stout‚ cokins and chen | 2 Hailstone Sequences [12 marks] A hailstone sequence is a sequence of integers found by applying the following rule: Hailstone Iteration: For an integer n in a hailstone sequence‚ the next item in the sequence is 3n + 1 if n is odd‚ or n / 2 if n is even. For example‚ the hailstone sequence starting at 6 is 6 3 10 5 16 8 4 2 1. The sequence ends when 1 is reached. The name "hailstone sequence" stems from the way the values in the sequence go up and down‚ as a hailstone
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DISCUSSION GUIDELINES: THE HOLD LIFE HAS: COCA AND CULTURAL IDENTITY IN AN ANDEAN COMMUNITY BY CATHERINE ALLEN In what ways is coca central to Quechua identity? How is this centrality enacted through rituals and other means? How do the runakuna use and think about coca? Religious and social purposes that demonstrate their cultural lifestyle Universal (Spiritual) = despacho being a ritual sacrifice Communication to the earth Regulations are dominate because of the sense its ritual Relations
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Abnormal Psychology Summary of text: The book “The center cannot hold: My Journey Through Madness” written by Elyn Saks is a gripping and eye opening story about her personal battle with the lifetime sentence of Schizophrenia. The book starts out by telling about her childhood in Miami Florida. She lived a normal life‚ for the most part‚ with a normal family who loved and supported her. Though even from an early age she knew something was off. She was a quirky‚ paranoid girl who almost seemed
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Case 10-5 Danle Corporation In November 2008‚ Danle Corporation，a public company engaging in the design‚ development‚ manufacture‚ and assembly of motors，was sued because of safety issue of parts it manufactured. Danle made no disclosure of the lawsuit in Form 10-K since it determined that the risk of potential loss was remote and no amount of potential damages could be reasonably estimated. In October 2009‚ Danle was served a second complaint for the same reason. Danle’s external counsel believed
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In a bitter turn of events‚ rahmun ends up going to prison for 10 years leaving mini heartbroken for a while. But 10 years is a long time and the little girl grows up and forgets all about her best friend from Afghanistan. On rahmun’s return things aren’t the same as they were 10 years ago. Mini is getting married and she no longer recognizes the cabuliwallah. Reality strikes hard and rahmun realises that his own daughter too must have grown up as much as mini has and that he has responsibilities
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a Friday‚” says my mom. She asked me to go to with her to work this Friday to help out with the staff after school. I roll my eyes‚ annoyed by even the idea of going to that old boring mental institution. I sigh. I don’t have a choice when it comes to me and my mother. “It sounds like so much fun‚” I say sarcastically. “Sarah‚ you’ll be fine‚” replys my mom. I ignore her and go to school. After school‚ I walk towards the parking lot and already I see my mom waiting for me in her car. I walk towards
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beautiful. What is the true definition of beauty and why does it have such a significant impact on the lives of many? Also is there even a real definition of true beauty if society’s view is frequently changing? The risks one is willing to take to attain what society claims to be beautiful is inconceivable. Despite the negative effects of what may happen to them people are still willing to take the risk. Beauty is a topic that has no rights or wrong ‚ so what is considered to be beautiful‚ what are the
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What is the correct behaviors of myself in the university ? After attending 10 weeks Psychology lecture‚ I have understood more about it and found it more interesting. Psychology is no longer a professional term that occurs in book for me. There is a Psychology term which is diffusion of responsibility that really happens in my university life. I am the sub-committee of the joint departmental singing contest and I am now doing many decorations to decorate the venue of the contest with other department’s
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Subject: Write an explication of After Apple Picking. Robert Frost’s poem‚ After Apple-Picking‚ describes the personal reflections of an elderly man who lives on an apple orchard. This old man has lived a good life‚ and now must contemplate its quality and meaning. By performing an honest assessment of his past‚ the old man is better able to accept his inevitable future. The first six lines of this poem develop the situation in which the speaker has found himself. He has led a long and
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In Ch 5 Paragraph 6-10‚ Atwood shows that through a feminist lens that woman in the book are shown as only useful for giving birth and household things only and shows that women are not needed for anything else besides that. They start of with women in the society. They separated women into different types of groups or roles. The roles were shown by the dress they were wearing; blue for wives‚ red for handmaids‚ and green for Marthas. This basically gets rid of women’s individuality.This may infer
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