One of the scariest things about nuclear power is when something goes wrong and an accident occurs. Radiation is released into the environment and people get hurt. Two of the most famous nuclear accidents occurred at the Three Mile Island reactor 2 in the United States and the Chernobyl reactor 4 in the former Soviet Union. In this text we will discuss these two disasters‚ along with correcting a few common misconceptions about nuclear accidents. The worst type of man-made disaster is caused by
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English is a Queer Language Alice Hamilton Jarmila came to me with this puzzle. “Mrs. Green told me her mother is coming to visit her‚ and she is going to stay a week. How can she stay if she is going? How can she go if she is staying?” I could not explain‚ because never before had I realized that “going” may have nothing to do with the verb “to go‚” though the latter has its own present participle which seems identical. This other “going” deals only with the future: I am going to see this
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HOME SCIENCE Class-X (Term - II) Design of Sample Question Paper Type of questions Marks per question Total number of Questions Total Marks 1. MCQ 01 11 11 2. SA-I 02 13 26 3. SA-II 03 09 27 4. LA 04 04 16 37 80 Total Blue Print - Sample Question Paper Home Science Class - X (Term - II) S.No. Topic/unit MCQ (1) SA-I (2) SA-II (3) LA (4) Total 1. Resources 2(2) 1(2) 1(3) 1(4)
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GCSE Geography| Topic 2| Water On The Land What are the Key Ideas for this Topic? The Shape of river valleys changes as the river flows downstream River Features & Landforms Storm Hydrographs Flooding in MEDC’s and LEDC’s Hard and Soft Strategies for River Management and Reservoirs The Shape of river valleys and River Processes A rivers long profile changes over its course. Every river has: An Upper Course Middle Course Lower Course Long Profile- shows how the gradient
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THEORIES OF THE ORIGIN OF THE UNIVERSE 1. Steady State Theory – based on the perfect cosmological principle that the universe looks the same from any location at anytime. This theory holds that the universe is unchanging‚ it has no beginning and no end. 2. Big Bang Theory – presupposes that the vast universe grew out of something where all matter and energy were compressed to infinite density and heated to trillions of degrees (a beginning which was an immensely small particle of high-density
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Joseph Yoon Chapter 11 Fossil Fuels: combustible deposit found with Earth’s curst * Composed of remnants of prehistoric organisms that existed millions of years ago * Deposits are usually no older than 400 million years of age * Nonrenewable resources: finite‚ limited supply * Types: coal‚ oil natural gas (methane) * Lignite (lowest quality) * Subbituminous coal * Bituminous coal (sedimentary rock) * Anthracite (highest quality- metamorphic rock) Coal Reserves
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The world’s population is increasing at an alarming rate‚ therefore more and more food is required. The forests are being destroyed and more land is being cultivated‚ thus destroying the environment. Besides this the tribal population is removing trees to practise shifting cultivation and for fuel. To fulfill the demands of the urban population the forest cover is being destroyed. We need to conserve our forests as it preserves the ecological diversity and our life support system- water‚ air and
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The Greatest Place on Earth I believe the Greatest Place on Earth is Greenville Tennessee. The time that me and my family spend there are magical. I call Greenville Tennessee the Greatest Place on Earth because of the times and the memories that has been spent and made there. The country roads are so peaceful and clean‚ the air is fresh and the people are super nice. There are so many things there to do and most of the things that we have found are free. There is the beautiful waterfall that
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Peace an Elusive Dream omen the violated‚ [i] the reality is far more nuanced. Peace‚ then‚ must be gendered too. Women and men experience war differently; gendered thinking considers the multiple experiences and perspectives of each. Gender mainstreaming is a process of inclusion‚ enabling sustained peace that considers the needs of all stakeholders‚ especially women who suffer disproportionately during and after war. [ii] Gender mainstreaming requires more than just talking
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Islam: A Religion of Peace What is a Muslim? In what do the followers of Islam believe? In today’s world‚ people should be asking these questions‚ if only to learn more about the world around them. In this paper‚ I will discuss how the basic ideas of Islam compare to the six bases of religion listed in our textbook. The six bases are: (1) deal in some way with peoples’ relationship to the unseen world of spirits‚ ancestors‚ gods and demons; (2) developed a system of myths about the unseen world
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