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- 1631: Air Bags
- ... most cars. In 1991, President Bush signed an act that required cars made after 1996 to have air bags. Air bags have injured many in different ways, and are threatning to most people, inlcuding kids, short people, elderly people and pregnant women. Children are at risk when they are placed in the front seat. If the airbag inflates, it goes off right in their face. Recall, the speed of the air bag. 200 mph. To a child, that is life threatning. Short drivers and elderly people are at risk too, but not because of their age or size, but because they sit close to the steering wheel. They also tend to lean forward instead of leaning back on the seat. Meaning that they are too close to the airbag if it inflates. The auto company suggests that short people and elderly people to get pedal extenders to help reach the pedals and not to be so close to the steering wheel. But, why should they go through the hassle of trying to ...
- 1632: Lewis Carroll
- ... writer had both qualities. He wrote a number of famous books and poems that ranged from a humorous to serious tone. Lewis Carroll was a fascinating man that loved children. His love for children and stories is how his most famous book came about, Alice and Wonderland. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was born at Daresbury in Cheshire, England. He was the eldest of eleven children. His parents were first cousins and unusually ... story as he told three of the Liddell girls, the middle which was named Alice. The Liddells were the daughters of the dean of the Christ Church College. In 1864, Charles wrote out the Alice stories and they were published under his pseudonym Lewis Carroll. Alice in Wonderland is undoubtedly his most famous book. Harvey Darton once said that it “changed the whole cast of children’s books.” Carroll continued to ... was a very imaginative person, but also was a genius when it came to mathematics. Carroll was tall, thin, and dark with delicate features, smooth skin, and “thick curly hair.” This man loved to write stories, make-up riddles and puzzles, and relate to children. This is how his most famous work was accomplished. Carroll was a fascinating man but an erratic genius. The death of this man on January ...
- 1633: Eight Men Out
- ... together with others to have conspired to dump the games. However, Jackson hit .375 including the Series only home run, Weaver hit .324 as well as making numerous great defensive plays, and McMullin in his short role was 1-2 with a single. How did these guys contribute to throwing the games? In the film Buck Weaver is present during the meetings, but doesn't have the heart to take the ... Buck Weaver actually hit .324. Although this mistake is minor and somewhat insignificant, the value of such information is crucial in upholding the accuracy and consistency portraying one of baseball's most shocking and legendary stories. These emotional misinterpretations severely weaken any legitimate claims that this movie is at all accurate in its portrayal of the action and events of the actual World Series. However, the aim of this film is ...
- 1634: Nuclear Energy 2
- ... of the most difficult to manage. (78) The reason why plutonium is so dangerous when it gets into the lungs is because plutonium releases radiation to a small mass of the lung at a very short distance. This effect of radiation from plutonium giving a concentrated dose to one small area is much greater than if the same amount of radiation had been uniformly distributed throughout the lung. Another problem with ... The problem is that no one wants a nuclear waste facility in there back yard. Literally billions of dollars has been spent just on looking for places to store nuclear waste. Nuclear energy has many short term benefits but many more short term and long term problems. If anyone of the lethal potential problems develop and get out of control than the world is in serious trouble. Can the world afford to be dancing with death? ...
- 1635: The Use of Characters By Hawthorne and O'Connor to Teach Morality
- ... the same position as God. In Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown” and O’Connor’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, we are introduced to two characters that show this quality of hubris. Both short stories are supposed to be satirical of people that practice moral self-deception. People, who preach of kindness and love, but put themselves on a pedestal above other people. In the case of Goodman Brown and ...
- 1636: Response to William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily”
- ... when he speaks of them. The protagonist of this story is a woman named Emily Grierson. The antagonists of this story are the townspeople. Although there are many double meanings and themes that underlie this short story, Man versus Society is clearly the true underlying tone of “A Rose for Emily.” The narrator brings the audience to the story beginning with Miss Emily’s funeral. Attending Miss Emily’s funeral is ... her forever; she murdered him and slept with his corpse. Man versus Society is the underlying theme of “A Rose for Emily,” because Jefferson City’s society plays a constant antagonist role throughout Faulkner’s short story. I believe that Faulkner uses the townspeople in “A Rose for Emily” as an effect with the point of view. By creating the narrator at third person townsperson point of view, Faulkner allows the ... left her, they began to feel sorry for her. Miss Emily was humanized from someone who was supposed to be august, to a person with problems. The townspeople of Jackson carried the tone of the short story “A Rose for Emily” by being antagonistic towards the protagonist Emily Grierson. Although there were many other double meanings and themes that underlie this story, Man versus Society is clearly the underlying tone ...
- 1637: William Wallace
- ... William Wallace has been passed down through many different generations. These generations include people of English, Scottish, and Irish decent, a few among many. All of these different cultures have passed down different versions of stories and records about William Wallace. Since there are many different stories about the same man, historians and scholars find it difficult to determine the actual truth about William Wallace and his past. As a result, historians are often left with conflicting opinions about who William Wallace ... gathering troops and ambushing and destroying anything that had an English insignia on it. Another debate about his life that is avoided by the movie is his place of birth. Over time as with many stories, words and their meanings have gotten a little mixed up. This mix up has been traced back no later than the Eighteenth century. All belief of Wallace’s birthplace has been derived from the ...
- 1638: William Wallace
- ... William Wallace has been passed down through many different generations. These generations include people of English, Scottish, and Irish decent, a few among many. All of these different cultures have passed down different versions of stories and records about William Wallace. Since there are many different stories about the same man, historians and scholars find it difficult to determine the actual truth about William Wallace and his past. As a result, historians are often left with conflicting opinions about who William Wallace ... gathering troops and ambushing and destroying anything that had an English insignia on it. Another debate about his life that is avoided by the movie is his place of birth. Over time as with many stories, words and their meanings have gotten a little mixed up. This mix up has been traced back no later than the Eighteenth century. All belief of Wallace’s birthplace has been derived from the ...
- 1639: Dna Replication
- ... direction, hence away from the replication fork. The DNA polymerase for this strand starts a burst of synthesis at the point of the replication fork. The addition of nucleotides to the 3` end of a short new chain until this new segment fills in a gap of 1000 to 2000 nucleotides between the replication fork and the end of the growing chain to which the previous segment was added. Hence, this new short chain is then added to the growing chain, and the polymerase jumps ahead again to fill in another gap. Thus in short, the polymerase copies the template strand in segments about 1000 nucleotides long and stitches each new fragment to the end of the growing chain. This process of replication is referred to as discontinuous synthesis. ...
- 1640: Real Ghosts - What Are Ghosts
- ... an idea of a ghost may be a figure you can see through, something that goes in and out of rooms without needing to open doors. That is the way ghosts are usually described in stories or shown in movies. But real ghosts come in many different sizes and shapes. Sometimes they are strange and frightening looking. Sometimes they look very ordinary. It is hard to tell they are ghosts at ... a shadowy figure on a staircase. It is the "brown lady" of raynham hall. Each of these people claims that he really saw a ghost. In this book the author (daniel cohen) investigates many strange stories. Sometimes he uncovers a hoax, but other stories leave puzzling questions... Do spirits really haunt old houses? Can a human be transported back into the past? Are ghosts real? Return from the dead? A man named john thorne lived near an old ...
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