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Do you ever think about how different our lives would be if technology was never invented? At age 31, Bill Gates became the youngest billionaire ever at the time, having a networth of $12.9 billion. The 1970’s was a very popular time for new upcomings and new technologies. Bill Gates starting Microsoft, the beginning of VCR’s, Tom Persky inventing the floppy disk, and the pocket calculator was just the beginning of the new technologies to come. Technology in the 1970’s was just the beginning to…

been studied by a number of different research centers. Since FFI is, in fact, a prion disease, the research being done could aid in finding a cure for patients. Research groups including, but not limited to, UCSF, MRC, Alberta, Case Western, and Rocky Mountain Labs, have spent great amounts of time to try and study the causes, effects, and cures of prion diseases. Currently, research has enlightened the world towards the causes and effects of FFI, but the cures are still yet to be found. A…

that crossed from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean. During 1803 to 1806 a group of explorers traveled North America in search of such a waterway, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark led the exploration west. Upon their travels, they found out the Rocky Mountains divided the land and found no coast to coast waterway established. Jefferson set a plan into motion to create a different transportation system that would connect America by roads, railroads and rivers. Dirt roads had been built by…

change is severely effecting our beaches in Victoria and across Australia. About 24% of the Victorian coast in rock shore, the majority of which is classified as cliffs. While a lot of the coast is still sandy much of this is also classified as a rocky coast with at least 20% of the coast being sandy beaches backed by rock. Coastal areas in Victoria already have some risk of exposure to natural hazards without worsening effects of climate change. For example, Lakes Entrance in East Gippsland is…

Hello congress woman and men. Our names are, Alicia, Celeste and Yaritza. We are here to try and convince you to keep this endangered specie, the Hawksbills Sea Turtle as safe and protected as possible. Like many sea turtles, hawksbill sea turtles are critically endangered due mostly to human impact. The Hawksbill Sea Turtle is usually amber colored and richly patterned, with radiating streaks of lighter brown and black which is a reason why they are being killed for their stunning shell and…

Arya Sharma Mrs. Monk Honors Chemistry- Period 3 11 March 2024 Determining the identity of an unknown of an unknown white powder through a Decomposition Reaction Analysis Experimental Question: Which reaction occurs when an unknown white powder is heated? #1: Sodium bicarbonate breaks down into sodium hydroxide and carbon dioxide. #2: Heating sodium bicarbonate produces sodium carbonate, carbon dioxide and water vapor. #3: Sodium bicarbonate decomposes into sodium oxide, carbon dioxide, and…

1984 built upon a negative utopian picture ruled by a rocky totalitarian government with a main male protagonist, Winston. In the novel “1984”, by George Orwell, not only winston but also the whole party look down upon the proles as insignificant, like animals. While in reality the party is the most animalistic.. In the novel, the party have only limited telescreens and spies in the proles because they’re deemed as unimportant. The proles therefore are presented with the secular dish called…

Both the passage and the lecture are concerned with the decrease in sea otter population in areas of the Alaskan coast. The author of the passage claims that the decrease is due to pollution of the otters' environment. The professor refutes this point. He avers that the population decline originated in increased predator activity in these areas. First of all, the author points out that there are notable sources of pollution in Alaska, such as oil rigs. Tests conducted on water samples from these…

In 1763, Spain gained huge area of west of the United States from France after the Seven Year’s War in 1763. However, Spain gave the large land back to French due to its incapability of guarding the territory. In the mean time, Napoleon was busy for his war with the Britain, and he needed money to support the war. Robert Livingston, American minister, hinted Thomas Jefferson that it was a good opportunity to buy the land from French. Jefferson then sent Livingston to France to negotiate the…

In “Everyday Use,” Alice Walker tells a story of a mother who does the best she can to raise her 2 daughters in the south at a time where it was necessary to try to instill her culture and her heritage in their lives. She had a very rocky relationship with them. The daughters grow up to be two different individual with each embrace what they think is important to their well being and their identity. One grows to be well educated and could not see her embrace and associated with the old life…