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- 13981: Windows 95
- Windows 95 Windows 95 may very well be the most talked about software release in history. With more people than ever using personal computers, and given Microsoft's dominance in this still growing market, Mr. Gates' newest offering has caused quite a stir. As with any new product in this ultra-competitive industry, Windows 95 has come under intense scrutiny. Advocates of the new operating system applaud its new features and usability, while its opponents talk about the similarities to Apple's operating system. As I have never used an Apple computer, I can't address this point, but I will attempt to outline some of the more interesting "new" features of Windows 95. Arguably the most welcome innovation Win 95 offers is the "task bar". Use of the ...
- 13982: Acid Rain Legislation
- Acid Rain Legislation Acid rain is a destructive force as a result of nature and man colliding. It is formed through harmful industrial emissions combining with contents of the earth's atmosphere; a dangerous combination. This prompted governments throughout North America to take action. Many laws and regulations have been implemented, yet the question still remains, "Should tougher legislation be implemented to force industries to reduce acid rain emissions?" To decide whether tougher legislation should be implemented, one must first understand the details of what exactly acid rain is. Acid rain is a result of mankind's carelessness. It travels a long one of the most efficient biogeochemical cycles on earth, the Hydrologic Cycle. This allows acid rain to distribute itself further away from it's source causing more than local problems. Sulfur Dioxide (SO2) is released by fossil fuels when they undergo combustion. Power plants and other fossil fuel burning industrial areas release various forms of nitrous oxides (Nox). ...
- 13983: The Mystery of Area 51
- ... and Anyone crossing this point will be shot on the spot, are posted outside this lonely, desolate ground (Misage 2). What occupies this dry, desert area? Some believe just a defense ground from the 1950's, others believe aliens. Despite everyone's beliefs, no one really knows what lies behind those barbed wire fences. Some will even call it one of the most speculated conspiracies of the century, next to the Kennedy Assassination (Hammen 62). What is this mystery that the government has been hiding for 50 years? The answer is Area 51. Area 51 was built in the 1950's by the CIA as a top secret area of defense. It was the testing grounds for such war planes as the Aurora Project, SK-71 Blackbird, and the F-117a Stealth fighter spy plane ( ...
- 13984: D-day
- What day in your life was the most important? One of the most important days during World War II was D-day. Don't be mistaken by the word D-day it did not all happens in just one day but many days. D-day was just a code name for the day that Operation Overload started. D-day is very well known for the beginning of the end of the war in Europe and Hitler's rule over most of the ruined continent of Europe. Many say that if it were not for D-day Europe would have definitely fell to Hitler. So was your day this important? Did your most ... of the armada across the English Channel, and the battle for the beaches. (1-5) The fifth term sometimes used when talking about D-day is The Atlantic Wall. The Atlantis Wall was the Germans first line of defense in the west, which was along the English Channel coast of France. The wall was only partly completed by June of 1944. It had many guns placed on it, beach ...
- 13985: Effects of Dam Building
- ... dams are. A dam is a barrier built across a water course to hold back or control water flow. Dams are classified as either storage, diversion or detention. As you could probably notice from it's name, storage dams are created to collect or hold water for periods of time when there is a surplus supply. The water is then used when there is a lack of supply. For example many ... their body. Often, two types of these dams are combined to form a composite structure consisting of for example an overflow concrete gravity dam, the water that overflows into dikes of earthfill construction. A dam's primary function is to trap water for irrigation. Dams help to decrease the severity of droughts, increase agricultural production, and create new lands for agricultural use. Farmland, however, has it's price; river bottomlands flooded, defacing the fertility of the soil. This agricultural land may also result in a loss of natural artifacts. Recently in Tasmania where has been pressure from the government to abandon ...
- 13986: Through A Narrow Chink: An Ethical Dilemma
- ... initial guinea pigs for research but this is no different from what dentists, barbers, and young surgeons do. All of these groups use the poor to hone their skills, not because of the poor women's ignorance but because middle class, suburbanite, white women are unlikely to volunteer their services for the sake of science. My main problem with this is that he claims they will not "volunteer" their services. Of ... research at all, let alone how to read a consent form that leaves them without legal recourse. Djerassi mentions this as well, the idea that he can not offer them consent forms because they can't read. That seems preposterous to me! If he can not inform his patients of the possible side effects then what chance do they have at justice if some carelessly administered drug causes them harm? Coming ... 9 Djerassi addresses another question he was often confronted with. "How do you feel about the social outcome of the work?". He answered this with a shrug of his shoulders and a simple, "I couldn't have changed things". Again, I am disturbed by the flippant manner of his response. Yes, he acknowledged the impact the Pill had on the sexual revolution, but fails to see beyond what has already ...
- 13987: Detroit Riots
- Detroit Riots Many civil disorders have erupted across the United States. Racial tensions were at a highpoint in the 1960s with riots and looting throughout the major cities in the United States. This was not such a problem in the rural areas but the urban areas had serious racial problems between black and white people. Throughout the 1960s blacks and whites clearly demonstrated that they had many problems living segregated in the urban areas. It was a civil explosion that you can clearly see from the Detroit riots in 1967. Detroit experienced the ... Detroit to inventory electrical supplies that were purchased by her firm. (Locke 43-44) The Tonya Blanding incident. Only four years old at the time Tonya was lying in the living room of her familys second floor apartment when guards opened fire with rifles and a tanks .50-caliber machine gun. When the firing stopped they found young Tonya lying dead in the living room. (Lee & Humphrey 109) ...
- 13988: Essay on Metals
- Essay on Metals On Gold What's so special about this gold stuff, anyway? I mean, it's expensive because it's rare but why do we use it in jewellery? Gold has a couple of fairly unique properties that have made it attractive to jewellers throughout history. Prime among these is its resistance to corrosion. ...
- 13989: "Muddle In A Puddle": Comparison of Essay To My Life
- ... the toy department, only to my surprise, everyone in the toy department was laughing at me. As Robert Herrick mentions in his poem "_O how that glittering taketh me!" (100 Best Loved Poems, 12) That's how I felt at that time. All of us have experienced things like this in our lives, and it is strange what makes it so interesting to watch people make fools of themselves, as mentioned ... Americans love to watch major league sports, but the most embarrasing thing to me is to sit and listen to someone sing the National Anthem. And the truth is, 5 out of 10 people don't know the words to it. They just plug in their own words and sing right on along, not even caring if they're right or not. Americans are just plain sloppy and lazy. These two ... bother telling him before he sits down. There was a lack of communication between these people. The setting of this situation, seems to me, to be within a large city, where the saying goes, "What's their's is their's, and what's your's is their's." Of course noone will speak up when something is wrong. Noone cares about anyone else. The "Peigeons" essay focuses on the ...
- 13990: The Hale Bopp Comet
- ... 200 comet apparitions. That is one of the reasons they put his name first. Alan Hale comments, "I love the irony -- I've spent over 400 hours of my life looking for comets, and haven't found anything, and now, suddenly, when I'm not looking for one, I get one dumped in my lap. I had obtained an observation of P/Clark earlier, and needed to wait an hour or ... in Sagittarius. When I turned to M70, I saw a fuzzy object in the same field, and almost immediately suspected a comet, since I had been looking at M70 last month, and *knew* there wasn't any other objects there." Thomas Bopp explains his story like this, "On the night of July 22, 1995 some friends and I headed out into the desert for a dark of the moon observing session ... My friend Jim Stevens had brought his 17-1/2" Dobsonian. We started the evening observing some of the Messier objects such as the Veil and North American Nebulae in Cygnus, when Jim said " Let's look at some of the globulars in Sagittarius." We started our tour with M22 and M28, observing at 50X and then at 180X. Around 11:00 local time, we had M-70 in the ...
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