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- 26231: Heating Commodities
- ... price of their desired good. Naturally, consumers will choose the lower price of a commodity they wish to purchase. This is why consumers, wanting to heat their homes, chose to heat them with natural-gas's substitutes (crude oil, heating oil, or gasoline) rather than the natural-gas, the higher priced commodity. The commodity, energy, is something that people can not go without during the winter months. If their is a ... as the greater demand for a good, energy, (because of the desire to store it for the colder months ahead) with the same supply of that good becoming scarce resulting in a higher price. Consumer's demand for energy changes with the seasons. For example, the demand for energy in the summer is probably very low. The demand for energy in the fall will be higher because consumers begin storing it ... Florida do not have the same type of energy bill as the people in Pennsylvania do. The market of a commodity is determined by many things, one of those being the nature of the commodity's prices, which is influenced by the demand of that particular commodity. For the commodity, energy consumers can see that the quantity demanded is very sensitive to changes in prices. And factors such as climate ...
- 26232: Beowulf 10
- ... heroic descriptions will be passed on. "Beowulf was bathed in blood; it spurted out in streams." "(He) was badly burned," this referring to the one man who stayed behind to help Beowulf. Even in Beowulf's defeat his bravery inspires another man to be just as brave, and kills the dragon. "Thus they had killed their enemy-their courage enabled them- the brave kinsmen together had destroyed him." This story is a heroic epic. An example of the on going battle between good, and evil. This story took place around 700 b.c., at the dragon's castle. Our hero, Beowulf, is forced to go on unknown, enemy grounds to fight his fight. Several warriors go with him to help, but at the first sign on battle they flee; the story mocks ... just as courageous as he was. The story was passed by mouth for years until it was recorded by, more than likely, monks; they were the only people of that time that were literate. It's verbal passing was forced to have a sing-song pattern so it would be remembered. Beowulf is the story of a great man, so great that students today are writing textual analysis reports on ...
- 26233: Body Piercing Will You Conform
- ... Perhaps you've noticed the new fashion trend. The average youth today has at least one form of piercing ranging from earrings to genital rings. One of the piercing uproars of the eighties involved men's piercings. The question of which ear to pierce became the controversy. In the gay community piercing the right ear meant that you were a homosexual. The gay society was very much in the closet at ... soft femminine tones associated with it. Eyebrow, chin and facial piercings all arived on the same boat when there were still tremors in the Richter scale form the last punctures. The last piercing, whch wasn't of and entirely crude nature was the tongue ring. Finally the nastiest of all and the most recent are nipple and genital rings. The old line "I'm just expressing my individuality" is getting worn ...
- 26234: The Relationship Between Research Labs, Media, Government, and Industries
- ... good that this research could come to. The public then sees this information and goes to the stock market and buys stock for the company that is providing the funding for the research. The company's revenue goes up, and is therefore more inclined to give more money for further research. The articles assigned, show this relationship well. In the September 1996 article of Scientific American, Dr. Folkman does a simple ... allegedly states that Judah will cure cancer in two years, it turns out that this was mearly an ovezealous reporter trying to get a big scoop. Either way, the article fulfilled the equation. Dr. Folkman's office counted 1000 phone calls a day for a week, and countless doctors were flooded with hopeful cancer patients wanting the cure. The newspaper article also caused the stocks and revenues of the sponsors of ... Folkman to recieve for further research. On the further research side of the coin, other labs started to working on the research with little to no success. This cast doubt once again onto Dr. Folkman's research. The true cure for cancer will not come for a while, and will not come from one man alone. Dr. Folkman has done an enormous amount of good for the field, but he ...
- 26235: Accountants
- ... sponsored by the Institute of Internal Auditors and work within an individual firm. The auditor reviews accounting and operating procedures used by a firm to make sure everything is being run properly. If things aren t being run properly, it is the auditor s job to find the problem and to try to rectify it. An auditor is considered a private accountant because he is employed by a firm, yet if he specializes in auditing, he may want to ...
