The Twilight Zone

The Rise of Big Business The Industrial Revolution is when the American society switched from having an agricultural society to having big business. The transformations that took place in American businesses following the Civil War involved more than a change in just industrial techniques or productivity they also expanded in size and scale. There were three major businesses during the Industrial Revolution; the railroad, oil, and steel industries. With the rise of these three major…

I have grown up in a country and time where progress has been definitive. It has been in the time that my feet imprinted this earth and my lungs breathed this air that the Supreme Court has passed a bill for marriage equality and in the last eight years my nation has elected the first man of color to lead our democracy. It is that man who has helped to cut carbon emissions while making true strides for equality. Equality is not found in the darkness of segregated spaces or within the confines…

influenced by tidal zone. A scatter plot was also created, with cockle size plotted against distance. A similar graph was then created but with age plotted against tidal zone instead of size. These two graphs included an R^2 value to help determine if there was significant statistical trend in the scatterplots. Results: Cockles were more abundant in low tide with abundance increasing towards high tide. Feeding rates were lowest at low tide with an increase in mid and high tidal zones. There was…

At first, It was my team and I just sitting in our little locker room. We were banging on the lockers as hard our hands could handle. Then the music started playing. “BOOM! HERE COMES THE BOOM, I DON’T REALLY WANT IT NOW.” Then, we sprinted out of the locker rooms at full speed. The team was so intimidated by our appearance. We were screaming and yelling chants to get our team and the crowd fired up. Then, it was kickoff time. My buddy Shawn got the ball on kickoff and ran it back to the 50…

that is noted for oxygen depletion is called the “dead zone”. A dead zone, also known as a hypoxia zone, is an area with little to no dissolved oxygen in the water. It is believed that these areas are depleted of oxygen because of the pollution in the runoff delivered by the mighty Mississippi River. A fair amount of this pollution comes from fertilizer runoff from Midwestern farms that leach into…

that there is a small planet, Proxima b, orbiting Proxima Centauri. Details of Proxima b include a semi-amplitude of 1.4 ms^-1, a mass of 1.3 Earth masses, a semi major axis of .05 AU, and that it lies squarely in the center of the classical habitable zone for…

As Buettner points out, there is no actual diet for longevity. However, he had this to say about the diets of people in the Blue Zones: Instead, these people drink a little bit every day, not a hard sell to the American people. They tend to eat a plant based diet. Doesn’t mean they don’t eat met, but lots of beans and nuts. And they have strategies to keep from overeating, little…

written within the website. The website itself seems credible as not anyone can contribute to the article. This is because it has a single Author. It also has many other articles on other safety implementations within a car, such as airbags and crumple zones. Overall, the information I obtained from this website was very helpful in the writing of my essay and it also helped me further understand the physics involved in the use of…

Materials and Methods The sampling of the Gambusia holbrooski was done in Hennington Pond at FIU. The class was divided into five groups each tasked with obtaining thirty samples of mosquitofish. These samples were obtained randomly using a landing net and a bucket of water that contained water from the pond to put the fish. The collected fish were measured and their length recorded (in mm) from the apex of the lower jaw towards the posterior end. The measurement was done using a small ruler…

Richard Preston’s The Hot Zone is about the Reston virus, one of the five strands of Ebola, and its outbreak in Virginia in 1989, which startled the eastern United States. The story begins with a hot zone of the Ebola virus, Kitum Cave, in order to provide background information towards the virus and its hunger to take hold of a host. Over the course of the story Preston depicts the viral effects, emphasizes the passion of the scientist, and conveys the bravery in an almost disastrous situation.…