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- 20511: Buddihism
- ... Speech, Right Action, Right Livelihood/Occupation, Right Endeavor, Right Mindfulness (total concentration in activity), and Right Concentration (meditation). The Eight-Fold Path is pervaded by the principle of the Middle Way, which characterizes the Buddha's life. The Middle Way represents a rejection of all extremes of thought, emotion, action, and lifestyle. Rather than either severe mortification of the body or a life of indulgence in sense pleasures the Buddha advocated a moderate of "balanced" wandering lifestyle and the cultivation of mental and emotional equanimity through meditation and morality. After the Buddha's death, his celibate wandering followers gradually settled down into monasteries that were provided by the married laity as merit-producing gifts. The laity were in turn taught by the monks some of the Buddha's teachings. They also engaged in such practices as visiting the Buddha's birthplace; and worshiping the tree under which he became enlightened (bodhi tree), Buddha-images in temples, and the relics of his body ...
- 20512: The Solar System
- ... system also includes the stars and the moon. The Heliocentric model was created in 1543 and it shows how the solar system functions. In the model the stars and the sun are stationary they don’t move. The planets including earth move in circles around the sun in an eastward motion. It takes a year for the earth to make a complete circle around the sun. The moon moves in eastward ... earth turns in a counter-clockwise direction. As the earth rotates the sun rises in the east. The suns motion is east to west. This is how we get night and day. As the sun’s light and heat falls on the earth, it spreads out more at the poles. The polar areas are more cooler that the area of the equator. The earth’s axis is tilted so when the sun is high in the sky its heat is concentrated towards the ground that’s how we get summer. Six months later when the planet is on the ...
- 20513: Keeping The Snake River Dams
- Keeping The Snake River Dams From Washington State to Washington D.C.: “Don’t even think about it.” That is the message from protesters to the federal government who are entreating the thought of breaching Snake River dams to aid salmon runs. Here in the Pacific Northwest salmon have ... at least some level of impact on these species, this impact is difficult to quantify to a degree that can be meaningfully compared to the costs of dam removal. That is were the 4-H’s come into the picture. The four h’s are habitat, harvest, hatcheries and hydroelectric dams. Before any decisions are going to made one must analyze each aspect each of the 4-H’s. Now that I have told you a little about ...
- 20514: Oxygen
- ... metabolism, the means by which animals derive the energy needed to sustain life. Furthermore, oxygen is the most abundant element at the surface of the Earth. In combined form it is found in ores, earth’s, rocks, and gemstones, as well as in all living organisms. Oxygen is a gaseous chemical element in Group VA of the periodic table. The chemical symbol for atomic oxygen is O, its atomic number is ... publicly announce his findings. The interpretation of the findings of Priestley and the resultant clarification of the nature of oxygen as an element was accomplished by the French scientist Antoine-Laurent LAVOISIER (1743-94). Lavoisier's experimental work, which extended and improved upon Priestley's experiments, was principally responsible for the understanding of COMBUSTION and the establishment of the law of conservation of matter. Lavoisier gave oxygen its name, which is derived from two Greek words that mean "acid ...
- 20515: Causes Of The Civil War
- ... Southern slave states to leave the Union. The Civil War was ultimately caused by the secession of the Southern states from the Union. Slavery had caused a great division in our country by the 1850's. The abolitionists of the North proclaimed that slavery was immoral and wrong, and the Southern "fire eaters" were dependent upon slave labor to run its large plantations where the "cash crop" of the South, cotton ... election, secession from the Union would follow. The outcome of the election of 1860 was exactly what put many Southern states over the edge. On December 19, 1860, a convention was held at St. Andrew's Hall in Charleston, South Carolina, to vote on secession. One day later on December 20, 1860, the delegates voted by a unanimous 169-0 vote in favor of secession. " The union now subsisting between South ... the United States of America is hereby dissolved." - South Carolina secession speech. Between January 9 and February 1, 1861, six other Southern slave states followed suit: Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas. Following Lincoln's inauguration, the second wave of secession occurred with Virginia leading the way for Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina. In conclusion, it was the secession of the Southern states that ultimately led to the first ...
- 20516: Could Air Pollution Have A Negative Impact On Water Quality?
- ... The EPA is an agency that deals with the protection of human health and safe guard of the natural environment, air, water, and land, which are important element for life to depend on. The agency’s principle is to protect all Americans from significant risks to human and environment where they live, learn and work. It tries to reduce environmental risk nationally. Its federal laws are enforced fairly and effectively to ... of the DEQ Surface Water Quality Division to determine the type of permit to be used for the discharge. An individual NPDES permit is site specific. Its limitations and requirements are based on the permittee’s discharge type, amount, facility operations, and receiving stream characteristics. A general NPDES permit covers permittees with similar operations and/or types of discharge. It contains effluent limitation protective of most surface waters statewide. Locations of ... resources for current and future generations’ benefit. Besides the governmental agencies, there is a movement called Riverkeepers at the local level. It is an environmental “neighborhood watch” program, a citizens’ patrol to protect the nation’s water. Robert Boyle, who wrote a book about Hudson River, founded it. He relies on a network of local fishermen, environmental experts and legal system to stop corporations from polluting the Hudson. The Clean ...
- 20517: The Origin Of Humanity
- ... seem to far fetched to be accountable theories for the creation of humanity on planet earth. There are a lot more questions that remain unanswered such as if spacemen put us on earth why didn't they bother to teach humans anything? And if the creationist theory were accurate why can't God control natural disasters on his planet? He is so clever to create everything known to mankind why doesn't he make the perfect world if he had that much control? There seems to be quite a bit more sustantial evidence on earth to support the theory of evolution. The evidence is holds up ...
- 20518: Titanium
- ... in a steel bomb. Later, a man named Martin Klaproth took the discovery of Gregor one step further and named it Titanium after the giants in Greek mythology, the Titans. When titanium is in it’s powder form it can sell for around $100 a pound. Titanium is the ninth most abundant element in the Earth’s crust. Titanium, when pure is a lustrous white metal. It has a very low density, good strength, easily fabricated, and has excellent corrosion resistance. It’s ductile only when free of oxygen. This metal, which does burn in the air, is the only element that burns in nitrogen. Titanium is resistant to dilute sulfuric and hydrochloric acid, most of the ...
- 20519: Observed Distribution of South American Relief Features
- ... continental drift. The crashing and spreading of the plates forms the landscape of the Earth as we see it today. The positions of the landmasses today are a result of continental drift. During the Earth’s existence, the magnetic fields have never been stable. Solidified magma containing magnetic imprints reveal periods of time when the Earth’s magnetic fields have actually been reversed. Convection is caused by non-uniform temperature in a fluid and density differences. This continuous convection is the cause of plate movement. Each complete cycle, called a convection cell ... How does a ‘solid’ mantle move? The mantle may be solid but, as with most solids, it will deform if long-term stress is applied. Presently, there are more than fourteen plates in the Earth’s crust. Upwelling hot magma flows out from mid-ocean ridges and then cools down when exposed to the cooled environment outside; the layer of cooled magma forms the lithosphere. When magma flows out from ...
- 20520: The Origin of Life
- ... as a general principle or explanation of presumed fact and offered opinion, which may or may not possibly of positively true. In the United States, laws have been passed several different ways constituting whether Darwin's theory of "survival of the fittest" can be taught in schools, versus religious belief of Divine creation. From 1920 to 1986 the argument continues in the courtroom, and many, many books have been written debating ... of their environment.”(1) Darwin sailed for five years collecting information to support the lucid study. After obtaining a variety of books and videos on this controversial issue, I stand in awe wondering if Darwin’s theory was magnified after his return, writing of The Origin of Species. I make this conclusion by psychological intuition of a statement Charles Darwin wrote at the end of the introduction of his book. “I am convinced that natural selection has been the main but not the exclusive means of modification.”(2) Could Darwin’s conscience have been troubled? An interesting fact was revealed about Darwin while researching this paper. Darwin graduated from a Bible college in 1830 with a degree in theology. When boarding the SS Beagle, after ...
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