Any mode of dressing or adornment that is popular during a particular time or in a particular place (i.e., the current style). It can change from one period to the next, from generation to generation. It serves as a reflection of social an...

the belief in the social, economic, and political equality of the sexes. Although largely originating in the West, feminism is manifested worldwide and is represented by various institutions committed to activity on behalf of women's right...

city, Puglia (Apulia) regione (region), southeastern Italy, in the centre of the Puglia Tableland, west-northwest of Barletta. Foggia is believed to have been founded by the inhabitants of Arpi (also called Argyrippa, Greek Argos Hippion),...

Acute gastrointestinal illness from eating foods containing toxins. These toxins may be poisons that occur naturally in plants and animals, chemical contaminants, or toxic products of microorganisms. Most cases are due to bacteria (includi...

Right, as stated in the 1st and 14th Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, to express information, ideas, and opinions free of government restrictions based on content. A modern legal test of the legitimacy of proposed restr...

Betting or staking of something of value on the outcome of a game or event. Commonly associated with gambling are horse racing, boxing, numerous playing-card and dice games, cockfighting, jai alai, recreational billiards and darts, bingo, ...

Introduction of a normal gene into an individual in whom that gene is not functioning, either into those tissue cells that normally express the gene (curing that individual only) or into an early embryonic cell (curing the individual and a...

Study of heredity in general and of genes in particular. Modern genetics began in the 19th century with the work of Gregor Mendel, who formulated the basic concepts of heredity. In 1909 the word gene was coined by Wilhelm Johannsen, thus g...

The distinction is many times, difficult to make, once scientific terminology and politically oriented phrases become intertwined concerning issues of global well-being and particularly the future of human existence. Many are strong believ...

Gun control is a very important issue that is being discussed more and more by congress as the years go by. This essay I will be talking about why I feel that stricter gun control laws would be good and bad. I will also state my opinion and...

harassment, intimidation, or physical violence that is motivated by a bias against characteristics of the victim considered integral to his social identity, such as his race, ethnicity, or religion. Some relatively broad hate-crime laws al...

Every town has one. A deserted, rundown old house on a hilltop or deep in the woods. Occasionally passersby report seeing a light or a mysterious figure peering from a window. Young people dare each other to spend the night there. And rumor...

Movies and television programs routinely feature violence, including everything from relatively minor scuffles to gory and gruesome encounters. The violent images in the mass media can be highly disturbing—they are often vivid and c...

Extent of continuing physical, emotional, mental, and social ability to cope with one's environment. Good health is harder to define than bad health (which can be equated with presence of disease) because it must convey a more positive con...

Heterocyclic compound, a highly addictive alkaloid derivative of morphine (chemically, it is diacetylmorphine) that makes up a large portion of illicit narcotics traffic. Easily made from morphine, it was developed and first used as an ana...

Africa consisted of many powerful empires between 1000 1500, before the European's arrived. The continent of Africa contained many exclusive natural resources such as gold and salt. These natural resources helped these African empires th...

Full of Intelligence There are many important events in the United States history, but none of it is comparable to the invention of computer. Despite the fact that there are many other inventions in the past, the computer has proven to be...

Solomon Fuller, the first black psychiatrist in the United States, played a key role in the development of psychiatry in the 1900s. Known for his research on dementia, Fuller helped make the United States the leader in psychiatry that it i...

Since the events of September 11th, our country has been stricter and has given us more protection than ever before. Some people believe that the government of the United States of America is going just too far with its strive for justice ...

According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary (1997), the word `homeless' is defined as: "having no home or permanent residence" (p.356). People who fall into this category are often termed `homeless,' but this in itself is a very confusing t...

sexual interest in and attraction to members of one's own sex. The term gay is frequently used as a synonym for homosexual; female homosexuality is often referred to as lesbianism. At different times and in different cultures, homosexual b...

rights that belong to an individual or group of individuals as a consequence of being human. They refer to a wide continuum of values or capabilities thought to enhance human agency and declared to be universal in character, in some sense ...

Drug trafficking has become an increasingly growing problem in the world today; more people are buying, selling and using drugs. People think it is a fast and easy way to get money, not knowing all the risks. There are many risks when deali...

Immigration has always been a contentious issue in the United States. Benjamin Franklin thought that an influx in German migration into the United States would flush out the predominately British culture at that time. Furthermore, a conti...

)Robert Geoffrey Edwards and Patrick Christopher Steptoe (1913-1988) pioneered in vitro fertilization (IVF), making the birth of the first "test-tube baby" possible in 1978. By quickly transferring the oocyte (the egg prior to maturation) ...