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Woodrow Wilson Reader Learns
1,855 words1. The mayor of New Orleans is the first character introduced in this novel. He is informed by a telephone call that Jes Grew is flaring up. "Jes Grew was an anti-plague. "Jes Grew enlivened the host. " Jes Grew begins to be explained to the reader. 2. Jes Grew begins to spread through America. It is very contagious. 3. The Wallflower Order is explained. It is somebody who doesnt dance. Also, the reader learns what the Mutafikah are. Also known as, "art-nappers" 4. In this part, talk of the Brit...
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Hydrothermal Vents Ocean Floor
1,069 wordsSome 7, 500 feet below the oceans surface lies a intriguing and bizarre world unlike any other. Large black volcanoes tower above the ocean floor spouting out poisonous black gas into freezing cold waters and blind crabs roam endlessly in pitch darkness. These intolerable conditions could only mean one thing, hydrothermal vents. These mystical giants of the deep have stumped some of the worlds greatest scientists who have only recently discovered that they may hold the potential key to some of t...
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Hydrothermal Vents Hydrogen Sulfide
1,001 words... e used for medicines. The discovery of hydrothermal vents have presented us with a possible explanation for the origin of life as well as life on other planets. Many of the minerals that develop there could be minded safely and used by humans (Chu). In addition to these, there are many more reasons why vents are, and are potently important to humans. Introduction to Tube Worms Up until recently it was thought that nothing could ever live at hydrothermal vent sites. The vents hostile conditio...
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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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Rocket Boosters External Tank
2,988 wordsThe Tragic Challenger Explosion The Tragic Challenger Explosion Space Travel. It is a sense of national pride for many Americans. If you ask anyone who was alive at the time, they could probably tell you exactly where they were when they heard that Neil Armstrong was the first person to walk on the Moon. But all of the success in our space programs is overshadowed by tragedy. On January 28, 1986, one of the worst disasters in our space programs history occurred. Many people were watching at the ...
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Cyrano De Bergerac Outward Appearance
795 wordsCyrano de Bergerac The plays protagonist, a poet, swordsman, philosopher, playwright, musician, and member of the Cadets of Gascoyne, a company of guards from Southern France. For all his prodigious talents, he is cursed with a ridiculously long nose, which keeps him from revealing his love for his cousin Roxane This is certainly the case with Cyrano de Bergerac. Edmond Rostands historical romance is a masterpiece of heroic storytelling, larger-than-life characters, and impeccable comic timing; ...
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Life On Earth Newly Discovered
881 wordsUntil recently, scientists believed that the sole source of energy responsible for life on earth was the sun. In 1977, a group of scientists researching the theory of plate tectonics, traveled to the floor of the equatorial Pacific Ocean and discovered something that could possibly explain how life began on this planet. From the Galapagos Rifts thermal springs, scientists discovered densely populated communities of several species never before observed. Since that time the Federal Government has...
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