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Benjamin Franklin Lightning Rod
478 wordsBenjamin Franklin was born in the year 1706, in the city of Boston Mass. Ben was a great scientist, inventor and politician. With all of this going on Ben somehow also found time to be a father to his illegitimate son William, who he brought everywhere with him. The world today owes a lot to Benjamin Franklin. Science was one of Benjamins many interests. He was the one who first linked lightning and electricity. He did this in 1752 by flying a kite in a thunderstorm. The kite was being flown wit...
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Boo Radley Heck Tate
2,063 words... away from fishing to accompany him to Helen Robinson's house, and how Helen collapsed at the news. Meanwhile, the news occupies Maycomb's attention for about two days, and everyone agrees that it is typical for a black man to do something irrational like trying to escape. Mr. Underwood writes a long editorial condemning Tom's death as the murder of an innocent man, and the only other important reaction comes when Bob Ewell is overheard saying that the death makes "one down and about two more...
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Bad Weather Horse Power
1,102 words... hey needed to design a propeller that would supply the thrust. No big deal, right? Wrong! No one had designed a propeller for flight through air. All that there was to go on was marine propellers. The Brothers did not have the time or money to test many designs. They decided to scrap the theory used for marine propellers, and make up their own. After long discussions they realized that the only way to test the propeller is to try it on the plane. The decided two things about the propeller: f...
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Mount St North America
1,011 wordsIt was once thought that volcanic eruptions were the result of water moving into highly heated area of the earth. That not true any more. More recently, with the better understanding of the movement of the earth's crust plates, known as plate tectonics, has been accepted as generating the energy that causes a volcanic eruption. (Microsoft, Encarta) Volcanoes form at the site of 2 kind of plate boundaries. The convergent plate plunges under another divergent plate. The lower plate is drawn down t...
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Credited With Inventing Numbers In Parentheses Refer Strings
1,101 wordsINTRODUCTION Piano, stringed keyboard musical instrument, derived from the harpsichord and the clavichord. Also called the pianoforte, it differs from its predecessors principally in the introduction of a hammer-and-lever action that allows the player to modify the intensity of sound by the stronger or weaker touch of the fingers. For this reason the earliest known model (1709) was called a gravicembalo col piano e forte (Italian for "harpsichord with soft and loud"). It was built by Bartolomeo ...
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Fiber Optic Cable Fiber Optics
1,581 wordsFiber optics is a cable that is quickly replacing out-dated copper wires. Fiber optics is based on a concept known as total internal reflection. It can transmit video, sound, or data in either analog or digital form. Compared to copper wires it can transmit thousands of times more data (slide 2). Some of its general uses are telecommunications, computing, and medicine. The very first fiber was made in 1870 by the British physicist John Tyndal. In this experiment that he showed to the Royal Socie...
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Jesus Walks Hear Ye Lyrics
613 wordsHe may just seem like another rapper to you but if you actually listen to his lyrics you can see he's not like any rapper out there. His name is Kanye West and he was born in Chicago Illinois. He grew up in the "ghetto" and learned to appreciate life. He didn't learn to really, truly appreciate life until October of 2002. Driving back to his hotel late one night after a recording session, the new-coming rap / hip -hop artist was involved in a devastating, near fatal car accident. The crash left ...
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U S S R Soviet Union
1,080 wordsAmerica on the other hand was not at all concerned about its security. Many other western countries had encouraged America to take leadership in the west because of its stability and ability to ensure protection to the other smaller, less powerful countries. America was the most powerful country at that time and many nationalistic Americans felt that America should behave like a super-power and take the leading role in world affairs. America had always needed to invest money abroad to ensure its...
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000 Short Tons Ways To Detect Copper
699 wordsBlake Adams Period 3 Grade 8 2 / 5 / 97 Copper is a mineral. it is not a plant or a animal. Copper is a metallic metal. It can never be broken down into different substances by normal chemical means. Copper was one of the first metals known to humans. People liked it because in it's native condition, it could easily be beaten into weapons or tools. Copper has been one of the most useful metals for over 5000 years. Copper was probably used around 8000 B. C by people living along the Tigris and Eu...
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John W Mauchley High Speed Electronic
999 wordsThere have been few inventions that has grown an attached itself to as many lives as the invention of the computer. Computers can be found in almost every aspect of our lives, if not direct, indirectly. When I think of the different ways I come in contact with computers in one day its astounding. When I wake in the morning its usually by the assistance of an alarm clock that I program to alarm at a specific time. When I use my Metro Card to gain entrance to the train, a computer reads the funds ...
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Death Row Inmates Racially Biased
703 wordsThe Death Row Death Row The death penalty is outmoded and should be eliminated from our justice system. The death penalty is extremely racially biased and is not assigned justly. While advocates claim it is cheaper to execute than to support a felon for life in prison, it is actually more expensive to sentence a man to death. Opponents to the death penalty say that death is actually revenge rather than justice. The number of prisoners on death row is increasing. The public favoring the death pen...
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People Dont T V
475 wordsBrief History of Batteries Batteries are one of the most important objects in our everyday lives. Clocks have them (better than a sundial! ), smoke detectors have them (but some people dont know that the battery needs to be replaced, so check your detectors battery before you go to another page! ), your remote control for your T. V. has one (beats walking to the T. V. ! ), even your computer has one (of you didnt know that already! ). In short, batteries make life so much easier. Take, for examp...
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First Telephone Exchange Sheets An Hour Press
1,284 wordsSince the beginning of time, people have had the need to communicate with one and other. The most common type of communication is speech, but you could not talk to someone who lived 20 miles away. Then written language was developed, people marked symbols on paper, stone, or whatever was available. Then hundreds of years passed, and people who wanted to share their ideas with people had to do allot of writing, until someone thought to make a writing machine. This machine is called the printing p...
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Treaty Of Versailles Versailles Treaty
489 wordsHow the Treaty of Versailles Effected Germany Wen World War I ended on November 11, 1918, peace talks went on for months due to the Allied leaders wanting to punish the enemy and dividing the spoils of war. A formal agreement to end the war was made and called the Treaty of Versailles. The issue that took the most time were the territorial issues because the empires of Russia, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman, and Germany had collapsed. These fallen empires had to be divided up and America s Preside...
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1,113 wordsINTRODUCTION Piano, stringed keyboard musical instrument, derived from the harpsichord and the clavichord. Also called the pianoforte, it differs from its predecessors principally in the introduction of a hammer-and-lever action that allows the player to modify the intensity of sound by the stronger or weaker touch of the fingers. For this reason the earliest known model (1709) was called a gravicembalo col piano e forte (Italian for harpsichord with soft and loud). It was built by Bartolomeo Cr...
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Louis Armstrong Japanese American
553 wordsBob Grotjohn Inada refuses to separate the internment from a broader American experience. In a poem that follows his " legends, " Inada insistently maps the internment onto the American landscape (here I think of recent efforts at turning the Manzanar camp into a national park). In " Concentration Constellation, " he draws imaginary lines from point to point on a map of the United States, each point being one of the ten internment camps, creating jagged scar, massive, on the ...
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Barbed Wire Stories
573 wordsGustavo Guinea Larry Isbell English 102 2 September 1999 Once Upon A Time Almost is good enough, with grenades and horseshoes. I believe the author, Nadine Gordimer, was paranoid, guilty and a childless old bitch. Old Nadine does not write children? s stories. She does not like being told what she? Ought? to write either. Its clear that the letter she received, from someone, really hit a nerve with her. She acted like a bitch when reacting to the letter. On a night shortly after receiving the le...
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Wear Their Feathery Fire Wear Their Feathery Soft
383 wordsThere will come soft rains (War Time) By Sara Teasdale There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground, And swallows circling with their shimmering sound; And frogs in the pools singing at night, And wild plum-trees in tremulous white. Robins will wear their feathery fire Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire; And not one will know of the war, not one Will care at last when it is done. Not one would mind, neither bird not tree, If mankind perished utterly; And spring herself, when she...
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First Two Stanzas Man And Nature
1,219 wordsRobert Frost: Poem Analysis Gregory GeismarDISCUSS FROST? S TREATMENT OF NATURE IN ANY THREE POEMS YOU HAVE STUDIED REFER TO MAN? S ATTITUDE TO NATURE IS FROST? S ATTITUDE TRADTIONAL OR MODERN? EXPLORE THE POET? S USE OF LANGUAGE POEMS: TWO LOOK AT TWO TREE AT MY WINDOW IN HARDWOOD GROVES If one looks at man? s attitude to nature in the three poems then there are many similarities and differences. In? Two Look at Two? one gets the feeling that nature is unhappy and angry at man and the destructi...
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Plate Current Flows Electron Current Flow Cathode
563 wordsA semiconductor device which conducts electric current run in one direction only. This is the simplest kind of semiconductor device, it has two terminals and a single PN junction. One diode can be used as a half-wave rectifier or four as a full-wave rectifier. electron tube, evacuated glass or metal envelope containing two electrodes, a cathode and an anode. It is used as a rectifier and as a detector in electronic circuits such as radio and television receivers. When a positive voltage is appli...
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