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Melting Pot Theory

... people labeled Americans but not by how they act, what religions they practice and what kind of foods they eat but where they are born. total opposites. Now all Americans must be able to speak English, or at least bad English, and they must also follow the laws set fourth by out four fathers, but no two Americans are alike. Take San Francisco for example. Twenty years ago, it was the center for the hippie movement, but just down the street from Haight and Ashbury there is a place called China Town. A place placed filled with Chinese Americans ...

Number of words: 401 | Number of pages: 2

UFO Crash Near Roswell, NM

... TV shows raised the specter of a military cover-up (Stacy 40). Recently, the government released a new story. I will summarize the events, then discuss some important evidence connected with them. On July 2, 1947, during a severe thunderstorm, a saucer flew near to the ground at a great velocity. It exploded. Its pieces scattered over an area near Corona, New Mexico. The next day William "Mac" Brazel, foreman of the Foster Ranch, and his seven-year-old neighbor, Dee, found the remains of the wrecked UFO scattered over a large area. When Braz ...

Number of words: 1359 | Number of pages: 5

Environmental Studies

... other issues. This tendency to blindly solve environmental problems without understanding the full complexity of the problem was evident in the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) recent mandate that Methyl Tertiary Butyl Ether (MTBE) be a required ingredient in gasoline formulas with the goal of increasing combustion efficiency. A fuel oxygenate, MTBE enhances the octane in gasoline and decreases carbon monoxide emission by increasing burning efficiencies. In its haste to declare MTBE as a required ingredient in gasoline, the EPA fail ...

Number of words: 1092 | Number of pages: 4

Early Intervention And

... needs must be identified and the type of disability determined. The first of three areas discussed is autism. Autism, according to Hallahan and Kauffman (1997), is " a disorder characterized by extreme withdrawal, self-stimulation, cognitive deficits, language disorders, and onset before the age of thirty months." Although the cause of autism is not completely understood, it is known that it has something to do with a neurological or biochemical dysfunction. Contrary to what was originally thought, autism is not a form of mental retardation ...

Number of words: 1118 | Number of pages: 5

The Orgins Of Atomic Theory

... can come from it. In Ancient Greece there was such a civilization, and even today we use their theories to initiate our scientific and artistic endeavors. All western thought can find its roots in the philosophy and science of the Greeks, even the way we see the world is influenced by the ideologies of Ancient Greece. The Greeks were the first to seek a greater understanding of the world, to know "why" we are not just "what" we are. The Greeks invented science and explored it in its truest form, philosophy. Through the years we have develope ...

Number of words: 1881 | Number of pages: 7

Compressed Gas: Helium

... cooling medium for nuclear reactors, and gas for supersonic wind tunnels. There is hazards to using helium that most people are not aware of. The public needs to be aware and understand it is not for inhaling. Some teenagers think inhaling helium at parties is fun. But what they don't know it is also fatel. An aspect of inhaling is a person may lose consciousness due to asphyxia (oxygen deprivation). During the exchange of gases in the normal breathing process, the blood stream absorbs oxygen from air in the lungs, while carbon di ...

Number of words: 918 | Number of pages: 4

Recommendation For Recycling Water In Florida

... "Recommendation for Recycling Water in a Florida Pilot Plant" The water shortage problem has affected all of us in one way or another. Either through the mandatory restrictions or the increased price of water, or even the ever increasing occurrence of sinkholes, the evidence of a water shortage is everywhere. Since we need wa ...

Number of words: 2564 | Number of pages: 10

Fossil Fuel Consumption, CO2 And Its Impact On Global Climate

... countries have come to rely on non-renewable energy resources, and at present about 80 per cent (Myers, 1994) of the world's commercial energy is derived from oil, coal and gas. Although it has been observed that the growth of energy consumption is closely correlated with the increases in gross national product thus our economic development, the major sources of energy (that is fossil fuels) are 'stock resources'. Fossil fuels are consumed by use and the current consumption patterns are non-sustainable. It is recognised that energy c ...

Number of words: 1552 | Number of pages: 6

Hemophilia 2

... In males, the single X chromosome can not compensate for the lack, and will show the defect. In females however, only one of the two chromosomes will be abnormal. In very rare cases however, she will have inherited two defective X chromosomes and herself will be a hemophiliac. If she is not affected and the gene is recessive, she is now classified as a carrier. In some cases, there is no previous record of hemophilia in the family. Male children who would be born with hemophilia would be the result of the mutation of the gene. Th ...

Number of words: 966 | Number of pages: 4

Cloning

... will become the same as transplanted animal parts. It will go through much debate, but ten years from now it will be accepted scientifically, socially, and morally. In an article in Newsweek called A Cloned Chop, Anyone? They take a somewhat neutral, but also somewhat negative viewpoint of cloning in an agricultural and medicinal sense. They admit some good aspects of this genetic engineering, but they still seem pessimistic of the future of cloning in animals excluding humans. The first thing the article states is the Wall Street opport ...

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Could Air Pollution Have A Negative Impact On Water Quality?

... the “big brothers” to watch over the polluters. These “big brothers” are the government agencies such as EPA (Environmental Protection Agency), and MDEQ (State of Michigan Department of Environmental Quality.) The EPA is an agency that deals with the protection of human health and safe guard of the natural environment, air, water, and land, which are important element for life to depend on. The agency’s principle is to protect all Americans from significant risks to human and environment where they live, learn and work. It tries to ...

Number of words: 2630 | Number of pages: 10

Archaeology

... and space, and middle range theory is how the visible archaeological data can be related to past human behaviors or actions. Patterning is used to interpret past human behavior because the products of human action usually suggest repetitiveness or a pattern of activity that can be discerned by the archaeologist. For example in the Olsen-Chubbuck site in Colorado, a bison graveyard was discovered of 190 bison. The pattern or relationship between the bones and how they were found gives the archaeologist clues as to how the bison were butcher ...

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