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18121: Calories: ... mixed with equal amounts of water at zero degrees the resulting mixture would be only one degree. From this, he concluded that heat and temperature were not the same. In order to give the scientific world a standard of measure Mr. Black termed the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one gram of water one degree Celsius a calorie. The problem encountered here is that the calorie on ...

18122: Lord of the Flies: The Personification of Evil: ... himself, no matter how far fetched or ridiculous his alibi. Through all aspects of the story, from the well-rounded characters to the twisting plot, Golding reiterates the message that everything and everyone in the world is evil. The boys burn the island, waste food, tease each other, kill their peers, fight among themselves and by these actions, become savages. Although modern man may not be savage in the ways Golding ...

18123: The Scarlet Letter and Symbolism: ... joy. The child could not be made amenable to rules. Hester even remarks to herself, “Oh Father in heaven – if thou art still my father – what is this being which I have brought into the world” (Hawthorne 89)? Pearl would harass her mother Piyasena/Pine 2 over the scarlet “A” she wore. In time, Hester was subjected to so much ridicule from Pearl and others that she was forced into seclusion ...

18124: Cheetah 2: ... such a powerful animal. It’s low weight, it seems, is what allows it have it’s high top speed of sixty miles per hour. It is regarded as one the fastest hunters in the world and of course, the fastest land animal in existence. I also found that it’s habitat is in the grassy plains of Africa. This is definitely a great place for it to hide based on ...

18125: The Jungle: ... long as there work was cheap. Another problem for workers was the political system. In the labor industry it was ran illegally. In Jurgis’s case his boss Mike Scully was in an organization called War Whoop League, who’s main purpose was to go out and buy votes. Seeing that votes could be bought you get the science the government did not care what was going on in these plantations ...

18126: Treasure Island: Teamwork Overcomes Greed: ... lives and much misery because of greed. Now someone could question how much a life is worth, but then arrive at the conclusion that a life is more valuable than all the money in the world. Liking money is one thing but getting carried away is another.

18127: Flatland: Social Satire of Victorian English Society: ... have any flaws they were to small to detect. In Flatland when a circle was labeled a Priest, do not be confused with a religious term that is regularly used in the real life human world. The word simply means that in Flatland their Priests are "administrators of all Business, Art, and Science; Directors of Trade, Commerce, Generalship, Architecture, Engineering, Education, Statesmanship, Legislature, Morality, Theology; doing nothing themselves they are the ...

18128: Concretions: ... Sandstone and in some weathered volcanic rock. Concretions come in many different shapes and the most common of the shapes is spherical or disk shaped. Concretions are the most varied-shaped rocks of the sedimentary world. The way concretions come to be is the mineral matter concentrates around the nucleus of a host rock. The nucleus is often organic such as a tooth or leaf or shell or fossil. As the ...

18129: The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea: ... essay of what we thought of the story and its main characters. INTRODUCTION The story has three main characters and they are Japanese. The young boy and his mother lived in Japan after the post war, so the era would have been 1950's. I sense that the young boy has become a juvenile delinquent from the way the mother punishes him. He seems to get into trouble with his three ...

18130: The Flivor King: ... in his time. shutt worked in the autop industry for the "technological revolutionary" himself, Henry Ford. In effort to embrace the "goodlife," Shutt displayed teh triumphs that he and his fellow emploters in the auto world faced all in the mere effort of survival. At the turn of the century, industry was booming and many people left the more common rural areas and headed for urban areas and headed for urban ...

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