first in the chromosphere of the sun (a) Helium (b) Neon (c) Xenon (d) Krypton Answer: (a) 7. Which famous inventor ranks second in the number of patents registered? (a) Thomas Alva Edison (b) James Watt (c) Albert Einstein (d) Edwin Land Answer: (d) 8. What famous scientist and inventor participated in the invention of the Aqua-Lung? (a) Thomas Edison (b) Isaac Newton (c) Leonardo da Vinci (d) Jacques Cousteau Answer: (d) 9. Vulcanised rubber was invented by (a)
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12 Years a Slave explores the life of Solomon Northup and his struggles through the slave regime. The movie starts out with Northup as a free man in New York. It is shown that Solomon is a carpenter and musician who is treated almost as equally as the white men. Solomon is then kidnapped and sold into slavery in the South. While Solomon’s first owner was benevolent and just to his slaves‚ the second was cruel and malevolent (especially to Solomon). Solomon somehow survives the years of enslavement
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Touching Spirit Bear By Daria Cheremushkina Who is Cole Mathews? Cole Mathews is the main character in the book “Touching Spirit Bear” by Ben Mikaelsen. In characteristics Cole is angry young man who wants to get attention from his divorced parents. Cole has a warm heart inside but because of his parents and some problems such as not having friends and not having the place where you feel comfortable. He is very cold to everyone until he learns new lessons on the island. The island for him is
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Edwin Arlington Robinson- father/mother/ 2 brothers died. Love of life married brother. Never Married. Wanted to be poet since age 11 and chose to live in poverty. Wrote traditional poems. Old-fashioned but deals with modern problems. Philosophy: Behind “the peaceful and genteel communities of small-town America” lies a substrata of failure‚ “loneliness‚ and terror.” Conflict with light and dark with the individual. Major Works; The Children of the Night‚ The Man Against the Sky‚ and The Man Who
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perfect vision‚ of he has a dream he will keep trying to reach it. In comparison to Dwayne and Richard‚ Edwin Hoover‚ grandfather of the former and father of Richard‚ is not a person with a defined goal; though part of that might be to the fact that he is an elder who has had a fulfilling life. He focuses on living the time he has left the way he wants it to. While he is foul-mouthed‚ Edwin is also very supportive of his family‚ especially of Olive‚ who he coaches for the talent competition‚ and
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During his second stay there he has to build his own shelter and pawn his things to pay for supplies. Edwin tells Cole that he will not help because by burning down the shelter he had built‚ it was hurtful that Cole would burn it down to the ground. By burning down the shelter Cole had only hurt himself‚ now that he was responsible for building his own shelter it wouldn’t mean as much to Edwin or Garvey if he chose to burn it down. Another way this is evident in the book is during the time Peter
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Richard Corey by Edwin Arlington Robinson To the "people on the pavement‚" Richard Cory looked like he was on top of the world. The narrator of this 16 line poem (four a‚ b‚ a‚ b rhyming stanzas) tells how Cory was physically good-looking‚ well-dressed‚ humane‚ and very rich ("yes‚ richer than a king"). Yet "Richard Cory‚ one calm summer night‚ / Went home and put a bullet through his head. Appearances are deceiving. Depression and despair are not confined to the "people on the street." Richard
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Do you know what The Apollo 11 mission was ? The Apollo 11 mission was a mission to go to the moon in 1969 . Neil Armstrong‚ mission commander‚ Edwin (Buzz) Aldrin‚ lunar module pilot‚ and Michael Collins‚ command module pilot . The significance of the Apollo 11 mission where they go samples from the moon ‚ millions of people watched ‚ and that the president Richard Nixon called Neil Armstrong when he was in space . One of the significance of the Apollo 11 mission was they go samples
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should be able to: • • • Explain basic microeconomic terms‚ concepts and theories Apply economic reasoning to real-world situations Communicate economic reasoning to others in writing Recommended Textbooks: Introduction to Microeconomics by Edwin G. Dolan. 4th edition [5th or 3rd edition is also fine – the 4th edition is the best option]. The book is available from the UH Bookstore. You can get the hard cover‚ paperback‚ or ebook version‚ whatever works best for you. I will explain in class
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Ceremonies (and who came up with the term)- Coined by Harold Garfinkel‚ to refer to a ritual whose goal is to remake someone’s self by stripping away that individuals identity and giving a new one. White collar crime (and who came up with the term)- Edwin sutherland’s term for crimes committed by people of respectable and high social status. Theories and their focus Differential Association Theory- Going directly against the idea that biology or personality is the source of deviance. Control Theory-The
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