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- 5561: Black Holes 2
- ... compress it enough. Black holes technically can't be seen, but they give off many clues to their location. Signs of many black holes have been located during normal observation of other space objects. Abnormally high levels of X-rays and gamma rays are the most common clues, but other exotic energy sources are also good clues. Astronomers have also located black holes by studying the speeds of swirling galaxies. If large objects are moving at very high speeds astronomers usually try to track their orbits and try to locate a central object that could be the source of the gravity. Astronomers believe there may be thousands of black holes and other mysteries ...
- 5562: My Autobiography.
- ... little sister was born because she made a big public statement about it.But I know she loves me even if she leaved me at home all the time by myself. I go to public school and my last name is Reynolds like my grandmother. There is no Fisher found in my name at all. After my dad left my mother changed my last name completely and hid my birth certifacate ... I don't know any Curtis's that are famous. I think that I'll never find out who my real dad is. My twin sister and I are identical we go to the same school and do the same things, she wants to be an actress also so it really neat because we share the same dreams. Well Mrs. Shughart I hope you like my auto-biography. Thank you all ...
- 5563: Henry David Thoreau
- ... poet (Derleth 14), but most of all he wanted to live with freedom to think and act as he wished. Immediately after graduation from Harvard, Henry David applied for a teaching position at the public school in Concord and was accepted. However, he refused to flog children as punishment. He opted instead to deliver moral lectures. This was looked down upon by the community, and a committee was asked to review the situation. They decided that the lectures were not ample punishment, so they ordered Thoreau to flog recalcitrant students. With utter contempt he lined up six children after school that day, flogged them, and handed in his resignation, because he felt that physical punishment should have no part in education (Derleth 15). In 1837 Henry David began to write his Journal (16). It started ...
- 5564: Turbo Or Nitrous
- ... horsepower dramatically, but one is instant and the other goes into effect after a certain rpm. Turbo, is a turbine that is connected to your engines air intake that spins to create explosive power at high rpm s. This is something that with minor modifications can be done to almost any car in the market. Turbo comes in many different sizes depending on the type of engine you have and how ... flip a switch and then it works. The down side of nitrous is that it burns your engine, and if used frequently it will damage your engine beyond repair. While turbo gives you horsepower at high rpm s, nitrous is instant at anytime. Turbo is very costly, while nitrous is extremely cost efficient. Nitrous can be temporary and turbo is permanent. Turbo requires many minor modifications and nitrous doesn t require ...
- 5565: Norman Schwarzkopf
- ... many ways Norman and I are alike and different. Norman has accomplished many tasks in his lifetime, which I have not gotten a chance to yet. Norman Schwarzkopf got an education at West Point Military School and at Valley Forge Military Academy in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. Valley Forge is a historic place known for its forces in the American Revolution. Almost all of Norman's family joined the military. His dad ... in the military. Norman Schwarzkopf made many life choices in his military career. First, he chose to join the military following his father s footsteps. Second, he chose to go to Valley Forge because the school he was attending, West Point, only taught students up to the tenth grade. One of his most important choices was in Vietnam. One of his fellow soldiers was shot and he carried him to safety ...
- 5566: The General Effects Of Fire On
- ... back to their former levels; up to three-hundred years in the northern Rockies (Fuller, 1991). Burned forests show effects many years after the actual fire. Forests at lower elevations grow faster than those at high elevations. Fire and regrowth are part of a cyclic process like that of the seasons. Regrowth does not mean the fire caused the death of forest by only that it is at a different stage ... landscapes and burns trees. People focus on its negative aspects. The reason is that in forests adapted to frequent fires, suppression has caused pine needles, underbrush and dead trees and branches to build up to high levels increasing the duff protection. WILDLAND FIRE ASSESSMENT SYSTEM (WFAS) The U.S. Forest Service's Intermountain Fire Sciences Laboratory in Missoula Montana developed this system to calculate and distribute fire danger information. The data ...
- 5567: A Night to Remember
- ... forget that night when the "unsinkable" Titanic sank. People believed that the ship Titanic was invincible, that it could never sink. No one ever thought that a ship so well made, so perfected, and so high tech could ever be destroyed. They were wrong, though, because on its maiden voyage everyone was in for a shock. When Titanic went down people could not believe it. They had thought that mankind had ... people, but at least one good thing came out of the ordeal. People learned important lessons. These were lessons that would save lives for years and years to come. Also, it took people off their high horse and down to earth. It taught them to be thankful for what they have and not look down on other people for having less.
- 5568: The Bean Trees
- ... Kentucky. In her town some families "had kids just about as fast as they could fall down the well and drown," and a boy with a job as a gas- meter man was considered a "high-class catch." Simply avoiding pregnancy was a major achievement for Taylor. She needed to get away from there to get ahead, and when she goes, she leaves almost everything behind, including her real name. Taylor ... However, what starts out as a commonplace search for personal opportunities soon turns into a test of her character and beliefs, and of her ability to face and overcome obstacles. On her way west with high hopes and a barely functional car, she acquires a completely unexpected child. The baby girl is given to her outside a bar, by a desperate Indian woman. Taylor moves on to Tucson, Arizona, with Turtle ...
- 5569: Freedom And Revolution
- ... grind us down in our daily life. What's more, socialism must also give us the power to control our own lives, power to take control of our own destinies. For our entire lives, from school to the workplace, we are forced to obey somebody else's order, treated like children or bits of machinery. Human beings have great potential but for most of us, only in a socialist society, will ... degraded by centuries of bourgeois class rule. Social instincts in place of egoistic ones, mass initiative in place of inertia, idealism which overcomes all suffering, etc. etc.... The only way to a rebirth is the school of public life itself, the broadest and the most unlimited democracy, and public opinion. It is rule by terror which demoralises.1 The questions that face us are: what does revolution mean? Once capitalism has ...
- 5570: The Extent Of European Influen
- ... furrow. When settlement spread to the prairies, the plows of the east were unable to turn the heavy soil. An Illinois blacksmith by the name of John Deere developed a very light plow made of high-grade rolled steel. The new plow could be operated by one man and pulled by a team of half size (Kirkland 112). Improvements in the reaper greatly reduced the harvest time of grain. In a ... 126). The rise in cotton production reinvigorated the institute of slavery. Prior to the cotton gin, slavery was becoming less profitable and practical, and may have died on its own. With the demand for cotton high, the slave trade grew. The wealth generated from the cotton industry created a demand for products such as corn, flour, pork and beef. The need for manufactured goods from the North also increased. The growth ...
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