Participating in weight training has taught me many things about the importance of maintaining a healthy lifestyle and ways to keep a fit body. As I progressed over the semester I began to set future fitness goals for myself. My goals are to build more muscle in my arms and abdominal area‚ increase endurance aerobically and adjust to a healthier diet. To build more muscle‚ I will eat more protein (meat‚ eggs‚ beans‚ and nuts) and gradually use heavier weights as I progress. To increase my endurance
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June 2011 An Intangible Weight to Carry In an excerpt from Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried‚ O’Brien acquaints us with a story of a group of soldiers in the Vietnam War enduring extreme physical and mental circumstances. He goes to vast lengths to describe the tangible difficulties these men must face while linking us to the mental anguish. This story is a beautiful account of love and the lack thereof‚ pain and tragedy‚ imagination and reality‚ and all the weight of burdens carried throughout
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Dalton‚ English chemist: • Proposed the atomic patterns‚ which account for the law of conservation of mass and the law of constant composition • All matter is made of atoms; atoms of an element are identical; each element has different atoms; atoms of different elements combine in constant ratios to form compounds; atoms are rearranged in reactions. • “Billiard ball’ model – atoms are solid and indivisible THE ATOMIC THEORY TIMELINE 500 B.C Greek philosophes
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11-13-13 Yaroslav Luchko 611 Health Homework The Weight of the nation #5 The movie we watched is called “The weight of the nation”. I learned that: >Worldwide obesity has nearly doubled since 1980. In 2008‚ more than 1.4 billion adults‚ 20 and older‚ were overweight. Of these over 200 million men and nearly 300 million women were obese. >35% of
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Effects of the Atomic Bomb Ryan McNall Southern Vermont College In our vast history of events‚ we have learned a lot about radiation. One event in time that had a big effect on what we know about radiation was when the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima‚ Japan in 1945. This attack started the nuclear warfare age and gave the world an idea of what radiation can do to your body if it is used in the wrong ways. Before the attack on Japan‚ the United
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Hiroshima: Was Dropping the Atomic Bomb a Military Necessity? On the morning of August 6th‚ 1945 at around 8:16 a.m.‚ the United States dropped the first bomb on Hiroshima. This bomb was given the nickname “Little Boy.” Three days after the first atomic bomb was dropped‚ on August 9th‚ 1945 at around 11:02 a.m.‚ the United States dropped a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki. This bomb was given the nickname “Fat Man.” These two bombs immensely destroyed these cities and took the lives of many people
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creation of one of the most destructive weapons known to humanity occurred within the United States. This weapon‚ known as “the atomic bomb‚” was used on the two Japanese cities: Hiroshima and Nagasaki‚ resulting in a death toll unprecedented by any military weapon used before and an immediate‚ unconditional surrender. Some historians believe President Truman decided to drop the atomic bomb in order to intimidate the Soviet Union whereas others believe it was a strictly military measure designed to force
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everything happens for a reason”. When president Truman and his advisors made the decision to drop the atomic bomb‚ they thought it would end the war. The dropping of the atomic atomic bomb had many successful tactics. It created great peace for the US from the fact that it ended total war. After the US had lost millions to the war‚ it was ready to make a change to end all war. Good things did come from the atomic bomb‚ like the fact that it ended World War II. The amount of peace for the US got for dropping
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August 6‚ 1945‚ the United States shocked the world by dropping an atomic bomb over the city of Hiroshima‚ Japan. (www.grolier.com) Hiroshima was a major industrial city with an estimated population of almost 400‚000 people. A B-29 bomber was loaded with the Atomic Bomb and left the United States Pacific air base at 2:45 a.m. local time and dropped the bomb at 8:15 a.m. The bomb was detonated one minute after being dropped. The atomic bomb‚ nicknamed "Little Boy"‚ which was dropped on the Hiroshima
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JC1 H2 Chemistry Atomic Structure Tutorial 1. How many protons‚ neutrons and electrons are there in 3+ ion? 2. Write down the electronic configuration of (a) Si (atomic no. 14) (b) Sc (atomic no. 21) (c) Co (atomic no. 27) 3. Which of the following ions contains an unpaired electron? A calcium ion B copper(II) ion C potassium ion D titanium(IV) ion 4. Some isotopes are unstable and decompose naturally. In one type of decomposition‚ a neutron in the nucleus decomposes to form a proton‚ which is
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