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Medical Experiments In The Holocaust
Words: 1416 - Pages: 6.... medical ethics and the proposes of medical practice, but whose mode of implementation violated moral law; (2) experiments whose very purposes violated medical ethics and which were irreconcilable with the accepted norms of medical research (Gutman 958). The aim of such research was strictly for Nazis to pursue their desire to engineer the perfect Aryan race of blond hair and blue eyes. Nazis justified experimentation on concentration camps inmates, with the rationalization that these individuals were already destined to die (Dodd).
Birkenau housed the bulk of the so-called medical laboratories. There the Nazis conducted dozens of .....
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The Course Of The Great Depres
Words: 3468 - Pages: 13.... declined by about one-third between 1929 and 1933; unemployment climbed to 25 percent of the labor force; prices in the aggregate dropped by more than 25 percent; the money supply contracted by over 30 percent; and close to 10,000 banks suspended operations. Given this performance, it is not surprising that many consider these years the worst economic trauma in the nation's history.
Policy makers did not stand idly by as the financial markets and the economy unraveled. There are questions, though, about the appropriateness and magnitude of their responses. Monetary policy, determined and conducted then, as now, by the Federal Reserve, becam .....
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The Impact Of The Second Industrial Revolution On Europe
Words: 1582 - Pages: 6.... to start mass production, which increased their output with same input.
There are many reasons why the Industrial Revolution started in Great Britain. The first was the endless amount of raw material they received by the many colonies. These raw materials were things like cotton, silk, and tobacco. This is why at first that the industrial revolution just started in the textiles industry with machines that where able to produce such items as clothing very cheaply. Great Britain had sole control over the market with its supply of raw materials, and the new technology. However as communication increase it spread across to continental Europe .....
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Bombing Of Dresdon
Words: 1183 - Pages: 5.... argument in favor of striking
civilian targets. .Cherwell.s report contained the final rationalization
for the program Bomber Command was undertaking., and it would henceforth
be paper-clipped to the plans of the bomber offensive. (Hastings). In his
report, Lindemann estimated that forty tons of explosives detonated in
heavily populated areas would destroy the homes of 4,000-8,000 people. The
report also stated that there was a population of 22 million people in
fifty-eight of the major cities in Germany. Lindemann claimed that a
nation of refugees could be the result of strategic air attacks. It is
wildly believed among scholars that t .....
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Falkland Islands War Paper
Words: 3627 - Pages: 14.... Spain.
2. Spain had purchased the islands from France.
3. Britain had abandoned its claim to the Falklands in a “secret” 1771 agreement.
4. Britain had abandoned its settlement in West Falkland in 1774.(4)
No matter how well formed these arguments may have been, they fell on deaf ears in Britain. Lord Palmerston, the British Foreign Secretary, simply asserted that the Falklands had been British since the initial claim of sovereignty in 1765. (5) Although Argentina remained in a state of official protest, few things changed over the next 132 years. The issue was finally brought to the forefront in 1965 when the United Nations passe .....
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Things In The Hitcher
Words: 413 - Pages: 2.... the review of the DVD itself.
VIDEO: The movie is presented in normal non-anamorphic widescreen only, but that is just fine with me. It looks fantastic, with the blood really standing out against the rest of the surroundings. I didn't notice any compression problems or anything. Beautiful transfer, but they could make this movie look like a Gameboy game and I'd still love it.
AUDIO: The sound is Dolby 5.1 and Dolby 2 Channel, and it sounds great. It's definitely sounding better than it ever has before. There are some great uses of the surround because most of the movie is driving and there are some rather nice explosions.
EXTRAS: I'll .....
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Ancient Egyptian Mathematics
Words: 999 - Pages: 4.... together to build the pyramidal surface. The second theory states that the ratio of one of the sides to half of the height is the approximate value of P, or that the ratio of the perimeter to the height is 2P. It has been discovered that early pyramid builders may have conceived the idea that P equaled about 3.14. The third theory states that the angle of elevation of the passage leading to the principal chamber determines the latitude of the pyramid, about 30o N, or that the passage itself points to what was then known as the pole star (Smith 44).
was based on two very elementary concepts. The first concept was that the Egyptians .....
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A Portrait Of Nietzshe
Words: 782 - Pages: 3.... Nietzsche seems to have a very positive view of himself and claims that throughout his life very few people have had a negative view towards him. Even the negative confrontations he had turned out to be positive in the end. He had the power to clam the roughest creature. Overall, he seemed to be able to make the best out of his misfortunes.
However, through his unfavorable experiences with others, Nietzsche developed a somewhat cynical view of his neighbor. He feels that every one has their own selfish motives. He does not treat these people any differently though. In fact he treats them with extra kindness. His theory is to replac .....
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Capitalism: The Cause Of Slave
Words: 876 - Pages: 4.... farmer
in the south needed more control on their workers and needed to know that they
( the workers ) weren’t going to just leave
and start up their own farm for
themselves. Thus the manipulation of slave labor became the answer for capitalism,
and from the use of black slave labor, tension began to rise between the slaves
brought from Africa, and the land holders of the South.
Tension between
Slaves and land owners have been strong in the South for many years, and one
might say that the cause of it is the ways of which the Black slaves of plantations
and farms were treated. The founders of the Carolina colonies were not only
interest .....
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Les Miserables
Words: 469 - Pages: 2.... Cosette influenced Jean with her need for love and a father figure. When Jean first met Cosette, he realized her reaching out for someone to fill in these missing spots in her life. As Jean took care of Cosette he gave her a loving, elder, trustworthy, male role she has been waiting for for support and stability. The time they spent together warmed both of their hearts with the feeling they longed for. “Jean Valjean felt his own happiness grow with the happiness which he caused Cosette”(139). Cosette’s influence on Jean made both his feelings and life better and more barable. Jean found the love he has been without for so long .....
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