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    The Steel Windpipe serves best in demonstrating how I would maintain a level of detachment in order to avoid becoming emotionally compromised in serious situations while providing patient care. Bulgakov’s work describes both the external burdens‚ as well as the internal struggle many healthcare professionals face when encountering a patient who has experienced some major trauma. This story showcases a sense of humanity and responsibility to save a patient’s life at whatever cost. The piece portrays

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    The gun with a bang

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    In the story The Gun Without a Bang by Robert Sheckly‚ a man named Dixon is testing a new super pistol. I think that the theme of this story is that it isn’t the power of a weapon to the effect of visual pain it has on others. On page thirty five‚ Dixon is going on about how great of a weapon it is. His only complaints were that the gun was heavy and unbalanced. He said one of the greatest features was that it didn’t need to be reloaded. The gun was so great in his eyes that he said it was the

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    Indian Steel Industry

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    TOWN LEVEL BACKGROUND NOTE (DRAFT) ON JALNA Submitted to Urban India Reforms Facility TATA INSTITUTE of SOCIAL SCIENCES By Resources and Livelihoods Group‚ PRAYAS‚ Pune 1 Acknowledgements Preparation of this report would not have been possible without the cooperation and support extended by the Jalna Municipal council’s officers and councilors for the support they extended in the form of sharing data as well as exchanging views ‚ and also the experts from different fields

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    High Speed Steel * High Speed Steel (HSS) refers to any of a variety of steel alloys that engineers primarily use to construct machine tool bits and blades and drill bits for industrial power tools. Materials scientists can infuse this steel with differing percentages of elements to form a variety of HSS manufacturing alloy types. While all of these different types exhibit HSS’s characteristic resistance to high-temperature‚ the properties of each alloy will vary depending on the percentage of

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    Gun Control

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    Kylie Dale Composition 2 Professor Davis 3 March 2013 Gun Control These three essays on the topic of gun control‚ “Both Sides Have Something to Fear” by David Ropeik‚ “We Can Ratchet Down the Passions” by Adam Winkler‚ and “A Divide Widened by Misunderstanding” by David Kopel‚ have many similarities in their views and opinions of the gun debate; i.e. to have gun rights or gun control. Not only their viewpoints‚ or lack thereof rather‚ but their timing from when these essays were written and

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    Germ-Kill Kit Case Study

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    addition‚ the device had to be fail-safe from a consumer perspective – and so it needed indicator to signal the approaching end-of-life of the consumable refill component (which was subsequently named ‘Germ-Kill Kit’)‚ and also to have an auto-shut off mechanism that would shut the flow of water when the germ-kill power of the consumable refill component was over. Notably‚ at the time‚ even premium UV and RO purifiers that were priced at USD 100+ did not have an end-of-life indicator‚ or a safety auto-shut

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    The document‚ Steel of Storm‚ by Ernst Junger‚ an English lieutenant in the Great War- or WWI- tells the story of a young soldier in charge of leading other Englishmen to their potential deaths‚ all united by the goal of defeating the German soldiers and restoring peace to their European home. This piece explains why Junger believed his experience of fighting as an English soldier to be a positive one‚ what the average experience of a soldier in the trenches was like‚ as well as how the Great War

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    Anti-Guns vs. Pro-Guns

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    Anti-Gun Vs Pro-Gun Firearms‚ are they good‚ or are they a safety hazard to everyone in this world? Are they so dangerous that no one should be allowed to own them or are they so necessary that we cant live without them? Are we to strict on the laws involving firearms? This argument has been going on for many years. Guns have been around since the beginning of our nations time. Knowing this‚ why would we ever think about banning the right to bear arms? In the past decade more and more crimes

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    Gun Control vs. Gun Rights

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    There is a famous quote‚ which states: "Guns don’t kill people‚ people kill people." This quote is technically true. But if there are no guns‚ it will be a whole lot more difficult for people to kill people. Sure people could use different weapons such as knives and golf clubs to kill people. But the victim will have a significant better chance of defending him or herself from a weapon other than firearms. I was born in Tokyo‚ Japan and moved to the United States when I was six. I still go

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    In the United States‚ guns have been a constituent of the country’s society since history. Throughout history‚ the citizens of the U.S. have used firearms to protect the nation and engage in sporting activities. Background checks could reduce mass killings and hopefully reduce the growth of it‚ as well. The issue of Guns and gun control is very complex. In the United States‚ gun control is one of these tumultuous issues. Gun control is the most growing issues that firmly entrenched in their steads

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