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- 3231: Acid Rain 10
- ... atmosphere ny natural disasters or means. This ten percent of all sulfur dioxide emission comes from volcanoes, sea spray, plankton, and rotting vegetation. The oxides of nitrogen are by-products of firing processes of extreme high temperatures, for example: automobiles, and utility plants; and in chemical industries, for example: fertilizer production, etc. Also, natural processes such as bacterial action in soil, forest fires, volcanic action, and lightning make up five percent ... Clean Air Act Amendment. Before combustion, these utilities plants have to go through a process called coal cleaning. This process is performed gravitationally. It is a successful process in removing pyretic sulfur due to its high specific gravity, but it is unsuccessful in removing chemically bound organic sulfur. This cleaning process is only limited by the percent of pyretic sulfur in the coal. Coal with high amounts of pyretic sulfur is coal in higher demands. Another way to reduce sulfur dioxide before combustion is by burning coal with low sulfur content. Low sulfur content coals are called subituminous coal. This ...
- 3232: Mickey Mantle
- ... career years in the World Serieswith the Yankee's. When Mickey Mantle was growing up, he was small, and spindly. His nickname was "little Mick" when he was a child. Mantle went to Commerce grade school. When Mickey was little, he always thought about baseball (Falkner 21). His parents bought baseball gloves for him, but his mom made his uniforms. When he started playing he always was a good hitter from ... of the ball. Whenever the ball curved, he dropped so it would not hit him. His Dad was one that taught him how to switchhit. His dad and grandpa always got some games going after school with some of Mickey's friends (Falkner 22).The people who taught him how to play the game were his father and grandfather. He practiced with them for at least 2 hours a day (Falkner ... were not supposed to, and a lady came and seen them, and his friends left him on a raft and he could not swim, and he fell off and almost drowned.Mickey did not like school . He looked forward to recess andafter school. Baseball was a big thing in Oklahoma. Everyone went to watch the kids play (Falkner 30). Mantle was one of the fortunate kids, he could throw and ...
- 3233: AIDS: Risk Factors / Modes of Transmission / W. Africa
- ... West express a more gentle form of sex says Bethel (46). In Africa, the highest incidence of AIDS has been found among sexually active heterosexuals. The women tend to be younger than men and a high percentage are thought to be prostitutes. Women in Africa contract AIDS much more often than in North America. Also, it appears that AIDS can be transmitted across the placenta from the infected mother to the ... injections to oral medication because they believe it to be more effective. With that in mind, and the common re-use of needles due to lack of adequate supplies, one can see the danger and high risk associated with the practice. In addition, it has apparently been common to reuse needles in vaccinating children. And finally, ritual scarring may play some part in the spread of the virus. Africa has an incredible high prevalence rate among prostitutes in all countries. Prostitutes are at high risk for HIV-1 infection and are recognized worldwide as transmitters of HIV-1 (Bethel, 149). Prostitutes, having large numbers of partners, are ...
- 3234: Computer In The Classroom
- ... make you think it wasn't running on frames. While we do not possess the technology right now to create such marvelous screens, we are not so far away. Right now we have projectors and high definition TV's capable of displaying any computer screen in the room onto the wall at almost any size we can make. With monitors being at least .28 dot pitch, in a well-lit room ... allowed to work without strain if used not excessively. The room must also be designed so that a professor or student may show his work to the entire class. This is achieved by having a high-resolution projector mounted from the ceiling, or placed in the back of the room. It should be connected to a "matrix switcher." At Bucknell in addition to the University of North Florida, we use the ... output, and are inexpensive. Their downfall is the inability for groups to listen to the same sound, and theft. Last but not least, the room can have a centralized speaker system. This would be a high-powered surround sound system capable of using the input of any computer from the classroom. The benefits here lie in the ability for high quality sound produced for an entire classroom to listen to ...
- 3235: The Life of Identical Twins
- ... twin from birth so that they will not experience individualisation problems (Siemon, 1980). According to Sandbank (1988), three main factors play roles in the development of twin individuality. These are: competition in the twinship, the school environment and parental attitude. Competition, according to Mathias (1992), results from being either envious or jealous of someone else. Jealousy is something that twins probably experience before other children as they are always competing for ... a complex one recognising special parenting skills in promoting healthy individuality in each twin. One of the most important decisions parents will make, is whether or not to place their twins together or apart in school. If parents have encouraged individuality then the transition may be experienced the same as a single child starting school (Twin & Multiple Birth Association 1999). However, if twins have spent all their lives together with little contact with other children and little interaction with their parents then being on their own, maybe for the ...
