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- 5631: The Ecology of a Rain Forest
- ... area is heavily covered with flora and fauna, and it abounds with life. In a rain forest, it is very wet and it rains every day or every other day very heavily. There is a high and steady level of heat and moisture. There are some general layers to the rain forest. It starts 135 feet up in the air, with the lofty crowns of the tallest trees in the jungle ... have young that develop in water. Instead, the tadpoles cling to the mother's wet back. She transports them this way from place to place, usually depositing them in a cup of rainwater in a high branch safe from predators. She immerses herself in the water at first until the young let go of her body and swim into the water. A rare bird found only in rain forests, the quetzal ...
- 5632: Philistinism In England And America
- ... attain a certain level of righteousness. This may have been a good idea 2300 years ago, but today, I see it as very limiting and impractical. In his time, only the rich aristocrats went to school. It’s purpose was not for the students to learn skills or ideas that would help them later in life, but to expand their minds, thus making them into ‘better people.’ There was no need ... have a regular, day to day job, whether it be in an office, store, factory, or anywhere else. We have to earn our wealth by working, not inheritance. That is why most people go to school today. I am attending NYU so that I can get a job later in life. I study chemistry and engineering, in the hopes that I can become a chemical engineer. According to Plato, this is ...
- 5633: Jungle and The Rain Forest
- ... rain forest are terms that are often used synonymously but with little precision. The more meaningful and restrictive of these terms is rain forest, which refers to the climax or primary forest in regions with high rainfall (greater than 1.8 m/70 in per year), chiefly but not exclusively found in the tropics. Rain forests are significant for their valuable timber resources, and in the tropics they afford sites for ... shade-tolerant species beneath the upper canopy. The maximum height of the upper canopy of tropical rain forests is generally about 30 to 50 m (100 to 165 ft), with some individual trees rising as high as 60 m (200 ft) above the forest floor. The largest areas of tropical rain forest are in the Amazon basin of South America, in the Congo basin and other lowland equatorial regions of Africa ...
- 5634: History Of Asia
- ... Thought Reform movement of 1951 required 6,500 professors to take course under Professor Ai Siqi, leader in Chinese Communist Thought. His colleagues whom he would eventually teach Communist learning did not hold Siqi in high regard. Religions reform was placed in the Christian churches it involved the Three- Self-movement: self-government, self-support and self-propagation. Art in literature were used to illustrate Chinas history of the people against ... Central Committee had 187 members, the Politbur25, and its Standing Committee 7. Mass organizations opened roles for women youth cooperative workers. There was no open policy for membership to the Communist Party; it was a high privilege. Mao visited Moscow in 1949 and signs a 30-year Sino- with Russia for defense against Japan and the US. Russia gave China military aid and technician went to China to aid industrially and ...
- 5635: Intellect
- ... to understand ] 1 a: the power of knowing b: the capacity for thought esp. when highly developed 2 a: a person of notable intellect - Websters New World dictionary. "Intellect is and always will be of high statue. At least it should be" Intellect, in raw form, is the power of knowing. The intellect will always agree upon that statement. in·tel·lec·tu·al: having or showing a high degree of intellect. An intellectual is apparently a bright or smart person. But a bright person is not always an intellectual. Intellect is earned. Intellect is thought to be respected, but a non-intellectual does ...
- 5636: The Sport of Running
- ... up. Since John F. Kennedy made a Presidential physical fitness award for students to show them how they rank in fitness with the country and making every child take it a couple of times during school. Also he introduced many new sports to school (swimming, cross- country, soccer, etc.). With these new sports he got children interested and the children got their parents going. With this new interest the first "Running Boom" started. Since then many people have passed ...
- 5637: Babe Ruth
- ... before he was known well by local police. When he was 7, Kate and her husband finally decided they could no longer tend to the mischievous boy, and brought him to St. Mary’s Industrial School for Boys. Despite his crying and begging to be brought home, his custody was singed over to a group of strange men dressed in black robes. Though he didn’t realize it at the time ... 6’6’’ and well built to about 250 pounds, which meant he could accomplish any objective without raising his voice or using physical force. The first time George swung a baseball bat was at the school. He knew then he was to be a hitter. He said to a friend, “It was one of those things you could just feel.”(59) Brother Mathias taught him to be a better ball player ...
- 5638: Hitler 3
- ... greatest spiritual experience. From then on, I became more and more enthusiastic about everything that was in any was connected with war or, for that matter, with soldering." - Hitler There was a history teacher at school, Dr. Leopold Pötsch who touched Hitler's imagination with exciting tales of the glory of German figures such as Bismarck and Frederick The Great. For young Hitler, German Nationalism quickly became an obsession. By now ... for Adolf since his parents were both dead and he didn’t finish Highschool. But ever since he was small he had a passion for painting and drawing. But he failed in getting into art school after several attempts leaving Adolf with no where to go. For the next several years, Adolf became a drifter. On August 1, 1914, a huge, enthusiastic crowd including Hitler gathered in a big public plaza ...
- 5639: George Washington
- ... the creation of the Bank of the United States, assumption of state debts, and excise taxes, especially on whiskey, by which the federal government would protest its power to impose controversial taxes and import duties high enough to pay the interest on the new national debt. Similarly, he allowed Jefferson to pursue a policy of seeking trade and cooperation with all European nations. Washington did not anticipate that Hamilton's and Jefferson's policies were ultimately incapable. Hamilton's plan for an expanding national debt slowing down a attractive rate of return for investors depended on a high level of trade with Britain produce enough import-duty investment income to service the debt. Hamilton therefore felt that he had to interfere in foreign policy to the extent of leaking secret shipments to the ...
- 5640: Was the French Revolution Preventable?
- ... the wars of Louis XIV. Louis continued to borrow money to fight wars and to keep French power alive in Europe. These costs greatly increased the national debt, which was at the time, already too high. The problem with this is that the French were not profiting from the investments that they made, and this is what caused them to be in such great economic debt. This debt lead to the ... and Necker . Although these men did try to make change, most of the reforms were soon undone as the result of pressure from a variety of financial groups, and the government continued to borrow at high rates of interest through the 1780s. By 1789 many French people had become critical of the monarchy, even though it had been largely successful in militarily defending France and in suppressing religious and political violence ...
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