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Using Irradiation To Make Food Safer For Consumers
1,173 words... the product and not in all directions, the electron beam is more efficient. A ten kilowatt beam generator is as powerful as about one-million curies from a cobalt- 60 source (Murano 14 - 15). The electron accelerators produce from five to ten million electron volts and ten to fifty kilowatts (Murano 15 - 16). The electron beam efficiency can be increased by aiming the beam at a metal target, usually tungsten or tantalum. This produces Bremsstrahlung x-rays. This type of x-ray can penetrate a...
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Time Of Year Big Brothers
1,146 wordsMost people only know what farms are like by what they see on television or as they watch from the highway, passing by to visit a grandparent. I know farm life first-hand by that irritating dust on the back of my neck and barley beards in my hair. I know it by that crunch on my feet, those wheat stubs trying desperately to poke through the soles in my tennis shoes. I have been there to climb inside those bins to make an attempt to sweep up every kernel of corn from the cracks and crevasses made ...
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000 Years Ago Hunting And Gathering
879 wordsArchaeology is a similar job to anthropology. Both study the various different cultures through out the world. The major difference is where their information is gathered from. Anthropologist get most of their info from living people and their skeletal remains. Where as an archaeologist finds the artifacts left behind. They gather these artifacts by excavation and are able to tell us a lot about our ancestors. Certain artifacts or sites can tell us all sorts of things such as the type of governm...
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Green Revolution Chemical Fertilizers
1,179 wordsWith the rapid growth of our global population pouring into the next millennium, we will witness an ever-growing hunger rate around the world. The Green Revolution which already sprouted in the early part of the century, only needs to add a bit more momentum and we will see a bright future for the human race, a future without hunger and starvation- hopefully. Citizens believe that the miracle seeds of the Green Revolution will enhance grain yields and therefore are a key to ending world hunger. ...
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Railroad Companies Agricultural Depression
1,018 wordsThe late 19 th century can be described as a time of political prosperity in America. The majority of citizens were living successfully and there was peace throughout the country, but between the years of 1880 and 1900, many farmers faced problems that they saw as threats to their way of life. There was a dramatic drop in the profits that farmers accumulated from the harvesting of their crops, such as cotton, and with the improvements in transportation, foreign competition was spreading througho...
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Third World Countries State Of Georgia
785 wordsEnergy With the development of the global economy the flow of international product between the countries intensified. When going to a typical supermarket and buying food, you are likely to buy more than 30 % of the international products and in 5 years you are likely to buy over 40 % of foods grown abroad (Piccinini, 120). In the following essay I am going to speak about the research I have conducted with respect to the international foods originating in the third world countries. The first thi...
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Time Of Year Big Brothers
1,163 wordsMost people only know what farms are like by what they see on television or as they watch from the highway, passing by to visit a grandparent. I know farm life first-hand by that irritating dust on the back of my neck and barley beards in my hair. I know it by that crunch on my feet, those wheat stubs trying desperately to poke through the soles in my tennis shoes. I have been there to climb inside those bins to make an attempt to sweep up every kernel of corn from the cracks and crevasses made ...
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Supply And Demand Demand And Supply
1,283 wordsExplain what is meant by the term an economic model and outline a model of price and output determination in a free market. Examine the effect of a change in real disposable income on equilibrium price and output. An economic model or theory is a simplified explanation and analysis of economic behaviour. It allows us to predict, and therefore intervene, if we do not like the outcome of a possible chain of events. Theories and models are mainly derived from past responses to similar stimuli or fr...
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Folic Acid Neural Tube
640 wordsFOLIC ACID Folic acid is the most common term for water-soluble B-vitamin that can be found naturally as well as in vitamin pills. Found naturally, folic acid is actually referred to as folate, while folic acid refers to the synthetic form of the vitamin. (For reasons of simplification, this paper will use the two terms interchangeably. ) The functions of folic acid in our diet are mostly for prevention. Probably the most commonly known function of folic acid is in the prevention of neural tube ...
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Free Trade Agreement Latin America
575 wordsChile has developed considerably over the past 50 years. Birth rates have halved and death rates have reduced from 14 per 1000 to 6 out of every thousand people in 1997. Infant Mortality has plummeted form 126 to 13 deaths out of every 1000 live births under I year old. Life expectancy for males has increased by 20 years from 52 to 72 years old and for females it has increased by 22 years from 56 to 78 years old. The population has become urbanized and the total percentage of people living in ci...
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Iron Ore Human Resources
786 wordsGeographic Power of Countries Every country has geographic power, although some countries have more than others. Countries with more power often have a valuable supply of natural resources and human resources. The attitude of the people in the country and the problems that the country is faced with are also factors in determining its geographic power. Poor attitudes and many problems may, however, be altered when the human or natural resources are improved. Therefore, these resources are the mos...
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One Of The Men Truman Capote
1,175 wordsIn Cold Blood I didnt want to harm the man. I thought he was a very nice gentleman. Soft-spoken. I thought so right up to the moment I cut his throat. (p. 110) These are the words spoken by Perry Smith, one of the men who on November the 15 th, 1959 killed the four members of the Clutter household. In Cold Blood, a nonfiction novel by Truman Capote tells just what happened on the days before and after the murder of the Clutters. Right up until the time the two murderers, Perry Smith and Dick Hic...
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Online Source Web Belaire Ohio Dead
731 wordsAt The Executed Murderers Grave Why should we do this? What good is it to us? Above all, how can we do such a thing? How can it possibly be done? Freud I. My name is James A. Wright, and I was born Twenty-five miles from this infected grave, In Martins Ferry, Ohio, where one slave To Hazel-Atlas Glass became my father. He tried to teach me kindness. I return Only in memory now, aloof, unhurried, To dead Ohio, where I might lie buried, Had I not run away before my time. Ohio caught George Doty. C...
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Yom Kippur Rosh Hashanah
1,034 wordsFood of the Chosen In the time of Jesus, food often had religious and historical significance. Even today food still has these significances to the Jews. Historical Significance The main resource of historical information about the early life of Jews is the Bible. Jewish scribes began recording their histories while in Babylon. These histories are the Old Testament. Many types of food are mentioned in the Bible. For example, the story of Cain, Abel, and Adam; Where Abel made Adam his favorite go...
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Province Has Its Own Special Chungchongnam Do Province Drinking
1,482 wordsKorean traditional liquor is usually made of various kinds of flowers, herbs, grains and fruits. The recipe differs from one region and family to another. Handed down from one generation to the next, Korean liquor has many uses, from meals to memorial services and is also used in receiving important quests. Some traditional liquors have outstanding cultural significance and have been officially designed as cultural properties by the Korean government. Koreas traditional liquor and cakes exhibit ...
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Iron Ore Grand Duke
1,024 wordsLocation Luxembourg is located Luxembourg Luxembourg Location Luxembourg is located in Europe and is bordered by Belgium, Germany and France. On a map, it is located at 50 N latitude and 6 E longitude. Luxembourg is very small. It is only 998 square miles, which is roughly the size of Orange County, California. All the country is inhabited, with most people living in the southern part. The Flag The flag of Luxembourg was adopted in 1845. The colors come from the Coat of Arms of Luxembourg and ar...
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End Of The Story Gender Equality
886 wordsFreeman s Mother The revolt of Mother is an interesting short story by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, who lived, in the late nineteenth century. This short story presents important aspects of Freeman life. Throughout this story she express the miserable life that her mother was having with her father and what she did to claim for her rights; also, what changes her father did toward her mother. Freemans mother had a miserable life with her husband. It may be interesting to know that Freemans father, Wa...
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Frederick Douglass Man Quot
1,382 wordsJoanne V. Gabbin In the poignant statements of " Old Lem, " he captures the bitter resentment of a man grown weary of mob violence. [ With stark simplicity devoid of false sentimentality, Lem tells the story of his buddy, " Six foot of man/Muscled up perfect/Game to the heart, " who defied the traditions of caste and " spoke out of turn at the commissary... " For his " insolence" he is murdered. Much of the power of the poem emanates from the complex and f...
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Omri Daily Digest Source Omri Daily Digest 1997
540 wordsPolitical and Economic Changes In Bulgaria Over the course of the past two months, January and February 1997, Bulgaria has undergone some sweeping political changes and its economy has deteriorated into further collapse. The following is an attempt to describe the events which took place in Bulgaria in January and February of 1997. This is somewhat of a difficult task given the current rate of political, economical and social changes which are occurring in Bulgaria. What follows is an account of...
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Men And Women Oscar Romero
864 words24 th Romero Oscar Romero 24 th March (killed 1980) Among those commemorated in new statues on the west front of Westminster Abbey I am bound, as a pastor, by divine command to give my life for those whom I love, and that is all Salvadoreans, even those who are going to kill me. These words appeared in a newspaper just two weeks before Archbishop Romero was shot while celebrating Holy Communion in the hospital which had been his home since his enthronement in 1977. Quiet, unassuming, conservativ...
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