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- 21511: Sailing
- ... heavy improperly balanced ships. They were very inefficient and slow. Today modern technology and mathematics join together to create boats that fit the formulas. Everything about to be described effects another characteristic of the boat's handling and capabilities. When talking of sailboats, buoyancy and stability are the first two areas of concern. With the force of high speeds, the boat must stand true in the water and move precisely. There ... a rectangle having the same length and width. These along with various other, and more complicated, things help the boat remain afloat. Buoyancy is quite important, but of an even greater concern is the boat's stability. The stability is what gets the boat to stay up while the wind pounds at the sails. Here forces tend to play with the boat. Shown below are some of the major forces and ... that perform for specific speeds, weather or even areas of the globe. Many boats today in around the world competitions, have winged keels. These keels were so secret at the beginning of the 1987 America's Cup, that the New Zealand team kept the boat covered during the weighting in. This keel is one of the three newest achievements in sailing technology. The fins slotting out allow the boat, when ...
- 21512: Brazil Context
- ... provides great hydroelectric potential, as evident in the Itaipu dam project. Since the oil crisis in the 70s, Brazil embarked upon the ProAlcohol program for alcohol fuel manufacture from sugar cane to reduce the country's reliance on foreign oil. As for agriculture, Brazil is a major exporter of soybeans and orange juice in addition to the traditional coffee and cocoa. The fishing potential along the coastline is significant but has ... to make increasing growth as his first priority instead of reducing inflation. Despite of a already huge deficit, he tried to stimulate growth by increasing government spending. The current president, Fernardo Henrique Cardoso was Franco's finance minister. He pushed through a stabilization program which included significant economic liberalization and income tax increase. He managed to lower inflation and federal deficit by introducing the Real Plan. Now, he is pushing the ... house of Congress has accepted the Constitutional Amendments that will open oil, mining, electric power, and telecoms to private and foreign investment. One of the largest successes of the recent reform is the real, Brazil's latest currency. Introduced to deindex prices and to lower inflation, the real and accompanying measures have brought fierce growth and a flood of new investment: 12 multinationals alone are planning to spend $8 billion ...
- 21513: Richard Marcinko
- Richard Marcinko A brilliant virtuoso of violence, Richard Marcinko rose through the Navy ranks to create and command one of America's most elite and classified counterterrorist units, Seal Team Six. Then Marcinko was given orders to create Red Cell, a team of the best counterterrorists, whose job was to check the security of the military's top installations. Richard Marcinko was the ultimate rogue warrior. First, born Thanksgiving Day, 1940, Marcinko was from a poor, broken home. He was always very independent, having a paper route at five and cutting school ... a decorated war hero. After his return to the United States, he became Commanding Officer of Seal Team Two, where he served for eight years. Then, he came up with the idea of the Navy's first counterterrorist unit, Seal Team Six. Now, the most important contribution Richard Marcinko made was his idea of Seal Team Six. Seal Team Six was created as part of the CounterTerrorist Joint Task Force, ...
- 21514: The Lord of the Flies Character Analysis
- ... Piggy is the smart one of the group. Simon: He is my favorite character in the story. He is viewed as the Christ-figure and interprets the mysteries of the island. Roger: Roger is Jack’s “sidekick” and is a vicious murderer at heart. Sam and Eric: The twins stick close to Ralph until they are forced to join the hunters. Their main job is to watch the signal fire. The ... hunters only take some torches from the fire, and leave saying that Jack is the leader of the new tribe and they are having a feast and everyone is invited. Also, they can join Jack’s tribe if they behave properly. Meanwhile, Simon was having an encounter with the pig head. It seemed to be speaking to him. It warned him that he cannot escape him and that he is in ... Simon dies as a tropical storm rolls in, and his body is washed out to sea. Ralph and Piggy feel terribly about what has happened and cannot live with themselves. That night some of Jack’s tribe assault the hut on the beach where the remaining boys are housed. After all the confusion, the boys discover that Piggy’s glasses are gone. Ralph, Piggy, and Sam and Eric decide to ...
- 21515: Responces To Hunger
- ... the process by which a stimulus acquires the capacity to elicit a response through association with a stimulus that already elicits a similar or related response. Classical conditioning is like the famous case of Pavlov s dogs that we learned about in Psychology 101: The dogs learn to associate the ringing of the bell with food, and, once conditioned, the dogs could not hear the bell without salivating. The Japanese were ... of classical conditioning established by the media today. Our culture watches vivid pictures of human suffering and death, and we learn to associate it with our favorite soft drink and candy bar, or our girlfriend s/boyfriend s perfume/cologne. This occurs at the movies or even at home watching TV we laugh and cheer and keep right on eating popcorn and drinking pop while in front of us are images of ...
- 21516: Semiotics And Intertextuality
- ... Redemption of Physical Reality Siegfried Kracauer; with an introduction by Miriam Bratu Hansen Princeton University Press, 364 PP., $19.95, Paper, 0691037043 Princeton has made an interesting and very worthwhile decision to reprint Siegfried Kracauer's impressive work on film aesthetics (the term magnum opus would not be inappropriate). (Theory of Film was originally published in 1960, this new paperback edition is the only one currently in print in English.) At a time when film so readily employs digital means to create images, Kracauer's emphasis on film's connection to photography as a representation of reality might seem out-of-date. However, As Miriam Bratu Hansen points out in her excellent introduction, suggestions that Kracauer's theories of film belong to the " ...
- 21517: AZT
- ... was approved by the American Food and Drug administration for use in treating the AIDS virus is called AZT, which stands for azido-thymidine. AZT was released under the brand name of Retrovir and it's chemical name is Zidovudine, or ZDV. The structural name of AZT is 3'-azido-3'- deoxythymidine. AZT works by inhibiting the process of copying DNA in cells. More specifically, AZT, inhibits the reverse transcriptase enzyme ... that is required to work in the opposite direction. AZT works by bonding to the reverse transcriptase enzyme, thereby making it unable to bond with the nucleotide string and making it unable to fulfill it's role. This whole process is used by the HIV virus to replicate itself so that it can continue to infect more cells. AZT was originally developed over 20 years ago for the treatment of lukemia ... of the cells that it gets into, thereby giving it a high toxicity level. The formula for AZT is C H N O . The molar mass of AZT is 267.24 grams per mole. AZT's melting point is between 106 C and 112 C. AZT is soluble in water, which is important so that it may dissolve into the human blood and be distributed to the cells. AZT is ...
- 21518: Migrant Labour
- ... also shares the view that husbands and wives have become strangers to each other. Who re-acquaints themselves with each other during the annual two weak holiday period. The development of such situations between husband's and wives can clearly be viewed as a result of migrant labor due to the lack of time spent with each other. This time spent together is needed in order to build the bond between ... African children. “Children have now been found to view their fathers as intruders, as a result of the lack of time spent together”(Wilson and Ramphele, 1991). In such an environment where fathers and mother's are away for extensively long periods of time. How is it that children can gain the basic building blocks of life. Children of migrant workers are deprived of their natural guide in life(Wilosn and ... of others feelings”(Bernstein, 1975). It is parents that carry the guidance that is necessary to ensure that children grow up to be productive members of society. When this guidance is absent in a child’s growing years, a child does not learn the basic building blocks of love, trusts, respect and honesty. As a result of this lack of parental guidance which is due to migrant labour. African children ...
- 21519: Put Me In, Coach...!
- Coaching girl's softball and boy's baseball teams has both many differences and similarities. They are obviously two different sports, but they have a lot in common. In the same way, the coaching position is known to be the hardest job ... decides who is talented and would do the best job in each defensive field position. An experienced coach will have an outstanding knowledge for the game and possess developed strategies for his or her team's successful season. The most stressful part of this job, in both softball and baseball, is complying with the specific rules that must be followed during a game. Planning the line-up takes a lot ...
- 21520: Abortion
- ... of the uterus. A suction machine at the other end of the tube removes the contents from the uterus. This procedure is called vacuum aspiration and is done primarily in a medical clinic or doctor's office using a local anesthetic for the cervix. During the second trimester, abortions are usually done by means of dilation and evacuation. This procedure uses forceps, curette, and vacuum aspiration. Although rarely sought, third-trimester abortions may be performed when the fetus has severe genetic defects or because continuing the pregnancy would be a threat to the woman's health. A controversy began in 1988 over a drug, developed in France, called RU 486, which, when taken during the first 7 weeks of pregnancy, causes the embryo to become detached from the uterus. The ... supported by family- planning agencies in the United States, France, and elsewhere and by the World Health Organization and the World Congress of Gynecology and Obstetrics. The long-term effects of RU 486 on women's health were unknown. Abortion as a way to end unplanned pregnancy is practiced in many countries. In Europe by 1992 only Ireland had a complete ban on abortion. In the United States the legality ...
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