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The Bird Flu Strikes Japan Again
Current report # 4 The Next pandemic? The bird flu strikes Japan again What is disease? A disease is an abnormal change in the body’s condition that impairs important physical or psychological functions. The bird flu affects humans like a disease. The virus has killed 164 people since 2003, according to the WHO. (Reuters) "These might not be large numbers but we cannot let that lull us into a false security," Henk Bekedam, the WHO's
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The Black Hole
The Black Hole Everyday I wonder what is out there. The universe that we live in is so diverse and unique, and it interests us to learn about all the things that lie beyond our grasp. Our universe holds a mystery that is very difficult to understand because of the complications that arise when trying to examine and explore the principles of space. That mystery happens to be that of the black hole. Hopefully I
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The Black Plague
The Black Plague Then The people of the Crimea were dying from a plague. Believing it was a foreign disease brought to their shores by Italian merchants, the people of the East got back at the Italians by exposing them to the corpses of the victims. Ships arrived from Caffa at the port of Messina, Sicily. A few dying men clung to the oars; the rest lay dead on the decks. Ships carrying the good
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The Block
I believe in creation. I believe that God created the world. I believe in the bible story of creation, but I think that when they say that God created the world in six days that they might not have meant six days as in what we think of as a days. God could have used evolution to create the world, but I don’t really know if I believe that he did or not. I believe
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The Blue Crab
The Chesapeake Bay produces the largest amount of crabs in the United States. The Blue Crab or Callinectes sapidus, are mainly found in the deep waters of the open Bay among the waving strands of the bay grasses. The Blue Crab takes advantage of its’ opportunities when it comes to food and feeds on live and dead fish, crabs, clams, snails, eelgrass, sea lettuce, and decayed vegetation and other foods which it is able
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The Blue Whale
Blue Whales The Blue whale is the largest creature of the sea, in fact, it is the largest creature known to man. Contrary to what most people think, even though Blue whales live in the sea, they are mammals. They breathe air, have their babies born alive and can live anywhere from 30 to 70 years. The Blue whale is a baleen whale, and instead of having teeth, Blue whales have around 300-400 baleen plates
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The Blue Whale
The Blue Whale Balaenoptera Musculus, or the blue whale, is the largest mammal in the world. This enormous mammal can grow to be 110 feet long and weigh as much as 190 tons. That's longer than two city buses and the total weight of 30 elephants. This giant is powered by a heart the size of a taxi-cab. The blue whale's of the Antarctic grow larger than those of the Northern Hemisphere. Also, the females
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The Boa Constrictor
The Boa Constrictor The boa constrictor was the most interesting animal I saw at the Memphis zoo. Josh and I held it at a class that we went to. It weighed around one hundred pounds, and it was a female. Boa constrictors live in the tropical rainforests, savannas, and mangrove swamps, and they range from central Mexico to southern Argentina. They grow to be between ten and fourteen feet long. Boas are excellent tree climbers
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The Body Farm
THE BODY FARM The Body Farm Tiffany Jeffries Martin Methodist College December 1, 2016 Abstract The University of Tennessee Anthropological Research Facility, better known as the Body Farm, started as an area of waste land close to the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. The Body Farm was created in 1971 by Dr. William Bass after he came to Tennessee from Kansas to run the newly developed anthropology department. This site has survived the controversy and
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The Brain
There are many different structures and areas inside the brain. I will discuss four of them with you. They are the thalamus, hypothalamus, endocrine and limbic systems. In this paper I will discuss the location of each structure in the brain, its functions, and disorders/pathology related to damage to these structures. We begin with the thalamus; the thalamus is a mass of nerve cells centrally located in the brain just below the cerebrum and resembles
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The Brain and Cranial Nerves
The Brain and Cranial Nerves One of the most complex and fascinating things in the human body is the brain. The body is “capable of almost everything, but it would not be possible, without the brain receiving information, and analyzing the information.” The brain is aware of its surroundings, via input from the spinal cord and cranial nerves. Cranial nerves with sensory functions allow us to smell and see. Nerves with both motor and sensory
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The Brain ’s Cerebral Cortex
The brain is three pounds of tissue that are part of the nervous system. It is one of the two basic parts and contains a bout 100 billion nerve cells. The glilia is the cells that take care of the neuron cells ands allow the nueroin cells to carry out all of the impulses and messages that they must send. It is divided in to parts that give you the ability to do everything from
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The Brownfield Problem
The Brownfield Problem Brownfields are abandoned, idled, or under-used industrial and commercial sites where expansion or redevelopment is complicated by real, or perceived environmental contamination that can add cost, time, and uncertainty to the redevelopment process. Throughout the country there are an estimated 450,000 brownfields. These vacant properties exist mostly in cities, serving no practical purpose, and act as both eyesores and environmental as well as economic pitfalls. The inner cities, where most brownfields exist,
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The Canadian Government Should Outlaw and Ban All Personal Handguns Except for the Police
Dimi Sang “The Canadian government should outlaw and ban all personal handguns except for the police.” I agree with the opinion above, first of all, there are lots of different kinds of firearms that have been owned by Canadian individuals，such as shotguns, rifles, handguns, and so on. The designing purpose of those guns is mean to shoot to hurt something or somebody, whether the users mean to or not. Rifles or shotguns have a specific
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The Capture Storage and Utilization of Solar Energy in the Bio-Sphere
Solar energy is a massive source of free, clean energy and is soon to outweigh fossil fuels in the energy market. The capture of solar energy is a simple practice and many households and manufactures are taking advantage of such methods. The utilization of solar energy can only be a positive thing as it has no ill effects towards the earth. Where the burning of fossil fuels has had a destructive influence on the atmosphere
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The Cassowary Bird
