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Spoke Too Freely Women Who Gossiped Crime
761 wordsA notable time during the late middle ages was when Queen Elizabeth was in power, from 1558 - 1603. She was a dictating, powerful, and cruel monarch. She also believed in extreme punishment for crime, in order to run a peaceful country. The death penalty could be prescribed for any offense, even some as minor theft, or highway robbery. During this time, a person of higher social standing could accuse a peasant of a crime without any evidence. Chances are the peasant would be tortured until they ...
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Coral Reefs Indian Ocean
1,294 words(Family: Chaetodontidae) THE INDICATOR HYPOTHESIS "Coral feeding Butterflyfishes respond to declines in coral quality or abundance by behavioral and spatial adjustments that can be easily and rapidly observed. " (Crosby & Reese 1996) A fundamental question that one asks when using Chaetodontidae, or for that reason any species as bio monitors is: why use an organism when sophisticated machines are available to detect very small quantities of pollution in short space and time? One might think tha...
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Hold Their Breath Underwater Hockey Water
462 wordsUnderwater hockey was created in the mid-twentieth century, by those that found ice, street and field hockey all to unexciting. It seemed that the only things left unchallenged in hockey were air and water. Thus, this game removed the first, and added the latter. Underwater hockey is held at the bottom of a swimming pool 2 - 4 meters deep. The 6 players in the water must hold their breath while playing, but there are 4 substitutes that may be used freely. Players wear masks, fins, snorkels, prot...
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Dolphins Current Behavior Dolphins Are Self Aware Martin Dolphin
1,456 wordsThe voice of the dolphin in the air is like that of the human in that they can pronounce vowels and combinations of vowels, but have difficulties with the consonants (Aristotle internet). The communication between dolphins can only be described scientifically and historically. The true nature of how dolphins communicate with one another and possibly with other species is something only known to the dolphin. It is an evolving, complex mystery we are only now starting to grasp the significance of....
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Scuba Diving Swimming Pool
1,140 wordsScuba diving is a sport in which you can lose yourself to the beauty of the underwater world and escape gravity for a short time. You can wander among kelp forests or swim with sleek noble sharks. You can find a fortune in Spanish ducats or lose yourself in the beauty of the underwater realm. Some may say though that diving is an extreme sport and that it is too risky for anyone, it's just for the wild hooligans. Scuba Diving is a safe and enjoyable hobby despite the small risk involved. Haven't...
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Scuba Diving Psychological Stress
1,084 words... they do not recognize the symptoms of stress before they culminate into full blown panic ("High Anxiety"). Stress comes in two major forms one being physical stress and the other psychological stress. Physical stress isn't a tough one to detect, it is simply when you are exerting yourself at a higher level, when you are in harsh conditions such as being in cold water, being sick, or any number of things that affect you physically. Psychological stress on the other hand is not so easy to dete...
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2,531 wordsWouldnt it be fun to ride a torpedo, or drive a nuclear reactor around underwater? In this research paper I am going to illustrate the ingenious submarine. The submarine is one of the most important strategic and tactical weapons systems of the 20 th Century, and this importance will increase in the 21 st Century. The tiny, leaking, creaking, and unsafe submarine boats of the 1890 s, displacing under two hundred tons and carrying a handful of men and a few torpedoes have grown into massive, soph...
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Hours A Day Six Months
1,737 wordsIn the oceans today there are many different types of animals. This includes over 27, 000 different types of bony fish along with thousands of other types of various animals. But would you have thought that an animal that is part of the weasel family lives in the ocean alongside all these other animals? Well it is true. The sea otter is this animal and has adapted well to an oceanic life. The sea otter has differences between the male and female. As with following with nature the male of the two...
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Million Years Ago Long Period Of Time
1,219 wordsFrom Water to Land (Revision) Abstract: The early tetrapods were the first vertebrates to actually walk the solid earth. They began their conquest of land in the Paleozoic era around 360 million years ago. The question many paleontologists have been asking for a long period of time is whether the anatomy for locomotion on land was developed in water for swimming purposes, or if it was adapted after the creatures became terrestrial. Recent findings of fossils indicate that the transformations of ...
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Scuba Diving Heat Loss
1,163 words... sk is needed because the human eye cannot focus without any air space in front of it. A mask provides the air space. Without the mask, you can see large objects, but they will be blurred and indistinct because your eyes cannot bring the rays of light into sharp focus. Only by wearing a mask can you see sharply (Ascher, 9). Light travels at a different speed in water than in air. When light enters the air in your mask from the water, the change in speed causes its angle of travel to shift sli...
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Lean Body Mass Anabolic Steroids
2,223 words... utrition, and compliance. Throughout the entire study, weekly training hours and regimens between groups in the three experiments remained comparable. The same was true for nutritional intake. Urinalysis revealed compliance within the groups: Urine samples from the AAS users contained steroid metabolites, and samples of the CO group did not. Discussion AAS-induced changes. Experienced strength athletes who use a self-composed course of AAS for 8 weeks exhibited increased total body weight an...
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Molten Rock Degrees F
715 wordsMy Journey to Iceland During my journey to Iceland, I have seen a natural event that made that journey very important to me. In southeastern Iceland, some 4, 500 feet above sea level, lies Vatnajokull -- the largest temperate-zone ice cap in Europe. Vatnajokull, 3, 200 frozen square miles overlying Iceland's most active volcanic region, sits, as does the rest of the island, above a mantle plume -- a column of hot rock that rises from the depths of Earth and feeds volcanoes with lava. Although it...
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Feet Per Second Doesn T
2,416 wordsNot many people know about a sport called bow fishing. When people think of bow fishing, they think that you must lose a lot of arrows because the archer has no way of retrieving his or her arrow after launching it off its rest. This is a very big misconception in a very misunderstood and mysterious sport. As most people don? t understand about bow fishing, then don? t know that most bow fisherman rely on the darkness of night to cover them as the approach their prey. A specially rigged bow fish...
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Great Barrier Reef National Cancer Institute
1,959 wordsThe most beautiful and well engrossed houses in the whole world belong to a huge variety of tropical fish. These houses are underwater vertebrates that have caught the attention of many human beings for a spectacular amount of time. Coral reefs are not only pretty, actually quite beautiful, and they present a great deal of human interest; but, they also render an enormous amount of shelter for an abundant number of different fish. Corals, one of the largest vertebrates in the world, also have a ...
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One Of The First Jacques Cousteau World
560 wordsJacques-Yves Cousteau was born in St. Andre de Cubazac, France in 1910. The son of a lawyer, Jacques was warned by doctors to avoid strenuous activities due to chronic enteritis and anemia. This did not affect his sense for adventure. At age 11, he built a foot working model of a two hundred ton marine crane. At age 13, he made a battery powered automobile. In 1930, at the age of twenty, Jacques entered the French Naval Academy. Form 1933 to 1935 he served in the Far East aboard the cruiser Prim...
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Rippling Waves Dive Boat Back
887 wordsBeauty, Tranquility, and having fun are all things that pull me back underwater every summer. Being deep underwater can calm my soul, letting me enjoy the wonderful scenes that only can be found under the rippling waves of the sea. About two years ago; we were in the keys on the southern tip on Florida, and had just boarded a fairly homely dive boat for my first ocean dive ever. My Father and I had been planning this trip for months, and today was the day it would happen. As the sound of the mot...
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One Of The Greatest U Boats
939 wordsEnglish 1 A 11 / 24 / 99 Submarines: The Underwater War The submarine is one of the greatest naval inventions in the history of war. This innovation allows men to dive to certain depths in the open seas at will. Submarines were equipped with weapons and communication devices. The submarine could stay at sea for months at a time and only required a few men to operate. They were small, quick, and hard to locate by larger ships. The submarine was thought to be the perfect naval vessel. The concept ...
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Baker Herman Bays Whale Watching Industry Whales
697 wordsHumpback Marine Mammals 1. Introduction Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) annually migrate from their summer feeding grounds off southeast Alaska to winter in waters off the Hawaiian Islands, Baja California Sur, Mexico and northern Japan (Baker and Darling). The number of humpback whales in the Hawaiian waters generally peaks from mid-February through mid-March (Baker &# 038; Herman, 1984). Calving and breeding is an important function of humpback whales while wintering at lower latitude...
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Sexual Maturity Entire Body
653 wordsCHAMBERED NAUTILUS (NAUTILUS POMPILIUS) STEVEN HEGARTY CHAMBERED NAUTILUS L. KOCH MARINE SCIENCE 12 / 21 / 99 Hegarty 1 The chambered nautilus is a cephalopod, which also includes squid, octopus, and cuttlefish, which belongs to mollusca. There are several species of the nautilus, which include Allonautilus scrobiculate, Nautilus belauensis, Nautilus macromphalus, Nautilus pompilius, Nautilus reports, and Nautilus stenomphalus. The nautilus is found in only a 15 degree band near the equator in t...
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U S Navy Ballistic Missile
2,579 wordsSUBMARINE ROLES AND MISSIONS The fundamental changes in the U. S. Submarine Force since the end of the Cold War involve major shifts in submarine warfighting concepts and doctrine, from the deterrence of global war to the support of U. S. national interests in regional crises and conflicts; from a primary Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) orientation against nuclear powered submarines to taking full advantage of the modern submarines multi-mission capabilities; from weapon loadout's of primarily MK 4...
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