It was the winter of 1851‚ when mass number of Irish immigrants arrived in New York hoping for a brighter future‚ aboard the British ship Montezuma. It had been months since leaving their homeland‚ the immigrants were sick and hungry. The conditions on ships like Montezuma were referred to as "coffin ships" because conditions of these ships were filthy and densely populated. There was barely any sort of circulation. It is said on average‚ 15 percent of the immigrants died at sea before arriving
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Introduction This Irish prison system consists of 15 different institutions. This is made up of eleven traditional ‘closed’ prisons‚ two ‘open’ prisons‚ a training prison and a prison for young offenders. All of our prisons are termed medium-low security‚ apart from Portlaoise prison; a male only prison and our countries only high security prison. The purpose of a prison is to retain those legally committed of a crime as punishment or whilst they await trial. ‘The mission of the Irish prison service
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In his article on famine‚ affluence‚ and morality‚ morally Peter Singer states that people who live in rich countries are morally obligated to ease the burden of famine and overpopulation for poorer countries. Singer states that rich countries can alleviate unnecessary suffering and death in poor countries by giving famine relief‚ and at the cost of a “morally insignificant” lessening of standard of living for the rich country. Singer also notes that this giving of famine relief should not only occur
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In this paper I will argue that we‚ citizens in rich countries‚ have a moral obligation to donate most of our wealth to poor countries. In “Famine‚ Affluence and Morality”‚ Singer‚ a utilitarian‚ argues‚ “The way people in relatively rich countries react to a situation like that in Bengal cannot be justified; indeed‚ the whole way we look at moral issues-our moral conceptual scheme needs to be altered‚ and with it‚ the way of life that has come to be taken for granted in our society”. (230).“Suffering
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Olivia Barragree Mr. Green Irish Literature 3 17 February 2013 Irish Love In 20th Century Ireland‚ the practice of marriage remained very strict due to the religious standards of the time. The majority of the Irish population remained strictly Roman Catholic while a small population in the north remained Protestant. The Roman Catholic view on marriage remains to be that marriage should stay within the religion and be life-long‚ or until death due you part. With divorce removed as an option
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Pages 8 - 14: Main Experiment Introduction In this experiment I am going to investigate the effect of varying concentration of a differing glucose solution on the amount of osmotic activity‚ between the solution and a potato tuber of a given size. The purpose of this experiment is to demonstrate how living cells rely on osmosis‚ the diffusion of water. Osmosis is the movement of water molecules (H20) from a region in which they
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concentration (Brown 1999). Hypertonic is the solution with a higher salt concentration. Hypotonic solution is the solution with the lower salt concentration. My hypothesis is that the potato core will increase in size. When the solution is hypertonic‚ the potato will decrease in size making the potato hypotonic. Osmosis is really interesting‚ that is why I chose to write this report about it. Materials and Methods We first cut out six cores out of a potato. We trimmed them all to the same length using
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United States. Whether it be through legal or illegal means‚ there is always a problem. Samuel F.B. Morse believed that the Irish Catholic immigrants were part of a big conspiracy with the Roman Catholics‚ to take over the United States. They were nothing but danger to native Americans. It is a belief that many Americans shared during 1835‚ but held no real base of truth. The Irish Catholic immigrants that were coming into the United States during 1835‚ were escaping the mess that the British had started
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.2. The Revival of the Irish Language The Gaelic League was founded in the year 1893‚ a cultural movement whose aim was to promote and maintain the Irish language. By that time‚ Irish had become a minority language‚ spoken by no more than 15.2 per cent of the population of the whole of Ireland‚ or 19.2 per cent of the population of the area which was later to secede from the United Kingdom to become the Irish Free State. In 1911‚ those figures had declined to 13.3 per cent and 17.6 per cent respectively
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Title: Potato Osmosis Abstract: In this experiment was designed to study the effect of a concentrated solution applied to white and sweet potatoes. The solution’s impact among the potatoes were to be either hypertonic‚ hypotonic‚ or isotonic. The potatoes were first cut into fries with a fry cutter‚ and then weighed after being cut. The white and sweet potatoes’ weights ranged from .005-.015 grams. A total of 18 sugar solutions are to be made over the course of 3 trials. In each trial‚ 6 different
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