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Government Of The United States Fort Sumter
1,034 words... attack (Hutchinson Encyclopedia). Repeated demands were made upon Major Anderson, and upon the President, for the relinquishment of Fort Sumter. All demands were refused. Finally, Major Anderson was summoned to evacuate the fort, for the last time. The Hutchnison Encyclopedia explains that, accordingly, on April 11 th, General Beauregard sent him the following communication: Sir: The government of the Confederate States has hitherto forborne from any hostile demonstrations against Fort Sumte...
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Japans In San Peidro
883 wordsIt is plain that, if the right belongs to any, it belongs to all. David Guterson, author of Snow Falling on Cedars, introduces San Peidro as an isolated place which no one who lives there can afford make enemies. But couple years after WW II, a fisherman found drowned. And a Japans American is charged with his murder. All of the action is happening after the Second World War and most of the men of this Island fought in the war even Kabuo the Japans American who is charged with murder. Throughout...
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Lava Flows Mount St
1,066 words... on of material into the air. Nonexplosive eruptions produce lava flows and eject very little pyroclastic material into the air. Explosive eruptions can eject liquid and semisolid lava as well as solid fragments of volcanic or nonvolcanic rock that have been carried along by the rising magma before eruption. Very violent explosive eruptions are called Plin ian eruptions, after Roman naturalist Pliny the Elder. These eruptions can last for several hours to days and eject a large amount of pyro...
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Carl Heine Japanese Descent
1,660 wordsKabuo Miyamoto, a man of Japanese descent, is the defendant in the murder case of Carl Heine. Alvin Hooks, the prosecutor, is representing Carl Heine in the case, and Nels Gudmundsson is Kabuo's attorney. On September 16, Art Moran, the sheriff, and his deputy, Abel Martinson, saw Carl Heine's boat, the Susan Marie, afloat in the water off the shores of San Pedro Island. Art and Abel went to the boat to check it out, and they couldnt find Carl. When they reeled in his salmon net, they saw Carl d...
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Sulfur Dioxide Carbon Dioxide
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Internal Combustion Engine Twenty Five Years
1,716 words... can be made to fit these smaller cars making them inaccessible to some cars and trucks, safety will increase because of the maneuverability and low speed of the NEV and because of their small size there will be more space available to be put to other uses. These NEV's will lead to non-industrial neighborhoods. Neighborhoods will keep the industrial world and all of its problems out by making the roads smaller so they handle only NEV traffic. Households will tend to "run" less and instead of ...
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Air Resistance On A Fan Car
999 wordsProblem: When a large fan is blowing air against the fan car at three different speeds (high, medium, and low), then will the overall speed be lowered? Materials: Fan car (KNEX pieces, small, battery-powered fan, wheels with tires) AA batteries Large 3 -speed fan Timer Masking tape Process: 1. Load two AA batteries into the fan that is attached to the KNEX car. 2. Mark a starting line and a finish line two meters away from each other with small pieces of masking tape. 3. Plug in the large fan an...
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Nuclear Power Plants Coal And Oil
1,171 wordsAbstract: Should we begin to manufacture one of the most destructive and infamous substances on the face on the Earth once again? The engineers say yes, but the public says no. The United States stopped making this element with the ban on manufacturing nuclear weapons. But with the continuing problem with our ever diminishing energy sources, some want us to begin using more nuclear energy and less energy from natural resources. This paper is going to discuss what plutonium is, the advantages and...
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University Of Chicago Six Hundred
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Hand Held Video Game
1,247 words... Entertainment System, or the NES (Company History). The original designs of these systems were sleeker in appearance and the hand-controllers for the system used infrared technology. Nintendo wanted to separate themselves from their main competitor: Atari, which by 1985, had virtually ran themselves bankrupt by having too many bad games. Nintendo did not want their customers to be turned off by Nintendo's game system just because Atari couldn't manage well. So Nintendo identified various par...
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Wal Mart Target Corporation
1,027 wordsTarget Corporation Target Corporation was among first American retailing companies to implement the innovative business strategies, which would have an environmental friendliness as one of their main features. Company also tries to do its share in helping communities on the local level, because Targets top managers rightfully think that creating a positive public image is a necessary component, when it comes to insuring commercial competitiveness. The brief description of the principles, upon wh...
