“How the Earth was Formed” video notes: Theory: -sun was surrounded by a cloud of dust and gas -as cloud cooled little grains of minerals started forming -grains of minerals started bumping into each other (Problem was nobody could explain how these microscopic minerals formed a planet) Then in 2003 astronaut Don Pettit performed an experiment onboard the international space station. He put some salt in a plastic bag and found that almost immediately the grains started gathering together into little
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Stephen Aron’s book How the West Was Lost gives a complex and yet insightful view of the transformation of the Western Frontier and the role Kentucky placated on Americas expansion. Aron agrees with in Frederick Jackson Turner’s view of Kentucky’s significance in the westward expansion of America. Aron starts off with “the world of Daniel Boone gave way to that of Henry Clay.”1; this sets the stage with Aron showing a link from one way of life to the transformation to the next stage of the transformation
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1. In America in the 1940s Sam Walton opened his first retail store‚ over the next 50 years Walton would go on to create one of the most successful companies in history. At the time Americans were benefiting from a post war boom with an “era of rising living standards and growing consumption” Adams (2006:214). In order to analyse the attractiveness of discount retailing Porters competitive forces framework can be used. Porter (1980:3) states that “competition in an industry depends on five basic
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centre of a complex site of Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments‚ including several hundred burial mounds. Stonehenge was constructed in three stages‚ with each stage being an ‘improvement’ to the site. Recently‚ there have been efforts to restore destroyed or stolen sections of the monument. Theories have been made concerning what Stonehenge was used for. Many people believe it was used as a temple of Sun-worship for various Sun-cults. Modern scientific beliefs state that it may have been used as
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Discuss broadly the merger assessment techniques. How are they applied? What are the advantages‚ disadvantages‚ etc.? There are many benefits to a merger between firms. These include: exploiting economies of scale‚ diversification and of course increasing shareholder wealth. The reason for mergers are predominantly monetary. These benefits can either be competitive or anti-competitive‚ when a collusion is anti competitive a governing body should intervene. Anti competitive behaviour would reduce
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effective educational approaches or combination of approaches that teach skills which allow individuals with a extensive developmental disorder to develop to their fullest potential. Research by Watling and Schwartz (2004) discusses the fulfilment of Applied Behavioural Analysis (ABA) as an appropriate educational mechanism for individuals with disabilities which rely on the principles of B.F. Skinner and behaviourism. For autistics‚ learning occurs only when demands are carefully structured‚ repeated
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Consumerism Post WW II American was a place full of optimism and fear. The American people had survived 20 years of depression and war to find new prosperity and an increase in mass production of goods and services that improved quality of life. This meant better times for Americans‚ but fears over the Cold War‚ threat of an evermore intrusive American government and loss of individualism existed as well. These high expectations and anxieties played a great deal into how people consumed. Eventually these
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conflict in the story was the narrator getting shot at. Then the conflict was resolved by the narrator finding a way how to kill his enemy. The narrator changed as soon as he seen the face of his beloved brother dead. The theme of the story is when people are in war‚ they are taught to kill each other without hesitation. The main characters in the Crane are Songsam and also Tokchae‚ which used to be his child hood playmate. The conflict in the story was when Songsam was forced to shoot his friend
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How Iceland was formed Iceland‚ situated on top of a hotspot experiences severe volcanic activity one of the most well known eruptions was in 2010 when Eyjafjallajokull erupted seriously disrupting European air traffic. Iceland is situated is situated in the mid Atlantic ridge a seam in the Earth’s surface under the North Atlantic Ocean where the Eurasian and North American plates slide apart. This island has more than 200 volcanoes which is thought to be what created this island. This picture
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Short Answers 1. According to the church‚ the age of the earth was 6‚000 years old. 2. James Hutton discovered that the earth was much older from the tilted rocks because he knew these rocks was once laid down horizontally on the sea floor and were buried under great depth to be crystalized. Then they were tilted on end by great earth forces and then eroded away. The rocks were
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