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The Mars Alive Documentary
470 Words - 2 Pages.... survival of civilization. Some of the countries who have made these
descriptions include the Soviet Union, Russia, and America. The Soviets
are obsessed with space travel, and always have been. They posses an ideal
vision of life on Mars. The Russians pride themselves for their excellent
space survival. Unfortunately, the country does not have the funds to
carry out their survival plans. Lastly, many believe an American flag
should be placed on the planet of Mars.
The Americans have greatly contributed to the findings on Mars;
they have helped figure out that the temperature is cool and that the
atmosphere is thin. America’s NASA deeply desires for Mars to be a us ....
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Effects Of Secondhand Smoke
314 Words - 2 Pages.... vulnerable to lung diseases because their lungs are not fully developed. Asthma is more likely to develop with children who breathe secondhand smoke (www.alaw.org). It can also exacerbate frequent attacks. Babies are three times more likely to die form Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) if their mothers smoke during pregnancy. Ear infection, coughs, sore throat and even cancer can also develop if children are expose to secondhand smoke.
With all these harmful to children, there are ways to protect them from it. First, as a parent, don’t smoke. If you are a smoker, quit! If you can’t, don’t smoke in your house, in the car or near your children. Have a perman ....
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Concretions
1378 Words - 6 Pages.... many different shapes and the most common of the shapes is spherical or disk shaped. are the most varied-shaped rocks of the sedimentary world. The way 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 mineral matter concentrates around the nucleus it forms harder zones known as nodules.
are very odd in the sense that they very in size, shape, color and hardness. Often are mistaken for bones, fossils, meteorites and other odd objects. They can be so small that it requires a magnifying glass to be visible or as large as 10 feet in diameter and weigh hundreds ....
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Hydroponic Gardening
4139 Words - 16 Pages.... instances by a man made lighting system.
Many different varieties of plants can be grown using the hydroponic technique. Some examples are lettuce, herbs and tomatoes, as well as seasonal flowering plant species. The use of hydroponics in gardening as well as large scale crop growth can enable the grower to produce many types of plants out of their normal growing season. Another attraction and use for hydroponic growing methods is that a person can have a garden in small spaces such as an apartment. In addition a good source of natural sunlight is not required because the gardener will provide the plant's light requirements.
This form of growing plants is not only an int ....
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Salt And Its Uses
480 Words - 2 Pages.... appeal. They believe that sodium salt is
connected with heart disease, circulator disorder, stroke and even early death.
By many doctors and researchers are now beginning to feel that salt has
gone too far. At the University of Alabama, a short-term research has been
done on 150 people on the effect of the intake of salt related to high blood
pressure. Result shows that those with normal blood pressure experience no
change at all when placed in a extremely low salt diet, or later when salt was
introduced, Of the hypertensive subjects, half of those on the low salt diet did
experience a drop in blood pressure, which returned to its previous leel when
salt was intr ....
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Simple Machines
586 Words - 3 Pages.... that are touching
each other.
What do we use machines for?
Machines are used for many things. Machines are used in everyday life
just to make things easier. You use many machines in a day that you might take
for granted. For example a simple ordinary broom is a machine. It is a form of
a lever. Our country or world would never be this evolved if it wasn't for
machine. Almost every thing we do has a machine involved. We use machines to
manufacture goods, for transportation, ect.
In the W=F*d equation the trade of between force and distance is as you
use a machine the force goes down and distance goes up. If there was no friction
they would be equal and trade. ....
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Army Ants
861 Words - 4 Pages.... together and are able to overcome and capture other
social insects and large anthropoids, they may occasionally kill larger animals
but they do not eat them. As the need for food for the larvae increases, food
gathering raids become more intense.
The hunting raids made by ants are carried out by "armies" of thousands
of ants and set out from the bivouac in various directions. They form two or
three parties going out simultaneously in different directions for 100 yards or
more. In the U.S. army we attack countries in different areas to weaken the
force we are attacking. We send out thousands of troops in various directions
and try to surround the source of the location being ....
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Awakenings And Tourette
991 Words - 4 Pages.... that reached epidemic proportions during that specific era. Like many others who contracted this illness, Leonard and those like him were often misdiagnosed and eventually placed in mental hospital facilities because of their apparent vegetative state. Doctors who worked on the earlier cases believed the patients mental faculties to have been destroyed by the illness.
Dr. Sayer (Dr. Oliver Sacks in real life) discovers that certain vegetative patients reacted to outside stimuli, such as a pattern on a floor, a tossed ball, or a television with a maladjusted vertical hold. Finally, Dr. Sayer comes across Leonard as a middle-aged man, some thirty years after he was origina ....
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