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Pulse Of Morning Write A Poem
1,252 wordsIn 1993, when Bill Clinton decided to invite a poet to read at his first inauguration ceremony - for the first time since John F. Kennedy invited Robert Frost in 1961 - he chose fellow Arkansas native Maya Angelou to write a poem celebrating the new beginning of his first presidency. The panoramic piece that Angelou composed, "On the Pulse of Morning, " reached millions of television viewers. Its popularity proved so great that it was published as a cassette and chapbook in 1993 (Anderson 4). Th...
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Living Person Body Experience
1,781 wordsIn the past centuries people have been becoming more and more curious about the unexplainable things all around them. They are always asking why does this happen? and is that really true? Not until recently have scientists and others actually tried to find out for themselves. Many of their searches evolved around the paranormal. Soon they called their search parapsychology Parapsychology can be defined as the study of apparent new means of communication, or exchange of influence between organism...
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Atmospheric Perspective Linear Perspective
2,253 words... eater amount of binocular disparity. You have probably experienced a number of demonstrations that use binocular disparity to provide a sense of depth. A stereoscope is a viewing device that presents each eye with a slightly different photograph of the same scene, which generates the illusion of depth. The photographs are taken from slightly different perspectives, one approximating the view from the left eye and the other representing the view from the right eye. The View-Master, a children...
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Focal Length Distant Objects
1,280 wordsLight and other kinds of electromagnetic radiation coming from the universe outside the Earth must travel enormous distances through space and time to reach observers. Only the brightest and nearest stars can be seen with the unaided eye. To see farther and to clarify and measure what is seen, a telescope is needed. The word telescope is derived from the Greek words tele, "from afar, " and shops, "viewer. " Even a simple homemade telescope can clearly show Saturn's rings, Jupiter's bands and red...
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Human Nature Collective Memory
1,209 wordster>Sam Vaknin's Psychology, Philosophy, Economics and Foreign Affairs Web Sites Many futurologists - professional (Toffler) and less so (Naisbitt) - tried their hand at predicting the future. They proved quite successful at predicting major trends but not as lucky in delineating their details. This is because, inevitably, every futurologist has to resort to crude tools such as extrapolation. The modern day versions of biblical prophets are much better informed - a...
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Dimensional Space Straight Line
1,540 words... stability is most intriguing: that the Tree of Reality is a multidimensional fractal. Fractals (to make a long story short) arise from unbounded convoluted lower-dimensional curves filling a higher-dimensional space. The fractals we are familiar with are formed using lines (sometimes these are contour lines defining the properties of certain regions when a function is applied to them), which are 1 D objects, but partially fill a sheet of paper, which is a 2 D space. The 3 D volumes of the Ma...
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Ben R Finney Polynesian Outliers A Computer Simulation Sharp
1,751 wordsAndrew Sharp claims in his Ancient Voyagers in the Pacific published in 1956 that the Pacific Islanders did not possess the necessary navigational and sailing technology to deliberately navigate the distances between islands of the Pacific when colonizing these islands. He claims colonization was random and accidental. However, more recent studies from 1972 on of Pacific navigation suggest deliberate navigation and colonization was possible and did take place. These studies have been supported b...
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Star Traveling To The Millennium
1,884 wordsNASA's goal of faster, better, cheaper has been the motivation for them to develop new mission concepts, and to validate never-before-used technologies in space. The new technologies, if proven to work, will revolutionize space exploration in the next century. According to NASA's New Millennium Program home page, last updated on September 16, 1999, NASA's current project of Deep Space 1 demonstrates some of their most exotic technologies. One of the most impressive is the testing of an ion engin...
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Low Cost April 10
976 wordsRemote Connections Nowadays the Internet and networks are not only the technical means of obtaining information they are also playing a major role in the sphere of business. More and more companies now opt for new Internet-based and -powered e-business initiatives, i. e. online commerce, supply-chain management, extranet collaboration etc. Such new technology as the remote access provides users of corporate LAN with remote connection solutions. It allows to connect and utilize the companys resou...
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Health Care Providers Health Care System
2,821 wordsPatient case study. Part I: I would like to start by saying that AIDS is a short form for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. It is a disease that damages the body's immune system (the system that helps fight off illnesses). When a person's immune system is damaged, he or she is more likely to become sick from illnesses that might not hurt a person who has a healthy immune system. The person's body with AIDS cannot defend itself, and it isn't able to fight off infections and some kinds of tumor...
