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- 1101: The Writings of Plato and Dantes
- ... Martin's Press, 1989. 119-121. Homer. The Odyssey. Trans. W.H.D. Rouse. Scarborough: New American Library. 1937. Planeaux, Christopher S. "Christopher's Plato: Introduction." 28 September 1996. (16 October 1996) Plato. Republic, Book X. The Critical Tradition: Classical texts and Contemporary Trends. Ed. David Richter. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989. 21-29 Richter, David. The Critical Tradition: Classical texts and Contemporary Trends. New York: St. Martin's ...
- 1102: The Only Truth Existing
- ... of existence, is uncertain of being true for all individuals. Every thought, besides the idea that we think, has the possibility that it may be proven wrong. The author of the article, Knowledge Regained, Norman Malcolm, states that, "any empirical proposition whatever could be refuted by future experience - that is, it could turn out to be false." An example could be the early idea of the earth being flat and not ...
- 1103: Analysis of Several Works of Literature
- ... Faust, the end comes with a serene setting in the garden. Voltaire's garden metaphor is an extemely cynical outlook on the limitations of man. His view is one in the same of the Generation X of this time period. The theory of "Life's a bitch, why try?" is evident in the metaphor of the garden. Voltaire's attitude is "Be happy with gardening because this is as far as ...
- 1104: Superman and Batman: The Greatest Superheros of All Time
- ... all of his powers until he was about seventeen. Clark gets his powers from the radiation absorbed in his body from our red sun. Over time "Clark had developed the powers of flight, super strength, x-ray vision, heat vision, and an aura that extends about a centimeter around his body, making him nearly invincible" (Superman 1). Superman does not use his powers for evil, he only uses them for good ...
- 1105: Who Benefits From Higher Education?
- ... on average as educated as the number of men. This rise could be for a number of reasons; women rights movements, increased costs of living requiring double income families, university quotas / employment quotas for an “x %” of women in the work force. Today a higher percentage of women obtain university degrees than men, as researched by statistics Canada. The authors next go into the differences by socioeconomic backgrounds and its effect ...
- 1106: Flesh-eating Bacteria
- ... burrowing through soft tissue. Once the tissue is destroyed, gas is accumulated in the muscle fibers and you may be able to smell a foul odor by the fourth or fifth day after infection (an x-ray usually reveals the buildup of gas before you can smell it). In early stages of infection, patients may have a low-grade fever, accompanying tachycardia, a little higher than usual, white blood cell count ...
- 1107: Cryptography
- ... materials they might find offensive. Monoalphabetic substitution is another simple step away from the ROT13 algorithm. In this algorithm, each letter correspond to another letter but in no particular order. For example a = d, d = x, f = e, etc for all 26 letters. This made it much harder to break but also made fairly big keys that couldn't be memorized, since they consisted of 26 pairs of letters. In France ...
- 1108: SAT Scores vs. Acceptance Rates
- ... the R in the power transformation is -.683. Based on R^2 which measures the fraction of the variation in the values of y that is explained by the least-squares regression of y on x, the power transformation model has a higher R^2 which is . 466 compared to .399. The residual plot for the linear regression is on page 5 and the residual plot for the power regression is ...
- 1109: Gas Laws (cemistry)
- ... honor of Torricelli, is defined as 1/760 of a standard atmosphere or as 101325/760 Pa. The mm Hg, which is almost but not quite identical to the torr, is defined as (13.5951 x 9.80665) Pa, using a fixed density of mercury and a standard force of terrestrial gravitation. The term bar is used for 100000 Pa, which is slightly below one standard atmosphere. (http://dhswvuds.K12.us ...
- 1110: Character Analysis of Metamorphosis
- ... elements of this story are very sad but Kafka makes it memorable by incorporating ironically comic scenes in the story. Work Cited Kafka, Franz. "The Metamorphosis." Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama. Ed. X.J. Kennedy and Diana Gioia. 7th ed. New York: Longman, 1999. 26-33
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