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- 10771: Inflammatory Bowel Disease/ Crohn's Disease
- ... Clearinghouse, 2 Information Way, Bethesda, MD 20892-3570. General patient information fact sheets. Brandt, LJ, Steiner-Grossman, P, eds. Treating IBD: A Patient's Guide to the Medical and Surgical Management of Inflammatory Bowel Disease. New York: Raven Press, 1989. General guide for patients with sections on treatment and descriptions and drawings of surgical procedures. Available from the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of America. Hanauer, SB, Peppercorn, MD, Present, DH. Current concepts, new therapies in IBD. Patient Care, 1992; 26(13): 79-102. General review article for health care professionals. Steiner-Grossman, P, Banks PA, Present, DH, eds. The New People Not Patients: A Source Book for Living with IBD. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, 1992. Book for patients with sections on diagnostic tests, medications, nutrition, coping with employment and health insurance problems, ...
- 10772: Simple Machines
- ... make things easier. You use many machines in a day that you might take for granted. For example a simple ordinary broom is a machine. It is a form of a lever. Our country or world would never be this evolved if it wasn't for machine. Almost every thing we do has a machine involved. We use machines to manufacture goods, for transportation, ect. In the W=F*d equation ... like a ramp around the screw. A wedge is a inclined plain with one or two sloping sides. Chisels, knives, and ax blades are examples of wedges. IMA is ideal mechanical advantage meaning a frictionless world with 100% efficiency. It is saying that work in and work out are exactly the same. AMA is Actual Mechanical advantage meaning there is friction in the machine and the efficiency could range from 0% to 99%. The difference between the two is one has friction and more efficient and the other isn't. Machines can never be 100% efficient because of friction. In a Ideal world there is no friction but we don't live in a ideal world. We have friction and efficiency is not always high or low but it is never 100%. Added discussion Believe it or ...
- 10773: Solar Cells
- ... problems with them. They still cost too much for mass use and are relatively inefficient with conversion efficiencies of 20% to 30%. With time, both of these problems will be solved through mass production and new technological advances in semiconductors. Bibliography 1) Green, Martin Solar Cells, Operating Principles, Technology and System Applications. New Jersey, Prentice-Hall, 1989. pg 104-106 2) Hovel, Howard Solar Cells, Semiconductors and Semimetals. New York, Academic Press, 1990. pg 334-339 3) Newham, Michael ,"Photovoltaics, The Sunrise Industry", Solar Energy, October 1, 1989, pp 253-256 4) Pulfrey, Donald Photovoltaic Power Generation. Oxford, Van Norstrand Co., 1988. pg ...
- 10774: Alfred Hitchcock: 50 Years of Movie Magic
- ... casting to publicity. Hitchcock loved to be publicized, and some critics feel that the original intent of his unusual camera shots were no more than a publicity stunt at first. Regardless, Hitchcock brought cinematography to new levels, pioneering the point-of-view shot, which among other things was recognized for its ability to bring about viewer-character identification (Sterrit 11). Hitchcock's cameos, which he admitted to have borrowed from Charles ... is a secession of six thrillers which would become known as the classic "thriller sextet". Following the 1938 release of The Lady Vanishes, Hitchcock was voted to be the best director of that year by New York film critics (23). Throughout the 1940's his reputation continued to flounder with the hit movies Spellbound (1944 [in which artist Salvador Dali painted some scenery]), and Notorious (1946). The 1950's was the ... has the money with her, obviously planning to leave with it. Even though she is a thief, the audience is still sympathetic towards her because of her situation. Marion trades in her car for a new one and leaves Phoenix heading towards California, where her and Sam plan to get married. When Marion pulls over for the night, the first view of the now famous Bates motel and mansion. A ...
- 10775: Nuclear Weapons Are A Threat to All
- Nuclear Weapons Are A Threat to All Ever since the first nuclear weapon was built in 1945, nuclear war has been a threat. The two major nuclear powers in the world today are the Soviet Union and the United States. If a war ever broke out between the two, which involved the use of nuclear weapons, the whole world would suffer from the effects. In this report I am going to prove that nuclear weapons are a threat to all of us. A nuclear weapon is any device that causes an explosion by the ... plutonium to fission, which in turn causes the hydrogen to fuse. HISTORY In 1939, the U.S. government became concerned that the Nazi Germans may be capable of building a nuclear weapon, so upon joining World War II, the United Sates began a secret operation called the Manhattan Project to build their own nuclear weapon. The first experimental nuclear weapon was exploded on July 16,1945, by J. Robert Oppenheimer. ...
- 10776: The Catcher in The Rye: Unreachable Dreams
- ... and smokes, showing even more misdirection. However, when Holden returns home and talks to his sister, Phoebe, his direction becomes clear. Holden wants to be the Catcher in the Rye to protect children from the world in which he is forced to live. While talking with Phoebe, she asks Holden what he would like to be. He responds saying: "Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in ... s all I'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all.'" (173) Holden wants to protect the innocence of his sister and every other innocent child in the world. Before Holden meets Sally for their date, he stops in front of the Museum of Natural History and begins to reminisce. He thinks about the way he visited the museum when he was younger. He ... sometimes children must learn things the hard way. As he sees Phoebe riding the carousel he begins to cry. He sees perfection in that moment, and he knows that she will soon change as the world influences her. Holden finally realizes that he will not be able to protect his sister or anyone from falling into the adult world. Holden transforms from a dreamy idealist into a down-to-earth ...
- 10777: A View From The Bridge
- ... as to what will happen next to the audience. Irony also plays a part in the sense of tragedy when the cousins arrive. Eddie is already having trouble with Catherine growing up and getting a new job, wearing clothes that flaunt her new figure without any love interests from Rodolfo entering on the scene. His feeling for Catherine confuse him and the cousins' moving in could be described as "
an ill-timed or perverse arrival of an event ... of fate
" At first it appears that all has worked out for the best with Beatrice finally meeting her cousins, Marco sending money home to his poor wife and Rodolfo realising his dream living in New York. When Catherine and Rodolfo fall in love Eddie cannot handle his possessive ways over Catherine which eventually cause worse consequences than if the cousins had not stayed at all. At the end of ...
- 10778: Scarlet Letter Punishment Quot
- ... to understand it. Though this quote can relate to a persons personality, it also might not relate to a person at all. All people are different and think differently than others. Almost everybody in the world has a different understanding of what is wrong and what is right, and also of what should be punished and what should not be punished. The quote Only the man who has enough good in ... to them. The person will gain nothing, they will gain no knowledge from their act or their punishment. There are a lot of reasons why people do not understand the concept of punishment in the world. People think very differently from others, therefore, people will have different beliefs of what is right and what is wrong. A person might consider one thing to be a wrong action and the need to ... and there is no need for punishment. If actions are not dealt with correctly, punishment will be of no use. People will become out of control and there will be nothing but chaos in the world we live in. This quote relates to the book, The Scarlet Letter, as well as all of its characters quite a bit. In fact the whole book, from what I have read, is mainly ...
- 10779: Analysis Of Platos Simile Of T
- ... the past. Plato describes men as being chained in a dark subterranean chamber with their eyes permanently turned to a screen before them, upon which pass the shadows of men living and working in the world of light. Since the prisoners in the underground cave have never known reality other than those shadows, they take them for all that actually is the whole truth , and if voices from the world above do reach them, they believe it is the shadows speaking. In comparison of this to our government today, many similarities can be seen. Citizens of our nation today are often blinded from the truths ... themselves, this is the way that they will always live their life. Plato symbolizes this by suggesting that one of these men is freed and ventures out of the cave into the light, or the world above, and sees the sun, symbolizing the form of the good . Plato s object in this work was not of personal enlightenment; he had the sense to understand that where communication was lacking, such ...
- 10780: Visitors From Oz
- Visitors From Oz The book Visitors From Oz, written by Martin Gardner is a very interesting fiction about Dorothy Gale, Scarecrow, and The Tin Woods Man, they have been invited to New York City by a movie producer by the name of Samuel Gold. The story begins by the three of them getting invited to New York, and during there visit, they have some interesting encounters with Samuel Golds most hated rival Buffalo Odersby Boggs, but like every other fairy tale, good conquers over evil and they get back to ... a young boy his mother read to him the Oz books, and it was from the Oz books that he learned to read. Not only did he learn to read he learned about a whole new and different place called Oz. Even though Samuels mother insisted that the books were fiction, he never gave up believing that they were as real as you and me. Even when he started ...
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