During many Calculus courses the Concept of Limits are taught to students by showing them how, but not why. ... Now Limits have certain rules to follow if they want to be Limits. ... Since, we already know about the rule of left and right hand limits so we"re one third of the way there. ... This is used when your dividing expressions with variables such as x^3 or x to the third power. ... Limits are an integral part of calculus. ...

• Word Count: 614
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Another early calculating tool was called the "Slide Rule". ... The slide rule made multiplication and division much easier. Engineers and scientists used the slide rules until the invention of calculator in the early 1970's. ... Some have the ability to do complicated geometric, algebraic, trigonometric, statistical, and calculus functions. Now calculators operate on electrical power either by batteries, or solar cells. ...

• Word Count: 310
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

The Church held its power throughout the Renaissance but with great power comes great responsibility and some fell victim to greed. "The Pope, who had the responsibility of running the Catholic Church as well, ruled Rome. As the power of the northern city-states grew, the Papacy increasingly became the seat of an international politician rather than a spiritual leader, and many pontiffs fell prey to the vices of corruption and nepotism that often accompanied a position of such power."... The invention of the printing press technology brought about a great power to the people. ...

• Word Count: 2877
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The author talks about how life in the dormitories has radically changes her views on rules and morality of Yale College. ... Hacks main argument seems to be the rules that Yale has implemented on their freshman and sophomore class requiring them to live on campus in college dormitories. ...

• Word Count: 3184
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Our only rule is to stay within the fence. ... Teams are clubs; victories and defeats are real, not made-up; and rules are presumably applied evenly. ... Many sports psychologists and physical educators believe that before age 12, children simply aren't ready to perform the complex sequences of skills that many team sports require, just as calculus would flummox a kid still struggling with long division. ...

• Word Count: 4179
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: High School

I am going to take you through a journey on the back of a traveller that is old and weary. You will recognise the traveller and will know a lot about it. The traveller is on a journey, it has been to the past, is in the present and headed for the future and our traveller is asking questions of the...

• Word Count: 3863
• Approx Pages: 15
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Krannawitter points out, the "Southern demand for federal slave protection represented a demand for an unprecedented expansion of federal power." ... Buchanan said that the Dred Scott decision was proof that the South had no reason for secession, and that the Union "... was intended to be perpetual," but that, "The power by force of arms to compel a State to remain in the Union," was not among the "... enumerated powers granted to Congress." the National Banking Act and the authorization of United States Notes by the Legal Tender Act of 1862. ...

• Word Count: 7511
• Approx Pages: 30
• Grade Level: High School