Environmental Systems and Societies Research Question: In terms of an ecological-footprint‚ do the members of SIS form a ‘large footprint’ and‚ if so‚ what steps can the school take to improve its situation‚ via Social Responsibility or otherwise? By Shoumi Mittra 003510-022 SVKM International School Word count: 3943 words Investigating SVKM International School and its ecological footprint Table of contents: Title | Page Number | Abstract | 3 | Introduction | 4 | * Research
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newspaper advertisement from Exxon Mobil and “An Agenda for Climate Action” (Text B”)‚ a speech by Eileen Claussen‚ the President of Pew Center on Global Climate Change were both written in 2006 with the focus on global warming. The author in both commentaries strives to bring out the message that as human beings‚ we must take action to stop the worsening of climate change. Text A is a published article by a company that emphasizes that everyone in the world should be able to take part in reducing greenhouse
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AP/IB Biology Lab Assessment The effect of various fruit and vegetable cell membranes on their water potential Independent variable: Type of fruit or vegetable. (Produce used: Russet potatoes‚ Pascal celery‚ Gala apple‚ Navel orange‚ and Imperator carrot). The fruit or vegetable will be placed in six 56.7 gram cups‚ ranging with sucrose molarities of 0 (distilled water)‚ 0.2‚ 0.4‚ 0.6‚ 0.8‚ 1.0‚ with 5 trials‚ leading to 30 cups for each produce variable. Dependent variable: The water potential
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Determining the equilibrium constant from pH values of changing concentrations of ethanoic acid Design Research question: How will altering the concentrations of ethanoic acid affect the pH value‚ and‚ in-turn‚ the equilibrium constant? Background information: When weak acids react‚ the reaction typically does not go to completion. Rather‚ the system goes to an intermediate state in which the rates of the forward and reverse reactions are equal. Such a system is said to be in chemical equilibrium
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Written Task The downfall. The cold pouring rain had finally stopped. The man who several years ago were used to be Winston Smith was walking down the narrow street closely to his apartment in Victory Mansions. It was the year 1989‚ or at least he thought so. It has been raining for days‚ or even weeks‚ it doesn’t matter. The noise of bombs turning buildings into dust was very often in that week‚ and they were dangerously close to the part of the city where most of the party members were relocated
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In Flanders Field Cold Commentary In Flanders’s Field is a war poem filled with emotions that probably relate to World War One. The strange thing this poem does not have a sort of morning/sad tone to it which was typical after the world experienced the horrors of World War One. This poem has a very strong feeling of fighting on and “hold [the torch] high”(12) feeling. This is due to a lot of different reasons. The most prominent is the fact that this poem seems to be from a single entity
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A Review and Commentary On:A Time to Kill By John GrishamA Time to Kill written by John Grisham is a book that presents the high racial tensions in Canton Mississippi in the early 1990 ’s. The book opens with two young men‚ James Lewis Willard and Billy Ray Cobb‚ joy riding in their brand new yellow pick up truck decked out with Confederate flags. They speed though black neighborhoods throwing full beer bottles at people and houses‚ until they come across ten-year-old Tonya Hailey walking home from
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OVERVIEW This is an excellent short case to introduce the managerial accounting issues related to the "joint cost" problem. Classic microeconomics argues unequivocally that attempts to assign cost to individual products in a "joint" set constitute a complete waste of time--"just maximize the total revenue over the batch." Like the comparable adage to "price so that marginal cost equals marginal revenue‚" the economists’ advice about joint costing is certainly accurate‚ given the assumptions‚ but
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Medal Heights INTRODUCTION What is the purpose of this document? This document contains new tasks for the portfolio in mathematics SL. These tasks have been produced by the IB‚ for teachers to use in the examination sessions in 2012 and 2013. It should be noted that most tasks previously produced and published by the IB will no longer be valid for assessment after the November 2010 examination session. These include all the tasks in any teacher support material (TSM)‚ and the tasks in the document
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GRADE 12 GRAAD 12 NATIONAL SENIOR CERTIFICATE GRADE 12 ENGLISH FIRST ADDITIONAL LANGUAGE P3 NOVEMBER 2010 MEMORANDUM MARKS: 100 This memorandum consists of 9 pages. Copyright reserved Please turn over English First Additional Language/P3 2 NSC – Memorandum DBE/November 2010 INSTRUCTIONS AND INFORMATION This memorandum must be used together with the attached English FAL assessment rubrics for SECTIONS A‚ B and C. SECTION A: ESSAY QUESTION 1 Instructions to Markers: • • • • Candidates are
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