|
Enter your query below to search our database containing over 50,000+ essays and term papers
Search results 371 - 380 of 1576 matching essays
- 371: Biography Of Frank Zappa
- ... people can buy. From a family of 3 kids, who barely made it out of high school to a musical genius who is multi-talented instrumental wise, Frank Zappa has made an impact on jazz, rock-and-roll, rhythm & blues, and all other types and forms of music.
- 372: Dizzy Gillespie
- The people of today, raised by the sounds of The Beatles and Pearl Jam have forgotten all about the musicians that paved the way for these artists, and the musical styles that evolved into rock and roll, rhythm and blues and rap or hip hop. Unfortunately the music that once dominated the night clubs, restaurants, and radio stations is now heard only in elevators or when we go to a grandparents house ...
- 373: Lord of the Flies: Success of Golding's Portrayal of the Children
- ... been away from adults, the children will feel remorseful. Also, after the boys have been absent fr om structured discipline, they become blatant savages and retain absolutely no innocence. When Piggy and Ralph visit Castle Rock to get back Piggy's glasses, Golding says: Roger, with a sense of delirious abandonment, leaned all his weight on the lever. The rock struck Piggy. Piggy fell forty feet and landed on his back across that square across that square red rock in the sea. His head opened and stuff came out and turned red. (200) Without apprehension, Roger performs the horrible and violent act of killing Piggy. Roger has now been without adults to discipline ...
- 374: Stock Car Racing
- ... fire suit, free of grease and oil on at all times. For the driver's safety, each car must have a 4-point stock car safety harness that will pass inspection, fasten to frame or roll cage. Belts must be dated for tech and are good for a five-year period. There must also be a quick release fire extinguisher in the racecar at all times, within easy reach of the ... before a race; therefore the driver must set the car up according to the rules of the track. Due to the nature and aggressiveness of racing, each car is required to have a 4-point roll cage. In New Brunswick, all cars must run the Good Year Eagle G-60, which are purchased at the track. Drivers are limited to the number of tires they can buy in a season, in ...
- 375: Acid Rain
- ... formed when rocks are broken up by the weather and erosion and mixed with organic matter from plants and animals. The term soil generally refers to the loose surface of the Earth, made from solid rock. To the farmer, soil is the natural medium for growth of all land plants. The rocks that make up soil could be acid, neutral, or alkaline, another name for a base. Limestone and chalk are ... northeastern North America and east and north Canada are places in North America where the is more sensitive to acid deposits then any other places. Many factors, including the soil chemistry and the type of rock determine the enviroments ablity to neutralize the acid deposits from the rain. Soils naturally contain small amounts of poisonous minerals such as mercury, aluminum, and cadmium. Normally, these minerals do not cause serious problems, but ...
- 376: The Element: Chlorine
- ... of chloride of lime enables it to destroy bacteria; therefore large amounts are used to treat municipal water systems. This chemical is also used in swimming pools and for treating sewage. Chlorine is used as rock salt. Sodium chloride, NaCl, is used directly as mined (rock salt), or as found on the surface, or as brine also known as salt water. It can be dissolved, purified, and reprecipated or given in return for use in foods or when chemical purity is ...
- 377: Come Home
- ... is founded; Dr. Charles Stuart Gager is first director. 1911 Native Flora Garden laid out. 1914 Children's Garden program begins. 1915 Japanese Hill-and-Pond Garden is completed by landscape architect Takeo Shiota. 1916 Rock Garden constructed. 1917 Auxiliary formed to support the Garden. 1925 Thirty-two dwarfed potted trees are donated, starting the now famous bonsai collection; Shakespeare Garden opens, gift of Henry C. Folger. 1927 Construction for Cranford ... capital project, is completed. 1989 Education Building is completed; Palm House renovated as special events center. Throughout the Garden's history, teachers have come to learn in ourgreenhouses. These teachers visited in the 1920s. 1992 Rock Garden is restored; Research Center opens at 109 Montgomery Street; Garden gives first Better Earth Award recognizing environmental commitment. 1993 Lily Pool Terrace renovated. 1994 New mixed perennial border added to Lily Pool Terrace. Administration ...
- 378: Shiga Naoya - At Kinosaki
- ... my belief that this death of the lizard represents any sudden death from accident or tragedy; death which the victim is not at all prepared for. The narrator accidentally kills a lizard by throwing a rock at it in an attempt to startle it. Shiga makes it clear that there was no intent or malice in the death with quite a long description of how the narrator "no longer disliked water ... of its own weight. The toes of the projecting front feet, braced against the slope with knee joints cut, turned under and the lizard fell forward, its strength gone. Its tail lay flat against the rock. It did not move. It was dead". The narrator again feels lonely looking at the dead lizard - "I was filled with sadness of the lizard, with a sense of the loneliness of the living creature ...
- 379: Aldous Huxley
- ... the Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell. These novels deal with the inebriated states produced by hallucinogens. They describe the alteration in sensory perception that Huxley experienced with mescaline (LSD-My Problem Child). The rock group the Doors named themselves after the Doors of Perception (Its Online-Aldous Huxley). Huxley had become a guru for hippies in California and began to use LSD (Aldous (Leonard) Huxley). Huxley thought hallucinogens ... time (Aldous (Leonard) Huxley). Huxley influenced many other writers to publish novels about futuristic or Utopian societies as well (Aldous (Leonard) Huxley). He was a guru for California hippies and had an influence on the rock group the Doors, who named themselves after his novel The Doors of Perception (Its Online-Aldous Huxley). Works Cited Aldous Huxley-Biography-Soma Web. 8 May 2000 *http://www.primenet.com/~matthew/huxley/huxbio ...
- 380: Radon
- ... a worldwide average, approximately 6 atoms of radon emerge from every square inch of soil each second (Dunford, 1991). Radon is also moderately soluble in water and, therefore, can be absorbed by water flowing through rock or sand. Its solubility depends on the water temperature; the colder the water, the greater radon's solubility. Ernest Rutherford discovered radon in 1899. Rutherford is considered the father of nuclear physics. Indeed, it could ... buried in Westminster Abbey near those of Sir Isaac Newton. (Concise Columbia Encyclopedia, 1995) The two natural sources of radon, thorium and uranium, are common, naturally occurring elements that are found in low concentrations in rock and soil. Through radioactive decay, both are constant sources of radon. Radon is produced from the radioactive decay of the element radium, which is itself a decay product of either uranium or thorium. Radioactive decay ...
Search results 371 - 380 of 1576 matching essays
|
