friendly‚ but it is capable of causing extensive harm on any living organism. One of the worst nuclear power accidents happened in the United States on March 28‚ 1979. The accident occurred at 4:00 a.m. at the Three Mile Island 2 Nuclear Power Plant in Pennsylvania. Three Mile Island has two power plants and together they supplied about 300‚000 homes with electricity. The accident started out as a mechanical malfunction‚ but was intensified by human errors. It was because of this accident that the President’s
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SECTION 1 The Three Mile Island Nuclear Meltdown and the Possible Health Effects of its Children Problem From the nuclear disaster of Chernobyl in April of 1986‚ the medical world has learned much about the possible effects of radioactive materials being exposed to humans‚ specifically the pediatric population. Through this disaster‚ we learned that children and fetuses exposed to radio-nucleotides were susceptible to central nervous system dysfunction leading to microcephaly and retardation‚ congenital
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Market structure of the German and British tour operators’ industry through the analysis of the package tour prices in the Balearic Islands. Eugeni Aguiló‚ Joaquín Alegre and Maria Sard[i] Abstract: In this paper we study a sample of package tour prices of German and British tour operators in the Balearic Islands. One of the proposes of this study is to analyse if there are significant differences in price between tour operators due to different factors than those associated to the characteristics
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Int J Biometeorol (2010) 54:75–84 DOI 10.1007/s00484-009-0256-x ORIGINAL PAPER The urban heat island and its impact on heat waves and human health in Shanghai Jianguo Tan & Youfei Zheng & Xu Tang & Changyi Guo & Liping Li & Guixiang Song & Xinrong Zhen & Dong Yuan & Adam J. Kalkstein & Furong Li & Heng Chen Received: 17 December 2008 / Revised: 29 July 2009 / Accepted: 3 August 2009 / Published online: 1 September 2009 # ISB 2009 Abstract With global warming forecast to continue
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Cecil Rhodes Essay Cecil Rhodes amassed immense wealth by establishing the diamond industry in southern Africa. Rhodes exploited the native population in order to mine the diamonds so that he could increase his wealth. Upon his death‚ his fortune was given mostly to Oxford University to fund Rhodes scholarships. At Oriel College‚ there is a statue of Cecil Rhodes that has caused extensive protest recently‚ as people are angered at the representation of someone responsible for the abuse and slaughter
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Terry Pratchett once said‚ “God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising‚ which might be compared‚ from the perspective of any of the other players.” In the novels Frankenstein by Mary Shelly and The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells the characters Victor Frankenstein and Dr. Moreau are scientists who take their experiments too far. Both Victor and Moreau are very smart men who want to experiment with nature. Victor is smart and curious. Victor wants
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similarities. Both Britain and Japan are islands secluded from their continent‚ but their location was key to their success with industrialization and imperialism. Britain was known as the origin place for the Industrialization and Japan shocked the world with its rise to power. Both learned how to use their geography to their advantage. Critical geography lead to efficient and effective Industrialization‚ that later help with Imperialism. Britain‚ a small island nation in the western part of Europe
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Case Study of Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad Co. Andrew William Pence Liberty University Abstract Palsgraf was severely injured due to a blast that shook the railroad station. The unmarked package of fireworks that was dropped by another party boarding a moving train caused the explosion. The explosion caused large iron scales to fall on Plasgrof. As a result‚ Palsgraf sued the Long Island Railroad for the conductor’s negligence‚ whom she blames for pulling the commuter on the train. Which
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Guano islands Along the Peruvian coast is a string of rocky islands and peninsulas that are home to guanay cormorants‚ boobies‚ and pelicans. The birds leave the islands every morning to feed on the fish‚ especially anchovies‚ that are plentiful in the Humboldt Current. They return in the afternoon. There is no vegetation on the islands‚ so they build their nests out of guano and feathers‚ adding a new layer every year. By the time Europeans first saw the islands‚ the guano was more than 100 feet
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visited us (as you should throughout the day to see if we’ve added any important tidbits)‚ you saw this A-B‚ side-by-side comparison. As you look at this striking comparison‚ keep in mind that we’re told that one of these two people is a brilliant Rhodes Scholar - even though he never completed the course of studies. Keep in mind that we’re told that one guy is smarter than the rest of the room‚ and that we were fortunate just to have had somebody with this intellect leading us. Yet that’s the guy
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