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1972 Nixon visit to China   On June 19, 1995, Chinese authorities arrested American citizen Harry Wu on charges of spying, an act punishable by death. Wu, a Chinese-born human rights activist, had entered China to investigate human rights abuses in the communist nat... Study Pack: 1 Summary, 1 Viewpoint About 122 pages (36,673 words) in 2 products

21st Century Earth “Some revolutionary events, which we call wildcards, will inevitably occur.” John L. Petersen, The Road to 2015: Profiles of the Future, 1994 Futurists proffer an assortment of forecasts about the earth and humanity in the t... Study Pack: 1 Viewpoint About 305 pages (91,403 words) in 1 product

Abduction phenomenon   People have always looked at the stars and wondered if life existed on other planets. Several ancient cultures tell stories in which beings from the stars visit the earth. Not until the mid-twentieth century, however, did the phenomena of a... Study Pack: 1 Summary, 1 Viewpoint About 153 pages (45,844 words) in 2 products

Abortion   Abortion is when a pregnancy is terminated. This could happen naturally or on purpose. Natural abortions are caused for a variety of reasons, some in which the fetus does not develop normally, or if the mother has an injury or disorder tha... Study Pack: 7 Summaries, 3 Viewpoints, 39 Essays, 1 Quotes About 687 pages (206,223 words) in 50 products

Academic writing   Writing Research Papers, a guide for students working with Opposing Viewpoints books, is designed to help college students develop their own thinking and to write and report what they have learned to others. Written to help students think c... Study Pack: 1 Summary, 1 Viewpoint About 111 pages (33,207 words) in 2 products

Acid rain   BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE A seed is formed from the ovule of a flower as a result of fertilisation, and is then dispersed from the parent plant. If the seed lands in a suitable place, it will germinate. Germination is the growth of the embryo i... Study Pack: 11 Summaries, 1 Viewpoint, 3 Essays About 141 pages (42,360 words) in 15 products

Acne vulgaris   Acne is a common skin disease characterized by pimples on the face, chest, and back. It occurs when the pores of the skin become clogged with oil, dead skin cells, and bacteria. The medical term for acne is acne vulgaris. It is the most ... Study Pack: 5 Summaries, 1 Viewpoint About 99 pages (29,650 words) in 6 products

Addiction   Drugs seem to occupy the American conscience. Hardly a day passes without some notice of drugs in newspapers and on TV. Addictions are uncontrollable actions. There are good addictions and bad addictions. A person can be addicted to nic... Study Pack: 9 Summaries, 2 Viewpoints, 2 Essays, 1 Quotes About 376 pages (112,869 words) in 14 products

Adoption   In our lives, we constantly seek to know more than we ever can, often times subconsciously. In trying to seek this knowledge, we frequently and inadvertently hurt people around us, or even ourselves. Even more consequential can be the act... Study Pack: 3 Summaries, 3 Viewpoints, 3 Essays About 561 pages (168,199 words) in 9 products

Affirmative action   Affirmative Action: Equal Protection of the Laws? Every individual has unalienable rights to equal educational and employment opportunities to further their goals. Affirmative action is an active and ambitious effort to promote the educati... Study Pack: 2 Summaries, 1 Viewpoint, 30 Essays About 235 pages (70,443 words) in 33 products

Aichi Prefecture   (2002 est. pop. 7.1 million). Aichi Prefecture is situated in the central region of Japan's largest island, Honshu. A leading industrial area, it occupies an area of 5,139 square kilometers. Its primary geographical features are the... Study Pack: 2 Summaries, 1 Viewpoint About 101 pages (30,308 words) in 3 products

AIDS   LE SIDA VIH et les SIDAS nous affectent tous, indépendamment de notre position dans la société. La situation de le SIDA s'empire de jour en jour et se répète un peu partout. Souligner la gravité de la problem... Study Pack: 16 Summaries, 2 Viewpoints, 10 Essays, 5 Criticisms, 1 Quotes About 557 pages (167,197 words) in 34 products

Alcohol   This section contains articles on some aspects of chronic drinking: Abstinence versus Controlled Drinking and Origin of the Term. For further information on this subject, see Disease Concept of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse and the sections on... Study Pack: 5 Summaries, 1 Viewpoint, 1 Quotes About 283 pages (85,029 words) in 7 products

Alcoholism   "When the White man came, the Indians had the land and the White man had the liquor.  Now, the White man has the land and the Indians have the liquor" (Mitchell et al. 144). Durante del encuentro y la conquista del Norteamérica, ... Study Pack: 21 Summaries, 3 Viewpoints, 6 Essays About 537 pages (161,220 words) in 30 products

Allegations of domestic violence Physical violence of all types, from slaps to murder, probably occurs more frequently in the family than in any other setting or group except the armed services or police in time of war or riot. This article summarizes the prevalence rates... Study Pack: 1 Summary, 2 Viewpoints About 229 pages (68,777 words) in 3 products

African-American Civil Rights Movement (1955-1968)       Our country is a hodgepodge  of minorities whom we still take for granted, leaving them on the other side of reality. In the essays "Custer Died for Your Sins," by Vine Deloria, Jr., "The Glass Half Empty," by Anna Q... Study Pack: 4 Summaries, 1 Viewpoint, 11 Essays About 322 pages (96,526 words) in 16 products

American Teenagers The New Breed... Study Pack: 1 Viewpoint About 223 pages (67,001 words) in 1 product

American Views About War Each book in the series contains a comprehensive index to help readers quickly locate material of interest. Perhaps most importantly, each volume has an annotated bibliography to aid interested students in conducting further research on the... Study Pack: 1 Viewpoint About 165 pages (49,558 words) in 1 product

America's Youth “As social groups, cliques introduce young people to negative aspects of society, such as conflict and prejudice.” —Debra J. Jordan “Cliques are not an entirely negative aspect of the high school social structure... Study Pack: 1 Viewpoint About 184 pages (55,127 words) in 1 product

Anesthesia   Although anesthesia related deaths and patient awareness during surgery has significantly decreased in the past two decades, it is still a main concern of doctors and medical researchers equivalently. It is believed that about two de... Study Pack: 7 Summaries, 1 Viewpoint, 1 Essay About 126 pages (37,865 words) in 9 products

Angst   EVERYONE FEELS DEPRESSED at times. Illness, the loss of a family member, the breakup of a relationship— these misfortunes and many more are natural causes of sadness and mourning. It is normal to feel depressed about a loss or failure... Study Pack: 1 Summary, 1 Viewpoint About 80 pages (23,966 words) in 2 products

Animal testing   Animal Testing Introduction The application of animals to test a large number of products from household compounds and cosmetics to Pharmaceutical products has been considered to be a normal strategy for many years. Laboratory animals a... Study Pack: 6 Summaries, 4 Viewpoints, 11 Essays About 546 pages (163,786 words) in 21 products

Anomalous phenomenon   PARANORMAL PHENOMENA ARE creatures or occurrences that cannot be explained scientifically. Sightings of unidentified flying objects (UFOs), reports of alien abductions, mental telepathy, ghosts, and miracles all fall into this category. So... Study Pack: 1 Summary, 1 Viewpoint About 112 pages (33,690 words) in 2 products

Anorexia nervosa   Since the beginning of time, people have been modifying their bodies into various shapes to achieve the cultural standard of beauty. Today's society and media often gives off the perception that everyone has to have a slender body image.... Study Pack: 4 Summaries, 1 Viewpoint, 8 Essays About 145 pages (43,564 words) in 13 products

Anthrax   What is Anthrax and how is it transmitted? Anthrax is an acute infectious disease caused by the spore-forming "bacterium bacillus." Anthrax most commonly occurs in wild and domestic vertebrates (cattle, sheep, goats, camels, antelopes, an... Study Pack: 8 Summaries, 1 Viewpoint, 2 Essays About 133 pages (39,877 words) in 11 products

