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    EXPERIMENT 3 Name: Flame Tests & Electron Configuration Pre-Laboratory Questions and Exercises Due before lab begins. Answer in the space provided. 1. Write electron configuration for the alkali metals Li‚ Na‚ K‚ and Rb. Li ____He 2s1_____________________________________________ Na ____Ne 3s1______________________________________________ K _______Ar 4s1___________________________________________ Rb _______Kr 5s1___________________________________________ 2. Write the electron configuration

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    The wild colonial boy{Poetry Analysis) The wild colonial boy The ballad‚ “Wild Colonial Boy” by unknown has the context of an Australian traditional bush ballad. In this ballad there are many language techniques such as similes‚ metaphors‚ personification‚ repetition‚ rhythm and rhyme. The narrative of this ballad is that there once was a boy named Jack Doolan who robbed the rich and fed the poor. In the end he is fatally wounded by one of the troopers (police). This also leaves the question

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    The facts are haunting. The American research group Anorexia Nervosa & Related Eating Disorders‚ Inc. says that one in every four college-aged women use unhealthy methods of weight and diet control – including fasting‚ skipping meals‚ and laxative abuse. The pressure to be thin is also affecting young girls; the Canadian Women’s Health Network warns that weight control measures are now being taken by girls as young as 5 and 6. In 2003‚ Teen Magazine reported that 35% of girls 6 to 12 years of age

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    The Witches of Eastwick. As fanciful and alluring as these interpretations of witchcraft may be‚ they are at best a poor parody for the historical realities of the fear inspired by witches and the cruelties that this fear unleashed‚ particularly in Colonial British America during the 17th and 18th centuries.

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    WOMEN IN THE ODYSSEY Although women in ancient Greece are often portrayed as meek and weak‚ this is not the case in Homer’s epic; The Odyssey. Instead‚ women in the Odyssey are often described as either cunning‚ intelligent‚ sexually alluring‚ or powerful‚ dangerous and fatal. Some of the most typical female characters are Athena‚ Circes and Penelope‚ where Athena is a powerful goddess and a skilled warrior‚ Circes is a cunning witch who tricked Odysseus’ men into drinking her potion and turning

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    Summary of the American Colonial Period The rule of the United States over the Philippines had two phases. The first phase was from 1898 to 1935‚ during which time Washington defined its colonial mission as one of tutelage and preparing the Philippines for eventual independence. Political organizations developed quickly‚ and the popularly elected Philippine Assembly (lower house) and the U.S.-appointed Philippine Commission (upper house) served as a bicameral legislature. The ilustrados formed

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    Okonkwo a man who thinks of gender as a very important title ‚believes that each gender has their own job and that men should do what men do and women do what women are supposed to do‚ he does not think men should do what women do‚ or vice versa. As Chinua Achebe stated in chapter 3 paragraph 28 “His mother and sisters worked hard enough‚ but they grew women’s crops‚ like coco yams‚ beans and cassava. Yam the king of crops‚ was a man’s crop”. This shows that in this diverse society in a simple thing as

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    Colonial Period and Immigration America would forever change with the migration that swept from Europe in the 1700‘s. Each colony became its own‚ with strong individuality which in the later history of the United States became the birth of the concept of "states rights." From the first educational systems to the right to participate in our own government‚ the colonial period was a time of change. Today‚ the United States is the outcome of two principal forces-the immigration of European people

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    Outline: I. Colonial Mentality A. Definition B. Symptoms of colonial mentality C. History 1. Cultures and practices shared by foreign countries a. America b. Spain c. Japan II. How colonial mentality is inherited by Filipino individuals A. Denigration of the Filipino self B. Denigration of the Filipino culture and body C. Discrimination against less acculturated Filipinos D. Tolerance and acceptance of historical and contemporary oppression of Filipinos III. Effects of Having Colonial Mentality

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    The Three Colonial Regions             The three colonial regions which were controlled by the British were founded in the years of 1607 and 1732. The inhabitants of the regions were primarily men which is why society was not a big patriarchal society. Although‚ the colonies made up one huge colony not each region was alike‚ they were very distinct in religion‚ economic and political structures. These areas were divided into three regions which were New England‚ Middle and Southern colonies. Each

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