... mentioned. Consistency of temperature is more important than the degree of temperature. Temperature variations is harmful because it leads to the expansion and contraction of the wine in the bottle, hastening the ingress of oxygen - and thereby oxidation. Ullage is the air space present in a bottle of wine between the cork and the surface of the wine. In old wines it is fairly reliable indication of likely quality: the greater the ullage the more suspect the wine. Excessive ullage indicates a loose cork, widely or frequently fluctuating storage temperatures, or low humidity (Gold 31). Some ullage with age is inevitable, but anything more that 12 mm (1/2 inc ...

... professional services was $118 billion in 1995 and is projected to grow at 16.9% to $258 billion by 2000.6 A recent study by the Information Technology Association of America reveals 346,000 IT jobs are currently vacant in U.S. companies, leaving 1 in 10 jobs unfilled.9 The U.S. Commerce Department's Office of Technology Policy report, America's New Deficit: The Shortage of Information Technology Workers, indicates between 1996 and 2006, more than 1.3 million new systems analysts, computer scientists, engineers, and programmers will be required to meet industry's demands.3 The demand for "networking" to facilitate the sharing of information, the expansion of cli ...

... send a message, fax and e-mail are much faster than "pony express". No longer do we have to get logs for the fire, today we just turn up the thermostat. However, these luxuries in life can lead to a lazy and unhealthy lifestyle. To that end, improvements in medical and physical health have been made. Diseases which were once considered deadly and hopeless, are now considered minor annoyances. Vaccines and other treatments have led to the demise of many "killer" diseases. We now know more about nutrition than we ever cared to know before. As a result, people are more diet conscious than ever. People are able to make decisions to eat food that will benefit the ...

... kids stay on the right road in life. Kids need support in order to survive in the "real world". Parents are the only ones tha can give them support in the begings of their lives. Kids will need emotional support to face some of the problems earlier in their life, because of sheer lack of experience. Not knowing how to solve some of the life's problems would only help them get hurt. Thats when the parents play the key role in their life. Financial support is something not all parents can give, but it they can its is really helpfull for the kid. When I say financial support I do not mean giving them spending money any time they ask for it, what I mean is more ...

... The idea is that violent behaviour is learned. Many people suggest that limiting the violent graphic content found on television might lead toward a less violent society. The assumption is that without a catalyst (violent programming), violent behaviour will be less prevelant. I can see how one might think this way; 1. chilren appear to behave more violently than their parents did as children. 2. Today's television has more violent shows, both in abundance and degree. There appears to be a simple causation there. It may be just a corelation. American television networks operate on the supply and demand curve just like any other industry. There has to exist a ...

... career as a matador. Joexic Castilleres was the father of bullfighting. He invented the Traje de Luces(The Suit of Lights). Each of these people have influenced bullfighting in many ways. Today breeders look for the littlest fault in the bull and if found the bull goes to the slaughter house. The bull in Spanish means DEATH so, it doesn’t matter any way they get shipped to be eaten. What the breeder looks for in a bull is if it is aggressive and stubborn. He also checks how big the bull is and to see if he is muscular. He checks to see if his legs are short. The bulls horns have to be big and long, almost perfect. The bull needs big morillos (should ...

... or respond to them. If parents are aware of this, then they should try and act to benefit the child and have the child’s best interest at heart. Next, there is the concept of “goodness of fit”. That phrase refers to the convenient fact that traits are passed on from parents to their children (the child is likely to share qualities or abilities with their parents) and can be brought out by providing the necessary environment. Unfortunately problems arise when the child’s tendencies clash with that of the parents or do not live up to the parent’s expectations. Also, if the child is not provided with an environment that promotes their inborn traits, then there is a ...

... other, following only the guidelines above. PROCESS: In first approaching this POW, I reviewed for what it was exactly this POW was asking for, making a clear mental image of the POW embed itself into my mind. After carefully re-reading the POW and its guidelines, I had a somewhat solid idea of how to approach it. I first made a custom 3x3 chess board, and included the chess pieces (two black and two white). I placed each in their appropriate sections and proceeded to attempt to solve the problem. I calculated it to take each piece a minimal of four moves to reach the other side of the board so I instantly knew I would require 16 boxes for my diagram. But r ...

... keep up with their English- speaking peers" (Schrag 14). After "five to seven years," the time "it typically takes... for children to acquire the second- language skills needed for cognitive and academic pursuits," the students are transitioned into classes which are taught in English (Sjoerdsma 504K2721). This is, of course, how bilingual education should work in theory. This is not, however, the case. Critics of bilingual education say that "the objectives of the classes are confused, the quality of instruction is poor," and the "transition" time, when students transition into regular classes, is murky (Schrag 14). Critics believe that the goals of bilingual ...

... texts we have today are with us because of monks. Beginning in the ninth century, the monks used scriptoria, or writing rooms, to copy different manuscripts. Between the sixth and tenth centuries, the monasteries experienced what one might call a moral decline. The purity and poverty which was the ideal for monks was being abandoned. Simony, the buying of clerical positions, was common, as was the practice of priests being married. In 910, Duke William of Aquataine wanted to do something to correct this problem. He founded the abbey of Cluny, which was an independent monastery. Cluny was kept independent from any kind of secular control. It sought to brin ...