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Robert Wright's Article "The Evolution Of Despair"
Number of Words: 825 / Number of Pages: 3
... isn't what we were designed for" (1).
Everyone, at some point, has experienced the feelings that Wright
describes. And with the pronoun ‘we' Wright tells his readers, ‘Yes, I
have been through the same things.' This sort of statement is like a token
of good will. The readers feel that Wright understands their plight and
thus are more likely to listen to what he has to say.
With this trust established, Wright moves on to the task of
building confidence in his readers. He lives up to his title of science
writer by providing various statistics ("As of 1993, 37% of Americans felt
they ...
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History And Development Of The Internet
Number of Words: 956 / Number of Pages: 4
... packets which carry enough information to seek out its destination and sending them out separately towards the destination server. The message after being broken up would take separate routes to the destination and then be re-assembled by the computer at the server where the message was being sent. This was good because with more than one route for information to travel on, the enemy did not have one central point to target their attack to break the lines of communication and in the event of some break in the line information could still travel through. (Diamond, 4).
This all interested the APRA en ...
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Pollution From Livestock And Manure
Number of Words: 514 / Number of Pages: 2
... into a river or
goes down to the ground water and pollutes it.
The best way of handling of manure is to build a
six month pit or harvester. That means that you can hold your livestock manure and all the runoff
that is run into it for six months or more. To build a pit you must have a overview map that
shows;
"1. Farm buildings, yards surrounding area, homes, other
buildings, lakes, ponds, streams, roads, and other prominent
landmarks, with in about one-half mile, should be shown and
feet from pit.
2. Exact location of wells. ...
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Creation VS. Evolution
Number of Words: 1409 / Number of Pages: 6
... teaching their beliefs to the general public. The theory of evolution removes humans from the center of the universe, and religious followers can't believe that their God, who created us in his image (Bible, 2), would allow that.
The creationist arguments can be summed up in one example from the Morris -Parker book. They state "Evolution is claimed to be 'scientific,' and still going on, so it seems like it should be observable and measurable. Yet after 150 years of intense study of biological variations, evolutionists are still completely in the dark about the supposed mechanism of evolution. Thi ...
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Dinosaur History
Number of Words: 995 / Number of Pages: 4
... states that everything evolved over millions of years. Evolutionists say that dinosaurs came from six million years back. They also say that the Earth is four to six billion years old. They say that fifty million years ago there was horses no bigger than dogs, and birds as tall as man, three hundred million years ago giant dragon flies buzzed around in the large forests, six million years ago small animals, called trilobites, lived in the sea and were rulers of the world. Evolutionists think that the world started off with just plants on it, then came
legged animals from the sea that took over. ...
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Minerals
Number of Words: 417 / Number of Pages: 2
... In order to mine, many months and millions of dollars have to spend in construction. There are only a few mines are discovered in convenient places, this costs a lot on transportation and labor on such an atmosphere. Construction includes food, health, accommodation and recreation facilities for the hundreds of working man. Water, power, communication, equipment, etc… So in a construction site is almost the same as a little empire. In able to build this, the Industry Company has to make sure the ore they are getting is worth it.
Environmental concerns are global concerns; cost advantages may ...
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Effects Of Murcury On The Enviroment
Number of Words: 378 / Number of Pages: 2
... Japanese were poisoned by fish that contained methyl mercury. The mercury came from industrial waste that had been dumped into the bay where the fish were caught. The mercury bioaccumulated up the food chain. The cats the were eating the fish showed the symptoms first. They began to act very strange; running into walls and acting like they were "in a trance." The people in the village developed mental retardation, insanity, and birth defects from eating the poisoned fish. Fifty people died and 150 people suffered from these disorders.
Another example of mercury's effect on people and the enviro ...
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Leukemia
Number of Words: 457 / Number of Pages: 2
... granulocytes. Granulocytes are made in the bone marrow,
and other tissue. Granulocytes that are affected by
leukemia cannot fight of infections.
There are two ways in which leukemia can occur. One is
acute, and the other is chronic. Acute leukemia is found
most in children. It progresses rapidly. Acute leukemia
causes red blood cells to decrease, the cells are then
replaced by abnormal ones. This causes anemia. Life
expectancy is short without proper treatment. Chronic
leukemia is most common in adults. It progresses slowly.
Chronic leukemia is less severe than acute.
Leukemia has ...
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Evolution 2
Number of Words: 927 / Number of Pages: 4
... of having the train that takes us into the city is a commonly know option. Not always have people been able to choose public transportation as a method of getting to and from. Dating as far back as 1889 when the first method of public transportation was developed in Massachusetts. Before this the thought of having a bus or train run to the main areas of a community was absolutely unheard of. But in today’s society there are many people who depend of the train or bus to get to work or to school or wherever it is they are going. When exactly did public transportation change from a luxury to ...
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Environmental Satire
Number of Words: 658 / Number of Pages: 3
... asteroids or Y2K, it’s always something. It is said that in the future, with global warming, temperatures outdoors will be too hot to survive in. But what is the future? Is the future tomorrow, maybe next month, or next century? The fact is by the time all of the problems that we worry about surface, we will have been dead for hundreds of years. We’ll be safe somewhere in the afterlife with our children and their children. We don’t have to worry about things like polar ice caps melting and flooding the entire earth because, frankly, it isn’t going to effect us. We can ...
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