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Toxic Shock Syndrome Low Blood Pressure
1,590 wordsTOXIC SHOCK SYNDROME (TSS) was discovered almost 20 years ago. At first no one knew what was causing it, although it was quickly linked with "superabsorbent" tampons (which are no longer on the market). Eventually researchers discovered that a poison produced by a type of bacteria known as Staphylococcus aureus is responsible for TSS. Some theorized that tampons may produce small ulcerations, which allow bacteria to enter the body. Another theory is that stagnating blood within or behind the tam...
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Rock And Roll Punk Rock
601 wordsThe 1980 s are mostly known for its cheesy new wave music, with keyboards and big hair. One of the turning points in music, punk rock, was also recognized in the early 80 s. Though it was less popular then, punk rock has stuck around and managed to become a very well-known and popular music genre. Some of the very early bands of the 1970 s helped to pave the way for punk rock bands. The Slits, The 101 ers, Malcom Mc Lauren, and the Raincoats were a few of the trend-setting bands. A UK feminist p...
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Separation Of Church And State Ten Commandments
743 wordsWHY should the Ten Commandments be in Public Schools? The Ten Commandments are a basic set of divine laws in the bible; the Ten Commandments form the fundamental ethical code of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. According to the biblical narrative, God gave the commandments to Moses on Mt. Sinai and inscribed them on two stone tablets and enshrined them into t he Arc of Covenant. Two slightly different versions of the commandments are found in Exodus 20: 1 - 17 and Deut. 5: 6 - 21. State legisla...
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Personal Computers World Wide
646 wordsEmail had been used in 1971. The world which include the telex network that was used extensively by business on a world-wide basis from the mid- 1920 's to the mid- 1980 's. The telex network was independent of the telephone network and telex machines could connect with and communicate with any other telex machine on a global scale. Telex also was relatively secure in that the sending and receiving machines did identifying handshaking. It was relatively expensive to have a 'telex line' installed...
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Cambridge Cambridge University Moral Education
1,191 words... intense begins with the very first inklings of pleasure. Only by consolidating desire with the good can conflict be averted. What can educators today learn from Aristotle's analysis of arabia? Can the teaching of ethics really help students act on the virtues they espouse and thereby cleanse the business world of its shady dealings? How might such an education proceed? What might be its limits? Clearly, Aristotle would say, ethics classes for conflicted business-people offer too little too l...
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Dorothy Day Saint Worthy
950 wordsAlmost immediately after her death in 1980 controversy arose about whether Dorothy Day should be canonized a Saint by the Church. Now that the Vatican has approved the late Cardinal John O'Connor's request to consider Dorothy Day's 'cause, ' the controversy is being rekindled. After converting, she dedicated her life to New York's poor and immigrants, building hospitality homes that operated much like homeless shelters. Her endeavor grew into the national Catholic Worker movement, a social justi...
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George Lucas One Of The Greatest Filmmakers
1,456 wordsOne of the greatest film makers "With the exception of maybe a handful of people, no one has made an impact on the movie making world like George Lucas has. With hundred of hours of film with his mark out there, Lucas has amazed his audiences time and time again with expert story telling" (The Gods of Filmmaking). George Lucas has written, directed, and produced countless films, many of which are some of today's most highly regarded films by critics all over the world. "George Lucas's devotion t...
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16 Th Century Manufactured Goods
732 wordsThe Netherlands The Netherlands, officially Kingdom of the Netherlands, is a constitutional monarchy located in Northwest Europe. The Netherlands Antilles is part of the state and consists of islands in the Caribbean. The Netherlands is often called Holland after a historic region, part of the present day nation. The country is bounded on the North and West by the North Sea, on the East by Germany, and on the South by Belgium. Land is scarce in the Netherlands and is fully exploited. The natural...
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Capital Gains Trade Unions
959 wordsGerman management, as it has evolved over the centuries and has established itself since World War II, has a distinct style and culture. Like so many things German, it goes back to the medieval guild and merchant tradition, but it also has a sense of the future and of the long term. The German style of competition is rigorous but not ruinous. Although companies might compete for the same general market, as Daimler-Benz and BMW do, they generally seek market share rather than market domination. M...
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Tragedy Of The Commons One Of The Worlds
1,031 words... direct correlation with global warming. Global warming is a tragedy that our world faces and we all add to it each day in many ways some of which you probably don't realize. We are invading our common resource of the air and atmosphere of our world through this neglect. This process is destroying many things including the coral reefs of our world. Through the destruction of the reefs is invading the Environmental rights of those who need the reefs to thrive. One of the most harmful effects t...
