assassinations, and
ghetto riots excited...
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World War One Effective Leadership
896 words
When Britain called on Canada to help in World War
One, Canadians dutifully volunteered. Many
Canadians thought that this would be a glamorous
adventure that they could not miss. However,
Canadians were in for a rude awakening as this
glamorous adventure turned out to be more than
they bargained for. This was a new kind of war,
one that cost Canadians dearly. Poor organization
among troops, appalling war conditions Canadians
endured and lack of effective leadership that did
not support the best ...
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Jimmy Carter Soviet Union
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One can not effectively interpret world political
policies of the 1970 's without the inclusion of
the relationship known as dtente, and the
breakdown there of. The breakdown of the 1970 's
dtente can be attributed to many different issues
and events. In researching these events the
varying opinions from both world superpowers which
would establish the failure of dtente in history,
as a breakdown in communication and talks between
the United State's White House and the Soviet
Union's Kremlin wit...
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Von Papen Bolshevik Revolution
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ter> Why, by 1934, had the Nazis benefited more
than the Communists from the shortcomings of the
Weimar Republic? Adolf Hitler, head of
the NSDAP, became Chancellor of Germany on the 30
th January 1933. Following the legal revolution of
the following months and President Hindenburg's
death on the 2 nd August 1934, Hitler made himself
Fhrer and Reichskanzler. The Nazi revolution was
complete and Germany was subject to a dictatorship
of the extreme political right. As Ian Kershaw
explain...
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Ho Chi Minh Second World War
1,387 words
The 1950 s was not a particularly good decade for
France. The Fourth Republic, which had been
established in the aftermath of the Second World
War, remained unstable and lurched from crisis to
crisis. Between 1946 and 1954, there had been a
war in French Indo-China, between a nationalist
force under Ho Chi Minh and the French. The war
was long and bitter and towards the end, the
French suffered the ignominy of losing the major
fortress of Dien Bien Phu to the guerrillas on 7
May 1954. An armisti...
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