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- 22401: Sir Rich Arkwright
- ... in Bolron-le-moors in 1760. Soon afterward he traveled throught the country buying human hair. At that time he had a valuable chemical secret for dying the hair to make wigs out of. Arkwright's hair was commented to be the finest hair in the country. In 1761, Richard Arkwright married Margaret Biggins, and this marriage brought him to an aquaitance with Thomas Highs. Highs was probably one of the ... In 1781, Arkwright began to take action against these people for still using these improvements by suing them for pattent infringement. Unlike what would happen today, only one case was tried against Col. Mordaunt. Mordaunt's defence was that Arkwright had never specified the inventions as required by law, theref making the pattent invalid. Soon after the trial, Arkwright published "The Case." The object of "The Case" was to obtain from ... paper, and Hargrave, who was dead, could not deny or approve of what was written. For those of you who have been wondering all this time about what the water frame exactly is, well, it's not a drenched picture frame. It's really an improvement on a spinning machine called the spinning jenny. The jenny, however, was only able to spin transverse threads. The jenny's inventor, Highs, believed ...
- 22402: Cancer
- Cancer INTRODUCTION In the American society, cancer is the disease most feared by the majority of people within the U.S. Cancer has been known and described throughout history. In the early 1990s nearly 6 million cancer cases and more than 4 million deaths have been reported worldwide, every year. The most fatal cancer in the ... the population, and also to the large number of tabacco smokers--particularly in women. Some researchers have estimated that if Americans stopped smoking, lung cancer deaths could virtually be eliminated within 20 years. The U.S. government and private organizations spent about $1.2 billion annual for cancer research. With the development of new drugs and treatments, the number of deaths among cancer patients under 30 years of age is decreasing ... suffix-blatoma denotes a primitive, usually malignant, neoplasm. Leukemia, literally meaning "white blood," is the term used to designate malignant neoplasms having a major portion of their cells circulating in the blood stream. Most leukemia's arise in the blood-forming tissues, such as the bone and in the lymphatic tissues of the body. CAUSES OF CANCER 2.A cancer-causing agent-- chemical, biological, or physical--is termed a carcinogen. ...
- 22403: Victor Frankenstein: An Unpredictable Character
- ... the first couple years of his life moving around with his parents, traveling. When his brother Earnest was born the Frankensteins moved back to Geneva where they would stay to raise their family. Caroline, Victor’s mother, adopted a young girl the same age as Victor, Elizabeth. Elizabeth and Victor were very close and Victor showed unconditional love toward Elizabeth. Victor was also blessed with a second brother, William. Victor had the most fulfilled childhood, which is why it was so peculiar that he went of the deep end. After Victor’s mother died, his father thought it best that Victor attend school in Ingolstadt, where he would study natural philosophy and chemistry. Victor is an obsessive compulsive person. When he gets involved in something, he engrosses ... would not allow him to rest. He went for a walk outside and encountered his good friend Henry Clerval, who took note of his friends unhealthy disposition. The two of them walked back to Victor’s apartment. When Victor discovered that the monster had fled, he went insane. He began climbing over chairs, clapping his hands, and laughing wildly. Clerval watched his friend, and because Victor would tell him nothing, ...
- 22404: The Secret Service
- ... In addition to guarding the president, the secret service has been used for many other tasks since its creation. At the close of the Civil War, between one-third and one-half of all U.S. paper currency in circulation was counterfeit. On July 5, 1865, the Secret Service was created as a bureau under the Department of the Treasury to combat the counterfeiting going on. Within less than a decade ... president. In 1906, Congress passed legislation making presidential protection a Secret Service responsibility. The Secret Service has also been assigned other protective duties. These assignments included providing security for the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, the Gutenberg Bible, and other valuable documents during World War II. Additionally they have provided protection for a number of foreign leaders who visited the U.S. during World War II as well as protecting Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" while on exhibit in the United States. This showed that the Secret Service could do more than protect just the ...
- 22405: Essay on The F.B.I.
- Essay on The F.B.I. To uphold the law through the investigation of violations of federal criminal law; to protect the U.S. from foreign intelligence and terrorist activities; to provide leadership and law enforcement assistance to federal, state, local, and international agencies; and to perform these responsibilities in a manner that is responsive to the needs of the public and is faithful to the constitution of the U.S.: this is the mission of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The agency now known as the Federal Bureau of Investigation was founded in 1908 when the Attorney General appointed an unnamed force of Special Agents to be the investigative force of the Department of Justice (DOJ). Before that time, the DOJ had to borrow Agents from the U.S. Secret Service to investigate violations of federal criminal laws within its jurisdiction. In 1909, the Special Agent Force was renamed the Bureau of Investigation, and after a series of name changes, it received its ...
- 22406: Little Women Book Report
- Little women book report In 1868, Louisa May Alcott wrote the book Little Women in "response to a publisher's request for a 'girl's book'". Louisa wrote this book by calling upon her own memories of her childhood and putting them down on paper. This is the story of four young girls, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March, and ... became the best of friends with him. Despite that one good trait, Jo has an uncontrollable temper that can erupt at any time. This is quite evident one day when Amy burns one of Jo's most precious items-a book that she wrote stories in and had for years. She is so outraged that she cannot even look Amy in the face and storms out of the house. Jo ...
- 22407: Condemnation of the Church and Foreign Intervention
- ... peasants can escape its grip. A scene with the blessing of the animals also portrays how the grip and influence, the scene has a massive amount of people flocking to the church. In the 1970’s the church spread throughout central America to instigate the peasants to fight against the government oligarchy. The “new” church with its reverse theism urged the people to fight against the government. This was the same ... in central America the United States intervened to support the governments. Labeling the guerrillas as “communists” and at the height of the Cold War the United States sent billions of dollars to fund the government’s military. It would not be in the best interest of the United States to have the guerrillas to take control. El Salvador is a strategic location, and If the guerrillas in El Salvador win the ... I traveled throughout Cuba ...during that time I did not see one shoeless child or one child with the classic signs of malnutrition. Cuba now has the lowest infant mortality of all Latin America... Havana s the only capital I have seen which does not have a typical ring of shantytown misery surrounding it” Cuba’s statistics: Life Expectancy is 74, Infant Mortality 13.6/1000 17,956 Hospital Births ...
- 22408: Our Father-Son Relationship
- ... telling me that I was good for nothing and could never do anything right. If an argument got heated, he would more than lose control of himself and hit me out of anger. My father’s temper was like a seesaw, very unpredictable, and he would lose his control very easily over minor things. One day when I was about ten years old, he went out of control when I lost ... tight, not letting go. Since counseling, we talk all the time and go many places together. I am so glad our relationship and friendship has tightened rather than lose my father completely. Parents in today’s world play a huge role in children’s lives. Perhaps my father had an extremely bad temper because his father acted the same way. My grandfather often beat my father when there was a disagreement. This is a prime example that shows ...
- 22409: Chinese Culture
- ... the civilizations have not passed. These family virtues, serious, working attitudes, sense of justice and the great Confucian tradition have been deeply assimilated into the Chinese people. Some Chinese traditions are different from North American s. The Chinese culture has many special characteristics which are very interesting for people to learn. The family life is very important for every Chinese. Chinese families are very close-knit. Children tend to stay with ... everyone is well organized within this compact family each member of the family help each other when there is any problem and they will suffer together. The family life is quite different from North American s style, since the North Americans like to live alone when they are getting old. It is very dangerous for the old people, if there is any accident happened. Nobody can help them if the old people live alone. The elder Chinese people are not willing to spend their final years living in an old people s home. Chinese have great respect to the old generations. They will not let their parents or grandparents live alone in another environment for the final years. They will live with the old people because ...
- 22410: Romulus And Remus
- Numitor, King of Alba, had been ousted by his brutal brother, Amulius. Amulius made sure Numitor would have no heirs by forcing Numitor's only child, his daughter, Rhea Silvia, to spend her days as a vestal virgin, serving in the temple of Venus, goddess of the hearth. Nevertheless, Rhea subsequently gave birth to twin boys, Romulus and Remus ... bore the twins safely ashore, where they were found by a she-wolf who suckled them with her milk. The wolf looked after them until they were found by Faustulus, one of the old king's shepherds, who adopted them as his own. When the boys were grown, Faustulus told them who their father was and described their mother's fate. Romulus and Remus avenged he by killing Amulius, and they restored Numitor to the throne. They then decided to build a city on the Tiber River. Realizing that only one of them could ...
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