Anti-Semitism   ANTI-SEMITISM. The term anti-Semitism is relatively recent, coined only at the end of the nineteenth century, when it became the identifying symbol of an innovative anti-Jewish political platform that projected the Jews as an alien element... Study Pack: 1 Summary, 1 Viewpoint, 1 Quotes About 160 pages (47,892 words) in 3 products

Anti-Slavery International   In 1993 Abdul Momen, director of the human rights organization Women and Children International, traveled to Tungipara, Bangladesh, where more than one thousand children had been reported missing. The children’s mothers told Momen that the ... Study Pack: 1 Summary, 1 Viewpoint About 104 pages (31,256 words) in 2 products

Athletics   The differences in skill among athletes who compete at the highest levels of their sports are actually very small. Mere hundredths of a second are likely to separate those standing on the winner's platform from the also-rans after t... Study Pack: 2 Summaries, 1 Viewpoint About 184 pages (55,251 words) in 3 products

Avalanche   Avalanches are rapid downhill movements of snow, ice and/or rock. They occur like landslide movements when the weight of the material can overcome the friction. Debris starts to descend at considerable speeds under the force of gravity. Av... Study Pack: 3 Summaries, 1 Viewpoint, 2 Essays About 105 pages (31,620 words) in 6 products

Bigotry   JOHN ROCKER SEEMED to be going for some sort of record—how many bigoted remarks one person could make in a single magazine interview. "The biggest thing I don't like about New York," he told the reporter, "are the foreigners. I'm not ... Study Pack: 1 Summary, 1 Viewpoint, 1 Quotes About 89 pages (26,591 words) in 3 products

Bilingual education   Bilingual Education in the United States Aside from Native Americans, there are no indigenous "Americans" to speak of in the United States. The U.S. is therefore a large immigrant nation whose history has grown out of its ability to bring... Study Pack: 3 Summaries, 1 Viewpoint, 3 Essays About 248 pages (74,298 words) in 7 products

Biodiversity   Biodiversity is the variety of living things in an area. This includes the relationships between living things and there environment. Biodiversity is genetic variety, species diversity, and variability in communities, ecosystems, and landsc... Study Pack: 9 Summaries, 1 Viewpoint, 3 Essays About 354 pages (106,072 words) in 13 products

Biological warfare   Viewpoint: Yes, biological weapons are a genie already out of the bottle and awaiting a master. Research and development on biological weapons should be resumed. Viewpoint: No, resumption of research on and development of biological weapon... Study Pack: 7 Summaries, 1 Viewpoint About 238 pages (71,410 words) in 8 products

Biomedical Ethics “The way bioethics works is that all the questions of right and wrong aren’t always all up for grabs at the same time.”  —Arthur Caplan, New York Times Magazine, December 15, 1996. Much of the world was in sho... Study Pack: 1 Viewpoint About 248 pages (74,305 words) in 1 product

Bioterrorism   With the human genome already decoded, science is at the height of its ingenuity. Everyday, millions of scientists worldwide are working to find cure for varies illnesses and diseases. Some have changed the course of human evolution throug... Study Pack: 5 Summaries, 1 Viewpoint, 1 Essay About 212 pages (63,613 words) in 7 products

Black hole   A black hole essentially is an incredibly compact body which has warped space-time enough to make any escape from the force of gravity impossible. They are thought to be at the center of galaxies, including our own Milky Way. As the name im... Study Pack: 5 Summaries, 1 Viewpoint, 1 Essay About 128 pages (38,489 words) in 7 products

Black magic   Witches have had a negative image for hundreds of years. Raymond Buckland, a witch himself, describes the popular conception of a witch as an old weather—beaten crone, having her chin and knees meeting for age, walking like a bow, l... Study Pack: 1 Summary, 1 Viewpoint About 99 pages (29,710 words) in 2 products

Body piercing   In our modern world consisting of cell phones, fast cars, busy schedules, and over one hundred television channels, body piercing, tattoos and other variants of body modification are rapidly becoming increasingly popular. Teenagers an... Study Pack: 2 Summaries, 1 Viewpoint, 1 Essay About 149 pages (44,651 words) in 4 products

