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- 3351: Quantum Theory?
- ... regretful. Works Cited Crighton, Michael. Timeline. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. Davies, Paul. Other Worlds. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1980. Fox, Maggie. Spooky Teleportation Study Brings Future Closer. Reuters. 22 October 1998. Horgan, John. The End of Science. New York: Addison-Wesley, 1996. The New Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Springfield, Massachusetts: Merriam-Webster Inc. Publishers, 1998. Thomas, Dan. Rudiments of Quantum Theory. 25 August 1996. Online. Internet. 5 March 2000 ...
- 3352: A Separate Peace, Symbolism Wi
- John Knowles uses the literary element of symbolism in his novel, A Separate Peace. Gene, a student at the Devon Prep School in New Hampshire, tries to understand the love, hate, and jealousy that he feels ...
- 3353: Evolution
- ... reading, in fact falls back to Darwinism. DARWINIAN THEORY OF BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION Modern conception of species and the idea of organic evolution had been part of Western consciousness since the mid-17th century (a la John Ray)3, but wide- range acceptance of this idea, beyond the bounds of the scientific community, did not arise until Darwin published his findings in 19584. Darwin first developed his theory of biological evolution in ...
- 3354: Earthquakes
- ... either by sudden flexure and constraint of the elastic materials forming a portion of the earth's crust or by their giving way and becoming fractured.(Butler 1995) Later, in the 1870s, the English geologist John Milne devised a forerunner of today's earthquake-recording device, or seismograph. A simple pendulum and needle suspended above a smoked-glass plate, it was the first instrument to allow discrimination of primary and secondary ...
- 3355: Rules of Prey: Serial Killers
- ... in which they conduct their criminal activities. This fact is the basis for profiling criminals. The profiling of serial killers yields specific classifications in itself. Louis Vullion, the serial killer known as the Maddog in John Sanfords Rules of Prey, fits a specific type of serial killer profiled by Robert M. Holmes and Stephen T. Holmes in their book, Profiling Violent Crimes. The Maddog exhibits precise behavior and repeated actions ...
- 3356: Observed Distribution of South American Relief Features
- ... as the sky along with the deep valleys that are being produced from the crashing and spreading of these plates. The amazing landscape features are a result of centuries of change within earth. BIBLIOGRAPHY Bird, John M. and Isacks, Bryan, ed., Plate Tectonics. Washington American Geophysical Union, 1972. Christopherson, Robert W. Geosystems. 4th. ed. New York Prentice Hall, 1999. Sullivan, Walter Continents in Motion. 3rd. ed. New York McGraw Hill Book ...
- 3357: The 1960s: Happenings, Causes, and Effects
- ... in the 1960s are still the issues being confronted today. the '60s was a decade of social and political upheaval. in spite of all the turmoil, there were some positive results: the civil rights revolution, john f. Kennedy's bold vision of a new frontier, and the breathtaking advances in space, helped bring about progress and prosperity. however, much was negative: student and anti-war protest movements, political assassinations, and ghetto ...
- 3358: Analysis Of Grendel And Beowul
- Point of View in Grendel and Beowulf Contrasting points of view in Grendel and Beowulf significantly alter the reader s perception of religion, good and evil, and the character Grendel. John Gardner s book, Grendel, is written in first person. The book translated by Burton Raffel, Beowulf, is written in third person. Good and evil is one of the main conflicts in the poem Beowulf. How ...
- 3359: Polymers
- ... Synthetic polymers are usually referred to as plastics. Petroleum is the primary monomer used to produce polymers. An English chemist named Alexander Parkes was the first scientist to produce the first synthetic polymer in 1862. John Wesley Hyatt, an American, was the first person to produce a useable polymer two years later. He named the product celluloid. The prime virtue of polymers is a high strength-to-weight ratio. Industrial-strength ...
- 3360: Greenhouse Effect
- ... America as a region in which crops may be grown, for example. Also, melting of parts of the Antarctic ice sheet will cause flooding of coastal cities such as London , New York, Beijing, Amsterdam, St. Johns, Halifax, Vancouver , even Montreal and of entire countries, such as Bangladesh" (Johnson, 1990). The greenhouse effect is not limited to certain countries or states. The entire world will suffer if it is allowed to ...
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