I found out from this experiment that half-life means just what it sounds like. After each cycle of half-life‚ the number of coins left was about half. Each coin represents an atom and just like in nature the half-life of decay is half depending what the element’s half-life is. If each of the scatter test was 10 years‚ the element we are testing would have a half-life of 10 years. The amount of time for a half-life depends on the elements‚ and how tightly the atoms are packed together. Some other
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for my Tongue” by Sujata Bhatt and “Half Caste” by John Agard‚ there are a variety of language features used such as personification‚ metaphors and repetition‚ which personally made descriptions in the poem more vivid. These techniques aided in making these poems more powerful and helped to effectively convey the messages that our identities are engraved in us and that we need to reconsider using the derogatory term ‘half-caste’ as it identifies people as ‘half’ people. Sujata Bhatt uses metaphors
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A lie is a statement which is inaccurate and untrue with an intent to mislead and deceive. A half-truth is a deceptive statement that includes some element of truth.The classic story about blind men and an elephant. Each blind man touches a different part of the elephant and reaches a different conclusion about the nature of the elephant; while each man’s experience of the elephant is accurate‚ none of them have a full understanding of the nature of the beast. One may be touching the tail and believe
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Thunk‚thunk the ball bounced around at the speed of light the soccer game was intense in the july heat.The score was 2-2 the first half was just ending. It was a boiling hot day. It was the finals of the Schaumburg tournament. "Okay said coach we have a whole half left so just get out there and play your best. We ran onto the field. Instantly the second half started. I passed the ball. To Andrew one of our defenders‚ he passed it back. I passed it to Manit one of our center midfield. He chipped
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“During the first half of the nineteenth century‚ the Cherokee legislature enacted a series of laws regulating sex and marriage that reveal the efforts of Cherokee authorities to modify conceptions of gender and race in the Nation.” –Fay Yarbrough‚ Legislating Women’s Sexuality: Cherokee Marriage Laws in the 19th Century‚ 385 Yarbrough’s statement illustrates how Cherokee officials were redefining Cherokees racially and sought to control the marital behavior of Cherokee women because they had the
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Codename: Gordon presents an alternative to the storyline of Half-Life‚ with locations that were inspired by both Half-Life and Half-Life 2. Throughout the game‚ Gordon Freeman meets with some of the main characters of the Half-Life series‚ who are aware that the world/game is 2D. Gordon sets out in an attempt to discover the cause behind the disappearance of the third dimension. The game starts with Gordon Freeman in a dock area. After fighting his way through several zombies and Headcrabs‚ Gordon
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Why is a drug’s plasma half-life important to health care providers? Half life is important in determining the frequency of a drug administered in order to maintain a continuous drug effect. Identify 2 diseases/conditions that can increase the plasma half-life of a drug. It can be prolonged when liver or kidney disease is present. What could happen if a medication with a long half-life continues to be given to a patient with one of the diseases/conditions identified in above? Patients with hepatic
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Another form of oppression that was rampant throughout Half of a Yellow Sun‚ Half the Sky‚ and The Woman Warrior was the issue of classism. Sex slavery and other types of slavery that occurred in different parts of Asia are not only a matter of oppressing women and children because of what they could provide; their provisions to the industry or brothels never allowed for the possibility of upward social mobility. Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn (2010) noted that out of the two to three million
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Edward Wilson wrote Half Earth: Our Plants Fight for Life as a way to propose a solution to a crisis plaguing the earth at this very moment. He separates his work into three parts: The Problem‚ The Real Living World‚ and The Solution. While Wilson does set the stage for why a solution is needed‚ his solution does not live up to the stage that was set‚ as it does not appear to be realistic. He does not describe exactly how something like this would even begin to happen. It’s easy to just give ideas
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and Gwyneth Paltrow’s 11-year-old daughter‚ Apple and Beyonce and Jay-Z’s four-year-old daughter‚ Blue Ivy adorably held hands at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara on February 7. The duo attended the event where their famous parents performed during the half time show of Super Bowl 50. Paltrow shared the cute snap of the duo on her Instagram and captioned it with‚ "#superbowl50 jacket game." A photo posted by Gwyneth Paltrow (@gwynethpaltrow) on Feb 7‚ 2016 at 2:56pm PST The photo showed Apple towering
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