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Acupuncture
Words: 946 / Pages: 4 .... 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 health in individuals (Consumer 55). Oriental acupuncturists believe that eit .....
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A Brief History Of Clocks: From Thales To Ptolemy
Words: 4266 / Pages: 16 .... was quite popular in ancient Greece. However, the development of stereography by Hipparchos in 150 BC. radically altered physical representations of the heavens. By integrating stereography with the Clepsydra and the celestial sphere, humanity was capable of creating more practical and accurate devices for measuring time—the anaphoric clock and the astrolabe. Although Ptolemy was familiar with both the anaphoric clock and the astrolabe, I believe that the development of the anaphoric clock preceded the development of the astrolabe.
The earliest example, in western culture, of a celestial sphere is attributed to the presocratic philosopher Thale .....
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Chemistry Hits The Beach
Words: 998 / Pages: 4 .... meant to protect us from the blisters, the pain, and in general to keep our youthful glow lasting just a few years longer.
A sunguard is a cream designed to protect one's skin from being sunburned. Our bodies are incrementally damaged by each new exposure to the sun, and this damage can later be seen in the form of wrinkles, blotchy skin and even skin cancer. Sunscreens have evolved a goodly amount over the years. Christopher Columbus noticed in 1492 that the natives of Hispaniola would protect themselves with red paint, as to avoid sun damage. The ancient Greeks, who trained for the Olympics in the nude would rub themselves with a mixture of sand a .....
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Plants In TKM
Words: 1033 / Pages: 4 .... all the time helps people in the south happy by giving them something to take their mind off of life for a while. Garden Geraniums may reach the size of a bush in warm, dry climates (Garden Geranium 1). Again, the bright colored flowers make any bouquet of flowers complete. It is very hard to get any Geraniums to grow in short and cold growing seasons, like in the Pacific Northwest. It was very easy to grow and pick the beautiful flowers in the south. Wisteria is in the legume family of woody, climbing plants. The best know Wisteria are Chinese, but American are just as good. Most people use them for crawling things to go over doorways and .....
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David Suzuki's A Planet For The Taking
Words: 944 / Pages: 4 .... considering the audience. Suzuki's tone is evident when he states "We
have both a sense of the importance of the wilderness and space in our culture
and an attitude that it is limitless and therefore we needn't worry." These
words suggest that we are willing to reap the rewards of our vast resources but
we fail to see the harm that we are doing, and will continue to do if we do not
stop these actions.
Although his approach for explaining his beliefs changes, Suzuki's tone
of great concern remains consistent throughout the essay. After his views are
presented, Suzuki begins to tell us what we have done to our country and how we
are de .....
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The Invention Of The Telegram
Words: 1113 / Pages: 5 .... you. You will inform the President of the above most secretily as soon as the outbreak of war with the United States of America is certain and add the suggestion that he should, on his own initiative , invite Japan to immediate adherence and at the same time mediate between Japan and ourselves. Please call the President's attention to the fact that the ruthless employment of our submarines now follows the prospect of compelling England in a few months to make peace" - ZIMMERMANN
Considering this telegram was sent to Mexico, it shows Mexican importance in this war. Mexico had two thousand miles of undefended coastline on the Pacific . Her northern bo .....
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A Study Of Inheritable Traits In Fruit Flies
Words: 1423 / Pages: 6 .... the egg stage, numerous cleavage
nuclei form. Next, the egg hatches to reveal the larva. During this stage,
growth and molting occur. Once growth is complete, the Drosophila enter the
pupal stage, where it develops into an adult through metamorphosis. Upon
reaching adulthood, the flies are ready to mate and produce the next generation
of Drosophila melanogaster.
During this experiment, monohybrid and dihybrid crosses were conducted
with Drosophila melanogaster. Our objective was to examine the inheritance from
one generation to the next. We collected the data from the crosses and analyzed
them in relation to the expected results.
MATERIALS AND .....
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Bubonic Plague 2
Words: 575 / Pages: 3 .... it spread in every direction, and the Asian nations suffered as cruelly as anywhere. In China, for example, the population
dropped from around 125 million to 90 million over the course of the 14 century. The plague moved along the caravan routes toward the West. By 1345 it had made it’s way to the lower Volga River. By early 1347 it was in Constantinople. It hit Alexandria in the autumn of that year, and by spring 1348, a thousand people a day were dying there. In Cairo, Egypt, the count was seven times that. The disease traveled by ship as readily as by land and it was no sooner in the eastern Mediterranean than it was in the western end as .....
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Genetic Engenering -4
Words: 957 / Pages: 4 .... far to risky to preform on a human embryo" (Nash 2).
Many times scientist have proved that they do indeed have the power to duplicate an animal, plant and human body parts so that they are exactly identical to each other. For example, in May of 1998, scientists successfully cloned a calf using a new cloning technology that could make it possible to create "designer" cattle. Also, in June of 1998, there was talk about having successfully cloned a mouse swept through the scientific community(Nash 3). These are just a few of many times scientists have cloned an animal. These are the many things science has brought fourth and we need to take a .....
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The Wolf
Words: 926 / Pages: 4 .... wolf
would have a larger and wider head than any dog. The young ones look like
they have smaller heads but they look almost exactly how they would look
if they were full grown with small paws. The wolf would move around by
walking, running, or in a big pack with it’s family. The pack can have as
much as 36 wolves. Each pack always has two head leaders, one male and the
other female. The pack may hunt and go as far as 130 to 13,000 sq. km.(50
to5,000 sq. miles)—and will defend all that land from intruders. The wolf
would have soft fur over it body to cover it like a jacket to keep it warm
during the winter. The wolf’s eyes are very keen. It ca .....
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