Secondhand Smoke Secondhand smoke is dangerous to anyone who breathes it in. There is no safe amount of it. Secondhand smoking is a problem that needs to be stopped because it affects the lives of many innocent people. What is secondhand smoke? According to the American Cancer Society‚ secondhand smoke is defined as‚ "environmental tobacco smoke (ETS). Secondhand Smoke is a mixture of 2 forms of smoke that come from burning tobacco: Sidestream smoke – smoke from the lighted end of a cigarette
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Sherman Alexie is an American poet‚ writer and filmmaker. Alexie drew inspiration for his writings from his own Native American culture and experiences. He grew up on Spokane Indian Reservation in Washington. Alexie had ancestry from several tribes. He has won multiple awards and is the author of Flight. Growing up on the Reservation Alexie endured bullying and teasing. This had a strong impact on Alexie and his writing. Sherman Alexie had an alcoholic father and only his mother supported him
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Name: Leung Chun Wai Student no.: G20554292 Topic: (NT3048) Smoke extraction design for large space such as atrium 1. INTRODUCTION Atrium inside a building is an old architectural concept for about two thousand years. This concept has been developed and extended to modern buildings. Current trend of atrium design provides an ‘ideal’ external environment to the occupants with a large undivided space. The major problem for fires in atrium is hot and toxic gases accumulating and go down in the atrium
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Carlile V Carbolic Smoke ball Company is considered a landmark in English Law of Contract” Analyise the above statement by explaining the facts of the case and by discussing in detail three legal principles which were upheld in the case. In the late 1800’s it was common for English Businesses selling medicinal products to make promises about the various illnesses that their products could cure. One such firm The Carbolic Smoke Ball Company‚ created the “Smoke Ball’ which claimed
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Recently‚ I was the surprise commencement speaker at the promotion ceremony for a Seattle alternative high school. I spoke to sixty students‚ who’d come from sixteen different districts‚ and had survived depression‚ attempted suicide‚ gang warfare‚ sexual and physical abuse‚ absentee parents‚ poverty‚ racism‚ and learning disabilities in order to graduate. These students had read my young adult novel‚ “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian‚” and had been inspired by my autobiographical
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Cindy Sherman ranks as probably one of the best camera artists who use themselves as a medium of expression. Although he work consists of photographs of herself‚ her works should not be considered to be merely self-portraits: they are much more than that. She has transformed and staged herself as an unnamed actresses in undefined B-grade movies‚ make-believe television characters‚ pretend porn stars‚ undifferentiated young women in ambivalent emotional states‚ fashion mannequins‚ monsters from
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Communication Signals and Systems Reference: Chapter 6‚ Communication Systems‚ 4th Edition. by Simon Haykin Institute of Communications Engineering National Sun Yat-sen University Table of Contents 4.1 Representation of Band-Pass Signals and Systems 4.1.1 Representation of Band-Pass Signals 4.1.2 Representation of Linear Band-Pass Systems 4.1.3 Response of a Band-Pass System to a Band-Pass Signal 4.1.4 Representation of Band-Pass Stationary Stochastic Processes 4.2 Signal Space Representations
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In Sherman Alexie’s “This is what it means to say Phoenix‚ Arizona” a man named Victor finds out that his father has passed away. Being next of kin‚ Victor is responsible for gathering his father’s assets together‚ which requires him to make an out of town trip. In order to accomplish this Victor needs help. This help comes from the town outcast‚ Thomas Builds-the Fire. Victor and Thomas were childhood best friends but as they grew older‚ Victor turned his back on the one that always looked out
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Signal Integrity Considerations for High Speed Digital Hardware Design White Paper Issue: 01‚ 11th November 2002 Mick Grant‚ Design Engineer Abstract As system clock frequencies and rise times increase‚ signal integrity design considerations are becoming ever more important. Unfortunately many Digital Designers may not recognise the importance of signal integrity issues and problems may not be identified until it is too late. This paper presents the most common design issues affecting signal
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Direct signals are macro indicator signals of what is directly being measured. For example‚ the consumer price index for urban consumers tells us what is happening to the general price level of consumer goods in US urban locations. Another example of a direct signal would be the unemployment rate since it measures the percent of labor force that is unemployed. Indirect signals come from watching the movement of causally related indicators‚ and drawing conclusions about one from the movement of the
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