* Why do nurses and physicians use 70% alcohol to wipe the skin before injections? 70% alcohol is used rather than pure alcohol because when combined with water‚ the alcohol can penetrate and kill microorganisms more effectively. "Alcohols are more effective combined with purified water—70% isopropyl alcohol or 62% ethyl alcohol is more effective than 95% alcohol‚ because the alcohol gets inside the cell better. " Source(s): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disinfectan… * Why is 100 percent
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Republic‚ 1985. Discussing both point of views of the argument‚ Koch explains to his readers the pros and cons towards capital punishment‚ and explicitly showing why capital punishment serves purpose. Koch uses an academic‚ and a highly skilled route of persuading his audience through ethos‚ logos‚ and pathos to accept the justification that capital punishment should be supported. Through his occupation‚ experience‚ and high concern for reducing crime‚ Koch displays much ethos in his article. His
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Everyday Use Questions Question A: I can infer that Maggie has been the child that has always taken the guilt for everything and has never really been rewarded because Dee has always been the rewarded child. I think that Maggie is treated and thought of this way because of of how the book states that Maggie is always ashamed and stands helplessly in corners of their home. I also conclude this statement because of the point of fact that the book says that Maggie envies and is in awe when she looks
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at the time were small farmers‚ and they all had the same fear of Britain invading the colonies. Patrick Henry’s “Speech to the Virginia Convention” utilizes logos to persuade his fellow colonists to fight the British. If the colonists had voted against Henry’s proposition they would’ve been caught ill-prepared by the English. Henry used logos to convince the revolutionaries who still fooled themselves that peace could still be made with Britain. “Deceive ourselves no longer‚ Sir‚ we have done everything
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An Analysis of the Common Themes Found in selected works of Edgar Allan Poe A Research Presented to The faculty of the English Department In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements in English IV By March 2010 Acknowledgement The researcher would like to thank the following people who help and give guidance to make this project To the Project adviser and the home room adviser of the researchers‚ who gave his outmost patience and time to check the drafts and format of each
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Nikki Hrubec Ms. Birdsall English 11 February 15th‚ 2011 Common Theme in Two Poems In the two poems‚ "Cinderella and Barbie Doll‚" both authors use different literary devices to prove a common theme. The common theme throughout both poems is that people will mutilate themselves to obtain what they perceive as happiness. Also‚ the poems show how societies create a standard of living‚ which classifies how certain genders should act. The poem "Cinderella" by Anne Sexton is describing
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dead and nothing resolved. How an assassin’s bullet in Bosnia triggered one of the world’s bloodiest wars the world has ever known and how alliances‚ imperialism and militarism take a huge part of how the war started. These big factors lead to the question was the outbreak of the war in 1914 inevitable. One of the fuses to the war was imperialism. The rush for the biggest empire was dramatic. Once all the European countries had seen the British Empire which stretched across the world. It was very
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Common themes in Corporate Governance Scandals According to ACCA (2014) “Corporate governance is the system by which companies are directed and controlled”‚ also the corporate governance definition in the ACCA (2014) and Financial Times (2015) are quite different but similar at the same time‚ “How a company is managed‚ in terms of the institutional systems and protocols meant to ensure accountability and sound ethics. The concept encompasses a variety of issues‚ including disclosure of information
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Karen Armstrong is so anxious to distinguish mythos from logos that her account of Paleolithic religion would seem obviously to be in sharp contrast with the “intellectualism” of theorists such as Tylor and Frazer‚ true? Explain. Throughout history there have been numerous theories to our origin as well countless questions and theories to answer such questions of our existence‚ why certain things happen in such a way or where we come from or where we may go after our deaths on Earth. Some of the
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turmoil‚ an upstarting journalist in Philadelphia by the name of Thomas Paine wrote a pamphlet entitled common sense. His simple purpose for this fairly large document was for his fellow man to set aside his or her prejudices and listen to his arguments; mainly that the time for talking has passed and the only thing left to do is raise arms. Paine wields the argumentative appeals‚ Ethos‚ Pathos‚ and Logos in a strong and yet eloquent way that adds immense power to his disputes with Britain. Paine begins
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