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- 6041: Mother Teresa
- ... to Teresa. She chose the name Teresa of the Little Flower, Therese of Lisieux. After professing her temporary vows, Teresa lived in Calcutta and served as a geography and history teacher at St. Mary’s school, run by the Sisters of Our Lady Loreto. She eventually became the director of studies at the school. Mother Teresa summed up her experience as, “The happiest nun at Loreto.” According to Teresa, September 10, 1946 was the “day of inspiration” for her. It happened while she was going on a train from ...
- 6042: Cloning
- ... sheep egg. Also in, 1986, when he worked for Texas bioengineering company (Lawren). By using the embryonic nuclei, he produces the first cloned calves from cattle. The cloned cattle that were produced were super-elite, high production dairy cows and bulls who had a high breeding rate (Robertson). 1987, James Robl of the University of Massachusetts was the first to clone rabbits also using embryonic nuclei. But who can say when we will be able to clone human organs or ...
- 6043: Lord of The Flies: Conflict Between Ralph and Jack
- ... in his statement “we can't have everybody talking at once” (Golding, 31). Ralph has identified a major problem. Through Ralph's strong leadership skills and past experiences, he suggests “having ‘Hands up' like at school” (Golding, 31). Ralph logically puts a group such as a school class, which has some organization, into the current situation. The boys also use the conch but, it starts to be disliked by Jack. The power given to Ralph when he possesses the conch is overwhelming ...
- 6044: Guitar History
- ... the first Gibson catalog assured that instruments would be made of woods with the most durable, elastic and sonorous qualities such as maple, mahogany, vermilion, and suitable woods. They settled on maple but only the high-end mandolins were made of maple. It wasn¹t until the mid-to-late1920¹s, when they finally began to make them with maple wood. During the early 1900¹s Gibson and a company out ... body style of the guitar ever. The introduction to the stratocaster brought forth some of the greatest guitarists ever known. It featured the first double cut away, making it easier to reach all of the high strings and also had a third pickup added to it. Then in 1960, one man came along and changed the sound of the guitar forever, Jimmi Hendrix. With his 9 explosive riffs and incredible volume ...
- 6045: Public Schools Vs. Private Sch
- ... for the opportunities of the present, but also for the future. This may create a more difficult and more discipline environment for students but also adds more factors that might be more of a public school would. Public schools are the choice for the majority of the population in the state. They provide government funding, teachers, and standards set by the state to unsure the success of the students. The government funds public schools, so they do lack some of the financial resources a privately funded school would. Public schools also have been known to have less one on one time between a teacher and the student. This lack of time can and in cases does hinder the progress of the student ...
- 6046: Joseph Stalin
- ... died that same year.(Tyrant) Stalin’s mother, Yekaterina Geladze, was a house servant for an upper-class Georgian, she was a deeply religious women.(Joseph Stalin) Stalin was sent to the Gori Church Run School in 1888 to 1894, it turned out that he was their best student and as a result he was awarded a full academic scholarship to Tbilsi Theological Seminary. He attended this to prepare him for the entrance to priest hood.(Red Tsar) At the Seminary School Stalin converted to Marxism and was a devoted follower by 1897.(Joseph Stalin) Before he graduated from the Seminary, he left and joined the Social Democratic Party in 1899. He started as the distributor of ...
- 6047: Expansion on the Recent Discoveries Concerning Nitric Oxide
- ... neurotoxec damage. Yet, NO was the result of glutamate activity, which also led to neurotoxicity. The question aroused here is, how could it go both ways? One supported theory is that in the presence of high levels of glutamate, nitric oxide-producing neurons behave like macrophages, releasing lethal amounts of nitric oxide. It is then assumed that inhibitors of nitric oxide synthase prevent the neurotoxicity. The neurotoxicity of cerebral cortical neurons ... hippocampus, which is the area of the brain that controls the memory. Due to its many influences, however, further study is needed to determine exactly what role nitric oxide plays in the memory. Scientists have high hopes for the further investigations of nitric oxide. More experiments lead to greater knowledge, and the effects of this knowledge are receiving a warm reception in this day and age of medicine. The knowledge gained ...
- 6048: Frank J. Horgan Filtration Plant
- ... The Chlorine, by the end of the filtration, drops to a safe level. This is where the alum does its work. Coagulation is basically mixing the alum with the water. This is a achieved by high speed in-line mechanical blenders. Flocculation occurs right afterwards. Alum could be either poly-aluminium chloride or aluminium sulphate, is a very sticky substance which likes clinging onto dirt particles. All this flocculation is done ... litre of chlorine, any more and it will kill you from fluorine poisoning. Chlorine is also added to kill any remaining bacteria. This time if you drink the water it is safe. If there are high levels of bacteria they would have to go through a process called "Super-chlorination". Hence the name, they increase the chlorine dosage. After that, they reduce the chlorine content by adding sulphur-dioxide. Ammonium is ...
- 6049: Who Was The Bard
- ... seems strange how so much could be unknown about one who supposedly wrote some of the greatest literary works in existence. In many documents, it is stated as a fact that he went to grammar school at an early age because of his father's status. Shakespearites claim that Shakespeare is the author of the works because there are several excerpts from the plays and poems in Latin that match text recited by schoolboys. Unfortunately, according to many historians, he was taken out of school because of financial problems in the family. If this is so, he could not have been so affluent in English, Latin and some Spanish and Italian. Shakespeare called Venus and Adonis "the first heir of ...
- 6050: Flouridation
- ... be caused by fluorine in drinking water (Behrman pg. 181). A strong uproar was heard when this was released and people wanted all fluorine out of their water. But later tests concluded that communities with high levels of fluorine in their drinking water suffered less dental cavities. Further testing concluded that at least 1.0 parts per million of fluorine could help to prevent cavities, but more than 1.5 PPM ... the town of Kizilcaoern, Turkey, the water has 5.4 parts per million fluoride. In this town all the people and animals age prematurely. Men that are 30 look 60, this is due to the high fluoride content in the water. Their skin wrinkles excessively, they have severe arthritic pain, and their bones shatter like glass after a fall. The fluoride in the water breaks down the protein Collagen. Collagen makes ...
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