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- 6561: Goundwater
- ... they dumped approximately 352 million pounds into the canal until 1952 (www.ethics~101.org). Worried about their public opinion, Hooker just covered the canal over. Later, the Education Board built a playground and elementary school there, and through the next twenty years, the waste that had been buried in the Love Canal began to seep through the soil and enter peoples' basements, contaminate underground pipes and wells and enter the Niagara River poisoning the fish Lake Ontario so much that the fishery had to be closed. It was not until the 1970s that the danger of these wastes were understood. In 1977, the elementary school was closed and the families were relocated, but the fish from Lake Ontario are still too contaminated with PCBs and Mirex to be sold commercially (Chiras, 1988). CONCLUSION Groundwater is a precious resource which needs ...
- 6562: Leprechaunism
- ... that the parents are genetically related (e.g. first cousins). Clinical traits are as follows: Hyperpigmented skin or as otherwise known, Acanthosis nigricans. This symptom is not exclusive to Leprechaunism, as it is caused by high insulin levels. This pigmentation normally occurs in areas of the body where flexing and bending occurs, such as the back of the neck. Reddening of the skin or erythema. This is caused by localized irritation ... were used to analyze segments of the insulin receptor gene isolated from the patients. When double stranded DNA denatures during the gel run, its mobility dramatically decreases. A very stable DNA duplex will only denature high denaturant concentrations. An unstable duplex will denature at a lower concentration. Mutant DNA and wild type DNA inherently have different stabilities because of their different nucleotide composition. DGGE can detect the presence of a mutant ...
- 6563: Scarlet Letter 2 --
- ... Once, Dimmesdale directly tells Hester to confess at the scaffold. He says, " ' . . . Be not silent from any mistaken pity and tenderness for him; for, believe me, Hester, though he were to step down from a high place, and stand there beside thee on thy pedestal of shame, yet better were it so, that to hide a guilty heart through life ' " (73). Dimmesdale preaches that a person is righteous in admitting their ... crime rather than carrying the guilt around for the rest of his life. Being unprincipled, Dimmesdale does the exact opposite of his own advice. As a minister of the Puritan church, Dimmesdale holds a very high position in society where everyone looks up to him as a role model. He feels very guilty in his heart knowing that he has committed a sin. People identify him as a guiltless and holy ...
- 6564: Airbags - Pop em' or Keep em'
- ... chance of being thrown from the car even if their car has airbags. Not only are the airbags dangerous, they are also a key target for thieves. The easy to remove airbags coupled with the high street value make them sought after by thieves. The couple of hundred dollars received by the thieves is more than enough incentive to target them, since they are worth more than most car stereos. When ... substantially more to insure an airbag equipped car. The insurance rate for an airbag equipped cars will continue to rise, due to the reports of airbag related deaths. The main reason the insurance is so high for an airbag equipped car is that the cost of replacing a deployed airbag is expensive. According to CNNfn, the air bags cost nearly 1,000 dollars to replace ("Reports Knock Airbag Safety" 1). A ...
- 6565: Scarlet Letter 8
- ... he did not do so. With each passing failure to disclose the truth, he grew more and more dark and disgraced. One example was when Dimmesdale spoke to Hester on the scaffold, which was a high platform located in the middle of the town. Dimmesdale tried to persuade her to announce her partner in this sinful act. When she refused to acknowledge him, he was extremely relieved. He quickly said, She ... he did not do so. With each passing failure to disclose the truth, he grew more and more dark and disgraced. One example was when Dimmesdale spoke to Hester on the scaffold, which was a high platform located in the middle of the town. Dimmesdale tried to persuade her to announce her partner in this sinful act. When she refused to acknowledge him, he was extremely relieved. He quickly said, She ...
- 6566: Influence Of Traditional Ways
- ... of a bygone era. She is from an upper class where family name is venerated and is to be maintained at almost any cost. Faulkner emphasizes this many times by saying “She carried her head high enough... as if she demanded more than ever the recognition of her dignity as the last Grierson.”(469) and “...and the high and mighty Griersons.”(467) In the end of the story officials do not pursue her lover’s disappearance for the exact reason that they do not force her to pay taxes which is also the ...
- 6567: Dante’s Influence on Italian Culture
- ... consisted of the rising merchant class. They supported the emperor and wanted to gain power from the pope (Holmes 22). During his earlier years Dante was neutral politically, but he eventually rose to become a high political figure in the Florentine government. He joined the White Guelphs, who split from the Black Guelphs. When the Blacks took over, Dante was banished from political office and exiled from Florence (Parish Internet). His ... Italy (Dante on… Internet). Dante was very involved in politics and his strong political opinions were expressed in his writings. He was active in Florentine politics from 1295-1302 serving on city council and holding high public office until his exile in 1303 (Wilkins 54). He was exiled because of his political opposition to the Pope. Dante didn’t agree with the nobility way of government and he held a stand ...
- 6568: Chances
- ... to her, and wouldn’t pass her by. He was shy, known to keep to himself, and never went with the crowd. At first she hardly noticed him. He was a speck in an overcrowded school. Until he casually bumped into her arm of books and assignments. With papers flying everywhere she tried to hurriedly recollect them with her self-consciousness glowing into the redness of her cheeks. He shined his ... deeper in love. She felt like she wanted him more than life itself, and it was evident that the agony of longing was tearing her apart. When she returned to her empty desolate domicile after school she dreamt of him. It was the way he put a smile on every girls’ frowning face. He was definitely a catch. He saw beauty where others only found ugly. She didn’t want to ...
- 6569: Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- ... handsome youth, he was an excellent athlete, expert at boating and swimming, and he also collected stamps, birds, and ship models—hobbies that he pursued all his life. His formal education began at the Groton School in Massachusetts, where the headmaster, Endicott Peabody (1857-1944), stressed to his wealthy young students their obligation toward those who were less fortunate in society. After graduation from Harvard University in 1904, Roosevelt attended Columbia University Law School without taking a degree and was admitted to the New York State bar in 1907. In 1905, despite his widowed mother's objections, he married a distant cousin, Eleanor Roosevelt, in a gala society wedding ...
- 6570: Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Theme of Nature In His Works
- ... his first publication, Nature, and two years after addressing Phi Beta Kappa Society with “The American Scholar,” Emerson addressed a class of six seniors about to enter the world of ministry. Known as the “Divinity School Address,” this lecture on a Sunday evening in July resulted in Emerson’s being banned from speaking at Harvard for the next thirty years. What was considered an attack on the Unitarian establishment, and formal historical Christianity as well, was an oration that filled the needed gap within the students; a gap never filled by the faculty at the Harvard Divinity School.3 Often referred to as New England Transcendentalism, this philosophy made famous by Emerson did not change American thought as a whole, but it did, however, and continues to change the lives of individual Americans ...
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