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Outer Ear Middle Ear
691 words
The Ear is one of the five sense organs. It allows
us to hear. Hearing is one of our most important
senses. Speech development depends on hearing.
Without hearing, our speech would not sound right.
Children learn to talk by copying what other
people say. Hearing is not a simple process.
Movement causes sounds, so there are lots of
things to hear. Sounds travel in waves. The waves
enter the ear, and the brain interprets the sound
signals as sounds. Surprisingly, the ear also
helps us balance. The...
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Chief Salvager Hesely Face
593 words
In the heart of the night of Boise the old city
artfully lighted. The palazzo rising from the dark
dreary desolate piazza floodlit, intensely
medieval with its arched windows and battlements
like a jack-o-lanterns teeth. The bell tower
soaring into the black sky. The bats will chase
mosquitoes across the clocks glowing face until
dawn awakes the shivers by the bell. A Glisten of
flicking light showers over a chief investigator
Renaldo Salvager. His raincoat black against the
marble statues fixed...
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Million Years Ago Radio And Television
1,529 words
Media nowadays is considered a window for learning
and is also considered to be our main window to
the world. Media has evolved from simple text in
papers, to voices in radios, to voices with
pictures in television and movies, to the very
broad and information packed Internet. But as we
all know, media has changed and evolved since
then. Media then was primarily used to deliver
news across the town and to beef up the people
with the information they need for their everyday
life. Then, newspaper ...
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Cases Of Rape Life Of The Mother
993 words
I. A debate is going on in our country today that
is more debatable than any other of which I know.
It is the issue of abortion. There are many
positions regarding this procedure, its morality,
and the circumstances and way in which it should
be performed. A. Some say that every woman has the
right to terminate her pregnancy at any time for
any reason because an unwanted pregnancy is an
"invasion of the womans rights 1. These people
believe that this "useful" life must be
distinguished from othe...
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Hundred Years Ago Great Grandfather
552 words
The book Holes is about kids that do bad things
and they get send to a detention center, Camp
Green Lake. Camp Green Lake was once a very large
lake, the largest lake in Texas. That was over a
hundred years ago. Now its just a flat dry land.
During the summer the temperature hovers around
ninety-five degrees. Stanley Yelnats was sent to
Camp Green Lake when he stole shoes. Everyone in
Stanley's family blamed it on his
no-good-dirty-rotten-pig- stealing- great-
great-grandfather when every someth...
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Amount Of Light Fiber Optics
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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About dB But
Were Afraid to Ask Telecommunications systems used
electrical signals and copper wire to transmit
voice messages long before lasers, lightwave's and
fiber optic cable. To describe and measure power
levels in electrical systems, telecommunication
engineers used the standard unit of decibels to
express gain or loss and relative power levels.
Meanwhile, scientists working with fiber optic
signals were using units of milli watts (mW) to
determine the a...
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Figure 2 Figure 4
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... tests, including vibration, impact, and fiber
retention, were performed to evaluate the strength
of the bonds between the glass solder and the
optical fibers and the substrate. For the fiber
retention tests, standard singlemode fibers were
secured to silica substrates with a small (- 2 mm
diameter) bead of glass solder using the process
described above. Tensile forces were then applied
to the fiber leads by attaching weights of known
mass. All five samples in this study were able to
support ...
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Air Pressure Middle Ear
444 words
Air is composed of molecules. Air is matter. It
has mass and takes up space. Air is composed of
different gases such as nitrogen, oxygen, carbon
dioxide, water vapor, and other gases. Air
molecules are in constant motion. As they move,
they come in contact with surfaces. Air molecules
push and press on the surfaces they contact. The
amount of force per unit area that air molecules
exert on a surface is called air pressure. (What
is Air Pressure 6) Air pressure is caused by all
of the air molecul...
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Infinite Regress God Exists
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Aquinas second proof that God exists, the proof
from efficient cause, is summarized in the
following: there exists things that are caused,
nothing can be the cause of itself, there cannot
be an infinite regress of causes, there fore, God
exists. The proof of Aquinas s is a cosmological
kind, basing the fact the if anything exist; an
absolute necessary being must also exist. I agree
with Aquinas that God is the uncaused first cause,
but from a situation that was discussed in class a
few weeks ago...
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Reproductive Organs Circulatory System
425 words
Earth Worm Direction Parts Function Digestive
System Prostomium a small fleshy lobe that extends
over the mouth, used to help dig through the soil
Mouth the entrance for food into the digestive
system, located under the prostomium Pharynx A
tube at the beginning of the digestive tract that
creates a sucking action to remove food particles
from the soil, located just behind the mouth
Esophagus a narrow passage in the digestive track
that connects the pharynx to the crop Crop a
temporary storage a...
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Organic Matter Sense Organs
439 words
Earthworms are classified Earthworms EARTHWORMS
Earthworms are classified as Annelida. Annelida
mean little rings which refers to the many
segments in their body. The structure of an
earthworm? s body is made up of more than one
hundred segments separated by partitions that
divide the column. All segments are identical
except by the anterior and posterior ends. The
anterior segments reflect the cephalization that
is an adaption of burrowing. The head of the
earthworm contains the sense organs. T...
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Trial And Error Vacuum Tube
878 words
Thomas Edison? 4 th place Thomas Alva Edison was
the most famous and prolific inventor of all time.
During his life, over 1100 patents were issued to
him or his associates; he was known as the wizard
of Menlo Park, the town in New Jersey where he set
up his first invention factory. Yet he was not
really a scientist, having no theory or
mathematics, and most of his success came from
perfecting the ideas of others or already existing
inventions by trial and error. He learned
telegraphy on the rail...
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Stay In The United States Stay In The United Elian
273 words
Elian Gonzalez Elian Gonzalezyoung Cuban boy,
named Elian Gonzalez, boarded a small boat with
his mother and twelve other passengers. On their
journey to America, rough seas occurred and their
boat began to sink. Elian was placed on a tube to
avoid the sinkage, while his mother and stepfather
drowned and many other passengers. I cant believe
a boy of his age had to see such a traumatic thing
as that. A couple days later Elian was found
floating in the same inner tube he was placed in
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United States Of America Elian Gonzalez
826 words
On November 25 th, 1999, Elian Gonzalez was found
clinging to an inner tube three miles off the
coast of Ft. Lauderdale after a boat carrying his
mother, stepfather and eleven others apparently
sank on its way to the United States. He had been
floating in the inner tube for two days and
nights, and after being admitted to a hospital he
had been found to be in remarkably good shape
considering he was without food and water. But the
worst was yet to come for Elian Gonzalez. Almost
immediately afte...
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Life On Earth Outer Planets
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As Extraterrestrial Life Extraterrestrial life As
biologists learn about life on Earth in all its
diversity, and at the rate that new planets are
being discovered the search for life elsewhere
grows more steadily pressing. We have discovered
organisms on the Earth that seem tenacious and
tough almost to a fault; they thrive in the most
seemingly adverse conditions imaginable, and
organisms so fragile and specialized so as to
exist in only the most isolated and pristine
environments. With the kno...
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Folic Acid Neural Tube
640 words
FOLIC ACID Folic acid is the most common term for
water-soluble B-vitamin that can be found
naturally as well as in vitamin pills. Found
naturally, folic acid is actually referred to as
folate, while folic acid refers to the synthetic
form of the vitamin. (For reasons of
simplification, this paper will use the two terms
interchangeably. ) The functions of folic acid in
our diet are mostly for prevention. Probably the
most commonly known function of folic acid is in
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Blood Pressure One Hundred
566 words
In vertebrates, kidneys Kidneys Kidneys In
vertebrates, kidneys are the two major organs of
excretion. Excess water, toxic waste products of
metabolism such as urea, uric acid, and inorganic
salts are disposed of by kidneys in the form of
urine. Kidneys are also largely responsible for
maintaining the water balance of the body and the
pH of the blood. Kidneys play important roles in
other bodily functions, such as releasing the
erythropoietin protein, and helping to control
blood pressure. Kidne...
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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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Bunsen Burner Robert Bunsen Air
340 words
Robert Wilhelm Bunsen s name was famous for a a
few discoveries in the field of chemistry. For
example you might recognize Bunsen from the lab
device, the Bunsen Burner. He also helped invent
the spectroscope and discovered spectrum analysis.
And at the beginning of his career, he discovered
that iron oxide is an antidote for arsenic. Robert
Bunsen was born on March 31 st, 1811 in Gottingen,
Germany. He was educated at the University of
Gottingen, and between 1836 and 1852, he taught at
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Common Side Effects Fact Sheet
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Steroids are hormonal Steroids Introduction
Steroids are hormonal substances, naturally
produced in the body by the adrenal glands above
the kidney and by reproductive organs. There are
many different types of steroids and they all have
different effects on the body. Some types of
steroids have been found to help destroy some
types of cancer cells, and can make more
effective. This fact sheet describes steroids, how
they are given and some of the side effects that
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