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Recovering Lost Atoms Of Cosmos
1,430 wordsRecovering Lost Atoms Of Cosmos I would like to talk about the history of our Universe and subjects, which concerns this topic. First of all I would like to summarize the article about recovering lost atoms of cosmos. I chose this article because it introduces the topic in interesting and exciting way. It also clarifies many points and gives a good brainstorm. The specific chemistry, which is used here, is another peace of work. I will stop on chemistry later for better specification. It was a c...
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Place To Live Abusing Drugs People
364 wordsDrug addiction can be something that will ruin your life. Abusing drugs can lead to serious damage to your body and it can be deadly. You might lose your family and your everyday life. Because of drugs the world is becoming a much more violent and unsafe place to live in. People who use drugs do not realize it, but their bodies are going to waste. Using drugs may be something that will make you feel good and forget about your problems; but the reality is that drugs will do the opposite, they wil...
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Second Language Native Language
890 wordsEnglish Phonetic Interference In The Spelling Of English Phonetic Interference In The Spelling Of Emigre Russians It is unusual and perhaps impossible for an emigre s native language to remain unaffected after living abroad for several years. Phonetic and spelling rules that may have been drilled into their minds in childhood quickly disappear while the emigre struggles to master the language of their new home. Almost all people claim to read in their second language more proficiently than they ...
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Roman Empire Civilized Society
4,444 wordsThe Greeks, after their country had been reduced into a province, imputed the triumphs of Rome, not to the merit, but to the FORTUNE, of the republic. The inconstant goddess, who so blindly distributes and resumes her favours, had now consented (such was the language of envious flattery) to resign her wings, to descend from her globe, and to fix her firm and immutable throne on the banks of the Tiber. [ 1 ] A wiser Greek, who has composed, with a philosophic spirit, the memorable history of his ...
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Attention To Detail Homer
1,270 wordsThe 1873 masterpiece Breezing Up, by Winslow Homer located in the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC is an oil on canvas painting that measures 23 3 / 13 X 38 1 / 6 in... The primary subject of this painting is a man with three boys in a small wooden sail boat that is moving along with what appears to be a fairly choppy sea. At the center of this painting is the stern of the sail boat. The oldest of the boys is sitting on the high end of the stern with his knees up and his bare feet plante...
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Indian Culture John Smith
2,045 wordsEllen Indian Killer Amir Dibaei Ellen Yi English 1 a Meet John Smith People live day to day simply because they are in a world where they strive for happiness amongst society. By being alone a person on earth would have nothing to live for; they would be lonely, depressed, detached from reality, ultimately: unhappy. This is precisely the case of John Smith in the novel, Indian Killer, by Sherman Alexie. John is a pure Indian who was adopted as a child into a white family. White parents raise him...
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Gulliver Travels Jonathan Swift
2,432 wordsJonathan Swift: An Enlightenment for the Masses In an age of where rationality and morals were held to the accepted values, Jonathan Swift stood out as a champion of humanism. All his life he attacked pretense and begged people to see that life is not always what it seems when you look harder and think deeper. In addition, Swift was one of the most powerful writers of his time; able to rally people and nations around the caustic and moral views expressed in his works. His political writings for ...
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Billion Years Ago Type 1
1,056 wordsThere is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be. -Charles Sanders Pierce When it comes to science, there are many questions and few answers. Finding those few answers is what makes science interesting. One big question is science is whether or not the Universe is expanding. By observing and researching supernovas, one can decide that the Universe is expanding. The word nova means new star (Ferris 59...
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19 Th Century Man And Nature
3,607 wordsMACEDONIA TRADITION AND CONTEMPORANEITY Numerous books have been written about Macedonia. Collected together in an imaginary world library, they would occupy a space which would be awe-striking in its vastness and one could easily lose ones way strolling among the shelves, through the dark corridors of this labyrinth. Macedonian history has been interpreted in multitudinous different ways, from different aspects and viewpoints. It has been usurped, falsified, supplemented and altered. Frequently...
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Atmospheric Perspective Depth Perception
4,488 wordsINTRODUCTION Perception Perception Perception INTRODUCTION Perception is defined as a process by which organisms interpret and organize sensation to produce a meaningful experience of the world. Sensation usually refers to the immediate, relatively unprocessed result of stimulation of sensory receptors in the eyes, ears, nose, tongue, or skin. Perception, on the other hand, better describes ones ultimate experience of the world and typically involves further processing of sensory input. In pract...
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