- 3236: Frederick Douglass
- ... a good father although he was often gone. His wife had their fifth child Annie. She was born in 1849. Unfortunately Rochester's public schools would not admit black students, so for Douglass's children school was private. But Douglass fought to end segregation in the Rochester school system. He got his wish for his children to go to school in 1857 when the school system allowed black students. Along with his fight for integration he was an important part of the underground railroad. After meetings with John Brown, Douglass started believing that pacifist ...
- 3237: Won't Libertarian Socialism Destroy Individuality?
- ... priding themselves on the autonomous individual, the Iroquois maintained a strict sense of right and wrong..." [Columbus, the Indians and Human Progress, 1492-1992] In addition, Native American tribes also indicate that communal living and high standards of living can and do go together. The Cherokees, for example, in the 1870s, "land was held collectively and life was contented and prosperous" with the Department of the Interior recognising that it was ... of progress, with successful production by people living in considerable comfort, a level of education 'equal to that furnished by an ordinary college in the States,' flourishing industry and commerce, an effective constitutional government, a high level of literacy, and a state of 'civilization and enlightenment' comparable to anything known: 'What required five hundred years for the Britons to accomplish in this direction they have accomplished in one hundred years,' the ... each can own the land he cultivates, they will not make much more progress." The introduction of capitalism - as usual by state action - resulted in poverty and destitution, again showing the link between capitalism and high living standards is not clear cut, regardless of claims otherwise). Undoubtedly, having access to the means of production ensured that members of such cultures did not have to place themselves in situations which could ...
- 3238: A Portrait Of The Artist As A
- ... novel and autobiography, I feel called upon to see Joyce's schoolfellows in two ways at once. They are characters in a novel, bigger than life, and they are real people like me and my school and college pals. (280) The Catholic religion is a significant and recurring theme in James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Though brought up in the church, several major events lead Stephen to defy the lessons of his Catholic school education and choose a life of his own, the life of an artist. Through his experiences with religion, Stephen Dedalus both matures and gradually discovers an identity of his own. As a young boy, religion is crucial to Stephen's life. Stephen was reared in a strict Catholic family. The demand for compliance placed on Stephen shapes his life early at Clongowes, a preparatory school run by the Jesuit order. Even as he is adhering to the principles of his Catholic school upbringing, he becomes increasingly disillusioned. Even though Joyce spoke warmly of his own experiences at Clongowes he ...
- 3239: On the Jews and Their Lies
- ... people on earth. In comparison with them and in their eyes we Gentiles (Goyim) are not human; in fact we hardly deserve to be considered poor worms by them. For we are not of that high and noble blood, lineage, birth, and descent. This is their argument, and indeed I think it is the greatest and strongest reason for their pride and boasting. Therefore, God has to endure that in their ... he said, among other things, "Any uncircumcised male shall be cut off from his people" [Gen. 17:14]. With these words God consigns to condemnation all who are born of flesh, no matter how noble, high, or how low their birth may have been. He does not even exempt from this judgment the seed of Abraham, although Abraham was not merely of high and noble birth from Noah, but was also adjudged holy (Genesis 15) and became Abraham instead of Abram (Genesis 17). Yet none of his children shall be numbered among God's people, but rather ...
- 3240: Cystic Fibrosis
- ... was give to a Cystic Fibrosis patient. In 1995 a four-year foundation funded the study showing that the drug ibuprofen, reduced the rate of lung inflammation in Cystic Fibrosis, under controlled conditions, and in high doses, especially in children (CFF 3). Each time two carriers conceive a child, there is a 25 percent chance that the child will have Cystic Fibrosis; a 50 percent chance the child will be a ... Fibrosis. The standard test in the United States for Cystic Fibrosis is the sweat test (CFF 4). The sweat test is simple, and painless. It simply measures the amount of salt in your sweat. A high salt content indicated the presence of Cystic Fibrosis. The median survival age of Cystic Fibrosis patients is between 24-30 years of age (CFF 4). Many don't live past infancy or childhood. Those who ... with the feeling of constant pneumonia. This feeling is like a heavy weight set on your chest, although most patients don't realize the feeling as being anything but normal. Cystic Fibrosis is a very high-risk disease in the United States today. It is very hard to imagine what it would be like to have this burden on your shoulder everyday. Cystic Fibrosis brings out the strong side in ...
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