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Scientists Essays and Term Papers
The Stranger at my windowThis essay is based on a personal experience I had that changed my point of view about strangers. It made me realize that you really cannot trust anybody, especially a stranger at your window. This heart pounding experience was one that I will never forget, and one that will follow me as I travel ...
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GPSThe Global Positioning System
With the proliferation of satellite-based defense systems and their continuing presence in the media it makes us more aware of our national defense. The United States is large, economically strong and a sometimes tumultuous presence in the global community. ...
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Civilization: The Ancient Near-East to the RenaissanceRoughly ten thousand years ago humans began to settle in permanent communities. Scientists believe that about five thousand years ago the first civilizations were pioneered. Kagan defines civilization as a stage in the evolution of organized society that has among its characteristics urbanism, ...
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Bacteria And Foodborne IllnessBacteria and Foodborne Illness
On this page:
• What are foodborne illnesses?
• What are the causes of foodborne illnesses?
• What are the symptoms of foodborne illnesses?
• What are the risk factors of foodborne illnesses?
• What are the complications of foodborne illnesses?
• How ...
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Ethnobotanical ResearchEthnobotanical Research, Review
The nettle plant or root has been used in traditional folk medicine for many years. Almost all Native Americans used the nettle for a many reasons, like to stop nosebleeds, as a painkiller, and to slow arthritis. The tribes used its herbal steam to relieve pain, ...
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Global Warming: A Crisis Ready to StrikeGlobal warming is an increase in the earth's temperature due to fossil fuels, industry, and agricultural processes caused by human, natural, and other gas emissions. This results in an increased evacuation of greenhouse gases. “Short-wave solar radiation sinks into the Earth's atmosphere and warms ...
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DUI PreventionAlcohol is a depressant and it depresses the central nervous system. It is not clearly understood how alcohol effects the central nervous system, but it enhances the inhibitory effects of the neourotransmitter GABA at the receptor. About ninety percent of alcohol is metabolized in the liver by ...
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The Advantages of Open Source Software"Open Source Software is primarily defined as software which is freely redistributable and includes the source code" (Varner, 1999). Open-source software may be seen as the opposite of proprietary software in which the end product is binary only. The idea of open source is not a new one. "The ...
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The Ozone Layer and CFCsIntroduction:
The depletion of the ozone layer has become a matter of growing concern in recent years; especially in light of the fact that the ubiquity of the environmental movement has made it impossible for ordinary citizens to overlook. In the mid-1970s, scientists at the Univ. of ...
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Science of ElectronicsMilitary equipment, toys, communication, home electronics, computing, cars, satellites and others. This is only a partial list of products, which contain electronics. Actually electronics won our world. We wake up with the ring of electronic clock, drink coffee from a electronic coffee machine, ...
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PostmodenismPostmodernism is a complicated term, or set of ideas, one that has only emerged as an area of academic study since the mid-1980s. Postmodernism is hard to define, because it is a concept that appears in a wide variety of disciplines or areas of study, including art, architecture, music, film, ...
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Capital PunishmentMany distinctive doctrines in criminal law originated in efforts to restrict the number of capital crimes and executions. For instance, in the late 18th century, when all murder in the United States was punishable by death, Pennsylvania pioneered in dividing murder into two categories. The state ...
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CompostThe Analysis of Composts
The term compost has been defined by Zucconi and Bertoldi (1987) as ‘the
stabilized and sanitized product of composting which is beneficial to plant
growth. It has undergone an initial, rapid stage of decomposition and is in
the process of humification.’ The initial ...
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Don’t Fear the ReeferZach Shepherd
Ms. Lindberg
English II Honors 6th block
March 17th, 2011
Pot, weed, green, tree, dope, ganja, kush, bammy, chillums, funk, bo-bo; whatever you may have heard it called, it’s all marijuana. Cannabis, as it is known to scientists, has quickly become the world’s most commonly ...
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Tokugawa Government, Economy and MilitaryThe first recorded appearance of Tokugawa government was with the first shogun, Ieyasu, who ruled from 1542-1616. First emerging during the Warring States of 1467-1590, the Tokugawa Political Settlement centralized political authority, created the imperial court, and established military ...
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Mount KilaueaMount Kilauea is the most famous volcano in Hawaii. It resides in the southeast in Mauna Loa. This volcano has one of the biggest craters of all volcanoes, consisting of 3,646 feet deep. It has an 8 mile circumference and is encompassed entirely by an enormous “wall of volcanic rock 200 to 500 ft ...
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International Relationship between Russia and USAUS and Russia Relations After the Fall of the USSR
US and Russia relations after the defeat of the USSR: The end of Cold War brought new challenges to Russian life, economy and politics. Actually, the post-Cold War period opened the new opportunities for Russia. Democracy made its first steps ...
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FrankensteinThe ability to bring the dead back to life would seem to be every scientist’s ideal dream, but Victor Frankenstein’s reanimated creature becomes a living nightmare. This creature, whom Victor gives life to, brings nothing but death and despair, yet the blame should not fall entirely on the ...
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