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- 13971: The Platypus
- The Platypus The platypus is an extraordinary animal. It is very unique because there aren’t may animals like it. Platypus can be found along the eastern coast of Australia, in its rivers, streams and lakes. The platypus can also be found on the island of Tasmania and as far north ... tail like a beaver. Some believe it is a cross between a duck, beaver, and fish. The platypus lays eggs and suckles its young. Roughly half the size of a household cat, the adult male’s average length is about 50cm and can weigh up to 2.4 kg. The female is smaller and will reach an average length of 44cm and weigh about 1kg. The platypus has a thick layer ... hair is a yellowish color. The tail of the platypus is made up of fatty tissue. The tail stores energy supplies, which the platypus can use when there is a shortage of food. The platypus’s tail is different from that of a beaver. The beaver’s tail is flatter and broader and it is to propel the beaver through the water. The platypus uses its tail to navigate only. ...
- 13972: Creation As Seen Through Greco
- ... Night, and Erebus is the "unfathomable depth were death dwells." This was all, and there was nothing else. Then from Night and Death, Love, or Eros, and Aether, or "upper air", was born, and that's when things started to turn around, bringing beauty and order, as Love created Light and Day. Nyx, alone, was the mother of Hypnos, Thanatos, and Moros, who are "sleep", "death" and "doom." In some instances ... slew him. So much blood flowed from the slaughtered giant that it drowned all the frost giants save Bergelmir and his wife, who escaped in a boat made from a hollowed tree trunk. From Ymir's flesh, Odin and his brothers made the earth, and from his shattered bones and teeth, they made the rocks and stones. From Ymir's blood, they made the rivers and lakes, and they circled the earth with an ocean of blood. Ymir's skull they made into the sky secured at four points by four dwarfs named East, ...
- 13973: Moll Flanders
- ... of affluence. Eventually, Moll achieves her desires and retires a gentlewoman in America, but her journey definitely took a serious toll on her life. In the end, one must ask the question of whether Moll's lifestyle and decisions were the right ones. Did the ends justify the means? Did Moll's chosen path lead to a life of satisfaction or did the pain, paranoia, and emotional trauma that came along the way extract a price that is much greater then the wealth that she eventually achieved ... along the road to truly becoming a gentlewoman. Had events continued flawlessly from here, Moll might have achieved her goal without any pain, suffering, or remorse. Unfortunately, this was not to be the case. Moll's problems began with her relationship with the eldest brother. Her vanity and egoism allowed her to be seduced thus creating a serious conflict when the youngest brother sought her hand in marriage. Moll soon ...
- 13974: Electrolytes
- Electrolytes Electrolytes are liquids that conduct electricity. Most need to be dissolved into water or another solvent. Battery’s have an electrolyte in them, either as a liquid or as a paste. Liquid electrolytes are used in electrolysis, electroplating, and other chemical processes. When electrolytes dissolve they release positive and negative ions. The released ... a negative electrode) carry positive electric charges toward the cathode. Anions carry negative electric charges toward the anode, positive electrode. Strong electrolytes release many ions and conduct electricity well. Weak electrolytes, like acetic acid, don’t release many ions and conduct poorly. Non electrolytes, like sugar, release no ions and form non conducting solutions. A couple electrolytes conduct electricity as solids. These solid electrolytes have ions that can move and carry ... Ionic Compounds is where particles are ionically (electrically) bonded together. They already made out of cations and anions, but in their solid state the ions are locked into position in their crystal structure, and can’t move around. When the ionic compound is dissolved into water the water molecules, which are polar,(having a positive and a negative end) will be attracted to the positive ions. This attraction of different ...
