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    African American Dialect

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    Vernacular‚ Black English Vernacular(BEV)‚ or Black Vernacular English (BVE)—is a variety (dialect‚ ethnolect‚ and sociolect) of American English‚ most commonly spoken today by urban working-classand largely bi-dialectal middle-class African Americans.[1] Non-linguists sometimes call it Ebonics (a term that also has other meanings and connotations). It shares parts of its grammar and phonology with the dialects of the Southern United States. Several creolists‚ including William Stewart‚ John Dillard

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    prerogative of young people and generally sound old in the mouth of and older person. Slang is so ephemeral; vocabulary can be a real give-away of you are trying to guess a person´s age on the telephone or radio. AGE AND SOCIAL DIALECT DATA • Social Dialect= research has provided a great deal of information about patterns of pronounciation and grammar for different age groups. • Social Dialectologists= found adolescents use the highest frequencies of vernacular forms‚ especially

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    Germ Line Control of female Sex Determination in Zebrafish In order to identify the sex of a developing embryo‚ many scientists have studied this process called sex determination that allows them to have better understandings on how sex is being determined in either vertebrates or invertebrates. Sex determination is normally determined genetically; however‚ other factors can contribute to its determination. There are numerous determinants that control sex determination‚ but the most important are

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    Wheat Germ DNA Isolation Darius Xavier Johnson 4/4/2014 Purpose: The purpose of this experiment was to isolate the DNA of wheat germ cells and to analyze that DNA for absorption rates when denatured and annealed. Reagent Table: Reagent Molecular Weight (g/mole) Boiling Point (°C) MeltingPoint (°C) Density Hazards NaCl 58.44 1413 801 2.165 g/ml Skin and eye irritant Inhalation Ethanol 46.07 78.5 -114.1 1.59 g/ml Skin and eye irritant Introduction: Chromatin

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    The Webster’s New World College Dictionary (Agnes 1999‚397) defines dialect as “a form or variety of a spoken language including the standard form‚ peculiar to a region‚ community‚ social group‚ occupational… and although it includes the standard form of language spoken by the region‚ community…it differs from it in matters of pronunciation‚ syntax …”. But somehow‚ the Caribbean dialect has been a form of expression which has still not been widely accepted or respected by people living within the

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    Germ-Line Therapy

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    from many parties. What needs to be considered from these discussions is the protection of our generations and the future implications of germ line therapy on the environment and humans. These are just a few of the issues that need to be taken into consideration when conducting genetic research to better treat and cure disease. It is relevant to note that germ line therapy is still experimental and possible procedures are based on current scientific research in the development of these procedures

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    Bioterrorism Bioterrorism is a type of terrorism that deals with the intentional release of biological agents. It is also known as germ warfare (Medicine Net). Some common‚well known biological agents are bacillus anthracis‚ variola major‚ and ricinus communis. These agents are better known as anthrax‚ smallpox‚ and ricin (Medicine Net). These are just three of the biological agents. Bioterrorism has been around since the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries (Pbs.org). People back then would load

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    Steel and Corrosion

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    of manganese in the rusting of steel.  Alford‚ H. Carroll: Corrosion of iron and its prevention. 2‚200 w. 1901. (In Proceedings of the St. Louis Railway Club‚ v. 5‚ April 12‚ p. 9.) Theory of rust formation and preventive measures.  American Society for Testing Materials: 1‚800 w. 1906. (In Iron age‚ v. 77‚ p. 2057.) Abstracts of papers at ninth annual meeting of the society; corrosion of tube steel‚ corrosion of wire fencing‚ electrolysis in structural steel‚ etc.  Andes‚ Louis Edgar: Der

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    Steel and Poem

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    boots‚ handcuffs‚ and a gun (15-17). The second is the female perspective where‚ despite the patrol man ’s power‚ his "jeep has a flat" (22) and he doesn ’t speak Spanish so he ’s unable to interpret the woman saying where there is water. Straightforwardly the speakers present themselves as young since they ’re playing a game. Furthermore‚ there ’s the hesitation of the boy not knowing exactly his weapons beyond his masculinity. He shows this saying‚ "Oh‚ and [I have] a gun" (17). Because of his

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    Storm of Steel

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    It’s a fact‚ when talking on the subject of war‚ we presume that if the generals and country leaders didn’t start them‚ they would by no means occur. In a book like Storm of Steel by Ernst Junger‚ though‚ there seems to be one more requirement‚ ready and enthusiastic soldiers. Junger would have probably preferred themselves "warriors" or barbarians. It’s within this book that Ernst Junger tells the story of a man who describes and most likely believed that the battlefront of World War I was not a

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