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- 6141: Charles Darwin: His Life Story of Dicovery
- ... 12, 1809. He was the son of Robert Warren Darwin, a family doctor and of Susannah Wedgewood Darwin daughter of a porcelain manufacturer. His grandfather, infact, was the great English poet Erasmus Darwin. His early school training was at a small school house in Shrewsbury. After which his father put him into Edinburgh University in 1825 to 1827 for medical studies. Darwin showed no interest in being a physician after witnessing several major operations without anesthesia. He ...
- 6142: Gold
- ... into leaves. These leaves were so thin that light could shine though it. To give you an idea of how thin it is, 367,000 of them would fit in a pile of an inch high, one on top of the other. Gold does not mix well with other elements. But other elements must be added to make gold hard. The purity of gold is measured in karats. Pure gold is ... usefull if actually put to use. The main drawback to gold is that it is a very precious metal. We dont have an unlimited supply of it. This is why gold today is priced so high and really doesn't drop that much over time.
- 6143: Hormone Use In Livestock
- ... is taken in the expected dose of 5mg/pig/day. If the pig is given a substantially larger amount, 15mg/pig/day, there will be side effects. Researchers have shown that a pig on a high amount of PST will have gastric ulcers. Porcine somatotropin must be injected or implanted into the animals. If PST is taken orally, it will be broken down in the stomach and intestines of the pig. There are two highly controversial growth hormones, Diethylstilbestrol, or DES, and antibiotics. DES is now banned because in high doses it was found to be capable of causing cancer. Scientists who advocate the banning of antibiotics argue that resistant strains of bacteria in animals might transfer their resistance to bacteria that infect humans. The ...
- 6144: Interpreting The Actions Of Th
- ... in the Trojan War proved to be a major importance in the final outcome and the psychological wellbeing of the mortals who fought for both the Trojan side and the Achaians side. The Greek Gods high, on Olympus watched the bloody battlefield below with a sense of satisfaction that they controlled the fate of the battlefield. The Trojan War some could say was actually a war among the gods as much ... his mother when Agamemnon took his wife away in replace of his, "Oh my mother I was born to die young, it is true, but honor I was to have from Zeus Olympian, Thunder on high! And now he has not given me one little bit! Yes, my lord King Agamemnon has insulted me! He has taken my prize and keeps it, he has robbed me himself." (p17) If there were ...
- 6145: Nuclear Power: Worth the Risks?
- ... then turned this destructive power into huge plants generating"clean and cheap"electricity for the country. It was called progress. Progress also brought with it sickness, mutations, cancer and eventually death to those exposed to high levels of radiation. Government declared that nuclear power is safe and efficient. Also have big Oil corporations who have a lot of money invested in nuclear power and want to see as many plants as ... plants. The average nuclear power plant contains more than 200,000 to 300,000 times the radioactive materials that are in standard nuclear warheads. Radioactivity destroys life, especially human life. A person exposed to a high level of radiation will die within 48 hours of exposure either due to infectious diseases caused by the destruction of the body's immune system from the radiation or by massive tissue bleeding. Humans above ...
- 6146: 1984
- ... goods by consuming them. Overproduction and equal distribution of goods would allow true socialism, which the party was never interested in from the beginning. The Party realizes that throughout history a society divides itself into high, middle, and low classes. The high class is maintained by keeping the middle and low classes in constant drudgery and everyone is kept content by means of "doublethink" and "newspeak." The only peace war creates is reserved for the government. 5 ...
- 6147: Arsenic
- ... water near geological or man-made sources of arsenic may receive higher than typical exposure. These areas include industrialized areas and areas where large quantities of arsenic are disposed of in the landfills, areas of high historical pesticide use, with soil low in available ferrous and aluminum hydroxides, and areas of high natural levels of arsenic containing mineral deposits. Population in the area of copper and other types of metal smelters may be exposed to above-average levels of arsenic both through the air and as a ...
- 6148: Walt Whitman and His Poetry
- ... could not read his son's poetry. His parent's family consisted of nine children, four of whom had disabilities. His start in literature came when, at the age of 12, he was withdrawn from school to work as a printer. At this time he began to learn to love reading books. He read whenever he could and was self taught. When he was seventeen, he became a teacher in a small school. Five years later he took a job as a journalist and was the editor of many New York papers. He studied the French language, and many of his poems contain French words. When he traveled ...
- 6149: The Short Life Of Tupac Shakur
- The Short Life Of Tupac Shakur Tupac Shakur was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1971. Early in his life, he moved to Baltimore , MD, where he attended The Baltimore School for the Performing Arts. At this school, Tupac left a lasting impression on his teachers and was showing tremendous po tential. Unfortunately, Tupac was unable to continue his training. He moved to Oakland, California with the rest of his family. That's ...
- 6150: Cather In The Ryes Vs. Generation X
- ... does not want to accept any change in his life. He sees sex as a way that society is using to lure him into being like the people that he hates. At Pencey, his boarding school, he equates sex with perversion. He refers to his studly roommate, Stradlater as a "very sexy bastard" because of his interest in all things related to sex. And then when Holden is obsessing over the ... who represents (at least to Holden) sex and aggression. The connection between sex, death, and aggression all come together near the end of the novel when Holden visits his younger sister phoebe, at her elementary school. Holden sees a sign that someone has put up that says, "Fuck You." This phrase is so important to the novel because it represents, a very aggressive insult, and it is also a word that ...
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