... a cell in downtown Hanoi. As he parades down the street as a prize for the patriots to see and jeer at, he is struck in the head by rocks, lashed out at with sticks, and he was spat upon. At the end of the procession, Colonel Risner arrived at what was to be his home for the next five, grueling years. He had all of the comforts home: a bed to sleep in, meals, and medical care. Well, not exactly the way we think of home, however. His bed consisted of a concrete slab with a one-half inch bamboo mat for a mattress. The stocks on one end of the mat are used regularly. Every night, to be exact! His meals consisted mainly a soup made from a boiled pumpkin type ve ...
... card. He found that when the participants were alone and were asked to decide, they all answered correctly by matching the two lines. So, it was then that Asch decided to change the settings of the experiment. This time around, he made the participants group together, but did it in a way that outcast one of the groups members in a way that the rest of the groups participants were now accomplices trying to catch out the naïve participant. It was the job of the accomplishes to all shout out the wrong answer when asked to do so, in the view that it was thought that the naïve participant would then conform to the group decision. The results of the experiment sho ...
... deciding on marriage: · How much time do we spend together? · Do I need permission to hang out with the friends you hate? · Who keeps track of the money? · Who decides how to spend it? · How often does your family come for dinner? · Do they help clean up? · To whom do we lend money? (Your chronically out-of-work sister? Does she qualify as a charitable tax deduction?) · How much of your mother's approval do we need when making decisions? · Who explains to your father why we no longer want to spend summers at the cabin fishing? The list is limitless — and being caught unawares has caused more squabbles than splitting up the guest list for the big even ...
... with beautiful facial features and a perfect complexion; because of this, he was chosen to play a woman on stage. Douzi fails to separate his on-stage gimmick from his real life persona, and he falls in love with his partner and best friend, Xiao Shitou. When Shitou married a woman, Douzi collapsed mentally and soon got addicted to opium. Shitou's wife was against homosexuality, and she did whatever she could to keep her husband from seeing Douzi; but despite all this, Shitou still cares about Douzi and helped Douzi get off his addiction to opium. He also helps out Douzi whenever he can and supports Douzi's decision to live his life as a homosexual. Aside fr ...
... some police members to be corrupted. An example of that, March 12, 1999, where caught some border patrol points corrupted. The corruption among US forces along the Southwest border as a serious and growing problem, according to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. The number of such cases investigated by went from 79 in 1997 to 157 in 1998; therefore, is trying to stop every corruption possible in other police agencies.ƒxƒx In the other hand, as a strong agency makes it dangerous to the society. Some times, we see the agency over reacts by dealing with civilians that agency thinks that they are endanger people in a harmful way. For example, we saw how was de ...
... anorexia nervosa exists. It is often associated with depression and low self-esteem, and patients may benefit from treatment with antidepressant drugs. Psychotherapy, including family therapy, can often helps, and about half of the cases resolve themselves without relapses. But because many persons with anorexia nervosa never go for medical treatment, the exact reason of the condition is unknown. Studies indicate that it may develop in as many as 1 percent of the young women in the United States. BULIMIA Bulimia is an eating disorder in which overconcern with body weight and shape leads to repeated binging (consuming large amounts of food in a short time) followe ...
... taken away from Ukraine’s farms. Ethiopia’s communist dictator, Mengistu Haile Mariam, used the very same method in the 1970’s to force collectivization; the resulting famine caused one million deaths. OGPU agents and red army troops sealed all roads and rail lines; nothing came in or out of Ukraine. Farms were searched and looted of food and fuel. Ukrainians quickly began to die of hunger, cold, and sickness. When OGPU failed to meet weekly execution quotas, Stalin sent Lazar Kaganovitch, to destroy Ukrainian resistance. Kaganovitch, the soviet Eichmann, made quota, shooting 10,000 Ukrainians weekly. Eighty percent of all Ukrainian intellectuals were exec ...
... on his stomach with his head turned to the right. He had a punctured heart. After perhaps 30 seconds of a field assessment, I saw a man with an extremely light pulse, the slightest of breathing, and a blood pressure of 40/0. The intruding knife used was no larger than a small blade pocketknife, one-quarter inch at its breath. It was similar in size to the knife that my father carried religiously in his pants pocket. The signs I noted in my evaluation, coupled with the knowledge of other signals, pointed to one thing . . . pericardial tamponade. This type of injury is usually fatal. Already, the man had lain in the street far too long, approximately 30 minut ...
... dinner. There wasn’t much affection inside the family, or communication. In the 90's, almost all of the teen crimes in America is blamed on a parents communication with their children. There are many advances today that were not conceivable in the 50's. Today you can live after suffering from many diseases that would killed you in the 50's. We don’t have to worry about polio, the flu, and or pneumonia. Today we all have at least one TV, most of us have more. We can live out in space for months at a time, and there are computers in every classroom in school. We also have much better communication with each other by using phone or Inter ...
... ads featured in a French newspaper. And, in 1833 a New York newspaper was sold for one penny, enabling this media to reach a mass market. Radio. At first there was the print, and then there was sound . . . In 1821 an English man named Wheatstone reproduced sound. However, the future of radio didn’t really begin until 1890 when Branly transmitted the first radio waves in France. In 1901 the American Marconi Company, the forerunner of RCA, sent radio signals across the Atlantic. And five years later, “a program of voice and music was broadcast in the United States.” In 1907 DeForest began a regular radio broadcast featuring music. In 1909 t ...
