Polymethylmethacrylate‚ or PMMA for short‚ is a polymer consisting of the monomer methyl methacrylate that has been around since the 1930s1. PMMA is a polymer that has a high impact strength‚ is scratch and shatter resistant‚ and is relatively lightweight1. Because PMMA can also be formed into a transparent thermoplastic and has a glass transitions temperature of 130oC‚ this polymer served as a glass substitute in its early uses1. Other beneficial characteristics of Polymethylmethacrylate include
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“Ozymandias”‚ is a poem written by Percy Bysshe Shelley to tell its readers that wealth and materialistic pursuits are fleeting. The storyteller in the poem is a “traveller from an antique land”. This is a nameless traveler talking about the sights he is seeing. This produces a sense of mystery. Shelley is recounting something heard from another person. The statue is a manifestation of the artist who created it for Ozymandias. This poem celebrates the perpetual ability of nature and longstanding
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Marx. The poem “Pull the Next One Up” by Marc Smith expresses that same quote with the reader as a mountain climber reaching the top of a mountain roped together with countless others. Through many elemental forms he creates the sensation of an accomplishment shared with everyone else climbing the mountain. Representing the mountain’s and rope as the big symbols in the piece Marc Smith understates the struggles of the world with our society. Incorporating all of these layers of the poem‚ the overall
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preferences expressed by a significant number of persons on an issue of general importance. Blacks were included in national polls and surveys in numbers reflecting their proportion of the population‚ but typically these surveys yielded too few respondents to produce valid and reliable findings or to explore opinion differences internal to the black community in terms of such things as gender‚ class‚ age or region. Black opinion was seen as a mere derivative‚ secondary and less important compared to white
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the subject. Larkin entitled the poem‚ MCMXIV. These are the roman numerals used to represent 1914; the year the war was initiated. Our attention is captivated through the use of roman numerals as they are a foreign concept to the imperial numbers that we use today. The roman numerals could signify the place in time this war has and all it symbolises. As Larkin wrote the poem after the war‚ the roman numerals signify the contrast of life then and life when the poem was written. MCMXIV is frequently
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com/locate/econbase Efficient black markets? Carl Davidson a‚b ‚ Lawrence Martin a ‚ John Douglas Wilson a‚⁎ a Department of Economics‚ Marshall-Adams Hall‚ Michigan State University‚ East Lansing‚ MI 48824‚ United States b GEP‚ University of Nottingham‚ United Kingdom Received 17 May 2005; received in revised form 9 October 2006; accepted 23 October 2006 Available online 3 February 2007 Abstract This paper investigates analytically the welfare effects of black-market activities that firms
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Carl Sandburg makes a profuse amount of points about his city in his poem‚ “Chicago”. He shows that although his city is known for being a rough city‚ there are still positive aspects of Chicago. He brings to mind the murders‚ and prostitution‚ and poverty of the city‚ but he also reminds his readers of the arts and the sports and how strong his city is. Carl Sandburg’s city is “alive and coarse and strong and cunning” (line 10). Carl Sandburg shows different aspects about his city and he uses literary
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The Black Death was the deadliest disease known to man. The Black Death first came from the shores of Italy in 1348. The plague came from merchant ships which came from middle-east and Asian. Most sailors on board were dying from this disease and a few days after arriving in west Europe‚ many peasants and poor people in the shore cities were immediately dying as well. The Black Death was very deadly and it hit anyone who wasn’t clean or people who have animals with the disease. Even though
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merely amplify what is already there. Will Smith is an actor but have you always wondered why he wanted to be an actor. Willard Christopher Smith‚ Jr was not always an actor but merely a rapper. Yes its true he was not always an actor he was a rapper for some of his life. If you want to Find out read my Biography. Throughout life people will make you mad‚ disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do‚ cause hate in your heart will consume you too. Will Smith was born on September
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“Ozymandia” is a poem written by Percy Bysshe Shelley‚ who is known to be one of the most famous and respected poets of the 19th century. Shelley has written many great poems in his lifetime‚ and “Ozymandia” is one of his best works. This poem is a sonnet‚ meaning that it is a fourteen-line poem. The narrator of this poem encounters a traveller who tells him about the fallen statue of Ozymandias‚ or Ramesses II. He was “the third pharaoh of the 19th Dynasty (1292-1186 BCE) who claimed to have won
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