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65 Million Years Millions Of Years
1,224 words... nd obscurity. Today, the name of Lamarck is associated merely with a discredited theory of heredity, the "inheritance of acquired traits. " However, Charles Darwin, Lyell, Haeckel, and other early evolutionists acknowledged him as a great zoologist and as a forerunner of evolution. Would Lamarck have agreed with Darwin? That is the question. Since Lamarck believe that creatures willed themselves to change, he would have felt that the moths felt the need to change. He may have supported natur...
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Back To Our Cabin Began Walking Woods
831 wordsAbout four years ago I went to Phelps, Wisconsin with my friend, Tim, and his mom to visit his grandfather. We quickly found out that there was not much to do in Phelps. The nearest grocery store was thirty minutes away. The only thing to do in town was to go fishing and because we did not have a boat our fishing was very limited. As the week went on Tim and I became very bored and so one night we asked his mom what we could do and she said that in the morning we could all go for a walk through ...
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Current Research On Muscular Dystrophy
576 wordsDuchenne's muscular dystrophy is the result of a defective gene on the X chromosome. This gene is responsible for production of the muscle protein dystrophic. Dystrophin is an integral part of the dystrophic-glycoprotein complex which bears the brunt of the force generated during muscular contraction. When dystrophic is not produced, the dystrophic-glycoprotein complex (DCG) is not present. Absence of the DCG leads to tears in the muscle membrane because the muscle membrane bears the force of mu...
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Soul And Body Mental States
1,115 words... ge in some continuing subject. In applying his general hylomorphism to soul-body relations, Aristotle contends that the following general analogy soul: body: : form: matter: : Hermes-shape: bronze If the soul bears the same relation to the body which the shape of a statue bears to its material basis, then we should expect some general features to be common to both; and we should be able to draw some immediate consequences regarding the relationship between soul and body. To begin, some quest...
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Struggle For Survival Human Animals
1,028 wordsAnimal - what comes to your mind when you hear this word? Perhaps something furry, something feathery, something slimy, something with a beak or lots of sharp teeth, - right? I am sure this what comes to almost everyone's mind when they think "Animal." However, do you think of life, a beating heart, and receptiveness to stimulants, feelings, and a struggle for survival amidst tremendous odds? Take a minute to stop and think of this; after all, animals aren't the cuddly stuffed toys that you see ...
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Polar Bear Food Chain
571 wordsSPECIES - Ursus Maritime, Polar Bear, lord of the Arctic. Lives in an area of five million square miles of snow and ice. From Siberia to Alaska and across Canada, Greenland and the Islands north of Norway, he is the master of all living things except man. It lives in the brutal cold, ice, and snow. The temperature can plunge down frequently to - 40 degrees and sometimes even lower but that does not bother the polar bear because of its color-less skin and layer of insulation fat. Its range extend...
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Shroud Of Turin Carbon Dating
2,743 wordsIntroduction: Millions of words have been written about the remarkable cloth preserved at Turin. More recently, most of these writings dealt with one basic question, was it the actual winding sheet of the crucified Christ, bearing an imprint of His body? Or was the whole thing a gigantic hoax? A fantastic forgery of the Middle Ages? Erudite men have lined up on both sides of that compelling query. Some of the facts about the Holy Shroud have something to do with the presence of human blood and o...
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Biography Of Children Writers Jan And Stan Berenstein
352 wordsJan Berenstein was born on July 26, 1923, Pennsylvania. Her husband and partner Stan Berenstein was born on September 29, 1923, also in Pennsylvania. They met at the Philadelphia College of Art. In one of their classes the students were to pick the charcoal drawing they thought was best from all of the ones in the class. Stan picked Jans drawing and, likewise, Jan picked Stans drawing. The two were meant to be. Aside from great taste in art the two also shared a love for the Sunday funnies. The ...
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Animals On The Farm Farm Animals
663 wordsThree problems that occur when living on a farm are taking care of the farm animals, tolerating the wild animals, and keeping everything in order. Although these problems dont seem very big, they are huge chores and are often way too much for one person to handle by him or herself. Usually, just as everything appears to be in order and all hard work has paid off, something breaks or a water line burst and chaos, once again, takes control of my life. Taking care of the farm animals is my biggest ...
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Washington D C Hampton Roads
1,504 wordsThe Merrimac was the first ironclad ship built by the Confederacy. It was built to do battle with the Union Navy. The Confederates were the first to bring forth a warship of this kind. The Union was in control of a navel yard named Gosport. In April of 1862, the South started to advance on this navel base and the North had little choice but to flee. While leaving they tried to destroy whatever they could in a desperate attempt to prevent the Confederacy from gaining more military power with Unio...