The Cassowary Bird A cassowary is the name for a large, flightless, and strange looking bird that lives in the tropical forests of Australia and New Guinea. Cassowaries come from the ratite group, and there are three species: Southern Cassowary/Double-wattled cassowary of Australia and New Guinea, Dwarf Cassowary of New Guinea and New Britain, and the Northern Cassowary of New Guinea. The genus and species of the cassowary is Casuarius casuarius. The order the cassowary
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The Cause of Frog Mutation and Population Decline
It is easy person to point their finger at big industrial and chemical plants and blame them for the cause of so much pollution in our water. When taking a closer look, those same people pointing the finger are equally contributing to the pollution of our water supply and are also to blame. This person could be a friend, family member, classmate, or even you. Even if people do not think that they have a
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The Causes and Conequences of Global Warming
The causes and consequences of Global Warming Over the 4.55 billion years or so that the Earth has been around, climate has fluctuated a lot. These fluctuations, however, were over long periods of time and totally natural, nothing like the Earth’s current situation. We are used to hearing about “Ice Ages” but this time it is the total opposite, Global Warming. Many theories about how global warming came to be and what it causes are
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The Causes and Effects of Global Warming
THE CAUSES AND EFFECTS OF GLOBAL WARMING This essay is on the causes and effects of global warming. How will this affect the world? Will we be ready for when this happens and how will we prepare for this? All these questions will be answered in this essay. The causes of global warming are said to be the �human race’ in general. There are many arguments of what the true causes of global warming really
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The Causes of Anorexia
Have you ever felt afraid of gaining weight? If the answer is affirmative, just be careful. Sometimes wishing to have a perfect body can be dangerous. Desires like those could be the origin to a very well known disease called anorexia which is an eating disorder characterized by low body weight and fear of becoming fat. Even when anorexia is linked to a physical condition, the real causes of anorexia are related to an individual’s
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The Cell
The Cell It was the first day of elementary science class. The students were seated and eager to learn about the wonders of a the cell. “Good morning class, my name is Mrs. White and I will be your science teacher.” All of the students seemed excited to learn about the parts of the cell, except for one. Her name was Ashley, she didn’t understand why you need to learn about a cell, when you
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The Cell
The cell is the fundamental structural unit of all living organisms. Some cells are complete organisms, such as the unicellular bacteria and protozoa; others, such as nerve, liver, and muscle cells, are specialized components of multi-cellular organisms. Cells range in size from the smallest bacteria-like mycoplasmas, which are 0.1 micrometer in diameter, to the egg yolks of ostriches, which are about 8 cm (about 3 in) in diameter. Although they may differ widely in appearance
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The Cell as the Basic Unit of Life
Like cement sets the foundation for a house, the cell theory sets the foundation for biology. Schleiden and Schwann proposed the cell theory, which states that the cell is the basic unit of life and that new cells arise only from the reproduction of already existing cells via cell cycle, in 1839. Since the cell is the structural and functional unit of life as the house is for a community, without the house the community
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The Cell Theory
The Cell Theory The cell theory states that all living matter is made up of cells and some living organisms consist of a single cell. Other cells serve a special purpose within advanced organisms like nerve cells. One theory of a cell states that the first form of life on this earth consisted of a lot of different types of small protocells. Protocells are cell like organism. These organisms were able to reproduce in a
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The Challenger
On January 28, 1986, seven astronauts were killed when the space shuttle they were piloting, the Challenger, exploded just over a minute into the flight. The failure of the solid rocket booster O-rings to seat properly allowed hot combustion gases to leak from the side of the booster and burn through the external fuel tank. The failure of the O-ring was attributed to several factors, including faulty design of the solid rocket boosters, insufficient low-
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The Characteristics of a Sandy Shore at Pallarenda Beach, Townsville
The characteristics of a sandy shore at Pallarenda beach, Townsville, North Queensland. Introduction: The sandy shores of beaches can be considered as a very harsh environment to live in (Ted Klenk, 1999). Survival in such a habitat requires an organism to withstand strong wave and current action, tidal rise and fall, unstable substrate, heavy predation and wide variations in salinity and temperature (The Otter Island Project). Any organism found in this type of harsh environment
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The Chemistry Behind Dry Cleaning
“[Dry cleaning] cleans all sorts of....fabrics...in such a manner that nobody would ever think they had been wetted...it neither changes nor alters color, but it takes the dirt, oil, and grease out of silks, cotton, and wool assisted by labor.” History And an Overview In “Dry Cleaning, Part 1. The Process and History: From Starch to Finish,” author Eugene Garfield noted the early history of dry cleaning. It has been studied that the Mycenaean civilization,
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The Chemistry of Natural Water
INTRODUCTION The purpose of this experiment is to explore the hardness of the water on campus. Hard water has been a problem for hundreds of years. One of the earliest references to the hardness or softness of water is in Hippocrates discourse on water quality in Fifth century B.C. Hard water causes many problems in both in the household and in the industrial world. One of the largest problems with hard water is that it
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The Class Insecta
Amit Gupta Biology Scott-3 April 01, 2001 Research Project: Class Insecta Insects are invertebrates in the class Insecta from the phylum arthopoda. Arthropods include more than 850,000 species and form by far the largest phylum in the animal kingdom, exceeding in number all the other Phyla combined. The characteristic tough exoskeleton and jointed limbs are superimposed in a segmental body plan that reflects the evolution of arthropods from ancestors of the annelid worm. Insects, arachnids,
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The Cloning Dilemma
Last summer the movie “The Island” hit the box-office. This movie was not an ordinary love story or an action film; but, it a science fiction movie that raises a very important question. And that question is cloning morally wrong? This movie takes place in mid-21st century, where the inhabitants all wore the same style of white jumpsuit, all have mundane, numbing jobs, and all sleep in single-person cubicles that are a lot like prison
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