Essays Tagged: "scattering"

Why Rome Fell

Why Rome FellThe sun had long ago set, the newborn moon peeked out from behind a scattering of thin, high clouds. From a vantage point atop one of seven hills I could see glimpses o ...

(4 pages) 117 0 3.3 Jan/1996

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History > Roman History

The Great Barrier Reef

ef because it creates a barrier between the Pacific Ocean and the coast.The Great Barrier Reef is a scattering of thousands of individual reefs. The reefs is on the World Heritage List made by UNESCO, ...

(2 pages) 64 1 3.3 Jan/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Earth Sciences > Geography

To what extent do you consider that Hitler and the Nazi's had achieved their aim volksgemeinschaft: social revolution and unity by 1939?

ing ordinary people. The nazi's tried to emphasise on traditional themes, such as the peasant sower scattering seeds by the hand and using horses rather than tractors. Other images such as a peasant p ...

(4 pages) 77 0 2.6 Oct/2002

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

Short story based on the song "Crazy Game of Poker" by OAR.

, I sat down and let out a relieved sigh.I was sitting there for about five minutes when the people scattering in all directions disturbed my rest. I was alarmed by their obvious fear. I asked my self ...

(3 pages) 34 0 5.0 Mar/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

A moment in the life of a confused child whose imagination clouds his perception of reality.

nds plucked the fringes of his coat. The children giggled:"Now!""Do it!""Jiggle the belly, Jaime!"A scattering of mulch and a woman's insistent voice stilled their play. "Brewster, come with me." Priv ...

(2 pages) 62 0 0.0 Jul/2003

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

Report on the Rutherford Model of the Atom.

Model.Rutherford began investigating the properties of matter when he performed his now well-known Scattering Experiment of 1910. He fired alpha () particles from a radioactive source at a thin sheet ...

(2 pages) 23 0 3.0 Aug/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

How Ritalin can help.

who are more frequently being labeled as having Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. Thoughts scattering from one place to another, not listening to what other people say, not following through ...

(6 pages) 65 0 4.5 Sep/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Current Issues

Australian Environment - Salinity in Australia.

e land's demise. Excess levels of salt brought naturally throughout the land have resulted from the scattering of salt from the blustery ocean winds and low levels of salt in the rainfall. Man contrib ...

(4 pages) 87 0 4.7 Nov/2003

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

Discuss the concept of the 'sublime' advanced by 'Longinus' in "On the Sublime." How may we recognize it? What are its five sources? (Brief 'Works Cited' page included).

the important topic of sublimity.Sublimity is easily seen as it ?[flashes] forth at right moment, [scattering] everything before it like a thunderbolt.? (75). It attributes to a discourse a sense of ...

(8 pages) 44 0 5.0 Nov/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

The Structure of the Atom. Rutherford's Experiment

(1882-1945) and Ernest Marsden conducted some experiments to search the problem of alpha particles scattering by the thin gold-leaf. Rutherford knew that the particles contain the 2e charge. The expe ... to the footing B. The gold leaf was about 5*10-7 meter thick. The scientist knew that reckoning the scattering angle could say much about the structure of atoms of the gold-leaf.Rutherford made a theo ...

(2 pages) 29 0 3.7 Mar/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Physics

Railroad Evolution

t in the late 1820's, soon emerged as America's largest industry. For the first time, a struggling, scattering nation became united in a physical sense. By bringing North America together from sea to ...

(3 pages) 60 0 5.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers

The Causes and Effects of Drug Selling

Red and Blue lights flashing, a loud siren whaling, people scattering away to get away from the flashing lights, like a dog chasing away a herd of cattle. This ...

(3 pages) 61 0 3.0 May/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

Middlemarch, george eliot

tion leveled against it was its morbid, depressing tone. Many critics did not like Eliot's habit of scattering obscure literary and scientific allusions throughout the book. In their opinion a woman w ...

(3 pages) 39 0 5.0 Jul/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Herodotus

previous history of those nations which had one. He also was very careful to diversify his pages by scattering among his more serious matter tales, anecdotes, and descriptions of a lighter character, ...

(3 pages) 67 1 4.4 Sep/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History

The Book of Jeremiah and his Lamentations- the trouble with his bowels and other such Biblical nonsense, verse-by-verse.

oying anyone who irritates him and sends war, pestilence and famine to his own chosen people before scattering them. After a particularly lengthy tirade by the Amighty Jeremiah can take no more and cr ...

(7 pages) 30 0 2.3 Dec/2005

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Christianity

War on Iraq

So it embarks. Soft-targets scattering ubiquitously, the deafening explosions and the blazing of light in the gloomy night. Slow ...

(3 pages) 62 0 3.7 Aug/2006

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Current Issues

"Frida Kahlo Comes To Dinner" by Christine Strickland. Choose a poem that presents a male and/or female in a way that provokes strong emotions in you.

into her description of Kahlo"Frida Kahlo has come to dinnerLate, as usual, a little drunk, as usualScattering fag ash like confetti"Kahlo's arrival gives an ambiguous view of her personality. In one ... poor punctuality and inconsiderate arrival as an example of her being carefree. The simile of her "scattering fag ash like confetti" seems to support the former idea. Generally speaking, these openin ...

(3 pages) 28 0 0.0 Aug/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry

The Borderline to Emptiness

terrifying sound to behold. Its very essence instills terror in the hearts of man, sowing doubt and scattering the faithless. Especially ones as physically grand as the Tailed Beasts, their huge daemo ...

(11 pages) 19 0 4.0 Mar/2007

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

Beer - Lambert's Law and Spectroscopy

olet light.Bohr’s postulates led to spectroscopy which the use of the absorption, emission, or scattering of electromagnetic radiation by atoms or molecules to qualitatively or quantitatively stu ...

(3 pages) 16 0 1.5 May/2007

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

Radio-frequency Plasmas

on energy distribution functions in a capacitively coupled radio-frequency plasmas by laser Thomson scattering M. A. Mansour ElSabbagh,a) M.D. Bowden, K. Uchino, and K. Muraoka Interdisciplinary Gradu ... itively coupled radio-frequency argon discharges were measured using the technique of laser Thomson scattering. It was found that the distribution functions changed from a bi-Maxwellian at lower press ...

(3 pages) 1353 0 0.0 May/2001

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry