X-ray diffraction has perhaps been one of the most critical and exigent discoveries of the 20th century. Early X-ray diffraction images for tobacco mosaic virus had been collected before World War II. By 1954‚ Watson had discovered from his X-ray diffraction images that the tobacco mosaic virus had a helical structure‚ and was able to apply this to his famous DNA structure research. It is so valued because it allows the structure of a crystalline material can be determined‚ based on the diffraction
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Marbury v. Madison (1803) FACTS: In 1801 President John Adams in his last few weeks of Presidency appointed John Marshall as third chief justice of the United States to replace Oliver Ellsworth whom had resigned. The Senate confirmed Marshall but he also continued as secretary of state. Because of the Organic Act passed by the Federalist Congress‚ Adams had to appoint 42 justices of the peace for the District of Columbia. Within the election confusion Marshall who was the outgoing secretary
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The X Files "I may disagree with what you have to say‚ but I shall defend‚ to the death‚ your right to say it." -Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire1 Democracy is founded on the principles of autonomy of the individual and faith in the competency and fundamental rational nature of all human beings. Using these principles as the major premises of my argument‚ I will attempt to demonstrate that censorship and book banning are
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sounds‚ smells actions‚ and‚ thoughts with how they should act or think as well as what is to follow. Sometimes it only takes a single event to occur for a person to develop a strong opinion. Influence is also another factor that might cause one to become bias. If a person is taught to believe something with out proof through their own experience‚ especially in matters based on opinion‚ then they too may also develop a false sense what is reality. Critical thinking requires that an individual be
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xWhat is DirectX? Windows supports DirectX 8.0‚ which enhances the multimedia capabilities of your computer. DirectX provides access to the capabilities of your display and audio cards‚ which enables programs to provide realistic three-dimensional (3-D) graphics and immersive music and audio effects. DirectX is a set of low-level Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) that provides Windows programs with high-performance hardware-accelerated multimedia support. DirectX enables the program to
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Chose one of the following scenarios: • You are a member of a group working on a class project. The group members are enthusiastic about the project and arrange a meeting time to begin planning. You forget to mark your calendar and miss the meeting. The group posts a summary of the meeting with assignments and deadlines for the project. You apologize to the group and agree to complete the topic research for the project. You realize you have a paper due in another course on the same day that your
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a permanent and strong nation. This prompted Alexander Hamilton to write the article‚ “Federalist No. 1” in supplication of the citizens of New York to ratify the Constitution. Hamilton believed that the Constitution would unite the United States under one central government and it was the duty of the American citizens to determine their form of government based off of the common good. He creates his argument by establishing the important choice U.S. citizens have‚ emphasizing that learning all information
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the novel The Once and the Future King. Lerner also wrote the music with Frederick Loewe in the 1960’s. The musical faced criticism because some say it wasn’t as good as My Fair Lady‚ and the musical did suffer from structural problems‚ but it still was able to tour around the country. 2. There were two ways that the economics of producing Broadway musicals changed in the 1960’s. In the mid 1960’s shows such as High Spirits and Golden Boy‚ which had great reviews and respectable runs‚ missed getting
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Thomas Jefferson was a member of the Democratic-Republican party and took office on March 4‚ 1801 as the third President of the United States. While holding the title of President from 1801 to 1809‚ Jefferson made many major accomplishments. For example‚ he reduced internal taxes and plans were made to extinguish the public debt. Also‚ Jefferson allowed the Alien and Sedition Acts to end without renewal and had the excise tax on liquor that caused the Whiskey Rebellion repealed. This reduced government
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The United States is a single country‚ but our federalist system allows individual states to create their own laws and policies across a wide range of issues. The states are diverse in terms of population‚ geography‚ economics and political culture. I chose for states based on where I live where my family is from and the other two of where I have always wanted to live I chose New York‚ South Carolina‚ Delaware and Virginia. In all 50 states there is something called the equal employment opportunity
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