Charge problems 1. Complete the following sentences using words from the list below. equal negative opposite positive zero a) A proton has ………positive…….. charge. b) A neutron has ……zero……….. charge. c) An electron has ………negative…….. charge. d) A proton and an electron have ……opposite……….. and ………equal…….. charge. 2. Complete the following sentences using words from the list below. electron(s) ion(s) neutron(s) nucleus (nuclei)
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Addiction and Human Life Human addiction can come in many forms and can affect our very way of life. Addiction can be something as small as playing video games excessively or as threatening as taking heroin. The truth behind addiction starts at the source of how we cope with the everyday stress and boredom in our lives. Drug abuse is a chronic‚ often relapsing brain disease that causes compulsive drug seeking and use‚ despite harmful consequences to the drug addict and those around them. (WebMD
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Juvenile Life Without Parole In June 2012‚ the United States Supreme Court ruled that it is a violation of the United States Constitution to sentence someone to serve mandatory life in prison without the possibility of parole if the person committed the crime when they were under the age of 18. Since then‚ many states have been trying to re-write their laws to figure out what to do with juveniles who commit crimes. In Michigan‚ it is even more complicated because we have 370 people in prison
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of our human built environment‚ and whether we create it to be a comfort or a torment. To understand the place of art and beauty in contemporary culture‚ you need to turn to history. You could define art as vision or as intuition‚ as Benedetto Croce does in his essay "What is Art?" By this definition‚ the works of someone with a beautiful vision would be beautiful‚ and art would be an external manifestation of an internal state. The importance of art is related to the nature of our human built
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Mechanisation and Human Life Exercise 1 Mechanisation is providing human operators with machinery that assists them with the muscular requirements of work or displaces muscular work. In some fields‚ mechanization includes the use of hand tools. In modern usage‚ such as in engineering or economics‚ mechanization implies machinery more complex than had tools and would not include simple devices such as an un-geared horse or donkey mill. Automation/Mechanisation has had a notable impact in a wide
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said‚ “Time and task were both disorienting. For if you were to remove everything from our lives that depends on electricity to function‚ homes and offices would become no more than the chambers and passages of limestone caves… simple shelter from wind and rain. No way to keep out cold‚ or heat‚ for long. No way to preserve food‚ or to cook it. The things that define us‚ that without their purpose‚ they lose the measure of their beauty and we are left alone in the dark with countless useless things
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Imagine getting through your busy day without hands or feet. Picture your life without the ability to walk‚ care for your basic needs‚ or even embrace those you love. Meet Nicholas Vujicic (pronounced VOO-yee-cheech). Without any medical explanation or warning‚ Nick was born in 1982 in Brisbane‚ Australia‚ without arms and legs. Three sonograms failed to reveal complications. And yet‚ the Vujicic family was destined to cope with both the challenge and blessing of raising a son who refused
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Electricity is important in our everyday lives. It is essential for almost everything in our modern world. The knowledge learned in the past about electricity enabled such things as engines‚ telephones‚ radios‚ computers‚ and much‚ much more. As early as 600 B.C.‚ the Greeks were already studying electricity. They noticed that if you rubbed a piece of amber with fur‚ it had a charge with the ability to attract small objects. Many years later‚ in the 16th Century‚ William Gilbert discovered many
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value of human life has been challenged over many years. Some people feel as though human life is not valuable‚ while others feel it is extremely valuable. The worldview that a person holds‚ directly relates to the value that they place on human life. If someone believes in evolution‚ then they would seemingly believe that life is not valuable being that life stemmed from animals. On the other hand‚ a person whom believes is creationism is more likely to stand firm in the fact that the human life was
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Water‚ Life Cannot Exist Without It Water is the world’s most natural resource and without it there would be no life on earth. Nature limits our available supply of water. Virtually all of human uses require fresh water. 97% of the Earth’s water is salt water and only 2.5% is fresh water of which over two thirds is frozen in glaciers and polar ice caps. The unfrozen freshwater is mainly ground water with only a fraction on the surface. Fresh water is a renewable resource but the world usage
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