Crumple Zone I choose to look at the crumple zone in cars for my technological device and briefly touch upon seat belts in cars and air bags. The crumple zone in my own words is a zone built in an automobile to compress when an accident occurs. This was built to absorb “deformation” energy from the impact. The other reason it was built‚ which is more common is to reduce the deaths in car accidents. Crumple zones are mostly located in the front of a car and this will absorb the energy from “head
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Time Zones Christopher D. Smith GLG/150 July 21‚ 2010 The Greenwich Meridian is a north-south line representing a zero degree-reference line in longitude. The line passes through the United Kingdom and it represents the world’s prime meridian. Longitude is used to measure the distance of areas on the world east‚ or west. Think of it like the equator‚ where the equator separates the southern and northern hemispheres. The Greenwich Meridian separates the east and west hemispheres. According
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Origin of Earth and Evoluation of the Environment MODULE - 1 Environment through Ages 1 ORIGIN OF EARTH AND EVOLUTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT We live on a beautiful planet called earth‚ along with a wide variety of plants‚ animals and other organisms. Our earth‚ however‚ is part of a vast universe. The universe is about 15 to 20 billion years old. The age of the earth is approximately 4 to 5 billion years‚ while human beings evolved only around 2 million years ago. In this lesson‚ you shall learn
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The Intertidal Zone The intertidal zone is the area of the sea floor that is uncovered and recovered by the tides. At high tide‚ the intertidal zone is submerged beneath sea water and at low tide it is exposed to air. There are two main types of intertidal zones that experience this daily change‚ the sandy shore and the rocky shore. Each has different characteristics and special organisms that survive there. These different species tend to inhabit different zones in which they can handle but there
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How to Make Hot Chocolate Hot chocolate can be a delicious and comforting beverage‚ especially during cold winter months. If chilled‚ however‚ you’ll have a refreshing drink or possibly a dessert depending on how you dress it up. Hot chocolate should not to be confused with hot cocoa. The former is made with actual chocolate and is a richer‚ much more substantial beverage. The latter is produced from cocoa powder or from a manufactured product containing cocoa powder such as hot cocoa mixes
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HIV/AIDS The world is plagued by the HIV infection which almost always comes before AIDS. If you are HIV positive‚ that doesn’t mean you have AIDS. Having AIDS usually means that you are HIV positive. HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) basically breaks down your immune system until it can’t function properly anymore. AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) never really kills anyone; instead it is a disease like pneumonia or something like that‚ that the body cannot fight because its immune system
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What is AIDS? Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a lentivirus (slowly-replicating retrovirus) that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)‚ a condition in humans in which progressive failure of the immune system allows life-threatening opportunistic infections and cancers to thrive (1). A virus is a piece of genetic material‚ RNA or DNA‚ surrounded by a protein coat. To replicate‚ a virus must infect a cell and direct its cellular machinery to produce new viruses. A virus cannot
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Comfort Zone Brian Tracy‚ one of the top success speakers and authors in the world‚ has once said‚ “Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.” His point is that‚ when one steps out of her comfort zone it will be strange‚ difficult‚ or painful. However‚ one will only grow or learn from the experience if they accept the embarrassment‚ difficulties‚ and the awkwardness that come with trying something new. I agree
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Pratt wrote A Contact Zone‚ a short story about how many different cultures interact through Transculturation and contact zones. A contact zone is defined as “is the gap in which transculturation takes place- where two different cultures meet and inform each other‚ in uneven ways” (mariexotoni). In my owns words‚ a contact zone can be where two different people from different backgrounds‚ teachings‚ and traditions come together and share their experiences. Contact zones can be seen in every social
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Agrarian Magic: 20 Theories on the Origin of Religion Religion is a species-specific human universal phenomenon‚ complex‚ full of paradoxes‚ and found in all cultures. Social scientists and anthropologists since the late 17th century have attempted to rationally answer questions about religion‚ and while we can’t evaluate the veracity of religion’s claims‚ we can attempt to understand its functions. The methods of comparative religion‚ comparative mythology‚ with interdisciplinary analysis
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