ACTIVITY 5. POWER OF A STUDENT (Teacher’s Notes) PROCESS SKILLS: Measure‚ Observe‚ Compare‚ Test‚ Explain OBJECTIVE: The objective of this activity is to motivate the concept of power‚ or rate at which energy is transformed‚ and to apply it to the rate at which students do work to increase their gravitational potential energy in climbing a flight of stairs. IDEA: Students are asked to measure their gain in gravitational potential energy as they climb a flight of stairs‚ then to calculate the rate
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In Master Harold and the Boys‚ racism is a clear factor throughout the play. Boet Sam and his friend Willie are two middle aged colored men who are friends with a 17 year old white boy named Hally. Hally’s mother is the two men’s boss but she is out at the time. The two men could be considered Hally’s family rather than friends‚ but the condescending tone is still present. This 17 year old boy still bosses these men around who are twice his age‚ “Act your bloody age! Cut out the nonsense now and
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English Review Simile: a phrase that uses the words like or as to describe someone or something by comparing it with someone or something else that is similar. Example: “She ’s as fierce as a tiger” is a simile‚ but “She ’s a tiger when she ’s angry” is a metaphor. Metaphor: a word or phrase for one thing that is used to refer to another thing in order to show or suggest that they are similar. Theme: A topic of discourse or discussion. Example: Italy‚ dark mansion‚ etc. Irony: The use
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03/01/13 August Wilson’s Fences is a play set in 1957‚ about a man named Troy Maxon‚ who lives his life through societal expectations. He has a family that he destroys by having an affair and getting his mistress pregnant. In August Wilson’s Fences‚ the character who is most bound by societal expectations is Troy. Troy is most bound by societal expectations because he couldn’t live out his dream of becoming a star baseball player because of his past. He refuses to believe that society has changed
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Macomber asked. “I’ll have a gimlet‚” Robert Wilson told him. “I’ll have a gimlet too. I need something‚” Macomber’s wife said. “I suppose it’s the thing to do‚” Macomber agreed. “Tell him to make three gimlets.” The mess boy had started them already‚ lifting the bottles out of the canvas cooling bags that sweated wet in the wind that blew through the trees that shaded the tents. “What had I ought to give them?” Macomber asked. “A quid would be plenty‚” Wilson told him. “You don’t want to spoil them.”
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Traveling is an aspect of what is perceived from our day to day lives‚ to something new that has never been seen. Ellis Wilson traveled throughout life with many struggles‚ and trials that created barriers in his overall success as an artist. Faced with many obstacles‚ he set on a journey with a paintbrush‚ visions‚ and stories all throughout his life. Regardless what life presented to him he kept treading on. He was met with new opportunities with each experience and that led him to his epiphany
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Ms. Cynthia Wilson is the active superintendent of Orangeburg Consolidated School District 5. Her leadership serves a big school district comprised of three high schools‚ a Technology Center‚ three middle schools and eight elementary schools. Orangeburg Consolidated School District Five‚ the largest of three public school districts in Orangeburg County‚ serves approximately 7‚000 students living in the city of Orangeburg and the communities of Bowman and North. Ms. Wilson dedicated her 22 years in
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Psychoanalysis of William Wilson We all have battle with our inner-selves but we never imagine it getting as bad as William Wilson. A man that believes he does not believe he belongs on this earth any longer. In the short story William Wilson by Edgar Allan Poe‚ Poe tells the story of a battle between a man and his conscience‚ and one can only think‚ what did he do to become this way‚ what could of helped him escape his own self‚ “LET me call myself‚ for the present‚ William Wilson. The fair page
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QUESTION 4 The Gen Toy Company manufactures a line of dolls and a doll dress sewing kit. Demand for the dolls is increasing‚ and management requests assistance from you in determining an economical sales and production mix for the coming year. The company has provided the following data: Product Demand Next Year (units) Selling Price per Unit Direct Materials Direct Labor Debbie 50‚000 $13.50 $4.30 $3.20 Trish 42‚000 $5.50 $1.10 $2.00 Sarah 35‚000 $21.00 $6.44 $5.60 Mike 40‚000 $10.00
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