Bubonic plague   There were various responses to the outbreaks of plague from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries. The most popular of these responses were fear, superstition, and exploitation. Due to the fact that the Europeans at the time did not ... Study Pack: 6 Summaries, 1 Viewpoint, 1 Essay, 3 Criticisms About 174 pages (52,257 words) in 11 products

Bulimia nervosa   In today's world, people are over consumed with images of the perfect and ideal look for teenagers and women worldwide. These visual images are seen everyday and are present in most forms of media and television and entertainment. We are co... Study Pack: 4 Summaries, 1 Viewpoint, 1 Essay About 121 pages (36,273 words) in 6 products

Cancer   Cancer Cancer is a horrible disease to which no cure has been found and it continues to consume the lives of millions. Cancer comes from genetic changes in the cell cycle such as a mutation of a somatic cell. Cancer can also be caused f... Study Pack: 23 Summaries, 1 Viewpoint, 2 Essays About 232 pages (69,474 words) in 26 products

Capital punishment   Capital punishment has been the center of much controversy dating back to its origins. Although the roots of capital punishment can be traced as far back as 1697 BC, arguments over its effectiveness and morality continue in the midst of ... Study Pack: 3 Summaries, 4 Viewpoints, 52 Essays, 1 Quotes About 722 pages (216,670 words) in 60 products

Roman Catholic sex abuse cases   In 1984, the first year of his assignment to the Boston diocese, Cardinal Bernard Law approved the transfer of Father John J. Geoghan to St. Julia’s parish in Weston, Massachusetts, despite substantial evidence that Geoghan had sexually abu... Study Pack: 1 Summary, 1 Viewpoint About 151 pages (45,184 words) in 2 products

Censorship   Books have been banned ever since they were first created. Censorship, which book banning is a part of, is "the act of withholding or removing objectionable parts of a work on moral, political, or other grounds." (Anonymous) Banning books s... Study Pack: 5 Summaries, 3 Viewpoints, 19 Essays, 17 Criticisms, 1 Quotes About 938 pages (281,279 words) in 45 products

Central Intelligence Agency   The National Security Act of 1947 created the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), America's first peacetime, civilian intelligence organization. The director of central intelligence (DCI) heads the CIA, is the president's chie... Study Pack: 2 Summaries, 1 Viewpoint About 251 pages (75,326 words) in 3 products

Cerebral palsy   "Having a child with cerebral palsy can be very difficult, stressful, and at times very frustrating, but one look from Adam and I know it's all worth it," says mother, Beth Muraida, of her 15 year old son, Adam. "Before Adam was born I had... Study Pack: 4 Summaries, 1 Viewpoint, 1 Essay About 105 pages (31,344 words) in 6 products

Physical dependence   A state, produced by repeated or prolonged drug exposure, in which the presence of drug in the body is required to maintain normal physiological function. This state is recognizable only by the occurrence of a withdrawal reaction when the ... Study Pack: 4 Summaries, 2 Viewpoints About 246 pages (73,916 words) in 6 products

Chemical hazard   Chemical spills are any accidental releases of synthetic chemicals that pose a risk to the environment. Spills occur at any of the steps between the production of a chemical and its use. A railroad tank car may spring a leak; a pipe in a... Study Pack: 2 Summaries, 1 Viewpoint About 73 pages (21,937 words) in 3 products

Chemotherapy   Chemotherapy is the treatment of a disease or condition with chemicals that have a specific effect on its cause, such as a microorganism or cancer cell. The first modern therapeutic chemical was derived from a synthetic dye. The sulfonamid... Study Pack: 7 Summaries, 1 Viewpoint About 115 pages (34,532 words) in 8 products

Child abuse   "Each day in the United States more than three children die as a result of child abuse in the home" (Child Help USA 1/5). This statistic is too high and there need to be changes to overcome this problem. As a parent you are expected to ta... Study Pack: 7 Summaries, 2 Viewpoints, 5 Essays About 419 pages (125,803 words) in 14 products