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- 27071: Chemical Bonding
- ... form from ions. Ions are made when an atom gains an electron to form a negative ion or loses an electron to form a positively charged ion. As an example of an ionic bond let's used the elements Cl and Na. First, we must understand that there is an attraction between them because one is positive and the other negative and that the Cl atom contains seven valence electrons and ... a release of energy. The electrostatic energy between the two holds them together. Ionic bonds are useful because in a liquid state it can conduct electricity. This is possible because it contains ions. That doesn't conduct electricity in the solid state because there is not enough room within the molecule. The substance produced by this bond is table salt. Other salts, such as CaCl (rock salt) are formed in the ...
- 27072: Sim City Forever
- ... take place in. The times consist of 1900, 1950, or 2000. No matter where you have started, the game ends at the same point. Second, they must choose a size for their city. The city s size is defined by the amount of squares of building space available. They are then categorized as small, medium, and large. Finally, the player must decide on a name. The name of the city is ... choices for. It is completely your choice. The game has already put the player where they want to be, in control. After the startup screen, the player views a blank area known as your city s Terrain. That is where the fun begins. The player s next duty is to start building. Essentially what is happening is that the player is assuming the role of a god-like figure. They are given the control to make decisions such as, laying ...
- 27073: History And Development Of The Internet
- ... millions of users throughout the world. (Leiner, 2). It has become one of the fastest growing forms of communication today. (Marshall, 1). The Internet started as a Defense Department Cold War experiment in the 1950 s. (Academic American, 225). The government needed a way to relay information between tanks and headquarters so the APRA (Advanced Research Projects Agency) sought a way to let signals from the battlefield reach a headquarters computer using satellites and radio signals. At the same time the command posts of the nation were located deep underground in mountains in fear of nuclear war. (Diamond, 3). Paul Baran, working for the U.S. Air Force, developed a network that could reroute itself around damage caused by the impact of an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile by using "redundancy of connectivity". This meant that in the event of a break in ... number of mailing lists down but gave up after a while calling it a way to "test the networks mail capacity." The APRAnet as it was now called began to grow and by the 80 s it began to link to other college and government networks. NSFnet (national science foundation network) and the newly founded usenet were among the first to be connected. These links began the "APRAinternet" later called ...
- 27074: Romeo And Juliet Balcony Scene
- ... Romeo, she falls in love with him. When he shows up at her balcony, she asks him how he got there and was worried for his safety. They could not talk for long because Juliet s nurse was call her, Romeo wanted to sleep with Juliet but she said they had to get married first and they decided to get married the next day. In the balcony scene of Romeo and Juliet, Romeo is proven to be romantic while Juliet is more practical. They loved each other but their love wasn't meant to be. The feud between their families destroyed their love and cost them their lives.
- 27075: Watergate
- ... well. The break-in was not a very easy task for the group. It took them three times before they could break into the Watergate building which was the location of the Democratic headquarters. Nixon's men finally got in and took some pictures of some documents and put bugs on the phones. There were eight men involved in the break-in. One of them was caught but was only asked ... have a few presidential meetings a day to come up with a good way to cover it up. Nixon became even more nervous when the Supreme Court said that it was not in the President's power to use bugging without the consent of the authorities. On Tuesday morning at about 9 o'clock, the first White House Watergate meeting had taken place. Steps were also taken to fix the officials ... out. O'Brien filed the Democrats' suit of one million dollars in damage to the CRP. This really worried Nixon because now the entire CRP could be witnesses to the case. On that Wednesday, Nixon's cover up was to get to the F.B.I. They were advised not to go to the F.B.I., but Mitchell suggested that they did because the F.B.I. already knew ...
- 27076: John F. Kennedy: Foreign Affairs
- John F. Kennedy: Foreign Affairs The three main foreign affairs during John F. Kennedys presidential term were The Bay of Pigs, The Cuban Missile Crisis, and the Spread of Communism in South Vietnam. These were the main problems that the Kennedy administration faced. The Bay of Pigs was the ... but only if the US would not invade Cuba. In South Vietnam, the communist insurgency showed no signs of letting up. Many Vietnamese began to look towards the communist opposition. Ngo Dinh Diem, the countrys president, seemed more interested in establishing an autocratic regime than he did in promoting democracy. He kept power within his family and refused to share power with local leaders. On November 2, 1963, Ngo Dinh Diem died at the hands of his generals. Less than two weeks after Diems death, Kennedy himself was assassinated. So Linden B. Johnson took his place and the struggle of Americas bloodiest cold war.
- 27077: Arab Crusades
- ... to meet Conrad III army. The Holy Roman Emperor, Conrad III, set out from Germany and soon met up with Louis' men. With their armies, they left from their homeland to meet in Jerusalem. Conrad's army began their voyage, only to be ambushed. Afterwards, their supplies and cavalry were drastically depleted. The better half of the French army reached Jerusalem and met up with the small remains of the Germans ... assembled during the middle ages. Again, this crusade suffered misfortune. On his journey to Jerusalem, the Roman emperor died, and his army accompanied the body back home for burial. Even with the size of Richard's and Frederick's remaining armies, they were not able to recapture Jerusalem. When the armies left Jerusalem and its surrounding areas to return home, they accomplished none of their goals. Since none of the following crusades were ...
- 27078: Essay on Christopher Columbus
- ... negative. People all over the world celebrate Columbus Day, because of his achievements, and success in finding the "New World". Although, many people revel in his glory, their are facts that infer that Columbus wasn't as admirable as people think of him. In 1892, Columbus was a hero, virtually everyone praised him. On the contrary in 1992, revisionists who are delving into archives, are uncovering the negative aspects of his ... because they had an assumed air of superiority. Columbus has been the all-time heroic figure portayed by people of 1862, they viewed him as a man of great and inventive genius. Columbus in today's perception is a grasping fortune hunter, an incompetent governor of the "New World" colonies, those fame to the Indians he "discovered" was plunder, servitude, and death. Columbus is like Hitler to a greater extent, in ...
- 27079: Cicero
- ... 51 B.C. he was assigned to the position of proconsul of the providence of Cilicia. In 50 B.C. Cicero returned to Rome to help Pompey with his fight against Caesar, but after Pompey's defeat Cicero became a supporter of Caesar. After Caesar's assassination Cicero went back into politics and became a supporter of Octavian. On December 7, 43 B.C., Cicero was excecuted by Marc Antony as an enemy of the state. While alive Cicero greatly enriched ... Cicero covered more intellectual subjects in his writings than most writers of his time. Many of his philosophical works were borrowed from Greek sources are very valuable and would have been left undiscovered without Cicero's documentation of them. Most of his rhetorical works, written in dialogue form, are rich sources of history. The most famous of these orations are the four against Catiline and the fourteen so-called Philippics ...
- 27080: Longs Peak
- ... through my body. The first part of our pilgrimage up Longs Peak would take place in the dense woods. It was pitch dark and for hours the only things I could see were my partner s legs moving quickly in front of me. We had to bundle up in thermal gear just to stay warm and I knew that it would only get colder as we gained elevation. I could hear ... peak. At the Boulder field our hike began to intensify. The boulder field is located directly below the majestic summit of Longs Peak. No longer would we be hiking over a smooth trail; we didn t even have a trail to follow only a destination; up. Climbing the boulder field proved to be an extremely slow and painful process. Every muscle in my body began to tense up from over use ...
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