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38 Th Parallel End The War
1,459 words... ous Manchurian region. The Chinese troops lay coiled like a viper, and as the UN. pushed forward, they encountered Human Waves of Chinese troops. Combined with poor equipment and the brutal North Korean winter, the UN. forces had no choice but to retreat. The allies retreated back 130 miles to the North Korean border. Along with the UN. retreat, followed millions of North Korean refugees trying to escape Chinas assault. The situation was described by one G. I. , There were literally millions...
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Tons Of Tnt Power Of One
1,426 wordsThe detonation of a single nuclear bomb or "warhead" would cause a local disaster on a scale that few people in the world have seen and survived. However, it should not be confused with the effects of a nuclear war, in which many nuclear bombs would be exploded. That would cause the end of civilization in the countries concerned, and perhaps over the whole world, as well as radioactive contamination of whole continents, and terrible damage to the environment and ecology. The effect of a single b...
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Oil On Canvas Everyday Life
559 wordsOn April 7, 2002, I visited the Menil Collection, the Cy Twombly Gallery, and Richmond Hall. I arrived at the Menil Collection at around 2: 00 pm and stayed until approximately 4: 45 pm visiting the three collections. As I drove to the museums, I was challenged with normal Houston traffic clutters, but nothing out of the ordinary. The weather was musty, full of humidity in the air with light sprinkling rain, and it seemed that it was about to start pouring outside but never did during my visit t...
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Tension In Guitar Strings
475 wordsProblem: To find the tension in the strings of a bass guitar. Hypothesis: Using an oscilloscope, we have measured the frequency of the string wave, recording time between each wave to enable us to find the resulting tension. Tension is measured in newtons thus I believe the tension in the strings to be around 100 - 150 N (newtons). String Trial Time (sec) Mass (g) 1 0. 0035 A 2 0. 0033 30. 4193 3 0. 0030 1 0. 0024 B 2 0. 0022 17. 846 3 0. 0026 1 0. 0016 C 2 0. 0018 11. 497 3 0. 0011 1 0. 0010 D ...
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Comparing Lisbon Earthquake And Auschwitz
1,000 wordsIn 1755, an earthquake measuring 9. 0 on the Richter scale occurred in Lisbon, Portugal, changing European history and philosophy. But how does one geologic event trigger a paradigm shift from naturalism to liberalism Naturalism unites with rationalism during the Age of Enlightenment, a philosophical movement during the 18 th century, which rejects traditional social, religious and political ideas with an emphasis on rationalism. People believe in a world, which follows logical rules, where reas...
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Sri Lanka Tsunami A Social Autopsy Part 2
1,665 words... were the biggest problems to follow. There were also case of pneumonia and lung inflammations from water inhalation during the inundation, especially among women and children who would have had trouble staying above water. Also, minor injuries become easily infected. A greater danger than that posed by unburied dead bodies would be nitrogen poisoning from mass graves leaching into groundwater, so that had to be watched. Identifying the bodies was a worse problem than burying them, so they to...
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20 Th Century Mona Lisa
1,240 wordsWhat elements of dada and surrealism suggest the influence of Freud? The 20 th Century marked a changed in how people viewed the known world. Since its beginning art has played a major role in how people were able to express themselves. The early 20 th century brought rise to new and exciting art forms. These were types of writings, paintings and, documentaries that no one had ever seen before. From expressionism to Dadaism types of work ranged by all means of the artist. About the 1920 s a new ...
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Jim Men
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Tcp Ip Frequency Hopping
2,239 wordsBeen 1 TCP/IP AND THE FUTURE OF THE INTERNET OVER WIRELESS MEDIUM By Robert Been ISM 410 Fifteen Years ago computers were just an expensive typewriter, calculator, and entertainment center thrown together in one box. People transferred their tiny files with floppy disk. The computer itself seldom had a hard drive. It was an amazing feat to dial into a computer bulletin board, and talk to other users of systems. Networking computers was more or less unheard of. The only exception were mainframes ...
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Amount Of Carbon Dioxide Greenhouse Effect
474 wordsThe Greenhouse Effect This essay is going to describe what the greenhouse effect is and what it does. It is also going to say what causes the greenhouse effect and the consequences of it. What is meant by the term the greenhouse effect is that the heat from the sun comes into the Earths atmosphere and cannot get out so becomes trapped. It gets its name because this is very much like a greenhouse. This effect occurs as the incoming short wave radiation is changed when it hits the Earths surface i...
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Hearing Loss Paying Attention
1,121 wordsThe ear is the organ of hearing and balance in vertebrates. The ear converts sound waves in the air, to nerve impulses which are sent to the brain, where the brain interprets them as sounds instead of vibrations. The innermost part of the ear maintains equilibrium or balance. The vestibular apparatus contains semicircular canals which in turn balance you. Any movement by the head, and this apparatus sends a signal to the brain so that your reflex action is to move your foot to balance you. The e...
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Wave After Wave Hitler
307 wordsHitler came to power the legitimate way, through participating in elections. True he broke or bent a few rules and cheated and lied but probably no more than any other politician. It is common belief that had Hitler come along at another less desperate time for Germany, history would have played itself out very differently. Germany was weak. The people were miserable and Germans were scared after being hit with wave after wave after wave of calamity. The Nazis provided the answer for impoverishe...
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Light Waves Light Rays
1,064 wordsToss a pebble in a pond -see the ripples? Now drop two pebbles close together. Look at what happens when the two sets of waves combine -you get a new wave! When a crest and a trough meet, they cancel out and the water goes flat. When two crests meet, they produce one, bigger crest. When two troughs collide, they make a single, deeper trough. Believe it or not, youve just found a key to understanding how a hologram works. But what do waves in a pond have to do with those amazing three- dimensiona...
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Scarlet Letter Energy Source
1,097 wordsHololiterature- A Holographic Interpretation Of The Scarlet Hololiterature- A Holographic Interpretation Of The Scarlet L Hololiterature: a Holographic Interpretation of the Scarlet Letter Comprehension of anything requires a framework already in place in order to place it in out sphere of reference. Especially those that are fuzzy or difficult to nail down. The brain and the atom are not fully understood, but by comparing functions, structures, and similar operations to known items or concepts ...
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Big Picture Sense Movement
482 wordsThe Wave is a video about a classroom experiment gone way out. The teacher tried to answer a student s question about the likeness of the ignorance of the German public on the Nazi s actions during World War II, like the holocaust of the Jewish people. As an experiment he started an organization called the Wave, which focused on three basic statements: Strength through discipline, Strength through community, Strength through action. To his surprise, the students accepted and responded to the org...
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Performing Arts Film Festival
1,157 wordsChina, Korea, and Japan have been historically close for centuries, thus accounting for their numerous common artistic traditions. From pre-Christian times until the 8 th and 9 th century AD, the great trade routes crossed from the Middle East through Central Asia into China. Hinduism, Buddhism, some knowledge of ancient Greek, and much knowledge of Indian arts entered into China, and thence in time into Korea and Japan. Perhaps before Christ, the Central Asian art of manipulating hand puppets w...
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Edna Journey
3,162 wordsThe following paper is in regard to Mary Wollstonecraft? s novel Maria, or the Wrongs of Women and Kate Chopin? s novel titled The Awakenings. The two stories have a similar plot and both discuss the oppression of women in the institution of marriage. This paper will include how the two main characters in each story, Maria (in Maria) and Edna (in The Awakenings) challenge the oppressive ideology by finding a new love and how they also encountered problems as long the way. Edna? s Marriage? It wa...
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Contemporary Society Middle Class
1,195 wordsLolita: Lolita: Analysis web web Tekno Surf Ad Wave web My analysis of Lolita In 1958, Vladimir Nabokov created two of the unrelenting characters in the history of literature: Humbert Humbert and Lolita Haze. His narrators voice and main character, Humbert Humbert, explains the complex story of a man and his obsession. To set this book off from other books about obsession, Nabokov gives Humbert possibly the most socially unacceptable obsession of all: pedophilia. This Lolita causes much of the c...
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Electromagnetic Waves T V
288 wordsAn Magnetic Spectrum Electromagnetic Spectrum An electromagnetic spectrum is the spectrum in which electromagnetic waves are sent out and in which they can be detected. The spectrum of electromagnetic waves includes the following waves: microwave, radar, satellite, UHF T. V. , VHF T. V. , FM radio, CB radio, amateur radio, and AM radio. All of theses waves are called millimeter waves. They are the waves that cannot be. The only form of wave that can be seen in the electromagnetic spectrum is ult...
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Character In The Story Open Boat
1,195 wordsThere are more characters than just the captain, the correspondent, the oiler and the cook in Stephen Cranes The Open Boat. There is a fifth character: nature. Nature can be seen as the main character in the story as it is constantly affecting the four men in the boat and is ever-present throughout their ordeal. Many different views of nature are expressed in this work: nature as the causal agent of the entire trial, as being personified in its action and as being indifferent to the plights of m...
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