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- 2451: Gun Control
- ... gun turns average citizens into bloodthirsty lunatics. This theory falls apart under close scrutiny. If legal possession of a firearm caused this sort of attitude, then why are crime rates highest in areas such as Washington, D.C. and New York City which have strict gun control laws? Simply because of the free law that allow any body can get a gun. The most recent efforts of the gun control lobby ...
- 2452: Thoeries of Evolution
- ... controbutions that were especially important. The German-born Ernst Mayr, a zoologist, showed that new species usually arise in geographic isolation, often following a genetic turn that quickly changes the contents of their gene pools. George Simpson, a paleontologist, showed from the fossil record that rates and modes of evolution are correlated. G. Ledyard Stebbins, a botanist, showed that plants display evolutionary patterns similar to those of animals, and especially that ...
- 2453: Nuclear Power
- ... similar in the over all form, the nuclear power plants can produce much more energy then the conventional fossil fuel power plants. Sources Kaku, Michio and Trainer, Jennifer, et al. Nuclear Power: Both sides. Toronto: George J. McLeod Limited, 1982. Foreman, Harry. Nuclear Power and the Public. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1970. Martindale, David, et al. Heath Physics. Lexington: D.C. Heath and company, 1992. Weiss, Ann. The Nuclear Question ...
- 2454: Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation
- ... as black holes, are an exception but that's another story in itself (Edwards 498). Works Cited Zitzewitz, Paul W., Robert F. Neff, and Mark Davids. (1992). Physics: Principles and Problems. Peoria, Illinois: Glencoe. Gamow, George. (1962). Gravity: Classic and Modern Views. Garden City, New York: Anchor Books. Eddington, Sir Arthur. (1987). Space, Time, & Gravitation: An Outline of the General Relativity Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Edwards, Paul. (Ed.) (1967). The ...
- 2455: Great Gatsby Color Symbolism
- ... to come. The gray symbolizes a loss of hope. When the book describes Wilson with "an ashen dust veiled [Wilson's] suit and his pale hair...."(26) This shows that there is no hope for George Wilson. Also, gray can symbolize death. The gray valley of ashes ties in very well with this concept when Myrtle dies in the ugly, hopeless town. In summary, color plays an important role on the ...
- 2456: The Forever Moving Land
- ... New York: MacMillan Publishing Company, 1986), p. 13. 8. Waltus Sullivan, Continents in Motion. 2nd. ed. (New York: McGraw Hill Book Company, 1991), p. 96. BIBLIOGRAPHY Bird, John M. and Isacks, Bryan, ed., Plate Tectonics. Washington American Geophysical Union, 1972. Broecker, Wallace S. How to Build a Habitable Planet. Palisades, New York: Eldigio Press, 1985. Christopherson, Robert W. Geosystems. 2nd. ed. New York: MacMillan College Publishing Company, 1994. Erickson, Jon Volcanoes ...
- 2457: Gullivers Travels
- ... the middle of the road in pain. Like any good satire, "Gulliver‘―s Travels" cannot be read purely as an analogy, as some scholars have tried to do. You cannot say that the Emperor "is" George I, or Filimap "is" Robert Walpole. The Emperor is the Emperor and Filimap is himself. But by making the political and religious situations of the eighteenth century seem even more ridiculous than they already were ...
- 2458: Hamlet 3
- ... Eileandonan was a strong castle in Kintail, by Loch Dunich and Loch Long, today it's one of the most photographed castles in Scotland. Soon other titles were given to powerful MacKenzie's. Like Sir George MacKnezie the first Earl of Cromarty,(McNie,1983), who wrote the charter of 1266 in his Majesties service. The charter contains the events which lead to the MacKenzies gaining there coat of arms. It tells ...
- 2459: The Hippopotamus: Endangered Species Report
- ... way-of-life also suffers. Bibliography Brust, Beth W. Zoobooks: Hippos. San Diego: Wildlife Education, Ltd., 1989. Estes, Richard. The Safari Companion. Simon & Schuster, 1991. MacDonald, David (ed.). The Encyclopedia of Mammals. Vol. 2. London: George, Allen & Unwin, 1984. Redmond, Ian. "Africa's Four Legged Whale," Wildlife Conservastion. Jan.-Feb. 1991, pp 60-69.
- 2460: Huckleberry Finn Essay 2
- ... forgot his name for a minute is but a minor detail that would have probably gone unnoticed had it not been for Huck's two previous follies. After he divulges his "true" identity as being George Peters, the woman tells Huck "You do a girl tolerable poor, but you might fool men, maybe. Bless you, child, when you set out to thread the needle don't hold the thread still and ...
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