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- 25341: The Kent State University Tragedy
- ... the farthest was nearly 250 yards away. The divisive effect of the Vietnam War on American society was especially evident on campuses throughout the country. At Kent, the day after the announcement to send U.S. troops into Cambodia marked the start of a weekend of anti-war protests that began on campus and spilled into the city of Kent's downtown. Broken windows and other damage to a number of downtown businesses prompted fear, rumors, and eventually a call by the city's mayor to the governor for assistance. The National Guard arrived Saturday night. That day some students assisted with the downtown cleanup. That night some other students set fire to the campus headquarters of the ...
- 25342: Dresden, A City Lost
- ... traditional and personal, for the whole population." ("Was the Bombing of Dresden Justifiable," 7) Furthermore, "The area selected should embrace the highest density of population." ("Was the Bombing of Dresden Justifiable," 7) Dresden was Germany's seventh largest city, in addition, by February 1945 refugees fleeing westward before the advancing Soviet military forces had doubled Dresden's population. An additional supposed purpose of the utter devastation of this capital of Saxony on the Elbe River was that apparently German troops were going through Dresden to fight the Red army. Therefore, the USSR ... behind the mass destruction of this city that was originally a Slavic settlement called Drezdane conclusively devastated its inhabitants. When the waves of attacks arrived there was no escape. Over thirteen hundred British and U.S. bombers dropped more than three thousand tons of high explosive bombs and incendiaries which started a firestorm. Any living being caught outdoors was incinerated. Many of the people in cellars suffocated, then burned. Temperatures ...
- 25343: African Americans In The Post
- ... Supreme Court decisions that limited the implications of the new amendments. After the passage of these amendments, two of the three branches of government disconnected themselves with the issue of black civil rights. Following Grant s unenthusiastic approach to protecting blacks in the South, the executive branch gradually made its position on the issue clear in 1876. (Zinn, 199) When Hayes beat Tilden in the presidential election by promising to end ... blacks. The compromise of 1877 brought Hayes to office, but doomed the black man to a second class citizenship that was to be his lot for nearly a century afterward, (Davis, 160). The Radical Republican s in Congress, who were responsible for freeing the blacks, were also responsible for letting their voices become silenced. This occurred as the other, more industrial, interests of the broad based party dominated their platform; leaving ... the nation through its successive decisions. The Court prompted discrimination by implying that if blacks wanted legal protection, they would need to seek it from their state, not national, government. This legislation affected black citizen s across the country, but was especially damning to the Southern blacks. The amount of racism thriving in the Southern states made any chances of the State support of Black rights virtually nil. The Supreme ...
- 25344: Bridging Technology And Academe
- ... this paper are those that are Internet related -- World Wide Web (Web); Web authoring and publishing; electronic mail (E-mail), Academic Discussion Lists (listservs) and Usenet Newsgroups. This paper draws from efforts at St. John's University to prepare faculty of various disciplines for educational and instructional use of a new technology infrastructure that heavily accentuates these (NITs). Rationale for Incorporating Networked Information Technology into the Curriculum As our global society ... 2000 (Stacey, 1995). Governmental policy direction for educational technology has an important effect on how the higher education community accommodates NITs. As the Clinton/Gore administration maintain, technological literacy is "…as fundamental to a person's ability to navigate through society as traditional skills like reading, writing and arithmetic" (White House, 1996). The RAND report, "Fostering the Use of Educational Technology: Elements of a National Strategy", (Glennan and Melmed, 1995 ) observes ... encourages faculty to become well versed in the various technologies, without compromising class preparation time. The instructional use of NITs has many potential benefits to students. For example, the Kickstart Initiative report by the President's Advisory Council on the National Information Infrastructure (NIIAC) concluded that NITs could improve learning outcomes among students of low socio-economic status. NITs such as distance learning and teleconferencing enable educators to provide simultaneous, ...
- 25345: The Future of NASA
- The Future of NASA One hundred years from now, NASA's space program will not be so far advanced that people will be able to beam around the Universe or travel through time. However, unless something goes terribly wrong with the world, it is expected to ... hands-on perspective. Because of the overpopulated Earth, scientists may even be considering ways to alter life on Mars, so that people would be able to live there some day. Some products developed in NASA's space program that we now incorporate in our daily lives include the vacuum cleaner, pacemaker, pens that can write upside-down, and the zero-gravity training system. The vacuum cleaner was originally a great tool ... in outer space. It is now a very helpful tool for cleaning our homes. The pacemaker is a form of life-support on spacecrafts, helping astronomers' hearts pump while they are outside of the Earth's atmosphere. It is used, on Earth, for those who's hearts have problems with pumping blood. Pens that write upside-down are used in space, where there is no gravity and writing with pens ...
- 25346: The Big Bang
- ... above absolute zero. In the future, the universe may end up in two possible situations. From the initial Big Bang, the universe attained a speed of expansion. If that speed is greater than the universe's own escape velocity, then the universe will not stop its expansion. Such a universe is said to be open. If the velocity of expansion is slower than the escape velocity, the universe will eventually reach ... Inc., 1987. p. 128. 2. Ibid., p. 130. 3. Joseph Silk, The Big Bang, New York: W.H. Freeman and Company, 1989. p. 60. 4. Terry Holt, The Universe Next Door, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1985. p. 326. 5. Ibid., p. 327. 6. Charles J. Caes, Cosmology, The Search For The Order Of The Universe, USA: Tab Books Inc., 1986. p. 72. 7. John Gribbin, In Search Of The Big Bang, New York: Bantam Books, 1986. p. 273. BIBLIOGRAPHY Boslough, John. Stephen Hawking's Universe. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1980. Caes, J. Charles. Cosmology, The Search For The Order Of The Universe. USA: Tab Books Inc., 1986. Gribbin, John. In Search Of The Big Bang. New York: ...
- 25347: Cancer 2
- ... are joined together, like beads on a chain, into structures called chromosomes. A normal human body cell has 46 chromosomes, which contain an average of several thousand genes each. During certain phases of the cell's life cycle, the chromosomes are stretched out into long, thin strands, and they are tangled together into a network called chromatin. In addition to genes, chromosomes contain proteins, some of which cover the genes that ... inconsistent in size and shape. Cancer cells may invade the bloodstream and establish colonies far from the original site called metastasis. Types of Cancer 1. Carcinomas: Malignant growths attached to a part of the body's lining (which includes the skin, the inside and outside of the body's organs, the glands, the lungs, and the digestive tract. It comes from the Greek word meaning "crab". A small carcinomas developing inside a person's body may be there for several years before the ...
- 25348: Light: A Fundamental Force In Our World
- Light: A Fundamental Force In Our World If asked what light is, one could say that it's one of the most basic elements of our world and our universe as we perceive it. It is through sight that we receive 90% of our information. It is through the use of telescopes aiding the naked eye that we are aware of the heavenly bodies around us. It is through light that the energy from the sun is transferred to us. The sun's energy supports the food chain; plants use it to turn water and CO2 into energy usable by other organisms. Solar energy was also used, indirectly, to produce all of the fossil fuels that we consume ... our eyes. Aside from keeping us alive, light is also employed in highly specialized applications. Laser light is being used in surgery. The highly concentrated beam of light is far more precise than any surgeon's hand, and much finer than the sharpest blade. In the area of communications, light is used in fiber optic networks for fast, crystal-clear connections. (Fiber optics allow light to travel in a finely ...
- 25349: Hereditary
- ... I would like to learn more about what causes specific traits and what the future might bring. Body: A person gets his or her traits from their parents. These traits include everything from the person's sex to their mental abilities or problems. These traits are hereditary because they are passed on through genes. They get these genes from their parents and grandparents. They may inherit innate abilities of their parents ... you will ever live up to your potential. Traits such as what you look like are inherited from your parents. Your potential is also inherited from your parents. Chromosomes contain the information of a person's potential height, potential strength against disease, and other physical characteristics. A human being has 23 pairs of chromosomes in every cell in his or her body (except reproductive cells). If, during a stage of growth ... of traits, but in higher animals, such as humans, there are variations. For instance if a person who has light brown eyes has a child with a person who has dark brown eyes, the child's eyes are likely to be medium brown. The charts are still valid though, because not all traits are compatible. Recessive genes do not visibly show up when there is a dominant gene present. A ...
- 25350: Extra Sensory Perception
- ... minds indeed have supernatural powers. Most tests investigated one of the three main "faculties": telepathy, clairvoyance and precognition, collectively called extrasensory perseption (ESP) by American psycologist J.B. Rhine. Dating from the early 1930s, Rhine's tests at Duke University at Durham, North Carolina, remain the most quoted examples of an expirimental blitzkreig on problems of parapsychology. Three years of Rhine's telepathy and clairvoyance testing averaged 7 successes out of every 25 people tested, 2 better than chance would have produced, an overall result millions to one against the odd. Chapter ][ What is ESP? ============ What is ... any one of five senses, as, sensory experience; carrying nerve impulses from the sense organs to the brain or other nerve center./ perception (per sep'shun) n. 1.Awareness consciosness. 2.Knowledge obtained through sense s. If you put these defenitions together, it clearly spells ESP. There are three main groups of ESP. ESP aslo has a sister called PK or psychokinetics. The three main groups of ESP are telepathy, ...
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