For more on brain death, check out How Brain Death Works. Read More How Does Someone Become Comatose? Illnesses that affect the brain and brain injuries can both cause comas. If a person suffers severe head trauma, the impact can cause the brain to move back and forth inside the skull...
Morse Code Goes Global Long-distance telegraph lines spread like wildfire over the next few decades. So did Samuel Morse's code. During the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln used it to keep abreast of battlefield developments. And speaking of Honest Abe, when Western Union completed the fi...
Civil registration: the records of births, marriages, and deaths (more commonly referred to as vital records). DAR: Daughters of the American Revolution, a lineage society that requires proof of descent from an ancestor who either fought for or gave aid to the Colonial army during the American...
Intense, provocative, disturbing, and captivating, the legendary artist led a life of restless brilliance.
China, which was the last major country to maintain a Marxist economic system, has in recent decades introduced elements of capitalism to its economy in order to join the global marketplace. Traditionally capitalist countries like Britain, Canada and the United States have increasingly introduced ...
Holding the rise of global temperatures to 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial averages, an ambition specified in the Paris Agreement, will require cutting net emissions of greenhouse gases roughly in half by 2030 and to zero by 2050.
European colonization brought together the old and new worlds into a global economy and a global ecology. Foods, plants, and diseases spread throughout the world, along with ideas, values, technologies, money, and commodities. As Lappe’ considered these interconnections, she realized that thinking...
like visas and finding a job make it seem like it would be nearly impossible to do. While there is a lot of red tape, there are several ways that someone can move to another country and some are easier than others. It all depends on your personal situation and what works best for ...
The Internet and social media have propelled these artworks to the global arena and have made protesting more accessible. From human rights violations to corruption, art has touched every arena of social activism. This paper seeks to explore the influence of arts on society and how it has been...
A civil defense organization created under local, state, or federal law, including any unreimbursed expenses of civil defense volunteers that are directly connected to their volunteer services A domestic fraternal society that functions under a lodge system, but the donation is only deductible if it...