Essays Tagged: "accumulate"

How changes in the atmosphere, eukarotes, and multicellularity have occured and influenced life on earth

About 2.5 billion years ago, oxygen began slowly to accumulate in the atmosphere, as a result of the photosynthetic activity of the cyanobacteria. Those ...

(2 pages) 79 1 3.2 Mar/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Atmospheric Sciences

heavy metals

th concerns? In spite of such uncertainties, one message is clear: these metals matter because they accumulate in the bodies of Arctic animals and hence become available to humans who depend on wildli ... ury into methyl mercury, which is a fat-soluble molecule that easily passes through cell membranes, accumulates in animals, and biomagnifies in the food web.Mercury is a nerve toxin and the main healt ...

(37 pages) 201 0 4.4 Apr/2002

Subjects: Science Essays > Biochemistry

Facts about Leukemia

he signals that tell them to stop.2) These cells have a longer life than normal cells and gradually accumulate in the bone marrow.This uncontrolled production of long lived cells leads to the replacem ...

(1 pages) 33 0 1.0 Mar/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

The Agricultural Revoltion.

hey could produce more from the land.Staying in one area for long periods of time allowed people to accumulate personal possessions. Since societies were no longer migrating, early farmers did not nee ...

(2 pages) 93 1 4.6 Jun/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Earth Sciences > Geography

The collectivism and individualism.

erm capitalism also describes an ideology that favors the existence of capitalists (individuals who accumulate capital which then becomes available for investment in financial or industrial enterprise ...

(2 pages) 112 1 2.0 Oct/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

Planation and colonies or early america.

such as tobacco grew larger so did the farms. For your farm or land to become a plantation you must accumulate much land, larger plantation could have over 200 acres of fields growing anything from to ...

(5 pages) 95 1 4.3 Oct/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Analysing John Rawls' Theory of Justice and its principles, and the conflicts which may arise from its implementation.

indicates that there is a conflict of interest between members within the society, as each tries to accumulate a larger share of wealth and goods available.Rawls' theory of justice is seen as the solu ...

(7 pages) 388 0 4.2 Oct/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy

"Bacterial Resistance to Antibiotics" - Briefly explains the cause and effect of the mass usage of antibiotics, which led to many strains of bacteria to become resistant to such antibiotics.

stion and potential problem is whether the supposedly less fit, dangerous, resistant bacteria might accumulate compensatory mutations that restore fitness and virulence without loss of resistance, and ...

(6 pages) 117 1 4.0 Jan/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Ambitious saddam Hussein and Macbeth

urity apparatus and had spies and informers everywhere in circles ofpower in Iraq. He also began to accumulate the wealth and position that he so relished asa poor sheepherder in desert of al-Auja. He ...

(1 pages) 28 0 3.3 Feb/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > Middle Eastern History

Competition is ultimately more beneficial than detrimental to society

to realize the applications of those new ideas more quickly so that as a whole the human knowledge accumulate more quickly and more discoveries and technologies are available for the better life of h ...

(2 pages) 58 0 3.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays

Inhereted Diseases/ MLD

the absence of the enzymearylsufatasase A. In which causes a material called cerebroside sulfate to accumulate in the cells.There are three forms of MLD, they are: late infantile, juvenile, and adult. ...

(2 pages) 21 0 3.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Science Essays

Is Muller's Ratchet A Useful Tool In Explaining The Evolution Of Sexual Reproduction?

the most renowned drift models (Freeman, 2001). It claims that "asexual populations are doomed to accumulate deleterious mutations" (Freeman, 2001). In 1964 Hermann Joseph Muller thought of a small ... ompared free-living relatives to the "endosymbiont" bacteria in order to determine which of the two accumulated the most deleterious mutations (Freeman, 2001). Lambert and Moran considered the "therm ...

(4 pages) 38 0 5.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology

It has been argued that "Trainspotting" by Irvine Welsh is a critique of materialism in western society. Do you agree?

d - an obsession with private property. It is a society whose basis lies in the fundamental need to accumulate property. The people within this society who do not have the means to amass material poss ... To acquire qualifications, a job that pays well, to set themselves up so that they too can begin to accumulate material goods. This, society argues, is what everyone should strive for.It has been said ...

(9 pages) 81 1 4.7 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Financial Intermediaries Paper - FIN 324

institution that acts as a middleman between savers and borrowers. Specifically, these institutions accumulate money from investors and lend it to borrowers. A person with extra money could seek out b ...

(3 pages) 470 0 3.5 Apr/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Accounting

"The Great Gatsby" By: F. Scott Fitzgerald The tragic result of the American Dream in it's false reality

. Knowing he could not marry her because of the difference in their social status, he leaves her to accumulate his wealth to reach her standards. Once he acquires this wealth, he moves near to Daisy, ...

(3 pages) 70 0 3.7 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Bio diversity and deforestation.

re essential to our planet. Not only do they provide homes for many wildlife species, but they also accumulate biomass more efficiently than any other ecosystem on Earth, are responsible for the major ...

(3 pages) 45 0 3.0 May/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Forestry

Industrialization is responsible for the world's environmental problems

been the major focus in the study area. The study shows that the major source of heavy metals that accumulate in water and sediment is industries. As a result, it motivates the researcher to choose t ...

(18 pages) 231 0 3.5 May/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science

Non-renewable fuel sources: Nuclear fuel

ely the "hot shoots", hot water discharge does not always reach the oceans first, but rather it can accumulate in pools or is dammed up.Australia has the second-largest uranium deposit in the world, i ...

(2 pages) 39 0 3.0 May/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science

Capitilism and Socialism Briefly Explained

d by the government. The capitalist pursuit of personal profit encourages individuals to attain and accumulate property. This differs greatly form the socialist pursuit of collective goals which "outl ...

(1 pages) 52 2 2.2 Aug/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology

The Concept of Mercantilism

ay not have been applied simultaneously at any given time or place. Trade offered another method to accumulate the bullion (gold or silver formed into bars, ingots, or plates). Generating revenue thro ...

(1 pages) 59 0 3.7 Aug/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers