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Before the American Civil War of 1861-1865, tensions were high between the Northern and Southern states. Said tension found basis on the issue of slavery with the Southerners being pro-slavery and Northerners anti-slavery. Consequently, an abolitionist movement rose from the North and led to the development of the “Underground Railroad”. Despite its name, the “Underground Railroad” encompassed hidden houses, paths, and code words that the anti-slavery forces utilized in helping blacks escape to Free states and Canada where there was no slavery. Expectedly, such actions led to the retaliation of the Southerners who Continue reading...

Power quality- Defined as set of electrical boundaries that allow a component to operate in its specified manner without loss of life expectancy and performance. The conclusion of god or bad power depends on the end user/ equipment. Power quality problems are caused by power frequency disturbances, electromagnetic interference and electrostatic discharge.

Loads.

- Frequency disturbances- Voltage sags or total power loss as the result of lightning/ contact with trees. Motors get asymmetrical- Caused by starting on large loads, therefore, current starts at a high level and flattens off over two to eight seconds. For example in starting a 50-hp Continue reading...

“Notes from Underground” by Fyodor Dostoevsky is about a man who many would recognize instantly as having an existential crisis; he is a bitter, cynical, spiteful former civil servant. At the beginning of his journal, he assures the reader that his motive in writing is not to entertain them. He tells of his exploits as a spiteful civil servant, his skill at making people unhappy and his reason for staying at a job he despised and hated. Once he has made his cheerlessness and lack of mirth clear, he proceeds to expound on his situation, as well as the Continue reading...

A few years after Doris Lessing’s wrote the Grass is Singing, Richard Wright releases yet one of the most compelling novel the depicts the story of an African American fugitive slave—The Man in the Underground (1945). In this novel, the lead character, Fred Daniels attempts to escape from a corrupt history and a corrupt society. From a privileged house servant, Fred Daniels character develops into an underground criminal. In the course of Daniel’s journey, Wright reveals a layer of racism above ground. This novel is also quite similar to Ralph Elison’s Invisible Man. However, Wright Continue reading...

A remix refers to a derivative work made by combining or modifying existing media. Adam Smith in his article Emergent Remix Culture in an Anonymous Collaborative Art System describes remix as a product of process of taking elements from existing artifacts and changing or recombining these elements to create something new. In the modern society, the remixing concept is prevalent touching on the art and technology fields. Additionally, there are various examples of remixing namely folklore, sampling, graffiti, Wikipedia and film remixing. The internet has been highly effective platform for the “remixing process”-remixes of photos, songs and videos Continue reading...

The age of the earth is something that a lot of scientists, particularly geologists, archaeologists, and paleontologists, have continuously theorized. According to a recent geologic time scale, the earth is estimated to be around four point fifty four billion years old `. There are numerous theories that are currently being studied as to what is the most accurate means of knowing the chronological age of the earth. It is also important to mention that because of the number of theories surrounding the true age of the earth, literatures have been filled with different values. For the purpose of uniformity, however, Continue reading...

Water Supplies in Sun Valley, AZ

Sun Valley is located in Arizona. It is situated along interstate 40. It is 31.56 square miles. Sun Valley has different water supply options. Some of these options are groundwater, surface water and reclaimed water. Groundwater is water found beneath the ground. They are usually in rocks and pores of the soil. Sun Valley is supplied by Arizona’s water supply. Groundwaters that supply Sun Valley are aquifers and wells. Main aquifers in Arizona are stream alluvial and basins fill. Ground water can also be sourced from sedimentary rock. Basin Fills are of three type’s namely carefree formation, Continue reading...

Tenacity

The lab research sought to find out how human activities of overdevelopment affect the sustainability of underground water.
Introduction
Over the years, human development has continuously led to the depletion of groundwater. Water is over pumped from the ground on a near daily basis, leading to continuous reduction of ground water (Environmental and Water Resources Institute & Chang, 2010). Sustainability in that case referred to keeping the quantity of water above average that would ensure it was preserved.

