Essays Tagged: "resistance"

Testing antibotics on bacteria

enicol, and penicillin. As a side observation, I would also like to see if Bacillus subtillis shows resistance to penicillin. The use of penicillin is being reduced because of the resistance many type ...

(5 pages) 112 1 3.4 Mar/1995

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Essay about relating quote to the poem "The Hangman"

attempting to stop the evil, the good can harm themselves or other innocent people. If there is no resistance to evil, it is just like a football team allowing a player to score a touchdown without t ...

(3 pages) 38 0 4.0 Dec/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry

Voltage - Current relationship in a DC circuit

tor and between which an electric current, I, will flow. The constant, R, is called the conductor's resistance. Thus by the Ohm's Law, one can determine the resistance R in a DC circuit without measur ... of electric conductor which obeys Ohm's Law and has been designed to have a specific value for its resistance. As an extension of the Ohm's Law, two more relationship can be drawn for electric circui ...

(3 pages) 59 0 3.3 Mar/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Physics

Measurement of Free-Fall Acceleration

rect notion of free-fall with uniform acceleration, stated that 'if one were to remove entirely the resistance of the medium, all materials would descend with equal speed.' Today, this statement holds ...

(4 pages) 81 0 3.8 Mar/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Physics

ROUSSEAU ***THE SOCIAL CONTRACT

ciation" which protects the person and property of each individual member of the community from the resistance and force of the rest of the community, yet still allows the individual to ultimately obe ... which the obstacles in the way of their preservation in the State of Nature, would have a power of resistance greater than the resources at the disposal of each individual for his maintenance in that ...

(4 pages) 266 0 4.5 Apr/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy

ROUSSEAU ***THE SOCIAL CONTRACT

ciation" which protects the person and property of each individual member of the community from the resistance and force of the rest of the community, yet still allows the individual to ultimately obe ... which the obstacles in the way of their preservation in the State of Nature, would have a power of resistance greater than the resources at the disposal of each individual for his maintenance in that ...

(4 pages) 156 0 3.7 Apr/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy

Existentialism in Eugene Lonesco's " Rhinoceros"

n Eugene Ionesco's, Rhinoceros, is that true meaning resides in action rather than in mere words. A resistance to taking action then results in one's becoming a rhinoceros. Jean illustrates this in th ...

(3 pages) 80 1 4.8 Nov/1996

Subjects: Art Essays > Drama

Tarrou, the Plague's Only Hero in The Plague by Albert Campus

at the end of the book. Besides Rieux and Tarrou, none of the other characters show any heroism or resistance to the plague, except the sanitation squad under Tarrou. Through Tarrou alone, Camus asks ... eux and Tarrou can't be considered heroes. Paneloux believes in sainthood and God, but he offers no resistance to the plague since he believes it was divinely sent. Rambert chooses to run from the pro ...

(3 pages) 81 0 3.3 Feb/1993

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Metal allergies common to body piercees

e properties that have made it attractive to jewellers throughout history. Prime among these is its resistance to corrosion. The only chemical that can dissolve or even tarnish pure gold is 'royal wat ... utting' the gold with cheaper metals can mean dramatic savings in material cost and highly improved resistance to wear but we must remember that it also changes the other special property of gold - it ...

(5 pages) 45 0 4.8 Jan/1997

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

A conflict between male authority and female resistance.

e Lottery"In Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery," there is a conflict between male authority and female resistance. "The Lottery" attempts to explain an obscured way of controlling female sexuality. In th ... . Hutchinson, however, rebels against this male domination. Arriving late, she raises suspicions of resistance to everything the lottery represents. When her family name is called, she pushes her husb ...

(3 pages) 148 1 3.5 Apr/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Title: Abolition

A Stronger Resistance The abolitionist movement in the United States sought to eradicate slavery using a wide r ... itionists became more militant and radical; some abolitionists began to use more violent methods of resistance to abolish slavery. Before the 1830s most antislavery activists stressed gradual emancipa ... slaves. Blacks were outraged by the passing of these laws and rioted in response to this (Roots of Resistance). This demonstrated how blacks would react in manners that were more forceful and these t ...

(3 pages) 299 4 4.3 Apr/2002

Subjects: History Term Papers > African Studies - History

What led up to the signing of the American Constitution.

banking system was a shambles,and commerce was at a standstill. Even though there was still strong resistance to acentral federal authority, the states were forced to accept the new federal Constitut ...

(2 pages) 82 0 4.0 May/2002

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Greed, vanity, and repentance in "Moll Flanders" by Daniel Defoe

uard and meets with the brother frequently. '... so putting the purse into my bosom, I made no more resistance to him, but let him do just what he pleased and as often as he pleased...' (Defoe 30). La ...

(5 pages) 102 0 2.0 Dec/1999

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

This essay is a critical comparison of Adrienne Rich's "When we Dead Awaken: Writing as Revision," and Ralph Ellison's "Extravagance of Laughter."

drienne Rich vs. Ralph EllisonAdrienne Rich and Ralph Ellison's essays both refer to their means of resistance to the oppression they experience in their lives. Rich's "When We Dead Awaken: Writing as ... f prime "white-lightning" whiskey. It was an appalling state of affairs, for despite their sternest resistance, even such distinguished whites literally cracked up and roared! And although it was reco ...

(4 pages) 108 1 3.7 Aug/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

B.F. Skinner's Walden Two

is provocative in his claims, deliberately so, in my opinion, as another technique in breaking down resistance. The more we resist an idea, the more power it draws from our very resistance. He begins ... up and stiffen their backs all the more. A philosophy professor named Castle is the main bearer of resistance. Skinner looks down upon philosophy as a form of navel gazing and Castle is made an easy ...

(13 pages) 157 0 2.1 Oct/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

This is an essay on the biomechanics of tennis racquet, how the technology of a tennis racquet has evolved and how to choose the right one.

racquet is that it is an extension of the arm which is a third class lever, that is axis - force - resistance. In this case the shoulder is the axis, the biceps and the flexor digitorum are the force ... the axis, the biceps and the flexor digitorum are the force and the ball hitting the racquet is the resistance.When is comes to the mass and weight of the racquet you want a racquet with the biggest m ...

(4 pages) 101 2 3.2 Oct/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

Talking about investigating the resistance of a wire

Aim:The aim of this is to investigate how the length of a wire affects the resistance of it.TheoryResistance is a force, which opposes the flow of an electric current around a ... across an electric bulb is quite thin as needs to resist the flow of particles for the bulb to glow.Resistance is measured in ohms.George Ohm discovered that the voltage of a circuit is directly propo ... other. He also discovered that a circuit sometimes resists the flow of electricity. He called this resistance. He then came up with a rule for working out the resistance of a circuit:V/I = RV - Volts ...

(4 pages) 74 0 4.6 Nov/2002

Subjects: Science Essays > Physics

The discrimination of women in the workplace from the viewpoint of the three basic theories of sociology.

that any change disrupts this equilibrium. Therefore, women joining the workforce have met a lot of resistance, and society has to make changes elsewhere - for instance recognizing the equality of wom ...

(4 pages) 303 0 4.8 Dec/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology

Autism, what causes it and what the symptoms are.

le with autism may show behaviors such as repeated body movements such as rocking or hand flapping, resistance to changes in certain routines and unusual and unexplained responses to people. They may ...

(5 pages) 223 0 4.3 Dec/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Economic relationship between Canada and Spain

as part of a group, neighbourhood, town or business organization. Consequently, there tends to be a resistance to the "outsider." Visitors to the country are expected to overcome their "outsider" stat ...

(15 pages) 67 0 2.4 Mar/2003

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