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- 1931: "An Ecosystem's Disturbance by a Pollutant
- ... pollutant, it offsets the food chain and potentially kills off other species that depended on that organism for food. Such is the case when a keystone species is killed. If predators were the dominant species high on the food chain, the organisms that the predator keep to a minimum could massively over produce creating a disturbance in the delicate balance of carrying capacity in the ecosystem. Along with this imbalance another ... tiny passages. The combined response is much greater than the sum of the individual responses. Plants have three strategies in response to a disturbance - this was suggested by Grimes. These strategies are: C - selection - having high competitive ability S - selection - having a high endurance for stress R - selection - having a good ability to colonize disturbed areas. Plant response to a disturbance was suggested by Connell and Slatyer (1977) using models. Model I (the "facilitation" model assumes that ...
- 1932: Monet
- ... prochain il a eu un operation. Sa vue s'est amelieorιe. Monet est mort en 1926. Il a souffrι d'un cancer du poumon. Monet's Art Monet's art began with his love for school. He once said, "It [school] seemed like a prison, and I could never bear to stay there, even for four hours a day, especially when the sunshine beckoned and the sea was smooth." Out of shear boredom Monet drew caricatures ... other subjects rather than solely art. However, there efforts failed them, not only because he was making more profit from one drawing than his teachers made in one day, but he later dropped out of school to become known as the "Father of Impressionalism". This title did not impress Monet; it was a position he never wanted. What he wanted out of life was to honor the lessons of his ...
- 1933: Thomas Alva Edison's Life: A Light Goes On
- Thomas Alva Edison's Life: A Light Goes On " Born when the world was starting on a technological joy ride, Edison was destined to set its gears 'on high, " writes Mary Nerney, in her 1934 biography, Thomas A. Edison: A Modern Olympian. " With every fundamental invention, he released dynamic forces through mass demand and mass use." Born in the small town of Milan, Ohio ... through departure, fulfillment, and return. First, his life starts off as a departure. Thomas was raised in Milan, Ohio, until the age of seven. He then moved to port Huron, Michigan where he went to school. Well, he didn't attend school for very long. After three months of school he just left. He had an oversized head that doctors believe was some sort of brain trouble and his teachers just thought that he was just ...
- 1934: Kenichi Ohmae
- ... special area of expertise is expressing a creative approach and developing uniformity, so that it can be implemented into the private and public sector. Ohmae is known in the United States as the author of high impact books and articles on corporate strategy,and in particular, as a guru of globalization. He has written books on reforming Japan, and has sold close to 2 million hardback copies. In his book The ... with contributions of 10,000 yen($90). Ohmae is also the founder and Managing Director of the "Ohmae and Associates". Since October 1996, Ohmae has been a visting professor of the Global Management Course, Graduate School of Business at Standford University. January 1997, he joined the UCLA School of Public and Social research as chancellor's Professor of Public Policy. He currently serves on the boards of MIT Corporation, The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and Niki, Inc. He received ...
- 1935: Biography of Edgar Allen Poe
- ... When Edgar was six years old, Mr. Allen's business took him to Scotland, the country from which he had come originally. The family stayed in Scotland and England for five years. Edgar went to school for a time at the Irvine Grammar School in Irvine, Scotland, and for several years at the Manor House School in Stoke Newington. Stoke Newington was later absorbed into expanding London, but when Edgar was in school there, it was an ancient village, rambling along an old Roman road with old Tudor houses lining ...
- 1936: Abraham Lincoln 3
- ... that at intervals over the next two years Abraham received enough additional schooling to be able, as he said later, "to read, write and cipher to the Rule of Three." All told, however, he attended school less than a year. Young Manhood During the 14 years the Lincolns lived in Indiana, the region became more thickly settled, mostly by people from the South. But conditions remained primitive, and farming was backbreaking ... William H. Herndon, later to be his biographer, as a partner. Marriage Meanwhile, on Nov. 4, 1842, after a somewhat tumultuous courtship, Lincoln had married Mary Todd. Brought up in Lexington, Ky., she was a high-spirited, quick-tempered girl of excellent education and cultural background. Notwithstanding her vanity, ambition, and unstable temperament and Lincoln's careless ways and alternating moods of hilarity and dejection, the marriage turned out to be ... in the White House Beset by military, diplomatic, and political problems, the President tried to keep his family life as normal as possible. The two youngest Lincoln boys, Thomas (Tad) and William Wallace (Willie), were high spirited lads. Their older brother, the sober Robert Todd Lincoln, was less frequently in Washington, because he was first a student at Harvard and later an aide to General Grant. Despite the snobbishness of ...
- 1937: Geothermal Energy
- ... choices has its pros and cons. Hydroelectric power tends to upset the ecosystems in rivers and lakes. It affects the fish and wild life population. Nuclear energy is a very controversial subject. Although it produces high quantities of power with relative efficiency, it is very hard to dispose of the waste. While wind and solar power have no waste products, they require enormous amounts of land to produce any large amounts ... depth of ten meters annual temperature changes no longer affect the temperature or the earth. The most common geothermal resources used for the production of human consumed energy are hydrothermal. Hydrothermal systems are characterized by high permeability by liquids. There are two basic types of hydrothermal systems, vapor and liquid dominated systems. In a liquid based system, pumps must be placed very deep in the well where only the liquid phase ... system is not as effective as others because the temperature that the heated water reaches is not very great. Geopressured geothermal systems are similar to hydrothermal systems. The only difference is the pressure of the high temperature reservoir. Geopressured geothermal systems may be associated with geysers. Some geopressured geothermal systems reach pressures of fifty to one hundred megapascals (MPa) at depths of several thousand meters. These systems provide energy in ...
- 1938: Public Education Vs. Home Scho
- Public Education vs. Home Schooling Education in our public schools has been on the down slope for over twenty years. With an increasing amount of school shootings, drugs, and other dementia, many parents today are home schooling their children. Although most people deem public education more suitable, many statistics and facts show that home schooling is equally beneficial. There are advantages ... Court in 1962. Since then, SAT scores have plummeted, while teen pregnancies, suicides, alcoholism, drug abuse, violence, and illiteracy rates have increased dramatically. Many believe disciplinary problems begin before a child s introduction to public school. In Washington, D.C., the principal of one elementary school banned regular recess due to drugs and violence. The children played outside only within an enclosed eight-foot concrete barrier. At times, play was allowed on a small section of playground monitored by the ...
- 1939: Woodstock
- ... t conform to society's standards and advocates a liberal attitude and lifestyle. Most of the people at Woodstock were not hippies in the commonly accepted sense: a good half of them, at least, were high school or college students from middle class homes ("The Big Woodstock, 33"). But at Woodstock they exhibited to the world many of the hippie values and life styles, from psychedelic clothing to spontaneous, unashamed nudity to ... is widely believed that a large amount of the population at the festival was smoking pot or tripping on acid, and if you weren't, there is a great chance that you had a contact high throughout the festivities. As the saying goes, "if you remember the '60's, you weren't at Woodstock." The drug laws were suspended throughout the festival because the police were afraid of a potentially ...
- 1940: The Renaissance
- ... Florentine official named Ludovico Buonarroti with connections to the ruling Medici family, placed his 13-year-old son in the workshop of the painter Domenico Ghirlandaio. After about two years, Michelangelo studied at the sculpture school in the Medici gardens and shortly thereafter was invited into the household of Lorenzo de' Medici, the Magnificent. There he had an opportunity to converse with the younger Medici. Michelangelo produced at least two relief ... Florence, the intellectual and artistic center of Italy, could offer. About 1466 he was apprenticed as a garzone (studio boy) to Andrea del Verrocchio. Leonardo da Vinci was one of the great masters of the High Renaissance, celebrated as a painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, and scientist. His profound love of knowledge and research was the keynote of both his artistic and scientific endeavors. His innovations in the field of painting influenced ... with the noted Florentine painter Alesso Baldovinetti. Except for a period spent in Rome working for Pope Sixtus IV, Domenico Ghirlandaio lived in Florence, where he became one of the greatest masters of the Florentine school. Ghirlandaio's keen observation, solid painting, and old-fashioned style appealed to the conservative Florentine businessmen who became patrons of Ghirlandaio's workshop. Although not an innovator, Ghirlandaio brought to its height in the ...
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