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Road Salt And The Environment
1,465 wordsAs awareness for pollution increases, other less noticed types of pollution are recognized. Almost everyone knows about toxic waste and carbon dioxide pollution, but not many people have heard of salt pollution. Salt pollution has been on the increase since the evolution of the automobile. With more pressure on government agencies to keep the highway clear and safe, an increase in the use of salt has developed. It is important to understand why salt is used and how it work as well as the environ...
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Billion Years Ago Carbon Dioxide
1,230 wordsOur understanding and our modern perception of our solar system, the Milky Way, has been drastically reshaped from the corresponding perception of only a few hundred years ago. Our Solar System, the Milky Way is probably about 4 - 5 billion years old. Only in the last 400 years or so have we realized that the earth is not the "center", and that in the Universe alone there is an immense 200 billion "Suns" in a galaxy like our own. Although the origin of the solar system is uncertain, most scienti...
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Left Hand Side Atmospheric Pressure
1,199 wordsChemistry Independent Study: Gas Laws Since the days of Aristotle, all substances have been classified into one of three physical states. A substance having a fixed volume and shape is a solid. A substance, which has a fixed volume but not a fixed shape, is a liquid; liquids assume the shape of their container but do not necessarily fill it. A substance having neither a fixed shape nor a fixed volume is a gas; gases assume both the shape and the volume of their container. The structures of gases...
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1,261 wordsSouth Africa is diverse in culture but could be unified in language. English should be South Africa's unifying language. It is necessary to understand what nationhood is, so that you the reader realise that a national language does not alter a nation. It binds the nation. I will also discuss South Africa's diverse cultures and how a unifying language can merge these cultures. Lastly, I will demonstrate the links between language and identity. The concept of a nation is not easily defined. Nation...
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1,448 wordsOn a hot summer night, as you are sitting outside enjoying the evening, you tilt your head back and look into the night sky. You begin to wonder what is really out there? How far away are the stars? Are they stars or are they planets? We live in a part of the night sky called the Milky Way Galaxy. Our galaxy can be seen with the naked eye on a clear summer night. It resembles a ribbon stretched across the night sky. During the summer is when the Milky Way is at its fullest with the stars so clus...
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Number Of People Greatest Good For The Greatest
682 wordsIn Kantianism reason is the sole authority for determining what is ethical and what is ethical must be based on a principle or rule that that must apply to every human being universally, without exception. The rule is based on what Kant calls the Categorical Imperative- they base morality on universal laws or rules and not on individual interests or desires. Universal Law is any personal moral rule that can be applied to all human beings without exception. Kant feels that a person should be prai...
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00 P M Mutual Fund
1,537 wordsJanus Capital Group is a mutual fund company that specializes in the active management of investor assets. They are responsible for the investment advisory, distribution, and marketing of their various funds throughout the world. The company's asset management disciplines include growth, core, international and value. As of February 29, 2004 total assets under management at Janus was $ 147. 5 billion (Janus. com). Tom Bailey established Janus Mutual Funds in 1970 with only 30 investors and less ...
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Neural Tube Defects Central Nervous System
1,262 words... b. /March 1991). Spontaneous errors in development, whose causes are unknown, can happen in the central nervous system, face, gut, genitourinary system, and heart as shown in Table 2. The time during pregnancy which these may occur is also is also shown in Table 2 and ranges from twenty-three days to twelve weeks, all which fall into the first trimester. How these anomalies are triggered in birth defects is unknown. Neural Tube Defects, which causes are also unknown, are some of the most com...
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1,534 wordsNatural Minerals of Texas Texas is one of the richest and most beautiful places of the Northern America. The abundance of natural resources, see sights, and wildlife makes it a unique place, which has everything a person could see on the whole territory of the United States: from Oceanside to mountains and cliffs, from forests to deserts. Texas is located in the South West part of the United States and along with California is globally seen as the symbol of the country. Texas has an area that is...
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Epstein Barr Virus Book Was Written
4,832 wordsThe Marriage p. 15 Gilda met Gene Wilder while they were making a movie Hanky Panky. It wasn t too successful, nor did it do well for her career, but it did change her life. They were married in the south of France on September 19, 1984. (p. 17) Gene loved France. Gilda had been there only once before when she was eighteen. All the terrible things that happen to tourists happened to her while she was there. She lost her traveler s checks, she got diarrhea from getting so upset over the Anne Fran...
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Birth Of Venus Style Of Painting
2,051 wordsBotticelli? s Allegory of Spring The renaissance was a time of wonderful art, though one artist in particular stood out, that was Sandro Botticelli. This man created some of the most renowned pieces of art in European history; one great painting was Allegory of Spring. This mythological artwork was an amazing change from the normalcy of past times. Botticelli? s Allegory of Spring, painted in 1482, is one of the most remarkable and astounding pieces of renaissance art with the wondrous symbols, ...
