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Thousands Of Years Years Ago
891 wordsBeginning about 12, 000 years ago, the human population began a trend that completely changed the way we, as a race, evolved. For the first time in history, humans pushed beyond the restraints of traditional hunting and gathering, into domestication and farming. It was a change that would not only take thousands of years to prove worthy, but also may have set us back on the evolutionary path at the time. Along the path to this point, we have been constantly changing and finding new ways to produ...
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Industrial Revolution Began Amount Of Time
701 wordsThe Industrial Revolution occurred from the early 1700 s to the early 1800 s. The Industrial Revolution refers to the changes that occurred during the 1700 s and 1800 s and the time period. The Industrial Revolution was a period of drastic change from hand made items to machine manufactured goods. I believe the Industrial Revolution was a revolution in the "true" sense of the word. According to Webster's Dictionary (1984), a revolution is: a sudden, radical, or complete change. " I think the 170...
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Clone A Human Human Cloning
1,053 wordsAs a human race, we have pursued constant technological progression and advancement. Indeed, our claim to the title of superior race can be attributed in part to the fervor in which we go about improving our own existence through invention and discovery. Thanks to advances in medicine, we have increased the overall lifespan of men and women. Due to continuous improvements in industrial technology, machines now do virtually everything for us that our ancestors had to do with their own hands. Ever...
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Lot Of Things Period Of Time
1,110 wordsHigh culture which includes arts, literature, philosophy and science, has risen and fallen many different times in Western Civilization. In Rome, there were times when high culture was overlooked and there were also times when it was a main focus. Rome had many times when they were focusing on their military and shutting down attacks. Other times, they were very focused on arts or any other part of high culture. The main focus of this paper will be showing how and why high cultures were put asid...
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Career In Computer Science And Programming
529 wordsIn the year 1995, our family received their first ever computer. It was a Pentium I with a 75 MHz processor, 64 MB ram, a 16 x CD-Rom, a 5 -gigabyte hard drive, and Windows 95 operating system. I thought it was the coolest thing man has come to know. It had games, and a completely new world called the internet. Not only could you talk to people from all around the world, but also you could watch streaming videos, view pictures, and send e-mails with attached files. It was like the worlds fastest...
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Punched Card Machines John W Mauchley
1,250 wordsThe History of Computers Only once in a lifetime will a new invention come about to touch every aspect of our lives. Such devices changed the way we manage, work, and live. A machine that has done all this and more now exists in nearly every business in the United States. This incredible invention is the computer. The electronic computer has been around for over a half-century, but its ancestors have been around for 2000 years. However, only in the last 40 years has the computer changed American...
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The War Between States American Civil
1,339 wordsThe American Civil War is sometimes called the War Between the States, the War of Rebellion, or the War for Southern Independence. It began on April 12, 1861, when Confederate General P. G. T. Beauregard opened fire on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, and lasted until May 26, 1865, when the last Confederate army surrendered. The war took more than 600, 000 lives, destroyed property valued at $ 5 billion, brought freedom to 4 million black slaves, and opened wounds that have not ...
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Nature Vs Nurture Debate
1,184 wordsThere is an issue that has been conferred upon by philosophers in the past and still so by scientists today. This issue is whether heredity or environment plays a greater role in the determining or shaping of an individual's behavior. It is known as the nature versus nurture debate. Numerous generations before us have deliberated on the reasons behind the development of human behavior. There have been many theories formulated to explain why humans behave the way they do. The surviving theories f...
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Infected With Aids Find A Cure
1,572 wordsThe Black Death (Bubonic Plague) began in Central Asia in the 14 th century in the mid- 1300 's. It was said to have lasted over 400 years. Its symptoms were the swelling of the armpits and other areas of the body, mostly the groin and the neck, another symptom would be rings around your cheeks, the main symptom was black patches around the skin caused by bleeding around the buboes (swollen lymph glands). About one fourth of Europe died within a few years after the Plague was introduced to Europ...
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Factor Ix Clotting Factor
1,179 wordsIntroduction Hemophilia is a rare genetic blood clotting disorder that primarily affects males. People living with hemophilia do not have enough of, or are missing, one of the blood clotting proteins naturally found in blood. Two of the most common forms of hemophilia are A and B. In persons with hemophilia A (also called classic hemophilia), clotting factor VIII is not present in sufficient amounts or is absent. In persons with hemophilia B (also called Christmas disease), clotting factor IX is...
