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    Thermal Expansion

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    THERMAL EXPANSION HEAT MYP-5 | Thermal Expansion happens a lot in everyday life.   When something is heated and expands this is Thermal Expansion.   The way Thermal Expansion works‚ is when it is heated the atoms expand‚ and then when it is cooled it shrinks.   Several examples of Thermal expansion is the tendency of matter to change in volume in response to a change in temperature. When a substance is heated‚ its particles begin moving more and thus usually maintain a greater average separation

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    Since the invention of air planes few decades ago‚ air travelling has become famous among travellers. When the air transportation was first introduced in 1903 by the Wright Brothers‚ many people could not travel using it because it was expensive. But after few decades‚ technology has improved and air transportation is being widely used all around the world. Most of the countries has built airports and has their own airline companies. Today‚ due to rivalry among airline companies air travelling has

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    Bantu Expansion

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    Their descendants‚ called Bushmen by the Westerners‚ still reside in parts of southern Africa‚ and small numbers of them may still be found in southern Angola (Shillington 135). These Khoisan speakers lost their authority in southern Africa as an effect of the southward development of Bantu-speaking peoples during the first millennium. The transmission of agriculture and later of iron was accompanied by a great progress of the Bantu who may have possessed these skills. These inhabitants probably

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    The Westward Movement had a big impact on nationalism and democracy. Nationalism is a feeling of patriotism‚ or pride in one’s country in a way. The westward expansion promoted the “ideal” of a pioneer as a pure and true American and the regular man as the “embodiment” of a democracy. This meant that every person had the same rights‚ the same opportunities and they hall had a right to vote and impact greatly the decisions of our government. The only group of people that were not treated this way

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    Expansion Srategies

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    4. Alternative International Expansion Strategies A. Nonequity Mode: A mode of entry that tends to reflect relatively smaller commitments to overseas markets (Peng‚ 2011). i. FRANCHISING 1. PROS IHOP can take advantage of low development cost and very low risk in overseas expansion. It makes senses financially in the sense that the franchisor can charge an initial fee to the overseas franchisee. Franchising in effect provides an almost cost free expansion since the original business

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    The Industrial Revolution began in Great Britain in 1750 due to the advancement in technology‚ and it spread throughout the world. Britain’s unique wealth‚ resources‚ education‚ population and access to trade was a catalyst for the Industrial Revolution. The Industrial Revolution suffered both positive and negative effects. A positive effect of the Industrial Revolution was the punishments. The negative effects of the Industrial Revolution were the working conditions‚ accidents and the pollution

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    SOCIAL: Transcript of The Lasting Social Effects of the French Revolution as evide The Lasting Social Effects of the French Revolution as evident in Mid 19th-Century France Bryttan‚ Mary‚ Daniel Social Structure before the French Revolution Large class differences between the rich and the poor French leaders were known to be very extravagant and constantly found themselves in debt The French Revolution Abolished the feudal system and monarchy of France Peasants burned and pillaged many places Mass

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    The failure of the Philippine economy to achieve a full industrialized state is a confluence and a result of political and economic policies that can be traced back to as far as the post war period. The Philippine post war economic policy is said to have taken the trajectory of Import Substitution Industrialization (ISI) —which puts premium in strengthening the locally owned industries catering to a huge domestic market to contain dollar outflow and encourage domestic entrepreneurship (Kuruvilla

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    Columnar Transportation

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    Columnar Transposition Introduction The Columnar Transposition cipher is very simple and easy to implement cipher. It is a transposition cipher that follows a simple rule for mixing up the characters in the plaintext to form the cipher text. How it works In a columnar transposition‚ the message is written out in rows of a fixed length‚ and then read out again column by column‚ and the columns are chosen in some scrambled order. Both the length of the rows and the permutation of the columns are

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    HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT Definition A hazardous waste is any waste or combination of wastes that poses a substantial danger‚ now or in the future‚ to human‚ plant or animal life and which therefore cannot be handled or disposed of without special precautions. The Hazards and Disasters can be classified into four categories viz.‚ Natural events‚ Technological events‚ Man-made events and Region-wise events. The adverse impacts caused due to the indiscriminate disposal of Hazardous Wastes (HWs)

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