... music, none seems to be as familiar and at the same time as alien as Indonesian gamelan. Gamelan utilizes it's own, highly intricate, notation system under the context of large group orchestration much like a lot of western music. This fact makes gamelan easily dissectible and imitable for western ... formed Galak Tika, MIT's own gamelan. Their performance of Tire Fire is included on the cd as tracks 4-8. Tire Fire is an excellent example of two cultures colliding. Ziporyn uses a semi-tone gamelan in combination with guitars, basses and keyboards tuned in the standard tempered western ...

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... among America's students, as well as, how this lack of knowledge impacts on the science and technology workforce of tomorrow. At present, America is not the leading world power in scientific research, exploration, or advances in basic science. Federal, private, and public experts point out that some European, Asian, and Middle Eastern countries now contend with, and often surpass America ... Workforce There is a drastic decline (15%) in the number of college graduates who receive degrees in engineering or the natural sciences (SCANS, 1991). The downward spiral in university graduates with...

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... funding for basic research at universities. The American experience in World War II (especially the success of the Manhattan Project, which created the atomic bomb) made clear that scientific and technical advances, as well as human resources, were essential to national security. As a result, the federal government became increasingly involved in education at all levels and ... a specified number of years in attendance. Schools also became more centrally organized as education developed into a highly structured profession with a streamlined chain of administrative command. For example, ...

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... the diversity of food while raw foods do not. Cooking eliminates toxic substances found in food. Toxins are changed into harmless elements by heat. An example of food that needs to be cooked is spinach. Spinach is a popular food that is juiced but its high in oxalic acid. According to Hunter ... walls of vegetables and makes nutrients more available to the consumer. According to Rebecca Reeves of the Nutritional Research Center at Baylor University, "the scientific basis of the raw food diet is lacking." There are critics that say that a raw food diet is very extreme. Diane Stradler a .....

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... War alcoholic beverages were not allowed in the union army as a way to ration grain. Leaders of the social movements tried to justify their views against alcohol with scientific evidence. Temperance advocates founded the Scientific Temperance Journal after the Civil War. Children's textbooks depicted human organs degenerating from and over abundance of alcoholic beverages being consumed. In the 1870's the Woman's Christian ... up anti-drinking brochures appealing to church members, law makers, and businessmen. They thought that if they could get those people to be against alcohol then t...

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... War alcoholic beverages were not allowed in the union army as a way to ration grain. Leaders of the social movements tried to justify their views against alcohol with scientific evidence. Temperance advocates founded the Scientific Temperance Journal after the Civil War. Children's textbooks depicted human organs degenerating from and over abundance of alcoholic beverages being consumed. In the 1870's the Woman's Christian ... up anti-drinking brochures appealing to church members, law makers, and businessmen. They thought that if they could get those people to be against alcohol then t...

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... War alcoholic beverages were not allowed in the union army as a way to ration grain. Leaders of the social movements tried to justify their views against alcohol with scientific evidence. Temperance advocates founded the Scientific Temperance Journal after the Civil War. Children's textbooks depicted human organs degenerating from and over abundance of alcoholic beverages being consumed. In the 1870's the Woman's Christian ... up anti-drinking brochures appealing to church members, law makers, and businessmen. They thought that if they could get those people to be against alcohol then t...

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... listening to rock music. Suspicious questioning by the press led him to alter his story, stating that he hadn't conducted the survey himself, but found the information in a scientific report. When asked about the scientific report, he changed his story again and said the information came from a local college professor. Eventually, after changing his story at least three more times, he conceded ... that he didn't know where the information had come from, but he still believed rock music to be the cause of many teenage pregnancy cases. The lack of scientific evidence in support of claims ...

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... behavior, is the ability to respond to another's. The development of empathy has a lot to do with how children experience emotions and how people respond to their emotional state. A good example of how empathy is used by a child is when someone is crying, the child hands over their security blanket or another object that has deep personal meaning. In doing this ... belief of various religious leaders that morals are derived from teachings specifically rooted in religious doctrines. It is difficult to consistently apply religion and its role in moral behavior. One example is the game of b...

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... race. It will also examine how the views of race affected society and the ideas of religion to this day. Although race is considered, a fiction with no scientific basis, many scholars have formulated scientific experiments for race. Other scholars have only talked about race scientifically and some chose not to use science at all but factual, historic evidence from sacred texts. This ... to endure were right. This is when people brought in the ideas from the Bible and deemed the African race inferior to the White race. Scholars like Samuel G. Morton had a scientific way of arguing that ...

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... as others however, the topic of the relevance of people to plant life is still important today, because all humans benefit from the medicinal properties of plants today. Marijuana, an example of a plant that has it is accredited with having many health benefits. A lab set out to put arrest to the rumors surrounding whether marijuana would truly be effective as a ... invasion of breast cancer cells. The results show that L. tridentata (Creosote Bush) and J. communis L. (Juniper Berry) significantly decreased the growth of MCF-7/AZ breast cancer cells. This study provides original scient...

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... is "[inching] ever closer to embracing phenomena that science [cannot] answer."12 Even highly esteemed academic publications such as the Journal of Scientific Exploration "now treat the paranormal with as much respect and analysis as physics or the chaos theory."13 The possibility of life existing on ... Huntly, are deeply influenced by early English Gothic writers such as Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe, and Mary Shelley.57 Wieland, or The Transformation, for example, is about the Wieland family and all of the paranormal events that happen to them. Next is "Rip Van Winkle" by Washington Ir...

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... technology has wiped out most of the small illnesses and has left us with a few life altering ones. During the 20th century, major scientific and medical advances have greatly enhance the life expectancy of the average person. There are however many diseases that cannot be cured by modern medicine ... controversy crowding euthanasia. Doctors, even doctors who are proponents of euthanasia, are stuck choosing between their moral ethics and their job oath. A prime example of this dilemma is Dr. Jack Kevorkian. Dr. Kevorkian is a doctor that has been all over the media precisely for this rea...

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... constructed and manned by multiple countries. These include America, Russia, Japan, Canada, Italy, Brazil and a few other European countries. The Space Station will provide a base for launching exploratory expeditions, conducting scientific research, repairing satellites, and performing other space-related activities. Initial construction was due to begin in 1997 but it was not until November 1998 that a Russian rocket put the first ... Station. If the Americans had had enough money and not asked for help they probably would have built their own space station. My final factor is the thi...

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... such a sociocultural meanings from the culture-specific objective world. Every society has its own culture and different communities within a society may have their own distinctive subcultures. For example, America is a country of multinationalities and each nationality has its own culture characteristic of its community. All the cultural distinctions of all the nationalities constitute the American culture, ... which is often referred to as "a melting pot", "a pot of stew" or "a salad dish". Canada may serve as another good example. Canada is also a multicultural country of over one hu...

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... is a four-part documentary that explains the epidemic of obesity in the Unites States. The documentary brings together a series of long term scientific studies and national facts that supports the problem of obesity in America. The four parts bring together possible causes and effects of the body being ... documentary it discusses this as a "set point" that the body adjusts to over the years of adult life. This means that for example if you're at 190 and your trying to lose weight it will be extremely hard because your body has already programmed itself to stay at the ... goals. I think...

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... them the tenets of democracy and the American way of life. These ideals came wrapped in the triumphal post war consensus known as American exceptionalism.'32 The best example for identifying the importance of these American soldiers and families for the American government is when the Soviet Union encircled Berlin in an attempt to test the American resolve ... 49 Therefore Eisenhower would proceed with a foreign policy of distrust towards the Soviets, as well as also seizing opportunities to take advantage of their new found attitude. An example of this came in the Austria agreement of 1...

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... Garden of Eden. George Inness' Lackawanna Valley (1855) illustrates well this gradual change of mindsets. The painting can be easily interpreted as an example of fervent admiration for technical progress, or as an effort to illustrate harmony between nature and the humankind, as the later domesticates the former ... then perceived as a huge unknown region, which offered infinite dangers but also incredible rewards. The American dream of expansionism through the latest technological and scientific tools became a reality at the end of the century with the construction of railways. Steel and...

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... shown to affect the way these groups are perceived and acted towards by the white mainstream (Ford 1997). The combination of the prevalence of negative images of minorities and the scientific proof of the effect these images on the behavior of the majority group lead to an invisible form of social control perpetuated through a most visible medium. This paper will discuss ... by others when she is offended for being oversensitive. The humorous context in which the racist comment is made is supposed to excuse the offensive nature of the statement. An example of the backfire and negative e...

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... than the burden of the sanctions themselves. It was the symbolic character 'and', 'or' the change of regulations they implied that was of importance. In America the Stamp Act for example was one of the most crucial steps in the conflict stirring up a cease-fire of vehement verbal resistance. It was a tax on all official papers like legal documents or news ... commercial restrictions in 1779 the focus of the conflict between Ireland and England or better the catholic and native population of Ireland and England turned on other issues as for example the Penal laws or the limitations on th...

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... have had more technological advances than the Industrial Revolution. The Space Race has affected our everyday lives; we use the same technology that the astronauts used during their missions for example digital clocks (Dismukes http://spaceflight.nasa.gov). Many industries have benefited, communication companies, industrial manufacturers, and the medical field. As a result of this technological revolution, the world has become smaller ... on the Moon and analyzed its surface, while Lunar orbiters probes circled the Moon and sent back pictures both of potential landing sites for astronau...

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... think that a criminal consults the code to choose what crime to commit, and that is useless against organized criminality, which has been actually defeated sometimes, but with other instruments, for example hitting it in its economic interests. Other phenomena that death penalty supporters think avoidable only with its use, like private revenge, are to be faced, according to opponent's terms of ... its rise. In 1988 the UN Board for Crime Prevention conducted a study with existing data about the relation between death penalty and murder rate, concluding that: The study couldn't offer sc...

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... become a nation of minorities and social and intellectual capital will become the primary economic value in society. Technology will increase the speed of communication and the pace of advancement. "As scientific discoveries and societal realities force widespread ethical choices, domestic industries will intensify their efforts to attract Baby Boomers,"" (Wolf, 2003). The extension of life span has been a growth in per ... to trust anyone over thirty doesn't mean they see themselves in that light. Boomers may not ever see themselves as elderly, no matter how old they get. Just as an ex...

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... also involve the universities, where better public funding could help to improve the ability of smaller staffs to provide better care. This would mean that the encouragement of technological and scientific innovation could be used to help create forward-thinking ways to improve our medical situation. A change in the way that we deal with our healthcare industry should include a greater diversification ... ...

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... the Narcotic Drugs Import and Export Act (1). This act gave the Surgeon General power to regulate the importation of crude opium and coca leaves, which were restricted to medicinal and scientific use. The Federal Bureau Board was created to enforce sentencing and fines for unlawful importation. This new act was accused of doing nothing to stop illegal import, but was associated ... ...

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