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Aditi Buti

Terrorist Kiddies Brainwashing | Newsflavor - 0 views

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  • Even easier for Taliban, they kidnap many children from the places they raid and recruit them, willing or not
  • How do they develop this mentality? It is a very common war tactic, which is basically premature brainwashing.
  • children can easily be persuaded and once they are past the point of being naive there is no saving them. 
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  • he children who were kidnapped, they’re basically brainwashed in what they are told is “school”, but is really a training camp for future Taliban terrorists.
  • Some of these kids weren’t even captured, their parents sent them off with a Taliban representative who misleads the masses promising a place of education and stability, but they were really manipulating the masses and taking their children off to die,
  • . To the average person it just looks like a luscious landscape, with a lot of forest. To children from a desert that offers little to no creativity to thought, it looks almost like heaven. They want to be t
  • advantage
  • but to a child from this 3rd world country and terrain, it seems like something they can’t live without, which is why they are convinced to die for this cause Taliban instills into their heads.
  • tell the children that their lives are worthless, that if they serve the holy prophet and fight for the cause, en
  • dless things will be given to them after they die.  That the real life will only begin after they have died for the cause, the prophet, the extremist Muslim ways.
Dillon Patel

The Human Contribution - Fossil Fuels, The Planets Natural Balance, The First Warning, ... - 0 views

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global warming contributions by man

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  • The Human Contribution
  • Fossil Fuels:
  • The Planet's Natural Balance
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  • The First Warning
  • Revealing Discoveries
  • Deforestation
  • Beyond CO 2 —the Perils of Methane
  • Other Heat-Trapping Gases
  • The Uncertainty Lingers
  • the term greenhouse warming to describe the current warming of the earth.
  • "The concern is that we human beings are modifying that greenhouse effect by adding to the atmosphere gases that increase the natural abundance of these so-called gases. . . .
  • burning fossil fuel (coal and oil and natural gas), which releases carbon dioxide
  • Over time, pressure and heat from the earth compacted the material into layers of sedimentary rock.
  • Coal is a fossil fuel
  • 1000 B . C .,
  • Industrial Revolution its use began to soar.
  • was found to be both plentiful and cheap,
  • where it was believed the pollutants would disperse without harm." 16
  • All fossil fuels release carbon whenever they are burned, but coal has a much higher carbon content than either oil or gas.
  • The other two fossil fuels, oil and natural gas, are also used to produce electricity, but not as often as coal. Oil and gas are primarily used to heat homes and factories, as well as fuel all forms of transportation from buses to ships and motorcycles to airplanes.
  • Carbon dioxide is a colorless, odorless gas that is naturally present in the atmosphere, but only in tiny amounts.
  • oxygen and nitrogen comprise about 99 percent of atmospheric gases
  • carbon dioxide is only a trace gas, it is essential for life.
  • Dillon Patel on 14 Nov 10
     
    Man's contributions to global warming, I've been focusing my sources on just the basic argument.
golan elzur

BBC - Ethics - Animal ethics: Experimenting on animals - 1 views

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animals ethics

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  • eriments are widely used to develop new medicines
  • Animal experiments are widely used to develop new medicines and to test the safety of other products.
  • Two positions on animal experiments In favour of animal experiments: Experimenting on animals is acceptable if (and only if): suffering is minimised in all experiments human benefits are gained which could not be obtained by using other methods
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  • Against animal experiments: Experimenting on animals is always unacceptable because: it causes suffering to animals the benefits to human beings are not proven any benefits to human beings that animal testing does provide could be produced in other ways
  • Are animal experiments useful? Animal experiments only benefit human beings if their results are valid and can be applied to human beings. Not all scientists are convinced that these tests are valid and useful.
  • Animal experiments are widely used to develop new medicines and to test the safety of other products.
  • In November 2008 the European Union put forward proposals to revise the directive for the protection of animals used in scientific experiments
  • The proposals have three aims: to considerably improve the welfare of animals used in scientific procedures
  • to ensure fair competition for industry to boost research activities in the European Union
  • The main changes proposed are:
  • to make it compulsory to carry out ethical reviews and require that experiments where animals are used be subject to authorisation to widen the scope of the directive to include specific invertebrate species and foetuses in their last trimester of development and also larvae and other animals used in basic research, education and training to set minimum housing and care requirements to require that only animals of second or older generations be used, subject to transitional periods, to avoid taking animals from the wild and exhausting wild populations to state that alternatives to testing on animals must be used when available and that the number of animals used in projects be reduced to a minimum to require member states to improve the breeding, accommodation and care measures and methods used in procedures so as to eliminate or reduce to a minimum any possible pain, suffering, distress or lasting harm caused to animals
Mihikaa Naik

Music and Memory and Intellegence - 0 views

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mozart effect basic information

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  • these researchers believed that memory was improved because music and spatial abilities shared the same pathways in the brain.
  • laboratories have tried to use the music of Mozart to improve memory, but have failed.
  • original work on the Mozart Effect was flawed because: only a few students were tested it was possible that listening to Mozart really did not improve memory. Rather, it was possible that the relaxation test and silence IMPAIRED memory
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  • another attempt to demonstrate the Mozart Effect
  • unable to show that listening to the music of Mozart had any effect on spatial-reasoning performance. They conclude by stating: "...there is little evidence to support basing intellectual intervention on the existence of the Mozart effect."
  • monkeys listened to Mozart piano music for 15 minutes before they had to do a memory test. The researchers found that listening to Mozart music did NOT improve the monkeys' performance compared to when the monkeys listened to rhythms or white noise. They also found that listening to Mozart during the test impaired memory and while white noise during the test improved memory slightly.
  • governor of the state of Georgia (Zell Miller)
  • There have been no studies that have looked at the effects of music on the intelligence of babies.
  • , there is no evidence that music enhances memory permanently.
Adya Saigal

Body Image in Advertising: How Women Get Hurtful Messages - 0 views

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body image models

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  • We live in a world of stick thin models and emaciated celebrities
  • The idea that thin is in is everywhere, and is hardly escapable from the advertising industry. And although the messages are damaging and often untrue, women everywhere are suffering the consequences of constant exposure to overly thin models and movie stars.
  • The average woman has a 7 percent chance that she will be as slim as a catwalk model and a 1 percent chance of being as thin as a supermodel,
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  • progressively worse in fashion advertising over the past several years.
  • These ads do not encourage women to embrace their own shapes, but rather to work hard to attain a low weight and toned body.
  • ads women see everyday that basically tell them they are not good enough.
Shumona Raha

Euthanasia and Human Rights - 0 views

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euthanasia killing? mercy shumona

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  • Euthanasia literally means “good death”. It is basically to bring about the death of a terminally ill patient or a disabled. It is resorted to so that the last days of a patient who has been suffering from such an illness which is terminal in nature or which has disabled him can peacefully end up his life and which can also prove to be less painful for him.
  • Active euthanasia means putting an end to the life of an individual for merciful reason by a medical practitioner by giving a lethal dose of medication to the patient. Passive euthanasia takes place where methods such as removing artificial life support systems such as ventilators, hydration, etc are resorted to.
  • On the other hand voluntary euthanasia means where a patient who is suffering a lot asks a medical practitioner to end his life whereas involuntary euthanasia is just the opposite of voluntary euthanasia that is where there is no consent of the patient but for it there can be many reasons such as if he is not mentally competent to give his consent and other such reasons.
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  • A person has a right to live a life with at least minimum dignity and if that standard is falling below that minimum level then a person should be given a right to end his life.
  • Supporters of euthanasia also point out to the fact that as passive euthanasia has been allowed, similarly active euthanasia must also be allowed.
  • A patient will wish to end his life only in cases of excessive agony and would prefer to die a painless death rather than living a miserable life with that agony and suffering.
  • According to them its not granting ‘right to die’ rather it should be called ‘right to kill’.
  • Opponents also point out that when suicide is not allowed then euthanasia should also not be allowed.
Dillon Patel

Scientists agree: Humans causing global warming - 0 views

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global warming humans are the main cause

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  • Scientists agree: Humans causing global warmin
  • Report today makes strongest assertion to date
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  • the world's leading climate scientists are reporting today that they are basically certain
  • the effects are likely to last for centuries.
  • Evidence of climate warming is unequivocal.
  • "We did it."
  • "Scientists are pretty well done arguing about whether the warming in the last 50 years is related to burning fossil fuels," Mote said.
  • Researchers said they are more than 90 percent certain that global warming is caused by humans
  • their most powerful assertion to date.
  • the report says, the warming is likely to mean intensified droughts and heat waves, along with unusually strong storms
  • Dillon Patel on 14 Nov 10
     
