climbing the famous mountains located in many countries around the world. Writer Jon Krakauer has been dreaming of climbing Mount Everest. Although climbing mountains may seem fun‚ Jon Krakauer explains his tragic story on Mount Everest in his book‚ Into Thin Air. Throughout his journey up the mountain‚ he experienced danger‚ trust‚ loyalty‚ and respect. Krakauer had to learn to trust others because he could die if something wrong happened during the climb. Trust and respect are the most important themes
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Anatoli Boukreev wrote this response in order to defend himself of the accusations that Krakauer mentioned in “Into Thin Air‚” which he wrote for a magazine. Boukreev’s intention for writing was to justify and clarify the actions that Krakauer included in his report‚ since Boukreev believed that Krakauer was unjustly critical of his actions and decisions on Mount Everest‚ he wanted to argue for himself. Boukreev begins by establishing on what were his decisions and actions were based upon‚ which
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Thin Lenses Group members: Trevor Kitts Ryan Mutsch Author: Trevor Kitts 1402L September 10‚ 2012 Introduction In this week’s lab we looked at the movement of light between multiple lenses and their focal points. Procedure List of materials: Optics Bench‚ equipped with laser and triangular like prism. First‚ we aligned the laser with the 0⁰ mark and the center of the prism so that the light hit the bottom of the prism in a perpendicular form. Second‚ we observed that the light
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Discussion Using the Thin Layer Chromatography experiment‚ caffeine was found to be the most polar due to the fact that it stayed closer to the stationary phase. Caffeine contains four amine groups that are extremely polar as a result of the hydrogen bond and amide functional group. Acetaminophen was found to be the second most polar analgesic drug tested. Acetaminophen contains a polar alcohol group on one side and amide group on the other but also includes non-polar functional groups that consisted
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Date:7.6.2013 Objectives: Part 1: (i)To learn the technique of TLC and the visualization of colourless components. (ii)Identify the unknown drug by a TCL comparison with standard components. Part2 :to learn the separation technique by using TLC plate in separating a mixture of compound by using spinach leaf. Apparatus:UV lamp‚capillary ‚250 ML beaker Materials:aspirin‚acetaminophen‚caffeine‚unknown A‚unknown B‚TLC plates‚ethyl acetate‚Hexane‚acetic acid‚iodine Introduction: Procedure:
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References: 1) E. Stahl‚ Thin Layer Chromatography‚ Springer-Verlag‚ New York‚ 1969 2) Camag Scientific‚ Inc.‚ 515 Cornelius Harnett Drive‚ Wilmington‚ NC 28401‚ phone 800-3343909‚ fax 919-343-1834 3) Desaga GmbH‚ P.O. Box 101969‚ D-69009 Heidelberg‚ Germany‚ phone 0-62-21-83590
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The Game Theory by Malcolm Gladwell‚ gives amazing insight into the world of professional sport statistics. Gladwell argues that athletic dominance in a team sport can’t always be seen by the eye. Allen Iverson‚ for instance‚ was the 2001-2002 NBA’s Most Valuable Player. He was viewed as one of the best basketball players of his generation. However an algorithm devised by David Berry‚ Martin Schmidt‚ and Stacey Brook‚ shows the true value of a basketball player by grading their number of wins they
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Within Gladwell’s books the prevalent theme of the little things comes up constantly. The Tipping Point being the book where it prevails the most. Gladwell believes that the little things define most of the outcome in life. When he begins the book he starts off with mentioning that economists talk about “...the 80/20 principle… the idea that… 80% of the “work” will be done by 20% of the participants’’. In daily life it can be found that the 80/20 principle takes place for example a group project
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they are most likely to be the ones to belong in the elite team in the future. Despite of the fact that birth date is an important factor‚ an individual’s own skill is really the key to reach the top. In the second chapter‚ The 10‚000-Hour Rule‚ Gladwell presented that to become truly a master of something‚ an individual must undergo 10‚000 hours of practice and mastery on a particular skill which is like doing 20 hours of work a week for 10 years. He cites examples like K. Anders Ericsson’s study
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In chapter “Wilma Derksen”‚ Malcolm Gladwell talks about different way of using power. There are two words that important to understand the chapter are “crime” and “repercussions”. The first word is crime; this word means an offensive action that may be prosecute by state. This chapter talks about the limit of power through the ways that people uses to react to crime. We can see this word repeats all over this chapter. The second word is repercussions; this word means a bad consequence occurring
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