FRANCISCO EARTHQUAKE? In 1989 an earthquake hit San Francisco‚ on the west coast of USA‚ killing around 63 people. Twelve years later an earthquake hit Gujarat‚ in India. This time it killed approximately 20‚000 people. In this report I will be comparing the two earthquakes‚ giving reasons why the Gujarat earthquake was so much more destructive than the one in San Francisco. An earthquake is a movement or tremor in the earth’s crust. Earthquakes happen all the time‚ but some are so weak that they
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Michelle Obama. Michelle Obama attending the convention gave a speech about her “Let’s Move” campaign. During Obama’s speech she advocates the issue occurring that cannot be ignored “Childhood Obesity.” Obama claims that “1 in 3 children is overweight or obese‚ putting them at a greater risk of obesity related conditions.” Obesity prevents the children of today from having a normal life. Obesity has lead to many diseases such as diabetes‚ heart attack‚ stroke‚ and even cancer. The speech that Obama gives
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REPORTING AND COMPARING SCHOOL PERFORMANCES Geoff N Masters Glenn Rowley John Ainley Siek Toon Khoo Paper prepared for the MCEETYA Expert Working Group to provide advice on national schools data collection and reporting for school evaluation‚ accountability and resource allocation December 2008 Commissioned by the Reporting and Accountability Branch‚ National Education Systems Group‚ Commonwealth Department of Education‚ Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR) i Reporting
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ACA or the Obamacare has two main focuses‚ which also known as root causes. They were to increase insurance coverage and cut down cost. With mandatory insurance coverage and introduction of out of pocket limits (the maximum amount of costs for covered services paid out-of-pocket) for individuals and households‚ the government is trying to prevent the excess health care expense burden that people face due to varying health insurance policy (Bose‚ 2016). The major coverage provisions of the ACA went
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Pg1 Comparing Values Melanie Taylor HSM/210 Human Services in the United States 10/03/2012 Maria Brown University of Phoenix Pg2 Comparing Values 1. What values underlie your desire to help others? Answer: My values that underlie my desire to help others are the ability to make my clients my number one priority
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Comparing Authors William Shakespeare and W.H. Auden are widely known for their great poems. Shakespeare’s “My Mistress Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun” is a love unlike any poem from the Elizabethan era. Shakespeare does not use false comparisons to describe his lover like most love poem do‚ which is refreshing. W.H. Auden’s “Funeral Blues” is another love poem that is little gloomier. However it shows how much death can affect an individual’s life. Together Shakespeare and Auden use similar and
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Health policy introduction The major problem concerns the mergers between hospitals in the wake of the enactment of the Affordable Care Act (also known as the Obamacare). This is a problem because it is highly likely that these mergers will hike the costs of providing healthcare‚ something that the Obamacare legislation sought to address in the first place. It’s also problematic because the mergers may lead to the creation of monopolies or duopolies which tend to raise prices. That is the reason
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Solyndra Abstract When reading this essay you will get an understanding of a brief history of Solyndra. This essay will also contain some of the many laws that have been broken by Solyndra. Solyndra was found in 2005 by Dr. Christian Gronet. In 2006 Dr. Gronet opened the Solyndra office‚ which is its headquarters in Fremont‚ California. It wasn’t until 2007 before they were able to begin production on Fab 1. (Solyndra.com) During 2008 Solyndra was able to open a new office in Germany along with
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Comparing Memories The memory I have chosen for this paper is one in which I was in the fifth grade‚ and happened eleven years ago when I was ten years old. The other perspective besides my own that I will be comparing is my dad’s‚ who was the only other family member who was their when it happened. Here is the event as I remember it happening “I was in grade five and I had recently made the basketball team. After school we would have practice at four o’clock‚ however we got out of classes at
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The Cask of Amontillado and Othello share similar antagonist and protagonists. In Othello the antagonist was Iago who is overcome with hate and desire. He is envious of Cassio for getting the position of Lieutenant over him and jealous of the protagonist Othello‚ because he believed that Othello slept with his wife. Montresor is the protagonist of The Cask of Amontillado because he murdered the protagonist‚ Fortunato who insulted Montresor before his death. Both protagonist are naive giving the each
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