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Term Papers on Science
The Beginning Of Time
Number of words: 1333 - Number of pages: 5.... common belief that the
universe was completely static. The expansion of the universe was discovered in
1929 when Edwin Hubble discovered that every galaxy in the universe was moving
away from each other, this meant that the universe was expanding. Hubble found
the movement of the galaxies by using a phenomenon known as the Doppler effect.
This effect caused bodies moving away from an observer to have a "red-shifted"
spectrum (the light spectrum of the body had been shifted closer to red) and
bodies moving towards an observer to be "blue-shifted" (Hawking, 1988 .....
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Organ Cloning: The Future Of Our Lives…
Number of words: 902 - Number of pages: 4.... human beings. Those rights include the right to pursue areas of scientific study, and also the right to live. They could have argued the fact that man was not meant to walk on the moon. If they did, and the program did not succeed, then we would not have the technology that we have today. Cloning organs can only yield new technologies that will be beneficial to society.
Organ cloning is something that would be extremely beneficial to society. Imagine the ability to "create" a liver for James Earl Ray. He was the man that was accused in the assassination of Dr. M .....
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The Critical Role Of Informati
Number of words: 1717 - Number of pages: 7.... even more in countries like Japan and Germany. This percentage is currently and will continue to grow in the future (5).
Globalization of the world’s industrial economies greatly enhances the value of information to the firm and offers new opportunities to businesses. Today, information systems provide the communication and analytic power that firms need to conduct trades and manage businesses on a global scale. Globalization and information technology also brings new threats to domestic business firms. This is brought on by the customer’s ability to shop i .....
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Breast Cancer In Women
Number of words: 700 - Number of pages: 3.... research.
Self examinations are the most commonly used tests used for detecting breast cancer among women today. The self exam is a simple exam that women can perform on their own with a few simple steps.
Another way of detecting breast cancer is with a mammography. This is an X-ray that scans in make up of the breast to show whether there are and tumors. This is the most effective type of detection to date. (Cancer Facts, Detection. National Cancer Institute) One disadvantage to using mammography is that with mammography, the x-ray picture sometimes .....
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Changing World
Number of words: 1035 - Number of pages: 4.... figures demonstrate that humanity is not effectively controlling and limiting its use of fossil fuels. As a result, acid rain falls upon the earth destroying what is left of the planet's forests and, an estimated 37 percent of the fish species that inhabit thelakes and streams of North America are either in jeopardy or extinct. A second indicator that displays humanity's misuse of technoscience is the global economy. Global economic statistics show the results of the applications of technoscience. In 1995, the global economy grew by an estimated 3.7 percent the l .....
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The Entertainment Universe
Number of words: 880 - Number of pages: 4.... dance. The purpose of
the dance is to cause and endure as much physical pain as possible. The dance
eventually gets so extreme that a young man in the crowd snaps his neck and dies.
The man does not stop his ravings and the crowd doesn't stop their dance.
Instead the man becomes entirely deranged, screaming at the body of the young
man that he is now going to hell where he rot in flames of agony for eternity.
The crowd roars and the man laughs.
What do you suppose would now transpire? At the very least the man and
the crowd would be arrested. More th .....
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Atomic Bombs
Number of words: 1302 - Number of pages: 5.... He directed industrial and research activities at such sites as Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and Los Alamos, New Mexico (The World Book Encyclopedia 141). Here they designed to bombs that were later called “The Fat Man” and “The Little Boy”. There was later a movie named after the two bombs that showed how they were made and the
experiences that came with making them. A worker was killed during the final stages of the Manhattan Project when a critical assembly of fissile material was accidentally brought together by hand. This incident, which was dramatize .....
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Life On Other Planets?
Number of words: 1748 - Number of pages: 7.... in some not so favorable environments as found with
the development of algae on many of Earth's deep sea thermal vents, as well
as bacteria that lives beneath the Earth's icy polar tundra's in the arctic
and Antarctic. George W. Wetherill even notes that “Even if a planet or
moon could not support life globally, each could contain a tiny niche where
life could thrive” (Science News, 328).
What are the most favorable conditions for life to develop? It is
now known that life simply cannot emerge anywhere that does not contain
water. It is mostly preferred tha .....
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