Essays Tagged: "hundred thousand"

Multiple Sclerosis.

e is still no known causes, no proventreatments, and no known cure, yet it affects possibly five hundred thousandpeople in the United States alone. People need to learn more about thisdiseas ... affects morepeople of the Caucasian persuasion. Multiple Sclerosis affects an estimatedthree hundred fifty to five hundred thousand Americans, with eight thousandmore cases being reported ea ...

(4 pages) 114 0 4.2 Apr/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

The more faithful, the better adaptation?

s. Years before, famous Chinese kung-fu star Jacky Chan once claimed that he was willing to spend a hundred thousand HK dollars to purchase a good original screenplay for his movie. This showed the in ... the novel while they were from different periods. Being a kind of transposition, the films are not hundred percent authentic to their origin, but with deviation to certain extent.The 1933 adaptation ...

(10 pages) 139 1 4.3 May/2002

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies

How the Canadian Government affects our education - In this text we will discuss how the Canadian Government is wasting money on useless things instead of putting it into education funding.

The Canadian government is saying how they want to get out of debt, yet they spend at least couple hundred thousand to print pointless pamphlets and flyers about how they are going to cut back progra ...

(2 pages) 54 0 3.0 Oct/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education

Dredging the Hudson River

oblems in humans. In August of 2001, the Environmental Protection Agency decided to remove over one hundred thousand pounds of PCBs from a 40-mile stretch by means of dredging the river. Dredging the ... was allowed to release around 1.3 million pounds of PCBs into the Hudson River. This created a two hundred mile stretch of the river from Fort Edward, NY to New York City that is contaminated. Since ...

(5 pages) 40 0 4.5 Dec/2002

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science

What is Schizophrenia?

characterized by hallucinations, delusions, and distorted views of reality. It affects roughly one hundred fifty people out of one hundred thousand and accounts for more than half of all hospitalizat ...

(6 pages) 220 1 3.7 Dec/2002

Subjects: Science Essays > Mental Health

Blitzkrieg.

e German advance into Poland that the Polish army of one Million soldiers was routed and over seven hundred thousand were captured and another eighty thousand, along with their government retreated fr ...

(3 pages) 63 1 4.8 May/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

Media law subject defamation in relation to journalists. Australian based.

unable to bring about a defamation action, as it can be extremely expensive, costing up to several hundred thousand dollars in legal fees alone. Defamation cases are normally a contest between the ri ...

(2 pages) 58 0 3.0 May/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays

Why was the atomic bomb was used?

fought viciously and ferociously and this amounted in the cost of many American lives, nearly three hundred thousand deaths during the Second World War. The USA government wanted to finish the war qui ... s was demonstrated at the battle of Iwo Jima in March 1945, out of 22,000 Japanese troops, only 200 hundred came out alive. And many of these only surrendered as they were too injured to commit suicid ...

(5 pages) 68 0 2.7 Nov/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War II

A writing piece both discussing, asking, and answering questions about faith and religion.

ver is. To man, forever is as long as we can remember in human history, which really... it may be a hundred thousand years. When we use the term forever it basically means since the planet was born, s ...

(2 pages) 33 0 5.0 Jan/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith

Venus!

escriptions are dull unlike Venus. This sixth largest planet has a diameter of twelve thousand, one hundred, three, decimal, six kilometres (12, 103.6 km). The weight of Venus is four, decimal, eight, ... our kilograms, (4.869e24 kg). Venus is the second planet away from the sun, the planet Venus is one hundred eight million, two hundred thousand kilometres, (108, 200, 000 km). Like the planet Mercury, ...

(2 pages) 40 0 3.6 Feb/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Astronomy

Why tampering with our genetics will be beneficial

ive as long as they want to. It's effect may not be felt within the first few decades, but in a few hundred/thousand years the human race can become much more smarter and efficient, as compared to mil ... single cycle of human life. We could be able to delay the aging process to 10, 50, or maybe even a hundred years. Or maybe the DNA sequence that controls the aging process can be removed completely, ...

(4 pages) 50 0 3.0 Feb/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Genetics & Genome Projects

Cna feature films such as stalingrad and enemy at the gates be used to illustrate the past or is it more dangerous than useful?

n a six month long battle that saw the entire city reduce to rubble, it is estimated that over five hundred thousand Soviet soldiers and civilians perished. The Sixth Army eventually seized the city b ... to Stalingrad from his post in the Pacific fleet in October 1942. Zaitsev is credited with over 200 hundred kills during the battle of Stalingrad and for his efforts he was made a "Hero of the Soviet ...

(10 pages) 34 0 3.7 Mar/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War II

A Brave New World: How to Save Humanity - The New or Old World?

ment? Ah, I can just see your eyes begin to sparkle. Would you pay me a thousand, ten thousand, one hundred thousand dollars? How about your soul? It is a small price to pay for never-ending happiness ...

(4 pages) 123 1 4.6 Mar/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

Land right problems of the indigenous people in the last 234 years

tish monarch family became the owner of the land. At the time of the ?invasion? approximately three-hundred thousand to one million indigenous people lived at all over the continent. Today only one pe ...

(4 pages) 88 0 4.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Art Essays

This short essay is about neurofibromatosis which is a genetic disorder of the nervous system.

orn in theUnited States with NF1. It is one of the most common genetic disorders, affecting someone hundred thousand americans. NF2 is less common and occurs in only one and everyforty thousand births ... , and are calledneurofibromas. An affected person may have any number of neurofibromas,from none to hundreds. The tumors, which vary in size, may or may not bepainful. A person also may have a single ...

(5 pages) 34 0 4.5 Sep/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Genetics & Genome Projects

Legal contracts and bankruptcy

nership had a basic price range allocated for the renovation. This is why they borrowed exactly two hundred thousand dollars, no more no less. They had gone over the amount of money they wanted to spe ...

(3 pages) 411 0 4.0 Sep/2004

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

If You Could Change Places With Anyone In The World, Who Would It Be And What Would You Do?

ainst Muslims only on the basis of religious discrimination. Mr. Bush is the murderer of nearly one hundred thousand innocent citizens of Afghanistan and Iraq while trying to fight against only two pe ...

(2 pages) 119 7 3.0 Sep/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays

Benefits of Midwestern Agriculture on United States Economy

Lakes Basin, also known as the world's largest system of fresh water. This Basin has more than one hundred thousand square miles of navigable water causing it to be the centerpiece of this major agri ... ant trading partners. Trade between Canada and the Midwest in nineteen-ninety two was valued at one hundred and six billion dollars, which is more than one-fifth of United States exports. This economi ...

(2 pages) 38 0 4.3 Jan/2005

Subjects: Science Essays > Agriculture

Nazi Camp System

centration camps, where they were drafted for forced labor -- "extermination through work." Several hundred thousand Roma (Gypsies) and Soviet prisoners of war were also systematically murdered.... rkenau) is the camp that most people know simply as "Auschwitz". It was the site of imprisonment of hundreds of thousands, and the murder of over one million people, mainly Jews, Roma and Sinti....

(5 pages) 45 0 4.5 Feb/2005

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History

Gun Control.

households have guns. In 1974, nearly two million guns were produced in the United States, and four hundred thousand guns were imported. In 1975, the House Judiciary Committee Report Number 94-1103 st ... ed. In 1975, the House Judiciary Committee Report Number 94-1103 stated that there were about three hundred thousand actual or potential handgun deaths annually! Those figures are increasing rapidly, ...

(3 pages) 27 1 5.0 Nov/2005

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues