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• Moon - astronomy.

  B Volcanic Features Maria, domes, rilles, and a few craters display indisputable characteristics of volcanic origin. Maria are plains of dark-colored rock that cover approximately 40 percent ofthe Moon's visible hemisphere. The maria formed when molten rock erupted onto the surface and solidified between 3.16 billion and 3.96 billion years ago. This rockresembles terrestrial basalt, a volcanic rock type widely distributed on Earth, but the rock that formed the maria has a higher iron content an...

• Earthquake.

  III CAUSES Most earthquakes are caused by the sudden slip along geologic faults. The faults slip because of movement of the Earth’s tectonic plates. This concept is called theelastic rebound theory. The rocky tectonic plates move very slowly, floating on top of a weaker rocky layer. As the plates collide with each other or slide past eachother, pressure builds up within the rocky crust. Earthquakes occur when pressure within the crust increases slowly over hundreds of years and finally exceeds...

• Harry S.

  B2 Presiding Judge Political machines, such as the Pendergast organization, were common to both parties in the 1920s. They were based on the spoils system, in which winning politiciansgave government jobs to those loyal party members who had helped them get elected. Using government jobs as rewards, politicians created efficient (and oftenalmost unstoppable) vote-getting “machines,” in which party loyalty was often more important than doing any work. Without local machine support a political ca...

• Harry S.

  B2 Presiding Judge Political machines, such as the Pendergast organization, were common to both parties in the 1920s. They were based on the spoils system, in which winning politiciansgave government jobs to those loyal party members who had helped them get elected. Using government jobs as rewards, politicians created efficient (and oftenalmost unstoppable) vote-getting “machines,” in which party loyalty was often more important than doing any work. Without local machine support a political ca...

• Insect - biology.

  they almost always have six legs. In some insects, such as beetles, the legs are practically identical, but in other insects each pair is a slightly different shape. Still otherinsects have specialized leg structures. Examples are praying mantises, which have grasping and stabbing forelegs armed with lethal spines, and grasshoppers andfleas, which have large, muscular hind legs that catapult them into the air. Mole crickets’ front legs are modified for digging, and backswimmers have hind legs de...

• Autrui dans la vie morale Par l'exemple de l'amitié, nous avons constaté la ten­ dance do la rr-!lation à autrui...

  Autrui dans la vie morale Par l'exemple de l'amitié, nous avons constaté la ten­ dance do la rr-!lation à autrui à dépasser un cadre s':'icte­ ment affectif: il ne s'agit pas seulement de vouloir du bien à l'autre, mais aussi de poser le Bien comme fonderT1ent de la reiation. La rencontre de l'aut,e, ie simple face-à-face de deux personnes est donc d'emblée structuré par une dimension supérieure (cf. texte 16). La philia antique: le semblable Les grecs parlaient de la philia comme de cette tend...

• World Energy Supply.

  In the 1990s, oil production by non-OPEC countries remained strong and production by OPEC countries rebounded. The result at the end of the 20th century was aworld oil surplus and prices (when adjusted for inflation) that were lower than in 1972. Experts are uncertain about future oil supplies and prices. Low prices have spurred greater oil consumption, and experts question how long world petroleum reservescan keep pace with increased demand. Many of the world’s leading petroleum geologists beli...

• Kazakhstan - country.

  mismanagement. Between 1949 and 1991 the Soviet government conducted about 70 percent of all of its nuclear testing in Kazakhstan, mostly in the northeastern area near the city ofSemipalatinsk (now Semey). Nearly 500 nuclear explosions occurred both above and below ground near Semipalatinsk, while more than 40 nuclear detonationsoccurred at other testing grounds in western Kazakhstan and in the Qyzylqum desert. More than 1 million of Kazakhstan’s inhabitants were exposed to dangerous levelsof ra...

• Christopher Columbus I INTRODUCTION Christopher Columbus (1451-1506), Italian-born Spanish navigator who sailed west across the Atlantic Ocean in search of a route to Asia but achieved fame by making landfall in the Americas instead.

  explorers, adventurers, entrepreneurs, merchants, and any others who saw their fortunes tied to the trade winds and ocean currents. Columbus’s brother Bartholomewworked in Lisbon as a mapmaker, and for a time the brothers worked together as draftsmen and book collectors. Later that year, Columbus set sail on a convoy loadedwith goods to be sold in northern Atlantic ports. In 1478 or 1479 Columbus met and married Felipa Perestrello e Moniz, the daughter of a respected, though relatively poor, nob...

• Christopher Columbus.

  explorers, adventurers, entrepreneurs, merchants, and any others who saw their fortunes tied to the trade winds and ocean currents. Columbus’s brother Bartholomewworked in Lisbon as a mapmaker, and for a time the brothers worked together as draftsmen and book collectors. Later that year, Columbus set sail on a convoy loadedwith goods to be sold in northern Atlantic ports. In 1478 or 1479 Columbus met and married Felipa Perestrello e Moniz, the daughter of a respected, though relatively poor, nob...

• Christopher Columbus.

  explorers, adventurers, entrepreneurs, merchants, and any others who saw their fortunes tied to the trade winds and ocean currents. Columbus’s brother Bartholomewworked in Lisbon as a mapmaker, and for a time the brothers worked together as draftsmen and book collectors. Later that year, Columbus set sail on a convoy loadedwith goods to be sold in northern Atlantic ports. In 1478 or 1479 Columbus met and married Felipa Perestrello e Moniz, the daughter of a respected, though relatively poor, nob...

• Christopher Columbus - explorer.

  explorers, adventurers, entrepreneurs, merchants, and any others who saw their fortunes tied to the trade winds and ocean currents. Columbus’s brother Bartholomewworked in Lisbon as a mapmaker, and for a time the brothers worked together as draftsmen and book collectors. Later that year, Columbus set sail on a convoy loadedwith goods to be sold in northern Atlantic ports. In 1478 or 1479 Columbus met and married Felipa Perestrello e Moniz, the daughter of a respected, though relatively poor, nob...

• George Bush.

  1986 it was folded into Harken Energy Corporation, another Texas petroleum company. Bush served as a consultant and a member of Harken’s board of directors. In 1987 Bush relocated his family to Washington, D.C., to assist his father in his bid to become president. He worked as a campaign adviser at his father’s nationalcampaign headquarters, serving as a liaison to the media and to conservative and Christian leaders. He was a trusted confidant of his father and mother, whosometimes dispatched Bu...

• George Bush - USA History.

  1986 it was folded into Harken Energy Corporation, another Texas petroleum company. Bush served as a consultant and a member of Harken’s board of directors. In 1987 Bush relocated his family to Washington, D.C., to assist his father in his bid to become president. He worked as a campaign adviser at his father’s nationalcampaign headquarters, serving as a liaison to the media and to conservative and Christian leaders. He was a trusted confidant of his father and mother, whosometimes dispatched Bu...

• Indiana - geography.

  Michigan in Michigan. There are about 1,000 small natural lakes in Indiana, chiefly in the northern part of the state. The largest is Lake Wawasee, which covers almost 13 sq km (5 sq mi). Inthe central part of the state there are several lakes that were created behind dams on a number of smaller streams. They include Monroe Lake, near Bloomington; Geistand Eagle Creek reservoirs, northeast and northwest of Indianapolis; and Mississinewa and Huntington reservoirs, north of Marion. C Climate Most...

• Indiana - USA History.

  Michigan in Michigan. There are about 1,000 small natural lakes in Indiana, chiefly in the northern part of the state. The largest is Lake Wawasee, which covers almost 13 sq km (5 sq mi). Inthe central part of the state there are several lakes that were created behind dams on a number of smaller streams. They include Monroe Lake, near Bloomington; Geistand Eagle Creek reservoirs, northeast and northwest of Indianapolis; and Mississinewa and Huntington reservoirs, north of Marion. C Climate Most...

• Libéria (1985-1986) Au Libéria, le président Samuel Doe, arrivé au pouvoir par un coup d'État en 1980, voulait marquer l'année...

  Libéria (1985-1986) Au Libéria, le président Samuel Doe, arrivé au pouvoir par un coup d'État en 1980, voulait marquer l'année 1985 par la fin du régime militaire et le début d'un régime civil et démocratique. Mais l'espoir soulevé par l'annonce de la démocratisation a bien vite cédé le pas à la frayeur: le chef de l'État a réprimé tous ceux qui pouvaient gêner sa propre élection. Le 16 janvier 1985, le gouvernement suspendait sine die le quotidien Daily Observer, accusé de ne pas agir "dans l'...

• I don't know

  1. Do you want drink? 2. writer writes books. 3. artist paints pictures. 4. Do you like soccer? 5. Let's go to department store. 6. I like to listen to music. 7 . I like to listen to radio. 8. He studies art and math. 9. I'm sick, I need to see doctor.

• dialogue anglais fairtrade

  demonstrations or we can help organizations as Oxfam with money. We can donate old stuff like cloths or toys. A - We should do it together one day. It will be really nice.  

• A Way with Dogs, or a Way with Words ?

  A Way with Dogs, or a Way with Words? Cesar Millan, also known as National Geographic’s Dog Whisperer, is one of the most famous dog trainers in the world today. Despite his commercial success, many other trainers and behaviorists criticize Millan for his use of outdated dominance training methods. Most positive method trainers do not even believe that true dominance exists in the social hierarchy of domestic dogs, and moreover, they believe that training based on this theory is harsh and some...

• chromatisme.

  Les corrélats aberration - 2.OPTIQUE couleur - L'explication du phénomène lumière Newton (Isaac) optique spectre 2. MUSIQUE : un des trois genres du système musical (chromatique, diatonique, tempéré). Un intervalle est dit chromatique lorsque les deux sons qui le composent ont le même nom, et que l'une des notes au moins est altérée (par exemple : do-do ], sol L-sol ], etc.). Une gamme est dénommée chromatique lorsqu'elle est composée uniquement de demi-tons (donc de 12 sons), diat...

• anglais sujet BAC

  6. Among the following adjectives, choose those that best describe Campell’s character. Use the adjectives chosen to explain what sort of man he is. 2 points (adjective suivi de sa justification) cynical – Though Campbell doesn’t know much about stem cell research, he knows it is a matter of controversy and quickly understands that Anna’s case is interesting. He does not defend her for charitable reasons but out of self-interest because he knows he will win the case, which is rather cy...

• Anglais devoir 1

  81T5 C01 – 2/4 in English, I even practise it with my friends. If I’m going to have to use any words that are new to me, I try to find out how they should be pronounced, although it can be very difficult with some of the technical terms. I know a couple of teachers who are actually from England and when I can, I ask them. Q What advice would you give to anyone who had to give their first presentation in English? A Well, the first bit of advice would be to thoroughly prepare their presenta...

• How to live a good life according to aristotle and kant

  Similarities and differences between them Kant and Aristotle: Kant and Aristotle both agree that for someone to be virtuous they must have good external conditions and that the state/government can help them achieve that and what separates human beings from animals is our capacity to reason. The difference is the way they achieve virtue for Kant it is trough learning the categorical imperative and acting upon it and for Aristotle it is by learning the 2 kinds of knowledge scientific knowledge...

• Will American Ideas Tear France Apart?

  Sarah Holler Term4 27/03/2021 in France, because the mention of “race has become a bulldozer crushing other subjects”. In addition, for them, “race is not recognized by the government and merely subjective data”, which shows that racial studies in France are pointless. 7) What events made a part of the younger generation change about the issue? Two major events made the younger generation change about this subject. First, a women’s rights protest took place to stand up against the interior...

• Dexter

  Everyone have their own limite some people do nothing and others commit the irreparable, lake Dexter. And how far Dexter ? It is still seen as a sociopath ? He’s manichian, grey world, it’s special. Indeed, people say is a sociopath killer, but he make proof of humanity. His tragical past drive him to make justice, but he fall in vicious circle because he kill killers. He doesn’t show his real face, what’s his real face ? It’s the one he e...

