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Computer History
1410 Words - 6 Pages.... made by the United States military in the 1940's and 1950's. The needs of the military at the time required that a system be created that could aid in the aiming of ballistic military equipment. Today’s modern computers are undoubtedly the result of the United States military’s early developments and technological advancements in computing. Because of the military’s need for the computer earlier this century, great advancements have been, and will continue to be made in the way of computers and other technologies.
Truly the first computers, or tools made with the intention of being used for calculating, were made many centuries ago. Throughout history, people have used ....
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Mans Effect On The Environment
2105 Words - 8 Pages.... and is dangerous to humans , this can be passed along the foodchain.
Marine Environments : 80% of the waste which is pumped into the sea each year is produced by dredging, 10% is industrial waste and 10% is sewage. Some of the consiquences due to this are :- presence of toxic substances and the rapid uptake of contaminants by marine organisms to name but a few. Oil spillages either by tankers or offshore ridges cause devistating effects on the local environments. Oil is extremely dense which means it floats on top of the water and can kill fish and birds, ruin beaches but nothing as yet has been invented to deal with this major problem. Dangerous metals such as ....
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Inventions Of The Early 19th Century
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INVENTIONS OF THE EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY
The art of inventing has been around since remedies have been nee ....
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Memory Debate For Psychology
888 Words - 4 Pages.... memory that only holds a few items briefly, things such as the seven digits of a phone number while dialing, before the information is either stored or forgotten, activated human activity memories rapidly decay unless used or rehearsed.
Encoding can be an automatic process, this occurs when little or no effort, without awareness, and without interfering with our thinking about other things. Encoding can also be effortful processing; although we encode an enormous amount of information
unintentionally, many other types of information we remember only with much effort, rehearsal, and attention. We can forget things because of encoding failure. Sometimes we fail to encode ....
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Biological And Chemical Weapons
1582 Words - 6 Pages.... castle and fortress walls. Disease would spread within the enclosed walls. Cadavers were also placed up stream and the inhabitants of the fortress would drink the deadly, microorganism infested water. are very inexpensive. It does not take a very sophisticated industrial base to produce lethal chemicals. This makes it a viable means of warfare for Third World countries. The use of chemical weapons by Iraq and Libya in 1988 reinforces the danger that these weapons will spread (Cass 1996).
Not only are these weapons cheap, but they are very effective. Defense Secretary William S. Cohen held up a five-pound bag of sugar on national television last month to show h ....
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Acupuncture
946 Words - 4 Pages.... with a particular motion, usually about a quarter inch deep. They are then twirled and sometimes topped with Chinese herbs, which are burned (Abrams 103). is also occasionally combined with electrical stimulation that is supposed to enhance the effects of (Consumer 54). Patients that have experienced the treatment claim that "is less painful than getting a shot or having blood drawn because the needles are so thin" (Weiss 73).
The question remaining involves the legitimacy of treatments. It has a long history of success in Asia dating back over 5,000 years (Duke 224). The method approaches problems as "patterns of disharmony" which are responsible for poor hea ....
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Into The Depths Of A Black Hole
1263 Words - 5 Pages.... gravitational collapse of a star, usually having a great, massive, core.
A star is created when huge, gigantic, gas clouds bind together due to
attractive forces and form a hot core, combined from all the energy of the two
gas clouds. This energy produced is so great when it first collides, that a
nuclear reaction occurs, and the gases within the star start to burn
continuously. The Hydrogen gas is usually the first type of gas consumed in a
star and then other gas elements such as Carbon, Oxygen, and Helium are consumed.
This chain reaction fuels the star for millions, or billions, of years
depending upon the amount of gases there are. The star manages to avoid
col ....
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The Greenhouse Effect
463 Words - 2 Pages.... the massive consumption of fossil fuels such as oil, coal, and natural gas.
Another contributing factor is the the amount of forest logged, every second of
the day the area of a football field in trees is cleared by either being logged
or burnt. Two other deadly greenhouse gasses which are entering the atmosphere
even faster than carbon dioxide are methane and chloroflourocarbons, although
they are not as damaging in the long run.
These increases are likely to affect worldwide temperatures
dramatically. In 100 years time the average temperature for most parts of the
world will increase from between 2C to 6C if greenhouse pollution continues at
its present ....
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