In 1970‚ in small town Riceville‚ Iowa‚ Mrs. Elliot decided to present an experiment she had started previously with a third grade class after the shooting of Martin Luther King Jr. Mrs. Elliot‚ had always presented the topic of racism in her classes‚ as she felt it was important for her students to truly understand what was occurring. The day after the wrongful killing of MLK Jr.‚ she said she wanted to start an experiment with her class because the predominant white male adult newscasters‚ spoke
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in my experiment‚ the plant that was given coffee had grown in about 30 days. However‚ the lima bean plant that was given water has yet to sprout. So‚ why would the average
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Eating Chocolate Helps Students Become Happier Henry Vuong Dennis Lin Stella Zhang Introduction: Our experiment is based on a former experiment described in the article A Scientific Experiment‚ In Search of Chocolate Happiness. It was an experiment in a mall Cafe called Butler Chocolate‚ with a purpose of finding a way to help shoppers become happier. By giving each customer a piece of Butler ’s chocolate‚ the Cafe hoped to increase the number of smiling faces at the mall. Early findings
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Jacob Stewart Dr. Wells English 101 20 September 2013 In the 1950’s‚ a series of experiments were performed by psychologist Solomon Asch on the effects peer pressure can have on someone that would otherwise be stalwart in their judgment. In the experiment‚ a group of young men were shown a line with three other lines of various lengths next to it‚ and asked to determine which of three lines matched the length of the first line. There was‚ however‚ a catch: all but one of the men were
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Word Count 343 For this experiment 2 year old shopping with me. This is always an adventure but last Friday night I made it was surprising and exhausting. The social norm I broke was not putting my son in the shopping cart‚ but letting him run wild. The norm I was breaking was just a routine interaction in public so it would be considered a folkway. I was letting my child touch‚ smell‚ and even lick at one point anything he wanted. The norm I was breaking was parenting or in this case a
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Experiment 1: Calorimetry Nadya Patrica E. Sauza‚ Jelica D. Estacio Institute of Chemistry‚ University of the Philippines‚ Diliman‚ Quezon City 1101 Philippines Results and Discussion Eight Styrofoam ball calorimeters were calibrated. Five milliliters of 1M hydrochloric acid (HCl) was reacted with 10 ml of 1M sodium hydroxide (NaOH) in each calorimeter. The temperature before and after the reaction were recorded; the change in temperature (∆T) was calculated by subtracting the initial temperature
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Analysis Torque is the ability of force to change the rotational motion of a particle. It is also called the moment of force. It is always specified with regard to the axis of rotation. On the experiment the axis of rotation serves as the model balance. This means that as much as torque is directly proportional with the force applied on a particle‚ it is also dependent on the perpendicular distance of the applied force to the axis of rotation. On the first activity we need to determine
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Abstract Ernest Rutherford’s Gold Foil Experiment was a major stepping stone one the way to discovering what the atom was really made up of. From the beginning of his research with alpha particles to his discovery of the atomic nucleus‚ Rutherford made many contributions to the microscopic world of the atom. The Rutherford Experiment‚ otherwise known as the Gold Foil Experiment‚ was the crown of his achievements‚ and it was during this experiment that he discovered the atomic nucleus. (Aydin &Hanuscin
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Biology 124 September 15‚ 2013 Discussion Paper In the experiment of Mr. Miller‚ I understand that he sealed in certain elements that stimulated the conditions that he thought were presented in the beginning of earth’s time and tested the chemicals that would be there a few days later. Miller predicted that prehistoric earth had certain chemical reactions that made organic compounds from inorganic base. The experiment used water‚ methane‚ ammonia‚ and hydrogen. The chemicals were all
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media does not affect an audience. To support the hypothesis we will conduct an experiment using a sample group of Yr.11 students which attend Westminster school. Three different varied films will be shown for 3 minutes‚ Educating Rita‚ Braveheart and Bugsy Malone. During each film heart rates will be taken at the half-way point and the end to get qualitative results. The independent variable in this experiment is the actual violence viewed by the audience and the dependent variable is the heart
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