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Read Only Memory Vacuum Tube
1,115 words... and and held on magnetic drums, disk packs, or tapes. After they are solved, the results are displayed or printed. The problem is then deleted, or "dumped" to make room for the next problem. With all of these new advances, the computer was becoming easier to use. Also, with the new ferrite coils and other smaller parts, the computer was shrinking very much. Soon they would be affordable and small enough for every household to have one. This all became possible with two simple inventions: The...
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Political Science Quarterly Federal Aid
1,347 words... new to their representatives in Congress and there was as Caraley calls it, a politics of stalemate Reagan was unable to fully change the financial burden onto the states because the states were incapable of being financially independent. Reagan's welfare proposals were not seen as the most efficient way of dealing with the situation when considered by more than one component in the arena. So, through the division of power there are checks and balances between the levels of government. Reaga...
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Naturally Occurring Full Moon
1,641 wordsA rainbow is one of our atmospheres most exquisite and marvelous creations; "one of the most spectacular light shows observed on earth" (Ahrens, 1998). When a person views a rainbow, they are getting a personal light show that no other person can see as they do. Humphreys points out that: "Since the rainbow is a special distribution of colors (produced in a particular way) with reference to a definite point - the eye of the observer - and as no single distribution can be the same for two separat...
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Majority Of The People Proportional Representation
840 wordsJohn Stuart Mill on Proportional Representation Two very different ideas are usually confounded under the name democracy. The pure idea of democracy, according to its definition, is the government of the whole people by the whole people, equally represented. Democracy as commonly conceived and hitherto practiced, is the government of the whole people by a mere majority of the people, exclusively represented. The former is synonymous with the equality of all citizens; the latter, strangely confou...
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Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
1,511 words-- This report focuses on the origins of viruses and discusses the ebola virus in particular. -- This report was done to explain the origins of the ebola virus. This virus is one of the most deadly and horrific viruses known to man. To first understand the ebola virus we must first know a little bit about viruses themselves. Viruses themselves are extremely small pieces of matter. To see them with the naked there would have to be thousands of millions of single viruses joined together. Even some...
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Real Numbers Starting Point
1,939 wordster> Sam Vaknin's Psychology, Philosophy, Economics and Foreign Affairs Web Sites Finiteness has to do with the existence of boundaries. Intuitively, we feel that where there is a separation, a border, a threshold there is bound to be at least one thing finite out of a minimum of two. This, of course, is not true. Two infinite things can share a boundary. Infinity does not imply symmetry, let alone isotropy. An entity can be infinite to its left and bounded on its...
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Circle Of Hell Dantes Inferno
1,013 wordsDantes Inferno by Dante Alighieri is a classic tale that involves Christian morality, and mythological and classical literature. In this tale we watch Virgil guide Dante through the circles of hell in order to reach heaven where Dantes beloved Beatrice awaits. Dante created this tale in order to give the world a visual image of afterlife and to explain the Christian belief of sin and punishment. He explicitly takes us through each circle of purgatory describing what it looks like, who gets sent ...
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Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Adhd
1,998 wordsAttention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) or Attention Deficit Disorder without the Hyperactivity (ADD) is a condition of the brain that makes it difficult for children to control their behavior in school and social settings. This condition is also called by various names: hyperactivity, minimal brain dysfunction, minimal brain damage and hyper kinetic syndrome. In 1968 the name was changed to hyperkinectic, meaning wildly fast-paced or excited, reaction of childhood. The focus was on Hype...
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Small Business Owners Wal Mart
900 wordsOur economy is basically based on one major concept; competition. Competition is defined in Webster's Dictionary as being a trial of skill or ability. Competition can sometimes be a good thing, and it can also be a bad thing. It all depends on which end of the spectrum you are. Competition between two companies can benefit society just as often as it can hurt society. One major example of this is Wal-Mart and other large corporations coming into a small town and running small privately owned sho...
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Weighted Score Los Angeles
1,138 words... id western, Southwestern, and Western United States. The airline specializes in short-haul routes and targets business commuters. The company's most-traveled routes are intrastate flights in California and Texas. Its fleet consists of about 310 Boeing 737 s. Passenger transportation generates almost all revenue, accounting for more than 96 % of the total. In fiscal 1999, Southwest's average aircraft trip was 465 Southwest has managed to steer clear of nearly all the woes that afflict its com...
