The ozone layer is a deep layer in the stratosphere‚ encircling the Earth‚ that has large amounts of ozone in it. The layer shields the entire Earth from much of the harmful ultraviolet radiation that comes from the sun. Interestingly‚ it is also this ultraviolet radiation that forms the ozone in the first place. Ozone is a special form of oxygen‚ made up of three oxygen atoms rather than the usual two oxygen atoms. It usually forms when some type of radiation or electrical discharge separates
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Avery October 27‚ 2013 I. Identification of Work: Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer; published 1997‚ Villard Books II. Summary of the Main Ideas 1. Subject: The subject of Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer is of his‚ as well as others who were with him‚ thoughts and experiences about their climbing of the tallest peak in the world Mt. Everest. 2. Occasion: The expedition takes place at Mount Everest in May of 1996. 3. Audience: The book is directed toward people interested in one of Mount Everest’s
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Film discussion: Thin Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder that occurs when an individual is unrealistically concerned about being overweight or feels an overwhelming need to be so thin that in either case an individual eats so little that they become malnourished. While Bulimia is where an individual binges and purges. They may eat a lot of food at once and then try to get rid of the food by vomiting‚ using laxatives or sometimes over-exercising. Both of which are diseases linked to physical
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Backgrounds of monuments in order of year built‚ Trajan’s Column was designed by the architect Apollodorus of Damascus and commissioned by the Roman Senate in 107‚ it took six years to be built‚ therefore‚ the column was completed in 113 DA. The column measures 126 feet high and it used to end with a bronze statue of Trajan. The carvings on the tower represent different scenes of the narrative of the Dacian campaigns and wars‚ depicting different experiences his soldiers went through in different
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There are many different layers within the Earth. The core is at center of the Earth. The Earth’s core takes up sixteen percent of Earth’s volume‚ containing thirty-three percent of its Mass ..Pressure rises steadily inside the earth because of the weight of overlying rock. Therefore ‚the Pressure at the outer boundary of the core reaches 1.37 million atmospheres‚ 3.7 million Atmospheres. The core is made mostly of iron and nickel and possibly smaller amounts of lighter elements including sulfur
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"Thin is Beautiful" How many times have you looked in a magazine and envied the models pictured? Have you ever watched a TV show or a movie and wished you looked like one of the stars? Many teenage girls are often targeted by magazines‚ movies‚ and TV and are made to believe that "thin is beautiful". The media has negatively affected teenage girls’ self-image. From sit-coms to magazines‚ thin‚ beautiful girls can be spotted‚ and this can cause a girl to feel that she is not thin enough to be
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Anorexia: Dying to be Thin by Kati McConville It was eight o’clock in the morning and it was time for Amy to wake up because she was going out to breakfast with her mother. This was something she hated doing. It wasn’t because she didn’t want to wake up early or she didn’t want to be with her mother‚ it was something much deeper than that. For the past three years Amy has been struggling with an eating disorder‚ an endless cycle of fasting‚ bingeing‚ purging‚ pretty much complete misery.
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"THIN IDEAL" The impact of media images on men and women in America is a formation of an unrealistic illustration of the thin ideal. The media has painted a picture of "the perfect body"‚ people who choose to accept these ideals develop a fantasy and fictitious image of what the ideal body is. In our society‚ where the mass media is the single strongest transmitter of unrealistic beauty ideals‚ it is often held responsible for the high proportion of women and men who are dissatisfied with their
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Civil Engineering Subject : Structural Analysis I - Laboratory Report Laboratory Venue : HKIVE (Tsing Yi)‚ Room CL02 Date & Time : 15 October 2001‚ 19:00 to 20:15 Experiment No. 1 : Column Buckling Test Objective: 1. To study the effect of support conditions on the load‚ carrying capacity of a slender column. 2. To compare the experimental buckling loads Pcr of test specimens with those predicted by the Euler equation. Apparatus: 1. SM 105 strut apparatus (Issuing Voucher: 0203141 & Inventory
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How thin is too thin? Liz Harten We see them everywhere we go. While in the waiting room at the doctor’s office‚ on line in the grocery store‚ on our coffee tables and in our mailboxes. Magazines will always be around and will always convey the same messages. “Get pretty now”‚ “How I got thin”‚ “and 25 new diet secrets”. Are you trying to tell us were ugly and fat? Big shot magazines may not be trying to tell us that but it is the idea the young teenage girls have in their heads. There are so
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