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- 71: Weed
- ... distillation, or 'pyrolysis.' Fuels made out of plants like this are called 'biomass' fuels. This charcoal may be burned in today's coal-powered electric generators. Methanol makes a good automobile fuel, in fact it is used in professional automobile races. It may someday replace gasoline. Marijuana has many medical purposes also. The cannabis extract was available as a medicine legally in this country until 1937, and was sold as ...
- 72: Advertiser Influence on the Media: Censorship and the Media
- ... s getting worse," said Sandra Deurr, the business editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal and former society president . A survey of local news editors described in Advertising Age found that automobile dealers were the most frequent sources of pressure . "They want all stories involving auto sales to have a rosy outlook," one editor observed, "and they whine about negative economic stories ... national level from AP ." Advertisers appear to be placing pressure on broadcasters as well. In Los Angeles, veteran KCBS-TV consumer reporter David Horowitz was let go in 1996 after automobile advertisers repeatedly complained to management about his stories on car safety. According to Horowitz, management had first tried to stop his investigations with comments such as, "I'm concerned about ...
- 73: History of Computers
- ... computers of the 1990's. Computers eventually evolved into less archaic looking devices near the end of the 1960's. Their size had been reduced to that of a small automobile and they were processing segments of information at faster rates than older models. Most computers at this time were termed "mainframes" due to the fact that many computers were linked ... s style and use of computers. People have assumed that computers are a natural development in society and take them for granted. Just as people have learned to drive an automobile, it also takes skill and learning to utilize a computer. Computers in society have become difficult to understand. Exactly what they consisted of and what actions they performed were highly ...
- 74: History and Uses of Marijuana
- ... distillation, or 'pyrolysis.' Fuels made out of plants like this are called 'biomass' fuels. This charcoal may be burned in today's coal-powered electric generators. Methanol makes a good automobile fuel, in fact it is used in professional automobile races. It may someday replace gasoline. Marijuana has many medical purposes also. The cannabis extract was available as a medicine legally in this country until 1937, and was sold as ...
- 75: Symbols in The Great Gatsby
- ... real understanding that acts have consequences for which one has to be morally responsible. (Northman 24) This accident also has another meaning. It foreshadows Myrtles and Gatsby's death. The automobile, a symbol of wealth, serves as an instrument of death and destruction. This minor accident is also of special importance because it is related to the argument about “carelessness” between Nick and Jordan later in the chapter and because it foreshadows the accident that kills Myrtle. It is fitting that the automobile, the symbol of material wealth in America, should be the instrument that ultimately leads to Gatsby's death. (Northman 24) The moral values of the time, as Fitzgerald shows us ...
- 76: Hate Crimes
- ... 1984 (Out Now). In June of 1982, Vincent Chin, a 27 year old Chinese/American was fatally beaten with a baseball bat outside of a Detroit bar by two white automobile factory workers who called him a "Jap" and blamed him for the loss of their job in the automobile industry (Jost)8. There are also laws against hate crimes and punishments that are questionable. The question is "Should hate Crimes penalties be stiffened?" The yes side of this argument ...
- 77: Detrimental Effects That Technological Advances In Industry And Agriculture
- ... cogs of public and private interests also turn slowly due to this infrastructure of product usage which has become so firmly entrenched. Decisions that were made decades ago, such as automobile transit phasing out train transit, and the manufacture of energy through the building of nuclear plants, effect and influence us right now at very fundamental levels. Just as the ozone ... not provide a mechanism to counteract this dilemma, to make way for their solution. Neither do they offer an explanation as to how powerful governmentally-favored industries, such as the automobile and nuclear industries, which are responsible for large amounts of pollution would suddenly be open to scrutiny under Morgensen and Eisenstodt’s system. Clearly, some sort of interim activity seems ...
- 78: Urban Transportation Alternati
- ... and many variations of each of these bring human beings to every corner of the world and beyond. However, motorised transportation is not only used in long distance travel, most automobile transportation takes place within urban and suburban centres. As the rate of urbanisation increased over the last century, so did the use of automobiles. Now there are more than 540 ... This battery can be recharged at charging stations and will need to be done so every 50 to 100 miles which is the range of the current batteries . Most major automobile manufacturers have released electric cars with the most popular being the Honda EV plus. The state of California has even taken steps to ensure that electric vehicles are used by ...
- 79: The Inconvenience of Convenience
- ... the street and you see everything from your incredible abundance of drive-through restaurants and ten-minute oil changes to your odd-sounding, but time saving drive-through markets. The automobile itself has become one of, if not the most used item of modern convenience, ( maybe besides the microwave ) and at the same time one of our most inconveniencing. Convenience is ... them. You don't want to seem like the " bad guy " and deny them transportation, you want to make them feel cared for. The biggest hassle created by the personal automobile, is the wading through piles and piles of cars who are doing the same exact thing you are: becoming frustrated and late. Traffic jams are the number one source of ...
- 80: Senior Citizens and Driving Tests
- ... t teenagers, it is the elderly. These people, as good of drivers they may have been, do not have the proper attention and reaction time it takes to keep an automobile safely on the road. This is a problem that affects everybody everyday. With some of these people still driving it creates a definite hazard not only to other drivers but ... Might I remind you he had just experienced a near fatal stroke? Something needs to be changed. For this report I plan to contact the DMV and police department for automobile accident records and statistics. I will also interview people from the general public who have been involved in accidents due to the fault of a senior citizen. Both Dan and ...
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