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Life On Earth Rain Forests
1,287 wordsLong ago, the Earth had a green belt of rain forests around its middle that covered almost twelve percent of the earth's land surface. (Miller & Berry 3) Today, the rain forest covers two percent of the earth's land surface and it is declining rapidly. The following will be a description of the rain forest, factors in its destruction, and if there are any answers to slow or halt the process. "Today, as we enter the last decade of the twentieth century, we have reached a turning point; we can no ...
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Life After Death Living Things
447 wordsSocrates is admired for his willingness to explore an argument wherever it would lead as well as having the moral courage to follow its conclusion. Socrates, the master of argumentation, manages to make his points through creative word choices and his eloquent speeches. In book 4, of The Trial and Death of Socrates, Socrates uses his gracious speaking style to prove his debate of life after death. Socrates posses a great ability to portray his controversial ideas through simplistic analogies. He...
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H 2 O Nucleic Acid
1,102 wordsA Controlled experiment allows a researcher to isolate and test a single variable A kilogram is approx. equal to 2. 2 pounds A meter is a little longer than a yard An astronaut would expect her weight to be different on the moon A milliliter is equal to cc, ml, cubic cente meter The weight of an object is the measure of the pull of gravity 0 - 100 is freezing to boiling on the cells scale Living orginsims produce new orginsims of the same species by reproduction All living orginsims must obtain ...
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Light And Darkness Plants And Animals
2,553 words, and again now, we heard that wonderful bass hum of the heating system as it whirs away up in the ceiling. In the silence of this room the sound of that motor became very prominent in our consciousness. Usually, while talking and listening, thinking and worrying, we don't notice it. That motor reminds me of a wonderful realization I had in the hotel room where I'm staying a couple of blocks from here. There's a refrigerator in the room, and of course the refrigerator goes on and off as its ther...
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Primary Source Living Things
1,594 wordsAmerindians of the "Salado id" culture, originally came from the Venezuelan mainland. They were referred to as "Arawaks", because of the language they spoke. Using Trinidad as a stepping stone they spread up the Caribbean and beyond. Ethnologist have noted common characteristics with the cultures of south eastern USA. For many years this led some to believe that they originated there, archaeological finds have confirmed that their origin is most certainly Amazon. The Arawaks people inhabited the...
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Personality Disorder External Objects
1,446 wordster>Sam Vaknin's Psychology, Philosophy, Economics and Foreign Affairs Web Sites The Encyclopaedia Britannica (1999 edition) defines empathy as: "The ability to imagine oneself in anther's place and understand the other's feelings, desires, ideas, and actions. It is a term coined in the early 20 th century, equivalent to the German Einfhlung and modelled on "sympathy. " The term is used with special (but not exclusive) reference to aesthetic experience. The most ob...
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Evolution And Charles Darwin
684 wordsCharles Robert Darwin has had the greatest influence on the world by proving the evolution of living things. Charles Darwin had first noticed the similarities of plants and animals when he took a five-year cruise on the H. M. S. Beagle, which was available to him through a friend from school. During the cruise Charles Darwin started becoming interested with the similarities between the plants and animals that were similar on different islands with similar climates, so he decided to study them mo...
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Mary Shelley De Lacey
877 wordsThroughout the last century, the movie and theater industries have been creating and recreating movies about Frankenstein, the monster. He has been depicted as a gigantic, ugly monster with incredible strength that walks around searching for his next victim. In the original book Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, the Monster is not depicted as a complete savage, but is shown to be more of a person. The Creature is intelligent and is an outcast from society. Regardless of the Creatures horrific appea...
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Piece Of Paper Oxygen Molecules
1,524 wordsIn 1839, a German scientist Christian Schonbein was a professor of chemistry at the University of Basel in Switzerland. In addition to his teaching duties, he regularly performed secret experiments in hopes of finding out which substances make up the Earth's atmosphere. So Schonbein combined and separated a number of liquids and gases. During one of these experiments, Schonbein passed an electric charge thought a glass beaker of water, be noticed a very familiar odor. He first thought it was the...
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Acid Rain Sulfur Dioxide
566 words"Acid rain" is a broad term used to describe several ways that acids fall out of the atmosphere. A more precise term is acid deposition, which has two parts: wet and dry. Wet deposition refers to acidic rain, fog, and snow. As this acidic water flows over and through the ground, it affects a variety of plants and animals. The strength of the effects depend on many factors, including how acidic the water is, the chemistry and buffering capacity of the soils involved, and the types of fish, trees,...
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Life On Earth H 2 O
1,870 wordsPlants are the basis of the food pyramid for all living things, even other plants. They have always been very important to people, not only for food, but also for clothing, weapons, tools, dyes, medicines, shelter and a great many other purposes. Both humans and animals benefit from plants. We eat many different types of plants such as fruits and vegetables. We also use plants for our herbs. Plants are also used to manufacture many different products such as shampoos, rubber, paper, and camera f...
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Ozone Layer Ultraviolet Rays
962 wordsThe Problem The atmospheric ozone layer protects all living things from the harmful effects of the Sun. In recent years however, much damage has been caused to the ozone layer, causing it to decrease in size. The depletion of the ozone layer has and will continue to have many detrimental effects on all living things on this planet. A thinner layer will allow more of the suns ultraviolet radiation to reach the Earths surface. In particular, it will be the increase of UV-B rays which will have the...
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Big Bang Theory Hundreds Of Years
896 wordsWhich was came first, the chicken or the egg? One cant come about without the other. So where did the first one come from? This is the question that, people in general as well as scientists, have been pondering for hundreds of years. There are several different beliefs, probably more scientific than Christian, and in this report I will tell you about four of them. Because there are so many scientific theories I will be telling you three of those and one of the Christian. The first theory I will ...
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Billions Of Dollars Time And Effort
3,117 wordsThe International Space Station The International Space Station is the doorway to the future of mankind and the world as it is known. The scientific and medical discoveries that will be made on the station could create billions of dollars annually. A plan like this, arranged to benefit the whole world economy, should sound like a good idea to every person, but some believe that the ISS is too risky, too ineffective, or too costly to create. Whether or not the space station is worth the money, ti...
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Bushido Code Feudal Japan
920 wordsIn my essay on the Code of Bushido, I will attempt to explain the different sections of the code as well as who used the code that defined Japans warrior class, the general history of the code and the honor that accompanies it. Bushi is a term that was given to the warrior class of a pre-feudal and feudal Japan (web). Bushido, which literally translated to the way of the warrior (Hall, Eleanor 37), was the certain philosophy that directed the Samurai. The Chivalry code of the European Knights of...
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Ozone Layer Ultraviolet Radiation
1,027 wordsOzone is an important molecule in maintaining the homeostasis in the environment. Ozone, the molecule O 3, makes a layer in the stratosphere, situated 10 to 15 kilometers from the earths surface. The dioxide molecule, O 2 and Oxygen atom O, collide with each other result in the formation of Ozone, O 3. In this reaction, the molecule O 3 contains an excess of energy. Once the molecule is formed, it is not stable enough to last long. The energy-rich O 3 molecules discards the excess energy by coll...
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Endangered Species Living Things
729 wordsEndangered species are living things whose population is so reduced that they are threatened with extinction. Thousands of species are included in this category. The International Union for the Conservation of nature and Natural Resources publishes a list of threatened mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and (many people don? t consider them) plants CAUSES OF EXTINCTION Millions of years before humans, extinction of living things was linked to geological and climate, the effects of which were ...
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Darwin Theory Earth Surface
2,710 wordsEvolution, a process of change through time, is what links together the enormous diversity of the living world. A lot of evidence is present that indicates that the earth has had a very long history and that all living things arose in the course of that history from earlier, more simpler forms. In other words, all species have descended from other species and all living things share common ancestors in the past. Basically, organisms are what they are because of their history. Today there are man...
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Source Of Energy Carbohydrates Fats
475 wordsNutrition Nutrition is the science that deals with food and how the body uses it. All living things need food to live. The food supplies energy, which people need to perform certain actions. Food also provides substances that the body needs to build and repair its tissues and to regulate its organs and organ systems. Food provides certain chemical substances needed in order for a person to maintain good health. These chemical substances are called nutrients. Nutrients can perform three important...
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge Rime Of The Ancient Mariner
1,911 wordsThe premise of sin and redemption is evident in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's famous ballad The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. The poem focuses on the trials and tribulations of the main character, the mariner. The narrative starts as the mariner and his ship set off to sea. The mariners sin is fundamentally unpremeditated and unfounded. Sin, According to the editors of Websters New Collegiate Dictionary, is A vitiated state of human nature in which the self is estranged from God (I, 1083). Sin was pr...
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