On 3rd August 2009‚ Monday‚ the swine flu death of Riya Sheikh‚ a fourteen year old school student from Pune’s Camp area shocked Pune and the entire country. It was the first case of swine flu death in India. Till now we were casual about swine flu epidemic spreading in Western countries. Even occassional detection of swine flu in India did not panic us. Ria’s death only made us aware that swine flu virus can be contacted locally and is fatal. After her death panic gripped not only Pune but the
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“The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras” is a story about a character named Jim Smiley. Jim was the curioest man he would almost always bet on anything. Jim had a caught a frog and for three months he taught the frog to jump to immense heights. One day he decided to go into town to find someone to bet that his frog can out jump any frog in the county. When he found someone he went out to search for a frog for his opponent‚ while he was gone the stranger gave Jim’s frog a shot full of quail. When
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2015 Literary Analysis “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” is a short story in which Mark Twain‚ the author‚ tells an unrealistic story of a frog and a chatty man by the name of Simon Wheeler. Simon Wheeler‚ Mark’s main character‚ wins bets on whatever he can from dog fights to frog jumping. Later‚ when Simon meets an old gentleman and bets him that Dan’l can jump the farthest of any frog in Calaveras County. Written in the mid 1860’s
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to his purpose for writing “Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”‚ to create an amusing short story to illustrate southwestern humor. Mark Twain‚ then known as Samuel Clemens‚ was born on November 30th‚ 1835 in Florida‚ Missouri. When Clemens was four‚ his family moved to the small frontier town of Hannibal‚ Missouri‚ right along the Mississippi River. Missouri was a fairly new state and it was also a state that leaned towards slavery. Clemens’ father was a slave owner himself and his uncle
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Dyeing Poison Frog The Dendrobates tinctorius‚ also known as the dyeing poison frog was first discovered in 1797 by G. Cuvier. The Scientific classification of this amphibian is: Kingdom-Animalia‚ Phylum- Chordata‚ Class- Amphibia‚ Order-Anura‚ Family- Dendrobatidae‚ Genus- Dendrobates‚ Species- D. tinctorius. These are large poison frogs ranging from 40 to 50 mm and some females can reach to 60 mm. The dyeing poison frog is a bright blue frog with two broad yellow stripes on the back. The
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The Twin Experiments was conducted by Josef Mengele‚ during World War 2 in Auschwitz. Dr. Mengle was a medical researcher who was fascinated with twins in specific. From the three thousand children that would be pulled from the masses of people upon arriving only about 200 survived. Age didn’t matter‚ yet most were children‚ and if they were really young their mother would be allowed to stay with them. The twins recieved "special" treatmeant as they were allowed to keep their hair and clothes. A
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Experiment 1 - Static Equilibrium - BEAM Objective 1. To study the vertical equilibrium of (a) a simply supported beam 2. To determine the reactions of the beams by (a) the experimental set-up and (b) by using the principles of statics and method of consistent deformation Apparatus TecQuipment SM 104 Beam Apparatus Mk III Figure 1 Experimental Procedures 1. Set up the beam AC with a span of 675mm (as shown in Figure 1). 2. Place two hangers equidistant (100mm) from the
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Experiments: Doctors‚ Experiments‚ and Results Melissa Anjeanette Edwards POLYTECH High School of Kent County‚ Woodside‚ Delaware Abstract During World War II experiments were done on the prisoners of war in Nazi Germany. Doctors for these camps came in all shapes and sizes including former S.S. Troops‚ Women‚ and a variety of prisoner doctors. The experiments differed as much as the doctors themselves; however they stayed the same in one factor‚ medical curiosity become killing in atrocious
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the okay to do the experiment‚ I grabbed the girls and went to work. The experiment I picked was the conservation concept‚ where the idea that merely changing the appearance of objects does not necessarily change other key properties. In other words‚ just because I put the same amount of water in a bigger case‚ doesn’t change how much water there is. I predict that both the girls would fail at conservation concept‚ and always
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Experiment Plan By: Ashley Project Question: What size of bouncy ball bounces the highest‚ small‚ medium‚ or large? * I predict the following will happen (my hypothesis): I predict that the smallest ball will bounce the highest since it is the lightest. | * Independent Variable: I will be changing the ball size. * Dependent Variable: The height of the bounce. * Controlled Variable: The height that I will drop the balls at. | The materials and amounts of each that is
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