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    to add water to a bucket connect by a negligible mass rope to an 80.0 kg car which is positioned on a track which is inclined 15.00above the horizontal. The idea is illustrated in figure. Consider we are using a frictionless pulley. If the coefficient‚ between the car and the track is 0.200: 150 150     a- Draw the free body diagram and write the Newton’s second law equation for each body‚ car and bucket. (5 points) b- What mass of water would be needed to start the car moving up

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    through the media‚ so it is crucial for law enforcement to have good‚ solid relations with all media outlets. . "Media Power" represents the extent to which individuals or groups influence the content of media messages relevant to their interests. As mass media are the primary image builders in contemporary society‚ an ability to shape the contents of media has become central to impression management

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    Chapter 5: Mass Media 1. The five critical areas that television media must satisfy when they decide to run a story a. Significant impact on its audience (legislative proposal to raise taxes) b. Generates interest (act of violence‚ natural disaster‚ political scandal‚ ban on guns) c. Familiarity (well -known individuals/situations) d. Proximity (Close to home) e. Timeliness (Happening now) *through this process media participates in the agenda setting and

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    Abstract Entertainment has a significant influence on the people. The effects of entertainment can both be positive and negative. This influence of the entertainment industry has grown tremendously over the years. The influence can be greatly attributed to the advancement of technology. Entertainment is mostly through the media which includes; the television‚ magazines‚ newspapers‚ radio‚ and internet‚ among others. The influence of entertainment on the younger generation affects the way that they

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    Body Mass Index Survey I asked staff if they would volunteer to assist me in doing a survey for the Body Mass Index with in the company To carry out this survey I asked to weigh the individuals and to also measure their height so that I could calculate each of their Body Mass index. The way to work out your own Body Mass Index is to * Divide your weight in kilograms (kg) by your height in meters (m) * Then divide your answer by your height again‚ your final answer is your Body Mass

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    logic behind this is that a person guilty of a crime will learn over a certain time and mentally break oneself down. Another reason may be that ones offense is so sever that they will have to spend the rest of ones life in incarceration or pay with death. Overall incarceration is meant to be a punishment in order to prevent future activity that breaks what is considered as peace in society. After viewing the description over why someone would be incarcerated‚ it may be difficult to imagine why

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    From Slavery to Mass Incarceration: Necessary Extremes Of the supplementary readings provided‚ I found “From Slavery to Mass Incarceration” by Loïc Wacquant the most intriguing. This particular article is based on “rethinking the ‘race question’ in the US” and the disproportionate institutions set apart for African Americans in the United States. The volatile beginnings of African Americans presented obvious hardships for future advancement‚ but Wacquant argues that they still suffer from a form

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    Alexander‚ Michelle. 2010. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. New York  : [Jackson‚ Tenn.]: New Press  ; HV9950 .A437 2010 The Birth of Slavery in the US 1. In the 17th century labor for plantations was based on indentured servitude. 2. 1675 Bacon’s Rebellion 3. By 1770 "By the mid-1770s‚ the system of bond labor had been thoroughly transformed into a racial caste system predicated on slavery. "Racial division was a consequence‚ not a precondition of slavery

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    First is how mass incarceration affects the communities. One of the first issues that is talked about in the article is this issue of Invisible Inequality. “Inequality worsens both crimes of poverty motivated by need for goods for use and crime of wealth motivated by greed”‚ (Barak‚ et. al.‚ 2015). This issue has many aspects but the main aspect of this issue is that when data is being collected for different types of community well-being studies such as unemployment the people that are incarcerated

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    com/ijo PEDIATRIC MINI REVIEW Body mass index in children and adolescents: considerations for population-based applications A Must1‚2 and SE Anderson2 1 2 Department of Public Health and Family Medicine‚ Tufts University School of Medicine‚ Boston‚ MA‚ USA and The Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy‚ Tufts University‚ Boston‚ MA‚ USA International Journal of Obesity (2006) 30‚ 590–594. doi:10.1038/sj.ijo.0803300 Keywords: review; body mass index; pediatrics; BMI z-score; overweight

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