Biodegradable plastic from cornstarch ABSTRACT The study aims to produce biodegradable plastic using cassava starch as its main component. Cassava starch was mixed with water‚ cornstarch and cooking oil INTRODUCTION There is an increasing demand for plastic‚ from the highly technological fields of electronics‚ fiber optics‚ and pharmaceuticals to the basic necessities such as sandwich wrappers and garbage bags. This high demand for plastics‚ however‚ has been a major contributor to
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Irish Music Turlough O’ Carolan (1670 –1738) An exploration of his inspirational sources‚ musical style and unique contribution to Irish music. Introduction Turlough O’ Carolan has as a composer‚ poet and musician contributed to Irish music in a unique way. I am going to explore his musical influences and style and his inspirational sources‚ and show how Carolan’s music has continued to shape Irish music both during his lifetime‚ throughout history and in recent times. Childhood
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Being of Irish Catholic heritage is important to me because I have special gifts all non-Irish Catholics have. Being Catholic allows me to be close and believe in God‚ have miracles to happen‚ have the profound sense of discovering‚ experiencing‚ and to be able to respond to God in union with others who believe in him‚ within my world and community. Also being a catholic commits me to not lie‚ allows me to be open to new opinions and ideas‚ proclaim the good news of Christ‚ be committed to transformation
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The Real Irish Republican Army Introduction In July of 2012‚ a member of the Real Irish Republican Army (Real IRA) approached a journalist in Derry City with a statement about the future of the organization. The statement outlined the purpose of the organization‚ and called upon the British government to remove all British military presence in “their” country. Additionally‚ the statement indicated a merger between several republican sovereignty organizations by stating that “In recent years
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religious symbolism becomes clearer as Joyce uses symbols throughout the story to reflect upon his own experiences and his own view of the Irish Church. As told in the text’s prologue‚ Joyce saw Ireland to be in a sort of spiritual paralysis during his early years‚ and an argument could be made that “Araby” was his way of expressing his views on this stagnant Irish Church. Due to different events that occurred in his childhood‚ James Joyce was turned off to and let down by the Catholic Church‚ causing
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The issue of moral obligations towards the global poor has always been a contentious affair to be discussed for fear of problematic resolutions that may affect academia on a personal level. Peter Singer‚ most notable for his authorship of “Famine‚ Affluence‚ and Morality” and the drowning child analogy‚ presents the rather uncommon normative view that affluent persons are morally obligated to donate more resources to humanitarian causes than the present standard. Singer’s perspective on these seemingly
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But these crafty humans manage to pave their way and thrive in their new environment. The mother from the short narrative “Who’s Irish?” did exactly that. She came over from China with her husband and started a successful Chinese food business to support and raise her family. Later her husband dies and she still faces hardships of assimilation. Gish Jen’s “Who’s Irish?” employs indirect characterization of the protagonist mother to employ her theme that assimilating and relating to a new culture
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political turmoil throughout the Irish isle stemming from the British occupation of Northern Ireland. With this occupation goes a tradition of armed resistance to the British military and other political installations. This tradition generally only found effective expression when large sections of the Irish people‚ faced with the British government’s denial of the legitimate demand for Irish independence‚ exercised the right to use armed struggle (Coogan 10). The Irish Republican Army (IRA) was formed
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Discuss with reference to at least three poems‚ Yeats ’ treatment of Irish Concerns Yeats changes his treatment of Irish concerns throughout his life and these changes are reflected in his poetry. Three poems that reflect these changes are ’September 1913 ’‚ ’Easter 1916 ’ and ’Under Ben Bulben ’. These poems show a transpositions in political thought. In ’September 1913 ’ Yeats shows his aversion to democracy and capitalism‚ and expresses his belief in an aristocratic society preferably governed
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Chapter 1 NAME The Market Introduction. The problems in this chapter examine some variations on the apartment market described in the text. In most of the problems we work with the true demand curve constructed from the reservation prices of the consumers rather than the “smoothed” demand curve that we used in the text. Remember that the reservation price of a consumer is that price where he is just indifferent between renting or not renting the apartment. At any price below the reservation
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