wall. Find the height of the point where the ladder touches the wall. Solution: Draw the figure for the given data. [Given] The distance from the foot of the ladder to the foot of the wall adjacent = 41 ft‚ and the angle of elevation is 30° Leto be the height of the side at which the ladder touches the wall. [Solution] Tan30°= the ladder touches the wall at a height of 23.67 ft. 2. The angle of elevation of the top of a tree is 30o from a point 28 ft away from the foot of the
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Milo Fradianni Germs‚ Guns and Steel WHAP Gavigan Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel The Fates of Human Societies Jared Diamond Prologue: Throughout the book; Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel‚ Jared Diamond answers a very controversial question; why is it that European people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea‚ but the natives of New Guinea had little cargo of their own? Societies prosper depending on the abundance of natural resources which are at their disposal
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logical fallacy is one I know everyone has heard at least once‚ Subway Commercials‚ stating that if you eat subway you will be like Michael Phelps‚ or Jared. We all know that we eat at subway because we want to be like one of the above mentioned “famous” people. They want us to believe that eating at subway we will look and act like Michael Phelps or “Jared”‚ Though the latter isn’t someone I would like to take after. Anyway‚ Subway sandwiches is our topic so we shall move right along. Subway restaurant’s
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hoping to get delicious treats and sweets. I was with Leah‚ Lee‚ Vinny‚ and Ethan and we were hoping to have a memorable night. Though we would not remember the night from the candy we received‚ the dinner we ate‚ the candy trade‚ or meeting up with Jared‚ Matt and Frank. No‚ we would remember this night from the time we were almost kidnapped. This is what happened…. 4:05 P.M. Wind Point Wisconsin Us five as in Leah‚ Lee‚ Vinny‚ Ethan and myself were just leaving to go trick or treating. We had
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Becoming stronger If you are strong you can lift heavy and high amounts of weight right? Working out is a huge part of the society we live in today. The results of working out vary from strength‚ conditioning and even trying to be as healthy as possible. It all depends on how you push yourself and how you personally workout. You may think that the way to become stronger is to lift heavy amounts of weight but is this true? You might give off the impression that you are becoming stronger but this
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21 April 2011 Why Do Some Societies Make Disastrous Decisions? - Rhetorical Analysis “How on earth could a society make such an obviously disastrous decisions as to cut down all the trees on which it depended?” was the question that started Jared Diamonds urge to do further research on societal collapses (392). His urge to write about this topic resulted from a conversation he had about the collapse of Easter Island society. In this piece of Diamonds “Why Do Some Societies Make Disastrous
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+ History of Zeus Zeus‚ also known as Jupiter in Rome‚ was the supreme god of Olympians. He was the youngest son of six children of the Titans Kronus and Rhea. When Zeus was born‚ his father intended on swallowing him whole like he had with Zeus’ other siblings: Poseidon‚ Hades‚ Hestia‚ Demeter and Hera. But Rhea hid Zeus away in a cave on Mount Dicte in Crete. Even in present day‚ tour guides use flashlights and make shadow puppet shows in the "cave of Zeus" to show the images of infant Zeus from
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2011 AP World History 30 Block Jared Diamond was born on September 10‚ 1937 in Boston‚ Massachusetts. He was raised by two highly intelligent people. Mrs. Diamond‚ his mother‚ was a linguist while his father‚ Mr. Diamond was a physician. He grew to love science due to his intellectual upbringing. He was born to a Bessarabian Jewish family. His father attended Harvard University of Medical. Though Jared attended the same college of his father he earned his Bachelor
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Fail or Succeed” by Jared Diamond. First we will summarize some of the evidence supporting the explanatory framework of the author to give an outline of the situation. Then we will state the research question. After that we will talk about the underlying process where we will discuss the actions of the assumptions of the actors goals‚ the theory of the action implied and the initial conditions. We will finish with a conclusion. In his first chapter proposed the author‚ Jared Diamond‚ five contributing
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choir and would often times perform with them at the parties held at Olympus. Along with his talent for music‚ Apollo was also an excellent archer along side his twin sister‚ Artemis‚ and they used their remarkable aptitude to avenge their mother‚ Leto‚ several times. Although Apollo is known for many of the good things he did‚ he also had a temper and when he became angry he could do terrible things. Such as‚ in Ancient Troy and Greek Islands he was known as the‚ Mouse god. When he was in a good
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