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    Testing for Cellular Respiration by Balloon Inflation Experiment Number 2 Abstract: Through a timed test it was discovered which substance A or substance B contained glucose and when combined with yeast results in respiration; it was found that substance A contained glucose and resulted in respiration when combined with yeast. At 0 minutes all four balloon’s circumference was 9 centimeters; substance B and salt remained the same circumference‚ 9 centimeters‚ for

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    Poetry Explication of Sylvia Plath’s “Mirror” The first thing one can notice in Sylvia Plath’s poem “Mirror” (rpt. In Thomas R. Arp and Greg Johnson‚ Perrine’s Literature: Structure‚ Sound‚ and Sense‚ 9th ed. [Boston: Wadsworth‚ 2006] 680) is that the speaker in the poem is the mirror and the woman in the poem is Sylvia Plath. As you read through the poem‚ the lake is relevant because of the famous mythological story of narcissus. He was extremely beautiful and one day while drinking from a lake

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    of Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy” In the 1950s‚ a new form of writing‚ called confessional‚ emerged that broke social norms by which the author would confess their innermost feelings‚ causing the reader to empathize with the narrator. In the pieces of literature published under this genre‚ authors wrote stories about personal feelings that were socially inappropriate to mention in public‚ many of which were autobiographical and some‚ fictional (The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica). Sylvia Plath is

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    relationship upon their children. In the case of “Daddy‚” Plath creates an environment enriched with violence and frightening. Through the poem‚ the father is being envisioned in terms of his dominance‚ cruelty‚ and authoritarianism. She compares the relationship with her father resembling the Holocaust/victim analogy‚ making him a Nazi and herself a Jew; which helps her in the dramatization of the unsettled war in her soul. In this poem Plath exhibits the tortured relationship between her and her

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    writes‚ "Sylvia cannot speak; she cannot tell the heron’s secret and give its life away." Sylvia’s only friend‚ the pleasant young hunter who has come to her house in hopes of finding and shooting the great heron that inhabits the area‚ is going to leave‚ and has asked Sylvia to tell him where the heron can be found. Sylvia knows‚ but after much agonizing‚ finds that the loyalty she feels for the heron‚ as it represents the natural world‚ is greater than her longing for human contact. Sylvia cannot

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    what does the balloon symbolize in the first part last story? I believe that the balloon would symbolize the innocence and that nia is giving her to Bobby. in the words and way she said she was pregnant and handing him the balloon on his birthday said that she wanted to soften the blow. when nia was a kid she wanted to be a balloonist and make children happy with balloons. why did Bobby leave his daughter and why did the basketball roll away and go down the hall as if it was running away from Bobby

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    air balloon. Over the next few decades scientists and adventurers modified and improved upon the original concepts of the air balloon. The air balloon‚ not to be mistaken with the hot air balloon‚ was often filled with helium or other light gases to get off the ground. The most primitive were even filled with smoke. During the early sessions of the Civil War we can see that air balloons played a major role in gathering battlefield information. Peter Jackson‚ a historian of air balloons has

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    1) Daddy by Sylvia Plath You do not do‚ you do not do Any more‚ black shoe In which I have lived like a foot For thirty years‚ poor and white‚ Barely daring to breathe or Achoo. Daddy‚ I have had to kill you. You dies before I had time— Marble-heavy‚ a bag full of God‚ Ghastly statue with one grey toe Big as a Frisco seal And a head in the freakish Atlantic Where it pours bean green over blue In the waters off beautiful Nauset. I used to pray to recover you. Ach‚ du. In the

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    Part 1 – Buoyancy http://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/buoyancy 1. Open the web browser and enter the link above into the address bar. 2. When the simulation page opens click “Run Now!” 3. Click the “Buoyancy Playground” tab at the top of the window. 4. Look in the yellow data box in the top left corner of the window. Record the mass (m)‚ volume (V)‚ and density (ρ) of the wood block. 5. In the middle of the screen there is a container of water. Record the volume of the water. 6. Drop

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    The plan of care for a patient with esophagogastric balloon tamponade tubes is formulated around the primary nursing diagnosis of ineffective airway clearance related to aspiration of blood (Ackley‚ B.‚ Ladwig‚ G.‚ 2011) Bleeding often stop spontaneously‚ but if it does not‚ a Sengstaken-Blakemore or Minnesota tube is inserted to provide constant pressure at the source of bleeding of the varices by using a balloon tamponade. For continued bleeding‚ a nasogastric tube may be inserted

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