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Degrees Celsius Atomic Mass
318 wordsAn American Chemist named Glenn T. Seaborg discovered plutonium in 1941 at Berkeley University in California. The discovery of Plutonium was not announced until 1946 because America was at war with Japan and Germany. Plutonium was named after the planet Pluto, after the planet Neptune in the solar system and Neptune gave its name to Neptunium. Plutonium is a silvery metal that turns yellow when exposed to air. It is warm to the touch due to the releasing radioactive energy from it. The atomic nu...
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Third World Countries Afford To Buy
643 wordsMillions of people all over the planet suffer from poverty and starvation. One very interesting but experimental solution to the problem of world hunger is genetically engineered food. The process involves the crossbreeding of crops in a laboratory with species that are not plant like. Say for example, that a scientist crossed a fish and a potato. The diversity of this gene mixture is supposed to give this hybrid crop special characteristics like resistance to disease, the ability to deal with e...
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Slaughterhouse Five Of Time
1,091 wordsMany writers in history have written science fiction novels and had great success with them, but only a few have been as enduring over time as Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five. Slaughterhouse-Five is a personal novel which draws upon Vonnegut's experiences as a scout in World War Two, his capture and becoming a prisoner of war, and his witnessing of the fire bombing of Dresden in February of 1945 (the greatest man-caused massacre in history). The novel is about the life and times of a World W...
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens Society Has Taught
1,267 wordsIn many ways, to understand the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, the reader must also know a little about the author. Mark Twain was one of the many pen names of Samuel Langhorne Clemens. He was born in 1835 and grew up in the Mississippi River town of Hannibal, Missouri. Twain is considered the father of modern American literature, primarily because of this novel. Numerous schools have banned this novel from their reading lists because they believe it to be racist. The i...
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Twenty First Century Space Shuttle
1,078 words... o Lunar Module had a computer in it, as we all know. According to Gene Kranz in Failure is Not an Option, this computer, the most advanced one that they could possibly fit into the diminutive LM, had an amazing capacity of 36, 864 words of fixed storage and 2, 048 words of erasable storage. (A "word" is a variable amount of computer storage; it's the chunk that a computer is most comfortable working with. The LM's words were 16 bits in the hardware, so that equates to 4, 096 bytes of erasabl...
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East And West Multinational Corporations
1,453 wordsI am a citizen of the world Diogenes I disagree globalisation poses a threat to the system of states. Furthermore, I believe globalisation is the next step in the development of the state. Globalisation is defined as, the reduction of barriers to trans-world contacts. Through it people become more able physically, legally, culturally, and psychologically to engage with each other in one world. With the dissolution of the Soviet Union the end of the Cold War, there has been supremacy of liberal c...
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Developing Nations Birth Rates
772 wordsOn our planet, there are almost six and one half billion people, and more are being born every second. Some estimates say that every second, twenty-eight people are born, while another ten die. This results in a net gain of eighteen people every second of every day, non-stop. Humans, homo sapiens, have been in existence for at least ten thousand years, although it has been disputed exactly how long. Now consider that over 90 percent of our species population growth has occurred in only one perce...
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World War Ii Bombing Of Dresden
1,068 wordsIn Slaughter House Five, Billy Pilgrim finds himself unstuck in time jumping between several periods of his life. Travelling between his experience as a prisoner of war in World War II to his suburban family life in the 1950 s and 1960 s, and his experience as a human specimen in an alien zoo on a distant planet, Billy seemingly has no control over these transitions. REVIEW Vonnegut's writing has always defied traditional classification and Slaughterhouse-Five is a prime example of this as it co...
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Enviable Being Who Made Entire Planet His Home Hemingway
519 wordsHemingway was the best American writer who ever lived. His style has influenced writers around the world. His writing consists of clarity, power, and vision. Hemingway's best-known creation was his own life. He was an enviable being who made the entire planet his home, a war hero who lived and prepared to die by his own will. As a writer, Hemingway made pilgrimages to the battlefields of Italy, the bullrings of Spain, the hunting grounds of Africa, and the deep blue waters of the Gulf Stream. He...
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The Origins Of Hip Hop And Rap
1,099 words... Sucker MCs upended that (Light 63). Unlike the majority of rappers during that time, Run-D. M. C. came from Hollis, an African American middle-class section of Queens, instead of the South Bronx. Run-D. M. C. was made up of Joseph Simmons (a. k. a. Run), Darryl Mc Daniels (a. k. a. D. M. C. ), and Jason Mill (a. k. a. Jam Master Jay) (Light 63). The group redefined rhyming with a style that Jones described saying, Run and D. M. C. shout, basically, but the rhymes go back and forth like beach...