Hypothesis

The water levels drop with continued human activity and development.
Methods
Statistics on the impact of human activities such as forestry, salt Continue reading...

Hydraulic fracturing is a method that allows natural gas and oil to have free movement from the rock pores to a low permeability rock formation where they are trapped to come to the surface. The technology came into place in the 1940s and had been operational in most of the drilling stations. The method uses water, ceramic beads or sand, and other chemicals, as the main materials for the exercise. The mixture is pumped into the surface under high pressure and causes fractures in the rock that extends outward from the bore (Michael 2011). The main function of using Continue reading...

Anti-hero is a literary term that entered in literature in 19th century with Dostoevsky and its usage has flourished since then into the second half of the 20th century. The term has been used to describe protagonist characters in Greek drama and stories. The idea of “hero” sets a base for the definition of an anti-hero. The number of anti-heroes in contemporary literature and the society are growing. Currently, the gap between the heroes and the anti-heroes is narrowing in terms of their moral codes, personality and value judgments. The narrowing of the gap could be caused by the Continue reading...

Compare and Contrast the tone in “The Man who lived Underground” and “Invisible Man”

Richard Wright’s short story “The Man Who Lived Underground” and “Invisible Man” written by Ralph Ellison, tell the story of two men, and although they are different in thought, if examined carefully one will realize that they share an underlying theme. Richard Wright’s story tells of a man who lived in the city sewers because he was running from the law after he was accused of murder. In Ellison’s story, the main character and the narrator go underground and remains there in anticipation that things will change from oppression to equality for all.
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Written by Dostoevsky Fyodor, “Notes from the Underground” is a narration made by an anonymous person. Only known as the “Underground Man”, the protagonist introduces himself to the readers as a forty-year-old man living in St. Petersburg Russia. Dostoevsky communicates conflicting ideologies through the main character and in turn, makes said character’s views about life unreliable if not unbelievable. This paper seeks to identify specific instances in the book that bring doubts on the authenticity of the Underground Man while making said authenticity the central issue in the book.
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Internet Encyclopedia of Garbage

Web Site No.: 1
Page Title: The Truth about Nitrite in Lunch Meat
Organization Operating Server: Livescience
Hyperlink: LIVESCIENCE.COM
Brief Justification of Web Site as Appropriate:
The website is appropriate because it explains the harmful side of nitrite preservatives in meets. While sodium nitrite helps fight harmful bacteria in harmful meats, it may damage cells or chance into cancer-causing molecules. Nitrites may also disable the oxygen-carrying capacity of blood.

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Page Title: The Nitrate and Nitrite Myth: another reason not to fear bacon
Organization Operating Server: Chris Kresser
Hyperlink: THE NITRATE AND NITRITE MYTH:
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Introduction

Water is one the most valuable resources in the whole world. For every country to be able to support ecosystem and for a successful socio-economic development, there must exist water. Countries in arid land such as Kuwait find it very difficult to get this most valuable resource and have to go the extra mile to get water (Howard, 2014). The most common method of water provision in Kuwait is through the underground water and desalination process. This paper is set to analyzing the two provision methods to find out what impact they have in terms of cost and how Continue reading...

Tort means a civil wrong. In the given case, firstly, it is to be noted that mining is an underground activity. John is incorrect in claiming that he did not trespass Dana’s land, since while mining in his own property he went beyond the border beneath the surface of the earth thus encroaching Dana’s property; and, vide the maxim “cuius est solem, eius est usque ad coelum et ad infernos” meaning that whoever owns the land, owns it all the way to the heavens and to hell. John further claims to have unintentionally mined in Dana’s Continue reading...

Introduction

Cycling is one of the world’s most common methods of transport. It is also a recreational activity that different people participate. To some countries, cycling is not reliable as a method of transport following the extensive challenges that it is believed to hold. However, the case is different in Netherlands. Citizens of the country have considered cycling as the safest method of transport. This has been as a result of consideration for various elements such as the rate of road accidents, and cost of maintaining other methods of transport such as cars. Netherlands has approximately 31.2% of its Continue reading...

