Antifreeze A quart bottle contains a mixture that is 1/3 antifreeze‚ 2/3 water. A half gallon bottle contains a mixture that is 3/4 antifreeze‚ 1/4 water. The contents of the two bottles are poured into a gallon jug. What is the ratio (one integer to another‚ in the form a:b) of antifreeze to water in the jug? Solution #1: Antifreeze 11:7 Problem #2: Consecutive Birthdays A woman and her grandson have the same birthday. For six consecutive birthdays‚ she is an integral multiple of his age. How old
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Female foeticide. “Spend five hundred rupees now save five lakhs later “ -Slogan of ultrasound sex-determination clinics. Since the advent of ultrasound and detection technique for sex-determination 10 million female foetuses have been aborted in India‚ according to a study conducted recently in India‚ the first systematic study on female foeticide by an Indo-Canadian team. A shocking picture emerges-every year‚ about 50‚000 unborn girls-one in every
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Female feticide is one of the biggest challenges that India is facing today in terms of gender. It has become a significant social phenomenon. It transcends all barriers of caste‚ class and community and even the north-south dichotomy. The World Economic Forum’s annual Global Gender Gap report for the year 2007 has shown India at a dismal 120th position. The gender gap report looks at the disparities in terms of health‚ education‚ economic status and political participation between men and women
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when I was born. My twin sister Shannon and I were born at the Atlantic City Medical Center on Thursday‚ January 28th‚ 1999. Shannon and I are fraternal twins‚ and most people that we meet never believe us when we tell them we’re twins. She has curly hair and blue eyes‚ and looks nothing like me. We are exactly thirty eight minutes apart. We literally do and share everything together‚ which can be kind of annoying sometimes‚ but I don’t really mind. I also have 3 other sisters. The oldest‚ Katie is
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References: Picoult‚ J. (2004). My Sister ’s Keeper. New York: Atria Books. Volbrecht‚ First Initial. (Date of Publishing). Title of Book in Italics. City of Publication: Publisher.
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carlos montalvo Prof. Anum Nyako HED 220-9M 18 February‚ 2012 Female Circumcision Female circumcision is practiced worldwide. To some‚ it is a religious ritual and to others‚ a human tragedy brought on due to male domination. These opinions relating to the practice create conflict in the world between those who hold on to the tradition of female circumcision and those who promote feminism by attempting to prohibit the practice. I do not think that the United States should get involved
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Women are murdered all over the world. But in India a most brutal form of killing females takes place regularly‚ even before they have the opportunity to be born. Female feticide--the selective abortion of female fetuses--is killing upwards of one million females in India annually with far-ranging and tragic consequences. In some areas‚ the sex ratio of females to males has dropped to less than 8000:1000. Females not only face inequality in this culture‚ they are even denied the right to be born
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Hope For the Hopeless The huge sign reads “Welcome home daddy!” as the little girl runs and jumps into her father’s arms at the airport. In Carrie Underwood’s song “See You Again” there are many clips of soldiers returning home in the music video. This song reminds today’s society that they will be reunited with their loved ones‚ whether in this life or the next. Underwood released this song just a few months ago‚ after the Sandy Hook shootings and the Oklahoma tornadoes. It has become impossible
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to turn a deaf ear to. Female infanticide is one of them. Female infanticide is a deliberate and intentional act of killing a female child within one year of its birth either directly by using poisonous organic and inorganic chemicals or indirectly by deliberate neglect to feed the infant by either one of the parents or other family members. On the other hand‚ female feticide is the termination of the life of a foetus within the womb on the grounds that its sex is female. This practice is also
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Hello everyone‚ welcome to Ellen’s presentation of the progress of HUMA 1000 essay ‘Animal‚ Another Me’. You must be confused by my title – why is animal another me? Well‚ in my essay‚ I’ll be talking about my observation of the representation of animals and the implications. Here is my thesis statement – As human beings‚ we always present in the literature the other side of us in the form of animals that contain projections of our deepest hopes‚ fears‚ and aspirations. When we look at animals
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