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- 381: Effects Of The Atomic Bomb
- ... destructive way of killing people known to man would have to be the atomic bomb. The reason why the atomic bomb is so destructive is that when it is detonated, it has more than one effect. The effects of the atomic bomb are so great that Nikita Khrushchev said that the survivors would envy the dead (International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, 1982). These devastating physical effects come from ... deal of damage is done (Physicians and Scientists on Nuclear War, 1981). A fireball is created by the blast, which consists mainly of dust and gasses. The dust produced in this fireball has no substantial effect on humans or their environment. However, as the gasses expand a blast wave is produced. As this blast wave moves, it creates static overpressure. This static overpressure then in turn creates dynamic pressure. The static ... bomb's damage. Thermal radiation can come in either one of three forms; ultraviolet radiation, visible radiation, or infrared radiation. The ultraviolet radiation is absorbed so rapidly by air particles that it has no substantial effect on people (World Book, 1990). However, the visible and infrared radiation creates an enormous amount of heat to be produced, approximately ten million degrees Celsius at the hypocenter (Physicians and Scientists on Nuclear War, ...
- 382: Alex's Analysis of Any Abject Abuse
- ... pentameter of dignified epics like Paradise Lost. And of course, Pope's mastery of the heroic couplet, and the balanced, measured rhythms of his lines, lend an even greater air of solemnity. To achieve this effect, he inverts the syntax of ordinary speech, as in these lines: "Her lively looks a spritely mind disclose" (ii, 9), ""Favors to none, to all she smiles extends" (II, 11), and "Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike" (ii, 13). The effect of this inversion is to add rhetorical weight to the end of the line; the sentence feels particularly "complete." At the same time, the reader is always aware that the poem is a joke. Pope ... of air" (27-28) and exorts her: "thy own importance know" (35); but because Belinda is really only a "gentle belle" (8), a pampered and privileged young woman, capable of mere "infant thought" (29), the effect is humorous. The stakes in this mock-heroic epic are Belinda's maidenhood, and the convention of the epic warning comes by way of Ariel's reading of bad omens: "Late as I ranged ...
- 383: Analysing War Poetry
- ... are sinking in and they cannot move well. The next stanza changes pace dramatically with a few short sentences, and also there is onomatopoeia throughout the stanza, used on every line but one to good effect. Gas! GAS! Quick, boys! An ecstasy of fumbling, Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time; But someone still was yelling out and stumbling, And flound ring like a man in fire or lime Dim, through ... drowning. The squadron of men are rushing to get their gas masks on and in the panic, one man fails to do so. The use of the word floundering in this sentence has a great effect, because to see a man falling about, unable to keep steady, floundering is a hugely appropriate word, even by the sound of it. Owen says he says he saw the man drowning under a green ... of the terrible conditions faced during the war, and also how they affected him. Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knive us Alliteration is used here to create a cold, icy effect with the s , and the short words broken up give a twitchy effect. The poem actually makes no reference to killing, just the burying of fallen soldiers at the end. I don t think ...
- 384: Natural Disasters
- ... the United States. There are many reasons why I chose to use this variable. The main reason is I couldn't think of another topic that fit into e veryone's lives and had an effect on everyone. The hurricane year is broken up into two seasons. They are referred to as early season and late season. The early season starts June first and runs to September 10. The late season ... is the date that separates early season from late season. This leads me to what my research was about. I am writing about the differences between early season and late season hurricanes and how they effect the variable that were mentioned earlier in the paper. I feel that late season hurricanes cause more economic loss than early season hurricanes. I will start by taking about what a hurricane is and how ... loss of both variables will come next followed by the reasons for this. Finally a summary will end my research. The research of my paper will involve storms that form in the Atlantic Ocean and effect The United States and its neighbors. The main reason that I have decided to research this part of the world and not look at the rest of the world is I live in this ...
- 385: How to Listen to Music, Not Just Hear it
- ... can't be wide open. For example, it can't be an unfinished basement with concrete walls and a cement floor. The sound will not be able to bounce off the walls and give the effect as if the sound is coming from behind you, as well as in front of you (the surround effect). A good room to listen in, is a typical family room with sheet rock walls and four ninety degree corners. The second consideration is placement of speakers. The corners of a room are the perfect ... and woofers give you their undivided attention. Where to sit is simple, but it takes some easy calculations to find the perfect spot. There is a common rule for a person to experience the full effect of the music. In order to do this, measure the distance between the two speaker cabinets. If the speaker's cabinets are placed twelve feet apart from each other, divide twelve feet in half, ...
