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- 3381: The Human Development Index
- ... Survey measures "prose", "document" and "quantitative" skills. This survey is divided down into 5 levels, with level 1 being the category with the lowest skill and level 5 being the highest. Developed countries usually have high literacy rates compared to the developing countries which is one of the main reasons for their success. Countries who have high literacy rates are more educated and therefor have the knowledge required to survive in the global economy. Unlike developed countries, the less developed countries have low literacy rates. This is perhaps the most important reason ... is the deprivation in survival. The deprivation in survival is measured by the percentage of the population likely to die before the age of 60. Therefor we could say that if a country has a high deprivation in survival, that country lacks health and medical systems that help people live longer. For example, Niger, which is located in Africa has one of the highest deprivations for survival in the world. ...
- 3382: The Acid Rain Effects On Living Things
- ... rise into the atmosphere and combine with moisture in the air to form acid rain. The main chemicals in air pollution that create acid rain are sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides. Acid rain usually forms high in the clouds where sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides react with water, oxygen, and oxidants. This forms a mild solution of sulfuric acid and nitric acid. These chemical reactions that change air pollution into acid ... unhealthy conditions for plants and animals near the smokestacks. To reduce this pollution, the government passed laws permitting the construction of very tall smokestacks. At the time, people thought that if the pollution was sent high into the air it would no longer be a problem. Sending the pollution high into the sky increases the amount of time that the pollution stays in the air. The longer the pollution is in the air, the greater the chance that the pollutants will form acid rain. ...
- 3383: Marcus Garvey
- ... few Blacks on the island, Garvey often played with the children of his white neighbors. The little girl who lived next to the Garvey’s home informed Marcus that she was being sent away to school in Scotland and that she was instructed by her parents "never to write or try to get in touch with me, for I was a ‘nigger.’" Although he was a good student, financial problems forced him to leave school at fourteen and become an apprentice. After helping organize a strike, Gravey was fired from his job. Garvey’s mind was clearly on politics and the need for organization rather than on his vocation. In ... Negro Improvement and Conservation Association and African Communities League (UNIA), with the intention of making Africa "the defender of Negroes the world over. (p.110 Black Leaders of the Twentieth Century") Intending to open a school in Jamaica similar to the one organized by Booker T. Washington in the United States, he accepted an invitation to visit Washington’s school at Tuskegee, Alabama. When he arrived in the United States, ...
- 3384: Millennium: Winners and Losers in the Coming World Order
- ... productive and mobile. They become privileged nomads, roaming the globe attached to cellular phones, portable fax machines, and waistband computers. Many people work all the time because they can’t get away from all the high tech paraphernalia, which he refers to as “Nomadic Objects.” “Microchip-based technologies, such as the transistor and the computer, have already opened the way for the unprecedented industrialization of service-from communication to education to ... power will dominate military power. Japan will lead in the new economic order, over America and Europe, because of the technological products they will manufacture and release in the market. Already Japan has mass produced high-technology consumer products that have been developed longer than in any other country. However, many people are refusing to believe that the United States is declining. Americans claim that they are blessed with “considerable financial ... engineering, armaments and dangerous environmental stimulants. These problems will plague our globe in the near future. The next millennium will be a prosperous as well as a fearful time. The world will be advanced in high tech nomadic objects that will suppress old technologies. This growth will cause more and more pollution, perhaps irreversibly ruining the environment that nurtured and sustains all life-span. I believe that not enough people ...
- 3385: John Dalton 4
- ... and while his family had food, they were still poor. His father Joseph was a weaver and John recieved most of his early education from his father. At the age of 12, John opened a school in Eagelsfield where he was the master. He was often threatened by the older boys who wanted to fight him because he was smarter, but he managed to keep in control for 2 years.Due to a poor salary, John was forced to leave his school and work in the fields with his brother. In 1781 John and his brother moved to Kendall. There John, his cousin George, and his brother ran a school where they offered English,Latin,Greek,French and twenty one mathematics and science course. Their school had sixty pupils. After twelve years at Kendall John started doing lectures and answering questions for mens magazines. ...
- 3386: Iliad By Homer
- ... death. Near the beginning of Book Three a group of elders of Troy, not fighting material, but skilled orators, are found resting on the tower "like cicadas that chirrup delicately from the boughs of some high tree in a wood." The cicadas song and the "tree in a wood" cast memories of repose and relaxation, rest and peace, which are then injected into the "delicate" elders. Later in Book Five, there ... the Acheans. In Book Twelve we have Polypoetes and Leonteus, defending the gate of the wall to the Greek ships from the invasion of the Trojans. These two imposing characters "stood before the gateslike two high oak trees upon the mountains, that tower from their wide-spreading roots, and year after year battle with wind and rain." This simile lends to the characters of the two, Polypoetes and Leonteus, along with ... the battle. Paris takes off "as a horse, stabled andfed, breaks loose and gallops gloriously over the plain to theplace where he is wont to bathe in the fair-flowing river- he holds his head high, and his mane streams upon his shoulders ashe exults in his strength and flies like the wind to the hauntsand feeding ground of the mares- even so went forth Paris from high Pergamus, gleaming ...
- 3387: The Japanese Economy
- ... 8% below production capacity. Industrial production has fallen 7%. There’s a huge shortfall between actual GDP (-3.5%) and potential GDP (5.5%). Japan is also experiencing large and increasing budget deficits and a high public debt to GDP ratio (Nouriel Roubini, 1996). The country’s unemployment is at 4.0%, an all time high for Japan. The Yen’s value fell from 1992 through 1996 and has been unstable then. Japan also has a large and persistent current account surplus, which further weakened the yen. During this time, Japan ... be summarized into six distinctive stages (Cargill 1996): (1) 1945-50. A postwar adjustment and foundation for rapid growth provided by the Dodge Plan and the stimulus of the Korean War; (2) 1950-70. A high growth period when real GDP grew 10% per year with moderate inflation of 5% per year; (3) 1971-5. A short but turbulent period of “wild inflation,” yen appreciation, and the collapse of fixed ...
- 3388: The Internet and Its Affect On the Economy
- ... mean that there is a very low amount of unemployment. According to many economists, there are three types of unemployment: frictional, structural, and cyclical. Frictional unemployment occurs when the rate of people changing jobs is high. The second kind of unemployment occurs when the increasingly different and unique demands of the industry cannot be satisfied by one person alone, and thus another must be hired to take his place. Cyclic unemployment ... thus the industry must lay-off workers. The Internet service providing industry has reached full employment only because it has zero cyclic unemployment. Frictional unemployment (which is not necessarily an adverse situation), however, is quite high. Also, in the Internet service providing industry, the primary and most economically efficient programming language constantly is changed (for example, in 1995, html was the primary Internet language, but as time progressed, Java, and soon, Macromedia Shockwave became common, because much more efficient programming techniques). Because of these constant changes, there is a high level of structural unemployment in this industry. These problems of structural unemployment in the Internet service providing industry can be alleviated, but in the long run, would alleviating the problem lead to a better ...
- 3389: Bioremediation Of Explosives In Contaminated Soil
- ... regulatory agencies only approve incineration and composting as decontamination technologies. Incineration was commonly accepted by the public in the late 1980's, but the acceptance of this is now declining. Composting costs can also be high due to the necessary things needed for the composting process. For these reasons the Army has invested in developing and demonstrating other biotreatment technologies. The Army has been searching for alternatives to treat soil and ... heat produced by microorganisms speed their metabolism and degradation of the organic materials in the waste. (Smith, 1999) Because of the modest equipment and monitoring requirements, windrow composting is a cost-effective technology, with a high degree of treatment effectiveness for explosives-contaminated soils at a low process cost. Windrow composting mixes the soil with compost in long piles known as windrows. To facilitate the microbial growth, things such as wood ... periodically using a compost turner. Moisture content, windrow oxygen level, and temperature are easily monitored. Windrow composting was used in the cleanup of a Superfund Site at Umatilla Army Depot, OR. TNT reductions were as high as 99.7% and removals of RDX and HMX were 99.8% and 96.8%.(Smith, 1999) For sites requiring greater process control, more complete degradation, or where the cost of importing compost ingredients ...
- 3390: Anti-Matter
- ... feel gravity as a push rather than a pull. If this were so, the antiproton's negative mass/energy would cancel the proton's when they met and nothing would remain; in reality, two extremely high-energy gamma photons are produced. Today's theories of the universe say that there is no such thing as a negative mass. The second and more subtle mistake is the idea that anti-water would ... when the anti-matter elements touch matter elements they annihilate each other. The total combined mass of both elements are released in a spectacular blast of energy. Electrons and positrons come together and vanish into high-energy gamma rays (plus a certain number of harmless neutrinos, which pass through whole planets without effect). Hitting ordinary matter, 1 kg of anti-matter explodes with the force of up to 43 million tons ... simply be annihilated. A proton and anti-proton (baryon number -1) can join together in an annihilation of both. The two heavy particles meet in a flare of energy and vanish, their mass converted to high-energy radiation wile their opposite charges and baryon numbers cancel out. We can make antiprotons in the laboratory by turning this process round, using a particle accelerator to smash protons together at such enormous ...
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