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Frank Lloyd Wright Organic Architecture
1,317 wordsDo 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 wordsWith 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
1,025 wordsAlcohol 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
1,225 words... 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
1,188 wordsThe 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 wordsChild 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 wordsBeginnings 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
1,026 wordsThe 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 wordster> 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 wordsThe 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 wordsIS/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
826 wordsIn 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 wordsThe 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 wordsIn 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 wordsfetal 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 wordsForest 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 wordsAs 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 wordsHinduism 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 wordsHistory 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 wordsIncome 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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