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- 20571: Egypt 2
- ... cover most of Egypt, so it gets little rain, but the longest river in the world, the Nile River, flows through the desert and is key to living for many Egyptians. Almost all of Egypts population, about 99%, is located near the Nile or along the Suez Canal, another body of water important to Egyptian life, although together they cover only four percent of Egypts total land. The largest city, Cairo, has a population of about 6 million. About 10 million people live in the Cairo metropolitan area. Alexandria, a port city, is the second largest. Egyptian cities are extremely ... minority are the Nubians. They originally lived in villages along the Nile in northern Sudan and the very bottom of Egypt, called the Nubian Valley. When the Aswan High Dam was constructed in the 1960s, it forced the Nubians to move higher up on the Nile. Arabic is the official language of Egypt. Regional Arabic dialects have their own variations of sounds and words. The most widely used dialect ...
- 20572: Egypt Pyrmiads
- As Egypt grew and flourished to a powerful and rich nation, itleft behind for today's historians, clues and artifacts of a oncedistinctive, well established and structured society. The Clues and artifacts shows historians the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt, which signified the beginnings of a civilized era centred around ... which is known for the establishment of a firm political structure of the land which was unified in the hands of the king. The glorification of Lower and Upper Egypt uniting was portrayed in Narmer's Palette, which was found in the ancient southern capital of Hierakonpolis. The general function of Narmer's Palette was to commemorate a victory over his human foes. With Narmer's victory, the Palette also depicts his successful claim and conquest of all of Egypt, thus establishing unification of Lower and Upper ...
- 20573: Eloquent Boldness
- Eloquent Boldness Should slavery be allowed in the United States? This question divided our nation into two separate entities in the late 1800s and laid the foundation for an ethically compelling speech. On June 16,1858, Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, spoke out to over 1,000 Republican delegates in the Springfield, Illinois, state house for the Republican State Convention. At this gathering, Lincoln delivered an extremely courageous, A House Divided, speech. In this eloquent ... to falter now? Through the patriotic emotion stirred by this question Lincoln hopes to arouse the delegates to believe that not giving up and standing strong for their beliefs is their only viable option. Lincolns credibility was strong before the speech, however, he further strengthened his credibility with the evidence given in two key passages. The allusion to Christs statement in the Synoptic Gospels, A house divided against ...
- 20574: DNA: The Thread of Life
- ... of several different nitrogenous bases linked to the opposite end of the deoxyribose. There are 4 nitrogen bases called adenine, guanine, thymine, and cytosine. In DNA adenine pairs with thymine and guanine with cytosine. Medicine's ability to diagnose continues to exceed its ability to treat or cure. For example, Huntington's Chorea is an inherited disease that develops between the ages of 30 and 45, can be diagnosed before any symptoms appear. This can be hard for both the individuals with the disease and their family ... than one a day. This may not sound like very much but as technology increases the rate at finding them will increase. Since January 1993 to January 1994 scientists have located the genes for Huntington's disease, Lou Gehrig's disease, and the "bubble-boy" disease. Scientists are expected to find the first breast cancer gene any week now. Even with the best tools of today, the progress is full ...
- 20575: Manatee
- Manatee The manatee popularly called the sea cow is any of the species of large water animals in the genus Trichechus. There are three species of manatee with T. inunguis found in the Amazon and Orinoco river systems; T. manatus is found in central Florida and along the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean coasts; and T. senegalenis found in the rivers of tropical West Africa. A manatee is a slow moving, seal shaped mammal that lives in shallow coastal waters where rich plant grows. It usually is at home in ...
- 20576: Lipids
- Lipids The subject I will cover is lipids. I will tell you about the description of it s organic compound. I will tell you where it is found. I will tell you what the uses are in plants and animals. I will also tell you about its chemical structure and give examples of types of these compounds, such as cholesterol. The organic compound of lipids have many similarities. They are almost always greasy, fatty, oily, or waxy. They do not dissolve in ... make triglycerides also known as fat. There are also many other uses such as insulation and protection. They are also used in making cell membranes. They make it so that the cell can maintain its shape by keeping water and water-soluble compounds from passing through it. The lipids that are waxy are usually used to make protective coatings on the surface of plants and animals. Since a lipid ...
- 20577: Extent Of European Influence B
- The Extent of European Influence on the World in 1650 The extent of European influence was almost unavoidable during the 1650's. After the Dark Ages and the Renaissance were over Europe became an intellectual and wealthy hub in the known world. There are several reasons that made this possible. A few were there vast merchant trading ... most ironic part of that new age of discovery is that when Columbus original departed from Spain his mission was to find a quicker trade route to Asia than the Portuguese. Columbus found the America's by accident. At first he thought that he had come upon the Islands southeast of India. But it was not until some other Spanish explorer climbed a huge mountain in Central America and saw there ... Spain. Instead they spread all there wealth throughout Europe making other countries rich. Finally Spain ran out of money, mostly due to the fact that all there major silver and gold mines in the America's had run out. This is what gave the rest of Europe a chance to move in on all this new territory. Along with the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588 by the English, ...
- 20578: Fdr Vs. Hoover
- ... believe in. They are resistant to change, being strong believers of traditional values. They thought money should be spent on defense, not social programs. In a nutshell, they want government to stay out of people's lives. The modern definitions of each term will be used in categorizing Roosevelt and Hoover. President Hoover, a strong believer in traditional values, can definitely be described as a conservative. His initial "hands-off" policy ... believed in the business cycle and that the country would pull its self out of the depression. He did not want to use government power in dealing with this catastrophe, mainly because of his predecessor's tradition of lassiez-faire. Hoover stated in an election speech, "Every step of bureaucratizing of the business of our country poisons the very roots of liberalism (old definition)." As government gets bigger, there are needed more offices, agencies and bureau's to handle affairs. This bureaucracy, he said, would take the American people's freedom right from them. He felt a great need to take government out of peoples lives more then ever. Even after ...
- 20579: Female Slaves And Their Famili
- ... of the family away if they desired, or could separate the family on the plantation, making them work in different areas. Despite this instability, the family tended to be a central part of a slave's life, and women played a significant role in the development of this family. Slave owners often did not differentiate between genders on the field, and thus the women often ended up working alongside men in ... The men usually did chores such as trapping and hunting animals for food, while the women did more of the domestic duties. While these domestic duties tended to add more work to the slave woman's day, the domestic work was a way for women to rebel against the master to a degree. Women did this work to keep themselves and their families healthy, and would on occassion help a runaway ... out of them, and thus make more money when the crops were harvested. The family was important to most slave women, and they had ways of making sure that they stayed together, though these weren't foolproof. A woman assigned to the Big House when the rest of her family was on the fields could rebel, thus making "a mistress's life miserable by literally doing nothing." This would often ...
- 20580: Salt Pollution
- ... and effective. It costs 20 dollars a ton where as an alternative like calcium magnesium cost around 700 dollars a ton. Some 10 million tons of deicing salt is used each year in the U.S. and about 3 million in Canada. Salt is used to keep snow and ice from bonding to the pavement and to allow snowplows to remove. When salt is applied to ice and snow it creates ... sustain aquatic life in all bodies of water. They are more susceptible to the effect of salt pollution than fish. These microorganism are at the bottom of the food chain, when they die, it doesn't take long for the rest of the food chain to follow. Large increase in salt concentration can cause 75% - 100% death for these microorganisms, The effect of salt is almost immediate. Most of the organism ... inflamed stomachs. As one can see, the effect of roadway de-icing on the environment are tremendous. The use of salt causes a great burden to both land and water. One must weigh the pro's and con's of de-icing when learn about the effects of salt on the environment.
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