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Alternative Vehicle Fuel Sources
1,633 wordsAlternative Vehicle Fuel Sources For last years there is a tendency to increasing the number of vehicles in the United States. According to National Household Travel Survey this number tripled from 1969 to 2001. The same tendency is noticed in other progressive countries. Almost all of them use hydrocarbon fuels. But the sources of hydrocarbon fuels will come to end; and, most of all, carbon dioxide (CO 2) emissions causes global warming. Hydrocarbon fuels, such as coal and natural gas, are burn...
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Miles Per Gallon Four Wheel Drive
3,060 wordsConcept Cars: Automobiles for the Future No one knows where automobiles are going but concept cars provide us with a small window to look into their future. Different automakers use concept cars in various ways and they all devote a lot of time and money toward developing their cars of the future. The first thing an automaker does is decide what kind of market (what age group, what style of driving) it should target to gain the most customers. For instance, Ford builds mainly vehicles which targ...
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Solar Panels Solar Cells
993 wordsSatellites Satellite is probably the most useful invention since the wheel. Satellites have the capability to let you talk with someone across the nation or let you close a business deal through video communication. Almost everything today is heading towards the use of satellites, such as telephones. At&# 038; t has used this communications satellite (top right) ever since the late 1950 s. TVS and radios are also turning to the use of satellites. RCA and Sony have released satellite dishes for R...
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Ozone Depleting Air Quality
1,751 wordsFederal Clean Air Standards Should Be Strengthened For Title: Federal clean air standards Academic Level: College Content: beef up air quality or we will die Description: debate prep Federal Clean Air Standards Should Be Strengthened For Californians, not a day goes by without hearing some remark referring to smog or the quality of the air they breathe. One becomes accustom to shrugging such remarks off without a second thought after a while. Sure the air is getting cleaner, manufactures and peo...
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Mississippi River Brigadier General
1,355 wordsFort Donelson, Tennessee, guarding the Cumberland River, became the site of the first major Confederate defeat in the Civil War. Victory at Donelson started Brigadier General Ulysses S. Grant on his road to Appomattox and the White House. His cool judgment under pressure saved the day after the Confederates threatened to break his troop lines, yet errors by his opponents handed him a victory that he did not fully earn on his own. Possession of the better part of two states vital to the South dep...
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Bergen Belsen Anne Frank
1,725 wordsThe Last Seven Months of Anne Frank Anne Frank has become the best know symbol for those Jews murdered during the Second World War. She wrote her diary while hiding in the attic from 1942 to 1944. The final chapters of Anne s life, the unwritten chapters of her diary include the arrest, deportation, and annihilation of herself along with six million Jewish victims of whom more than half were woman and children. Anne, her sister Margot, and their mother Edith met their deaths in the concentration...
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Sulfur Dioxide Acetic Acid
1,936 wordsLead, symbol Pb, dense, bluish-gray metallic element that was one of the first known metals. The atomic number of lead is 82; the element is in group 14 (or IVa) of the periodic table. Lead was mentioned in the Old Testament. It was used by the Romans for making water pipes, soldered with an alloy of lead and tin. Few metals have been used in more different ways than lead. Lead ornaments and coins have been in use since ancient times. In the Middle Ages strips of lead called came's were first us...
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Lead Acid Battery Sulfuric Acid
463 wordsAcids &# 038; Bases An acid is any compound that can respond to a base to form a salt. Also, it is a substance that generates the positive ion of the solvent where the acid is dissolved. A base is the opposite of an acid. It is a substance that eliminates the hydrogen ions (protons) from an acid and joins them through a chemical reaction. Sulfuric Acid Sulfuric acid is an extremely strong acid. Concentrated sulfuric acid is a strong dehydrating agent, which reacts violently with water. In aqueou...
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Intersection I Realized Cross The Street Traffic
534 wordsMy traffic accident. It was just an other rainy day. I was going to the mall with my brother to get some batteries for his toy cars. As I was walking out of the door my mother said Drive carefully son it s awfully slippery out their, in her kind and gentle voice. I ignored her like always but just replied, Yes mother I will! After buying some energizer batteries from the mall we headed back home. The rain had picked up. The traffic was heavy in the small residential streets as the main road was ...
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