- 13975: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Conflict Between Society and the Individual
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Conflict Between Society and the Individual The conflict between society and the individual is a theme portrayed throughout Twain's Huckleberry Finn. Huck was not raised in accord with the accepted ways of civilization. He practically raises himself, relying on instinct to guide him through life. As portrayed several times in the novel, Huck chooses to follow his innate sense of right, yet he does not realize that his own instincts are more moral than those of society. From the very beginning of Huck's story, Huck clearly states that he did not want to conform to society; "The Widow Douglas she took me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me... I got into my old rags and ... obviously evil and unfit man. One who drinks profusely and beats his son. Later, when Huck makes it look as though he has been killed, we see how civilization is more concerned over finding Huck's dead body than rescuing his live one from Pap. This is a society that is more concerned about a dead body than it is in the welfare of living people. The theme becomes even ...
- 13976: In the Middle of the Night: Review
- ... of the Night By Robert Cormier (Harper Collins, 203 pages, $8.95) Reviewed by Ranwick Well, I picked up the book not really sure what it was about, and half way through I still wasn't sure but once I grasped hold of what was going on I couldn't put the book down. In the Middle of the Night is about an accident in a theater where a balcony collapses on a number of small children, and kills them, and a few are injured ... balcony at the time. Today the usher has grown up and has a son. A victim, who died in the accident but came back to life that day, is out for revenge on the usher's son. The novel is hard to follow at first because there are jumps from one character view to another, to piece together a whole view of the story. The structure of the story is ...
- 13977: Chinese-american Culture In Un
- ... from sweatshops, dirty factories, shipyards, and railroads are prime examples of the conditions they were forced to live and work in. Fae Ng described the difficulty very well by taking a look at her mother’s job in the clothing factory and Leon’s Job on the ships. They had very little advancement in the work force because they couldn’t communicate well enough that they actually had skills. Trials in the work place helped the immigrants impress upon their children the importance of education. Education in Asia was and is completely different from western ...
- 13978: Doublespeak: Nuclear Power Plants
- ... only, or euphemisms and jargon, to mislead the public and make them believe that there is nothing to be afraid of and that there is no possibility of a major accident. They take the public's biggest fears, meltdowns and contaminations, and make them into "events" and "infiltrations." This use of doublespeak is misleading to the public and may make them believe that a major accident hasn't happened, or the accident was a normal event or minor incident. In 1979 a valve in the Three Mile Island stuck open, allowing coolant, an important part of the plant, to escape from the reactor ... job and supplied the reactor with necessary coolant, but the system was shot off for a few hours due to employee error. Corrective action was eventually taken, and only a partial meltdown occurred. The plant's containment building was able to hold most of the radioactive products from entering the local environment. Only a small amount of activity escaped, that activity was carried by coolant water that had overflowed into ...
- 13979: Smuggling of Nuclear Material
- Smuggling of Nuclear Material Over the past five years the former states of the Soviet Union haven't been able to prevent the leakage of nuclear material. Nuclear materials and technologies are more accessible now than at any other time in history, due to the breakup of the Soviet Union and the worsening of economic conditions. No longer does the Soviet KGB, the Soviet military and the Soviet border guards have the control to stop the smuggling of nuclear material's. With the Cold War being over, there is a huge stockpile of over 100 nuclear sites (See Appendix A). Russia, alone has an inventory of 1,300 tons of highly enriched uranium (HEU), and 165 ... on the market. Terrorist, organized crime and countries with nuclear ambition, are high bid contenders for the material. The United States is also becoming involved for the safety of preventing a nuclear disaster. The U.S. has just begun their large task and with Russia's worsening economy, smuggling of nuclear material will continue. During the Cold War the security of Soviet nuclear weapons and missile materials was based on ...
- 13980: Green Laws Boost Clean-up Iindustry
- ... of the consumers has been on the increase over the last few years, and the public environmental image means more to a firm than ever before. The average con-sumer going down to the grocer's for a few necessaries is starting to attach importance to something else than just the product itself. How is the detergent wrapped - is the paper bleached? Is this bottle reusable? Are these outdoor tomatoes? - and so on. Personally I don't think that you notice it, as you're walking alongside the shelves in the local supermarket - but you do pay more attention to ecological messages on the products than you did just 5-10 years ago. After all this is a topic very much in the public mind, so I guess it's quite natural to get involved one way or the other. I know from my own experiences that we have started to put down se-veral ecological products on the shopping list at home, when ...
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