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- 6221: The Scarlet Letter: The False Qualities of Life
- ... set out to show the consequences of leading a double life. Arthur Dimmesdale, to the people of Boston, was a holy icon. According to the public, "never had a man spoken in so wise, so high, and so holy a spirit, as he
nor had inspiration ever breathed through mortal lips more evidently than it did through his" (167). Dimmesdale had risen through the ranks of the church and had the utmost respect of the people of Boston. Dimmesdale's "eloquence and religious fervor had already given the earnest of high eminence in his profession" (48). Hawthorne pointed out that Dimmesdale was a very influential and powerful speaker, whose soft spoken words, "affected them [the townspeople] like the speech of an angel" (48). Dimmesdale also had ...
- 6222: Renewables, the Energy Source for Americas Future
- ... is trapped in the form of superheated groundwater. This heat is tapped by drilling and the steam is used to turn a generator or for the direct heating of an area. Unfortunately, the cost is high, the drilling has environmental impacts, and it is not necessarily renewable due to the fact that depleted groundwater isnt quickly replenished.(4) Hydrogen fuel is perhaps the most promising of the three. Engines can ... planet is to still be viable in the next few centuries, renewable energy is the way we have to go. The only thing needed is public support. This can be accomplished by imposing penalties and high taxes on fossil fuels and desirable incentives on the use of renewable energy. Just a few of these include: increase government funding to help spark private interest, reinstate solar panel tax cuts, rewrite electric utility ...
- 6223: The Effects of Processing Vegetables
- ... differences of canned, frozen and fresh carrots. Canning is a process of hermetically sealing cooked food for future use (Encyclopedia.com, 1999). This process is also called sterilization because it involves exposing the food to high temperatures for only minutes or seconds to protect against all the harmful microorganisms and other spoilage agents. Freezing is a process that prevents harmful microorganisms from multiplying, not necessarily killing them as in canning. Vegetables ... Canning produced a value of calories over 6 times its original. Also in the canning process the vegetable loses some of its natural flavor due to the sterilization process. Lastly, because of the high cost of refrigeration, frozen food is comparatively expensive to produce and distribute. Further research is required on this subject to try and find a median between the types of processes that have the benefits of ...
- 6224: How To Play Asshole
- ... remove the jokers. To begin play, have all the cards placed in the middle of the table and have every player draw a card. The player with the highest card, 2 being low and Ace high, is appointed President. The next highest cardholder becomes the Vice-President, and so on and so forth until the player holding the lowest card becomes affectionately known as the Asshole. In the event that two ... the VP plays a 2, the next player in the turn would have the same options corresponding to the highest card on the table. If in this situation the VP had chosen to pass, the high card would remain the Jack. Play continues in this fashion around the table until no player can beat or match the highest card played or a 2 is thrown, at which point the round ends ...
- 6225: Trans-racial Adoption
- ... seeking to adopt and their isn't enough white children for them to adopt. These couples are willing to adopt a child of different race since the abundance of minority children up for adoption is high. These white couples are seeking to adopt because of many reasons one being that they could have a fertility problem. Any couple in that situation would be grateful to adopt a child of a different ... proud of their racial and ethnic backgrounds, both the biological and the cultural ones(St. John 152). In a study done by Mcroy and Zurcher, black children raised by white adoptive parents have the same high self esteem and good self concept as did a black child raised by black adoptive parents(Pohl 49). Self esteem is an important aspect for a child that is raised in a transracial family, and ...
- 6226: Sergey Bubka
- ... world record from thirteen feet two and one quarter inches to an astonishing twenty feet one and three quarter inches. Pole Vaulters continually surprise spectators as they jump higher and higher. No one knows how high the next person will jump. Sergey Bubka is one of these amazing pole vaulters that has astonished crowds with his incredible leaps. The world record is now held by a man named Sergey Bubka also ... longer poles because of the flex and gives them more at the top of the vault with an extra push from the recoiling of the pole. It is not easy for anyone to predict how high pole vaulters will go in the future, with the continual technological advancements of the sport it is hard to tell. But no mater what happens, everyone will still remember the "Master", Sergey Bubka.
- 6227: Are Liberty and Order at Odds?
- ... this liberty away by censoring books and internet access. This not only inhibits the learning process but also is an extreme waste of money, much needed money that could be going to fund other suitable school activities.(Heisel, 1998) Some school systems are simply putting filters that are intended to clean the internet of all offensive but constitutionally sound material, these filters are like a communist newspaper, whatever the government doesn't like is filtered out ...
- 6228: Mandan Indians
- ... Indians. Villages were strategically located on bluffs overlooking the river for defense purposes, limiting attacks to one land approach. The Mandan lived in earth lodges, which are extremely large, round huts that are 15 feet high and 40-60 feet in diameter. Each hut had a vestibule entrance, much like the pattern of an Eskimo igloo, and a square hole on top, which served as a smokestack. Each earth lodge housed ... earth lodges were made of dirt and the middle was dug out to make a bench around the outer edge of the lodge. Encompassing the village were stockades of poles as tall as six feet high to prevent enemy attacks. In the middle of a Mandan village was a large, circular, open space that was called the central plaza. In the middle of the plaza was a sacred cedar post that ...
- 6229: Thomas Edison and His Inventions
- ... a circuit could never be possible, but their findings were based on systems of lamps with low resistance (the only successful type of electrical light at the time). Edison, however, determined that a bulb with high resistance would serve his purpose, and he began his search for a suitable one. By the summer of 1879 Edison and Francis Upton had made enough progress on a generator that considered offering a system ... were now achieving through advances made in the vacuum pump, carbon could be maintained for a longer amount time without complicated devices. Edison found that a carbon filament provided a good light with the simultaneous high resistance required for subdivision. Steady progress ensued from the first breakthrough in mid-October until the initial demonstration for the backers of the Edison Electric Light Company on December 3. In the summer of 1880 ...
- 6230: Booker T. Washington 2
- ... his diploma. After graduation he taught at various schools and the founder of Hampton University was so impressed with his ability to educate that he made him the organizer and principal of a black trade school. He named it Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute. While at Tuskegee, Booker T. Washington incorporated the idea of integrating blacks into society by teaching them skills needed to work. While at Tuskegee, blacks could learn such skills as carpentry, welding, fabrication, and agricultural qualities. The school was very popular among black, but also whites. Whites did not enroll, but they did not object to blacks learning trades. Money poured into the institution and Washington was considered the spokesperson for the black ...
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