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    Bucket Elevator

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    Bucket elevators are designed to move flowing powders or bulk solids vertically. Bucket elevators use an endless belt or chain and have a series of buckets attached to it. Bulk material is spread into an inlet hopper. Buckets (or cups) dig into the material and convey it up and over the head sprocket/pulley‚ and then throw the material out a discharge throat. bucket elevator: http://www.lime-mill.com/bucket-elevator/ Bucket elevators are not self-feeding‚ and are fed at a controlled rate. The

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    Bucket Elevator

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    The description of bucket elevator: Bucket elevators are designed to move flowing powders or bulk solids vertically. Bucket elevators use an endless belt or chain and have a series of buckets attached to it. Bulk material is spread into an inlet hopper. Buckets (or cups) dig into the material and convey it up and over the head sprocket/pulley‚ and then throw the material out a discharge throat. Bucket elevator can be divided into belt type and chain type‚ and the common characteristic is used

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    children have reached adolescence‚ they have grown accustomed to having social normalities and morals guiding their lives. This spectrum of rules and guidelines in a human’s life can range on a broad spectrum; In particular social norms can easily shape young children’s’ choices quite easily. In The Lord Of The Flies‚ the basic human need for structure and order starts to protrude as the boys begin to form their new society and social norms on the Island. When the boys first arrived at the island‚ the boys

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    Sarah Shaffer Social Norm Violation Extra Credit A norm present in American society is not verbally communicating with other unknown individuals in public bathroom stalls. A violation of this norm would be attempting to communicate with other individuals in the stalls. Through an ethnomethodological investigation‚ I discovered certain aspects revolving around this specific violation. I subjected myself to two trials of violating this norm. In both trials‚ I went into a busy public restroom

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    A social norm is the rules of behavior that are considered acceptable in a group or society. People who go against the social norm may be shunned or looked at as a bad person. For my social norm breaching experiment‚ I decided to dress up as a hospital patient that had just been released from the hospital and walk around Wal-Mart. My mom is a registered nurse at the Baptist Memorial Hospital‚ so she was able to get me the materials that I needed to conduct the experiment. I decided to do this at

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    Space Elevators

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    space travel would be more tangible if we built a space elevator. A space elevator‚ or space tether‚ is quite literally an elevator that goes from the lobby to Earth’s upper atmosphere. A space elevator is the best way to send supplies and people to an upper orbiting space dock. A space elevator will be feasible to build‚ allow us to build space ships that would require a space dock‚ and fulfill our dream of living among the stars. A space elevator is an old idea first theorized in 1895 by the Russian

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    Dr. Kenneth Hoffman Sociology 200-302 2 January 2013 The Effects of Social Norms on Society In a world where routine is dominant and change is difficult to adhere by‚ social norms have become major assets for a smoothly functioning day. With the experiment of breaking normative behavior I wanted to do something subtle yet startling. Sometimes the smallest changes in behavior receive the toughest adjustments. First impressions have a strong influence on a person’s relationship with someone

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    Elevator Pitch

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    The concept of the Elevator Pitch is borne from the idea that if you met an investor on an elevator and only had 30 seconds to pitch your business‚ what would it sound like? In fact 30 seconds is about as much attention as you are going to get from an investor to begin with‚ so thinking in that time frame makes a lot of sense. The formula for the perfect Elevator Pitch involves three ingredients - the Problem‚ the Solution‚ and the Market Size. The Problem Every great company starts by solving

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    Winter Break Social Norm

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    For my sociology project during the winter break I have decided to break this social norm: forget the name of the person I will sit on the Christmas table. Remember the name of the people you are with‚ is a sign of respect in our society. Even if you don’t remember the name most of the time‚ we try an easy way out in order the name of the person involved in the conversation. For this project I will ask them to repeat their name so before to speak with a person in the family I will ask him/her to

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    continue to drop morsels each week. Showing an action scene here or a short clip of the movie is enough for fans to crave more. That is why when the movie Batman V Superman was released‚ I chose to observe the social norm of cell phone etiquette when in a dark movie theater. The society norm when it comes to cell phone use or any device that interrupts a public showing of a movie is strictly enforced by employees has well as the patrons that paid money to have a distracting free experience. Even

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