Even though there are virtuous heroes in fiction, an antihero does not usually fight for a greater cause, nor does he stand up for an ideal; he is typically selfish, self-aggrandizing, and often emotionally tortured or damaged in some way. An antihero hardly ever takes the overt side of the good or bad guys, instead acting according to his own interests, making him slightly more complex than your typical goody-two-shoes hero. Fyodor Dostoyevsky's dark 1864 book Notes from the Underground tells the story of the Underground Man, a rambling, incoherent, and bitter civil servant in St. Petersburg. The novel's Continue reading...

Whenever reading any written work of art, the reader always gets fascinated by the heroes of the story and more often want to identify with the said hero. But there are instances where anti heroes dominate the work and find themselves being followed closely by the readers. But wait, what totals up to make a character an anti hero, better still, who is an anti hero? An anti hero is that character who is the rival in the traditional hero or protagonist in a work of art. They do not possess the expected qualities that can enable them to Continue reading...

Introduction

An estimate of 861 billion tons of coal deposits exist worldwide. According to the present rate of production, this amount can last for 112 yrs contrary to the oil and gas reserves that will last for fewer years approximately 45 to 54. Several countries in the world have coal reserves found in the biggest ones are China, Russia, USA and India. To prove recoverable reserves, engineers drill on the ground hence technically and economically extractable.
In contemporary times, reaching peak coal is questionable due to fall in the ratio of reserves to production. The point when there is maximum Continue reading...

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The main aim of this study is to conduct a research about the artificial methods of storing water in California while considering all the financial characteristics. This research will include two artificial (Manmade) methods of storing water in the state of California which will include; surface water such as Cisterns, Dams and aqueduct. Underground water will include pipelines, aquifers, canals and reservoirs.

Introduction

California’s water management system is arguably among the most innovative and complex artificial methods of storing water in the world. In California, colossal amounts of water are confined, stored, and then delivered through manmade features to Continue reading...

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Water is the most important source of life. Survival of any living organism without water is impossible. Though a large part of the earth is constituted of water, the supply of fresh water is limited to only 3% of the total amount of water found on the earth's surface. With the demand for fresh and clean water rising across the world, it is time for us to think seriously about the importance of water conservation. There are several engineering and behavioral practices which, if adopted by us at home, industries and other spheres of work and life, can reduce Continue reading...

Introduction

Geothermal energy is a source of energy that has become very common as a sustainable energy source in numerous countries across the world. Geothermal energy owes its origin to volcanic activity that occurs in the earth’s core and mantle. Rain water or water form surface runoff may collect in underground reservoirs of water. The volcanic activity below such reservoirs heats the water. The water is normally trapped such that it cannot escape. This leads to build up of a lot of pressure causing it to become superheated. Eventually, the water rises to the surface through fault lines on Continue reading...

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The time machine is a story of the time traveler who undertakes expeditious actions of establishing a time machine which ultimately projects into the future. The traveler’s time machine goes way in to 802701 AD, where he finds himself in a different world. According to the narrator, the traveler’s bumps into small creatures, which are referred to as Eloi. Unfortunately, the traveler’s time machine disappears and explores all means to find the time machine. During his exploration actions in search for the time machine, he discovers other creatures which to Eloi refer to as the Morlocks. Continue reading...

Notes from the Underground chronicles the story of a man who has essentially separated himself from society in every way possible; this character, called the Underground Man, shares his thoughts and feelings with the reader throughout the text. Like many of Dostoyevsky's heroes, the Underground Man consistently expresses his discontent with society as a whole, continuously lamenting its ills and feeling severely detached and isolated (Dostoyevsky). The character of the Underground Man is full of self-loathing, and the reader becomes lost in his head: his logic, so shaped by this self-loathing, becomes twisted and self-affirming.
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- Introduction
Gun control is one of the major problems in the society especially in the united states. There has been a number of cases that involves the shooting of individuals in the united states. The homicide rates in the United States are higher compared to any other country in the world. Some of the worst shootings have occurred recently such the Sandy Hook Elementary School where 26 children were killed.
- Chicago underground gun market
Chicago has higher rates of underground market because the place is filled with people who are of poor background or are in the Continue reading...

In 1820, in Maryland, an Africa-American girl was born into slavery (Abnett, 3); a usual occurrence at that time. What makes her outstanding however is what she later became. The girl, born as Araminta Harriet Ross, later became a humanitarian, military spy, soldier, women’s activist and abolitionist of great repute. She dedicated her lifetime to fighting slavery, and helped many slaves to escape from slavery (Elish, 9). She became synonymous was the underground railroad as it was the passage through which she guided escaped slaves to freedom. It is such fact that she is also referred to as Continue reading...

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Women were actively involved in shaping the colonial past of Canada. Colonial relationships of power were expresses locally in different times and places that were grounded in the materiality of women’s day-to-day lives. However, many historians tend to overlook the plight of women during the colonial period as well as their role in the development of colonies. However, Margaret Atwood, among other individuals, featured imperial women in her written works. She wrote poems that sought to describe the experience that British immigrants had in Canada during the colonial period. This paper seeks to compare and contrast representations of Continue reading...

I/We have been assigned one of the most expensive metals, Platinum. It has widely application in dental implants, automotive catalytic converters (Rao & Reddi, 2000), biomedical implants such as catheters, stents, cardiac implants (Cowley & Woodward, 2011), manufacturing of optical glass, manufacturing of fuel cells (McDonald & Hunt, 1982) and jewelry.

Platinum ore deposits

Platinum ore contains palladium, iridium, rhodium, osmium and ruthenium, along with platinum. Platinum ore forms a) Placer deposits: Placer deposits are formed by water-based erosion of sedimentary rocks containing the ore (Example. Ural-Alaskan type). b) Layered igneous lode deposits: Such deposits are emplaced on stable cratons. Examples: South Africa as the Continue reading...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky's existentialist 1864 novel Notes from the Underground tells the tale of the Underground Man, a rambling, incoherent, and bitter civil servant in St. Petersburg. The novel's story is told from the perspective of this strange and mercurial character, in the form of monologues and diary entries that convey the man's potentially skewed perspective. While we see the world through his eyes (and therefore his morals), the Underground Man is most decidedly an anti-hero in his actions and attitudes. Unlike most virtuous heroes in fiction, an anti-hero does not fight for a greater cause, nor does he stand Continue reading...

What is an Anti-hero?

Heroes are often the subject of fictional fantasies that most children often look upon as a symbol of strength, power and good will. In real life heroes are regarded as the exceptional individual that makes a difference in everything they do. However, like any other fictional stories if there’s a hero, there will always be a villain or otherwise the “anti-heroes”, Most often than not, the anti-heroes are the ones that defines the hero because the villains pushes the heroes to the edge of their strength. In a more realistic world, anti-heroes are not the usual image of Continue reading...

IS THE GDP OVERRATED?

Introduction
Gross Domestic Product (the GDP) is accepted as one of the main economic indicators. By definition, the GDP is the sum of the values of all the goods and services produced in specific time period in a country by using the current prices. We consider that high amount of production allows us to build a well-designed civilization. If a country can produce more than the needs of the citizens and export the excess production to the other countries, then this country can reach the desired goals. In another word, the GDP is generally accepted as an indicator of Continue reading...

Throughout history, different kinds of tales have been written revolving around different kinds of themes, and in every tale, there is always a main character, sometimes known as the protagonist. The main character is often also known as the hero or heroine of the story. However, when the main character is profoundly imperfect in some way, but lacks in the characteristics and qualities that are typically possessed by a hero, then such a main character is known as an anti-hero. The anti-hero is usually a reluctant main character who believes that he does not have the ability to accomplish Continue reading...

