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Nobel Prize Chemical Warfare
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The name Fritz Haber has long been associated with
the well-known process of synthesizing ammonia
from its elements. While primarily known for
developing a process which ultimately relieved the
world of dependence on Chilean ammonia, this
twentieth century Nobel prize winner was also
involved in the varying fortunes of Germany in
World War I and in the rise to power of the Nazi
regime. Haber was born on December 9, 1868 in
Prussia. He was the son of a prosperous German
chemical merchant and work...
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Greenhouse Gas Emissions Amount Of Carbon Dioxide
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The Global Warming Global Warming The beginning of
the Industrial Revolution brought many new,
exciting inventions into our lives to simplify our
lives and made them more efficient. Such
inventions included cars, household appliances and
plants that burn solid waste, fossil fuels such as
oil, natural gas, and coal, and wood and wood
products for fuel. Before the Industrial
Revolution, human activities caused very few gases
to be released into the atmosphere, but now
scientists say, through the b...
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Standard Of Living Carbon Dioxide
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There is little doubt that the airs carbon dioxide
concentrations have been increasing since the
Industrial Revolution and there are few who do not
attribute this increase to the rise in humanity's
use of fossil fuels. There is also little dispute
that the earth has warmed slightly over the same
period. During our interview Adam told me that he
believes strongly in the dangers of global warming
and feels great animosity towards critics of this
theory. Our conversation had an angry tone as Adam
e...
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Republic Of Gilead Handmaids Tale
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The Handmaid Tale The Handmaids Tale by Margaret
Atwood is a dystopia about a world where
unrealistic things take place. The events in the
novel could never actually take place in our
reality. This is what most people think and
assume, but theyre wrong. Look at the world today
and in the recent past, and there are not only
many situations that have ALMOST become a Gilead,
but places that have been and ARE Gileadean
societies. Were not in Kansas any more, Dorothy!
Even today there are places in t...
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Adolf Hitler Hitler Decided
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Hitler and Germany Adolf Hitler, one of the 20 th
century's most powerful dictators, was born on
April 20, 1889 in Braunau am Inn, Austria-Hungary.
He first became interested in politics after
witnessing a large protest by German workers.
Finding the outbreak of World War I as an
opportunity to show his loyalty to Germany, Hitler
volunteered for the Imperial Army. Later faced
with fierce resistance from the British and French
armies and an economy in ruins, German generals
requested armistice ne...
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War On Germany League Of Nations
462 words
1933 January 30 th Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor
of Germany. February 27 th The Reichstag Fire.
March 12 th First Concentration Camp opened at
Oranienburg outside Berlin. March 23 rd Enabling
Act gives Hitler dictatorial power. April 1 st
Nazi Boycott of Jewish owned shops. May 10 th
Nazis burn books in Germany. In June Nazis open
Dachau concentration camp. July 14 th Nazi party
declared only party in Germany. October 14 th
Germany quits the League of Nations. 1934 June 30
th The " Night ...
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World War Ii Concentration Camp
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Over the past few years I have become increasingly
interested in World War II history, specifically
the Holocaust. It was part of my family history
and I learned all about it from my Grandmother and
in my history classes. My Great Grandfather was at
one time a prisoner of Buchenwald. On my visit to
Europe in the fall of 2000 I was fortunate enough
to be able to visit the Auchweitz Concentration
camp. I was walking through the Concentration camp
by myself, feeling a little rushed because I had
on...
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Concentration Camps Safe Haven
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Holocaust Memory: Germany surrenders
unconditionally May 7, 1945. Victory in Europe Day
is celebrated May 8. For millions, these two dates
meant the end of World War II in Europe and the
end of the Holocaust: the torturous inhumane
treatment that caused death for millions of
people. The effects of this event left non-Aryans,
especially Jews, persecuted and the rest of the
world in wonder of the horror. Those who survived
and those who understood are the voices of the
Holocaust and they tell us n...
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Bunsen Burner Hydrochloric Acid
762 words
The Problem: I am going to find out how
temperature can affect the rate of reaction.
Background information: Factors that change the
rates of reactions are: ? Temperature? an increase
in temperature will make the reaction occur
faster. This happens because the particles of that
substance move faster when it is heated. Because
the particles move faster, they would collide
more, making the reaction rate faster. ?
Concentration? the increase in concentration, the
greater and faster the reaction. Th...
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Order To Save Number Of Jews
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Thomas Schindlers List Schindler's List Thomas
Keneally's Schindler's List is the historical
account of Oskar Schindler and his heroic actions
in the midst of the horrors of World War II
Poland. Schindler's List recounts the life of
Oskar Schindler, and how he comes to Poland in
search of material wealth but leaves having saved
the lives of over 1100 Jews who would most
certainly have perished. The novel focuses on how
Schindler comes to the realization that
concentration and forced labor camps ...
