People commonly have the misconception that heavier objects fall faster than lighter ones. They have this misconception because that is what they commonly observe. In the real world there is air resistance. With air resistance this misconception is true. If no air resistance is present‚ the rate of descent depends only on how far the object has fallen‚ no matter how heavy the object is. This means that two objects will reach the ground at the same time if they are dropped at the same time from the
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MILAOR CHURCH Have you ever heard about Leaning Tower of Pisa in Italy? Yes‚ but do you know that it has a less famous counterpart here in the small town of Milaor in the province of Camarines Sur. The Leaning Tower of Milaor is the bell tower of Milaor Church (St. Joseph Worker Parish). This church is very old like other churches in the Bicol Peninsula. The first church was constructed in 1725 and completed in 1735 but later destroyed by fire in 1740. The present church was constructed in 1740
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MORNING YOU SAY GUTEN MORGEN BUT ITS EASY CAUSE IT SOUNDS SIMILAR TO ENGLISH. ITALIAN WAS KINDA HARD BUT IT WAS WASY CAUSE IT WAS SIMILAR TO SPANISH. WHAT I LIKE ABOUT ITALY IS THAT IT HAS A LOT OF MONUMENTS TO LEARN ABOUT LIKE THE LEANING TOWER OF PISA‚ AND THE COLLISIUM. ALSO IN FRANCE ONE OF THE CITIES NAMED VENICE THE ROADS ARE ALL RIVERS. RIGHT KNOW IM LEARNING ABOUT JAPENSE AND ITS KINDA COOL LIKE THE WORDS ARE DIFFERENT FROM ANY OTHER LANGUAGE I HAVE LEARNED SO FAR. SOME OF THE COLORS ARE COOL
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the users. To support my aforementioned statement‚ based from the article it was said that “apps are one avenue for security breaches.” I believe that smartphones would be much vulnerable when it comes to security. 3. What did Nicolas Seriot’s “Spyphone” prove? Nicolas Seriot built an application for iOS users called “SpyPhone” which was capable of tracking users and all their activities‚ then‚ sending this data to different servers without the user (people) knowledge. The “SpyPhone” app proved
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Ever since the time of Plato and Ptolemy there has been the belief that the Earth is the center of the universe. This theory‚ modernly known as geocentrism‚ has even shaped ancient societies. People believed that if the Earth was the center of the universe then everything revolved around them‚ literally. Many people implemented this idea into their religion. In Greek mythology Gaea‚ the Goddess of the Earth‚ gave birth to the Titans who gave birth to the Olympians. Essentially they put Gaea high
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affected woman‚ who wishes to pass off as a Viennese lady. She is "imperiously energetic" and good-looking. Louka Louka‚ a servant girl in the Petkoff household‚ is proud and looks down on servility. She is ambitious and wishes to rise in life. Nicola wishes to marry her but she has other plans. Major Petkoff Major Petkoff has acquired his position in the army more because of his wealth than his ability. In military strategy he takes help from Bluntschli but believes that he himself has made
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Social problems are conditions which undermine the well being of all or some members of a society that are also a matter of public controversy (Eitzen and Bakka-Zinn). Poverty is an important social problem around the world and in the U.S. it is mostly due to income inequality. The textbook tells us that the government defines poverty as families living with income below a poverty line roughly equal to three times the cost of food. Income is distributed unequally in the United States with the richest
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EDUCATION QUALITY AND ECONOMIC GROWTH Education Quality and Economic Growth Education Quality and Economic Growth Eric A. Hanushek Ludger Wößmann THE WORLD BANK Washington‚ DC © 2007 The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / The World Bank 1818 H Street NW Washington DC 20433 Telephone: 202-473-1000 Internet: www.worldbank.org E-mail: feedback@worldbank.org All rights reserved 1 2 3 4 5 10 09 08 07 This volume is a product of the staff of
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Puberty 1. What visible changes take place in puberty? Puberty is the time between the first onrush of hormones and full adult physical development. Puberty usually lasts three to give years. Many more years are required to achieve psychosocial maturity. The forces of puberty are unleashed by a cascade of hormones that produce external growth and internal changes‚ including heightened emotions and sexual desires. For girls‚ the observable changes of puberty usually begin with nipple growth. Soon
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This ended up as a wonderful treat for Galileo as he rightfully took place at the chair of mathematics at the University of Pisa in 1598. His first biographer‚ Vicenzo Viviani‚ claimed Galileo dropped items of disparate weights from the Leaning Tower. This proved that the speed an object falls isn’t proportional to weight. With these facts he created produced yet another document
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