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Life Elsewhere in the Galaxy, 2000.
A look at evidence which may prove that alien life exists in other parts of the galaxy.
1,023 words (approx. 4.1 pages), 5 sources, AU$ 39.95
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This paper exames the possibility that life does exist in other star systems in this galaxy and argues that it is very likely.
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"A helpful tool used to estimate the number of technological civilizations that might exist among the stars was developed in 1961 by Dr. Frank Drake. Called the Drake Equation, it identifies specific factors thought to play a role in the development of such civilizations. Some of the things taken into consideration is the rate of formation of suitable stars on which life might exist, the fractions of those stars with planets, the fraction of planets where life develops, and other such things (The Drake Equation)."
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Digital Artefact and Gutenberg Galaxy, 2002.
An examination of the idea of digital artefacts and the Gutenberg Galaxy.
1,400 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 6 sources, AU$ 57.95
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This six-page paper looks at the idea of digital artefacts and how they affect the world and the media. Furthermore, the paper looks at the Gutenberg Galaxy and the online service where it is possible to retrieve data and information at the touch of a button.
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Radio Galaxies, 1972.
This paper explanations and hypotheses for these radio galaxies.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 6 sources, AU$ 42.95
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"Cygnus A is the best known of the group of dumbbell galaxies. It consists of two nuclei in a common halo. It could be an extreme case of double galaxies. Galaxies are often radio sources.. Cygnus A is so-called because of the constellation in which it is located.. The galaxies at the center of radio star Cygnus A are photographed with the 200-inch telescope. These galaxies are practically at the limit of present optical observation. However, they are one of the strongest radio sources in the sky. Minkowski interprets Cygnus A as two galaxies, of about 100 billion stars each, in head-on collision - a catastrophe of tremendous magnitude. A different interpretation is that these two galaxies are the fragments of one original galaxy undergoing fission, that is, blowing apart in an explosion that must be just as violent as Minkowski's ... "
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The Milky Way, 2007.
An exploration of the Milky Way galaxy.
1,512 words (approx. 6.0 pages), 3 sources, MLA, AU$ 53.95
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This paper provides an overview of the Milky Way galaxy, named for the hazy band of light that stretches across the dark skies of the night. It looks at how, although this system (usually referred to as a spiral galaxy, much like the Andromeda galaxy) has created much wonder and awe since the beginning of human civilization, it was not until 1610 that its true nature was discovered by Galileo when he turned his small refracting telescope toward the night sky to reveal that the Milky Way was composed of countless individual stars, nebula and other astronomical bodies, many of which remained mysterious and unknown well into the 20th century.
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"Looking from the Earth at the Milky Way, one obtains two distinct views--first, in the direction of the poles, the density of the stars decreases dramatically, meaning that at the poles, the stars are far apart and are set against a very dark background. Second, looking along the equatorial plane, the closest stars are situated against a faint but luminous band, being "the blended light of billions of stars in the galaxy's disc. In 1785, astronomer William Herschel, by using a 48-inch reflector telescope of his own construction, counted the stars in more than 600 regions of the sky and concluded that "the majority are concentrated along a plane and that the galaxy is disc-shaped with the Sun at its center" (Parker, 1988, 156). "
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Typographic Man, 2005.
An examination of Alison Harwood's review of McLuhan's "The Gutenberg Galaxy".
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 3 sources, AU$ 57.95
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The paper discusses how handwritten script and the printed book cannot be considered equally responsible for the development of typographic man. The paper analyzes Alison Harwood's review of McLuhan's "The Gutenberg Galaxy". Rather, as this essay will contend, while script was important as a media for millennia, it was only through print technology that the signifying symbols of script could be mass produced in fixed, essentially identical, formats. The paper concludes that it was this mass production of fixed texts that altered human culture on such a broad scale as to lead to the development of what McLuhan terms the "typographic man".
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"Alison Harwood, in her review of Marshall McLuhan's The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man, describes the key components of McLuhan's theory of how the development of print technology led to a fundamental transformation of human culture and human perception of the world. Print technology involved the mechanization of the scribal craft. This allowed the production of consistently identical texts and led to uniformity and homogeneity of spelling and grammar, ultimately promoting individual authorship and the ownership of intellectual property."
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Black Hole, 2002.
This paper attempts to dispel the claim that there is a growing black hole in our galaxy.
1,038 words (approx. 4.2 pages), 1 source, MLA, AU$ 39.95
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The paper uses scientific data to support the claim that based on what is known by astronomers both about black holes and about our galaxy. The author finds that the scenario of a growing black hole is unlikely and would have already been discovered by multiple laboratories that exist to monitor our skies. The writer continues with a forecast of defense for which scientists are prepared in the event of the threat of a black hole.
