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Number Of Buildings Million Population Earthquake
785 wordsAn earthquake struck on the 17 th January at 5: 46 am in the south-central part of Japan. This earthquake was 7. 2 on the richter scale and caused mass destruction. It was called The Great Hanshin Earthquake. Its focus was only 30 km below ground. Shock waves travelled to the surface and splintered buildings, roads and mains supplies of gas water and electricity. The Japanese were in a hard to live state. This also hit Osaka and Kyoto. Kobe has a 1. 5 million population its self. All children ex...
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Sylvia Pursuit In Relation To Henrik Hedda Gabler
1,223 wordsIn comparing Sylvia Plath's poem Pursuit to Henrik Ibsen's play Hedda Gabler, one can see many similarities between their themes of emotional distress and the destructive tendencies of unstoppable internal demons. Throughout Pursuit, a panther hunts Plath, the panther symbolizing an internal feeling that is literally trapping and killing her. In the same way, Hedda's own emotions and actions have ensnared her, and she feels that her only way of escape is through death. My poem, Finale closely im...
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Hydrogen And Oxygen Combustion Engines
1,015 wordsHard to believe that the simplest atom in the universe is used in the making of the most destructive weapon known to man isnt it? Well so is the fact that it will soon (we hope) become the replacement for petroleum-based fuels, and just about every other form of fuel too. One electron orbiting one proton is all that hydrogen is, and it is mankind's future. It is easy to manufacture, (although the government says otherwise, ) safe and easy to store, and has only one by-product water. The way that...
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Money Spent Common Man
2,161 words12 / 9 / 05 - I hope readers are entertained by this project. Still, ... although it may be hard to take the authors (including the speaker) seriously (as the authors knew would happen), I ( I cannot speak for all the author (s) ) ask the reader to extract something, something beyond a disinterested countenance or an amused smirk. The project was not a total joke (the first chapter was not at all a joke). It involved actual concern, actual thought. The matter of the project (whatever it may be) ...
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Period Of Time Dean Moriarty
1,047 wordsWikipedia encyclopedia suggests the word experience may refer (somewhat ambiguously) both to mentally unprocessed immediately-perceived events as well as to the purported wisdom gained in subsequent reflection on those events or interpretation of them. Most wisdom-experience accumulates over a period of time, though one can also experience (and gain general wisdom-experience from) a single specific momentary event. In novels On the Road and Saint Maybe, by Jack Kerouac and Anne Tyler, the author...
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Of Jimmy Cross In The Things They Carried
570 wordsTim O'Brien's story, "The Things They Carried, " is open ending. Thus, the ending becomes a new beginning. Jimmy Cross undergoes a transformation, in which he matures from infantry to a lieutenant. Tim O'Brien provides his audience with a very descriptive image of both the physical and mental "things" the characters in the story carried. He gives the reader insight as to how the characters are physically and mentally dealing with the turmoil of the war. However, in the end of the story - Jimmy C...
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September 11 2001 Twin Towers
672 wordsOn September 11, 2001, Americas World Trade Centers was attacked by a faceless enemy, and the people of America stood in shock and mourning. On lookers watched in horror and disbelief, struggling to comprehend what was happening. But at the time there was no answer. All over the country people turned on their televisions and watched as another Bowing 767 crashed into the second tower. The question thats in the back of my head is why did the building collapse after the planes crashed into the tow...
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The Industrial Revolution In England
1,405 wordsIn the years preceding 1750 England, although a wealthy nation still suffered from poverty and a poor economy. Despite the fact that there were manufacturers, not enough produce could be made, and so England remained poverty stricken. The 2 main areas of productivity were agriculture and woollen textiles, the larger earner of these two being wool. The manufacture of woollen cloth had been the main industry since the middle ages, when England was one of the worlds greatest producers of raw wool. ...
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Oliver Describes Consonant Sounds Stanza
774 wordsThe poem, In Blackwater Woods, by Mary Oliver describes the beauty of a forest destroyed by fires. She talks about the features of the land, how they were destroyed, and the emotional loss that she still carries since it burned. In her first stanza, Look, the trees are turning their own bodies into pillars of light, describes how the fire had climbed up the trees and made them look like burning pillars. Oliver uses the verb look to grab the readers attention right away and emphasize how importan...
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Passive Resistance Prime Minister
1,337 wordsGandhi was an important man in India, who influenced much of the country. He was born in Western India in 1869 and was raised Hindu. At age thirteen, Gandhi entered his arranged marriage and a few years later went to attend law school in London. In 1893, Gandhi became an attorney in South Africa, where he first practiced passive resistance against the British law enforcers who oppressed the Indian race. In 1915 after Gandhi had made Indians lives better in South Africa, he went back to India to ...
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Carbon Dioxide Indigenous Tribes
1,345 words... ple who have been using them for years in the rainforest. Another major problem is that shamans, or medicine men, who have hundreds of ingredients to plant properties are very elder and if that person dies without passing his knowledge to younger generations everything he knows is lost. As if the extinction of plants and animals were not enough, deforestation has been the cause of many indigenous tribes living in the rainforest to be wiped out. From over 6 million indigenous people inhabitin...
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Time Of Year Iambic Pentameter
1,413 wordsMost of the 127 sonnets Shakespeare wrote to one of his close male friends are united by the theme of the overwhelming, destructive power of time, and the counterbalancing power of love and poetry to create and preserve beauty. Sonnet 73 is no different, but it does present an intriguing twist on this theme. Most of these sonnets address the youth and beauty of his male friend, as well as poetry's power to immortalize them, but number 73 addresses the author's own mortality and the friend's love...
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Leadership Skills Good Leader
969 wordsA strong leader is not necessarily a good one. In a group, there are always people who prove to have better leadership skills then others. The strongest of these people can often influence the weaker people into following them. However, the strongest person is not necessarily the best leader as it is proven in William Golding's novel, The Lord of the Flies. Although Ralph is the weaker person, he is still able to demonstrate a better understanding of people than Jack who is stronger. Ralph demon...
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Largest Retailer Selling Largest Retailer Selling Fast Coffee
821 wordsIt is a well-known fact that McDonalds nowadays is the largest retailer selling fast-food. But it is necessary to admit that even such big company has complaints concerning service. The loudest case was connected with coffee temperature. Stella Liebeck became an unwilling centre of national and international media. Stella was injured by the company, because they preferred to ignore the opportunity to solve the problem. Coffee has to be served hot, but coffee served to Liebeck was really scalding...
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Code Of Hammurabi Western Civilization
772 wordsWestern Civilization I think that it is difficult to undervalue the importance of the codes of Hammurabi and Hebrew laws, Covenant Codes for the modern studies of society and civilization of that period. These monuments give a picture of laws and order of Mesopotamian's, Egyptians, Hebrews; these documents testify the level of ethics and morality which served as one of the chief foundations of the social structure in the ancient times of Hammurabi and Moses. The moral theme was paid much attenti...
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Cruel And Unusual Support The Death Penalty
1,520 wordsTug of War A Deep Look Into The Controversy Surrounding The Death Penalty Is the death penalty fair? Is it humane? Does it deter crime? The answers to these questions vary depending on who answers them. The issue of capital punishment raises many debates. These same questions troubled Americans just as much in the day of the Salem witch trials as now in the say of Timothy McVeigh. During the time of the Salem witchcraft trials they had the same problem as present society faces. Twenty innocent p...
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Environmental Protection Agency Ozone Depletion
1,137 wordsThe ozone layer diminishes more each year. As the area of polar ozone depletion (commonly called the ozone hole) gets larger, additional ultraviolet rays are allowed to pass through. These rays cause cancer, cataracts, and lowered immunity to diseases. 1 What causes the depletion of the ozone layer? In 1970, Crutzen first showed that nitrogen oxides produced by decaying nitrous oxide from soil-borne microbes react catalytically with ozone hastening its depletion. His findings started research on...
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Enlarged Pores Acne Scars Skin
937 wordsBY: Dermabrasion DERMABRASION BY: C. B Dermabrasion is a surgical procedure using high speed rotating devices such as the wire brush, glass paper disk, diamond abrasion or the small spinning wheel with a roughened surface, similar to fine-grained sandpaper. These techniques are all run along the skin s surface abrading and scouring the upper layers of the epidermis. This then speeds up the cell renewal process while softening sharp edges and bumps along the skin. A similar method to Dermabrasion...
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Fossil Fuels Carbon Dioxide
966 wordsJustin Greenwood May 15, 2001 Thinking Like a Mountain Environmental Issues Project The Destruction of Our Fragile Planet and the Possibility of Reform It is widely accepted that humans have been a major cause of environmental problems since we began creating our cities and especially since the Industrial Revolution of the 20 th century. All aspects of the Earth have been affected by humans desire to conquer and dominate the planet. Our impact has gone beyond pollution to altering the functionin...
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Barn Father Sarty Story
306 wordsIn William Faulkner? s? Barn Burning, ? the main character is Colonel Sartorius Snopes, or? Sarty? for short. This young boy is torn between loyalty to his father and morality, and this story deals with that struggle. Sarty is a? round? character, changing through the story as he moves from? sticking to his own blood? to thinking more of himself and his own welfare. At first he is extremely loyal to his father, but as the paternal figure digs a deeper and deeper hole for himself and his family, ...
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