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Technology Development Essays and Term Papers
Changing WorldThe world is changing rapidly. A single technological development can lead to an infinite number of consequential developments each of which having varying impacts on humanity. These impacts, or indicators, display the results of technological development. Climactic, global economic, social, and ...
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Frankenstein Biography, SettinMost people know of Mary Shelley as the writer of Frankenstein and the wife of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. However, she was far more than that, and parts of her life were just as dramatic and tragic, if not more so, than her famous gothic novel. Mary's parents were themselves well-known in ...
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FloodingThrough years of watching their beaches crumble and wash away and following strenuous efforts to halt the damage, the ocean front communities of New Jersey do not necessarily agree on solutions, but the various factions, or at least those represented in a November 1997 Conference, have arrived ...
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Managing The Transition From Maturity To Decline: Diamond Power CorporationThis case study, prepared by Richard C. Scameborn, follows the Diamond
Power Specialty Company from its humble beginnings in 1903 to its decline in
1991.
The birth of Diamond came with the invention of the hand cranked soot
blower. As the years and technology progressed, so did the Diamond soot ...
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Howard HughesThe Life and Legend of Throughout the 20th century, it has been the media’s job to pinpoint what events and people would prove to be an effective story. This was certainly the case for Howard R. Hughes. Son to the wealthy Sr., Howard became the interest of the American people and newspapers for ...
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Sir Isaac NewtonThesis Statement: Through his early life experiences and with the knowledge left by his predecessors, was able to develop calculus, natural forces, and optics. From birth to early childhood, Isaac Newton overcame many personal, social, and mental hardships. It is through these experiences that ...
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Death And BereavementThis essay examines death, bereavement, and the disposal of the dead through its social-psychological, historical, cross cultural, medical-ethical, and public policy aspects from the perspective of both the dying person and survivors. In its examination this course divided into the following ...
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Life And Legend Of Howard HughThe es Throughout the 20th century, it has been the media’s job to pinpoint what events and people would prove to be an effective story. This was certainly the case for Howard R. Hughes. Son to the wealthy Howard Hughes Sr., Howard became the interest of the American people and newspapers for most ...
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GenomicsThe Impact of on the World’s Economy
, the science of manipulating, building, studying, and designing molecules, is going to change the face of the world’s economy as we know it. Companies are rushing to adapt to the rapidly changing economic environment as new discoveries are being made in this ...
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Human Cloning Isn't As Scary As It SoundsThe recent news of the successful cloning of an adult sheep—
in which the sheep's DNA was inserted into an unfertilized sheep egg to produce
a lamb with identical DNA—has generated an outpouring of ethical concerns. These
concerns are not about Dolly, the now famous sheep, nor even about ...
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Sir Isaac NewtonThesis Statement: Through his early life experiences and with the knowledge left by his predecessors, was able to develop calculus, natural forces, and optics. From birth to early childhood, Isaac Newton overcame many personal, social, and mental hardships. It is through these experiences that ...
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Business And The EconomyDiscuss whether firms like Rechem should be allowed to "import" chemical waste from overseas to be disposed of here in the U.K.
Rechem have thirty years of experience in solving environmental problems caused by a wide range of hazardous and toxic materials. Their range of services included the ...
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Star MarsSince the boom in space technology about 30 years ago, man has found the
method for expanding his existence beyond the many once thought "unbreakable
barriers." Together with this development in space technology came a large
quantity of information and discoveries of the compounds of the ...
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Mining In SpaceOn December 10, 1986 the Greater New York Section of the American
Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and the engineering
section of the New York Academy of Sciences jointly presented a program on
mining the planets. Speakers were Greg Maryniak of the Space Studies
Institute (SSI) and ...
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Possibility Of Terraforming One Of Earth's Neighboring PlanetsThe focus of this research is to assign a Kuhnian perspective to the possibility of terraforming one of Earth's neighboring, terrestrial planets. I decided to utilize "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" by
Thomas Kuhn, as a primary source because Kuhn offers a precise evaluation of ...
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ConsumerismIn the fourth era of the consumer movement, the key marketplace features include concern for the environment, increasingly complex technology, a diverse market, and a global market. Concern for the environment has manifested itself in a number of different ways. One example is the Exxon Valdez ...
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Books OnlineOne might say that the business world is moving at a fast pace, a pace that is almost impossible to keep up with. This could be the result of the almighty Internet and the world of technology. In today’s society, technology has revolutionized how we as consumers make decisions and procedures ...
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New TerrorThe world has entered a new venue of warfare. War and the formalities of fighting have not seen this kind of drastic mutation since the British Redcoats were forced to change their tactics of line assault. It is the age of terrorism, and as it stands now, terrorism is the voice, both domestically ...
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Could Gambling Save Science: Encouraging An Honest ConsensusVisiting Researcher, The Foresight Institute
P.O. Box 61058, Palo Alto, CA 94306 USA
hanson@charon.arc.nasa.gov 510-651-7483
To appear in Social Epistemology, 1992. (version appeared: in Proc. Eighth
Intl. Conf. on Risk and Gambling, London, 7/90.)
C O U L D G A M B L I N G S A V ...
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