Spring and Fall
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A 3 page paper which compares and contrasts the seasons of Spring and Fall. No sources cited.
Filename: RAspfa.rtf

Stonehenge and the Development of Archaeology
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A 5 page paper which discusses Stonehenge and examines how excavations have been, and can, prove beneficial to the development of archaeology. While over-excavating can prove incredibly harmful to this historical site, if done properly much may be learned. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: RAstnehg.rtf

Sulphur Dioxide
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This 5 page paper considers the public health problem of sulphur dioxide and the impacts. This paper provides a methodology for studying this issue. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
Filename: MHSulphD.rtf

Summarization: Black Holes and Cosmology
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5 pages in length. Reviews two articles, one on black holes, and one article on cosmology. The review and discussion of each article are included in this paper. In the first article analysts speculate something unusual is happening at the center of the Milky Way, near Sagittarius. The theorists believe there may be one gigantic black hole taking in mass, or a set of smaller black holes. The second article points out that several scientists still firmly believe in the big bang theory despite the arguments concerning the dark-matter problem as well as the causality problem and the age problem.
Filename: JGAastrn.wps

The 1985 Mexico City Earthquake
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This 5 page paper discusses the devastating earthquake in Mexico City in 1985 from a geological perspective. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: HVmexquk.rtf

The 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake
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11 pages in length. It was at 5:04 P.M. on Tuesday, October 17, 1989, and more than sixty-two thousand fans were inside Candlestick Park for the third game of the World Series. At the same time the San Francisco Bay Area commute started into its heaviest flow. It was exactly at this time that a Richter magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck California. It was, as some have described it, an emergency planner's worst-case scenario. This paper considers some of the major challenges faced during this disaster. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
Filename: JGAquake.wps

The Atacama Desert
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This 11 page paper provides an overview of the Atacam Desert. The Atacama Desert of Northern Chile is considered by some to be the driest desert in the world. The distinctness of the phy1ical characteristics of this desert come from both location and landforms, and this also determines the nature of the desert as a biome. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: MHAtacam.rtf

The Basic Principles of Physics: An Examination of the Contentions of Nineteenth Century Physicist Albert Michelson
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A 4 page examination of Michelson's contention that in regard to physics "most of the grand underlying principles have now been firmly established and that further advances are to be sought chiefly in the rigorous application of these principles to all the phenomena which come under our notice". The author contends that Michelson's contention is still applicable even today. While we continue to make "astonishing" discoveries, we have yet to conclusively demonstrate that the basic physical processes underlying those discoveries significantly deviate from the basic physical principles known by Michelson. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: PPphysic.rtf

The Benefits of Integrated Pest Management
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5 pages. The purpose of integrated pest management is to utilize the management of destruction by pests to crops and other agriculture with as little damage to the environment as possible. By using a system of integration we can cut down on the harmful chemicals and poisons that often harm the ecological balance. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: JGAipest.rtf