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- 13991: John Marshall Harlan II
- ... 1877 to 1911. Johan Marshall Harlan II is best remembered as the lone dissenter of the ‘separate but equal' defense to the upholding of Plessy v. Ferguson. John Marshall Harlan II followed in his family's footsteps regarding the furthering of his education. In 1920, Harlan graduated with honors from Princeton, thus receiving his B.A. Harlan went onto Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar to do his graduate work, and returned ... Marshall Harlan II became a partner in the firm he'd begun working in while attending law school, and spent much of his early career working for the firm. Harlan was appointed an Assistant U.S. Attorney for New York in 1925. He also served as a Special Assistant Attorney General from 1928 to 1930. Prior to working as Special Assistant Attorney General, Harlan married Ethel Andrews, with whom he had ... in New York City. In 1954, President Eisenhower appointed Harlan to the United States Court of Appeals. Less than a year later, Eisenhower nominated Harlan to the Supreme Court. On March 16, 1955, the U.S. Senate confirmed Eisenhower's appointment of Harlan 71 to 11, and Harlan began his sixteen year term in the High Court. Harlan has often been called the "intellectual leader of the conservatives on the ...
- 13992: John Lennon
- ... born in 1940 during the Nazi bombing of Britain and given the middle name Winston, after Prime Minister Churchill. Knowing firsthand the horror of a world at war and living through the era of Vietnam's senseless carnage as well, Lennon came to embrace and embody pacifism via such classics of the Beatles era as "All You Need Is Love" and "Strawberry Fields Forever." Yet he also had a countervailing dark ... say what it is, simple English, make it rhyme and put a backbeat on it, and express yourself as simply [and] straightforwardly as possible." His most fully realized statement, as a solo artist was 1970's John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band. Lennon's first solo album, it followed several avant-garde sound collages recorded toward the end of the Beatles era with his wife and collaborator, Yoko Ono. The raw, confessional nature of Plastic Ono Band reflected ...
- 13993: Comets and Asteroids
- ... belt on the outside of the orbit of Mars. These are pieces of larger rocks that were crashed into the remaining pieces after millions of years of crashes. Each ring system has distinctive features. Jupiter's rings are tenuous and made mainly of dark particles the size of those in cigarette smoke. The bright rings of Saturn are made of mainly frozen water in the form of snowballs and chunks of ... of dust being put off as it floats around space at speeds that could outrun a bullet. Comets follow a reasonably tight schedule in a big loop of passing from one solar system or star's gravity, to the next. Scientists can predict with reasonable accuracy how long it will take to come back around. It is not absolute, however. Things like "jetting" can change the course of the comet. "Jetting ... things like dust change the course of the comet due to the fact that it is a small form of resistance that may slow the comet over time. An astronomer, Terry Jones, says "Comets don't last forever. They are either thrown out of the solar system, they break up, or they run into something." If a comet were to get too close to earth, it is called an "error ...
- 13994: Hypotheses of the Effects of Wolf Predation
- ... recruitment increased, which should result in a future caribou population increase. Gasaway et al. (1983) also indicated that wolf predation can sufficiently increase the rate of mortality in a prey population to prevent the population's increase. Even though there has been much support of this hypothesis, Boutin (1992) suggests that "there is little doubt that predation is a limiting factor, but in cases where its magnitude has been measured, it ... as a regulating mechanism. Messier (1985), in a study of moose near Quebec, Canada, draws the conclusion that wolf-ungulate systems, if regulated naturally, stabilize at low prey and low predator population densities. In Messier's (1994) later analysis, based on twenty-seven studies where moose were the dominant prey species of wolves, he determined that wolf predation can be density-dependent at the lower range of moose densities. This result ... and we must not over generalize a one predator - one prey hypothesis in the attempt to interpret the overall trends of the effects of predation of wolves on large ungulate populations. Literature Cited Bergerud, A. T., W. Wyett, and B. Snider. 1983. The role of wolf predation in limiting a moose population. Journal of Wildlife Management. 47(4): 977-988. Bergerud, A. T., and W. B. Ballard. 1988. Wolf predation ...
- 13995: Egyptian Pyramids 2
- ... pyramids were built, what purpose they served, the three pyramids at Giza, some messages found on the stones that were used to build pyramids, and what a mastabas is. Pyramids are tombs built for Egypt's pharaohs. Pyramids are large structures with four sides that are the shape of a triangle, that meet at the top to form a point. The ancient Egyptians used the pyramids as tombs for the pharaohs ... pyramids were built in a triangular form is because it has a religious meaning to the Egyptians. The slanting side might have reminded the Egyptians of the slanting rays of the sun, that the pharaoh's soul could climb to the sky and join the gods. In the pyramids they buried the pharaoh's body. There was a chamber for the body. There was also a chamber for treasures of gold and other priceless items for the pharaoh's afterlife. Sometimes a boat is placed inside so the ...
- 13996: Internet Access
- ... or UUCP nets that allow users to minimally exchange e-mail with the Internet. The Internet is made by using different kinds of electronic transport media including optical fiber, telephone lines, satellite systems, and LAN's. Most computers that are connected to the Internet are called hosts. The function of hosts is to interface users (PC's) to other hosts in the Internet. Other devices that are called routers which route data, usually in data "packets" to other computers. Networks and computers that are part of the global Internet have unique registered ... distribute news messages among thousands of structured newsgroups. Most of the existing telecommunications providers and an explosion of new companies have begun offering Internet access service. A sample of these companies include: America Online AT&T Bell Atlantic Cable and Wireless Digex Erol's MCI Communications Pacific Telesis Group Sprint U.S. West UUNET A good example of the effects that the Internet is having on technological development in the ...
- 13997: Growth Dynamics of E. coli in Varying Concentrations of Nutrient Broths, pH, and in the Presence of an Antibiotic
- ... when required nutrients are exhausted, when toxic end products accumulate, or environmental conditions change. Eventually the number of cells begins to decrease signaling the onset of the Death phase; this is due to the bacteria’s inability to reproduce (Atlas 331-332). The equation used for predicting a growth curve is N=N0ekt. N equals the number of cells in the culture at some future point, N0 equals the initial number of cells in the culture, k is a growth rate constant defined as the number of population doublings per unit time, t is time and e is the exponential number. The k value can be easily derived by knowing the number of cells in a exponentially growing population at two different times. K is determined using the equation k=(ln N-ln N0 )/t, where ln N is the natural log of the number of cells at some time t, ln N0 is the natural log of the initial number of cells and t is time. This equation ...
- 13998: The Scarlet Letter: Guilt
- The Scarlet Letter: Guilt There are many things that could be said about the Nathaniel Hawthorne novel, “The Scarlet Letter.” The fact that Hester can see the devil in her own daughter’s eyes, and the way that Dimmesdale torments himself nightly with tools of pain. It is like an almost incurable disease that rips apart at their lives. I think that the focus of this book is, Guilt can rip apart your life. Hester is a woman who under the pressures of guilt has started to see bad things in everyone. Hester was looking into her daughter’s eyes, looking for herself, but instead she sees the Black Man. What does this say about what she is thinking? She can’t get the fact out of her head that what she did was wrong and that by the puritan society she will be cast into hell. The only reasons she sees the Black Man is ...
- 13999: Extinction of Dinosaurs
- ... creatures ever to live on earth had become extinct. Dinosaurs were not the only victims of this "mass extinction." There were many other species that were killed off. During what is known as the K-T extinction (K stands for Cretaceous, T stands for Tertiary), many species and families became extinct. These include all marine reptiles such as plesiosaurs, mosasaurs, ichthyosaurs, and ammonites, swimming and flying reptiles, sea crocodiles, and foraminifera. In addition to that there were ... Sepkowski Jr., famous geologists, blamed the extinction of the dinosaurs on a large celestial body which hit the Earth 65 million years ago. According to them, an asteroid five miles across blasted through the Earth's crust, and threw up molten rock, ash, and dust. Adding to the support to this theory is the discovery of a layer of iridium in New Zealand, Denmark, and Italy. This layer became known ...
- 14000: The Scarlet Letter
- The Scarlet Letter There are many things that could be said about the Nathaniel Hawthorne novel, “The Scarlet Letter.” The fact that Hester can see the devil in her own daughter’s eyes, and the way that Dimmesdale torments himself nightly with tools of pain. It is like an almost incurable disease that rips apart at their lives. I think that the focus of this book is, Guilt can rip apart your life. Hester is a woman who under the pressures of guilt has started to see bad things in everyone. Hester was looking into her daughter’s eyes, looking for herself, but instead she sees the Black Man. What does this say about what she is thinking? She can’t get the fact out of her head that what she did was wrong and that by the puritan society she will be cast into hell. The only reasons she sees the Black Man is ...
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