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Legalization Of Drugs Prohibition Of Alcohol
1,052 wordsGun Control Americans are faced with an ever-increasing problem of violence. The streets of America are now a war zone. Teenage gangsters murder one another for drug territory, and innocent victims are caught in the crossfire. However, most recent and most abhorrent, is our children are killing one another. They are killing with extreme prejudice. Our children are killing, exhibiting little or no remorse for lives they have taken. We cannot ignore the carnage our society endures due to the crimi...
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Nk Guys Pointed Didnt Think Theyd Team
756 wordsThe Jerks from NK November 14, 1999: What must have been the worst day in racing history, an entire cross country team was lost and found dead 21 miles off course by the Pacific Ocean. Here is the story of what was once thought to have been the best X-Country team ever. NK Runner: (Heading to police car) I swear I didnt think theyd do it! It was just a joke. I mean, who in gods name would go that far of course anyway! ? Im innocent I tells ya. INNOCENT! Police Man: Why did you tell them to run a...
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Legalization Of Drugs Prohibition Of Alcohol
952 wordsGun Control is not Crime Control Americans are faced with an ever-increasing problem of violence. The streets of America are now a war zone. Teenage gangsters murder one another for drug territory, and innocent victims are caught in the crossfire. However, most recent and most abhorrent, is our children are killing one another. They are killing with extreme prejudice. Our children are killing, exhibiting little or no remorse for lives they have taken. We cannot ignore the carnage our society end...
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Efficient Cause God
1,479 wordsGospel, A Matter of Definition Reasonable God-talk presupposes that we agree on the meanings of the terms we use. A foundational term for Christian theology is? gospel? . This term, however, has had multiple referents. This paper explores referents for? gospel? and their implications. Theological authors are often inconsistent in their definition of? gospel? . Donovan uses at least four different referents for this term. He most clearly defines gospel in historical terms: The gospel is, after al...
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Illegal Abortions Fourteenth Amendment
2,778 wordsAbortion must be a legal and attainable procedure for women throughout the United States. Abortion is a subject which easily fits into the themes of CORE 1. Abortion pertains to many issues which are involved in CORE 1. CORE 1 analyzes civil rights as well as equal treatment for women in America. Abortion challenges the civil rights of the mother and the fetus which she bears. To deny abortion is denying the mother certain civil rights, but if the fetus is considered a person, then the rights of...
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Quot Quot Vita Nuova
5,136 words" Mantis, " like so much of Zukofsky's work, both reflects his tuition in the " school of Pound" and demonstrates the extent to which he brings a self-consciousness beyond Pounds to that tradition. Like Pounds " Sestina: Altaforte, " " Mantis" is a sestina, a seven-stanza poem in a form invented by Dantes " million faber, " the Troubadour Arnaut Daniel. The requirements of the form are clearly specified and rigorously bind the poet. There is no c...
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Englewood Cliffs Prentice Young Goodman Brown
1,783 wordsNathaniel Hawthorne's work is typically fraught with symbolism, much of it deriving from his Puritan ancestry; a great-great uncle was actually a judge in the Salem witchcraft trials (Roth 76). Not surprisingly, Hawthorne was obsessed with the twin themes of sin and guilt. Author John Roth notes that A number of recurring thematic patterns and character types appear in Hawthorne's novels and tales. These repetitions show Hawthorne's emphasis on the effects of events on the human heart rather tha...
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Group Of Men Professional Football
1,033 words? The Beginning of the N. F. L? The year was 1920 and pro-football was in a state of confusion. The three main problems that led to all the confusion were, salaries rising, players jumping from team to team and the use of players still enrolled in college. So, on August 20, 1920, a group of men representing the four current pro teams met. When the day was done the American Professional Football Conference was born. The A. P. F. C. was formed to make one governing body over pro football. Then, on...
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Robert Lowell Air Force
1,489 words(Letter of September 1945 to Robert Lowell) [Robert Lowell was at the time a young poet whose first book was about to appear; he and Jarrell had known each other at Kenyon College and often submitted their work to one another and reviewed each others books I enjoyed what you said about my poems and disagreed only with this: (a) In " 2 nd Air Force" the rhetoric " pretty well obliterated the mother and her situation" [this quote is Lowells negative comment]. Its a descriptive ...
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Narrative Poems Light Quot
1,121 wordsRobin Riley Fast For many Native American writers, issues of audience and community are vexed by the question of " What is ethical to tell? " Can tradition be offered as a means to commonality with an eclectic audience? These writers might, for example, honor tradition by acknowledging in their writing the stories that are their sources, and in so doing continue the oral tradition that is the ground of Indian cultural survival. On the other hand, cognizant of the opportunities for misu...
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