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"The Schwarzschild radius also helps marks the point at which the gravity is so great that no state of matter can withstand it. This distance falls at approximately a factor of twice the Schwarzschild radius; the exact value has not been determined. However, the effect of its gravity on distant orbiting objects remains unchanged. The gravity pull is determined as a force originating at and acting on the centers of the objects. When the star collapses into a black hole, its center of mass remains the same, thus having no effect on the orbiting objects."
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Black Holes, 2002.
An exploration of the mysterious phenomenon of 'black holes' in space, definition and theories.
1,428 words (approx. 5.7 pages), 5 sources, MLA, AU$ 51.95
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This paper looks at black holes in terms of the most prevalent theories. It first, defines what we have come to understand as a black hole. It then touches upon how black holes are documented and measured. Thirdly, it examines the black hole believed to be at the center of our own Milky Way galaxy. Finally, it explores the prevalent hypothesis that black holes are in fact the genesis of all galaxies.
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"Gravity is the cause of black holes. A black hole is the unlimited and irresistible force of ultimate gravity in the universe. To understand how a black hole is created, it is helpful to understand a bit about the basics of gravity. Imagine shooting an arrow into the sky. The harder you shoot the arrow, the farther it will go in attempting to escape the pull of the Earth's gravity. If you were to use a big enough bow with enough force you could help the arrow reach speeds exceeding 7miles per second which is the escape velocity for the Earth. Escape velocity indicates the minimum speed necessary to beat the pull of the planet's gravitational core (Cowen , 390). The strength of the gravitational pull of the core is determined by the density and mass of the core. The denser and more massive that the core is, the greater the gravitational pull. If you were to drop a ball to the center of the earth, the gravitational forces would crush it into an ever shrinking volume requiring even greater amounts of force to help it reach escape velocity. As the greatest theoretical speed for any physical object in the universe is that of light (which travels at 186 thousand miles per second) a mass large and dense enough can actually exert so much force that not even light can achieve escape velocity. The object that can pull even light into it and keep it from escaping is a black hole."
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The Hubble Space Telescope, 2004.
An analysis of the world's first Earth-orbiting reflecting telescope, the Hubble Space Telescope (HST).
3,346 words (approx. 13.4 pages), 6 sources, MLA, AU$ 103.95
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This paper discusses the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), the first Earth-orbiting reflecting telescope. The paper examines how the Hubble Space Telescope serves a vital function in increasing our knowledge of the universe. The paper explains that since its launch in 1990, despite several crucial problems, it has revealed a universe full of mysterious bodies, nebula, star systems and galaxies and has expanded the possibilities that humankind is not alone in the universe.
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"The first scientific idea for a telescope such as the HST came about in 1946 when Lyman Spitzer issued a proposal for a space telescope with a primary mirror between sixteen and fifty feet in diameter. Throughout the 1960's and 1970's, with the ultraviolet observatories OAO-2, OAO 3 and the IUE in the planning stages, the space telescope remained only a dream, due to the lack of technology. Yet Spitzer did not give up, for by the 1970's he had offered another proposal for a space telescope which would be able to provide images of very faint objects as contrasted to ground-based telescopes which suffer from distortion due to the Earth's atmosphere. According to Spitzer, such a telescope would not "supplement our present ideas of the universe we live in, but rather would uncover new phenomena not yet imagined and perhaps would modify profoundly our basic concepts of space and time" (42)."
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Kirk Motors, 2006.
A discussion on the development of Kirk Motors.
3,800 words (approx. 15.2 pages), 7 sources, MLA, AU$ 112.95
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This paper begins with a brief history and workings of Kirk Motors. It highlights that this organization needs specific software to grow and expand in new directions. The paper reviews different kinds of suitable software. The author gives a summary and offers an opinion on the most advantageous software for Kirk Motors.
Contents: Executive Summary
Introduction
Thesis Statement
Analysis
The offerings from the biggest
One of the solutions
The method at South Pacific
Galaxy
Other available systems
Conclusion
References
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"The business of Kirk Motors seems to be concentrated in one store in Cayman Islands. The organization already has a relatively large number of computers and printers, but they are being operated only as simple printers with pre-recorded prices of components. They are probably not being used as computers, and it does not seem that they much of software for the purpose of sales. At the same time, it is important for an organization to have records of 23,500 different components as it would be difficult to otherwise to even know what they have. In that context, the involvement of $30,000 in unaccounted stocks does not seem to be very high and may have occurred due to lack of knowledge among employees, or even defalcations by some employees. Thus the solution to that part of the problem is further education of the employees through seminars, circulars, or any other method that the organization has been following earlier. In any case, if the items are missing, then only the police can find them, and no software system can do much about it."
