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    Methylene blue can act as an artificial hydrogen acceptor; when this dye is reduced by accepting hydrogen atoms it goes colourless. As such‚ it can be used to guage the rate of respiration by measuring the time taken for it to turn colourless. Methylene blue‚ acting as a hydrogen acceptor‚ is decolourized during the respiration of yeast. By measuring the time taken for a fixed amount of the dye to be decolourized‚ the relative rate of respiration (a catabolic process) can be deduced. Results:

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    Night Essay

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    Night Essay Surviving the Holocaust can alter a person’s faith – it can either strengthen it or cause it to falter. In 1941‚ in the village of Sighet‚ Romania‚ twelve-year-old Elie Wiesel spends the majority of his time studying the Talmud and exploring other aspects of the Jewish religion. One day‚ all foreign Jews‚ including Elie’s instructor‚ Moishe the Beadle‚ are expelled from Sighet. Upon his return‚ Moishe tries to warn the Jews of the horrific dangers that lie ahead. They all refuse to listen

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    Twelfth Night

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    Introduction Twelfth Night is one of Shakespeare’s comic masterpieces. Three couples are paired together by the end of the play‚ and the siblings reunited. This story evokes much more sympathy and empathy in the way characters are shown than other earlier comedy such as A Midsummer Night’s Dream. In Twelfth Night‚ we are still invited to laugh with the characters rather than laughing at them. It contains a harmonic balance between comic and tragic elements. William Shakespeare employs comic

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    Night Analysis

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    Writing Assignment #3: Night Analysis In the autobiographical novel‚ Night‚ by Elie Weisel‚ there is a persistent change in theme. The story begins in 1944 where Elie was very focused on learning about his religion from Moshe the Beadle. However‚ later on‚ the Jews were forced to move into ghettoes in their city. This began the lowest point in their lives. From then(There? meh)‚ they were taken to various concentration camps such as Birkenau‚ Auschwitz‚ Buchenwald‚ and Gleiwitz. It wasn’t until

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    the book night

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    Kristin Aquilina RDG 101 GA November 12th 2014 Homework #5 Night 1. Elie Wiesel wrote the novel “Night”. This novel was based on his experiences as a Jewish child during the holocaust. Wiesel was one of four children‚ he had 2 older sisters and 1 younger sister. They grew up in Romania with their mother and father. In 1940 during the war his father was invited to a meeting where they discovered the Germany army was transporting everyone in his town to ghettos. In may of 1944 the German authorities

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    Sarah's Night

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    Sarah’s Night Out PSY/201 October 27‚ 2013 Sarah’s Night Out Factors that contributed toward Sarah’s attitude regarding her curfew was that she has never been in any trouble before. She gets good grades and is a rule-follower. I am sure she thought‚ one time coming home late is not going to cause any trouble. I doubt she thought about the consequences because she had never been in trouble. Even though she knew she may be in trouble‚ she thought that it would not be very much trouble because

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    six million Jews died in the Holocaust. Concentration camps and death camps were the main cause of extermination during this time. A vast number of people were dehumanized and treated poorly in camps. Auschwitz was one of the most horrific concentration camps because of the living conditions‚ Mass exterminations‚ and uprisings. The living conditions of the prisoners in the camp were treacherous‚ and prisoners went several days without adequate clothing and food. For example “prisoners did not receive

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    The Truman Show Essay

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    Practice Writing Task 1 Lauren is a very significant character in Peter Weir’s movie‚ ‘The Truman Show’ due to the crucial part she plays in Truman leaving Seahaven‚ the ‘paradise’ created for him by Christophe‚ the director. Christophe created this world for Truman for television‚ but it was Lauren who made it possible for him to leave this artificial world. Firstly‚ she did this by falling in love with Truman‚ and by being taken away from Truman’s world. Secondly‚ she set up a campaign against

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    Night Symbolism

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    Symbolism amplifies pieces of text in many ways‚ one of which shows different definitions of everyday items. There are many examples to be provided from the book Night. For example‚ fire and flames are used to symbolise death in many ways. In Chapter Two‚ when they are on the train full of jews‚ Mrs. Schächter has visions of fire and flames and freaks out. Later‚ the all found out the she was freaking out over the crematoria. It shows a different definition because you don’t always think death when

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    History Still Matter

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    History still Matter 2. Give two contemporary or personal examples of Christopher Lasch’s quote on pg 1. To me the past does matter because that makes you who you are now even though sometimes you try to ignore it your past will always stick by you. For example I didn’t have a happy childhood‚ it was full of arguments and abuses. I learned from my mom’s mistakes to not stick around and let a man abuses you in anyway. Another example losing my brother was probably the worst way to learn to cherish

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