... to borrow their texts. When Athens replied, lending him works of Euripides, Aeschylus and Sophocles, he promptly made copies, kept the originals for the library and returned the duplicates. Similarly, it is also believed that all ships docked in the port of Alexandria were searched for texts, which if found ... being taken over by the Egyptians. The fire quickly spread to the docks and the naval arsenal, and most of the library's scrolls were destroyed. The remaining parts of the library were later fully ruined in a civil war in the late 3rd century AD. However, the stories vary. Some ar...

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Book Report: A Sand County Almanac, By Aldo Leopold Brent Dozier Although Leopold's love of great expanses of wilderness is readily apparent, his book does not cry out in defense of ... out of our managed acreages but which must be present to add up to balanced ecosystems and a sense of quality and wholeness in the landscape. Part I of A Sand County Almanac is devoted to the details of a single piece of land: Leopold's 120-acre farmed-out farmstead in central Wisconsin, abandoned as a farm years before because of the ... species, cycles of high water in the river, the timely appearance and ...

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... should be filtered to prevent minors from viewing pornography and other objectionable materials. Some citizens believe that having a blanket filter for all available computer terminals, and eliminating pornography in the library altogether, is the only way to protect their children from accessing obscene materials. Others believe that filtering the internet is a violation of their rights under the first amendment and should ... educational research a person can do. I don't believe every computer needs to be filtered in order to keep minors from being exposed to obscene material. In Loud...

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... this experiment was to identify and accommodate the uncertainties associated with the Young's modulus determined from a simple cantilever beam bending experiment. This was achieved by analyzing the geometry of the experiment, identifying the critical parameters affecting the results based on the simple ... . Nine weights (99.6 g, 99.3 g, 99.5 g, 99.2 g, 103.1 g, 100.1 g, 98.3 g, 103.2 g and 99.7 g) were used. The deflection of the beam under these weights was measured using two sensors – a dial gauge and a potentiometer, which was wired to a digital display. The dial gauge and the pote...

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... W. Elliot Woodward published one of the first collections of these records and documents. However, one of the problems with his edition included how he only published the documents from one county and not from all. In addition, a typescript set of transcriptions that were produced by the Federal Works Progress Administration in 1938 was published. This typescript included documents from many ... sources such as the Essex County Court that were previously published by Woodward, Boston Library, Massachusetts State Archives, New York Public Library, and Peabody Essex Museum. This was very p...

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... for human liberty. He was born on April 13, 1743 at the town of Shadwell, Virginia in the Goochland (now Albermarle) county. The parents of Thomas represented both extremes of the social class, his father Peter was a farmer and county leader, and his mother Jane Randolph was apart of Virginia's most distinguished families. Under his father's hand Thomas learned the elements of ... common law by Sir Edward Coke. After becoming a lawyer he turned to state matters in a small part by becoming a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses in 1768 for his county. By the year of 1772 he married ...

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... in changing technology, keeping up to date with resources, getting instructions in new technology, teaching with unfamiliar technology, time lost to technological failure, and isolation from faculty colleagues (Beam). Since it is important to keep up with the latest technological changes, faculty members felt learning new technologies took time away from their research. Some do not like change because ... any one faculty member. Those faculty members who had excellent training had more positive reactions to technology. Those who received fair training had more negative reactions to techno...

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... projects them into a point at the end of the tube, through an electric field. The end of the tube has a phosphorous coating that glows when is hit by the electron beam. Each of electrons would experience a force induced by the electric field and, as a result the stream is deflected by an amount directly proportional with the strength of the field. The ... oscilloscope is using separate electric fields for both x and y directions that allow the electron beam to be moved, creating a point at the end of the tube. The electric fields, caused by voltages, are applied to magnetic deflecting p...

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... useful pieces of information on a single computer. By doing this, the terrorist groups are more organized making them more deadly. One example of this method involves Ramsey Youssef. After the first World Trade Center bombing, Ramsey Youssef's computer was seized upon becoming a suspect in the case. On this computer, plans were found outlining the bombing of 11 different planes over the Pacific ... ...

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... simple experiment marked the first research into the guided transmission of light. In 1880, Alexander Graham Bell invented "photophone". This device allowed for the transmission of sound on a beam of light by projecting voice through an instrument toward a mirror demonstrating the basic principle of optical communications. (Bell transmitted his voice as a telephone signal through about 600 feet of ... that was used for non-telecommunications applications. The optical fiber with cladding helped eliminate the biggest problem that hindered Alexander Graham Bells photophone by providing a me...

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... were eventually named pulsars (Shu, 1982). These pulsars were found to actually be magnetized, spinning neutron stars which produced a rotating beam of radiation, creating regularly spaced pulses that can be detected by any observer in the path of the rotating beam (Chaisson, 2002). The radiation coming from these objects is thought to be produced by the combination of rapid rotation and strong ... with time, all pulsars are destined to eventually weaken and finally, to stop emitting their radiation. Also, even a bright young pulsar is not necessarily visible from Earth since the pulsin...

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... the satellite. Rather than reflect the data back down to earth, the satellite processes the information. Processes include signal regeneration, error correction, and routing. This environment can also employ spot-beam antennas which direct the data to a specific geographic location called a cell. This configuration basically creates a packet switching network in the sky. Knowing where to send the data is easy in ... , the stellar network is sometimes considered a separate autonomous routing system and run the border gateway protocol between them and the earth. The satellite networks that...

