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Aids 4
<view this essay>.... country. This was a result of the fact that gay males in this culture in the days before AIDS had an average of 200 to 400 new sexual contacts per year. This figure was much higher than common practice among heterosexual (straight) men or women. In addition, it turned out that rectal sex was a particularly effective way to transmit the disease, and rectal sex is a common practice among gay males. For these reasons, the disease spread in the gay male population of this country immensely more quickly than in other populations. It became to be thought of as a "gay disease". Because the disease is spread primarily by exposure of ones blood to infected blood or .....
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Managing Information Systems
<view this essay>.... communicating comes the confusion of what to do with all this information, how best to utilize it, and how to regulate it. This paper will look into those questions and what actually makes up this new virtual world that we are creating for ourselves called cyberspace.
In the 1950’s and 60’s the fear of nuclear attack was constantly on the minds of the American people and the government. The government therefore developed a corporation called RAND that they put in charge of making a network that could be protected from nuclear attack and could guarantee that we could still fire our own nuclear missiles in our defense. Soon major schools and corpor .....
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Victor Frankenstein And His Use Of Science
<view this essay>.... disease or deformity through genetic engineering.
Since the beginning of time humans have been obsessed with the idea
of where life comes from, and how it is created. Charles Darwin originated
the idea of evolution. Another theory that is used to explain the origin
of life is the big bang theory that states that life was created from a
cosmic explosion. Yet another theory on the origination of life is the
existence of God and that God created the earth and all of the life on
earth.
Victor Frankenstein is exactly like the scientists of today.
Victor Frankenstein is trying to make a human being from other, deceased
human beings, this could be compared to c .....
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How Dams Affect Salmon Migration
<view this essay>.... farther than lightly regulating commercial fishing boats, but there are several different approaches to allowing the salmon to breed and smolt to return to the ocean despite the dams, though no effective measures have been implemented due to cost or effects on energy and agriculture. Also, more recently, escaped Atlantic Salmon from aquaculture cages and their offspring are now competing with the native salmon. How depleted are native salmon and Steelhead populations, what has been done so far to boost the populations and has it been effective, and what can be done with dammed river to allow natural breeding?
"Salmon Migration: Decisions, Decisions" no author .....
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Autism
<view this essay>.... with do not follow the typical patterns of child development. In some children, future problems can often be seen at birth. In most cases, the problems become more noticeable as the child falls further behind other children the same age. Between 18 and 36 months old, they suddenly reject people, act strangely, and lose language and social skills they had already learned.
During the 1950’s and 1960’s, people with were isolated and some were sent away to institutions. Today, many of those with can attend school with other children. Methods are available to help improve their social, language, and academic skills. Even though more than 60 percent of adult .....
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Greenhouse Effect
<view this essay>.... So important, that figures such as Vice President Al Gore have spoken out. Many are realizing that the is not something to be put aside, yet rather something to be worked on and studied. "The displays that nature is not immune to our presence" (Kralijic, 1992). Ways must be found to lessen the threat of this growing crisis. If this effect were to continue and grow, the earth’s population would be exposed to serious threats. Carbon dioxide is essential for plants who use it for photosynthesis, yet too much can lead to serious threats. The problem lies in the disruption of the balance between how much carbon dioxide plants intake, and what our population produ .....
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What Is Physics And What Are Its Uses?
<view this essay>.... wall. On the other hand, the batter must be
certain to keep the trajectory low enough so that the ball will reach the fence.
Trajectory is also seen in basketball, where players must shoot the ball with
enough arch to get over the front of the rim, and go through the hoop. The
energy required to do this comes from not only the arms, but the legs as well.
The medical field has seen enormous breakthroughs because of principles
of physics. Doctors are now able to use lasers for surgery. Lasers are based
on the physical principle of light, and are devices for the creation and
amplification of a narrow, intense beam of coherent light. New laser
microsur .....
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Penguins: The Eyes Have It!
<view this essay>.... molluscs, crustaceans, and the inevitable
fish. Through a special slowing-down of their heart rate they're able,
like many other diving animals, to stay submerged long enough to search
out and chase whatever catches their fancy.
On dry land, it's a different story-or has been up to now. Waddling along
on their flat little feet, eyes fixed intently on the ground, penguins
appear myopic, inefficient and generally out of place.
In fact the reverse is true. During a recent stay on the Falkland Islands,
a Canadian researcher discovered that penguins are able to recognize
individuals and navigate the rocky terrain on which they live quite well.
Long of body and .....
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