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Otto Von Bismarck Unification Of Germany
1,205 wordsRoughly from 1850 to 1870 the Unification of Germany took place. After the unification, Germany rose as a dominant power in Europe until World War 2. The process of the unification was mainly spread over three wars. But to a great extent, the unification was due Herr Otto Von Bismarck's diplomacy. However, to a small extent, it was due to other factors such as the formation of the Zollverein, revolutions, nationalism and assemblies and congresses held in the past. From the 1790 s to 1814 French ...
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Vacuum Tubes Integrated Circuits
1,767 words-important people Allen, Paul G. - Co-founder of Microsoft Corp. Allen left the company in 1985 but remained on the board of directors and as founded or financially supported several innovative computer ventures, including Asymetrix and Starware Corp. He is involved with a variety of other projects, including a Jimi Hendrix Museum in Seattle. Amdahl, Gene M - South Dakota native who helped design the IBM 704, the S/ 360 series. He was the founder of the Amdahl Corp. Andreessen, Marc - Co-founder...
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Tax Cut Bush Tax
248 wordsIPI adresses the tax cut proposal that President Bush is presenting before Congress. IPI feels that although Al Gore had a good plan for the national tax cut by decreasing the national income tax, George Bush's proposal was much better because it not only lowers income tax, but also eliminates estate and death tax (accounting for almost 66 % of the 1, 437. 8 billion dollar cut). IPI claims that Al Gores proposal would have minimal positive effects on the economy because of three reasons, smaller...
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Catalina Mountains Catalina Highway Point
788 wordsSnow in the desert. Pine trees among the cactus. There are thunderstorms that you can see and hear but not feel. Your emotions run through your veins like your blood after a marathon. If there is another place like it in the world, I dont know where it could be. The Santa Catalina Mountains in Tucson Arizona are the Mount Sinai of the United States. Specifically, Mount Lemmon. Your journey begins at the base of the Catalina Mountains just past the aptly named, Bear Canyon Road. Once you reach th...
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Sport Utility Vehicles Air Bags
1,563 wordsAuto-related deaths and injuries place a stain on society. In addition to causing grief and suffering, vehicle crashes add billions to the cost of health care and vehicle insurance. Buying a safer car can help consumers confidently identify the safest vehicles. Each year about 40, 000 Americans lose their lives in motor vehicle collisions. This means that one in 8. 5 drivers are involved in an automobile collision and one out of nine hospital beds are occupied by a victim of an auto-related inci...
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Rave Scene Record Companies
2,332 wordsComputers and Music Over centuries past, music has seen leaps and bounds in the enhancement of theory, instruments, and recording arts. The first major leap was the invention of the piano in 1709 by Bartolomeo Cristofori. From that first major step came the introduction of electronic instruments short after the harnessing of electricity which came in the early 19 th century. Soon after that came recording and then on to synthesizers and eventually digital recording. As computers were introduced ...
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Secretary Of War Hundreds Of Thousands
1,774 words(Conquest) Conquest Conquest (Conquest) The day they landed was the most horrible day I have ever been forced to live through. The Soviet Union had begun to regroup. It was not immediately joined by the smaller and weaker nations that made up the northwestern region of the union. The independent nations of Latvia, Estonia, and Lithua would not follow under communist rule again; they were willing to die for their freedom. The U. S. S. R was unable to persuade the remaining components to rejoin th...
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Evaporating Dish Test Tube
822 wordsLab: To Successfully Separate The Substances In Lab: To Successfully Separate The Substances In The sludge And To Identify Their Characteristic Properties I. Title? Chapter 5 Lab Test II. Purpose? To successfully separate the substances in the sludge and to identify their characteristic properties. III. Methods and Materials? A. safety goggles, matches, alcohol burner / burner stand, test tubes w/ rubber stoppers, thermometer, pegboard, water, bucket, rubber band, calculator, sludge, rock salt, ...
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Time It Takes Surface Of Mars
2,185 wordsMars is the fourth planet from the sun and orbits the sun at a distance of about 141 million mi. Mars is named for the Roman god of war because it appears fiery red in the earth? s night sky. Mars is a small planet that has about half the diameter of Earth and about one-tenth Earth? s mass. The force of gravity on the surface of Mars is about one-third of that on Earth. Mars has twice the diameter and twice the surface gravity of Earth? s moon. The surface area of Mars is almost exactly the same...
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Los Angeles South America
2,010 wordsLos Angeles Zoo OBJECTIVE The purpose of this observation was to study the activities and behavior of some selected primates, and to discuss the differences and similarities of these primates. It would have been ideal to examine three primates from each continent, but at the Los Angeles Zoo, the primates there only represented Africa, South America and what the Los Angeles zoo calls Eurasia. For this study I observed three different primates from Africa, two primates from South America, and two ...
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