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3,639 wordsCIA: Crack Importing Agency Or How The CIA: Crack Importing Agency Or How The US Government Started The Crack Trade For the past decade and a half, the US government has sponsored the? War on Drugs. ? This has been a massive law enforcement effort aimed at stamping out the flow and use of illegal narcotics. The main focus of this effort has been aimed at a relatively new, yet extremely potent drug crack. However, this massive crackdown is much more than a simple effort aimed at protecting US cit...
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6,461 wordsIN They Trading 08 IN THE INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE AT PEACE PALACE, THE HAGUE THE NETHERLANDS 1999 GENERAL LIST NO. 104 KINGDOM OF AUGUSTINE, APPLICANT V. REPUBLIC OF VINOY, RESPONDENT MEMORIAL FOR APPLICANT 1999 International Environmental Moot Court Competition TABLE OF CONTENTS INDEX OF AUTHORITIES. x STATEMENT OF JURISDICTION. viii QUESTION PRESENTED... ix STATEMENT OF FACTS. x SUMMARY OF ARGUMENTS xiii ARGUMENTS. 1 I: VINOYS ACTIONS VIOLATE ITS DUTIES UNDERTHE INTERNATIONAL LAW. 1 A. ...
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Unborn Child Nervous System
343 wordsSynopsis # 1 BIO 131 A. Summary: The Food and Drug Administration is announcing to pregnant women that eating certain kinds of fish may be harmful to their unborn child. These fish include shark, swordfish, king mackerel and tile fish. These fish contain high levels of a form of mercury called methyl mercury. Methyl mercury can damage an unborn babys nervous system. The FDA suggests that any pregnant woman, or women of childbearing age, nursing mothers, and young children stay away from these fi...
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Planet From The Sun Center Of The Universe
2,375 wordsAssignment 1: The Solar System The solar system consists of the Sun; the nine planets, 67 satellites of the planets and a large number of small bodies (comets and asteroids). The inner solar system contains the Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars: The planets of the outer solar system are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto: The orbits of the planets are ellipses with the Sun at one focus, though all except Mercury and Pluto are very nearly circular. The orbits of the planets are all more...
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3,252 wordsA debate is currently raging throughout the world, from the halls of the United States Congress and the Presidents Oval Office to the United Nations and the World Health Organization. The issue: the cloning of human beings. Ever since researchers in Scotland cloned an adult sheep named Dolly over a year ago, the issue of applying this technology to reproducing human duplicates has been paramount in scientific and social circles. The debate is not merely confined to scientists; everyone from worl...
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Solar System Mariner 10 Mercury
335 wordsIn Roman Mercury MERCURY In Roman mythology Mercury is messenger of the gods, and son of the god Jupiter. Mercury is the planet closest to the sun. Its distance from the sun is approximately 58 million km (about 36 million miles); its diameter is 4875 km (3030 miles); its volume and mass are about: that of the earth; and its density is approximately equal to that of the earth. Mercury revolves about the sun in a period of 88 days. Radar observations of the planet show that its period of rotation...
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Copyright C 1994 Middle Ages
869 wordsScience Alchemy Alchemy, ancient art practiced especially in the Middle Ages, devoted chiefly to discovering a substance that would transmute the more common metals into gold or silver and to finding a means of indefinitely prolonging human life. Although its purposes and techniques were dubious and often illusory, alchemy was in many ways the predecessor of modern science, especially the science of chemistry. The birthplace of alchemy was ancient Egypt, where, in Alexandria, it began to flouris...
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Exxon Valdez Water Pollution
869 wordsPollution of lakes, rivers, streams, and oceans has been killing land and water animals for years. Water pollution kills all kinds of animals every year. The EXXON VALDEZ oil spill near anchorage Alaska caused over 3, 000 otters to die, 36, 000 different kinds of seabirds were killed and over 100 eagles. The Exxon Valdez spilled over 11 million gallons of crude oil in 1989 because of somebody's carelessness. Oil spills are one of the worst types of pollution. They happen most often in the ocean ...
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Earths Atmosphere Degrees Celsius
1,874 wordsSaturn is the sixth planet in our solar system and is the second largest planet. The only planet larger then Saturn is Jupiter. Saturn is commonly noted for its phenomenal system of rings surrounding this gaseous planet. It is also one of the outer planets. Saturn's period of rotation is approximately ten and a half hours in Earth hours. Saturn takes about 13 and a half hours less than Earth to rotate. It takes Saturn about 30 years to make revolution around the sun. That is 29 years more than E...
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