augmentations. However‚ Dow Corning knew as early as the 1950s that silicone and silica used to produce breast implants was “bioreactive‚ immunogenic‚ toxic‚ and inflammatory” when exposed to the human body (Rumptz‚ Leland‚ McFaul‚ Solinski‚ and Pratt). Research has also found that implants can rupture occasionally and leak silicone fluid into the rest of the body possibly causing autoimmune disease‚ cancer‚ as well as numerous other symptoms (Hermes). In 1991‚ Dow Corning was considered
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as well as Mary Louise Pratt’s lecture called‚ Arts of the Contact Zone‚ whom both direct their arguments to increasingly diverse nations‚ specifically America. Palestinian can maintain their national identity by utilizing several ideas of Said‚ Pratt‚ and Yoshino‚ as well as through modern advances within transportation and communication. Palestinians‚ who no longer have a country of their own‚ and who are in exile in basically every other country located in the Middle East‚ have faced an issue
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chapter is presented. Description of the Problem and the Population in Context Atay and Bereket (2016) defined obesity as a surplus flab and that it is linked to several well-being issues such as non-insulin dependent diabetes and heart disease. Pratt et al. (2013) indicated that obesity in both
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n architecture‚ a truss is a structure comprising one or more triangular units constructed with straight members whose ends are connected at joints referred to as nodes. External forces and reactions to those forces are considered to act only at the nodes and result in forces in the members which are either tensile or compressive forces. Moments (torques) are explicitly excluded because‚ and only because‚ all the joints in a truss are treated as revolutes. A planar truss is one where all the members
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in addition to inventing the cotton gin‚ Eli Whitney also came up with the idea for interchangeable parts. This was the manufacturing of machinery pieces that could be quickly accumulated to generate a piece of equipment‚ such as a gun. Before Whitney‚ each gun had to be handcrafted‚ and each one was different; one of its kind. This meant that it took a long time for them to be made or repaired. When Congress voted for a war with France in 1797‚ Whitney saw an opportunity to market his idea because
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the rest of us. Left in the surroundings of savagery‚ he grows to possess a savage language‚ superstition‚ and life... Transfer the savage-born infant to the surroundings of civilization‚ and he will grow to possess a civilized language and habit.” (Pratt 3) Pratt’s image of the “savage” Native people compared to many other people’s views of these people at this time. The creation of boarding schools was successful and effective in assisting white efforts of assimilating Native Americans into their
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resulted in higher rates of serious crimes (2008). The main concept of this theory illustrated that if police were to target and eliminate minor disorders through community policing‚ it would have an overall impact on the reduction of crime rates (Gau & Pratt‚ 2008). Broken windows theory was not accepted by all‚ in fact it sparked a great deal of controversy (Wilson & Kelling‚ 1982). The opposing views of broken windows theory argued that it was too weak because of the lack thereof empirical evidence proving
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after witnessing it take place in England. The cotton gin‚ invented by Eli Whitney‚ was perhaps the invention that bore the most importance of the time period and had the greatest impact on United States society. Whitney invented the cotton gin in 1793. In an attempt to earn money so that he could pay off student debts from Yale University‚ he employed himself as a tutor in Georgia. While spending time in the state‚ Whitney became aware that farmers faced obstacles when it came to extracting the
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there is evidence to suggest that the two operations brick and tile have a difference in accident rates. This type of question involves analysing the data for a difference‚ and so tests such as an equal variance test‚ a normality test and a Mann Whitney test will be undertaken. The meaning and the significance of these tests will be explained and justified later on in the report. Hypothesis Testing: The null hypothesis (Ho) for this investigation is that there is no genuine evidence of difference
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melting pot of race‚ culture‚ and religion. Transculturations between countries were becoming more frequent throughout the world‚ while Normal citizens‚ travelers‚ explorers‚ and scholars of the Silk Road experienced it first hand. Scholars such as Pratt and Clifford theorized transculturation through documents of modern European imperialism‚ while the Silk Road historians theorized it through documents found along the Silk Road. Although modern imperialism differs substantially from the Silk Road
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