Hydroponics: Growing Without Soil The science of growing plants without soil has been known and used for more than one-hundred years. The word “hydroponics”‚ however‚ is comparatively new. Dr. W.E. Gericke is usually given credit for coining the word‚ which translated from Greek‚ means “working water”. The famous hanging gardens of Babylon were probably on of the first attempts to grow plants hydroponically. The work of Dr. Greicke in the 1920’s and 1930’s
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Herbert S. Terrace’s article‚ "Thinking Without Language" discusses the concept of thought in animals‚ and the effect that language may have on their thought processes. Focusing on the thinking capabilities of apes‚ Terrace’s initial experiments taught a chimpanzee American Sign Language‚ studying if chimpanzees could combine words to form new meanings. Terrace conducted his own experiments with chimpanzees because of the potentially dubious integrity of past studies to prove chimpanzees’ ability
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Summary of Morality Without God by John Arthur Nirvair Chahal Dr. Ronald de Sousa PHLA11 S T.A. Chad Horne 996811650 January 24‚ 2012 John Arthur argues that morality exists without the influence of religion in his passage Morality Without God. Arthur claims that morality is independent of religion both logically and psychologically. He first distinguishes what he is referring to when he speaks of morality and religion. Arthur explains that morality is having the tendency to evaluate
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Is peace possible without war? There is an average of twenty ongoing wars in the world at any given time. Some are internal civil wars‚ others are between nations. Judging by the opinion of modern day citizen ‚ peace is an ideal and war is a tragedy. Depending on their political orientation‚ war may even be considered inexcusable under any circumstances. But what if rather than being a troublesome force‚ war is actually the father of peace. War is an indispensable part of civilization and
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losing your car to an accident‚ you will have to quickly learn to survive without one. At first‚ it may seem impossible‚ you ask yourself questions like “How am I going to get to work?”‚ “How am I going to run any errands?”‚ “How am I going to afford a replacement car?” and “How the hell am I going to have a life?” Losing a car for me was like losing an arm or a leg. There are plenty of people today who live long happy lives without arms and legs. So the key to survival is to not let this handicap you
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Through this she expresses her value of family as a cohesive unit. Just like Penelope in the Odyssey she views people as a physical manifestation of home. For Penelope Ithaca without Odysseus was not home‚ while for Tecmessa without Ajax she will be both physically and emotionally homeless. She claims that although she has suffered terrible things‚ she has always supported Ajax selflessly. Therefore‚ she believes that one should always remember the kindness
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Revenge without guilt – The complete and perfect scheme. (or Heaven Bound Hamlet) In Shakespeare’s Hamlet‚ the intensely introspective character‚ Hamlet‚ purposely uses an internal dialogue and calculatingly waits and plots to cope with the moral issues‚ draw out his enemies and manipulate the situation to exact revenge without guilt‚ all while feigning madness. Shakespeare and his contemporaries were fascinated by madness. This fascination was perhaps connected to not being able to distinguish
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Response Paper: Death Without Weeping by Nancy Scheper-Hughes As an ethnography‚ Death Without Weeping by Nancy Scheper-Hughes presents a description and explanation of the way of life of people in Alto do Cruzeiro which is a shantytown of Northeast Brazil. It is revealed that mothers in Alto do Cruzeiro were indifferent to the deaths of their children which is puzzling. The article provides readers an anthropological enquiry of the mother-infant relationship in the shantytown and leads to more
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Advanced Theory I 22 May 2014 Analysis of Mendelssohn’s "Songs Without Words" Lieder ohne Worte (Song without Words) is written by the Romantic composer Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. It is a collection of forty-eight short lyrical piano pieces of markedly song-like character that he wrote at various periods of his life between 1809 and 1847. They are well suited to the study of musical form because of their artistic value. Op. 19b‚ No. 1 Andante con moto in E major was written in 1830 and is
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The film‚ “Rebel Without a Cause”‚ directed by Nicholas Ray‚ takes place in the 1950’s. The story is set in Los Angeles‚ California‚ where main character Jim Stark battles to make friends at his new school‚ yet everyone but his new friend‚ Plato‚ is rejecting him. Plato’s parents have left him in the care of the housekeeper‚ never to return again. When Jim and Plato meet in jail‚ another character was introduced‚ Judy‚ who is desperate for the male attention she does not receive from her father.
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