    This source, which is pretty reliable states that scientists are making a STAND that humans are a huge, and most of the contribution for global warming, and are responsible.
Dillon Patel

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humans global warming main cause

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  • main cause of global warming.
  • our species create huge problems that are beyond the ability of other animals to create
  • Humans cause global warming
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  • our unique ability to capture and use energy from stored energy sources.
  • Even your basic needs are dependent on fossil fuels.
  • if humans didn’t have the ability to exploit dense energy sources such as coal, oil, and natural gas.
  • their discovery transformed the face of the earth and the nature of humans.
  • the human population has grown by more than five times
  • person uses more energy than ever.
  • This energy comes largely from fossil fuels, the use of which is a direct cause of global warming.
  • we want to decrease global warming, then the amount of carbon released each year by humans must be drastically reduced.
  • the we
  • althy (that means you!) Increasing population among the poor
  • Americans consume 300 – 600 times as much as people in very poor nations, in some cases.
  • many of whom aspire to live “better” lives, to consume like wealthy people.
  • From this it becomes clear why humans are the main cause of global warming.
  • Dillon Patel on 14 Nov 10
     
    The main cause of global warming, the human species, us.
Harshil Asnani

Fast Food Problems - 0 views

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fast food problems

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  • Fast food is a concept that originated in 19th century, as a response to the growing food demands
  • The major ingredients that are used in fast food, basically have a large quantity of what is known as trans fats in them
  • huge proportion of meat and less fibers
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  • bread, which is made up of large amounts of pure flour
  • high concentration of fats
  • Unfortunately, the nutrients that are derived from fast food are not balanced and have large concentration of fats and proteins.
  • Health problems caused by fast food include obesity, diabetes and hypertension
  • lacks a good amount of fiber, it not easy to digest fast food
  • gets deposited on the abdominal tissues
  • The abnormal consumption timings and unequal intervals result into indigestion. The body is not able to digest the calorie heavy food, which results into fat deposition on the tissues.
  • Harshil Asnani on 18 Nov 10
     
    "Fast food is a concept that originated in 19th century, as a response to the growing food demands"
Anushka Gandhi

September 11 attacks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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Attacks 11 september 9_11

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  • humiliation resulting from the Islamic world falling behind the Western world - this discrepancy made especially visible due to recent globalisation.
    • Anushka Gandhi
      Anushka Gandhi on 14 Nov 10
       
      Basically analyzing on Al Qaeda's motives which includes these two motives that are highlighted. How their strong beliefs and causes provoke the US, how the Islamic world is not as superior as the Western world, How they desire allies to support their movement by having the US holding a larger grudge against the Islamic world...
  • Top Muslim organizations in the United States were swift to condemn the attacks on 9/11 and called "upon Muslim Americans to come forward with their skills and resources to help alleviate the sufferings of the affected people and their families".
    • Anushka Gandhi
      Anushka Gandhi on 14 Nov 10
       
      Muslim Americans were affected by the 9/11 event and formed organizations that would use their resources and help the affected citizens and their families.
  • The second-biggest operation of the U.S. Global War on Terrorism outside of the United States, and the largest directly connected to terrorism, was the overthrow of the Taliban rule of Afghanistan by a U.S.-led coalition.
    • Anushka Gandhi
      Anushka Gandhi on 14 Nov 10
       
      US avenged the 9/11 event by seriously dealing with the root cause, the Taliban of Afghanistan.
Anjan Narain

Euthanasia and Physician Assisted Suicide: All sides to the issue - 0 views

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Physician Assisted Suicide quotes

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  • Throughout North America, committing suicide or attempting to commit suicide is no longer a criminal offense. However, helping another person commit suicide is generally considered a criminal act.
  • Oregon which, since 1997, has allowed people who are terminally ill, in intractable pain, and not depressed to obtain a lethal prescription from their physician and end their chronic suffering. This is called "Physician Assisted Suicide" or PAS.
  • Washington voters passed Initiative 1000 in 2008-NOV. Supporters call it a "Death with Dignity bill;" opponents call it an "Assisted Suicide" measure. Both are accurate descriptions.   Montana's Montana Supreme Court legalized PAS in a decision handed down on 2009-DEC-31.
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  • "The right to a good death is a basic human freedom. The Supreme Court's decision to uphold aid in dying allows us to view and act on death as a dignified moral and godly choice for those suffering with terminal illnesses."
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