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World War Ii Bomb Was Dropped
1,132 wordsThe atomic bomb is a powerful, explosive nuclear weapon. It is fueled by the fission of the nuclei of specific amounts of plutonium or uranium, in a chain reaction. The strength of the explosion created by one of these bombs is equal to the strength of an explosion created by thousands of tons of TNT. To detonate one of these bombs, enough mass of plutonium or uranium must be provided to reach what is known as "critical mass. " Critical mass is the mass at which the nuclear reactions going on in...
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Marijuana Should Be Legalized War On Drugs
977 wordsOne of the biggest issues argued about all over congress, the media, and in public resides in our country s War on Drugs. One of the primary focuses of the War on Drugs targets the controversial drug marijuana. Marijuana remains the most widely used illegal drug and stirs up constant debate everywhere. The debates center around if marijuana damages our health badly as once believed, the huge discovery of it countless medicinal purposes, legalization of it, and about the prison sentences given to...
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Eiffel Tower Wrought Iron
794 wordsThe Eiffel Tower The Eiffel tower is the trademark of Paris, France. With the tower being 984 ft, it? s kind of hard not to notice it. The tower has a restaurant, radio and television transmitter and more. Gustave A. Eiffel created the tower to enter it in the worlds fair. It was made with wrought iron and had medium wind resistance. Gustave started in 1889 and completed in 1910. Gustave A. Eiffel created the Eiffel Tower. Eiffel oversaw the construction with such success that in 1866 he founded...
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World War Ii Women And Minorities
976 wordsAfter the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7 th, 1941, the United States immediately shifted into a country which had the task of producing war goods not only for itself, but for the Allied powers namely Britain. During the course of World War II, people s lives revolved around the war effort; the men went to fight, the women ran the plants, and kids set up their scrap yards. The options available to women and minorities grew, though popular attitudes were still oppressive. The American econo...
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Good Or Bad Economic And Social
1,577 wordsFairness and Equality in Ecuador Ecuador is small country in south America. is situated over Per? and beneath Venezuela and Colombia. It? s population is 12. 500. 000. there are different ethnic groups in Ecuador, there is mestizo (mixed Amerindian and Spanish) 55 %, Amerindian 25 %, Spanish 10 %, black 10 % (- 1 -). The predominant religion is Roman Catholicism. 90 % of the population knows how to read and write. Ecuador is also very rich in tradition and it has been blessed with tons of natura...
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Sea Water Nuclear Power
398 wordsThousands of years ago human beings learned to make fire. By collecting and burning wood they were able to warm themselves, cook food, and manufacture primitive tools. Later, the Egyptians discovered the principal of the sail. Even more recent was the invention of the water wheel. All of these activities utilize various forms of energy-biological, chemical, solar, and hydraulic. Energy, the ability to do work, is essential for meeting basic human needs, extending the life expectancy, and providi...
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Close To Daisy Great Gatsby Pleasure
632 wordsHedonism and The Great Gatsby Hedonism means to live only for pleasure. It means not thinking about the consequences of your actions as long as make you happy. It s a total abandon of all responsibilities. This type of lifestyle often has negative results. I mean, look at the hippies, and how their hedonistic society turned out. They are all either in rehab centers or have kids running around with names like Moonbeam and Starchild. But enough hippie bashing let s look at how the Hedonistic way o...
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People And Animals Greenhouse Gases
546 wordsThe Biggest Environmental Problem The environmental problem that must be considered as the biggest, is the Global Warming. Temperature is slowly increasing all over the world. To understand this better it is also important to explain the greenhouse effect. The greenhouse effect in a summary: Sunlight radiates from the sun, through space, to earths atmosphere. The sunlight enters the atmosphere and hits the earth. Some of it turns to heat energy in the form of infrared light. The heat absorbs by ...
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U S Census Punch Cards
775 wordsWhere Herman Hollerith Herman Hollerith Where would our world be today without computers? There would be a lot of things that are different then how they are today. Luckily, for us, a man by the name of Herman Hollerith discovered the basis for what we have today, a computer. Hollerith was born in 1860 in Buffalo, New York. In his childhood, Herman was considered a very smart young boy. He attended the City College of New York when he was only fifteen. He then would move on to the Colombia Schoo...
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Nuclear Weapons Human Beings
494 wordsThe stories and events that unfold in John Herseys, Hiroshima, have certainly been eye-openers for me. As a child in middle school and high school I, we have all heard of the atomic bomb and of course of Hiroshima, but never in as much detail or on such a personal level as these stories. Not even in chemistry or physics class, where I learned some of the specifics as to how the bomb works, had I known of the destructive force of the bomb or its gruesome effects on human beings. As I mentioned be...
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Miles Per Hour Steam Engine
671 wordsIn the beginning of transportation there were mainly horse and buggy, but then they developed a steam engine and they develop canals for steam boats. About five years later the people decided to start railroads because it was easier to lay and could be lain almost anywhere. So I will tell you about the steam engine, how it works, also about the steam locomotion, and I will present a model of an early British train. The old reciprocating steam locomotive is driven by a steam engine. Steam from th...
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Respiratory System 000 Tons
864 wordsMDF is a intermediate product that combines the advantages and favourable properties of hardboard and wood chipboard. It is manufactured from fibres like hardboard, and its high internal bond strength is derived from an added resin binder as used for the manufacturing of wood chipboard. MDF guarantees that the formality will stay the same eg, size colour, density and strength. MDF is the most rapidly growing manufactured wood product in the world, with demand levels climbing between 10 % and 15 ...
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Credited With Inventing Numbers In Parentheses Refer Strings
1,113 wordsINTRODUCTION Piano, stringed keyboard musical instrument, derived from the harpsichord and the clavichord. Also called the pianoforte, it differs from its predecessors principally in the introduction of a hammer-and-lever action that allows the player to modify the intensity of sound by the stronger or weaker touch of the fingers. For this reason the earliest known model (1709) was called a gravicembalo col piano e forte (Italian for harpsichord with soft and loud). It was built by Bartolomeo Cr...
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Leaning Tower One Day
453 wordsThe Leaning Tower of Pisa Built between the years of 1173 and 1350 as a bell tower the Leaning Tower of Pisa on a soft spot in the ground. With it being built only 2 meters above Sea Level the lean became obvious in the year 1178 when the third story was being built. There were three construction stops, one in 1178, one in 1185, and one in 1284, all caused by war. The actual name of the Leaning Tower is TORRE PENDENTE DI PISA, which translates to HANGING TOWER OF PISA. The original architect for...
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Males And Females Boys And Girls
613 wordsLets talk about puberty. What is the first thing that comes into our minds when we say puberty? Well, sex is the most common thought that pops out from the head of many people. But there is much more than sex to puberty. Puberty is a very unique and important evolving stage of all males and females. During puberty, guys and girls go through many changes that we might find funny, scary and weird. During puberty, the level of testosterone and estrogen in both boys and girls increases greatly. The ...
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Pyramid At Giza Blocks
295 wordsBuilding the Old Kingdom pyramids was a gigantic task. The Great Pyramid at Giza contains about 625 million tons of stone. The individual blocks weigh between 2 and 15 tons. To complete this pyramid during Khufus Reign, the blocks must have been produced at a rate of one every two minutes each day for 23 years! Some scholars believe this theory to be untrue, while others argue at its possibility. The stonemasons who quarried, shaped and smoothed the blocks must have formed a highly skilled workf...
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Upper And Lower Burial Chamber
1,005 wordsImagine living in Ancient Egypt about 3, 000 B. C. Imagine a society teeming with life and happiness. Imagine looking around and seeing beautiful buildings, fields of crops, and the great pyramids with their white limestone fa ade blazing in the sun of the midday. It would be quite the experience to have lived back then. The history of Egypt begins with the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt into one united kingdom. The first ruler under this new system was Menes. Thirty other dynasty's would ...
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Solid Waste Waste Disposal
507 wordsRecycling is an ancient practice with many modern applications. It refers to the recovery and reuse of materials from spent products. In recent years recycling has become a major part of environmental policy, mainly because of the increased costs of solid- and hazardous-waste disposal, the scarcity of natural resources, and the growing concern over polluted land, water, and air. There are two types of recycling operations: internal and external. Internal recycling is the reuse in a manufacturing...
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Geoffrey Of Monmouth Original Purpose
1,379 wordsStonehenge is surely Britains greatest national icon, symbolizing mystery, power and endurance. Its original purpose is unclear to us, but some have speculated that it was a temple made for the worship of ancient earth deities. It has been called an astronomical observatory for marking significant events on the prehistoric calendar. Others claim that it was a sacred site for the burial of high-ranking citizens from the societies of long ago. While we cant say with any degree of certainty what it...
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T Rex South Dakota
711 wordsSue is the largest, most complete, and best-preserved Tyrannosaurus rex. Fossil hunter Sue Hendrickson discovered her in 1990, in the badlands of South Dakota. The Field Museum purchased Sue at public auction in 1997 with generous financial support from McDonald s Corporation, Walt Disney World Resort, and private individuals. Sue s scientific name is Tyrannosaurus rex, which is from the Greek and Latin for tyrant lizard king. Sue s is from the late Cretaceous period and is 67 million years. Sue...
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