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Toomer And Cane
1,103 wordsJean Toomer Jean Toomer's family was not typical of migrating African Americans settling in the North, or fleeing the South. Each of his maternal grandparents were born of a caucasian father. But a 'speck of Black makes you Black. ' Thus, Toomer's grandfather, Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback, was a free born black, a Union officer in the Civil War and was elected to the office of Lieutenant Governor and later Acting Governor of Louisiana during Reconstruction. The Pinchback's retired north and...
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Root Caries And Root Surface
1,365 wordsRoot Surface Caries Caries can affect any surface of the teeth. The most commonly seen caries are found on the crown of a tooth, above the cement o-enamel junction, it is also possible for caries to form on the root surface, below the cement o-enamel junction. Dental root caries has received a great deal of attention in the past few decades. A variety of different patients are at risk for root surface caries. Dentists use several methods of treatment. Root surface caries are also called ce menta...
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John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
705 wordsJohn Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born on January 3, 1892, in Bloefontain, South Africa, to English parents. The family was living in South Africa for his father's job purposes. In April of 1895, Tolkien, his mother and brother Hilary returned to England. Their father, Arthur Reuel, remained in South Africa with plans to join his family when time permitted. While in England, news came that Arthur had died. After Arthur's death, the family rented a cottage in Sare hole Mill, Birmingham. Tolkien spent...
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2 Duplicate Copies Of A Vinyl Record
419 wordsThe real evolution began when Flash was old enough to start taking apart turntables and various audio equipment of that nature. Trying to feed his curiosity for electrical sound equipment, and how they worked, he began by taking apart electrical items in his Mother's house including turntables and stereos, just to figure out how they worked and why they worked. However he never quite succeeded with putting them back together properly. Inspired by DJ greats from his early teens like DJ Kool Herc,...
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News
279 wordsThose who follow the news closely will find little new here - the questionable election victory in Florida, Bush's slacking in office pre-9/11, the business connections between his family and the bin Laden's, the profiteering opportunities brought by a war on Iraq, the breaches of civil liberties in the Patriot Act, the lies about Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction and links to al Qaida, have all been documented before, and the footage of the Bush administration used in the film has been compile...
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Mellville's Description Of The Galapagos Islands
1,020 wordsMellville and Darwin's Writings on the Galapagos Islands During the nineteenth century, two prominent writers, Herman Mellville and Charles Darwin both voyaged to the Galapagos islands off the coast of Ecuador. Both of these individuals wrote descriptive passages about the physical attributes and atmosphere of the Galapagos Islands. The passages vary in specific content due to the intentions and interests of the respective authors, even though the object described is the same. Charles Darwin, be...
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Mom's Creamy Potato Soup
604 wordsPhil PerzelDr. BalokCollege Writing I 9: 00 April 13, 2005 Mom's Creamy Potato Soup One reason I like fall is because of the crisp, cool mornings. Football is very big at my house. That is very apparent in the fall. When Thanksgiving comes, all my family and I do is eat turkey and watch football games. Mom's rich and creamy potato soup is served during the cold, winter months. People usually think of soup as being tomato or chicken noodle, but not potato. The color of her soup is that of an off-...
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Edmond Charles Gen Et
373 wordsWashington's Neutrality Proclamation and the Gen^et Affair Edmond Charles 'Edouard Gen^et (1763-1834) had been a representative for France in Vienna, St. Petersburg, and Berlin just before the French Revolution. A short time later, in 1792, he was removed from his position in Russia because of his revolutionary passions. At this time, Americans were following the French Revolution very closely, but France's declaration of war on Great Britain hadn't greatly affected American politics, yet. This ...
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Corrosive Effect On Steel
1,163 wordsMIC Products and machines made of steel have long been considered to be solid, strong, and very durable. The effects of general corrosion, "rust", were considered to be the only factor limiting a steel product's ability to last forever. It is thought that the general corrosion of steel is recognizable and its effects are easily limited by the application of various coatings and paints. Only in more recent years have the destructive effects of Microbiological Influenced Corrosion, "MIC" been disc...
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Uberstandard 3 0 Flac
700 wordsUber FLAC vs. 0.89 - tools to help with "UberStandard 3.0/FLAC rips These rather hackish tools help with "UberStandard 3.0/FLAC rips. FLAC Script enforces and checks MD 5 sums for FLAC rips, and does it better than ogg script. It also generates standard-compliant MD 5 checksum files now, that anything else like md 5 sum or check too. Uber Trans allows you to safely trans code FLAC rips to the other UberStandard formats. Yes, it only works on FLAC. Deal with it, that " ll never change. Instructio...
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Distance And Acceleration At Constant Velocity
559 wordsInitial velocity is the speed and direction in which the object is moving at the beginning of a time interval and final velocity is the speed and direction the object is moving at the end of a time period. Average velocity is the average speed and direction of the object. An example of this is a car starting at rest, facing west has a velocity of 0 m /'s and after 10's it has reached a speed of 20 m /'s in a westward direction. 2. Acceleration is the rate at which and objects speed is changing. ...
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Birney P 80 Lower Nicholas
548 wordsMy presentation is based an article titled The Inhibited and the Uninhibited: Ironic Structure in the Miller's Tale it's written by Earle Birney. The literary theme that Birney is discussing in his essay is structural irony. Structural irony is basically a series of ironic events and instances that finally build up to create a climax. The events and the climax the Birney chooses to focus his essay on are the events that lead towards the end when almost each character suffers an ironic event: Abs...
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Vertical Height Of The Hack Y
685 wordsThe RatapultObjective: My objective in this project was to produce a rat-trap powered catapult. It has a base of 30 cm by 30 cm, and has a theme of cows trying to escape the farm. The reason they want to escape is because they are being killed and turned into steaks, against there will. That is why I developed this, to save the cows. The cows also wanted me to ask you to eat more chicken. Hypothesis and Drawing: I hypothesize that if I build the to a 25-degree angle, and release the hack y sack ...
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Embryos Into The Cow
610 wordsEmbryo transfer is the process of taking fertilized embryos from one animal and inserting them into another. This is very useful today in cattle, because now it is economically feasible and it allows the producer a greater number of offspring from one cow with desirable traits. The process starts normally by artificially inseminating the cow. Exactly seven days later, the uterus is flushed, and the embryos and ova. Next, the embryos will be isolated. The embryos are then inserted into the recipi...
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Problem Due To Fads
987 wordsSince the dawn of man, fads have changed periodically from the lion skin butt-flap, to eating dinner in front of the television. Some have been huge successes and then others have been eye-throbbing disasters. For an inquisitive person, creating a trend can lead to a profitable business like Tommy Hilfiger, still there are the few exceptions. However, it is because of a natural media driven entertainment industry that trends are created and manufactured. Humans follow fads for several reasons, b...
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Pfc Flow Field Inside The Uterus
1,268 wordsPIV MEASUREMENT OF FLUID FLOW INSIDE A HUMAN UTERUS MODEL FOR CRYOABLATIONXiaolong Luo 1, Jim S.J. Chen 1, Marla Wolfson 2, Charles Philips 2, Thomas Shaffer 21 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Temple University 2 Temple University School of Medicine Abstract - A new technique has been proposed that allows to be achieved on the entire inner surface of the endometrium by circulating very cold (PFC) fluid inside the human uterus. To understand the PFC flow field inside the uterus during, a ut...
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Philosophy Of Advaita
918 wordson the path to God through knowledge. The basic teaching is that God alone is the all-pervading reality; the individual soul is none other than the universal soul. Shankara was under no illusions about this world. For this reason, he is able to describe so powerfully the complete transformation of the universe that takes place before the eyes of the illumined seer, when the world indeed becomes a paradise. Models of Multiplicity (From Potter, Advaita Vedanta up to Sankara and His Pupils, pp. 81 ...
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Fresh Kills Landfill Pipes Methane Gas
1,568 wordsLandfills: A Growing Menace When asked to think of the largest man made structure, people will invariably come up with an answer like The Great Wall of China, the Great Pyramids, or the Taj Maja l. In contrast to these striking achievements of mankind is the Durham Road Landfill outside San Francisco, which occupies over seventy million cubic feet. It is a sad monument to the excesses of modern society [Gore 151]. One must think this huge reservoir of garbage must be the largest thing ever produ...
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Account By Amerigo Of His Voyages
772 wordsAMERIGO VESPUCCI (or VESPUCIO) (ves-put eh'-ee), Italian navigator, born in Florence, Italy, 9 March, 1451; died in Seville, Spain, 22 Feb., 1512. He was of a wealthy family of merchants, and received his education from his uncle, Giorgi Antonio Vespucci, a Dominican friar, a friend and colleague of Savonarola. He engaged in business, first in Florence and afterward in Seville, where he met Columbus, perhaps as early as 1493, and where in 1497 he equipped the fleet with which that navigator sail...
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Islamic Revolution
1,610 wordsIntroduction Iran has always, it seems, been the breeding ground for some kind of political upheaval or another. In recent times, back in 1979, there was a major revolution which was, in some ways, similar to the revolution we are seeing today. The people were angry and they were tired of being controlled by the government that was in power. They had concrete ideals and were incredibly passionate about their revolution. The revolution Iran is experiencing today does not appear to be quite as pas...