Essays Tagged: "Encyclopedia Britannica"
The Right to Choose. On euthanasia.
death, and the prefix "eu," meaning well or easily. It can be defined as a gentle or easy death. As Encyclopedia Britannica defines it, euthanasia is "the act or practice of painlessly putting to deat ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Euthenasia
Malthus's population theory
ern demography. In 1824 he wrote a shorter final version, the article on population for that year's Encyclopedia Britannica. Malthus has been criticized for his lack of scientific foresight--he did no ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Earth Sciences
A Violent Illumination of Salvation. Speaks of Flannery O'Connor
violence to return characters to reality and prepare them to accept their moment of grace. The New Encyclopedia Britannica defines grace as the 'spontaneous, unmerited gift of the divine or the divin ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Ethical Dilemmas.
"Ethics is defined as the discipline concerned with what is morally good and bad, right and wrong. Encyclopedia Britannica." Ethical dilemmas can occur in workplace, within your family, or with socie ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management
The Silver Screen Teacher
y their messages, therefore becoming much more engaging than a book, magazine, or newspaper. And as Encyclopedia Britannica words it: "Motion pictures are the most important narrative art form of the ... y comic books, radio, and television, but it is the motion picture that came to dominate them all" (Encyclopedia Britannica). The motion picture is proven to be the most powerful mass medium in the Un ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies
Against Affirmative Action
based on that person's membership in a previously discriminated-against group. According to The New Encyclopedia Britannica "it began as a government remedy to the effects of historical discrimination ... a factor. Affirmative action should become a thing of the past.Works Cited"Affirmative Action." New Encyclopedia Britannica. 15th ed. 2002."Affirmative Action." Women's Issues. Ed. Dawn P. Dawson, et ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > African Studies - History
Bookreport on a Biography of Richard Feynman.
tions. Melville also took Richard to the American Museum of Natural History and bought a set of the Encyclopedia Britannica to help expand his sons learning abilities.Richard went through school just ... h school just like any other child but did most of his learning outside of school through books and encyclopedias. He learned much of his math before it came time to learn it in school, but when that ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Physics
Consise Refutation of Darwinism/Evolution (This is a well written essay)
nonliving chemicals, and then developed into more complex life forms by slow, and gradual changes (Encyclopedia Britannica, "E"). This theory is widely accepted throughout the various scientific disc ... common ancestor through slow and gradual changes by a mechanical process called natural selection (Encyclopedia Britannica "E"). Natural selection is so fundamental to the theory of Darwin that he en ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays
Steven Hawking Biography
his disability and has gone on to do many great things in the name of science. ("Hawking, Steven." Encyclopedia Britannica.)Steven William Hawking was born on January 8th 1942, in the middle of WWII. ... condition was so severe that he had to have a team of nurses looking after him. ("Hawking, Steven." Encyclopedia Britannica.)In 1985, after having pneumonia and nearly dying, Hawking needed 24 hour ca ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Biographies
Habitual Offender Laws - How do they Operate in Reality?
rdingly prosecuted if committed felonies including aggravated assault, rape, child abuse and murder.Encyclopedia Britannica explains that habitual offender is a person "who frequently has been convict ... "who frequently has been convicted of criminal behavior and is presumed to be a danger to society" (Encyclopedia Britannica. 2006). Usually the punishment for a habitual offender is more severe: the l ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law
Humanities Today - Define humanities and give current examples
Humanities TodayThe Encyclopedia Britannica (2006) defines the humanities as "Branches of knowledge that investigate hum ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies
Abortion-- A view from the pro choice and pro life
some protest regarding abortion, whether it is for fetal rights or women's rights. According to the Encyclopedia Britannica the definition of abortion is "the expulsion of a fetus from the uterus befo ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues
Alcoholism
hol characterized by the alcoholic's inability to control the start or termination of his drinking"(Encyclopedia Britannica 210). It consists of frequent and recurring consumption of alcohol to an ext ... o control their desire for alcohol consumption. Work Cited "Alcohol."� Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia. 1994 ed."�Alcoholism."� People. 9/2/85. p65. 4p.Erickson, Karren Paige; ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol
Komodo Dragon
Komodo Dragon: On Location. Florida: Houghton Mifflin, 1997.Getz, Phillip W. "Komodo Dragon." Encyclopedia Britannica, 1991 XXX, pg. 945.Harris, William H. and Judith S. Levy. "Lizard." Th ... l History, 1997.World Book "“ Child Craft International. "Komodo Dragon." The World Book Encyclopedia, 1980, pg. 289.1. www.bagheera.com/CLASROOM/casestud/komodo.htm 2. www.oit.itd.umich.ed ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY
Gbps have become commonplace in the industry today. At this speed, the entire fifteen-volume set of Encyclopedia Britannica can be transmitted in well under one second.How The Fiber Works The operatio ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry
Jane Goodall
r first step, into what would become a lifetime of work on the study of chimpanzee conduct (Online, Encyclopedia Britannica). Jane only expected to study chimpanzees for six months initially. T ... vegetarian. They actually hunted for wild game, in addition to their vegetarian lifestyle (Online, Encyclopedia Britannica). These simple findings seemed to secure Jane a permanent place in the scien ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Psychological Theories & Authors
Understanding the Benefits of Nuclear Power Nuclear power, or atomic
hird of all electric power generated worldwide will come from nuclear power plants ("Nuclear power" Encyclopedia Britannica 2003). Nuclear power is a good source of energy, and with new advances in te ... branch of engineering, and had to be educated by nuclear scientists and physicists ("Nuclear power" Encyclopedia Britannica 2003). These men and women were true pioneers in an unknown industry. They h ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry
Diabetes
was discovered in 1921 by Sir Frederick Banting, Charles H. Best, and John James Rickard Macleod? (Encyclopedia Britannica). ?Insulin is a hormone normally produced in the organ of the body called th ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
Pornography and the Media
riting, or other material whose primary purpose is to cause sexual arousal. According to the online Encyclopedia Britannica, pornography refers to the representation of sexual behavior in books, pictu ... azines, and lastly, the internet, all of which are different channels of mass media.According to an encyclopedia article on the MSN website, in 1996 Americans spent more than $8 billion on hard-core p ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community
Environmental values
are ecofeminism, pluralism and environmental issues.Environmental ValuesEcofeminismAccording to the encyclopedia Britannica 2003 "Ecofeminists assert that there is a connection between the destruction ... of philosophy, from metaphysics to ethics and political philosophy (Encarta).http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761571095/Pragmatism.htmlThe ethical approach to personal values and responsibilities w ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies