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Ice Age Extinctions Of The Megafauna
1,668 words
... vironments than do smaller animals. Larger
animals are safer from predators than small
animals are, but it is also harder for them to
sustain in trying conditions. Many of the larger
animals such as mammoths and bison travel in
herds, and that, along with their large size,
protects them from predators. However, when the
predator is Mother Nature, there is virtually no
defense. For modern day elephants, drought is the
biggest concern. It can take twenty percent of a
herd every year, but the e...
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End Of The World Kurt Vonnegut
1,408 words
Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle, one of the century's
greatest anthropological works, deals with
religion, science, and the end of the world; its
major theme involves the symbolic nature of the
title of the book. The theme of the cat's cradle
is used throughout the book to represent many of
the truths, as viewed by Vonnegut, that are found
in society. A cat's cradle is essentially a game
played by all ages and almost all nationalities;
"Even the Eskimos know it" (Cat's Cradle 114). It
is a game usi...
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Sodium Bicarbonate Sulfuric Acid
865 words
Nitroglycerin (C 3 H 5 N 3 O 9) Nitroglycerin is
one of the most sensitive explosives ever to be
commercially produced. It is a very dense liquid,
and is sensitive to heat, impact, and many organic
materials. Although it is not water soluble, it
will dissolve in 4 parts of pure ethyl alcohol.
Heat of Combustion: 1580 cal / g Products of
Explosion: Carbon Dioxide, Water, Nitrogen, Oxygen
Human Toxicity: Highly toxic vasodilator, avoid
skin contact! Although it is possible to make it
safely, it is...
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Volcanic Eruptions Greenhouse Gasses
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This paper looks at the controversial issue of
climatic change. In particular, it develops the
question of if and why earths climate is changing?
The roles of man, naturally occurring trends, and
earths cycles are considered, and an outlook for
what can be expected in the near and distant
future is given. The uneasiness of modern man
arises from a rupture between himself and nature
that leaves him homeless within the universe...
Over the past years most individuals have become
acutely aware that...
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Hockey League Sullivan George
1,772 words
Hockey is a great sport that is watched and played
by many Americans. To play hockey there are many
things that will be needed to survive. There are
three basic parts of hockey that are needed to be
learned to play this game. The first one is to
learn the rules of hockey, the second is all the
measurements of the game, and the third are the
basics of how to play. First of all, the most
important thing is to know how to play. There are
many rules you have to know. Also, the referees
give signals ...
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Hours A Day Ice Skating
497 words
When you hear the word speed skating what do you
think of? Do you think of Dan Jansen in the last
winter Olympics speeding across the ice? Perhaps
you think of Chad Hedreck with his ten gold medals
from the inline racing world championship a few
years ago? If you thought about either one of
these or anything like it you are exactly right.
The are both great speed skaters. Dan skates on
ice, and Chad is an inline racer. From the skates
and training to the over all style and form of
skating you wi...
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Surface Of Mars Olympus Mons
1,529 words
Named after the Roman God of war, Mars has sparked
and sustained curiosity than any other planet in
our solar system. Astronomers and Geologist have
studied the surface of Mars dating back to 1965
when Mariner 4 swept by the planet. Photographs of
the planet showed a barren surface scarred by
numerous craters. It wasnt until 1976 that
scientist got their first glimpse of the Martian
Landscape from its surface. As we take a closer
look at Mars we may find many similarities as well
as differences ...
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Ice Cube Paper Towel
1,030 words
When you come to the paper towel aisle in the
grocery store do you ever get frustrated and
annoyed by all the brands to choose from? Every
brand is telling you that they are the strongest
and that their brand will absorb the fastest. Have
you ever actually taken the time to figure out
which brand is indomitable and absorbs the
quickest? Well today I will fill you in on this
mysterious secret and tell you not only which
brand is not lying to you but also which brand you
are getting your moneys wo...
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Gangsta Rappers Ice Cube
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NWA was a gangsta rap crew who told stories of the
hustler lifestyle where life aint nothin but
bitches and money. As such, they relied heavily on
being as offensive as possible. The cover of their
1988 album, Straight Outta Compton, features a
power-emphasising low-angle shot of the band
members looking down into the camera, which places
the audience in the position of the defeated
enemy. A gun is pointing straight at us. Each man
is wearing street clothes, and one has a chunky
gold necklace sh...
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Haagen Dazs Ice Cream
1,013 words
... ass marketed brands, no artificial
flavouring's or colours are used. Haagen-Dazs
prefers to find better natural alternatives and
make sure that their customers know about this.