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Thomas Edison Light Bulb
609 wordsHe led no armies into battle, he conquered no countries, and he enslaved no peoples. Nonetheless, he exerted a degree of power the magnitude of which no warrior ever dreamed. His name still commands a respect as sweeping in scope and as World-wide as that of any other mortal a devotion rooted deep in human gratitude and untinged by the bias of race, color, politics, or religion. (Edison's Homepage) Thomas Edison was a man of great intellect who expanded the vast freedom of knowledge that present...
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God Exists Billion People
633 wordsReligion, in general, has been around since human beings have first graced this planet. No one knows exactly how it actually came about, but we know that it is here and still is here today. God may or may not exist. Through the faith of the people He most definitely exists to them. He is praised, worshiped, and glorified by over one billion people through out the world. Those one billion people trust and believe that God exists without having to have physical or logical evidence. They say that t...
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Center Of The Universe Nicolaus Copernicus
877 wordsNicolaus Copernicus, who lived from 1473 until 1543, is known for his idea that the sun is motionless at the center of the universe and that the earth and other planets all revolve around it. This Polish astronomer revolutionized beliefs involving the universe, making his thoughts controversial in his time, but common knowledge in our own (Westman). Before the time of Copernicus, people had extremely different views of the universe. A Greek astronomer named Ptolemy had his own theory of the eart...
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Class Of People Mahatma Gandhi
1,264 wordsTitle Paper 3 Abstract: Present education system focuses over trade, transition, terrorism and technology. It stands miles away from the practicality of human society. Same students of today will hold responsible and decisive chairs of tomorrow. If their roots were not irrigated with that liquid of equality how we can expect them to value everyone equally at least for humanity sake. Such debatable topics have always stood like a corner stone. It is not that social reformers have never thought of...
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Carbon Dioxide Global Warming
783 wordsIndividual proposal on global warming Recently, a series of discoveries have been made by scientists. They found the tablets of ancient summers in Iraq. Those tablets contain the most complete records of climatic terms and weather reports of all known on the Earth. Their age is about 5, 000 years. The discovery has helped to understand and estimate those phenomena which take place today with our planet. It was noticed that during those early years there were several extreme overall of the temper...
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Point Of View Space Exploration
1,935 words... the continual cycle of war and peace until we finally destroy ourselves. Perhaps we are already beginning to see such a pattern emerging. Another argument against space exploration is that it is a terrifying and dangerous objective. Of course this is undoubtedly correct, but it is perhaps none more so than those pre-renaissance explorers faced at the hands of the seas. Facing their fears was absolutely key to the development of the world that followed. Exploration directly resulted in a move...
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Ballistic Missiles Ronald Reagan
1,737 words... a direction of a gas jet may work. However, now designers begin to refuse from the application of gas rudders, replacing them with several additional nozzles or turning the main nozzle. For example, on the American rocket constructed under the project "Avant guide", the engine it is fixed on hinges, and it can be rejected on 5 - 7 O. Really, at the beginning of flight when the density of air is still great, the speed of a rocket is small, therefore rudders badly operate. And there, where the...
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Jews And Christians Billions Of Years
503 wordsGenesis 1: 1? In Creationism Creationism Genesis 1: 1? In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. ? This quote, taken from the Hebrew Bible describes the belief that religious Jews and Christians follow. These two religions think that man, the earth, and the rest of the universe were originally created instead of the theory of evolution. This view on the origin of the earth is unique, because it was the first religion to practice monotheism (belief in one God), and that God alone cr...
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Chaos World State
523 wordsSociety and Chaos When William Butler Yeats wrote, I dont care how orderly the rotation of the planets and the sun may be, I am beginning to think that ultimately everything tends toward chaos. , he was way ahead of his time in predicting the ultimate outcome of society as a whole. The entire world population is, in my opinion, inevitably drifting toward chaos. Although this state of confusion and disorder is not going to happen any time soon, it is bound to happen based on what humanity has evo...
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Felt That Earthmen Colonize Mars Spender
445 wordsThe Martian Chronicles, written by Raymond Bradbury, is a book that discusses s what might happen if Earthmen were to try to colonize Mars. There were four expeditions by Earthmen to Mars. The first three expeditions were destroyed by martians who were jealous or who were afraid of being colonized. The fourth expedition was different. There were no hostile martians or any martians at all. The men sent out a search and discovered that the martians had been wiped out by chicken pox, presumably tra...
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