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Leonardo Da Vinci Mona Lisa
1,651 words... Leonardo Da Vinci was born on April 14, 1452 in the town of Vinci near Florence Italy. He kept the name of his town for his last name. He lived during the fifteenth century, a period when the people of Europe were becoming interested in art. This period of time was known as the Renaissance period. Leonardo Da Vinci was very talented. He was a great artist, but he became famous because he was able to do so many other things. He was an architect, a musician, inventor, sculptor, scientist, and ...
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Petrol Kerosene Mineral Turpentine Kerosene Mineral Turpentine Fire
1,221 wordsA fire investigation is a difficult task. The devastation, charred debris, collapsed structures, water soaked ashes, along with the smoke and stench, make an investigation uninviting and seemingly impossible. There are different types of fires; in homes, factories, brush, and in the forest. The best way to investigate a fire would be to use a trained team of personal. Fire marshals and private investigators with their experience of fires along with police officers skills for determining motives ...
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Billion Years Ago Solar System
2,233 words... alvarez's case, and see if it was flawed. This job was turning out to be more fun than I had expected. On my second reading of Alvarez's letter, I found it particularly dubious that the Cretaceous and Eocene extinctions should be excluded. How do we know that asteroids do not hit the Earth periodically? I asked. Maybe our failure to arrive at a theory just meant that we hadn't been clever enough. Not finding something is not the same as proving it is not there. I decided to reserve judgment....
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Hooke Was Born Law Of Elasticity Robert
530 wordsRobert Hooke was and English scientist born in 1635 and died in the year of 1703. Robert Hooke was born in the town of Freshwater, which is located in the Isle of Write. Hooke was born to a minister named John Hooke. Robert received a great deal of education that did not take place in the classroom. He studied with the portraitist Sir Peter Lely (in his youth). He was educated at the University of Oxford. Then after college he was an assistant of Robert Boyle. He made curator of experiments to t...
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Cloning Of Humans Animal And Plant
1,581 wordsIf you pay any attention to the news whatsoever youve probably heard about cloning. Cloning is the most controversial issue today. Quite simply put, cloning is duplicating or making a copy of something, usually a cell or DNA. Scientists for a while now successfully have been testing it out on animals. A clone, however, is only genetically identical to its donor, not physically or behaviorally identical. Cloning is a very touchy topic at the moment because it is a question of ethics and morality....
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1,971 wordsScience is a creature that continues to evolve at an ever-increasing rate. The transformation from tree shrew, to ape, to human far exceeds the time for the transformation time from an analytical machine, to a calculator, to a computer. However, science, in the past, has always remained distant. Science has allowed advances in production, transportation, and even entertainment; but never in history will science have an affect on our lives, as genetic engineering will undoubtedly do. For the last...
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Theory Of Evolution One Of The Most Famous
1,304 words... ions to the Theory of Natural Selection discuss problems that people may have about evolution. Many people have argued that although Darwin's theory includes many transitional species, none of these have been found on fossil record. Darwin's views on this issue are that the geological records are imperfect, as fossilization can only occur under certain conditions, often rare, in nature. For instance, no fossils of monkeys living in tropical rain forests have ever been found, for it is too we...
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Global Warming A Deadly Threat For Human Life
1,510 wordsGlobal warming is one of the major environmental issues facing the world today. Global warming refers to an average increase in the Earth's temperature, which in turn causes changes in climate. An increase in the temperature of the Earths surface may lead to changes in rainfall patterns, a rise in sea level, and a wide range of impacts on plants, wildlife, and humans. One cause for Global Warming is called the Greenhouse Effect. The Greenhouse Effect results from a four step process. First, sunl...
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The Atomic Bomb In World War Ii
1,913 wordsThe atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki marked the end to the world's largest armed conflict. Many debates have surfaced over the ethics of such an attack. The bomb itself caused massive amounts of casualties while the unknown effects of radiation caused many more deaths amongst the survivors of the blast. Despite the ghastly effects of such a weapon, it offered the best choice for a quick and easy defeat of Japan. President Truman, who authorized the use of the atomic bomb, made a wise de...
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The Issue Of Human Cloning
1,635 wordsHuman cloning is a big issue in the science world. When people think of human cloning they think of the positive aspects of the issue. Having a cloned superstar around, being able to have a person reborn after a tragic death and even as far as using a cloned person for spare parts. Cloning could affect the human race. Although there are good reasons why cloning should remain legal, there are just as many reasons why this procedure could have negative affects. Health risks can be very serious whe...
