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- 101: Greenhouse Effect
- ... barriers trapping in heat and warming the earth. This process is not new. In fact, without the greenhouse effect, the average surface temperature of the earth would be about 59 Fahrenheit degrees lower than it is today. "Long before civilization intervened , the thin blanket of gases that surround the earth was efficiently trapping a tiny portion of the sun’s heat ... of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere could double. If this doubling were to occur, it would intensify the greenhouse effect and result in an increase of 2.7 to 11 Fahrenheit degrees (1.5 to 6 Celsius degrees) in the earth’s average temperature" (Gille, 1988). The results are real and quite intense. The outlook is not good. Something must be ...
- 102: Fahrenheit51
- Fahrenheit 451 Guy Montag has an emotional dilemma whether to go against the system or abide by the law. This law forbids the reading of all books. Guy Montag is a ... She made the empty rooms roar with accusation and shake down a fine dust guilt that was sucked in their nostrils as they plunged about."(37). Ray Bradbury's novel Fahrenheit 451 takes place in a futuristic city while a war is taking place. Oddly enough the city has its own problems. The protagonist , Guy Montag, goes against society and steals ...
- 103: Fahrenheit51 4
- Fahrenheit 451 Guy Montag has an emotional dilemma whether to go against the system or abide by the law. This law forbids the reading of all books. Guy Montag is a ... She made the empty rooms roar with accusation and shake down a fine dust guilt that was sucked in their nostrils as they plunged about."(37). Ray Bradbury's novel Fahrenheit 451 takes place in a futuristic city while a war is taking place. Oddly enough the city has its own problems. The protagonist , Guy Montag, goes against society and steals ...
- 104: First Amendment
- ... the hopes of finding greater freedom or freedom for the first time. He depicts how people of all backgrounds worked together for one cause: freedom. I selected Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 as a fictitious example of the evils of censorship in a world that is becoming illiterate. In this book, the government convinces the public that book reading is evil ... Amendments to the Constitution." Collier's Encyclopedia. 1965 ed. American Voices. New York: Phillip Morris, 1987. Bollinger, Lee. C. The Tolerant Society. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451. New York: Ballantine Books, 1973. Bugman, Cathy. "Monmouth Grads Hear Top Lawyer Defend Broad Right to Free Speech." The Star Ledger, 27 May 1991: A-9. First Freedom Today ...
- 105: Alternative Energy
- ... have machines that angle the mirrors and lenses to the sun all day. This system can provide sizeable amounts of electricity and create extremely high temperatures of over 6000 degrees Fahrenheit. Solar energy generators are very clean, little waste is emitted from the generators into the environment. The use of coal, oil and gasoline is a constant drain, economically and environmentally ...
- 106: Canadian Black Bear
- ... minute to only eight to twelve beats per minute. Its metabolism slows down by half, and its body temperature reduces by 3 to 7 degrees Centigrade (5 to 9 degrees Fahrenheit). Also its body doesn’t release any wastes like urea or solid fecal waste but instead it’s recycled into usable proteins. During the hibernation period adult males and adolescent ...
- 107: Chicken Pox
- ... order it starts at the trunk (the legs), spreads to the face, and then to the extremities. The infected person will get to temperatures of one hundred and two degrees Fahrenheit and that will last throughout the breakout. The rash is quite itchy and becomes dry, crusted, and falls off in a week. More bumps will come about every three days ...
- 108: Franklin Delino Roosevelt
- ... white house. When he first moved to Warm Springs he fell in love with the mineral rich water that still flows to this day at an even eighty-eight degree Fahrenheit. He could stand buoyantly on his polio paralyzed legs, the president prized his weeks in Warm Springs. When Roosevelt moved to Georgia his wife Eleanor did not accompany him and ...
- 109: Ray Bradbury
- ... fear of nuclear war, the longing for a simpler life, reactions against racism and censorship, and fear of foreign political powers. Another of Bradbury's best-known works, the novel Fahrenheit 451, was released in 1953 and is set in a future when the written word is forbidden. Resisting a totalitarian state which burns all the books, a group of rebels ...
- 110: Cryogenics And The Future
- ... cryogenics is 100 (C (-148 (F) and the lowest temperature used, is the unattainable temperature -273.15 (C (-459.67 (F). Also, when speaking of cryogenics, the terms Celsius and Fahrenheit are rarely used. Instead scientists use a different measurement called the Kelvin (K). The Kelvin scale for Cryogenics goes from 173 K to a fraction of a Kelvin above absolute ...
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