Essays Tagged: "specimens"

Anne Frank review

red. The English radio says they're being gassed.'--October 9, 1942On Her Old Country, Germany'Fine specimens of humanity, those Germanns, and to think I'm actually one of them! No, that's not true, H ...

(2 pages) 62 0 4.0 Jan/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Anne Frank, talks about the first 90 pages of Anne's diary

red. The English radio says they're being gassed.'--October 9, 1942On Her Old Country, Germany'Fine specimens of humanity, those Germanns, and to think I'm actually one of them! No, that's not true, H ...

(2 pages) 73 0 4.3 Jan/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

The Life of Charles Darwin

turalist named John Henslow, who helped his confidence and helped him to observe nature and collect specimens.From December 27, 1831 to October 2, 1836, Darwin sailed on the Beagle as a naturalist wit ... that was available in its environment, which later became known as adaption. Darwin collected many specimens and studied fossils and made observations of the diversity, form, numbers, and habits of d ...

(3 pages) 59 0 3.0 Feb/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Charles Darwin

Piranha

les areattached to the jaws. The muscles are so sturdy that when you that when you look down alarge specimens throat it barely looks like enough room to swallow. When the fish clampsdown on a victim i ...

(2 pages) 35 0 4.0 Mar/1994

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Ants

astonishing organisms with which we must share this earth, there is one seemingly ordinary group of specimens which fascinates many people beyond all others. There is nothing too extraordinary in the ... ll the social insects of the Hymenoptera, an order also including wasps and bees.The earliest known specimens are found entombed in the Scandinavian Baltic Amber samples which scientists date in upwar ...

(12 pages) 49 0 4.2 Mar/1997

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Paleontologists: This is a report on the career and on carnivores and herbivores.

leaves, dinosaur nests, and evenmicroscopic pollen. They also don't just find and collect different specimens, they alsostudy the fossils, the rocks the fossils are buried in, the rocks they also lie ...

(3 pages) 51 0 4.8 Mar/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Exam revision notes for grade 11 biology. Units covered: microscopy, classification, plant & animal kingdoms, ecosystems, cycles, relationships/symbiosis and environmental change

ment - focuses image, moves focus quicklyFine adjustment - focuses image, moves focus slowlyStage - specimens are placed hereCondenser - focuses lightIris diaphragm - controls amount of light passing ... al system uses GENUS and SPECIES namesKeys1)branching Keysthese keys use a tree diagram to sort out specimens2)Dichotomous KeysThese keys use a series to pairs of questions to sort out specimensCLASSI ...

(5 pages) 10925 0 4.3 Aug/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, "The Franklin's Tale" essay. The three main rules from "Art of Courtly Love" that are incorperated in the love triangle

ove and affection of Dorigen. Although he is one of the most handsome, charming and well liked male specimens around the kingdom, this lord admires her from a far, and pines away for years trying to w ...

(2 pages) 46 0 3.0 Jan/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

The Most Useful (or Important) Scientific Invention

hoek's microscope by creating microscopes with higher magnifications and far better resolutions, so specimens examined had a sharper image. The latest improvement was the electron microscope, which us ...

(2 pages) 45 2 4.2 May/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays

William Bartram and His Travels through the Southeastern United States.

pars 3-4). On these trips through Pennsylvania and New York, the duo collected and made sketches of specimens of seeds, plants and animals (McMichael 567). At eighteen, Bartram became the apprentice o ... (Bartram). He gives descriptions of he areas through which he traveled and includes drawings of the specimens of plants and animals he encountered (McMichael 567). Bartram also came in to contact with ...

(6 pages) 11 0 0.0 Aug/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Year 12 Biology Coursework; Why does raw turnip taste sweeter than raw potato?

turnip, therefore explaining why turnip is sweeter than potato. If we measure the isotonic of both specimens then we can draw a graph comparing the two, therefore making it a lot more easier to disti ...

(7 pages) 22 0 3.0 Mar/2006

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

The Rape Of Nanking

people were murdered. Old and young women were raped. Soldiers used the Chinese as bayonet training specimens, where they would be stabbed multiple times. Even children were not sparred death. All POW ...

(2 pages) 5 0 0.0 Nov/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Bodies: The Exhibition

Exhibition," at the South Street Seaport featured the preserved remains of 22 humans and many other specimens, including a set of conjoined fetuses, an example of male genitalia and a human brain. I f ...

(4 pages) 12 0 4.0 Sep/2007

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

Darwins sea change

he naturalist, he did more then just eat dinner with the captain to keep him sane. He would collect specimens in the foreign lands, and do his experiments.When he became the naturalist though, Darwin ...

(2 pages) 1097 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

You see them everywhere. Unrealistic looking models that make the

pearance. On every magazine, book cover, and in nearly every movie, women are portrayed as flawless specimens and the object of men's attention. I believe that it is damaging for women's self image fo ...

(6 pages) 2750 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies

Politics and the English Language

by that time the meaningof what I have said here will have become clearer. Meanwhile, here are five specimens of theEnglish language as it is now habitually written.These five passages have not been p ... m and stillwrite bad English, but one could not write the kind of stuff that I quoted in those five specimens atthe beginning of this article.I have not here been considering the literary use of langu ...

(20 pages) 79 0 5.0 Oct/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Linguistics

Smithsonian Institution and James Smithson By:Cline Wooten

, people are able to go to the biggest museum in the world. It has almost 140 million artifacts and specimens in it. It contains 15 museums and a zoo. The museum is dedicated to public education, nati ...

(3 pages) 1230 0 2.0 Mar/2009

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Charles Darwin

ields are now confronted with pesticides, so they have been forced to evolve and just the strongest specimens survive. These survivals may have a resistance to pesticide. That’s why, the human pe ...

(3 pages) 2013 0 3.0 May/2009

Subjects: Science Essays > Genetics & Genome Projects

Astronomical discoveries.

Humans want colonize other worlds. Another reason is that humans want to locate living intelligent specimens, which statistically already exist. The objective of this is study the daily life and stru ... stically already exist. The objective of this is study the daily life and structure of these living specimens. It is also possible that humans want to visit other planets, not for living specimens, bu ...

(3 pages) 1446 0 0.0 Sep/2009

Subjects: Science Essays > Astronomy

The Halo Effect and its Relevance in Seinfeld

ttractiveness would be appealing to most people because it caters to the belief that highly evolved specimens would be the best to mate with. People are drawn to individuals that appear to offer the & ...

(3 pages) 2754 0 0.0 Feb/2010

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies