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- 9471: French Nuclear Testing
- ... the future. France has been bombarded with criticism, not only from environmental activists, but also from political standpoints. Japan and Australia officially protested French experiments and have convinced other Asian and Pacific nations to agree. New Zealand and Chile have recalled their ambassadors from France and the Japanese are presently protesting outside of their French embassy. 56% of the citizens in France polled oppose the tests and 60% want Chirac to ... device in the South Pacific. Many of the protesting nations located in the Pacific have signed and support this treaty . Also, France has not followed the initiative of most of the nations of the developed world in signing a 1971 treaty prohibiting "the emplacement of nuclear weapons ... on the ocean floor and in the subsoil thereof." Besides public and international disapproval, France may suffer other side effects because of the nuclear testing. The explosive power of the blast is just less than 20 kilotons (20,000 tons of TNT). The bomb on Hiroshima was 15 kilotons. New Japanese research shows that bomb radiation increases risk of long term cancer. Radiation causes ionization in the molecules of living cells. The ions formed can react with the atoms in the cell causing damage. ...
- 9472: In Cold Blood
- ... work that "read like a novel". He chose a murder not for the subject itself, but because the case would provide enough facts for a large-scale work. Capote achieved more than just inventing a new genre journalism written with the language and structure of literature. The images of this tale continue to resonate in our minds: 16-year-old Nancy Clutter talking on the phone to her best friend about ... to be a horrifying, chilling, blood curdling distasteful piece of literature. I was perturbed that anyone could just sit and read about killing innocent people. It really opened up my eyes to how real the world is. The fact that things like this happen every day all over the world, well it frankly disturbed and astounded me. In conclusion, I don t think I would recommend this to any person of weak stomach.
- 9473: A Passage Of Time
- ... he could and noticed that as he began to understand the situation, he felt progressively less heavy. It appears as though the effects that a time slow-down would have on the rest of the world were escaping Bradley, himself. Bradley quickly ran outside and watched the normally swift traffic move along at perhaps half the normal velocity. The sounds of the motors humming was deeper and more menacing than usual ... Bradley shouted to no-one in particular. He ran back into his apartment, seated himself in his room and began to type away at his keyboard. It took a while to get used to the new weight of the keys, but if it meant having the chance to complete his assignments on time without worry, he would make the necessary adjustments. As Bradley fiercely hypothesized, analyzed and evaluated his data, the ... bathroom, took a deep breath, and grabbed his pill bottle from the medicine cabinet. After taking his medication, he walked into the kitchen and planned to prepare dinner. As a means of testing out the new speed (or lack thereof) of things, Bradley planned to create a huge meal, preparing several foods at the same time. Bradley knew that he alone had control over the passage of time, so he ...
- 9474: University of Pennsylvania Essay Questions
- ... increasingly important. In only 100-200 years, oil reserves will be nearly used up, and natural gas will be used up shortly after that. As demands for energy increase with the development of the third world and since energy is necessary to the prosperity of all nations, engineers must devise practical, affordable, and environmentally sound solutions to the upcoming energy crisis. I do not believe the future of renewable energy research ... be the first one in my family who has ever studied overseas, and while I find this idea fascinating, I realize it will not be easy. Without having anyone around to advise me about the new life I will face, I have had to figure out everything by myself. If I am to make a mistake in selecting a college, I will bear the full burden of that mistake. As I ... I was preparing the hamburgers that I had eaten hundreds of times before without recognizing how grueling the process was. Both working in the kitchen as the cashier, I got a sense of the business world from the level of the lowest employee. I ended the summer very content and quite motivated to excel at college to avoid mindless, unskilled work like my McDonald’s job. Question: Most people belong ...
- 9475: CRANBERRIES
- CRANBERRIES A Report on Cranberry Growing and Northland Cranberries INC. Northland Cranberries, Inc. is the world's largest grower of cranberries, it has 2,841 acres in production and 20,000 acres of support land. Northland operates 20 growing properties in the central and northern parts of Wisconsin and 4 in ... cranberry company in the United States. Northland just completed a $5.0 million juice concentrating plant, they are positioned to market cranberry concentrate and other value-added cranberry products to trade to consumers around the world. The company is also making a line of juice blends. There will be six flavors: Cranberry Apple, Cranberry Raspberry, Cranberry Grape, Cranberry Strawberry, Cranberry Cherry, and Cranberry Peach. They also markets the Northland Ò brand ... ice on the plants trucks drive onto the beds to spread out about ½ an inch of ice on the ice. When the ice melts in the spring the sand falls below the plant. This allows new vines to easily grow and root into he sand. Frost is another problem for farmers so they sprinkle the vines with water. As the water freezes, heat is released, this protects the plants from ...
- 9476: Stereograms
- ... dots that make up a small shape. In this example the small shape is a circle and the selected dots are the dots that fall within the blue circle. (fig. 2). Next, he created a new rectangle identical to the original rectangle, except that the dots within the small shape have been shifted to the left. (fig. 3). When the two rectangles are viewed together as a stereo pair, the image ... will have the greatest frustration when attempting to view stereograms. Works Cited Cooper, Rachel. How to See In 3D. Andrews and McMeel Publishing. Kansas City, MO. 1995 N.E. Thing Enterprises, ed. Magic Eye: A New Way of Looking at the World. Andrews and McMeel Publishing. Kansas City, MO. 1993 Internet site. Magic Eye Web Page. URL: http://www.magiceye.com. Rachel Cooper, webmaster. 1999 Internet site. Vision 3D Web Page. URL: http://www.vision3d.com. ...
- 9477: The Last Day Of The Year
- ... this poem, The year at its turn (Droste-Hulshoff, 1). Throughout this poem, she uses the year to represent a period of time that is coming to an end. Referring to the introduction in the World Reader, Droste-Hulshoff was a woman yearning for the freedom to be herself (Caws, 2002). This forces the reader to consider that she is using the time period of the year as the time of ... he will have final judgement. She feels The year at its turn, the whirring thread unrolls. (Droste-Hulshoff 1-2). Works Cited Droste-Hulshoff, Annette Von. The Last Day of the Year. The Harper Collins World Reader. Ed. Mary Ann Caws, Christopher Prendergast. Harper Collins College Publishers, New York, 1994. Pp. 2002-03.
- 9478: The Atomic Bomb anad Nuclear Bombs
- ... in 1942 to develop an atomic device. The leader of the Manhattan Project was U.S. Army Brigadier General Leslie R. Groves. His team, working in several locations but in large part at Los Alamos, New Mexico, under the direction of American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, designed and built the first atomic bombs. The first atomic explosion was conducted, as a test, at Alamogordo, New Mexico, on July 16, 1945. The energy released from this explosion was equivalent to that released by the detonation of 20,000 tons of TNT. Near the end of World War II, on August 6, 1945, the United States dropped the first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. It followed with a second bomb against the city of Nagasaki on August 9. ...
- 9479: JFK
- ... the youngest man elected president of the United States, dying from an assassin’s bullet after serving less than one term in office. Kennedy attended private elementary schools, including a year at Canterbury School in New Milford, Connecticut, and four years at Choate School in Wallingford, Connecticut. He spent the summer of 1935 studying at the London School of Economics. He entered Princeton University but was forced to leave during his freshman year because of an attack of jaundice. In the fall of 1936 he enrolled at Harvard University, graduating cum laude in June 1940. During World War II, he commanded a PT (torpedo) boat in the Pacific. When the boat was rammed and sunk by a Japanese destroyer in August 1943, Kennedy, despite serious injuries, led the surviving crew through miles ... narrow margin, Kennedy became the 35th president of the United States, the youngest president ever elected, and the first Roman Catholic president. Kennedy’s economic programs launched the country on its longest sustained expansion since World War II. He promoted social legislation, including a federal desegregation policy in schools and universities, along with Civil Rights reform. And in formation of the Alliance for Progress and the Peace Corps, he brought ...
- 9480: Gap Between Rich And Poor
- ... in America” (p.82). The educational system of the upper class emphasizes the building of “character”. Boarding schools are effective social agents which sociologist Erving Goffman calls “total institutions”, “isolating their members from the outside world and providing them with a set of routines and traditions that encompass most of their waking hours” (p.83). The students graduate feeling separate and superior over those outside of the upper class community. One ... both the teachers and the students. Because of this the students receive a poor education which reflects in their futures. In Kozol’s article, Savage Inequalities: Children in Americas Schools, he investigated public schools in New York and found that the majority of the schools were overcrowded and the buildings were practically ruins. One of the teachers stated, “We are handicapped by scarcity”. In order for the children to be motivated ... good” (p.98). The public schools located in more affluent communities are reported to be funded at a rate fourteen times greater than the low-income districts, according to the Post. The reason for the New York Board of Education not putting additional funding into the low-income districts is that they don’t believe the teachers will stay there. Students who attend the public schools in the more affluent ...
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