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- 951: Malibu Fires
- ... temporarily, but this set the stage for catastrophe as the brush grew more dense. There have been more than 20 catastrophic wildfires in Los Angeles County since the beginning of organized fire protection. The first "big one" happened in December of 1927. The fire started in the La Crescenta Valley, climbed over the Verdugo Mountain range and destroyed more than 100 homes. In addition to the damage caused in 1927, fires ... east end, the fire was moving quickly towards Topanga Canyon. "By Ten P.M., the fire had burned just north of Malibu on the west and had burned through Carbon Canyon, Rambla Pacifico, Las Flores, Big Rock and into Tuna Canyon on the east (Firestorm 1993, p.4 sec. 1)." After burning fiercely throughout most of the afternoon, the intensity of the fire diminished significantly in the late evening hours of ...
- 952: Death of a Planet
- Death of a Planet Air pollution is a very big problem in the United States. A large part of air pollution comes from cars. The Environmental Protection Agency says, "The most polluting activity an average person does everyday is drive their car"(1 factsheet OMS ... reality in the future. It is possible for cars powered with electricity to release little or no emissions. If this alternative fuel becomes a reality and is used in most cars, it will knock a big chunk out of the pollution problem all around the world (5 factsheet, OMS-5). Another alternative fuel is natural gas. Natural gas is only good for cars where driving long distances isn't important. It ...
- 953: J.D. Salinger
- ... innocence is also portrayed in a more sincere fashion when he is talking to his sister, Phoebe, about a vision that he had, "I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids and nobody’s around—nobody big, I mean—except me. And I’m standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff—I mean ...
- 954: Death Of A Salesman - Characte
- ... commission and his sons which reduced him to a failure. The next largest flaw in society is a lack of compassion. This could be as a result of almost overwhelming greed, the main culprit being big business. "I'm always in a race with the junkyard! I just finished paying for the car and it's on it last legs. The refrigerator consumes belts like a goddam maniac. They time those things."(Act 2, page 73, lines 16-19) Willy's belief in this statement drew him to believe that big business lacked compassion. It is because of this that he is abandoned by Biff and disowned by Happy, left babbling in a toilet. It is this flaw which allowed him to die a slow death ...
- 955: Center of Gravity
- ... that counters thrust and propels the plane backwards. Drag resists the movement of an object. Thrust and drag also work at right angles to lift and weight. Looking at a typical airplane, you see a big long wing up front and a smaller one at the rear, the tail of the plane. Just looking at it, a person might think that the big wing holds up most of the front, and the little one holds up the rear. That's not how it works. The main lifting surface, the wing, carries the plane. The small surface at the ...
- 956: I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
- ... cultures of these areas to create a vivid setting. "Each year I watched fields across from the store turn caterpillar green , then gradually frosty white. I knew exactly how long it would be before the big wagons would pull into the front yard and load on the cotton pickers at day break to carry them to the remains of slavery’s plantations." (pg. 5) The use of color to depict the field as time passed from a "caterpillar green" to a "frosty white" adds to the setting’s culture. The image of "big wagons" rolling up clanking and clinking, awaiting the "cotton pickers" is very symbolic for the southern states. Being a crucial and influential part of the writing, characterization tops-off the story by giving it a ...
- 957: The Giraffe
- ... are very nutritious and moist. They contain everything a giraffe needs except calcium and sodium. They get the minerals by licking natural salt deposits and chewing the bones of the dead animals. Giraffes have a big appetite and each day they spend hours eating. A large male giraffe can eat seventy-five pounds of food everyday. Lot's of nourishement is needed to supply energy to keep their bodies going. Everytime ... on earth but only the giraffe and the okapi were left. The giraffe is a very quiet animal that doesn't bother other animals. They always mind there own business and adult giraffes are so big that other animals won't dare dare bother them. Lions and other predators do attack calves, and sometimes a group of hunting lions may go after the adults. Its normal that a peacful giraffe can ...
- 958: Talcott Parsons
- ... his suicide study, died. Then, three years later, Max Weber passed away. Patricia Miller-Shaivitz claims that Max Weber was a German sociologist, who was recognized for his study on institutions. These were considered two big losses for sociology. Contributions to Sociology Talcott Parsons started with his assessment of other sociologists' views. He used these matters to form his own understanding on the subject and to create his theories. His views ... first book made a base for his theses and attracted a lot of attention. His supporters were formed and so was his Parsonian concept. His followers and concepts grew and widened. His notions created a big mark in sociology and in also other subjects. His views built a new way of thinking for other sociologists, leading to new subject matters and thoughts. With the release of Parsons' second book, antagonism began ...
- 959: Continental Drift
- ... of the way the continents fit together on the opposing Atlantic coasts and paleontology correlation on both sides of the Atlantic. He proposed the theory that about 200 million years ago there was one great big continent, or supercontinent, called Pangaea. Pangaea split into two big landmasses, Laurasia and Gondwanaland. The present continents separated in the next geologic era, the Mesozoic. In this process, the Earth's rotation caused horizontal alterations in the granite continents floating on the sea of the ...
- 960: Huckleberry Finn - Satirical Plot
- ... word for word en masse. As the sheriff, standing on the top of a roof shot from his gun, the crowed etched asunder and ran off. Mob mentality is an essential factor and plays a big role in trickery -also a big issue in the book. Huck gave it all his best, and was able to avoid mob mentality and go with his instincts, which were proved to be the most logical ones, and helped him make ...
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