Report: Lessons from the Titanic Adapted from Causes and Effects of the Rapid Sinking of the Titanic by Vicki Bassett (http://www.writing.eng.vt.edu/uer/bassett.html) Date: 12 January 2012 Word count: 2802 Abstract This article discusses the material failures and design flaws that contributed to the rapid sinking of the Titanic‚ which collided with a massive iceberg in 1912 while on her maiden voyage from England to the United States. There were 2200 passengers
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Plastic from milk Materials and Equipment The materials listed below are for doing the experimental procedure exactly as written. However‚ you can make changes to the experimental procedure in order to use a different size measuring cup and/or a stovetop rather than a microwave. * Mugs or other heat-resistant cups (4); they should all be identical so as not to introduce another variable (See Variables in Your Science Fair Project)‚ and large enough to hold more than 8 oz. of liquid * Masking
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1.1 Explain the sequence and rate of each aspect of development from birth –19 years Children’s development for each age can be divided into fiver different aspects: Physical; Communication and Language; Intellectual and Cognitive; Social‚ Emotional and Behavioural and‚ from the age of 3 years Moral Development. Birth – 3 weeks Full term babies are born at around 40 weeks; if they are born more than 3 weeks before the due date they are classed as premature and will then be expected to
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Unit 1 Child and Young Person Development Task 1 Explain the sequence and rate of each aspect of development from birth – 19 years Children’s development can be grouped into four different aspects: physical‚ social and emotional‚ intellectual and language. The physical development of a baby in its first six months of life shows limited range of movement but the beginnings of an ability to respond to stimulus around them. They show their reaction to people‚ sounds and movement by turning
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When people experience troubling events‚ there is a chance they can repress them to forget what happened. We do not completely forget them but simply put the thought in the back of our minds‚ only to be remembered occasionally. In “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”‚ by Ursula LeGuin‚ the people of Omelas know a child is locked in the basement by himself. They continue to believe his isolated suffering is the sole reason for their happiness‚ so they trap him there. Some citizens have trouble coping
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Tolerance Ayn Rand once said “A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity. It means that a lie sadly has enough power to cause corruption in a society. It also suggests that a lie perhaps be strong enough to destroy even a high ranking person from a society. If you tolerate lies dominating people around you‚ you’ll eventually be a victim of them. Two literature works that explain this quote are Author Miller’s play‚ The Crucible‚ which takes place in a Puritan town named Salem in the state
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point of making mistakes is to learn from them. If you don’t learn from what you do wrong‚ then making mistakes has no silver lining‚ it is purely bad. I have come to believe this through personal experience and watching others. When climbing the "ladder of success‚" each step gets you closer to the top. Therefore each step is a mistake that you learned from‚ a good decision‚ or even a stroke of luck. How could a person climb that ladder without each and every wooden rung to help them?
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The 1960s is a decade filled with a series of remarkable and significant events that still resonate today. From the charismatic John F. Kennedy winning the nation ’s highest office to Vietnam War‚ the 1960s was a decade of transformational changes (Whithaus‚ 2004). Adding to this transformation were a host of technological breakthroughs. For the first time in American history a presidential political debate‚ between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon‚ was aired on TV. In 1963 Lee Harvey Oswald
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all your secrets. Who do you think you’re dealing with‚ Rachel? A very rich man with dirty secrets that I could reveal. - So you’re the one who hacked into my computer? - Do we have a deal or not? The only deal you’re striking... is with the cops. Hello?
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My Escape from Reality Michael Petty ENG121: English Composition I Sara Keller April 07‚ 2013 I sometimes find myself gazing off over the giant deep blue waters called the Pacific Ocean. It is as wide and far as the eye can see. The dazzling yellow and orange sun begins to fall from the sky as the day comes to an end‚ casting beautiful shades of pink‚ purple‚ and gold onto the white capped swells drifting toward the coastline. I am sitting the edge of a cliff which once extended hundreds
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