How and Why Do Crickets Chirp? The cricket’s call‚ a sound familiar to almost everyone across the globe‚ can vary from isolated clicks to repetitive chirps to long trills. While the females are mute‚ most male crickets can be loud musicians‚ producing species-specific songs up to 100 decibels‚ about the same volume as a motorcycle or a power drill. They create their songs by a method that is very different from human vocalization. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/31/science/31obox.html?_r=0 Cricket
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Why You Should Not Drink and Drive Drinking and driving is a continuous problem here in the United States. No matter what state you live in‚ there is a law against it. Although each state has its own laws‚ they are generally similar in nature and in severity. Driving under the influence is dangerous due to the fact that it affects a person’s ability to think and react‚ both clearly and in a timely manner. Without clear thought and immediate control of motor skills‚ a person poses a high danger
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PSY215: DRUGS AND DEPENDENCY ESSAY ONE WHY DO PEOPLE USE DRUGS? LACHLAN SLOAN 30790798 Throughout history‚ people have used different kinds of drugs to alter the way they feel or experience consciousness. Ritualistic use of drugs has been commonly practiced by various cultures such as the mushroom induced trance state utilised by Native American Indians to commune with the Great Spirit. Pacific Islanders drink Kava as a means of connecting with the supernatural‚ healing illness
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The relationship between teens and drugs has been around for decades; however‚ this is not what you would call positive. Substance abusing (which is using drugs or alcohol in ways than can cause physical harm) is often associated with crime. But why do youths take drugs" Youth take drugs for the following reasons: social disorganization‚ peer pressure‚ family factors‚ emotional‚ or rational choice. Social disorganization deals with drug abuse to poverty and disorganized urban environment. Drug use
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government to mend the breaking union during the late 1800’s. Northern and Southern states differed politically‚ economically‚ and socially; thus setting the stage for one of the biggest battles in American history. The constitution was intended to be this almighty document that united the states and kept them in balance but tension rose greatly. Even though the constitution is ultimately our most important historical “rulebook” it failed in the 1850’s being the primary cause for a Civil War. For four long
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The opinion of “Actuaries do actuarial work‚ actuarial work is done by actuaries” (Akhurst‚ 1992) had been committed by financial security systems‚ because the understanding of financial and mathematical skills was unique to actuaries and they were respected as more technician than a financial manager. Actuaries did not need to work as group‚ and they were usually authorized directly from the boss‚ so that the skill of communication was not strongly needed. Comparing with accountants‚ the minimum
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The neighbors think it his free time that he does in the games so he was enrolled in a " I play violent games" with the neighbors kids. The group talks about why these games are appropriate for them‚ why they play them‚ and how they should stop playing them. I have went to one of the meetings and i have to say its working
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Geography essay Mass tourism is better than no tourism‚ do you agree? Yes‚ I agree with this point because countries which do not have tourism nowadays are hard to imagine nowadays if it is not a country with war or a desert through it entirely‚ although even countries with mostly desert have quite a bit of tourists in them so it is far more easy to imagine a town or village with no tourism. And then there are those places with mass tourism which only have one noticeable problem – Overcrowding
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Unit 4. Question 1: What is an accomplice witness? Why do accomplice witnesses agree to cooperate with the police investigator? Do they require protection? Why? An accomplice witness by definition is “a person who is liable to prosecution for the identical offense charged against the defendant or defendants in a pending trial” (Lushbaugh‚ 2012‚ p. 120). Although accomplice witnesses share culpability for their involvement in the crime being tried‚ their testimony can be invaluable to proving
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Rational Riddles: Why Rolling stones sell out? 4 Truth or Consequence: How to split a check or choose a movie 5 The Indifference Principle 5 The Computer Game of Life 5 Good and Evil 5 Telling Right from Wrong – The pitfalls of Democracy. 6 Why Taxes are Bad? 6 Why Prices are Good? 6 How to Read the News 6 Choosing Sides in a Drug War 7 Do we need more illiterates? 8 The End of Bipartisanship 8 How Markets Work 8 Why popcorn costs more at the movies and why the obvious answer
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