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Marian Anderson and Paul Robeson, 2003.
Examines and details the influence that music had on the lives of African-American singers, Marian Anderson and Paul Robeson.
2,024 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 11 sources, APA, AU$ 69.95
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Marian Anderson and Paul Robeson were two of America's greatest singers. They both shared a penchant for music that continued with them through their entire lives, and both were two of the first black Americans "to win secure places in the galaxy of concert stars" by the mid-1950s. Although they shared a similar passion, their careers and lives were extremely different. When faced with political situations throughout her singing career, Marian chose to remain relatively silent. Robeson, on the other hand, voiced his opinions about race relations to the entire country and was extremely involved in the political situation of the times. This paper, however, does not delve into the lives of these two icons beyond their music. Instead, it concentrates on what role music played in Marian Anderson's and Paul Robeson's lives , what types of music they were attracted to and for what reasons.
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"Perhaps because Robeson had been singing for his own inner strength all his life that he was extremely singular in what he chose to sing. For example, in 1924 he gave solo concerts, singing the songs of H.T. Burleigh and by doing so "confirming that he had a potential concert career." Robeson did not like the classical European concert style of Burleigh's renditions, though. He preferred "the pure original spirituals arranged by Rosamond Johnson" and "he kept on working on them privately." From 1925 onwards he decided to sing solely spirituals and folk songs of other countries."
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Edwin Hubble, 2005.
An analysis of Edwin Hubble's impact on 20th century cosmology and astronomy.
1,229 words (approx. 4.9 pages), 5 sources, MLA, AU$ 44.95
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This paper covers Hubble's time and place in his scientific era, a compact biography and a brief explanation of his scientific achievements. It looks at how he discovered that there are more galaxies than just the Milky Way and how he tackled two of the most fundamental questions about the universe, its age and size.
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"Born in 1889, Edwin Hubble grew to be a very "large mass of ego," as author Bill Bryson states in A Short History of Nearly Everything (2003) (114). He was born in a small Missouri town on the edge of the Ozarks and grew up in Wheaton, Illinois; on the outskirts of Chicago. His father was a successful insurance executive, so life was always calm and Hubble abiding. Accordingly, Hubble was remarked to be a tough and poised athlete, charismatic, chic, and immensely good-looking-"handsome almost to a fault," in the words of William H. Cropper; as well as "an Adonis" in the words of another admirer (115). These fated gifts were used more or less in constant acts of valor-rescuing drowning swimmers, leading frightened men to safety across the battlefields of France, embarrassing world-champion boxers with knockdown punches in exhibition bouts."
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Discoveries in Astronomy, 2002.
This paper looks at recent findings in astronomy.
1,400 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 5 sources, AU$ 57.95
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This undergraduate essay discusses several recent findings and discoveries in the world of astronomy in 2003. The author examines the discoveries of a new galaxy thirteen-billion light years away, the finding of an unsuspected neighboring star of earth's sun, and several other new developments.
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Globular Star Clusters, 2002.
A look at open star clusters.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 4 sources, AU$ 47.95
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This paper examines open star clusters. Open star clusters offer insight into the distances to galaxies and the age of the universe. The most recent research suggests the universe is 13.7 billion years old.
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"Sizing Up Black Holes", 2002.
A look at a report about the existence of black holes.
1,400 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 2 sources, AU$ 57.95
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This paper examines Black Holes. It commences with theoretical speculation about the link between galaxy formation and black holes. Proving the existence of black holes through the discovery of event horizons is also examined.
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Black Holes, 2002.
Examines the phenomenon of black holes in space.
3,150 words (approx. 12.6 pages), 5 sources, AU$ 125.95
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Current theories indicate that there are three types of black holes and each is examined. Theories also may provide information on the creation of galaxies.
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Supernovae - Their Origins, Deaths, and Effects, 2000.
1,459 words (approx. 5.8 pages), 3 sources, AU$ 52.95
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This paper covers the following topics: what are supernovae; the history of the supernovae; supernovae in our Galaxy: how they are formed; nomenclature; how they affect us.
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" A supernova is the cataclysmic explosion of a big mass star, which releases a huge quantity of light instantaneously, occurring approximately twice per century. Astronomers have been observing supernovae in our skies since the times of Christian Huygens, Simon Marius, Messier, Brache and Kepler. Fritz Zwicky was the first to use the term supernova to describe lights that were much brighter than any other star or planetary body visible in the sky. "
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