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- 5581: Grapes of Wrath Essay
- ... wasn’t for sale anywhere; people couldn’t just move to a new place and resume their careers. The only work to be done was picking fruit on some large farm, which only lasted a short period while the fruit was ripe. Handbills were sent out when work was needed and people would come from all over to work. With so many people needing work, the owners could pay anything. "If ...
- 5582: Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried Eating Them Away
- ... best friend, and all faith in himself. For O'Brien, evidence of the parasite is not solely in his return Vietnam, but rather a constant personal preoccupation that seems to flow through the collection of stories. O'Brien shows how the memories of the war take on a parasitic form, and uses himself as an example. In the chapter ³Speaking of Courage², O'Brien introduces a character by the name of ...
- 5583: Martin Heidegger’s Being and Time
- ... My goals here are to explicate Heidegger’s project in a more simplistic language, exploring certain key points within his work that are essential to a full understanding, and sum up the ideas into a short, coherent synopsis. Remember of course that there are many scholarly works on Heidegger regarding the very thing I attempt to achieve. While I am by no means a scholar, my view is but one interpretation ...
- 5584: Fiberoptics
- ... optical fibers. Such sources included laser diodes and light-emitting diodes, or LEDs. The original lasers were bulky, delicate and expensive, so more developments for the semiconductor diode laser began. It was small, but had short life expectancy and wasn't very reliable. Those limitations were "designed out" In the meantime, though, the less expensive and longer-lasting incoherent light-emitting diodes were suitable for most of the less demanding applications ...
- 5585: Charlie Chaplin 3
- ... Purviance. Notable films during this period include The Champion, The Tramp and The Bank. In 1916 he moved to Lone Star Mutual, with even greater control and financial rewards. Here he made the definitive Chaplin short comedies, The Rink, Easy Street, The Cure and The Immigrant. First National were next, and it was here he constructed his full length masterpiece, The Kid. Shorter comedies of note at this time included Sunnyside ...
- 5586: Chromosome Probes at the University of Toronto
- ... a University of Toronto geneticist will make it easier to detect certain types of genetic and prenatal diseases, as well as being used to determine paternity and provide forensic evidence in criminal cases. Probes are short pieces of DNA which bind to, and actually pinpoint, particular sites on a chromosome. Because these new probes are actually repeated hundreds or thousands of time at a particular site, they are much more sensitive ...
- 5587: The Human Brain
- ... brain. The cortex is a sheet of greyish matter which produces our thoughts, language and plans. It also controls our sensations and voluntary movements, stores our memories and gives us the ability to imagine, in short it's what makes humans, humans. IN THE FUTURE Today many experiments are being conducted that may be break through's for the future. For instance "brain grafting" is one procedure that may be used ...
- 5588: Astronomy And Space Science: Your Bones in Space
- ... month though small in relation to the total skeletal mass becomes significant when Mars mission of 18 months is contemplated. Since adults may rebuild only two-thirds of the skeletal mass lost in microgravity, even short durations can cause additive effects. This problem becomes even greater in females who are already prone to hormonal osteoporosis on Earth. So far several studies are under way with no significant results. Much study has ...
- 5589: Big Bang Theory
- ... a portion of this randomness happened to form a bubble, with a temperature in excess of 10 to the power of 34 degrees Kelvin. Being that hot, naturally it expanded. For an extremely brief and short period, billionths of billionths of a second, it inflated. At the end of the period of inflation, the universe may have a diameter of a few centimetres. The temperature had cooled enough for particles of ...
- 5590: Dangers and Destructions of Floods and Hurricanes
- ... deltas. They can be effected by tidal waves and coastal currents. Coastal floods can cover a large amount of distance along a shore. The length of time a coastal flood is dangerous is usually very short. It depends on how high the tide is which goes up and down twice a day. When the velocities of hurricane winds become severe the height of the waves become three or more feet higher ...
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