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- 3441: Acid Rain 2
- ... means using less energy. Less energy means less coal burned in power plants. Burning less coal means less acid in the air. Burning low-sulfur coal is the second step. There is a difference between high-sulfur coal and low-sulfur coal. High-sulfur coal will give off more sulfur in the air when it is burned. Burning low-sulfur coal will give off less sulfur which means less acid will enter the air. However, high- sulfur costs two thirds the price of low-sulfur coal. Then there are smokestack scrubbers. Scrubbers capture sulfur from smoke before it enters the air. The captured sulfur is mixed with other things, such ...
- 3442: Herman Melville: An Anti-Transcendentalist Or Not
- ... Herman Melville felt from his mother. This was one of the first symbolists to the Biblical Ishamel. In 1837 he shipped to Liverpool as a cabin boy. Upon returning to the U.S. he taught school and then sailed for the South Seas in 1841 on the whaler Acushnet. After an 18 month voyage he deserted the ship in the Marquesas Islands and with a companion lived for a month among ... This he has accomplished by writing stories, which had a depth, an essence of their own. Melville was not o much concerned with the commercial success of his works, but that was still a very high contributing factor to the motivation behind his writings. Although he mainly drew on his personal experiences while formulating the stories that he wrote, he greatly embellished them through his imagination and creativity to create literary ...
- 3443: Adolf Hitler: Pure Evil in the Flesh
- Adolf Hitler: Pure Evil in the Flesh Shepaug Valley High School Modern World While reading A Guide In Expository Writing For the Study Of History, By Charles Olivea, I was learning how to write a thesis. "The concept may be written as a single word or ...
- 3444: Heroes-A Definitive Essay
- ... hero emerged recently in Flint Police Officer Leslie Keely. Plainly put, Officer Keely gave his life, for us, the residents of Genesee County. Les Keely died while in the line of duty. Involved in a high-speed pursuit of a vehicle, Keely was killed when his cruiser was struck broadside by another police car, driven by a Michigan State Trooper. At that point in time, Officer Keely became an instant hero ... lives, property or who are killed in the line of duty. People who donate organs to save lives, the man killed on the expressway donated his heart, liver and kidneys. Teachers and students killed in school shootings. Good Samaritans that perish while helping others or who risk their lives to save other lives. They are true heroes. Everyday people that become heroes for what they have done. People have their own ...
- 3445: Humans Vs. Technology
- ... and wires could produce. Faster was better and scientists came up with machines that could do 2-3 times the work of a normal person given the same time frame. Today, technology has reached a high. It has become a pivotal role in society. World wide, computers take refuge in households, business', and even schools. They have become as common as a toothbrush. However, technology is not merely defined by computers ... computer could take over a planet. It would be an outrageous theory and no one would fall for it. Yet, a professional business could not function without the aid of at least one computer. A school could not keep track of students' records without the aid of technology. The list could go on and on. If society did not have technology, there is no way it could function in harmony. Without ...
- 3446: How TV Impacts Teens
- ... vulnerable, therefore these large industries target their ads towards teens. For example, there is a commercial for Molson Ice a brand of beer that use teens in their ad. The ads scenario is a high school party where teens are having fun while drinking beer. So what are teenagers going to think? They will think that if they drink beer they will have as much as the teens in the commercial ...
- 3447: Howard Stern: The King of Mass Media or the Anti Christ?
- ... up his mother and yell at her in front of the country and tell her how much he hates her, and that she was the worst mother in the world. Sometimes its a girl from high school who rejected Howard, or maybe he just feels like criticizing the people of the United States as a whole. Again these actions can directly be traced back to the strict and verbally abusive upbringing that ...
- 3448: Maya Angelou
- ... and dance. In 1940 she and her brother moved to San Francisco to be with their mother, who had remarried. She gave birth to her son Clyde Johnson, just a few month after graduating a high school in 1945.At 22, she married Tosho Angelos, a former sailor of Greek descent, but she left her marriage two and half years later and set out to become a professional dancer. Maya Angelou spent ...
- 3449: Langston Hughes
- ... in Joplin, Missouri, James Langston Hughes was born into an abolitionist family. He was the grandson of James Mercer Langston, the first Black American to be elected to public office in 1855. Hughes attended Central High School in Cleveland, Ohio, but began writing poetry in the eighth grade, and was selected as Class Poet. His father didnt think he would be able to make a living as at writing, and encouraged ...
- 3450: Hitler - A Man of Too Much Power
- ... in Braunau am Inn, in Austria, on April 20, 1889, the third son of Alois and Klara Hitler. The family moved around a lot, including to Linz, Leonding and other places. Hitler did well in school at the beginning, but his marks got progressively worse as time went on. His father died when he was 14, his mother when he was 18. He tried twice to enter the Academy for Art ... a meeting of the tiny German Workers Party in 1919. He later joined the party, became its leader and changed its name to the National Socialist German Workers Party, later called the Nazi convicted of high treason and sentenced to prison, where he served about a year. During that time, he began to write Mein Kampf ("My Struggle"), which later became the second Bible in Nazi Germany. Hitler resolved to achieve ...
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