|
Enter your query below to search our database containing over 50,000+ essays and term papers
Search results 411 - 420 of 1220 matching essays
- 411: Asimov On Chemistry by Isaac Asimov
- Asimov On Chemistry by Isaac Asimov The Book Asimov on Chemistry by Isaac Asimov is a collection of seventeen essays that he wrote for The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. This book is one of ten that were published by Doubleday & Company, Inc. Not all of the books centered on chemistry and like science. Most just covered anything Isaac Asimov wondered about. These Essays date ... Know It Covered here are different posibile backgrounds for sustaining life. Water is the background we live off. The closest he compared is ammonia due to similarities in water they share. Asimov, a detailed science fiction author, also metions such alterantives as vaporous, metal, energy, and mental beings. These would live in space, energy, stars, hyperspace. GEOCHEMISTRY Recipe for a Planet This was written when the united states and the former ...
- 412: Chlorine
- ... element. In 1810, Sir Humphrey Davy named it Chlorine, from the Greek word meaning "greenish-yellow". Chlorine is used in bleaching agents, disinfectants, monomers (plastics), solvents, and pesticides. It is also used for bleaching paper pulp and other organic materials, preparing bromine, (a poisonous element that at room temperature is a dark, reddish-brown), tetraethyl lead, and killing germs in water, particularly in swimming pools and hot tubs. Like every member ... oxides that chlorine can form: chlorine monoxide; dichloride monoxide; chlorine dioxide; chlorine heptoxide; and chlorine hexoxide. Chlorine is used in bleaching agents, disinfectants, monomers (plastics), solvents, and pesticides. It is also used for bleaching paper pulp and other organic materials, preparing bromine, (a poisonous element that at room temperature is a dark, reddish-brown), tetraethyl lead, and killing germs in water, particularly in swimming pools and hot tubs. Electron Dot Model ...
- 413: Margaret Atwood
- ... Happy ¨ 1978, Selected Poems ¨ 1978, Two-Headed Poems ¨ 1981, True Stories ¨ 1984, Interlunar ¨ 1987, Selected Poems II: Poems Selected and New, 1976-1986 ¨ 1990, Selected Poems 1966-1975 ¨ 1995, Morning in the Burned House Short Fiction ¨ 1977, "Dancing Girls" ¨ 1983, "Murder in the Dark" ¨ 1983, "Bluebeard's Egg" ¨ 1991, "Wilderness Tips" ¨ 1992, "Good Bones" Novels ¨ 1969, The Edible Woman 1985, The Handmaid's Tale ¨ 1972, Surfacing 1988, Cat's Eye ¨ 1976 ... Bride ¨ 1979, Life Before Man 1996, Alias Grace ¨ 1981, Bodily Harm Children's Books ¨ 1978, Up in the Tree ¨ 1980, Anna's Pet ¨ 1990, For the Birds ¨ 1995, Princess Prunella and the Purple Peanut Non-Fiction ¨ 1972, Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature ¨ 1977, Days of the Rebels 1815-1840 ¨ 1982, Second Words: Selected Critical Prose ¨ 1995, Strange Things: The Malevolent North in Canadian Literature Edited ¨ 1982, The New Oxford ...
- 414: Mononucleosis
- ... The spleen is a fist-sized, spongy organ located behind the stomach (removed in this illustration), just under the diaphragm. Part of the lymphatic system, the spleen is composed of two types of tissue. White pulp produces lymphocytes, which release antibodies into the bloodstream to combat infection. More prominent is the red pulp, in which macrophages filter broken cells, parasites, bile pigments, and other useless substances from the blood. Iron from broken red blood cells is stored in the spleen for later use. Despite this variety of functions ...
- 415: Stephen King
- ... an imagination, let it run free. - Steven King, 1963 The King of Terror Stephen Edwin King is one of todays most popular and best selling writers. King combines the elements of psychological thrillers, science fiction, the paranormal, and detective themes into his stories. In addition to these themes, King sticks to using great and vivid detail that is set in a realistic everyday place. Stephen King who is mainly known ... the discovery of the author H. P. Lovecraft. King would later write of Lovecraft, He struck with the most force, and I still think, for all his shortcomings, he is the best writer of horror fiction that America has yet produced(Beaham 22). In many of Lovecrafts writings he always used his present surroundings as the back drop of his stories. King has followed in his footsteps with the fictional ...
- 416: Sex In Society
- ... bearing on girls' and boys' behaviour, and their aspirations. To most children the commercial message is another piece of information received from the television set. It is often difficult for them to distinguish truth from fiction, particularly when the fiction is packaged in compelling words, striking images, and catchy music." (Ontario Ministry of Education, 1975, pp. 5-7) An overwhelming amount of the visualizations that young kids see are the stereotypical images of women and ...
- 417: Decriminalize Marijuana for the Good of America
- ... of the Declaration of Independence (Young 25). Hemp is safer for the environment. Hemp requires 40% fewer chemicals to produce paper, and, over twenty years, one acre of hemp can produce four times as much pulp as can an acre of trees (NORML 4). The production of hemp would save trees and clean up the air. The push for legalization of Cannibis is making news across America just as it did ... Schmoek, Kurt L. Back to the Future: The public health system's lead role in fighting drugs. Available: http://epfl2.epflbalto.org/mayor/webpage/drug.html#Decriminalization. Young, Jim. "It's Time to Reconsider Hemp." Pulp and Paper Y5 (1994): 25.
- 418: Tomorrow When The War Began
- ... The War Began, discuss the ways in which particular issues, themes, or attitudes are conveyed via the medium of the literary text. John Marsden s Tomorrow when the war began is a gripping work of fiction. The book deals with various themes, issues and attitudes that are present in our society throughout the medium of the novel, we learn that war is not only stupid but it is devastating for those ... the series. The style used catches a lot of reader s attention and makes them want to read on with enthusiasm. Conclusion John Marsden s Tomorrow when the war began is a gripping work of fiction. The book dealt with various themes, issues and attitudes which we learn about throughout reading the novel, these attributes are present in our society throughout the context of the novel. We learnt that war is ...
- 419: Fahrenheit 451 & Brave New Wor
- Fahrenheit 451 & Brave New World For more than half a century science fiction writers have thrilled and challenged readers with visions of the future and future worlds. These authors offered an insight into what they expected man, society, and life to be like at some future time. One ... man's best friend, the dog, against man, changes the role of public servants and changes the value of a person. Aldous Huxley also uses the concept of society out of control in his science fiction novel Brave New World. Written late in his career, Brave New World also deals with man in a changed society. Huxley asks his readers to look at the role of science and literature in the ...
- 420: Edgar Allen Poe
- ... to posterity one tale with a moral. Written in 1841 at the dawn of Poe's most creative period, Poe delivers to his readers a satirical spoof, a literary Bronx cheer to writers of moralistic fiction, and to critics who expressed disapprobation at finding no discernible moral in his works. The tale "Never Bet the Devil Your Head: A Tale with a Moral" presents Poe's "way of staying execution" (Poe ... creation"? (Poe 280-81) Instead, Poe's work penetrated to the truths which govern the universe. How petty the moralists of his day must have seemed to him! Best known for his poems and short fiction, Edgar Allan Poe deserves more credit than any other writer for the transformation of the short story from anecdote to art. He virtually created the detective story and perfected the psychological thriller. He also produced ...
Search results 411 - 420 of 1220 matching essays
|