Although most companies limit their product
quality testing only within their manufacturing
process, Haagen-Dazs takes it a step further to
ensure that quality tests take place at every
stage of production by visiting and testing
ingredients suppliers, checking manufacturing
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Ben Amp Jerry Haagen Dazs
1,343 words
This increase might reflect the increase in
marketing and selling expenses and the increase in
the companys administrative infrastructure. Ben
& Jerry's loss was not solely due to their
employee orientated approach, but they appeared to
have taken out a vast amount of capital lease in
their aim to automate their production to keep up
with the intense competition. As reflected in the
balance sheet, Ben & Jerry's had reinvested
huge amounts of property and equipment in 1994
increasing thei...
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Political And Cultural Ice Cream
1,277 words
Global Business and Technology Paper The
discussion concerning variety of effective market
economy models is often related to the issue of
globalization. Modern economy experiences drastic
changes within the basis of modern market, or
so-called globalization. According to Wikipedia
Website, globalization is usually explored as a
complex of technological, social, economical,
political, and cultural changes seen as increasing
interdependence, integration and interaction
between people and companie...
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Molten Rock Degrees F
715 words
My Journey to Iceland During my journey to
Iceland, I have seen a natural event that made
that journey very important to me. In southeastern
Iceland, some 4, 500 feet above sea level, lies
Vatnajokull -- the largest temperate-zone ice cap
in Europe. Vatnajokull, 3, 200 frozen square miles
overlying Iceland's most active volcanic region,
sits, as does the rest of the island, above a
mantle plume -- a column of hot rock that rises
from the depths of Earth and feeds volcanoes with
lava. Although it...
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Sex In Advertising Black And White
1,760 words
... in appealing to women, while his image as of a
skillful and famous football player is be used to
appeal to football fans. Besides, his image as of
a fun guy makes him a unique person. His
participation in Pepsi advertising campaign for
listed reasons is very successful, because Davids
target audience is probably everybody. New
campaigns of sex appeal aimed at women instead use
self-approval, and the approval of other women,
methods that are more effective. Also causing a
difficulty with sex ...
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Sense And Sensibility Ice Storm
886 words
The Ice Storm and Scene and Sensibility Ang Lee
Merritt McMullen Ang Lee directed both Ice Storm
and Scene and Sensibility; these are stories of
dysfunction families that have to deal with the
variety of problems that occur. Even with the
known fact that one story takes place in modern
day while the other occurs in Elizabethan times;
there are a number of similarities. As characters
search for stability, long for lust or love, and
keep their feelings locked inside; their downfall
soon follows, b...
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Bomb Was Dropped Cats Cradle
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Cat s Cradle (I was wrong it wasn t like the song)
The narrator of Cats Cradle, John, once set out to
write a book, titled The Day the World Ended,
about the day the atomic bomb was dropped on
Hiroshima. For purposes of research, he wrote to
Newt Hoenikker, the midget son of Felix Hoenikker,
the Nobel prize-winning physicist and one of the
fathers of the atomic bomb. He asked Newt to
describe what he remembered from the day the bomb
devastated Hiroshima. Newt replied to say that he
was only six ...
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Deal With Death Dickinson Poem
2,881 words
My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close My life
closed twice before its close It yet remains to
see If Immortality unveil A third event to meSo
huge, so hopeless to conceive As these that twice
befell. Parting is all we know of heaven, And all
we need of hell. A paradox is a statement which
contains apparently opposing or incongrouselements
which, when read together, turn out to make sense.
The first links paradoxical in that there are
separate meanings for the words closed and close
Dickinson tel...
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Back Into Space Greenhouse Gases
1,088 words
Global Warming Several issues concerning the
environment are brought to the publics attention
every year, but none has more of a direct effect
on earth and its environment than global warming.
Coincidentally it appears to be the least of the
populations concern. Global warming is the theory
that our planet is getting hotter due to an
increase in the greenhouse effect brought about by
the increase of carbon dioxide and other gases in
the atmosphere. Global warming is caused by the
greenhouse gase...
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Coastal Plain Hudson River
1,539 words
New York s Geology The bedrock of the earth is
made up of rock bodies that vary in size, shape,
orientation, composition, color, and texture.
These rocks makeup the bedrock, which is present
everywhere. If one were to study a map of the
bedrock from a vehicle point of view, they would
find that patterns are made by eroded edges and
surfaces of rock bodies that crop out of the
state. Most rock bodies are originally tubular and
horizontal. Deformations of these rock bodies
occur over many years du...
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Earths Atmosphere Degrees Celsius
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Saturn is the sixth planet in our solar system and
is the second largest planet. The only planet
larger then Saturn is Jupiter. Saturn is commonly
noted for its phenomenal system of rings
surrounding this gaseous planet. It is also one of
the outer planets. Saturn's period of rotation is
approximately ten and a half hours in Earth hours.
Saturn takes about 13 and a half hours less than
Earth to rotate. It takes Saturn about 30 years to
make revolution around the sun. That is 29 years
more than E...
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