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- 4201: Polio
- ... the Brunhilde (type 1), Lansing (type 2), and Leon (type 3) strains. Immunity to one strain does not furnish protection against the other two. Poliomyelitis control was made possible when, in 1949, the American bacteriologist John Franklin Enders and his coworkers discovered a method of growing the viruses on tissue in the laboratory. Applying this technique, the American physician and epidemiologist Jonas Salk developed a vaccine prepared from inactivated poliomyelitis viruses ...
- 4202: Labor In America
- ... they were encouraged to go to work. Before long, one out of four workers in defense industries was a woman. During World War II, labor cooperated with government and industry. Its spirit was expressed by John L. Lewis, president of the CIO. "When the nation is attacked," he said, "every American must rally to its defense." When peace came, a wave of strikes for higher wages swept the nation. Employers became ...
- 4203: Nat King Col
- ... influenced the likes of Oscar Peterson and Ahmad Jamal. Nat had performed with some of the best including Duke Ellington and performed for some of the best, including the Queen¨, he was even friends with John F. Kennedy. Though he is often remembered today as a great singer, he was also one of history’s greatest jazz pianists. It is said that as a pianist, he developed the intricate right-hand ...
- 4204: Fire 2
- ... 1.5 1.5 Australia 1.5 -------- 0.8 Germany 0.9 0.9 0.9 Switzerland 0.7 0.6 0.7 References Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia: On compact disc (1996) [CD-ROM]. Lyons, John W. (1985). Fire. New York: Scientific American Library. Payne, Charles A., Falls, William R., & Whidden, Charles J. (1989). Physical Science (5thed.). Iowa: Wm. C. Brown Publishers. Whelan, Robert J. (1995). The Ecology of Fire. Great ...
- 4205: "Schlesinger's Canon Vs. My High School's Canon"
- ... ethnicities. My high school is a private college preparatory institution in San Francisco. Some authors whose works we read in our English classes consisted of Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Jane Austen, Ovid, Maya Angelou, Chaim Potok, John Steinbeck, Amy Tan, Chinua Achebe, and C. S. Lewis. This curriculum is not at all what Schlesinger claims to be the current "American literary canon: Emerson, Jefferson, Melville, Whitman, Hawthorne, Thoreau, Lincoln, Twain, Dickinson, William ...
- 4206: Paul Ehrlich
- ... New Doors to the Unknown’. The World & I. Vol. 11. Pages 172. May 1, 1996. Gillispie, Charles Coulston. Dictionary of Scientific Biography Volume 3. New York. Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1980. Pages 295-303. Leyden, John G. From Nobel Prize to Courthouse Battle; Paul Ehrlich’s ‘Wonder Drug’ for Syphilis Won Him Acclaim but Also Led Critics to Hound Him. The Washington Post. Page Z16. July 27, 1997.
- 4207: Writing Styles of Herman Melville and Edgar Allen Poe
- ... Poe: Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance, makes reference to the fact that it is not an accident or similarity that Poe chooses this particular motto. It is one that would remind Poe of another Scotsman, John Allan, his foster father. Allan, "much resembled Fortunato in being a man 'rich, respected, admired, beloved,' interested in wines, and a member of the Masons." Silverman continues by saying that even the Allan name can ...
- 4208: Paul Revere
- ... lanterns, and Revere crosses to Charleston. He carries the Alarum to Lexington. He British capture him. Revere is in quite a dilemma now. To his great luck thy let him free and he returns to John Hancock and Sam Adams. He saves Hancock’s trunk for him and goes into Cambridge. He risks a trip into Boston to make sure his family finally succeeds in getting a pass. By May of ...
- 4209: Genetics
- ... known as embryo twinning, or causing the embryo to split apart. It is much easier to clone with embryonic cells. Much later, mammals such as sheep were cloned using this process. (Nash 64) In 1970, John Gurdon repeated the procedure suggested by Hans Spemann. This time, the experiment yielded partial success. The tadpoles were born alive, but they died when they began to feed. He showed that transplanted nuclei reverted to ...
- 4210: Joyce's "The Dead"
- ... that time, the people in Dublin still want to forget the problem and enjoy at least on New Years Day where it can be with their loved ones to relax. Work Cited The Dead. Dir. John Houston. Perf. Anjelica Houston, Donal McCann. Bestron Pictures, 1987 Joyce, James. The Dead. Ed. Daniel R. Scwarz. Cornell University, 1994 Rabinowitz, Peter J. "A Symbol of Something": Interpretive Vertigo in "The Dead." Ithaca: Cornell UP ...
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