BIODIVERSITY AND EXTINCTION Biodiversity is determined by the variety of species extant in a specific ecosystem; this includes both animals and plants. Biodiversity is what gives an ecosystem a continuing and symbiotic relationship between all the organic and inorganic elements; maintaining the proper balance of different gases such as nitrogen‚ oxygen‚ hydrogen‚ carbon dioxide and many other elements‚ which differ in composition depending on the type of environment (such as subterranean‚ aquatic
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Betty White Betty White was born in Oak Park‚ IL on January 17‚ 1922‚ daughter of Horace L. White‚ a traveling salesman and Tess Cachikis. She attended Beverly Hills High School from which she graduated in 1939. Her career started in the early 1940s with a modeling job. She also worked on a few radio shows including Blondie‚ The Great Gildersleeve‚ and This Is Your FBI and later‚ her own radio program name‚ The Betty White Show. In 1949 she debuted on television when she appeared
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through A and B Finding C and D‚ the other points of intersection Ratio of distance between CA‚ AB and BD Notice how if Therefore‚ the function will not have 2 points of inflection‚ thus will not be a Golden Quartic‚ and points A and B‚ the non-stationary points of inflection will be non-existent and hence‚ the distance between the points will also be non-existent‚ as shown below: Investigation #5 Finding A and B‚ the non-stationary
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Judges might seek to look and search the dictionaries‚ law journals‚ and several other relevant materials to clarify the ambiguity of the words that were going to be used literally in the case. Thus‚ judges might consider adopting the approach of the Golden Rule to sway away from an
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middle-point between cowardice and foolhardiness. However‚ it is not always clear whether every action is a mean of this way. How would pulling the plug on a patient fit in Aristotle’s golden mean analysis? I think the safest way to apply Aristotle’s theory would be to emphasize character‚ rather than get lost in the thickets of golden mean analysis. Using Aristotelian ethics to resolve particular cases is always difficult‚ because the question of "what ought I to do?" is always secondary to the question
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Discovering the Value of Your Personality All of us have distinct personalities‚ and all of us can‚ without knowing it‚ push some of our inborn characteristics to an unhealthy extreme that can wreak havoc in amarriage. —Gary Smalley The personality inventory you take is not like a test you fail or pass. It’s more like a fingerprint that shows your tendencies. Tendencies can change‚ unlike fingerprints. Discovering your personality tendencies in relationships helps to show where your strengths and
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most used shapes in architecture. While rectangles are weak and need structural support‚ such shapes are generally more economical to construct. A golden rectangle is one that has a proportional ratio of π. In mathematics‚ this means that the long side can be divided by the smaller side and equal to the whole length divided by the longer side. Golden rectangles are prevalent in
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STATUTORY INTERPRETATION TOPICS: Preliminaries Rules and approaches Aids to interpretation Impact of EU and HRA PRELIMINARIES Statutory interpretation is the way by which the parts of a statute are interpreted in order to understand what Parliament might have intended by passing that particular statute. Statutes are not user friendly. They are written in technical form and not too easy to understand (ambiguity). The words used in statues may have different meanings which indicate
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span (approximately 240-meters.) Da Vinci designed the bridge as part of a civil engineering project for Sultan Bajazet II of Constantinople (Istanbul.) The bridge was to span the Golden Horn‚ an inlet at the mouth of the Bosphorus River in what is now Turkey. The Bridge was never built. Leonardo’s "Golden Horn" Bridge is a perfect "pressed-bow." Leonardo surmised correctly that the classic keystone arch could be stretched narrow and substantially widened without losing integrity
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P6: Binding Precedent: A precedent from an earlier case that must be followed even if the later judge doesn’t agree. When a higher court makes a decision‚ it is a binding that all courts who are lower. R V DUDELY and Stevens (1884): The two shipwrecked men kill and ate the cabin boy‚ later both men were convicted to murder. The ratio Decidendi: The ratio Decidendi is binding on lower courts and stands in contrast to obiter dicta. The court gave three reasons for refusing a defence of necessity
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