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- 721: The Threat of Nuclear Energy
- The Threat of Nuclear Energy You are watching the control panels and gages for rector two. Sitting comely you think about how easy your job is. It is a joke! All day you sit around and watch the gages for reactor number two just to make sure they maintain their settings. You don’t even need to look at the gages either because a computer automatically regulates ... uniformly distributed throughout the lung. Another problem with plutonium is its toxicity. Plutonium is the most toxic of all elements. Fred H. Knelman, who was a senior executive on the nuclear control panel in Washington D.C., wrote, "One pound of plutonium-239, distributed to the lungs of a large population, could cause between ten and fifteen million lung-cancer deaths" (32). Plutonium is rapidly becoming more and more common throughout the world because it is being produced all the time in nuclear reactions. The Nuclear Control Institute, in Washington D.C., published a paper on the Internet describing the problem of plutonium production. By the turn of the century, 1,400 metric tons of plutonium will have been produced in the spent fuel of ...
- 722: Ozone Depletion in the Antarctic
- ... by marine diatoms, pp. 354-359 in Inorganic nitrogen in plants and microorganisms: Uptake and metabolism. W.R. Ullrich, C. Rigano, A. Fuggi, J.P Aparicio, (eds.), Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, 1990. Garrison, D.L., C.W. Sullivan, and S.F. Ackley, Sea ice microbial communities in Antarctica, Bio. Science, 4, 243-250, 1986. Jeffery, S.W. and G.H. humphry, New spectrophotometric equations for determining chlorophylls a, b, c1, and c2 in higher plants, algae, and natural phytoplankton, Biochem. Physiol. Pflanzen., 167, 191-194, 1975. Karentz, D. and L.H. Lutze, Evaluation of biologically harmful ultraviolet radiation in Antarctica with a biological dosimeter designed for aquatic environments, Limnol. Oceanor., 35, 549-561, 1990. Karsten, U., C. Wiencke, and G.O. Krist, The effect of light intensity and daylegnth on the B-dimethylsulphonio-proionate (DMSP) content of marine green microalgae from Antarctica, Plant cell Environment, 12, 989-993, 1990. Lubin, D., J.E. Fredrick, C.R. Booth, T. Lucas, and D. Neuschuler, Measurements of enhanced springtime ultraviolet radiation at Palmer Station, Antarctica, Geophys. Res. Lett., 16, 783-785, 1989. Smith, R.C., K.S. Baker, ...
- 723: Melatonin And The Pineal Gland
- ... so at night, when there's no sun, the sleep-inducing hormone is released into our bodies. Because of the pineal gland and melatonin, humans have known to sleep at night and wake during the day since long before the age of alarm clocks. Humans don't produce melatotin right from birth; it is transfered in utero to babies through the placenta. For their first few days of life, babies still ... keep us feeling generally healthy and energetic; not to mention the things melatonin can do for us right now like curing insomnia and regulating sleeping patterns, eliminating the effects of jet-lag, and relieving every day stress. Melatonin is known as the "regulator of regulators", because it sends out the messages that control the amounts of all the different hormones in our bodies. It is a balance among our different hormones ... causes our metabolism to speed up, our muscles to tense, our heart to beat faster, which often causes us to become hot or start to sweat, and often to produce excess stomach acid. In this day and age, however, we can't always release this tension the way that our body may intend us to. For example, in a threatening confrontation with a teacher, I could niether punch my teacher ...
- 724: James Watson's The Double Helix: A Review
- James Watson's The Double Helix: A Review A review of Watson, James D. The Double Helix. New York: Atheneum, 1968. James Watson's account of the events that led to the discovery of the structure of deoxyribose nucleic acid (DNA) is a very witty narrative, and shines light ... teaching Watson because of Herman's current personal affairs (Herman and his wife decided to get a divorce). With Herman's lack of interest in teaching biochemistry, Watson found himself spending the majority of the day working with Ole on his experiments. While in Copenhagen, Herman suggested that Watson go on a spring trip to the Zoological station at Naples. It was in Naples that Watson first met Wilkins. It was ... going to make a major impact in the world. A phone call was made to Wilkins asking that he come to Cambridge to view the model and issue his opinion on its validity. The next day both Wilkins and Rosy came to Cambridge to view the model. Watson and Crick had their presentations prepared. They planned to dazzle their audience as they explained how they solved the complexity of the ...
- 725: Noah's Ark and The Great Flood
- ... species of beetle alone. The sheer number of insects could fill several arks, before you even consider the larger creatures. The ark would have to be the single largest ship ever in earths history. Modern day technology could not possibly create a ship large and stable enough to act as Noah's Ark (it's been suggested that Noah would have needed a space-suit to walk on the deck). Yet ... all the specialized requirements of food and environments for millions of creatures? 320 different species of hummingbird alone, for example, have very high metabolic rates and have to consume large amounts of nectar throughout the day. The Ark would have had to cater for 640 hummingbirds, requiring a constant supply of insects and nectar. How could the ark cope with disposing of the waste products of all those creatures? It must ... or four thousand, five hundred million cubic kilometers of water! Also, the rain is supposed to have fallen in about 40 days. That means that there would have been about 220 m of rainfall every day over the entire planet (8800/40 = 220)! (Note: volume of sphere = 4/3 pi r³, and I use the American billion of 1,000,000,000 here). Since rain is fresh water, this would ...
- 726: Thomas More’s Utopia
- ... Europe in that there are no classes but distinctions marked by their sex and marital status. They all dress the same wearing colorless, homemade clothing (The World Book Encyclopedia 802). No one is allowed a day off of work. They must work everyday and are watched by a Syphogrant. Everyone must work in order to get food. This ensured that all work was done and no one goes hungry. Utopians’ working ... by the French author Voltaire, Erewhon by the English novelists Samuel Butler, and A Dream of John Ball by the English poet and artist William Morris (Encarta). By this time in More’s life he’d become very religious and devoted to his faith. He served on a diplomatic mission to the Low Countries for Henry VIII. More became a member of Privy Council and was knighted shortly after that. Two ... for over seven months before tried. More was even taken to the Archbishop of Canterbury to be convinced, but he had his mind made up. He refused to obey the king (More). On the same day Bishop Fisher refused to take the Oath also. The two of them, along with a few others, were taken to the Tower. Everyone told him about how all the other priests and bishops took ...
- 727: Schwa
- ... in `Schwa'. The name stuck." After his move to Wisconsin, Krantz stayed in touch with his fellow believers in Michigan. He began working part time at a hardware store for a few months. His last day at the store was the turning point for the religion. "I used to steal solvent from the store, take it to my dorm and sniff it," he laughs. "Pretty pathetic, really. Finally my boss caught ... slowly zoomed in on Wisconsin, showing more and more detail, until the whole of my vision was filled with the University campus. An arrow flashed, pointing at the dormitories. Then I woke up. "The next day we had a meeting. Each of us was exited. We just looked around at each other, and we knew. Each of us had had the same dream. We knew that it was really a carrier for that message. We had to tell everyone we knew the joke. It was a pretty good one, the type you'd tell friends anyway, and it wasn't dirty so you could tell anyone. But no-one seemed to report any strange dreams afterwards, or even act strange. So, we just decided that the dream ...
- 728: Hinduism
- ... Before and After Death Page 2 C. The Caste System Page 2 Rituals of Life in Hinduism Page 3 & 4 Worship A. Daily Obligations Page 4 B. Daily Rituals Page 4 C. Puja Page 5 D. Yoga Page 5 Hindu Holy Books A. Veda Page 5 B. Laws of Manu Page 5 C. The Epics Page 6 Pilgrimage Page 6 Shivarati Page 6 & 7 Introduction Hinduism - stands for the faith and ... rites are performed. The gods are asked to protect the unborn child, and to strengthen the mother spiritually, mentally and physically so that a healthy child is born. Name-giving: on the eleventh or twelfth day after birth a name is chosen for the baby. The choice of name is very important, it must be on which is hoped will bring good fortune. A boys name may indicate heroism and a ... the funeral because death and anything to do with food must be kept separate. Worship Daily Rituals Those of the highest and priestly caste and others who wear the sacred thread , observe five obligations each day: 1. They must always worship Brahman either directly or through other gods 2. They must give reverence to the saints and holy men by reciting the Veda. Usually this consists of a repetition of ...
- 729: Education of ee cummings
- Education of ee cummings Outline I.Introduction A.Cummings' life B.Introduction to Cummings' ideogram form C.5 Poems being analyzed D.Thesis Statement: Cummings utilizes unique syntax in these poems in order to convey messages visually as well as verbally. II.Poem analyses A.l(a 1.Theme - not sadness or loneliness, but oneness 2.Syntax ... poem b.shape of a poem representing leaf falling 3.Images - one and oneness B.mortals) 1.Theme a.‘eachness' b.‘climbi' and ‘begi' 2.Syntax a."open ing" b."of speeds of" c."&meet&" d."a/n/d" e."(im" à "mortals)" 3.Images - circularity of poem C.!blac 1.Theme a.‘!' and its results b.Cummings' comment c.‘.g' at end 2.Syntax a.less free verse than one may first ...
- 730: A Review of A Shakespearean Sonnet
- ... poem have three quatrains and a concluding couplet and have a clear thought division about half way through the sonnet. "And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimm'd. But thy eternal summer shall not fade" (lines 7-9) This type of poetry suites the subject Shakespeare has chosen to write about because each quatrain has a different means to compare the subject to a summer's day and about half way through, Shakespeare changes and decides that the subject is better than a summer's day. The sonnet is essentially made up of two different parts, the first being the problem and the second part being an answer. The theme that Shakespeare has chosen is love and this theme works ...
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