The complaints were originally filed to pursue reparations for crimes committed against the deaths of Spanish citizens in Chile and Argentina under Pinochet's rule, but was broadened to include all the crimes of the regime. Pinochet's case revolutionized international law in began many questions which tested the enforceability, precision, interpretation, and legitimacy of the international legal system. ... Pinochet's case put to the test the stability and structure of our International Law system in many ways: it questioned the 1984 Torture convention on extradition provisio...

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Chris McCandless was one of the few who chose this type of life: to live completely off the land and test himself in ways, "that mattered," and as Krakauer's friend Roman points out, "very few, if any, of the people who call McCandless incompetent have ever done it either.... In several instances, Krakauer shares his own theories; the most prominent of them regards the death of Chris McCandless. ... Through interviews, journal entries, letters, and the addition of Krakauer's own story of his Alaskan excursion, Krakauer is able to go beyond telling just the order of eve...

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This has left them in unfortunate positions in which tuberculosis runs rampant, malaria still kills millions, and the rate of death at birth is disproportionately higher than of neighboring areas. ... The rapid and aggressive advancements in medical technology, the experimentation of new methodologies on human "test subjects-, the "excessive American optimism about how problems can be fixed and excessive reductionism of the kind of data considered to be especially relevant to policy making- (Kleinman, pg 92), and the medicalization of disability and illness, all contribute to a loss of moral ...

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These results demonstrate that the Eyeagnosis system is capable of assisting doctors to diagnose diabetic retinopathy in the field. 1 Introduction Diabetes mellitus, a condition characterized by high blood sugar from the loss of functional insulin, is the eighth leading cause of death in the world [1] and affects 415 million people worldwide [1]. ... Conventional screening techniques for DR include a combination of visual acuity testing, tonometry (measuring the pressure of the eye), and a dilated eye exam [1]. ...

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Victor's overreaching ambition to overcome the natural boundaries by taking God's creator role is highlighted in the metaphor "Life and death appeared to me ideal boundsI should break through." Victor's hubris criticizes aspects of Enlightenment rationalism which attempted to control natural processes, exemplified in Galvani's experimentation with "animal electricity." The gothic imagery used to describe Victor's experiments "I dabbled among unhallowed damps" contrasts to the imagery of natural settings "land surpassing in wonders and beauty." This demonst...

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Drugs and Alcohol leads to a lot of drawbacks in life like depressions because they are really addictive, they are as addictive as playing poker and the slots at the Atlantic City or Las Vegas except that this kind of temptations and addiction could lead to Alcohol poisoning, Lungs and Heart complications and also death. ... When I was in high school, one of my close friends told me that when she gets to college, no matter how much she is pressured to party on a school night or even on the weekends when she has test(s) the following week, she would not go but I know she was lying because she ...

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