Essays Tagged: "half mile"

Ways of communication in our times.

about telegraph and we even had a telephone that was connected with Grandpa and Grandma who lived a half mile west of us. At one time I remember that we had strung up a line that went all the way to U ... to communicate with our parents until we came back in the afternoon. I remember that the mile and a half was a long walk. My mother was home all day long by herself. Pa worked on the farm and sometime ...

(2 pages) 63 0 4.5 Apr/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies

The Siege of Khe Sanh began January 20, and continued for 77 days.

as shaped somewhat like an uneven rectangle and covered an area approximately one mile long and one-half mile wide.Leading up to the Siege on Khe Sanh were a series of battles referred to as the "Hill ...

(6 pages) 34 0 4.0 May/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History

Very good notes on the novel "Emma" writtn by AJne Austen

options, as the Woodhouses are the most important family there. Luckily Mrs. Weston will only be a half-mile away. Mr. Woodhouse requires much consolation on the marriage of Miss Taylor, as he does n ...

(23 pages) 43 0 3.0 May/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Sybolic Assailant- ENG393 definition paper

att. Unfortunately, their new apartment is in a high crime area and Matt is forced to walk a half-mile to his new high school. During this walk and at school, a Matt experiences danger unlike h ... janitors and were unable to provide a ride. Matt still did not have any friends and had to walk the half-mile home. About ten minuets into his walk Matt observed five black males, who knew to be invol ...

(4 pages) 26 0 3.7 Aug/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays

Atom bomb

conds after the bomb dropped the temperature rose to 3,000 degrees F and melted everything within a half mile of where the bomb dropped. 100,000 people were killed instantly and another 100,000 within ...

(1 pages) 25 1 2.7 Jan/2005

Subjects: History Term Papers

Take the book 'A Civil Action' by Jonathan Harr and outline this case. Discuss the problem of people whose health is affected by toxic industrial pollution in obtaining compensation under civil law.

om a small town called Woburn, Massachusetts. The parents of these children, who all lived within a half mile radius of each other, suspected that the leukemia was a direct result of drinking contamin ... . Schlichtmann pumped $4.8 million dollars into the Woburn case, and that was only to try the first half of the trial. The 'no win, no fee' policy of Schlichtmann's firm essentially bankrupted him and ...

(11 pages) 45 0 4.3 Sep/2006

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Cases

"Aliso Creek"

tourism industry of the communities that stretch the coastline. In the summers of 1999 and 2000, a half mile of Hunnington Beach, which lies North of Laguna Beach, was closed due to dangerously high ...

(5 pages) 1246 0 0.0 Feb/2002

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology