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- 10501: James Watt
- ... He then thought about ways to reduce the fuel consumption and found out it was mostly caused by the pistons and other metal work heating cooling, always requiring extra heat. James Watt then constructed a new steam engine with an insulated main cylinder that allowed the metal work to stay constantly hot reducing the fuel by almost 75%. He also worked on a condenser which re-uses five-sixths (5/6 ... Watt knew at the time. Dr. Roebuck paid off Watts £1000 debt and allowed James to continue his costly experiments. In return the patent declared that Roebuck was two-thirds the inventor of the new improved steam engine. On the very day that Watt obtained his first patent, January 5th 1769, Arkwright got a patent for his Spinning-Frame. James Watt successfully had the new steam engine put in his name in conjunction with Dr. Roebuck. His first steam engines were used to pump water out of the mines in the surrounding area and in 1783 almost all of ...
- 10502: Nikita Khrushchevs Rise To Power
- ... and Khrushchev surfaced publicly through Malenkov s support for increased production of consumer goods, while Khrushchev stood for the development of heavy industry. On January 1955 Khrushchev called Malenkov s commitment to consumer goods a new form of anti-Leninist "right deviation". (Modern Enc..) Two weeks later Malenkov was forced to resign as Chairman of the Council of Ministers and publicly acknowledge his shortcomings. Malenkov s post was then given to ... Lenin Mausoleum. De-Stalinization encouraged many in artistic and intellectual circles to speak out against the abuses of the former regime. Although Khrushchev s tolerance of creative works wavered during his years of leadership, the new cultural period, known as the "thaw", represented a clear break with the repression of the arts under Stalin. After the Twentieth Party Congress, Khrushchev continued to expand his influence, although he faced opposition. Khrushchev s ... agriculture. In his virgin land campaign in the mid 1950 s, Khrushchev opened to farming vast tracts of land in the northern part of the Kazakh Republic and neighboring areas of the Russian Republic. These new farmlands turned out to be susceptible to droughts, but in some years they produced excellent harvests. However, later innovations by Khrushchev proved counterproductive. His plans for growing maize and increasing meat and dairy products ...
- 10503: Internet Firewalls
- ... direct it to a number of specific systems; the router need only allow application traffic destined for the application gateway and reject the rest. Note that an application server is application specific; to support a new application protocol, new proxy software must be developed for it. Several proxy application tool kits have been developed and can be used as a starting place to develop your own gateway software. Alternatively, packages have appeared on the ... of power that best fits the application. The expandability and scalability of the AcerAltos product line ensure incremental growth and performance improvement with minimal cost. Other Technologies-There are other emerging technologies that, while not new, are just now gaining recognition and standardization. Certain industry niches such as financial services require a higher degree of security. It is imperative for these companies to maintain the safety of financial data and ...
- 10504: Steroids
- ... cortex, plays a role in the mineral and water balance of the body. Anabolic steroids are commercially produced by chemical methods from the male hormone testosterone. Artificial steroids were first developed for medical purposes during World War II (1939-1945) by the German army. The Germans gave it to their soldiers to make them more aggressive in combat. After the war, doctors in Europe and the U.S. used steroids to treat anemia, malnutrition, and to help patients recover faster from surgery. Then, in the 1940s, artificial steroids began to enter the athletic world. Body builders in Eastern Europe were taking testosterone in various forms. In the 1950s, athletes used the anabolic steroids to improve their performance in international competition. With the government's approval, coaches in the Soviet Union gave the lab- produced steroids to their athletes, mainly of whom were weight-lifters and shot-putters. When other athletes around the world noticed the Soviets' winning records (Soviet weight-lifters won seven medals at the 1952 Olympics), athletes in many countries began to experiment with steroid use. In 1956, American doctor John B. Ziegler worked with ...
- 10505: Becoming A Professional Chef
- ... formulae, no recipe, no matter how well written, can take the place of experience." (1) The formal educational process must begin with the choice of institution, in the United States, the Culinary Institute of America, New York is the leader in traditional culinary cuisine preparation. The curriculum is taught on the Escoffier ideal. The California culinary Academy, San Francisco, also offers culinary education, but along with the New England culinary Institute, Montpelier, Vt, offer an education for occupational demand and placement. In order to gain a solid understanding in basic and advanced culinary techniques, any aspiring chef will find formal training at an ... professionals is what professionalism is all about. Works cited The California Culinary Academy,WWW.Baychef.com/educational/ index.html. Website. The Wall Street journal,January 2, 1990, Page 1. The Culinary Institute of America,The New Professional Chef. 5th ed.New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold,1991
- 10506: Immigration And Population In America
- ... workers were also responsible for the completion of the Erie Canal. They also kept mills at Lowell operating. But the overall view of the Irish was not a welcoming one. Many Irish immigrants settled in New York, however in Boston there presence was least appreciated. Boston at that time was considered the center Puritanism and American intellectualism. All over the city in places of business and in homes normally eager for ... not respond well. America is a country based upon ethnic and racial diversity. The first colonists themselves were immigrants that came to America because it was a land of opportunity. They were people looking for new and better lives. However, they felt that their new lives would be the only type of life accepted in the New Land.
- 10507: The Two Sides Dealing With Abortion
- The Two Sides Dealing With Abortion "Abortion", the very sound of the word conjures up horrible images and is, in fact, a very controversial and emotional issue. Abortion has been going on all over the world for centuries. In the dictionary, the word abortion means, "A premature birth occurring before the fetus can survive." In other words, an abortion is when the fetus is "killed" and then removed from the womb ... expected mother or a means of preventing embarrassment for an unwanted child or unwed mother. I fear a lot of babies have been aborted that could have grown up and made a difference in the world. A lot of people that are in the Pro-Life group try to make their point by the use of vandalism, protests, and riots. There are a great number of abortion clinics around the world that have been vandalized, and even destroyed without regard for the people inside. There have even been cases where employees were harassed, maimed, and murdered. As far as they are concerned, even if a ...
- 10508: The Infamous Watergate Scandal
- ... General. He agreed to fire Cox. This event was called the "Saturday Massacre." (Westerfled 48) The nation raged in anger. So Nixon agreed to hand the tapes over to Sirca's court and appoint a new Special Prosecutor. The new prosecutor was Leon Jaworski. Jaworski was a very well known lawyer and accepted the offer on the one condition that Nixon could not fire him. (Westerfled 48- 49) As the presidents lawyers were going over ... was inaugurated. He became the thirty-seventh president of the United States. He told the American people in his first speech "Our long national nightmare is over." (Westerfled 57) Bibliography Gold, Gerald ed. Watergate hearings. New York: Bantam books, 1978. Westerfled, Scott. Watergate. Englewood Cliffs: Silber Burdett, 1991. "Watergate". Grolier Electronic Publishing. 1992. The New grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia. Danbury, CT: Grolier Electronic Publising Inc., 1993. Microsoft Encarta. Microsoft Corporation: Funk & ...
- 10509: The Infamous Watergate Scandal
- ... General. He agreed to fire Cox. This event was called the "Saturday Massacre." (Westerfled 48) The nation raged in anger. So Nixon agreed to hand the tapes over to Sirca's court and appoint a new Special Prosecutor. The new prosecutor was Leon Jaworski. Jaworski was a very well known lawyer and accepted the offer on the one condition that Nixon could not fire him. (Westerfled 48- 49) As the presidents lawyers were going over ... was inaugurated. He became the thirty-seventh President of the United States. He told the American people in his first speech "Our long national nightmare is over." (Westerfled 57) Bibliography Gold, Gerald ed. Watergate hearings. New York: Bantam books, 1978. Westerfled, Scott. Watergate. Englewood Cliffs: Silber Burdett, 1991. "Watergate". Grolier Electronic Publishing. 1992. The New Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia. Danbury, CT: Grolier Electronic Publishing Inc., 1993. Microsoft Encarta. Microsoft Corporation: Funk & ...
- 10510: Candide
- ... that Candide did not want to stay and live in this type of society when he said, "If we remain here we shall only be as others are; whereas, if we return to our own world with only a dozen of El Dorado sheep, loaded with the pebbles of this country, we shall be richer than all the kings in Europe." (52). He felt this need to feel superior. They also ... much fondness, that I absolutely thought you as happy as you say you are now miserable." (67). In my opinion Voltaire was trying to emphasize that there are two different kinds of people in this world, the wealthy and the not so wealthy. I do not feel that he was trying to say that all the time but instead that more than half of the time those who are wealthy live ... they were slaves to their masters. The wealthy were able to buy their happiness, as the masters and residents of El Dorado did. This is not only proven in Candide. By looking at the real world and our everyday lives we can agree with this theory. It is not hard to see that the famous millionaires in this world live in great beautiful places full of luxuries, and those that ...
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