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Islamic Movement Muslim Countries
1,117 wordsWhile terrorism - even in the form of suicide attacks - is not an Islamic phenomenon by definition, it cannot be ignored that the lion's share of terrorist acts and the most devastating of them in recent years have been perpetrated in the name of Islam. This fact has sparked a fundamental debate both in the West and within the Muslim world regarding the link between these acts and the teachings of Islam. Most Western analysts are hesitant to identify such acts with the bona fide teachings of one...
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Culture Of Poverty Undeserving Poor
398 wordsIn 1960 s, a discouraging fact came to be known: Between 40 and 50 million Americans were considered to be poor. Consequently, social scientists examined a new notion of the culture of poverty. The culture of poverty did not encompass all poor people by any means. Katz states Rather, it placed in a class by themselves those whose behaviors and values converted their poverty into an enclosed and self-perpetuating world of dependence (The Undeserving Poor) In 1980 s the term underclass appeared as...
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The Building Of American Ballistic Missile Part 1
1,748 wordsTHE BUILDING OF THE AMERICAN BALLISTIC MISSILE SYSTEM This seems to be a picture from the book for children, but it is an image from a report made by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's Space Commission. The given report recommends to abrogate the purpose of international laws (highly, the Outer Space Treaty of 1967) that aims at the keeping the space free from war and, induce that the President "have the option to deploy weapons in space. " National Missile Defense, started as Star Wars during ...
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Social Security Act Health Care System
1,496 wordsIn todays society, public perception of the U. S. health care system is widespread. Many people are satisfied with the advancements that we have made in the medical community. Less than one hundred years ago, health care was non-existent. Today, it is one of the leading industries in our country and worldwide. However, many people criticize where health care is going. They believe that doctors are giving up quality care and replacing it with the quantity served. This paper will describe the chan...
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Computer Technology Software Companies
565 wordsOver the past half century, computer technology has transformed our world by providing us with incredible tools for processing and communicating information. A number of organizations have recognized the importance of computer technology by establishing museums or archives dedicated to the history of computing and the computer industry but, unfortunately, very little has been done to preserve the history of the software industry. And yet, the reason that computers have had such an impact on our ...
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Fourth Amendment Drug Abusers
618 wordsA current issue that is going on today is welfare recipients that are drug abusers. Welfare is supposed to meet the basic needs. Drugs seem far from one of the basic human needs to me. If the recipient gets all the benefits from the programs they will more than likely turn around and sell their food stamps for their fix rather than go to the store and get their family some food. Drugs also go hand and hand with family problems, violence, and crime. It is estimated that between 50 % and 80 % of F...
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Allen Ginsberg Spoken Word
1,002 wordsWhat [did Interviews David Ossman What [did you learn from]... the Black Mountain people, and [William Carlos] Williams? From Williams, mostly how to write in my own language how to write the way I speak rather than the way I think a poem ought to be written to write just the way it comes to me, in my own speech, utilizing the rhythms of speech rather than any kind of metrical concept. To talk verse. Spoken verse. From Pound, the same concepts that went into the Imagists poetry the idea of the i...
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Act Iii Scene Act I Scene
1,483 wordsMacbeth? s Representation of Ambition From top to bottom of the ladder, greed is aroused without knowing where to find ultimate foothold. Nothing can calm it, since its goal is far beyond all it can attain. Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefor abandoned. Many have dreamed up republics and principalities that have never in truth been known to exist; the gulf between how one should live and how one does live is so wide that a man who ne...
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Buried Alive Harry Houdini
1,174 wordsKing of Handcuffs The man known world wide as the most famous magician of all time, Harry Houdini, was born March 24, 1874 in Budapest. Although Houdini often claimed to be born in Appleton, Wisconsin, Houdini actually came to the United States when he was four years old. In later years, in a magazine interview, Houdini said, ? the greatest escape I ever made was when I left Appleton, Wisconsin. ? Houdini? s actual name was Ehrich Weiss. His father was Mayer Samuel Weiss. He was a Rabbi for the ...
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U S Census Ms Dos
1,001 wordsThe electronic computer has been around for over a half-century, but its ancestors have been around for 2000 years. From abacus to our modern souped up computer with the Intel Pentium III processor the computer has come an incredibly long way. One of the most significant events that would affect it? s development would be the teaming up of IBM and Microsoft to create a new operating system for the microcomputer. The synergy of these two corporations would change the way we compute today. The not...
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