Essays Tagged: "Burns"

This essay is about the price our country pays for the priviledge of freedom.

the drive through, the hot coffee she was holding sloshed out of the cup leaving her with horrible burns on her legs. However, instead of feeling dim-witted about her carelessness she sues the restau ...

(2 pages) 118 5 2.6 Apr/2002

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

First Love. Refers to Vladimir, in Turgenev's "First Love", and Tatyana, in Pushkin's "Eugene Onegin"

ee. But as the feelings become more intense, the flame of passion can turn into a blazing fire that burns painfully through every vein. A person's first love is especially powerful because it grows fr ... ased to press/ Her gentle soul, athirst with aching;/ Nay, ever more intensely quaking,/ Poor Tanya burns in joyless throes;/ Sleep shuns her bed, all sweetness goes,/ The glow of life has vanished st ...

(5 pages) 72 0 4.3 Oct/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

This is an essay on one of my favorite books written by one of the greatest authors Ray Bradbury.

Fahrenheit 451, the temperature at which book-paper catches fire, and burns. The story is of Guy Montag, a fireman. A man who loves to burn books, or so he thinks.In his ... finds that the only thing he really knows is missing from his life are the books, the books that he burns as an occupation. To find out whether or not this is it, he steals books as he destroys them a ...

(3 pages) 55 0 3.8 Aug/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

The Greenhouse Effect

Greenhouse Effect 1The Greenhouse EffectGreenhouse Effect 2When one starts a car or burns wood, the last thought on their mind is the consequences to these actions. Unfortunately, the ...

(4 pages) 255 0 4.6 Jan/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

Internal Combustion Engine

An internal-combustion engine is a heat engine that burns fuel and air inside a combustionchamber located within the engine proper. Simply stated, a hea ... d from the external- combustion engine, for example, the steam engine and theStirling engine, which burns fuel outside the prime mover, that is, the device that actually produces mechanical motion. Bo ...

(5 pages) 76 0 3.0 Jan/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Technology

Death of a Planet

ain only carbon and hydrogen (2 factsheet, OMS-5). Hydrocarbonsare released when fuel in the engine burns partially. When hydrocarbons come in contact withsunlight they form ground level ozone. Ground ...

(5 pages) 127 0 4.3 Nov/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science

Guy Montag in Fahrenheit 451, and his duality.

character in Fahrenheit 451, goes through a huge change. He starts out to be a fireman; someone who burns banned books (a book that is illegal to have or read because it is thought to be "inappropriat ... if you owned a banned book, or even if you read it. Montag changed a great deal, from a fireman who burns books, to a criminal who reads, and owns books. He does this to try and change society. To mak ...

(3 pages) 48 0 2.8 Nov/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

This is on a reason for living. Something so many people seemingly lose, and gain back only by deep insight into other people's ideas.

Say you were given a challenge. A challenge almost impossible to beat. A goal that burns at your insides, as you struggle to thrust the idea, the question, out of your head. And in th ...

(1 pages) 140 5 3.0 Dec/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Symbolism in "Catcher in the Rye"

Symbolism.The title of the book is a symbol in its self. The song by Rober Burns, "Comin' Thro' the Rye" actually is about seeing if it is wrong for two people to have a roman ...

(2 pages) 72 1 2.7 Mar/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

The enthalpy change of combustion for the alcohol homologous series.

ined as"Standard enthalpy change of combustion, is the enthalpy change when one mole of a substance burns completely in oxygen under standard conditions (298K, 100 KPa and 1 Molar) with all products i ... ole which will tell me the enthalpy of combustion or he amount of energy used when one mole of fuel burns.AlcoholE=Amount of fuel used in molesEnthalpy change released for 1 moleEnthalpy change kJ mol ...

(19 pages) 95 1 3.5 Apr/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

Nothing Tastes as Good as Thin Feels.

f body fat. In scientific terms, obesity occurs when a person consumes more calories than he or she burns. What causes this imbalance between "calories in and calories out" may differ from one person ...

(3 pages) 119 5 2.7 Apr/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

What balck holes are.

he darkness of our universe, but the question lies in what happens when one of these enormous lamps burns out. Upon many speculations, one of the most facinating is the black hole theory. Not any star ...

(4 pages) 89 2 4.5 May/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Physics

What are the differences between romantic love and true love?

Both will cause joy, but only Romantic love will cause pain.Romantic love is a candle, when lit it burns bright and continues to burn until there is nothing left. When a person is in Romantic love, t ...

(3 pages) 280 3 4.6 May/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

Downsizing the middle class.

Downsizing the Middle ClassIn the essay by Rhonda Burns, "Downsizing the Middle Class," there seems to be one clear message. The gap between the middl ... ea of communism because they supported and believed in the free enterprise system of America (125). Burns basically tries to make her readers believe that the rich are taking all of the money that the ... readers believe that the rich are taking all of the money that the middle class has worked to earn. Burns' paper is not very persuasive and many things need to be done to convince the reader of her ar ...

(7 pages) 103 0 4.3 Oct/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

"The Great Gatsby" was written in 1925 by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

ned is on page 60, when Gatsby tells Daisy (Nick's cousin) that "You always have a green light that burns all night at the end of your dock." The third time is on the very last page of the novel: "Gat ...

(2 pages) 27 0 3.3 Dec/2003

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

The Allegory of the Cave

hained in a cave, unable to turn their heads. All they can see is the wall of the cave. Behind them burns a fire. Between the fire and the prisoners there is a parapet, along which puppeteers can walk ...

(2 pages) 125 1 4.4 Feb/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Contemporary Philosophy

The Effect Of Substrate on Enzyme concentration

act with solution it is advisable to wash hands or affected body part immediately. Be careful as it burns."h If breakage of tubes/beaker occurs, clean up immediately."h In order not to confuse test tu ...

(11 pages) 57 0 4.2 Feb/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Motifs in the path to enlightenment

who finds restlessness and discomfort with the teachings of his elders. The quest for enlightenment burns within his Self. Siddhartha goes through many trials and mentors on his journey to find inner ...

(5 pages) 44 0 0.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Sarty

ther, mother, brother, two sisters, and two aunts. Sarty's father is a very bitter and mean man who burns barns of other people and then uproots his family to a new place. In the story, "Barn burning" ...

(2 pages) 39 1 4.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Tradtion to Evidence Based Practice This essay illistrates historical developments in nursing research

and error, personal experience, role-modeling and mentorship, intuition, reasoning, and research. (Burns and Grove, 2002). Many nurses base their practice according to ritual and tradition without qu ... hilosophy, knowledge, science, theory, research, abstract thought processes, and nursing practice. (Burns et al, 2003).Theory DevelopmentNursing Theory links nursing knowledge to research and nursing ...

(5 pages) 492 0 4.3 Aug/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine