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- 571: Vietnam
- ... of Vietnam. One of the best things about The War In I Corps was its great descriptions of the things the Marines had to go through. As Richard A. Guidry put it : “In a driving rain, laden with heavy packs, our platoon lumbered toward its place in the long line of men sprawled in the thick sticky mud.... The rain added a slimy quality to the crust of dirt and fungus that encased my body. Running my fingers across my arm was like following the tracks of a snail.”3 It really gave me a ...
- 572: Energy Flow Systems
- ... energy of the cycle. The sun heats the atmosphere that heats and evaporates the ocean water and provides the wind to move the moisture to the mountains. The clouds cool and moisture is released as rain or snow that falls to the land. Gravity pulls the water to the ocean again through the rivers and the process starts over again. Man attempts to slow down the natural energy cycle to extract ... form of food. The energy in the soil came from the trees that held the water and rich top soil in place. As the trees were cut, the valuable topsoil was washed away from the rain and snow that easily washes into the streams and rivers. Soon the soil dries and is lifeless because the energy system was disturbed. Cronon's solution to the European's problem was to sustain the ...
- 573: Shiga Naoya - At Kinosaki
- ... But what a quiet feeling it was". The word 'quiet' is used again in the next paragraph to describe how the dead bee was probably "lying quietly" after it had been washed away by the rain. "..how quiet it must be - before only working and working, no longer moving now. I felt a certain nearness to that quiet." A clear sign that seeing the dead bee had changed the narrator follows ... my way of thinking had become so different from that of the hero of a long novel I was writing". The Death of the Rat It was still the morning of the day after the rain had washed away the dead bee, when the narrator encounters another death of an animal. This death of a rat is much more cruel and deliberate than the natural death of the bee. This death ...
- 574: Amico Acids - The Building Blocks of Life
- ... teaches that some 3.5 to 4.5 billion years ago. There was this large inorganic ocean of nitrogen, ammonia salts, methane, and carbon dioxide bubbling away. When POOF! They say there arose an amino acid. Blub blub blub blub, POOF! There arose another amino acid. A bunch ofamino acids got together and formed peptides, polypeptides, and a combination of amino acids formed protein molecules. The building block necessary for life. And that you had this inorganic matter somehow become living ...
- 575: A Critical Analysis of the Poem Entitled "Tract" by William Carlos Williams
- ... what purpose? Is it for the dead to look out or for us to see how well he is housed or to see the flowers or the lack of them- or what? To keep the rain and snow from him? He will have a heavier rain soon: pebbles and dirt and what not. Let there be no glass- and no upholstery, phew! and no little brass rollers and small easy wheels on the bottom- my townspeople what are you thinking of ...
- 576: Oliver Twist
- The filthy slums of London…the dark alleys, the abandoned, unlighted buildings. The rain and fog envelop the dark city. The atmosphere is dismal; evil dominates this world. The major action of Oliver Twist, by Charles Dickens moves back and forth between two worlds: the filthy slums of London ... uses sleep as a transition between experiences, for Oliver sleeps deeply as he moves from one life to another. Lastly, Dickens uses the metaphor of weather as a clue to meaning. He chooses to make rain and fog suggest bad times, while sunshine represents happiness and justice. For example, no sun shines on the action of Fagin and his gang, nor when Oliver is with them. In contrast, sunshine is used ...
- 577: Hydrogen: The Fuel of The Future
- ... reaction also gives off a tremendous amount of heat. Even the waste heat could be captured for heating the house. The resulting sodium aluminate is harmless and could be collected at recoiling centers for complete acid/base neutralization. This way is a simpler way than electrolysis produce hydrogen for heating the home, because in a automobile it would be harder to do. Electrolysis is another way to produce hydrogen electronically. It ... amount of Baking Soda. I used it because it was cheap and I knew it worked. Another time I used a 75 volt / 2 amp power supply with a catalyst of 2 drops of sulfuric acid to a pint of water and the result was very differing from the last time. I filled the whole mountain dew bottle in less than 6 minutes. All of that gas came from a little ...
- 578: Fritz Haber
- ... his process of ammonia synthesis. Not only was ammonia used as a raw material in the production of fertilizers, it was also (and still is, for that matter) absolutely essential in the production of nitric acid. Nitric acid is a raw material for the production of chemical high explosives and other ammunition necessary for the war. Having helped to make Germany independent of Chile and other countries for necessary materials, Haber perhaps served ...
- 579: AIDS
- ... of the cervix in women). Treatment Antiviral drugs that attack HIV exploit vulnerable spots in the Viral Replication Cycle. One target is the process of Reverse Transcription—that is, the conversion of the Viral Ribonucleic Acid (RNA) into Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA)—that HIV must undergo to be infectious. Reverse transcription is a process unique to retroviruses and is performed by the viral enzyme reverse transcriptase (RT). One class of anti-HIV drugs, known as Nucleosides ...
- 580: The Golden Age Of Greece
- ... create either gods or mortals; he was their father in the sense of being the protector and ruler both of the Olympian family and of the human race. He was lord of the sky, the rain god, and the cloud gatherer, who wielded the terrible thunderbolt. His breastplate was the aegis, his bird the eagle, his tree the oak. Zeus presided over the gods on Mount Olympus in Thessaly. His principal ... pottery of the Golden Stone Age of Greece were much advanced in spectacular ways. The statue of Zeus was done for a very good reason. The statue represents being the lord of the sky, the rain god and the cloud gatherer. When I look at this statue, I see a whole bunch of different things, for example, I see a statue that has great muscular shapes which to me it represents ...
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