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1,040 wordsIt is not about "what you do", "it is about who you are and who you know." As employees, we have all heard sayings like this before when it comes to the business world. The "power and politic" mindset is a direct result of the type of tug of war experienced for millions of years; from prehistoric times through modern day. Ever since Usa smashed Much in the head with a club back in prehistoric times, politics have been around in the workplace. Politics are a subliminal fight for survival and it a...
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Genetically Modified Foods Third World Countries
1,224 wordsThe process of Genetically Modified (GM) Foods is the way of the future, it is promised to help eliminate world hunger across the world. Genetically modified foods are going to create a healthier, drought resistant crops which do not need any sprayed chemicals, but that is not the case. Genetically Modified Foods, are unsafe because of the many organisms in the food that may affect the body, which has not been identified yet. It is estimated that 2 / 3 of the United States supermarket may contai...
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Ph Of 5 H 2 O
1,124 words... s the fish can no longer breath. It dies and then sinks to the bottom of the lake. [ 4 ] Scientists now see acid, aluminum and shortages of calcium as the three determining factors in the extinction of fish. [ 5 ] As well there is the problem of chlorine. In many parts of the world it is commonly found in the soil. If it enters the fish's environment it can be deadly. It affects many of the fish's organisms and causes it to die. As well it interferes in the photosynthesis process in plants. ...
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Bubonic Plague Infectious Diseases
1,096 wordsThe Bubonic Plague Devastating epidemics and infectious diseases took place in all periods of the mankind's history. The number of the victims at times considerably exceeded losses during military actions. Plague was one of the terrible general illnesses of the classical Middle Ages period. 3 enormous plagues are known in the history. The first is Justinian's plague (sixth century A. D. ), which, having left Egypt, has devastated almost all the countries of the Mediterranean and it was kept abou...
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University Of Michigan Jonas Salk
2,446 wordsJonas Salk From the beginning of mankind, man has looked for cures of illness. Jonas Salk found a cure for one of the worst illnesses in the history of man, polio. Jonas Salk's polio vaccine was a great discovery of his time, and it is still being used today to eradicate polio worldwide. Dr. Salk is also known for other medical discoveries. He was a quiet man who lived a rough childhood. He was not looking for fame, instead, it found him. During the time before the vaccine, many people, mostly p...
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Sir Isaac Newton Robert Hooke
2,697 wordsAs a young boy at King s School in Grantham, England, Isaac Newton was a poor student. His test scores were well below average and were near the bottom of his class. One day as he walked to school a boy academically above him insulted and kicked Isaac. This made Isaac angry, so he challenged this boy to a fight after school. Newton easily won the fight that afternoon, but that was not enough. He had to do something better to avenge himself. He decided he would beat the boy academically as well. ...
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Ancient Greeks Living Organism
2,533 wordsThe Gaia Hypothesis The Gaia Hypothesis is a hypothesis that was developed by James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis in the late 1970 s. James Lovelock is a British scientist, an atmospheric chemist, and also an inventor with an education in human physiology. Lynn Margulis was a microbiologist during the 1970 s at Boston University. She also originated the theory of the eukaryotic cell arising as a result of endo symbiotic cell capture. This theory is the one that gave her the credibility to advance t...
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Life On Mars Washington D C
1,043 wordsIf Mars Life on Mars If life ever evolved on any of the other planets, Mars is the likeliest candidate. After Earth, Mars is the planet with the most hospitable climate in the solar system. So hospitable that it may once have inhabited primitive, bacteria-like life. Outflow channels and other geologic features provide extensive evidence that billions of years ago liquid water flowed on the surface of Mars. Continuing changes is an accomplishment in modern American technology and it gives the wor...
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Human Cloning Research Ban On Human Cloning
2,103 words&# 65279; To Clone or Not to Clone? In February 1997, when Dr. Ian Wilmut and his team of scientists in Scotland astonished the world by announcing that they had successfully cloned a sheep, it sparked an international debate. Since the invention of Dolly, scientists have been faced with the imminent technology to clone human beings. This has raised questions about what it means to be human and what restrictions should be placed on scientific research. Scientists should use methods of cloning of...
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Human Genome Project Restriction Enzymes
1,040 wordsThe? Thread of Life? , is deoxyribonucleic acid, also known as DNA. This molecule which is the bases of life, is spiral shaped and found in the nucleus of cells. DNA has the genetic code for bodies, controls development of embryo? s, and is able to repair damage caused to itself. All DNA molecules have linked units called nucleotides. These nucleotides have sub-units that have 5 carbon sugars that are called deoxyribose. DNA is composed of four bases called adenine, thymine, guanine, and cytosin...
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