Hybrid Electric Vehicles The Dark Side John Orttenburger Lake Superior State University April 10‚ 2011 Abstract In the past decade‚ hybrid electric vehicles (HEV) have been making a big commotion with the innovative‚ gas saving technologies that accompany them. The illusion that HEVs are 100 percent environmentally friendly in all aspects also follows the HEV wave. Sadly the illusion often wins over unsuspecting customers the instant better gas mileage is offered. This review on the environmental
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San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle Thursday‚ January 3‚ 2013 Zero Dark Thirty "Zero Dark Thirty" arrives in theaters already surrounded by controversy. Three U.S. senators (John McCain‚ Carl Levin and Dianne Feinstein) have called the film "grossly inaccurate and misleading" for its suggestion that the CIA’s use of torture led to the capture and killing of Osama bin Laden. Director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal have countered that their movie does not favor torture but does accurately
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Paul Bogard‚ in his essay “Let There Be Dark” expounds on the idea that many cities around the globe should limit the amount of light produced and have more darkness all this at a time when many metropolitan cities like Chicago‚ Paris and Tokyo are more busy at night and therefore decide to use more light and energy. Bogard’s purpose is to explain to his audience such as the general public that many cities on the planet shouldn’t use too much light because it has detrimental effects‚ both physically
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How would you feel if you spent your whole life always in the dark and never got a chance to see the true light? Would you appreciate it more? Well‚ that is exactly how Emily Dickinson lived her life wondering‚ and dreaming about this “LIGHT” and “DARKNESS”. In her two poems “ Before I got my eye put out” and “We Grow Accustomed to the Dark‚” you get a glimpse of exactly how she pictured this “light and “darkness”‚ it’s not just a physical appearance but metaphorically too. Dickinson seemed to
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Frankenstein Essay One of the reasons the movie‚ The Dark Knight‚ has done so well is because it toyed with the viewer’s sense of morality. In one of the scenes the hero‚ Bruce Wayne‚ had to choose between saving Harvey Dent‚ a district attorney‚ or Rachel‚ who was Harvey’s girlfriend. Ultimately‚ Bruce had chosen Harvey and left Rachel to die‚ causing the downfall of Harvey Dent to become a vicious murderer. This brought the question in the viewer’s mind whether Harvey was responsible for letting
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that everyone is consumed by the things of the world‚ so much so that they do not see what’s really going on around them." People didn’t have their own memories in this reality‚ but instead implanted memories created by The Witch of the Dark. The Witch of the Dark brought about polluted air‚ tele-lie-vision‚ smartphone gadgets‚ bias media‚ violence and obesity just to corrupt their minds. She made people care less about the health of the environment and themselves. Christophe didn’t know it yet‚ but
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On the other side of Rembrandt’s works‚ basically he used the light to create a strong contrast between light and dark in his drawing‚ painting. The light and dark in his works often go alternate or the light just focus on one direction to catch people attention at the points that he wanted to express. In my opinion‚ the ways that Rembrandt showed the light and dark in his painting can express a quiet moments‚ and deeply inside people heart. Whenever I looked at his art works‚ it can bring me a
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Often referred to as the “dark ages”‚ a phrase first introduced by Renaissance scholar Petrarch‚ the term referred to medieval Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire. As Petrarch so eloquently puts it‚ the “dark ages” received their name because of a lack of progress in education‚ social and entertainment‚ however‚ the “dark ages” saw dramatic rise in new national and cultural identities across the European continent. By replacing one vast large empire‚ new smaller ruling monarchies such as the
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In the leaves‚ there are mesophyll cells that have chloroplasts‚ where the photosynthesis occurs. During experiment‚ two leaves were tested for the presence and localization of starch. One leaf was a light-grown plant with mask‚ and the other was a dark-grown plant with mask. Both leaves were soaked in iodine solution and then rinsed in order to observe the pattern of staining. According to the result‚ the light-grown leaf’s masked areas had no blue-black coloration and the unmasked area turned
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Zero Dark Thirty Zero Dark Thirty depicts the story of history’s greatest manhunt for the world’s most dangerous man. It begins with a black display with emergency dispatch calls from the terrorist attack on September 11‚ 2001. The main character‚ Maya‚ joined the CIA after high school and was committed to finding Osama Bin Laden. Maya was in search of Bin Laden before 911‚ and his attacks on home soil that sparked a much grander effort by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and from the assist
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