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19 Th Century British Medical
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The British Medical Hypnosis Hypnosis The British
Medical Association and the American Medical
Association has called it a temporary condition of
altered attention in the subject that may be
induced by another person, (Compton's Multimedia
Encyclopedia) but there is still much about
hypnosis that is not understood. Because it
resembles normal sleep, it was studied and was
found that the brain waves of hypnotized people
are more similar to the patterns of deep
relaxation than anything else. Rathe...
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World War Ii Lost Their Lives
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If it were not for Hitler, there would be no
Isreal Hitler was a German political and
government leader and one of the 20 th century's
most powerful dictators, who converted Germany
into a fully militarized society and launched
World War II in 1939. Making anti-Semitism a
keystone of his propaganda and policies, he built
the Nazi Party into a mass movement. For a time he
dominated most of Europe and North Africa. He
caused the slaughter of millions of Jews and other
people whom he considered inf...
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Television Visual Means
234 words
? The ongoing debate about the impact of
television on children? Author unknown? This
generation has grown up without learning
concentration- you don? t develop concentration by
switching television channels. What can teachers
do but pander to the rapid alteration of mood and
attention among their students? ? This view, from
the head of an academic committee on literacy,
blames the television for the unacceptably high
illiteracy rates in the United States today. It is
certainly true that televis...
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Spanish American War U S Troops
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Imperialism and Its Motives Imperialism began to
grow just before the turn of the twentieth
century. During this time America s businesses
were growing and need more markets. The United
States was becoming a world power, and with that
some people felt there came obligations. The
United States economic growth and powerful figured
led to incidents overseas that caused war,
especially the Spanish-American War. The nation
was growing. Industry was doing well. Businesses
were booming. The United Stat...
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J Alfred Prufrock T S Eliot
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Several of Joyce's stories in Dubliners can read
as lamentations. They are showing the frustrated
inability of man to represent meaning by external
means, including written word. When characters in
^Araby^, and ^A Painful Case^ attempt to represent
or signify themselves, other characters or
abstract spiritual entities with or through words,
they not only fail, but end up emotionally ruined.
In T. S. Eliot's^ poem, ^ The Love Song of J.
Alfred Prufrock, ^ the feeling relates to one
overall issue ...
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Style Of Jujitsu Art Of Sumo Techniques
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The Martial Arts of Japan The martial arts have
influenced Japan in many ways. Many of these arts
have been passed down from ancient times and are
still even practiced today. In my report, I will
examine the major Japanese arts and tell how they
have influenced Japan. First, however, I will give
a little background for these arts. The original
word for Japanese martial arts was bututs, or art
of the military. This had more to do with physical
techniques than philosophical and mental. The
physica...
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World War Ii Six Day War
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The Jews are a people with a multitude of
problems. From the Israelite tribes to prosperous
modern day Israel, bigotry towards the Jews has
been greatly evident. The Jewish race has acted as
the scapegoat for many crisis throughout history
including the black plague which swept across
Europe during the 14 th century. The establishment
of Israel was the climax of what the Jewish people
had been striving to obtain for centuries. This,
however, led to many major conflicts between
Israel and the Ara...
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People Of Sighet Numerous Chances Germans
437 words
In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, it talks about
the holocaust and what it was like being in it.
The Germans were trying to make the German race
the supreme race. To do this they were going to
kill off everyone that wasn? t a German. If you
were Jewish or something other than German, you
would have been sent to a concentration camp and
segregated by men and women. If you weren? t
strong enough you were sent to the crematory to be
cremated. If you were strong enough you were sent
to work at a lab...
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Peptide Bonds Test Tube
606 words
This lab used many test to determine which
functional groups were present in certain
substance. The Benedicts test was used to identify
reducing sugars (glucose and fructose) based on
their ability to reduce the Caprice ions to
cuprous oxide at high pH. The Cuprous oxide is
reddish orange in color when shown to be at high
levels by the test, and greenish when at low
levels. In both the onion juice and glucose
solution the reducing sugar levels were very high,
because the test came back dark oran...
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World War 2 Polish Jews
780 words
Death seemed to guard all exits. This motto
defined the fate of the millions of Europeans
between 1941 and 1945. As the Nazi Germany gained
control of one country after another in World War
2, the killing of Jews, Gypsies, Slaves, Poles,
Homosexuals, and more began. The Nazi s built
concentration camps to enforce unspeakable
treatment and murder upon the Europeans. As World
War 2 began, Hitler ordered to kill
institutionalized, handicapped patients that were
labeled incurable. They were taken to...
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