The notion of a nuclear winter wasteland may be terrifying, but is it realistic? Roland Shainidze Photography/Getty Images The atmosphere is an incredibly complicated system. When you have 5.5 quadrillion tons (4.99 quadrillion metric tons) of gas and countless local, global, terrestrial and ext...
There are also two types of fallout shelters. The first is a private fallout shelter, one built or bought by a person or a family. These types may be converted basements under a person's house, underground shelters built within a yard or shelters built away from a person's home. The s...
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Or it might create fictional characters who are nonetheless portrayed as realistic proxies for the real-life experiences of certain groups (such as pioneers in1883, soldiers in Vietnam inPlatoon, or freed slaves inBeloved). The main characters in1883aren’t real-life historical personages, but t...
He creates a realistic image in the reader's head about seagulls on a frozen river and then people seeking shelter during a storm, then connects it to his views on reason and fact. As a doctor, one must always be current with the new practices, diseases, and technology, so this can ...
Because of the efforts made by corporate executives over the past generation to limit the power of government, business school academics have had little incentive to take a realistic view of the contributions governments make to business success. As a result, these scholars rarely...
Where narrative literature might reach for what Holland describes as “an accurately textured and full ‘realistic’ representation of revolutionary motivation and practice,” poetry largely evades historical responsibility and attempts to reflect emotional truths. Perhaps a deep dive into the vast ...
an essential luxury. All streamers took a hit, butNetflix’s stock had a dizzying plummetas subscribers dropped en masse. Being the industry bellwether, Netflix’s tumble sent the resounding message that having a more defined path to profitability was the new, and clearly more realistic, ...
A longstanding criticism faced by SP experiments is the lack of realistic choices which may affect how respondents select an alternative in such experiments (Patterson, Mostofi, Rezaei, Zacharias & Yazdizadeh, 2017). The current methodology could be further extended with the help of augmented/ ...
A3. I have clear goals for what I want to achieve in life A4. I regard myself as highly ambitious A5. I feel it is urgent that I get on with my career development A6. What I do in the future is not really important (reverse-scored)...