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... spectroscopy is a spectroscopic technique based on the Mossbauer Effect. The most common form of Mossbauer spectroscopy is Absorption spectroscopy, where a solid sample is exposed to a beam of gamma radiation and a detector measures the intensity of the beam that is transmitted through the sample. Using this method the gamma-ray energy is varied by accelerating the gamma-ray source through a range of speeds ... ...

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... confined to the prostate gland, where it doesn't cause serious harm. What causes prostate cancer and why some types behave differently are unknown. There are also treatments which include: External beam radiation(X-Rays to kill cancer cells), radical prostatectomy(Surgical removal of your prostate gland), hormone therapy(drugs to try to stop your body from producing male sex hormones), and radioactive ... in a testicle or the scrotum, and unexplained fatigue or a general feeling of not being well. The causes are unknown. However, treatments include Radical inguinal orchiectomy(remove 1 ...

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... Cherokee receives more than 99 percent of its $6.9 million dollar annual funding from the government to administer aspects of subsidized day care in Shelby County. That revenue includes $2.4 million in fees to place children in day care facilities, $3.5 million passed on to centers to subsidize transportation and ... last October stating Ford had secret ownership in Dynasty. The suit, filed by competing day care operators, contended that Ford conspired with Shelby County's child care broker, Cherokee Children and Family Services, to steer state-funded children to Dynasty and other centers...

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... wasn't too fun. I first set out searching for information on the Allende government through the Internet. Once I established enough information from the Internet, I then headed off to the library. In the library, I searched the library database on the computers and searched for any books containing information about the Allende government. I found four or five interesting titles and went off and started my search ... so screwed." The next class meeting, I found that one of my partners had checked out four of the books that I was searching for in the Library. My group members and myself ...

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... the first section of the law, which states that they are not to reveal to any other person or persons that the FBI has taken records from their bookstore or library. This section makes certain that the media and the general public cannot be informed of the investigation. This further prohibits the public from becoming aware of what books will get ... security from anticipated terrorist attacks" (Defending the Bill of Rights 1). In weeks after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, FBI agents obtained search warrants and went to Peterson Public Library and obtained two public compu...

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... the values of diversity and dignity in all people, are partners with the community in an enduring pursuit to assure the highest quality of life for all residents of our County. They envisioned the Department of Health and Human Services as an environment where all team members are continually encouraged to be creative and are celebrated for their enthusiasm, ideas, ... of the Department of Health and Human Services is to assure the provision of integrated, programmatically sound, and fiscally responsible services addressing the health and human service needs of Montgomery County residents...

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Introduction On Christmas Day, 1996, six-year-old JonBenet Ramsey was murdered in Boulder, Colorado. Shortly after her tiny body was discovered, the story of her brief life became public, especially details about her involvement in child beauty pageants. Within a ... ...

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... education. From a financial perspective getting a college education is a worthwhile investment. Perhaps even more important than increased employment opportunities and higher salaries are the knowledge and skills college graduates gain. Dave Ramsey, a popular financial author and radio host who focuses on helping people get out of debt, feels a college education is very important and stated, A solid education helps a young person begin his ... ...

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... and his young scribe (Adso of Melk, who narrates the story many years later) arrive at the monastery. The monastery contains the greatest library of Christianity. The monks live "by books and for books" (P351), however, only the librarian and his assistant are allowed to enter the ... stacks in the labyrinth of the library. Naturally, the forbidden library, like heaven, becomes the place that all the monks crave for. Strange intrigues develop among the monks, and suddenly turn to murder. A gifted ... is the second part of the ''Poetics'' by Aristotle - a lost book containing his theory...

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... with internet access and minimal knowledge of using a web browser. Therefore the first method would require much more time and time constrain since accessing information will only made available if library is open and also must have the book physically located on the shelf. Types of information obtained will also vary among the three methods. They will heavily depend on the ... and how updated are the information especially upon the above topic since technology changes every day and new definitions and understanding would appear. For example, information obtained from the PACE library i...

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... . It was a time when American physicians were able to take advantage of diseased African American citizens from the poorest state in the US. The study was carried out in Macon County, Alabama, a heavily populated African American area. Initially, before the study was created, the country sent doctors to Alabama to treat the mass amounts of people infected with syphilis. After effectively ... members from the medical research section of the Tuskegee Institute (a primarily black school mainly devoted to educate former slaves in Macon County) were recruited to conduct the research. The rese...

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... that information is filtered from adults who are protected from the first amendment? Some argue that filtering is necessary for the sake of children who can access the information at a library; however, some argue that children should have the same rights under the First Amendment that adults do. Just because someone is young does not mean that they are not entitled ... from around the world have access to all the same information. To regulate the Internet on that basis alone would be nearly impossible. The bill proposed on filtering school and library computers, Federal Bill HR 4577, s...

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... canon have been both as influential and as thoroughly debated as Mark Twain's 1885 novel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Shortly after its publication, it was banned from the Concord Public Library by a committee that found it "more suited to the slums than to intelligent, respectable people." Twain's use of dialect and first person narration from an unschooled child's perspective were shocking ... to the cultural elite of the time, but the book transformed American literature. Authors were liberated by the very things the censors of the Concord Public Library found objectionable. The ...

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