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Information systems have been seen to help in simplifying business processes. It has been seen that information systems reduces cost of business operations. Information systems are by no means a source of competitive advantage. Many organizations are investing towards information systems to reap the benefits that are associated. Information systems have been known to enhance business processes and bring competitive advantage for many organizations. With the proliferation of technology and the increase in use of automation, there has been a need to have information systems installed and managed to get the best out of them. Continue reading...

Notes from Underground is a highly acclaimed novel written by one of the greatest novelists Fyodor Dostoevsky. Dostoevsky is distinguished for weaving philosophical and theological threads in his brilliant narratives and the same is reflected in his novel notes from underground which was written in the year, 1864. Notes from underground is regarded as first existentialist novel. The author portrays a dreadful individual who deceive himself knowingly or un knowingly. The novel is divided in two parts; first part of the novel is told as monologue and is in the form of a diary which belongs to an underground Continue reading...

Transport management in Olympics plays a huge role in ensuring that bidding for countries interested in hosting the event. During the bidding process countries are required to come up with transport management plan that benefits the country athletes visiting and a fulfilling experience. the bidding process helps the Olympics board to evaluate a country’s facilities ensuring that outside visitor and spectators are enough for the population in that period of time. In many countries where the Olympics have been held the change and infusion of new technologies and expansion of different roads has been an opportunity to grow Continue reading...

Dowsing is a method used to locate underground objects of interest such as water, valuable minerals, and unmarked graves. Early dowsing was also referred to as water witching since it was mostly used to locate the presence of underground water. Dowsers use a forked divining stick when locating underground minerals and water. The stick is gripped inflexibly in each hand with the forkedend pointing upwards. As they walk over the ground, the stick is twisted suddenly as though moved by a powerful unseen energy. The stick is turned, and the forkedend points down to indicate the location of the Continue reading...

Natural gas resources will continue to play a significant role in the sustainability and objective of having an independent, self sufficient energy mix for the United States in the coming years. With its objective of being able to increase its use of clean energy in the mix, American energy sector policy makers are looking to harness the extensive stores of natural gas that have become commercially viable resulting from the use of cutting edge technology in the fields of “horizontal drilling” and “hydraulic fracturing” that have allowed operators to extract greater amounts of oil and natural gas from shale Continue reading...

Fig 1: NDRC Techniques

Introduction

Non-Disruptive Road Crossings are manuals which outline unifying and standardizing measures of Road Engineering Practices. The significant objective of the project is to enhance the management, planning, design, construction, maintenance, and operation of all roads and related infrastructures to ensure a safe and uniform operational and structural capacity throughout the road network in Dubai. The complexity in road construction and to some point other engineering projects leaves very little to be argued about on their significance with respect to the influence they have on the environment. It is a fact that projects like roads, bridges, Continue reading...

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Geothermal energy refers to natural heat stored underground beneath the earth’s crust. On the ground surface the energy is evident in form of hot and altered ground, hot springs and fumaroles. The energy is tapped by sinking geothermal wells underground. The high temperature and pressure fluid is extracted and through carefully built wells and designed network of pipes and channels the hot steam to the plant turbine to generate electricity. The steam and water are extracted at very high pressure and temperature. The application of geothermal energy has gained popularity globally because of its environmental Continue reading...

Fig 1: NDRC Techniques

Introduction

Non-Disruptive Road Crossings are manuals which outline unifying and standardizing measures of Road Engineering Practices. The significant objective of the project is to enhance the management, planning, design, construction, maintenance, and operation of all roads and related infrastructures to ensure a safe and uniform operational and structural capacity throughout the road network in Dubai. The complexity in road construction and to some point other engineering projects leaves very little to be argued about on their significance with respect to the influence they have on the environment. It is a fact that projects like roads, bridges, Continue reading...