- 386: Alcohol An Issue Within College Society
- ... by being away from home for the first time with a new found freedom to live as they please. College life is a new experience and the pressures that come along with it have an effect on a student s path to success. Unfortunately, alcohol is one of these pressures. Alcohol abuse is a major problem that many young men and women encounter throughout their college experience. Drinking on college campuses ... the thoughts and ideas of college administrators. It has been proven that this is a major problem, and it is worsening among the young men and women who attend our colleges. College drinking has an effect on not only the drinkers, but on their friends and classmates as well. How are non-drinking students affected by the presence of alcohol? Many are pressured to drink in order to fit in with ... It has been proven that drinking on campus has consequences for those who choose not drink as well. According to the Brown University Digest of Addiction Theory and Application, students who drink cause problems that effect other students who do not drink. Non-drinking students, at schools where drinking was common, reported having sleeping and study difficulties (68%) as well as having to console drunken students regularly (54%). Also, the ...
- 387: Video Cards
- ... are segmented into triangles. Rendering also fills in all of the points on the surface of the object which were only saved as a set of vertices previously. In this way, an object with 3D effect is able to display on a flat 2D monitor. A new video card - Matrox Millennium Lastly, let's discuss some new features of a new video card Matrox Millennium. Matrox Millennium is a 64-bit ... mapping : This applies bitmapped texture images which are stored in memory to objects in the screen so as to add realism. Bilinear and trilinear filtering : They smooth textures in a scene to lessen the blocky effect. With MIP ( multim in parvum ) mapping, an application provides different resolutions of an object as they move closer or further in the screen. Perspective correction : This rotates the texture bitmaps to give a better sense ... Thus, when the video card renders a continuous moving object such as a meadow, it is able to maintain a realistic look as it recedes from the viewer. Anti - aliasing : This diminishes the "stair step" effect since the computer generated image has a finite discrete resolution. Alpha blending : This allows one object to show through another to create a transparent look. Atmospheric effects : This usually make use of the alpha ...
- 388: AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
- ... of affirmative action was to give minorities and women an equal opportunity at employment and in collegiate admissions, in present time, the program gives minorities and women an unfair advantage. The program was brought into effect ratios of employment and college admissions between whites and blacks were not corresponding with population. A second reason affirmative action was activated was to help disadvantaged minorities, those with insufficient financial funds, many could not ... because the class she applied was reserved only for African-American students (Curry 169). This is a case of reverse discrimination, and returns our present to the past, where Jim Crow laws were still in effect; separating the races, I fail to see the color-blind attempt in this incident. How can protesters say,
there are no victims of reverse discrimination (Curry 169). Non-minorities are being discriminated against; an example ... of affirmative action was to give minorities and women an equal opportunity at employment and in collegiate admissions, in present time, the program gives minorities and women an unfair advantage. The program was brought into effect ratios of employment and college admissions between whites and blacks were not corresponding with population. A second reason affirmative action was activated was to help disadvantaged minorities, those with insufficient financial funds, many could ...
- 389: Stock Market
- ... information I got, I can easily see that that the U.S. economy is poised to reach unsustainable growth levels. The Import Prices Index for May rose a stronger than March. Prime Lending rate also effect the stock market, it's the interest rate that commercial banks charge their most creditworthy borrowers, such as large corporations. The prime rate is a lagging indicator and it also relates to an interest rate ... up to cut money supply. Also the interest rate that banks charge each other for the use of Federal Funds. It changes daily and is a sensitive indicator of general interest rate trends. Mortgage also effect our economy because the term of the loan affects how quickly I pay down the principal amount I borrowed, it also adjusts my total cost by the amount of equity I've build in the ... gas price increase. Looking at the indicator, we can see that it steadily increased from 11.68 to 18.06 (peak), but is dropping to 16.34 as of 6/2/99. This has some effect on other parts of the economy, but not as severe as was in our role-playing presentation. No significant changes in gold, CRB, and wheat just means that the prices has being stable for ...
- 390: The Chamber
- ... States Court system and the many aspects of it. There have been many comparisons of crime rates of death penalty states to non- death penalty states. These clearly show that the death penalty has no effect on the deteration of crime. The homicide Samich 3 rates in Michigan, Ohio and Illinois rise and fall along with Wisconsin. Michigan, Ohio and Illinois all have the death penalty. Wisconsin does not. In 1994 ... people, the lowest in 15 years. Isn't it odd that the crime rates were high with the death penalty and low without? Clearly this shows that the presence of the death penalty has no effect on the increase or decrease of crime rates. Even with the Death penalty, crime rates continue to rise and fall in the United States. The number of people on death row in 1967 were in ... they witnessed at least one execution before the committed their crime. They committed the crime even though they had seen an execution before and that didn't scare them. Since the death penalty has no effect on the deteration of crime, what does? New York lowered crime rates by putting more police officers on the street, not by longer jail terms or death penalty. This was effective because if one ...
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