Essays on Flagstaff

Flagstaff is a city that is situate in the northern part of the State of Arizona within the Southwest region of the United States. My initial experience in Flagstaff having come from Kuwait is one to behold. The city has various features that are rare to come across and which I have never experienced before in my native country of Kuwait. Some of the features present in Flagstaff include a pine forest that to the West of the city, significantly different weather from that of Kuwait, the attitude of the Flagstaff community, the seemingly superior resources and economic trends. ...

Uranium (U) element was discovered by a German chemist, Heinrich Klaproth, in 1789. Uranium is a radioactive element with an atomic weight of 238.02891 and an atomic number of 92. The uranium element initially discovered by Heinrich was an oxide, uranium oxide. A French chemist, Eugène-Melchoir Péligot, was the first person to produce pure uranium by reacting it with potassium in a heated platinum crucible. The element’s radioactive properties were established in 1896 by a French physicist known as Antoine Henri Becquerel. Currently, uranium can be extracted from various ores such as carnotite (K2(UO2)2VO4· ...

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The purpose of this project is to provide Flagstaff residents with adequate clean water which they could use for domestic purposes. This initiative is prompted by the needs of the many residents in the area who constantly lack regular supply of clean water in their houses on a daily basis. This project entirely focuses on meeting the needs of the citizens who by and large need this precious resource in their livelihoods. In order to decrease waterborne diseases in this city, a water treatment program will be implemented by the development and research groups. This project will ensure efficiency in delivering ...

As the world changes to become more technologically dependent, the need for power has risen to levels that the common sources of power cannot fully meet. This has led to use of alternative sources of power most of them being environmentally unfriendly. A technological campaign has been launched aiming at producing power by means which do not pollute the environment. This campaign has come to be known as green energy campaign which advocates for tapping of natural energy using appropriate technologies. One of these technologies is the use of solar cells to produce electric power for appliances. One of ...

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Bacillus Subtilis are the organisms that are aerobic, Gram Positive, spore-forming belonging to the Bacillus genus. The organisms are together with other species that are closely related play a crucial role in disease, food poisoning as well as food spoilage. Lack of methods that are standardized for the identification of the organisms whether coming from the food or environment has made the tests to be difficult. Use of morphological as well as physiological tests have offered the best ways to identify organisms in the laboratory although there are inconsistent and lack of reliance in these methods. Identification of an ...