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Bioethics Advisory Commission National Bioethics Advisory
1,490 words"To be or not to be... " In the last fifty years new forms of technology have been the center of attention for every human being. It seems that every day scientists come up with some new, perhaps even controversial, and exciting ways to improve the quality of life. These new technologies affect every aspect of life, as we know it. One such technology is the research being done in the area of cloning. Cloning is the production of one or more cells, individual plants, or animals that are genetical...
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Gun Control Laws Gun Violence
1,679 wordsFreedom vs. Control Gun Control Is tougher gun control needed to keep people safe from gun violence? April 7, 2000 The right to bear arms has been a part of this country's constitution since its conception in 1776. Guns we originally a commodity that almost every household had. Firearms were used for hunting and protection. As the modern era came upon us, there became a lesser need to own a firearm because of a controlled police force and a surplus in food. The surplus in food and modern law enf...
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Soviet Union Latin America
625 wordsThe United States must realize that the economies of Latin American nations will play an important part in the future of our own economy, and that it must begin to lead, invest, and aid not just Mexico, but countries such as Peru, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile and Columbia into the twenty first century. The mainstay in American foreign policy has always been to promote and instill democracy. However, in order to do this in a foreign nation, America must be able to establish a viable economic relatio...
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Running Head Global Explorer
1,760 wordsRunning Head: Global Explorer Global Explorer (Authors Name) (Institution Name) Global Explorer MAD was the very apt abbreviation for the words mutual assured destruction doctrine during the cold war in which the opposing sides of the United States and Russia would effectively annihilate each other. This doctrine was based on the theory and military strategy through which the full range of nuclear weapons of both sides would be used against each other and this worked as a deterrence for the prev...
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Sexually Transmitted Diseases One Hundred Years
590 wordsNo Magic Bullet In 1918, the Spanish influenza killed more people than died in combat in World War I. With advances in disease control and medicine, diphtheria, typhus, and tuberculosis are under control, but sexually transmitted diseases are out of control of epidemic proportions. Brandt asks why we have been unsuccessful in controlling these diseases. Perhaps disease and dirt are the precipitating cause of venereal disease, and the stigma attached to them keeps the problem hidden. Brandt discu...
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Work In Chemotherapy University Of Breslau Ehrlich
887 wordsThe German bacteriologist Paul Ehrlich made important advances to the world of medicine. He is best remembered for his development of the arsenic compound number 606, which was used as a treatment of syphilis. As a Nobel Prize Winner and an honored scientist, fellow scientists and doctors praise Paul Ehrlich for his contributions. Ehrlich led a wonderful and intriguing life, which is greatly admired. Paul Ehrlich was born on March 14, 1854 in Strehlen Prussia. He was the son of a prosperous Jewi...
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Place To Live Lot Of Money
1,080 wordsWhether Environment 2 The Environment Whether it be through intensified media attention, or due to the efforts of prominent scientists and other members of society, we have become increasingly aware of the detrimental effects that technological advances in industry and agriculture have on the global environment. However, pollution is growing at such a rate that the cleaning up is too slow. This slowness is partly due to the fact that the threats we face are indistinct, since they come in the for...
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Lone Ranger Outer Space
808 wordsWhen comparing the past times of children of today with those of yesterday, it can be said that the past definitely leads to the future. Long gone are the days of the pen pals of yore, today s electronic mail has changed this activity forever. Campfire stories have been replaced by video cassette recorders, books on tape, Play doh put away for Sony Playstation; these are merely a few of the differences between generations of children. Long ago, society at large was not as sophisticated as compar...
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21 St Century Fear Of Losing
1,111 wordsThe Puppet Masters by Robert A. Heinlein A Comparison to the Future Seen through the eyes of 1950 Author By Rebecca Irwin The Puppet Master is a futurist fiction novel written by Robert Heinlein in the 1950 s. There are many similarities to Heinlein's 21 st century future to that of the real future. There are also many instances when he missed the mark of foretelling the future with his fiction. Robert is confined to foretelling the future in The Puppet Masters to those situations and experience...
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Units Posses Magnitude Things Were Composed Pythagoras
532 wordsPythagorean Theorem The Greek philosopher Pythagoras of Samos is responsible of great advances in the study of astronomy, mathematics and the theory of music. A tyrant ruled Samos at the time and Pythagoras fled to southern Italy at about 532 BC. In Croton, Pythagoras founded a religious school that also specialized in philosophy. Pythagoras school made outstanding advances and contributions to the study of mathematics. His school was very private and secretive which made it hard for researchers...
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