Japanese language meaning harbour ("tsu") and wave ("nami"). Although in Japanese tsunami is used for both the singular and plural‚ in English tsunamis is well-established as the plural. The term was created by fishermen who returned to port to find the area surrounding the harbour devastated‚ although they had not been aware of any wave in the open water. A tsunami is not a sub-surface event in the deep ocean; it simply has a much smaller amplitude (wave heights) offshore‚ and a very long wavelength
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Pulse Wave Analysis There are two ways for pulse waves to be analyzed. The first is called point based analysis. Point based analysis is designed for risk certain risk factors. It picks up top and bottom points from different components of the waveform. Then the calculation is done regarding to the medical significant of those points. Stiffness Index is a well-known factor in this category. Arterial stiffness is an indicator of increased cardiovascular disease risk. There are many methods used
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Nancy Fraser talks about the second-wave feminism movement that has been going on within the past 40 years. She writes about the second-wave movement and the recent historic movements of capitalism in feminism. She talks about three parts that have taken a part in post history of capitalism. First one is the state organized capitalism. Here‚ she charts out the becoming second-wave out of the new left‚ anti-imperialist‚ and the convincing androcentrism and the sexist ways of the state organized capitalism
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The Wave essay: How Ben Ross’ experiment was successful Ben Ross wants to show his students how Hitler could control Germany without people stopping him and also why people said that they didn’t know what happened during World War II. That is why he decides to make an experiment. I will explain how this experiment was successful. Hitler built a totalitarian movement from which he was the leader. First‚ it is important to know that Hitler was elected by German population and consequently he
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Wave soldering process implementation by DOE Presentation Summary Wenze Luo 0465108 Brief introduction of the outline This presentation will begin with a real life scenario of how we choose our beloved breakfast cereal by multiple trial & error. Then‚ move onto the limitation of trial and error compared to DOE with a focus on large company’s perspective. Then a brief history of the first controlled experiment design will be presented to illustrate the very basic mindset of DOE. After that‚ based
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“How the ocean got its waves” by Brooklyn Cosgrove Once there was a goddess named Amphitrite‚she was the goddess of the sea‚ and there was a god named Poseidon‚ he was the god of the sea. They lived in Atlantis ‚deep in the Mediterranean Sea. They lived in a castle made of solid gold and had every creature in the ocean worshiped them. Meanwhile in Oia‚ Santorini‚ Greece there lived twin siblings. A girl named Cecily and a boy named Axel. They lived in a white stucco cottage with a blue domed
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Lessons from the Middle East to Oceania Perhaps the most important part of history is recognizing repeated patterns and their effects in order to prevent future mistakes. The novel 1984 by George Orwell and the article “The Arab Spring Unleashed a Wave of Torture and Abuse” by Nader Hashemi expose the inhumanity surrounding authoritative governments. By analyzing the outcome of the Arab Spring one can conclude that a government unreceptive to their citizens rights inevitably leads to rebellion. The
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slavery as well. Abolitionism garnered male supporters for the women’s movement like Frederick Douglass‚ Henry Blackwell and William Lloyd Garrison. 1 The First Wave of the Feminist Movement. The Women’s Suffrage Movement The Women’s Suffrage Movement in the United States in the period 1848-1920‚ formed a significant of the “First Wave” of the Feminist Movement. Woman suffrage is defined as the right of women to vote. The Women’s Suffrage Movement is the organized efforts
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9 to 5 Judy Judy was impacted by the Third Wave Feminism by allowing herself to over come the way her boss was treating her. As her boss would flirt‚ make other women do things for him‚ and put other people down just for the heck of it showed Judy that she needed to stand up for herself. Judy was divorced and through the movie her ex-husband had shown up and attempted to get her back. The reasoning for the divorce is because her husband had slept with someone he worked with. As her husband was
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The love affair between the two main characters in William Shakespeare ’s play Romeo and Juliet was in many ways very similar to the love affair between the two main characters in the book The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima. In both stories‚ the romantic couples had a relationship that was undesired amongst their families‚ they both had obstacles that kept them from each other‚ and both couples had friends that influenced the outcomes of their relationships. The complicated ramifications of two
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