• portugais, cinéma.

  Grande Elias, 1950) d’Arthur Duarte, et aux films littéraires et historiques, comme Chaimité (1953) de Jorge Brum do Canto, qui relate un épisode de l’occupation du Mozambique. 5. 2 La « nouvelle vague » Une forme de « nouvelle vague » apparaît au début des années 1960 à la faveur d’un film financé par la Coopérative du spectateur, Dom Roberto (1962) de Ernesto de Sousa, qui démontre la possibilité pour une nouvelle génération de réalisateurs d’accéder à des réseaux de production alterna...

• Définition: AUDITION, substantif féminin.

  ? N?ologisme, MUSIQUE. Audition verticale (d'un accord). Sa perception globale (la ligne m?lodique ?tant constitu?e uniquement par les notes sup?rieures des accords successifs). Audition horizontale (d'un accord). Perception distincte des notes qui le composent, parce que chacune d'elles s'inscrit dans un d?veloppement m?lodique propre?: ? 3. Si au piano, instrument de timbre homog?ne, on joue une suite d'accords (...) l'oreille per?oit plut?t, avec la ligne sup?rieure do, do, r?, mi, les ac...

• It's a Wonderful Life It's a Wonderful Life, motion picture about a man who believes he is a failure because he never left the small town where he grew up, based on the story The Greatest Gift by Philip Van Doren Stern.

  When Uncle Billy leaves George’s house drunk he stumbles over what sounds like trash cans, and says “I’m all right, I’m all right…” In fact, actor Thomas Mitchell wasstumbling over some equipment left by the film crew and he was assuring the crew member he was not hurt. Director Capra left the scene as it was. Quotes Man on Porch: “Why don't you kiss her instead of talking her to death.”Bailey: “You want me to kiss her, huh?”Man on Porch: “Ah, youth is wasted on the wrong people!” Bailey: (rega...

• Understanding of Art

  sub-structure of a society (see Marx, K. ). The understanding of the work that this would yield would not, however, be relevant to judgments of artistic merit. In the next two sections we shall look more closely at such attempts toseparate understanding and evaluation. 4 Understanding, truth and morality Much of the debate about art and understanding is a debate about how much of what might rightly be called an understanding of art is relevant toquestions of the evaluation of art. Bell, for e...

• Bonnie Blair Wins Six Olympic Medals.

  For the final race, Blair was paired against a familiar foe—Ye of China. Wearing goggles, a blue hood, and a red, white, and blue uniform, Blair breezed to a course-record time of 1 minute 18.74 seconds. “I don't know if that's good enough,” she told coach Nick Thometz afterwards, according to Sports Illustrated. “But that's all I had.” Blair had more than enough, outracing both Germany's Anke Baier and Ye by nearly 1.5 seconds. She won her fifth gold medal. Blair's sixth career Olympic me...

• Chimpanzee - biology.

  separate occasions in Central Africa, probably beginning in the 1940s or 1950s. Chimpanzees infected with the original retrovirus or with HIV do not develop AIDS,however. Scientific classification: Chimpanzees belong to the Primate order. Some scientists classify chimpanzees in the family Pongidae and other scientists place chimpanzees in the family Hominidae. They make up the genus Pan. The common chimpanzee is classified as Pan troglodytes. The bonobo is classified as Pan paniscus. Micr...

• Comment faire du commerce en France

  age. France being a part of the so called“Old Continent” is considered a country which has one of the   longest and most influential histories. Moreover, the French people are well known for their pessimism and their complaining about the present   or the future.  Conflicts&Synergies We can take the example of “the age of retirement” as the  people nowadays have to work longer than the   previous generation in all these three countries, or the fact of losing certain social benefits, as it is in ...

• Krone Wins Belmont Stakes.

  Krone, her mud-spattered face tracked by tears, was nearly speechless in the winner's circle. “How do you stop crying?” she asked one of Colonial Affair's practiceriders, according to Sports Illustrated. “You don't,” he replied. Krone's triumph represented a personal victory, and it marked a quantum leap forward for women in professional sports. Her win was the first ever by a femalejockey in a Triple Crown race—the Belmont, Kentucky Derby, or Preakness. Krone chose to downplay the issue....

• Analyse

  Introduction Through this company analysis, different aspects of DTE Energy Company will be cover in a financial viewpoint. I will firstly give a brief description of DTE Energy Company, after that analyze the industry in which it operates, describe its major market, analyze its financial statement with a spread sheet for the financial analysis, and finally I will determine if I will invest in this company or not. Company, Industr...

• ANTILLES — GUYANE, SESSION DE JUIN 1995 LANGUE VIVANTE 1- SÉRIES L ET ES/S

  courage, lustiness, the natural grasp of things. It would never corne 30 back. 1 would end up in the psychiatrie ward of the country hospi­ tal, screarning that the bridges, ail the bridges in the world, were falling down. Then a young girl opened the doorof the car and got in. "1 didn 't think anyone would pick me up on the bridge," she said. She car- 35 ried a cardboard suitcase and -believe me - a small harp in a crac­ ked waterproof. Her str...

• Lamia

  reason would tell him that it is not safe enough to depend only on a career as a poet. He saw in himself the ability and didn't let count anything else what could speak against the life of poet. This alike attitude is seen in Lycius when he listens to Lamia not to invite Appolonius to the marriage, even though he had learned everything by Appolonius, had always listen to his advices and obeyed his words. It is as if Keats saw himself turning away from his reason, shutting it out from his dream-l...

• POLYNÉSIE FRANÇAISE, SESSION DE JUIN 1995 LANGUE VIVANTE 2 - SÉRIE L

  25 "What's so funny?" 1 finally said. It occurred tome that perhaps she was laughing at me, at my life. Maybe she had listened through the wall and heard nothing, the stagnant silence of our unhappy bouse. "Why are you laughing?" 1 demanded. "My mother kicked me out," she finally said. She talked with a 30 swaggerl, seeming to be proud of this fact. And then she snickered 6 a little and said, "We had this fight and she pushed me out th...

• Gone with the Wind Gone with the Wind, motion-picture epic about a tempestuous Southern belle and the changes in her life due to the American Civil War (1861-1865), based on the bestselling novel by Margaret Mitchell.

  Isabel Jewell (Emmy Slattery)William Stack (Minister)Robert Elliott (Yankee major)George Meeker, Wallis Clark (His poker-playing captains)Irving Bacon (Corporal)Adrian Morris (Carpetbagger orator)J. M. Kerrigan (Johnny Gallagher)Olin Howlin (Yankee businessman)Yakima Canutt (Renegade)Blue Washington (His companion)Ward Bond (Yankee captain Tom)Cammie King (Bonnie Blue Butler)Mickey Kuhn (Beau Wilkes)Lillian Kemble-Cooper (Bonnie's nurse)Si Jenks (Yankee on street)Harry Strang (Tom's aide) Award...

• Excerpt from King Lear - anthology.

  Find out their enemies now. Tremble, thou wretchThat hast within thee undivulgéd crimesUnwhipped of justice. Hide thee, thou bloody hand,Thou perjured, and thou simular of virtueThat art incestuous. Caitiff, to pieces shake,That under covert and convenient seemingHas practised on man’s life. Close pent-up guilts,Rive your concealing continents, and cryThese dreadful summoners grace. I am a manMore sinned against than sinning. KENT. Alack, bare-headed?Gracious my lord, hard by here is a hovel;Som...

• ÉTRANGER — GROUPE 2, SESSION DE JUIN 1995 LANGUE VIVANTE 1- SÉRIE L

  sible, so close at hand. Y ou walk through London, for instance, and every alleyway holds secrets. Every church and every row of shops and houses tells a story. It is not like that in America. America star­ ted yesterday. America does not build on, it builds over. There are 30 no medieval ruins in New Jersey. There are no 700-year-old castles in Nebraska.[ ... ] Most of the Americans 1 know who live permanently in London left home for a single, c...

• Rice Wins MVP.

  him, but not to the point that the Bengals could cover him with one defender, which they tried to do for several plays. “Because of the sprained ankle, Jerry Rice wasoperating on nerve,” Bill Walsh, the 49ers' head coach, said in the press conference after the game, according to the New York Times. ” He said he felt great. But I knew he [didn't]. But they could simply not stay with him man for man.” When the Bengals chose to double-cover Rice, Montana hit Craig and, finally, Taylor. After t...

• From Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - anthology.

  And she urged it on him eagerly, and ever he refused,And vowed in very earnest, prevail she would not.And she sad to find it so, and said to him then,“If my ring is refused for its rich cost -You would not be my debtor for so dear a thing—I shall give you my girdle; you gain less thereby.”She released a knot lightly, and loosened a beltThat was caught about her kirtle, the bright cloak beneath,Of a gay green silk, with gold overwroght,And the borders all bound with embroidery fine,And this she p...

• Child Labor.

  States, are usually not subject to state laws because they do not fulfill residency requirements, and they are often unable to attend local schools, which have noprovisions for seasonal increases in school enrollment. Other children exempted from federal and state labor laws are children employed as actors and performers inradio, television, and motion pictures, as newspaper deliverers and sales personnel, or as part-time workers at home. IV INTERNATIONAL PROBLEMS In the early 21st century, ch...

• Excerpt from A Tale of Two Cities - anthology.

  “Good day, citizeness.” “Good day, citizen.” This mode of address was now prescribed by decree. It had been established voluntarily some time ago, among the more thorough patriots; but, was now law foreverybody. “ Walking here again, citizeness?” “You see me, citizen!” The wood-sawyer, who was a little man with a redundancy of gesture (he had once been a mender of roads), cast a glance at the prison, pointed at the prison, andputting his ten fingers before his face to represe...

• John Milton.

  Paradise Lost is considered Milton’s masterpiece and one of the greatest poems in world literature. It is written in 12 books that vividly tell the story of Satan’s rebellion against God and his tempting of Adam and Eve to eat the forbidden fruit of the tree of knowledge. The poet’s announced aim was to “justify the ways of God to men,”although Satan holds center stage in the first four books and for many readers emerges as the most interesting figure in the poem. But Satan’s heroism, which isg...

• bbb

  "Look lively, Miss Hill, please." She would not cry many tears at leaving the Stores. But in her new home, in a distant unknown country, it would not be like that. Then she would be married--she, Eveline. People would treat her with respect then. She would not be treated as her mother had been. Even now, though she was over nineteen, she sometimes felt herself in danger of her father's violence. She knew it was that that had given her the palpitations. When they were growing up he had never gone...

• Dubliners

  "Look lively, Miss Hill, please." She would not cry many tears at leaving the Stores. But in her new home, in a distant unknown country, it would not be like that. Then she would be married--she, Eveline. People would treat her with respect then. She would not be treated as her mother had been. Even now, though she was over nineteen, she sometimes felt herself in danger of her father's violence. She knew it was that that had given her the palpitations. When they were growing up he had never gone...

• Portugal - geografía.

  3.2 Ciudades principales Lisboa, con una población (según el censo de 2003) de 1.962.000 habitantes, es la capital, la mayor ciudad y el principal puerto marítimo de Portugal. Otras ciudadesimportantes son: Oporto (263.131 habitantes), la segunda ciudad del país y un importante puerto marítimo; Coimbra (148.474 habitantes), un destacado centro industrial;Braga (112.039); Setúbal (113.937); y Faro (58.051), localizada en el área turística del Algarve. 3.3 Religión e idioma Aproximadamente el 94...

• Redshift - astronomy.

  Astronomers can also use redshift to identify the oldest and most distant objects in the observable universe. Astronomers believe that quasars are the most distantobjects in the universe, because they have some of the largest redshifts. Quasars are objects in space that strongly emit radio waves. Astronomers originally namedthese objects quasars, which stands for quas i-stell ar (or starlike) radio source, because they appear as points of light, like stars, in photographs of the sky. When astro...