- 26236: Albert Camus
- ... journalism and, besides writing his fiction and essays, was very active in the theatre as producer and playwright (e.g., Caligula, 1944). He also adapted plays by Calderon, Lope de Vega, Dino Buzzati, and Faulkner's Requiem for a Nun. His love for the theatre may be traced back to his membership in L'Equipe, an Algerian theatre group, whose "collective creation" Rιvolte dans les Asturies (1934) was banned for political reasons. The essay Le Mythe de Sisyphe (The Myth of Sisyphus), 1942, expounds Camus's notion of the absurd and of its acceptance with "the total absence of hope, which has nothing to do with despair, a continual refusal, which must not be confused with renouncement - and a conscious dissatisfaction ... hope, and salvation. Dr. Rieux of La Peste (The Plague), 1947, who tirelessly attends the plague-stricken citizens of Oran, enacts the revolt against a world of the absurd and of injustice, and confirms Camus's words: "We refuse to despair of mankind. Without having the unreasonable ambition to save men, we still want to serve them". Other well-known works of Camus are La Chute (The Fall), 1956, and ...
- 26237: Albert Einstein
- ... nevertheless qualify this assertion once again on an essential point, with reference to the actual content of historical religions. This qualification has to do with the concept of God. During the youthful period of mankind's spiritual evolution human fantasy created gods in man's own image, who, by the operations of their will were supposed to determine, or at any rate to influence, the phenomenal world. Man sought to alter the disposition of these gods in his own favor ... capable of cultivating the Good, the True, and the Beautiful in humanity itself. This is, to be sure, a more difficult but an incomparably more worthy task. (This thought is convincingly presented in Herbert Samuel's book, Belief and Action.) After religious teachers accomplish the refining process indicated they will surely recognize with joy that true religion has been ennobled and made more profound by scientific knowledge. If it is ...
- 26238: Driving in India
- ... order give way to: cows, elephants, heavy trucks, buses, official cars, camels, light trucks, buffalo, jeeps, ox-carts, private cars, motorcycles, scooters, auto-rickshaws, pigs, pedal rickshaws, goats, bicycles carrying goods, handcarts, bicycles carrying passenger(s), dogs, pedestrians. ARTICLE III All wheeled vehicles shall be driven in accordance with the maxim: to slow is to falter, to brake is to fail, to stop is defeat. This is the Indian drivers' mantra ... too fast to stop, so unless you slow down we shall both die". In extreme cases this may be accompanied by flashing of headlights. Single casual blast means "I have seen someone out of India's 870 million people whom I recognize", "There is a bird in the road (which at this speed could go through my windscreen)", or "I have not blown my horn for several minutes." Trucks and buses ... the rules of the road, irrelevant of the distance between points A and B. To truly understand this phenomenon you must experience it for your self. Driving is no longer a means of transportation, it's a fight of survival and road supremacy.
- 26239: Alexander Graham Bell
- ... of sound. In 1872 Bell made a school for deaf and mute people, in Boston, Massachusetts. The school became part of Boston University, where Bell was a teacher of vocal physiology. He became a U.S. citizen in 1882. Since Bell was 18, he had been working on the idea of transmitting speech. In 1874, while working on a multiple telegraph, he came up with the basic ideas for the telephone ... Events 1871 Bell started teaching deaf students in Boston. 1874-75 he began work on his great invention. Bells attorney had applied for a patent on February 14, 1876 1880 Bell received the French government s Volta price for the telephone. 1898 Bell succeeded his father-in-law as president of the National Geographic Society. He died at his estate on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia on August 2. 1922. Major Contributions Alexander Graham Bell s greatest contribution to mankind was obviously the telephone. Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1876. One year later Bell founded the Bell Telephone Company and began licensing telephone exchanges to ...
- 26240: Animal Testing-Inhumane or Neccassary?
- ... is very expensive, and a majority of the time they do not correlate the connection between the animals and human health. People like this believe that it is our duty to look out for god's creatures, not destroy them or hurt them on purpose. In the long run, animal tests have proven to not be effective for long term, low levels of exposure, which allows for the effects to show ... is necessary." Is what Adrian Morrison, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania school of Veternarians stated when asked about the need for animal research. "A careful reading of the historical record reveals that it's been absolutely indispensible for discovering and understanding basic biological processes." The public interest in animal research did not begin to grow until the 1970's when consumers became aware of the scope of the animal testing. This is when they learned about the procedures and the horrifying circumstances that these animals had to endure just to test the chemicals ...
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