Essays Tagged: "accelerating"

Bulletproof

t through the buzz of the traffic. In one blurred and sweeping motion the black BMW roared to life, accelerating across the traffic flow and towards the oncoming cars, retreating from the scene as the ...

(3 pages) 61 0 3.0 Oct/1996

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies > Performers & Composers

Nuclear Fusion

aticforce of repulsion. This can occur either when one nucleus isaccelerated to high energies by an accelerating device, or when theenergies of both nuclei are raised by the application of very highte ...

(9 pages) 119 1 4.5 Nov/1995

Subjects: Science Essays > Physics

The Age of Spiritual Machines, by Ray Kurzweil. This report gives a basic summary of a very technical book on A.I.

ading.The first chapter ultimately leads up to the most important principle of the book, The Law of Accelerating Returns, which follows:-An evolutionary process is not a closed system; therefore, evol ... ll the intelligence that we are creating come to exceed the intelligence of its creator; the Law of Accelerating Returns predicts it.Alan Turing, a British mathematician who helped crack Germany's Eni ...

(3 pages) 82 0 5.0 Dec/2002

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Artificial Intelligence

Is immigration from third world countried jeopardizing American economy and culture?

by under funded schools, overcrowded prisons, persistent unemployment, increasingly violent crime, accelerating resource depletion, an ever-growing budget deficit and a rapidly decreasing quality of ...

(3 pages) 151 1 4.3 May/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Government

Marketing Law.

Marketing LawQuestion 1(6 marks)George was depressed about his accelerating baldness and decided to follow up an advertisement in the paper 4 months ago. The adver ...

(14 pages) 147 1 4.3 Jun/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Marketing

In the Name of Science - An Examination of H.G. Well's Disapproval of Modern Science's Directions.

oung H.G. Wells was formulating his first conceptions of where the scientific world was headed, the accelerating achievements of which intrigued the young Darwinist. Envisioning the future of science, ...

(4 pages) 60 0 4.5 Oct/2003

Subjects: Science Essays

Steroid use, damn good paper...worked hard on it.

es want to use steroids in the sports that they compete in so that they gain an unfair advantage by accelerating the growth of muscle tissue. Even though steroids are usually banned, many athletes sti ...

(6 pages) 175 0 4.3 Dec/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

Review of The Age of Spiritual Machines and Artificial Intelligence.

ding. The first chapter ultimately leads up to the most important principle of the book, The Law of Accelerating Returns, which is that an evolutionary process is not a closed system; therefore, evolu ... ll the intelligence that we are creating come to exceed the intelligence of its creator; the Law of Accelerating Returns predicts it.Alan Turing, a British mathematician who helped crack Germany's Eni ...

(8 pages) 117 0 2.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

Facing the WTO Accession: Strengthen China's Banking Industry ----From the Evidence of Chinese Banking Problems

a's ambitious efforts to reform and restructure the banking system began in earnest in 1998 and are accelerating rapidly as the accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) become true. This pace r ...

(8 pages) 151 0 4.5 Mar/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics > Foreign & International Economics

The birth and death of stars.

sing the gases and dust there to clump together. Gravity pulls the material together in the center, accelerating the atoms, increasing the density and generating heat, creating what is called a protos ...

(4 pages) 126 1 3.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Astronomy

Kinematics

tal line means that the object has no acceleration and a diagonal line indicates that the object is accelerating uniformly. The points on a velocity-time graph are determined from a displacement-time ...

(1 pages) 37 0 3.2 Apr/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Physics

Alexander the Great

he course of history. Tarn says that Alexander lifted the civilization into an entirely new groove. Accelerating the old path in a new direction is a bit more appropriate when addressing the influence ...

(4 pages) 71 0 3.0 May/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History

Staffing Practices and Selection Tools

capitalize on global market strategies by taking advantage of today's cutting edge technology. The accelerating availability of information technology within the global market has maximized efforts t ...

(3 pages) 740 0 4.3 May/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser. Book report and critique.

losser, ranges from obliterating small business, spreading pathogenic bacteria, exploiting workers, accelerating urban sprawl, to creating a generation that is fatter and less fit than ever.Schlosser ...

(2 pages) 161 0 3.3 Oct/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Current Issues

Exponential Growth: An explanation of the ages

r modern world, it seems that everything, from business to transportation is progressing at an ever accelerating pace compared to how it was 100 or even 50 years ago. For instance, in the 18th century ...

(2 pages) 35 0 3.0 Oct/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers

Marketing of Changhong in China

s: Largest segment, dairy products, segmented by regional needs/functional Offerings/entertainment, accelerating growth2. Projection TVComments: Second largest segment, technical offerings, Middle-cla ...

(5 pages) 122 0 1.7 Nov/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Marketing

Hands of Fate- A murderer attempts to beat the clock as his execution approaches. 617 words.

Jack looked at the clock. The secondhand was accelerating and wouldn't stop. "I can't believe that they're going to give it to me on my bi ...

(2 pages) 18 0 3.0 Nov/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Poems & Short Stories

REVIEW ON NATO's AIR BOMBARDMENTS OF YUGOSLAVIA IN 1999

ason NATO gave for involvement in Yugoslavia was to avoid a wider Balkan war, but once Serbia began accelerating their campaign of ethnic cleansing in Yugoslavia, NATO's reason for fighting changed to ...

(4 pages) 28 0 3.0 Dec/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers

Who Gains and who loses from globalisation?

wn as the globalisation process, could potentially offer developing countries new opportunities for accelerating economic growth and internal development. However, it also poses great challenges to po ...

(5 pages) 152 1 3.8 Jan/2005

Subjects: Social Science Essays

Technological utopianism in terms of its philosophical foundations

Ever since the industrial revolution, technology has been continually accelerating so much so that the world will become increasingly interconnected. As the technological ...

(5 pages) 33 0 3.0 Jul/2005

Subjects: Art Essays