| |mass |14.003241 u | - Carbon-14 was discovered on 27 February 1940‚ by Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben at the University of California‚ although its existence had been suggested by Franz Kurie in 1934. - This is used in chemical and biological research‚ in a technique called carbon labelling. Carbon-14 atoms can be used to replace nonradioactive
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“I don’t like dogs.” Castiel Mizrahi was sitting across from Dean Winchester‚ star football player and babe-magnet of Grady High. Castiel had originally intended to ask Dean about the team’s progress that year‚ but they had ended up telling each other random facts about their lives. Now the jock was staring at him‚ eyes wide‚ incredulous that anyone could possibly dislike dogs. “What the hell?!” he managed to sputter. “Everyone likes dogs! Even Hitler liked dogs! I would bet you a million bucks that
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Compare and contrast to films from the same genre. Revolutionary Road [Drama] American Beauty [Drama] American Beauty is a superb‚ beautiful piece of work by first time director Sam Mendes; easily a very accomplished film. This story centers around a man named Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey) a man who has lost passion in his life. His wife Caroline (Annette Bening) is a workaholic real estate agent. Both are frustrated with their marriage which is basically just for show. Sexually frustrated Lest
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under the command of General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna‚ from crossing the river and give more time to the Texans to prepare for the inevitable battle. This incident is fictional‚ but it is similar- to another factual event. At San Jacinto‚ General Sam Houston sent one of his men to destroy a bridge crossing the San Jacinto River. This was to prevent reinforcements from joining Santa Anna’s forces‚ which were already on the Island. The second point which was fictional ‚but was based on an actual
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Aiden Tibbotts The 1930’s was a time that the Mafia ruled Chicago. During the prohibition era‚ the Irish mafia were top dogs. They controlled the city and its alcohol income. The film Road to Perdition directed by Sam Mendes is set in the 30’s and tells the story of gangster Mike Sullivan who works for crime boss John Rooney. The moment that Mike Sullivan’s son witnesses a brutal slaying‚ the lives of this 12 year old boy and his gangster father are shattered irrevocably
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beginning of the story‚ Walton is writing to his beloved sister. He talks about his big adventure to the North Pole. His dream is to see the sun going around and around‚ the campise spinning in circles‚ and to find a new passage. Walton explains to his sister of the loneliness he is feeling‚ but he is also very picky with who could be his friend. One day‚ Walton see a tall person on a slide pass by before find Victor. Victor‚ at first‚ looked like a savage. Though as he spoke to Walton turns out he was
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life from my home to traveling across a hot bumpy open prairie. The battle of San Jacinto: Birthplace of Texas liberty! San Jacinto‚ one of the world’s decisive battles! San Jacinto‚ where‚ with cries of "remember the Alamo‚ remember Goliad!" Sam Houston and his ragged band of 910 pioneers routed Santa Anna‚ President and Dictator of Mexico and self-styled "Napoleon of the West‚" with his proud army‚ and changed the map of North America! Texas was added to the United States! The Goliad massacre:
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you first look at this different piece of artwork on war‚ all you can see is chaos‚ there is nothing positive within this painting on war. It’s a different piece of artwork on war‚ compared to the famous painting of Napoleon‚ or the original Uncle Sam posters throughout the U.S. Each detail within the painting has a negative view on war. Guernica shows the tragedies of war and the suffering upon Spains individuals‚ particularly on its innocent civilians. The discarding of color within this painting
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Robert and Nietzel‚ Michael T. Private Eyes: One Hundred and One Knights. Bowling Green: Bowling Green University Press‚ 1985. Dumenil‚ Lynn. Modern Temper: American Culture and Society in the 1920 ’s. New York: Hill and Wang‚ 1995. Freeman‚ Don. "Sam Spade ’s San Francisco." Saturday Evening Post. 264(1992): 78-82. Hammett‚ Dashiell. The Maltese Falcon. New York: Vintage Books‚ 1992. Paul‚ Robert S. Whatever Happened to Sherlock Holmes: Detective Fiction‚ Popular Theology‚ and Society. Southern
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The term film noir can be defined as a style of film which was marked by a period of pessimism‚ self doubt and fatalism. The term was applied by French critics in the 1946 to a group of US films that were made during the war and that were released in quick succession after 1945. Ultimately there has been much debate surround the ambiguity of the term‚ but it is now understood that film noir is more of a narrative and stylistic tendency and ultimately “a critical category” rather than a genre in
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